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Australia’s Bulwark against Populism Is Cracking
Rebekah Barnett: Brownstone Institute he right-wing populist wave that broke over much of the democratic world with Brexit and the first Trump presidency in 2016 barely lapped at Australia’s shores. The island nation’s compulsory, preferential voting system and...
How to Sell a Genocide: The Double Standards of Reporting on Gaza
Jeff Sparrow, The University of Melbourne When the University of Queensland Press cancelled the publication of Wiradjuri poet Jazz Money’s book Bila: A River Cycle because of a blog post by its illustrator, 60 UQP contributors signed a letter of protest. Some declared...
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...
Podcast: Talkin’ About Dystopia, Paintin’ Medea Benjamin
Caitlin and Tim discuss this strange dark future we’ve all tumbled into and the things that make life worth living. Available in audio as well. This conversation can be found on every major podcast platform. Please send us your questions, comments and feedback so we
Thousands Of New Yorkers Just Attended A Nazi Parade For Israel, And Other Notes
Reading by Tim Foley: Multiple far right Israeli ministers attended New York City’s Israel Day Parade on Sunday, including Israel’s genocidal finance minister Bezalel Smotrich. Smotrich is ideologically not significantly different from a Nazi. Which means New York City just hosted a Nazi parade that
The UK Is Getting Even Crazier In Defense Of Israel
Reading by Tim Foley: The UK is getting crazier and crazier in its defense of Israel. Now they’re canceling the visas of mainstream normie political pundits for criticizing the state of Israel, and investigating people for antisemitic hate crimes when they denounce Zionists who aren’t
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
Australia imagined
In this article I state a case for generating a movement for the electors of a federal government. Voters have a brief moment of power when every three years they choose a government. Thereafter, governments expect them to be passive recipients of their legislative decisions. Three years is a long
Phoenix rising: women, AI, and the architecture of a world that cares
There is a particular quality of fire that destroys completely and, in doing so, reveals exactly what must be rebuilt, and by whom.I have spent over three decades fighting for women and girls, often in the world’s most dangerous places. I drafted post-conflict constitutions in Iraq and Kosovo. I worked
Modern society runs on refined oil products, can California keep ignoring reality?
An energy “reality” reminder is that crude oil by itself is useless black tar, unless you build a multi-billion-dollar refinery to break it down to produce various types of transportation fuels, and oil derivatives that are the basis of the products in our materialistic world.Without refineries to manufacture that useless
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When will Australia speak out against the state of Israel?
It’s clear that Israel’s war and genocide in Gaza – now rapidly expanding into southern Lebanon and beyond – has revealed the cowardice and complicity of the Albanese government, but it’s a political issue that’s becoming harder to keep hiding away from in the hope that it all just goes
The politics of looking away: Gaza, AUKUS, the teals and the NACC
This week’s briefing outlines the big issues to look out for: the growing pressure on the Albanese government over Gaza; questions about the future of the teal independents; the AUKUS debacle continues; and the ongoing credibility crisis facing the National Anti-Corruption Commission.The Gaza conflict is becoming a more politically difficult
Integrity on hold: The crisis facing the National Anti-Corruption Commission
The resignation of National Anti-Corruption Commission commissioner Paul Brereton is a significant moment for one of the Albanese government’s flagship integrity reforms, but it also raises a far deeper issue: Australia’s federal anti-corruption watchdog has failed to meet the expectations placed upon it. Established in 2023 amid widespread public anger