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Australian political commentator Paul Collits, with Cafe Locked Out. How Did We Get Here.
With Paul Collits. His Substack is called Political Science. Collits, being a somewhat cerebral lad, describes himself as a freelance writer and independent scholar and researcher, with interests in politics, public policy, philosophy, economics and education. To...
Die Laughing: Fred Pawle On Bill Leak and the State of Australia Today
We sit down with Fred Pawle, one of Australian journalism’s great characters, to discuss his recently updated book Die Laughing: The Wild Life of Bill Leak. Though an ill-fit in corporate journalism, Pawle worked at The Australian for many years as a reporter and...
Scathing Backlash: Australian Labor Party’s Disaster Budget
While you might expect criticism from from their traditional opponents, the Australian Federal Government’s March budget has been met with almost universal condemnation. A country already reeling from the impacts of mass migration and a cost of living crisis is now...
Warmongers Keep Generating AI Atrocity Propaganda About Iran
Reading by Tim Foley: Another AI atrocity propaganda project about Iran has been unleashed, this time in the form of a movie titled “Dreams of Violets” at the Tribeca film festival. Variety calls the flick “the first full-length, live-action film generated by AI to be
If Israel Receives Immense Support, It’s Going To Receive Immense Criticism
Reading by Tim Foley: One of the more asinine liberal Zionist talking points is conceding that you are technically allowed to criticize Israel while insisting that it veers into antisemitism if you place more emphasis on Israel’s abuses than on abuses in other countries. If
They Are Building A UFC Arena On The White House Lawn
Reading by Tim Foley: They are building a UFC arenaon the White House lawn,because the world has gone insane,and there are chatbots in our skulls,and our eyes have been crossed outwith black ink. They are building a UFC arena on the White House lawnso the president
ITS TIME TO BUILD COMMUNITIES NOT DIVIDED BY RELIGION.
WALK WITH THE SPIRIT is a page-turning novel about people – Christian, Muslim, Jew, Confucian, Indigenous, LGBTI, Atheist – who try to create a caring and sharing and generous society in the Queensland City of Rockhampton despite the current international war in which...
HAVE SOLD 126 TICKETS TO LAUNCH OF ‘WALK IN THE SPIRIT’. ROOM CAPACITY IS 140. WILL BE DELIGHTED IF YOU ARE ONE OF FINAL 14.
The launch of WALK IN THE SPIRIT is on Friday 27 March at Noon at the Royal on the Park in Alice Street Brisbane. The 126 who have bought tickets have paid 95 dollars each for a special Uluru Burger with a drink and coffee, as well as a signed book, with the surplus...
IT’S TIME TO ‘WALK IN THE SPIRIT’
You will enjoy this powerful and inspirational page turning novel about the lives of six very different people. Its fascinating pages will reveal to you that they are Muslim, Jew, Christian, Indigenous, Confucian, LGBTI. In varying ways and at different times they...
Metaphor, Risk, and Responsibility in Language around Reconciliation
Public reconciliation discourse relies heavily on metaphor to mobilise participation and signal ethical commitment. Phrases such as “closing the gap”, “walking together” and “bridge-building” frame reconciliation through ideas of movement, repair and shared responsibility. So why are we now seeing gambling-derived language, specifically the phrase “go all in”? Gambling metaphors
Pollster Kos Samaras: electoral soothsayer for endless immigration
Greek-origin commentator George Megalogenis has made a vocation of Australia’s “cultural diversity” obsession. Doing victory-laps, as we hit 30% overseas born, 50% “migrant origin”.Only Middle East oil-autocracies – now strafed by Iran – really top that. Move over, George. Greek-origin soothsayer Kos, former election-strategist for Dan Andrews and his chronically
Trump needs to end negotiating with Iran
President Trump appears to be getting the wrong signals from negotiations being currently conducted with Iran. On the one hand Trump announced: Advertisement
The Iran war exposes the illusions of energy policy
Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), recently declared in Paris that those who have fought to keep the world dependent on fossil fuels are “inadvertently supercharging the global renewables boom” – citing the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war with Iran as evidence.It is a
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The Teal Party of Australia: Will it take off?
The teal independents emerged as a political rebellion against the Liberal Party’s shift over into culture-war politics under figures like Scott Morrison and Peter Dutton, offering the more affluent urban voters a politically safer alternative that combined economic conservatism with climate action, integrity in politics and socially progressive values. But
Ben-Gvir is the real face of Israel and the world needs to stop deluding itself
The political fallout from the treatment of Gaza flotilla activists by Israeli authorities is becoming a much bigger issue than the actions of one extremist minister posting humiliating videos on social media. What occurred on the Global Sumud flotilla – where civilians were illegally detained in international waters, kneeling with
Australia’s political system is falling apart. And it’s about time.
This week’s briefing outlines the big issues to look out for: the growing housing and inequality crisis, the continuing collapse of the Liberal Party and rise of populist politics, the emergence of independents and teals as a new political force, and the widening political fallout from Israel’s actions in Gaza