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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...
It took just 60 years for red foxes to colonise Australia from Victoria to the Pilbara
Sean Tomlinson, University of Adelaide and Damien Fordham, University of Adelaide To a newly-arrived red fox, the abundant rolling grasslands and swamps of Wadawurrung Country, around what is now called Port Phillip Bay, must have seemed like a predator’s paradise....
UPDATE: Your Poster Books Are Coming!
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Israel Moved Gaza’s Yellow Line And Then Shelled Palestinians For Being On The Wrong Side
Notes from The Edge of the Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): ❖ Drop Site News reports that the IDF quietly moved part of the “yellow line” which divides Gaza 300 meters forward, and then started shelling Palestinians
Nobody’s Coming To Humanity’s Rescue; We’ve Got To Save Ourselves
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): AI isn’t going to save us. Tech innovation isn’t going to save us. Your favorite politician isn’t going to save us. The Epstein files aren’t going to save us. China isn’t going to save
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...
‘WALK WITH THE MAN’ TO CREATE A CORNERSTONE OF VALUES ETHICS AND INSPIRATION FOR AUSTRALIA
Most readers of my book WALKING WITH THE MAN BUT NOT TO CHURCH enjoy it because it charts an inspirational pathway of life for the 90% of Australians who have left churches and have no intention of ever returning. They reject organised religion and its ancient outlook...
The history of Bla(c)k Burlesque
History was made at the 2025 Miss First Nation Drag Pageant last week, when Wiradjuri and Gamilaroi Draglesque performer Kitty Obsidian was the first competitor and winner in the Miss First Nations pageant who was assigned female at birth. This week, Kitty continues their hobby of history making by being
Net-zero or none, Ley’s still backing Albanese’s severe immigration/housing crunch
Nominally the Liberal Party mantra is “individual freedom and free enterprise”.In immigration, housing, energy, employment, “United Nations” Labor is interventionist, dirigiste, statist. Affecting that Joy Division T-shirt, former student-activist Albanese leads the charge, defending 21st century Australia’s top 20%, their preferences and privileges. Sussan Ley’s opposition has done a fair
Trump’s ill-considered nuclear decision
President Donald Trump is arguably the most controversial president in modern US history. However, it is not his personal chequered history (like past involvement with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein) or diplomatic disasters (unwarranted verbal browbeating of the Ukrainian President on 28 Feb 2025) that this article will discuss, but rather Trump’s
Competing for emissions: the COP candidate contest
It’s so silly as to be depraved. Two countries, hardly exemplary when it comes to their environmental credentials, vying for hosting rights to an event that does more to emit greenhouse gases than it resolves to limiting them. But this is exactly what Australia and Türkiye are doing regarding the
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