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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...
Cash Grab: Labor Party Sells Defence Heritage in Multibillion Dollar Fire Sale
Victoria Barracks in Paddington has been military ground since 1840. Convicts and tradesmen cut the Hawkesbury sandstone. Soldiers marched out those gates for Sudan, two world wars, and every conflict that followed. RSL NSW still calls it the spiritual home of the...
Urgent: Convoy to Canberra Images Wanted
A Sense of Place Publishing and Cafe Locked Out are collaborating in the production of a 5th Anniversary Memorial Edition of the upcoming book: Convoy to Canberra. As anyone who attended knows, the Convoy to Canberra in February of 2022 was a unique event, the largest...
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
Empire Psychosis
Video reading by Tim Foley: More and more humans are suffering from empire psychosis. People who can’t go ten minutes without checking their phones, losing hours a day to social media and mindless scrolling. People talking to chatbots, learning about the world from them, learning
Tech Plutocrats Cannot Lead Us Into A Healthy Future
Video reading by Tim Foley: Tech plutocrats are the high-budget expression of the “everyone is twelve now” theory. You wanna go to Mars? Of course you do, you’re twelve. You think you can merge your consciousness with machinery and unlock the key to immortality? Hell
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...
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...
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The demographics of war
Without any doubt war is one of the greatest man-made disasters in human experience.The relationship that exists between war and population remains far from clear. Few aspects of life have proved as elusive as the explanation and study of the causative factors of war. It remains difficult to establish a
AI: the regulators want a kill switch, the investors want to restrict competition
Investors are calling for AI development to be closely monitored and slowed down. They are demanding that the state regulate AI. The public is being sold a story about the dangers of AI to create a fear factor. Meanwhile China is undercuting the cost of using Anthropic by a factor
When everything becomes a mental illness
Australia has a massive mental-health problem, with almost half of all people experiencing a “mental disorder” at some point in their life. That is, every second person has allegedly had a mental-health problem. Statistically speaking, there is a 1 in 2 chance that we have had one ourselves.Naturally, it’s all
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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?
What is ASIO really telling us about terror threats?
ASIO director–general Mike Burgess says the agency has disrupted 16 potential terror threats and four more serious plots since the Bondi Beach attack. Those numbers are designed to get the attention of the public but they also demand an explanation. What is meant by a “disruption”? How close were the