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A Sense of Place Magazine

The Pandemic Preparedness Narrative Gets a Reality Check

Reality Check Radio While much of the debate around pandemic preparedness takes place behind closed doors,New Zealand’s Reality Check Radio had the opportunity to take part in that conversation at Australia’s Parliament House. In June, RCR’s Head of Legal, Katie...

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Tales of An Accidental Bookseller: The Interview

With Paul Bugden and Hollywood Hal We talk with two of Sydney’s most entertaining characters, actor, author and bookseller Paul Bugden, along with his incorrigible old friend Hollywood Hal, a legend of the city’s bohemian nightlife. Part of their story is captured in...

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New Music Video: Awakening To The Truth On Every Level

Check out our latest video, Awakening To The Truth On Every Level: Here’s the text, for my subscribers who prefer to read: Different people mean different things when they talk about having an awakening. Some use “awakening” to describe the movement into revolutionary politics as

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Western Civilization Is A Phony Pop Star

Video reading by Tim Foley: Western liberal democracies are like a narcissistic wife beater who postures as a sensitive he/him feminist on social media. Like a pop star who makes a show of fighting the power and defending the marginalized while supporting Israel. Our society

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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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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...

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Has ANZUS turned Australia into a target

The ANZUS alliance has underpinned Australian defence thinking since it was created back in 1951. For generations ANZUS had been presented as the ultimate security guarantee, a far-back platform that would keep the continent safe while the United States projected power across the Pacific.That assumption no longer holds with any

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Australia’s AI plan needs an authority test for agents

Australia’s public service is moving into the stage of AI adoption where the most important governance question changes.For a chatbot, agencies reasonably ask whether the answer is accurate, fair, secure and useful. For an AI agent that can log into systems, call tools, send messages, move data or trigger transactions,

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New Politics

Labor’s version of sports rorts and Albanese’s golf clubs

The Albanese government is coming across that uncomfortable rule of politics: a rort doesn’t become acceptable and respectable, just because it’s your side that’s doing it. The $560 million Major and Local Community Infrastructure program is becoming a serious integrity problem, with analysis showing around three-quarters of its funding flowing

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Australia, Israel and the charade of Palestinian recognition

Almost a year after Australia recognised Palestine as an independent and sovereign state, the Albanese government faces an increasingly difficult question: what did recognition actually change?Recognition was supposed to support Palestinian sovereignty, self-determination and the right of Palestinians to remain on their land. Yet Australia has imposed no meaningful sanctions

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The Liberal Party: Chasing One Nation to the edge of oblivion

One Nation may be slipping slightly in the opinion polls, but Pauline Hanson is still setting the direction of conservative politics in Australia. Instead of distinguishing the Liberal Party from the far right, opposition leader Angus Taylor appears determined to follow Hanson deeper into the culture wars – competing for

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