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Record Insolvencies: Australia’s Businesses and Households Crumble
Australian businesses are closing at rates that would have been unthinkable a few years ago, and the human cost is spreading into personal bankruptcies and late payments that signal more pain ahead. Official figures show 14,153 companies entered external...
Australia’s Insane New Censorship Laws Will Destroy Free Speech
The Australian government wants the power to arbitrarily censor scenes of violent crime, or violence, for any reason. And it wants the power to use an unlimited number of fake accounts to wage offensive disinformational warfare against the Australian people. Given...
A Failure to Thrive Nationwide: Australia’s Last Fish and Chip Shop
The fish and chip shop had a Lest We Forget flag pinned above the door. That’s why we stopped. When I went in, the store was small. Outside it was a light marine blue, and inside it was painted and repainted white. It had no picture menus hanging above the counter....
New Issue Of JOHNSTONE: Tech Plutocrats Will Not Lead Us Into A Healthy Future
The new issue of JOHNSTONE is now available to order in print or download as a pay-what-you-want e-book version. This issue features a painting of Jeff Bezos. It says so much about how diseased our society has become that the most revered and respected among us are emotionally stunted man-babies
Using AI Instead Of Writing Turns Your Brain Into Cheez Whiz
Video reading by Tim Foley: Today I saw a post from a popular Twitter account saying, “As soon as AI is good enough to write blog posts in my voice as good as I would have written them, i intend to use AI to do
When The Gates Of Tech Dystopia Snap Shut
Video reading by Tim Foley: There’s a viral video clip showing a group of wild boars getting caught in a corral trap. When the gate snaps shut the poor animals run around in a panic, searching in vain for an exit. According to the caption
LIFE HAS BEEN KIND TO ME. MY CHARITY WALK AROUND ULURU ON 5 OCTOBER IS AN EXPRESSION OF MY THANKS FOR 10 SPECIAL HIGHLIGHTS.
Here are reasons why Monday, 5 October, 2026 will be a day of nostalgia. *I celebrate my 95th birthday. *Helen and I will enjoy the experience of walking eleven kilometres around Uluru, the spiritual heart of Australia. *We will raise 100,000 dollars for DorcasACTS, a...
MY 95TH BIRTHDAY WALK OF 11 KILOMETRES AROUND ULURU ON 5 OCTOBER IS ONLY DAYS AWAY. PLEASE SPONSOR ME RIGHT NOW. HUGE THANKS.
I intend to raise at least 100,000 dollars for DorcasACTS, a small charity I founded 15 years ago that makes direct financial grants into bank accounts of people in crisis situations anywhere in Australia. Last year we made 63 grants of $1000 each. Will be great if...
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...
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Forget AI: offshoring is the real threat to Australian jobs
Australians are constantly being told to fear artificial intelligence, with almost every discussion about the future of work eventually turning to predictions about AI replacing employees, eliminating professions and fundamentally reshaping the labour market. While AI will undoubtedly transform the way we work, I believe our obsession with the futuristic
The Muscat process: making dialogue a security capability
The hour after detectionGulf security is usually discussed in terms of deterrence, military capability and external partnerships. All three matter. But when a crisis begins, the deciding factor can be more modest: whether governments can talk to each other quickly, while the facts are still unclear. During my work in
California’s energy crisis could bring the West Coast to its knee
California is the 4th largest economy in the world and an “ENERGY ISLAND that is separated from the other 48 continental States by the Rocky and Sierra Nevada Mountain ranges. There are no pipelines over these prestigious mountains to California. ALL of Californias’ transportation fuel demands have been made by
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The Albanese doctrine: a failure of political leadership
Australian governments have always wanted to have the prestige of moral leadership without the small troublesome matter of having to exercise it – it always provides lectures to others about international law, human rights and the need for a “rules-based order”, but then becomes quiet when applying those principles requires
Australia’s double standards on human rights and the selective conscience of Albanese and Wong
Navi Pillay is a highly respected jurist from South Africa, was a judge on the High Court of South Africa, a UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and, more recently, a member of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory.And she’s been awarded the 2026
Is Big Tech AI out of control and too big to reel in?
Artificial intelligence is becoming a test of who governs Australia – elected representatives or technology companies with the resources to set the pace and terms of change. The central question is far bigger than whether an AI system follows instructions; it’s whether the corporations building these systems should also decide