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Aboriginal Allodial Sovereign Rights: The Interview Three Years on From Australia’s Voice to Parliament Referendum
Steven Porter: Moree Three years on from Australia’s polarising Voice to Parliament Referendum, the debate over Indigenous recognition, sovereignty, and rights continues to resonate. In October 2023, Australians decisively voted No, rejecting the proposal to enshrine...
Scott Kuru: Australia is about to become the World’s Fastest Dying Country
A new generation of podcasters is transforming Australia’s media. One of the best is property expert Scott Kuru. His signature blend of data, outrage, and calls to individual action paints a picture of avoidable decline accelerating through poor policy choices....
How drug demand in New Zealand and Australia is driving calls for the death penalty in Fiji
By Kya Raina Lal, Auckland University of Technology Fiji is at the centre of an illicit narcotics crisis described as a national emergency, driven by an escalating demand for hard drugs in Australia and New Zealand. Drugs, particularly cocaine and methamphetamine, are...
Today In Dystopia
Reading by Tim Foley: Today in dystopia Americans are becoming increasingly outraged by the ubiquitousness of Flock’s AI-assisted surveillance cameras throughout US cities. Flock officers getting caught in lies and viral video footage of police abusing their access to the technology have contributed to the
Manipulators Do Not Use Language The Same Way Normal People Do
Reading by Tim Foley: The world would be a much better place if everyone understood that manipulators do not use language the same way normal people do. Normal people use language to communicate and connect, while manipulative people use language to control and extract. Propagandists,
Empire Managers Invent Fake Threats So We Won’t Fight The Real Monsters
Reading by Tim Foley: Western politics is mostly just empire managers making up fake problems to fight so they don’t have to address the real problems. Can’t stop waging wars or the western empire will collapse. So they make up fake threats from dictators and
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...
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...
A reflection on Sorry Day and Reconciliation Week 2026
It’s Sorry Day and Reconciliation week and I’m reminded again that language matters. White people tell me this constantly.Use the right language.Tone it down.Be careful how you say it.Be professional.Be strategic.Be calm.Be nice. Because language matters. And yet I keep watching white people use language as a weapon against Aboriginal
Discrimination is not always the moral and commercial wrong it is made out to be
People (rightly) get upset if they are a victim of discrimination in employment or in receiving entitlements from government. In large measure this reflects a widespread conviction that the merit principle should be paramount in such matters. Regretfully, merit and purely commercial considerations are often subverted to other agendas.There is
From utopia to branding: what happened to the fairy tale?
Never has fantasy been more commercially successful. Yet it is not obvious that it has become more imaginative. Long before the rise of the modern novel, fairy tales provided generations of listeners and readers with images of transformation, justice, adventure, and hope. They offered something more than entertainment. They opened
The respectable corruption of Australia
Australia isn’t failing through dramatic collapse or overt criminality. It’s something more subtle and insidious. Australia is, in a structural sense, a corrupt system, but not in the way the term is usually understood.This isn’t corruption driven by bribery or violence. It’s a quieter form, a kind of genteel corruption,
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Labor’s conference shows a party that no longer knows what it stands for
Labor conferences are carefully stage-managed affairs. The delegates will cheer, the leaders will deliver their polished speeches, and all the awkward debates are quietly buried behind procedural motions – except for a few orchestrated and tolerated tiffs – and everyone leaves declaring unity has been achieved. But there are far
The Politics of Outrage: When anger becomes the business model
The politics of outrage is no longer just a style of campaigning – it has become one of the dominant business models within modern media and democracy. As podcasts, social media and creator platforms replace traditional gatekeepers, the algorithms increasingly reward anger, conflict and cultural warfare over the evidence and
The Liberal Party’s winter of irrelevance: Can it recover?
Australian politics has entered a winter of discontent, and nowhere is the chill being felt more sharply than inside the Liberal Party. Angus Taylor leads an opposition with 42 seats in the House of Representatives, yet the party often appears to be chasing One Nation’s agenda rather than setting its