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Memorial Drinks for Dr Stephen Edwards
For anyone who knew him, there are memorial drinks in Sydney at the El Rocco Room corner Brougham and William St Kings Cross from 6.30 to 9.30 pm on Tuesday December 9! Stephen passed away after a long struggle with cancer at the Sacred Heart Hospice late last month....
The Long Drive: Goodbye Road
Michael Gray Griffith There is so much space out here – it’s as if the gods left before they could bother with mountains, valleys, or grand forests. You could misplace an entire civilisation inside it. We did, and they are still lost. On the beaches near Eucla –...
Criminals are weaponising vulnerabilities in Australia’s construction industry to steal millions of dollars
Australian Federal Police Assistant Commissioner Cyber Command Richard Chin has announced that the Australian Federal Police are tracking a concerning rise across the industry in what are known as Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams. These involve cyber criminals...
Stop Picking On Poor Little Israel
Reading by Tim Foley: Stop picking on poor little Israel. It’s just sitting there minding its own business trying to do a little genocide in peace while aggressively lobbying your government to crush your freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, and you’re OBSESSING about
Notes On Bondi Beach And Free Speech
Reading by Tim Foley: ❖ The dumbest thing we are being asked to believe today is that pro-Palestinian protests caused the Bondi shooting. It’s self-evidently moronic. No one sincerely believes it. They’re just pretending to believe it to get protests banned and criticism of Israel
If You’re Not Free To Oppose A Genocide, Your Society Is Not Free
Reading by Tim Foley: If the right to free speech does not include the right to oppose an active genocide using strong and unmitigated language, then there is no freedom of speech. This is exactly the sort of thing that freedom of speech is intended
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...
I INVITE YOU TO CLICK BELOW TO READ AND SIGN MY PETITION TO PARLIAMENT TO HAVE A PREAMBLE ADDED TO AUSTRALIAN CONSTITUTION STATING EXACTLY WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AN AUSTRALIAN.
(Alfred Deakin, pictured below, tried in 1895 to include a Preamble in our Constitution but Federation delegates couldn’t agree on its wording) https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN8147 PETITION CLOSES 22 OCTOBER. Together, we can ensure that, before they...
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It is time for good people to act
Evil prevails when good people do nothing. The massacre that targeted Jews and killed 15 people at Bondi Beach on Sunday, December 14 should not have surprised us. Since the horrific attacks by Hamas on October 7, 2023, antisemitism has been more virulent in Australia.What we saw that Sunday at
Brazen lies told to the public: Why do so many people suspend disbelief, and authorities do nothing?
In public debates, hoaxers regularly pop up and take their chances. What is troubling, however, is that in recent years institutions, governments and the media (who we would all expect to trust) often actually promote such deceivers in the first place. Worse still, these agencies often continue to promote mistruths
Rectitude
Last Sunday swept aside the remote self-assured country that most of us have been lucky to call home.Two years of sinister omens ignored. What country did we wake up to when the Prime Minister didn’t stand up to mob hostility and the chanting ‘gas the Jews’ on the steps of
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