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Australians Under Watch: Facial Recognition Becomes All Pervasive
Walk a Perth street, enter a hardware store, queue at a stadium gate or present a driver’s licence and the same technology may already be reading your face. This month Western Australia Police reported that an Australia-first live facial recognition trial had scanned...
A Dark Day in Australia’s Mortgage Belt
The RBA lifts the cash rate to a 15-year high of 4.6 per cent. Young families wear the extra repayments. Canberra wears the blame. “RBA throws mortgage holders under the bus.” “Dark day for hardworking Australian families.” “Labor’s spending addiction forces 16th rate...
Terrifying, Unprecedented, Orwellian. World’s Leading Deep State Experts Attack Australia’s Censorship Legislation
For most Australians, a sock puppet is a homemade toy. Online, the term means something else entirely. A sock puppet account is a fake identity created by someone who already exists on the internet. The operator pretends to be another person — often to praise their...
Saying You Listen To AI Music Is Like Saying You Have An AI Girlfriend
Video reading by Tim Foley: It pisses me off whenever I see someone claiming that “AI music” is about to make normal music obsolete. There is no such thing as “AI music” or “AI art”. AI cannot make music. It cannot create the experience of
AI Won’t Solve Humanity’s Problems Because Our Problems Aren’t Caused By Lack Of Intelligence
Video reading by Tim Foley: I hate it when people say humanity’s problems will be solved by “artificial superintelligence” as though all we need to fix the cruelty and abusiveness in our world is an AI that is smarter than a human. Mark Zuckerberg voiced
Be Kind To Your Adult Children Or They’ll Stop Talking To You
Video reading by Tim Foley: The Wall Street Journal has a new article out titled “Why Are So Many Adults Cutting Off Their Parents?” about the rising levels of family estrangement in our society. “Many experts believe that estrangements between adult children and their parents
LIFE HAS BEEN KIND TO ME. MY CHARITY WALK AROUND ULURU ON 5 OCTOBER IS AN EXPRESSION OF MY THANKS FOR 10 SPECIAL HIGHLIGHTS.
Here are reasons why Monday, 5 October, 2026 will be a day of nostalgia. *I celebrate my 95th birthday. *Helen and I will enjoy the experience of walking eleven kilometres around Uluru, the spiritual heart of Australia. *We will raise 100,000 dollars for DorcasACTS, a...
MY 95TH BIRTHDAY WALK OF 11 KILOMETRES AROUND ULURU ON 5 OCTOBER IS ONLY DAYS AWAY. PLEASE SPONSOR ME RIGHT NOW. HUGE THANKS.
I intend to raise at least 100,000 dollars for DorcasACTS, a small charity I founded 15 years ago that makes direct financial grants into bank accounts of people in crisis situations anywhere in Australia. Last year we made 63 grants of $1000 each. Will be great if...
PLEASE JOIN MY FAMILY OF DONORS IN MY QUEST TO RAISE $100,000 FOR ‘DORCAS ACTS’ ON MY 95th BIRTHDAY ON 5 OCTOBER AT ULURU.
The portrait of me was painted by a good friend for my 90th birthday when I raised $35000 for DorcasACTS which is the caring and sharing community service of my local church, the Aspley Uniting Church. On my 95th I intend to treble that figure so that DorcasACTS can...
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The rate is normal; the debt isn’t
On Tuesday the Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Board raised the cash rate by 25 basis points to 4.60 per cent, its fourth increase this year. The decision was unanimous, and the statement kept the door open to more. The commentary wrote itself within the hour: mortgage agony, borrowers crushed, families
Intelligence agencies, AI, and the new battlefield for public opinion
Artificial intelligence possesses a dramatic capacity to learn. Regular users already notice how chatbots attune their responses to the patterns and preferences revealed in conversation. What begins as a neutral tool quickly becomes attuned to the data it encounters. This adaptability is now being exploited in a systematic manner.Intelligence agencies
Four Corners and the decline of an icon of Australian media
Tuning in to Four Corners Timber Turmoil a few weeks ago, I wasn’t expecting a pro-forestry view to emerge – still, the opening statement was insightful – and left no one in any doubt as to where we were headed.Across Australia native forest logging has long been unpopular… That’s a
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The OpenAI Medicare breach exposes the dangerous gap in AI regulation
An OpenAI agent – not an actual person, but a piece of code – gained unauthorised access to the Services Australia portal in June, which includes the Medicare statistics service. OpenAI engineers discovered this breach in August when they performed routine audits of internal logs, but didn’t notify the Australian
Who’s actually in charge of Australia’s future?
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has returned from New York after launching Australia’s campaign for a seat on the UN Security Council seat from 2029, accompanied by the usual language about observing international law, global cooperation and Australia’s role as a constructive middle power, punching above its weight.Of course, Australia should
Australia wants a seat at the UN but what would it stand for?
Australia is campaigning for a seat on the UN Security Council for 2029–30. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says membership would give the country greater influence over conflict, peacekeeping and the international rules that shape an increasingly unstable world. The question for Australia is: what it would do with that influence?