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Convoy to Canberra. Six. Joy and Calamity, Brutality and Kindness
John Stapleton Four years ago Australia hundreds of thousands of people march on Canberra, disgusted by the extremism of lockdowns and vaccine mandates. At its peak, more than 12 million people were under lockdown protocols. While the authorities managed to crush the...
Convoy to Canberra. Five. We Will Wash Away Tyranny.
By John Stapleton Four years ago this month the largest mass protest in Australia history occurred. It was called the Convoy to Canberra, and protested the extreme abuses of Australian authorities during this era: including extreme lockdowns, for which there was no...
Convoy to Canberra. Four. The Prime Minister Who Destroyed Australia.
By John Stapleton Four years ago Australia saw the largest protest in its history, with people travelling from all over Australia to protest the conduct of its hated government, headed by the equally despised Scott Morrison. With faith in government destroyed, the...
If You Think The US Wants To Bring Democracy To Iran, Watch What They’re Currently Doing To Iraq
Reading by Tim Foley: Anyone silly enough to believe the US wants to bring democracy to Iran should have a look at what the US is currently doing to sabotage democracy in Iraq. President Trump has been aggressively threatening to cut off Iraq’s oil revenue
We Deserve Better War Propaganda
Reading by Tim Foley: They’re not even trying anymore. US middle east envoy Steve Witkoff told Fox News on Saturday that Iran is “probably a week away” from having the materials necessary to make a nuclear bomb — a line that Iran hawks have been falsely repeating
Tell Iranian And Cuban Diaspora Warmongers To Shut The Fuck Up
Reading by Tim Foley: Whenever you say anything online opposing the way the US is preparing for war with Iran or strangling Cuba to death with siege warfare, you’ll always get people whose family comes from the nation in question telling you to be silent
IT’S TIME TO ‘WALK IN THE SPIRIT’
You will enjoy this powerful and inspirational page turning novel about the lives of six very different people. Its fascinating pages will reveal to you that they are Muslim, Jew, Christian, Indigenous, Confucian, LGBTI. In varying ways and at different times they...
READING A SIGNED EVERALD BOOK IS A VERY PLEASANT WAY TO ENJOY YOUR CHRISTMAS BREAK.
Nothing better can happen to you during the holiday season than to spend a couple of hours every day in a cool spot under a shady tree reading an entertaining book that has a page-turning message to renew your soul. It won’t surprise you to discover that I...
MEET ME AT REDCLIFFE ON MELBOURNE CUP NIGHT (TUESDAY)
An active group of Progressive Christians meet regularly at Redcliffe to debate the core issues of modern Christianity. They call themselves the REDCLIFFE EXPLORERS and they are interesting people who have expansive minds. I am delighted to have accepted their...
National Take Back the Track Day
I just want to put on my sneakers and go for a run. This time three years ago I became known as the young female runner who was attacked whilst running in the Lal Lal State Forest in Ballarat. I am now the founder of a national movement called Take
Kiawal Toran (our presence our time): The urgency of eliminating racism from the Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Service
“For a population of 15,000 having three to four [preventable] deaths per week was very alarming [and] traumatising…Having in the back of our minds, ‘why are people, our families, dying such deaths that could have been prevented?’” Mayor Phillemon Mosby, Torres Strait Island Regional Council For the past two years,
Debunking: Australia Day is about 1949, not 1788!
Disclaimer: First Nations readers please be advised that this article mentions acts of racism and features antiquated language. If, like me, you were foolish enough to spend any time in the comments section of the seemingly infinite barrage of racist posts and articles circulating on social media yesterday, you probably
‘Ideally, you’d know nothing about the game’: festival censorship and the short memory of arts reporting
Sports commentators proudly know their history. Arts journalists not so much. AFL commentary is peppered with relevant examples of past scores, rule-changes, umpire decisions, administrators. Such relevant cases can date several decades and serve to enlighten the viewer of the dynamics of the match of the day. Gideon Haigh, in
The Royal Australian Navy is unwilling to listen to its own advice
In July 2000 (yes, almost 26 years ago), the Royal Australian Navy’s (RAN) Director of Naval Platforms, Gordon Macdonald, spent two days with his team assessing a novel “stern landing vessel” (SLV), the 35-metre Deepwater used for beaching and extracting 472 tonnes of sand dredged up and stockpiled ashore.Mr Macdonald
Bottom-up budgeting: a path to public sector efficiency
Very few governments even acknowledge they have a spending problem (in public at least), and almost none are willing to tackle it. A major reason is that voters repeatedly elect governments based on generous spending promises, while opposing increases in taxes. Australians are notorious for doing that.Until a libertarian government
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