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On interviewing the last surviving Anzac
By John Stapleton After decades in mainstream journalism, and having written literally thousands of stories, there aren’t too many things I haven’t written about. But there was one story about the world’s last survivor of the Gallipoli campaign, Alec Campbell, that...
Giant kangaroos survived until 6,500 years ago on the New Guinea coast
Loukas Koungoulos, The University of Western Australia; Isaac A. R. Kerr, Flinders University, and Sue O’Connor, Australian National University Roughly 50,000 years ago, a kangaroo unlike any alive today lived in the mountain rainforests of New Guinea. First...
Vale Australian Journalist: Derryn Hinch the Human Headline
Andrew Dodd, The University of Melbourne It was May 1999 and Derryn Hinch had been called into the manager’s office at Adelaide’s 5DN. The ratings for his morning program had been tumbling, and after less than a year on air he was told to pack his things. At the time,...
Let’s Stay Human
Reading by Tim Foley: There’s a creepy tweet going around by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recommending that parents feed their kids’ interests and schedules into ChatGPT so it can generate a daily custom-made bot podcast to listen to on their morning drive to school. Gravity
Today In Dystopia: eBay CIA Gangstalkers, Shredding Rare Books To Train AI
Reading by Tim Foley: ❖ Today in dystopia, billionaire corporations and plutocrats can hire trained CIA operatives to psychologically terrorize ordinary citizens who criticize them. E-commerce giant eBay has just agreed to pay $56 million to settle a lawsuit for damages caused by the company’s
Anthropocene
Reading by Tim Foley: We can make a home here.In these ruins.In this shattered civilizationfull of walking autopsieswhere every twinkle in the night skyis an Elon Musk satellite. Life can still thrive here.Even in the Anthropocene.Even in the middle of secular armageddon.There is still mossin the
TRACKS TO SOMEWHERE
I am in the 95th year of my life. I enjoy my memories as well as my thoughts on how I could have handled them better. One of them is my meeting with John Howard in 1996 when he gave me approval to begin planning a freight railway from Melbourne to Darwin via New South...
AM SELLING AND SIGNING MY BOOK ‘WALK IN THE SPIRIT’ AT DYMOCKS CHERMSIDE BRISBANE ON SATURDAY OF THIS WEEK FROM 11am TO 12.30pm. I LOOK FORWARD TO MEETING YOU. MY CO-AUTHOR NEILL FLORENCE WILL BE WITH ME.
WALK IN THE SPIRIT is a page turning novel about six people of different faiths who are not involved in organised religion but form a team to create a caring and sharing community while encountering bigoted and racist opposition. It is timely given the current war of...
JOIN ME ON OCTOBER 5 FOR A ‘WALK IN THE SPIRIT’ AROUND ULURU
Five years ago on my 90th birthday I walked with 50 friends along an old rail corridor in the Brisbane River Valley from my old hometown of Linville to Moore and back again, a distance of 14 kilometres. I completed the walk in three hours and raised $35000 for Dorcas...
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Anthony Fauci’s private diary and emails show he knew lockdowns failed
Sometimes you learn that people are exactly who you think they are.And that may never apply more accurately and comprehensively than it does with Anthony Fauci. Fauci was portrayed, starting in early 2020, as an objective, brilliant, virtually infallible God-like figure. Advertisement
Power, fear and submission
How is it possible that the Republican Party, at the peak of American power and at the new dawn of the country’s 250th anniversary, became a cult of personality around a leader they know to be a felon, a liar, and a danger to the constitutional order? Psychologically, this is
The impending collapse of California’s transportation fuel infrastructure
With the loss of transportation fuel supplies from Asian refineries resulting from the Iranian War and California’s huge dependency, the 4th largest economy in the world is on the precipice of an unprecedented, self-inflicted logistical and national security catastrophe. Driven by adversarial state policies and aggressive litigation from activist groups,
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Reclaiming democracy for the people
Australian democracy isn’t totally broken and unfixable, but political power is increasingly flowing towards those with the money, influence and access to shape government decisions. Anthony Albanese’s appearance at a $10,000-a-head fundraiser, the widening divide between Labor’s national conference and its parliamentary leadership, instability inside Victorian Labor, and ideological conflict
Jacinta Allan: Legacy, debt and the end of an era
Jacinta Allan’s resignation is more than just another leadership change: it signals the end of the Daniel Andrews era and leaves Victorian Labor confronting the political cost of its own lofty ambitions. Allan helped oversee one of the largest infrastructure programs in Australian history, including the Metro Tunnel, West Gate
Australia’s broken political system
Politics is disappointing, but does it always have to be this disappointing? It’s a question that we’re always asked at New Politics and becomes harder to avoid after a week in which the Prime Minister attended an exclusive fundraiser at a Point Piper mansion, Labor members gathered at a national