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Sunday Morning At Cafe Locked Out: This Week’s Guest John Shipton
John Shipton is an Australian architect and anti-war activist, best known as the biological father of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Born around 1944, he met Christine Hawkins at a Vietnam War rally in 1970. Their relationship ended before or shortly after Julian’s...
On interviewing the last surviving Anzac
By John Stapleton After decades in mainstream journalism, and having written literally thousands of stories, there aren’t too many things I haven’t written about. But there was one story about the world’s last survivor of the Gallipoli campaign, Alec Campbell, that...
Giant kangaroos survived until 6,500 years ago on the New Guinea coast
Loukas Koungoulos, The University of Western Australia; Isaac A. R. Kerr, Flinders University, and Sue O’Connor, Australian National University Roughly 50,000 years ago, a kangaroo unlike any alive today lived in the mountain rainforests of New Guinea. First...
All It Takes Is One Crack In The Lie We’ve Been Sold
Reading by Tim Foley: I saw a clip going around from the Netflix series “1899” where a woman discovers a crack in the screen of what she had taken to be her world, causing her entire understanding of reality to crumble before her eyes. Someone
Don’t Let The Values Of This Dystopian Society Shape How You Live Your Life
Reading by Tim Foley: Anna on Twitter asks, “Is anyone else really stressed about their future and where they are in life and what they’ve accomplished and their worth as a person?” I understand what you’re saying, but that’s mostly just head noise that gets
It’s Obnoxious For Westerners To Criticize The Targets Of The Western Empire
Reading by Tim Foley: I still find myself fuming at the way ostensibly well-informed individuals can stand right in the heart of the empire denouncing its targets, as we saw in the open letter that a group of left-wing western individuals addressed “to Iran’s political
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...
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...
MEDIA STATEMENT : FELIPE ALVAREZ CORONIAL INQUEST
Carissa Lee is a Noongar actor and writer born on Wemba-Wemba country, and is the First Nations Public Policy Commissioning Editor for The Conversation. She just recently submitted her PhD at the University of Melbourne on cross-cultural collaborations in the performing arts.
Our Children are the Treaty generation
Sheree Lowe is VACCHO’s Executive Director of the Social Emotional Wellbeing unit and the Balit Durn Durn Centre. Sheree is a Djab Wurrung and Gunditjmara woman with strong ties to Southwest Victoria and has lived most of her life on Wadawurrung Country. She was an elected member of the south
Why parents are turning to tutoring, and it is no longer just about better marks
For decades, tutoring was largely viewed as something parents turned to when their child was struggling at school. When a student fell behind in maths or English, their report card raised alarm bells and tutoring was brought in to help them catch up. Fortunately, that is no longer the whole
From confrontation to cooperation
The crisis of multilateralism has become a dangerous signal that the world order based on shared principles enshrined in the UN Charter and other key international instruments and Treaties is crumbling under the weight of a series of global challenges. These challenges are increasingly met with power politics and confrontation,
Sharks having a whale of a time?
In August 2020 some fishermen off Forster went to have a look at a dead whale.More than a dozen sharks were feeding on it, including great whites and tiger sharks. Advertisement
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Breaking the silence on the Zionist influence in politics
Senator Nick McKim is not the first Australian politician to challenge the pro-Israel or Zionist influence in Australian politics, and he probably won’t be the last, but his comments made in the Senate and subsequent refusal to apologise to a prominent member of a pro-Zionist organisation might be a crossing
An Australian is killed, and Israel is still protected
The killing of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom in 2024 should have produced a major crisis in the relationship between Australia and Israel. Instead, two years after Frankcom was killed by Israeli drone strikes – along with six other World Central Kitchen workers – the Israeli military has cleared itself
Silencing genocide, one book at a time
Waverley Library’s decision to remove Adam Johnson’s How to Sell a Genocide after complaints raises a question that goes far beyond one book, one library or one Sydney council: who decides which political arguments the public is permitted to view?The distress experienced by survivors of the Bondi Beach terror attack