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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...
US Empire Managers View Iranian Sovereignty As An Act Of Aggression, And Other Notes
Reading by Tim Foley: ❖ Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced on Wednesday that the US is going to be launching major strikes in Iran, while President Trump says he’ll “bomb the shit out of” the Iranians if they don’t agree to a deal of
AI Won’t Save Us From The Need To End Capitalism
Reading by Tim Foley: One reason AI is being pushed so hard is because it’s the last “humanity can capitalism its way out of all its problems” narrative that has yet to be fully discredited. The idea is that if we can just create AI
The US Starts Wars On The Other Side Of The Planet And Then Claims “Self-Defense”
Reading by Tim Foley: The US is bombing Iran again after an American attack helicopter was downed over the Strait of Hormuz amid renewed escalations in the conflict. CENTCOM said the following in a statement on the airstrikes: “U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces began
JOIN ME ON OCTOBER 5 FOR A ‘WALK IN THE SPIRIT’ AROUND ULURU
Five years ago on my 90th birthday I walked with 50 friends along an old rail corridor in the Brisbane River Valley from my old hometown of Linville to Moore and back again, a distance of 14 kilometres. I completed the walk in three hours and raised $35000 for Dorcas...
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...
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’s failed suicide policies
Seven men die by suicide in Australia every day. In May 2026, the peak body for men’s health endorsed a plan to address this by teaching boys about gender equity.There is a moment in any institutional capture when the pretence falls away. For decades, men’s health advocates have been politely
Are independent schools really just for rich kids?
In the opening pages of her slim new book, public school advocate and fiction writer Jane Caro asserts that Australian governments have, for years, been “pumping money into private education while public schools struggle”. Caro further asserts that whatever money the government gives to public schools it is not enough,
The integration of drones into modern warfare
The battlefields of the 2020s have delivered a stark reality on the future of warfare. Cheap and increasingly autonomous drones are not merely supplementary tools. they are rewriting the rules of engagement, exposing the vulnerabilities of traditional military platforms, and forcing nations worldwide to confront an uncomfortable reality.What began as
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The AUKUS secret: How Australia risks becoming part of the US–Israel war machine
Has AUKUS only ever been about the submarines? For many years, this is what the focus has been on: new/old submarines, will they arrive/won’t they arrive… and during this time, the political class and mainstream media has corralled the discussions in a child-like way towards the costs, delivery timetables, industrial
AUKUS, housing and universities: The policy failures that keep hindering Australia’s future
This week’s briefing outlines the big issues to look out for: the hidden implications of AUKUS and integration into US military structures; a housing crisis that governments continue to talk about but seem unwilling to solve; and growing pressures on universities as international students and migrants become political scapegoats for
Discarding human rights for the sake of Israel
The Albanese government frequently presents Australia as a defender of international law, human rights and the so-called rules-based international order. But when allegations involve one of Australia’s closest allies, those principles appear increasingly difficult to uphold.This week, we examine serious allegations made by Australian citizens who were detained by Israeli