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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...
“I’m Not Political” Just Means “I Support The Status Quo”
Reading by Tim Foley: Saying “I’m not into politics” is just saying “I support status quo politics.” It’s saying you endorse all the violence, exploitation, ecocide and abuse of the current order. Politics are always happening all around you in every moment of every day,
Let’s Stay Human
Reading by Tim Foley: There’s a creepy tweet going around by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recommending that parents feed their kids’ interests and schedules into ChatGPT so it can generate a daily custom-made bot podcast to listen to on their morning drive to school. Gravity
Today In Dystopia: eBay CIA Gangstalkers, Shredding Rare Books To Train AI
Reading by Tim Foley: ❖ Today in dystopia, billionaire corporations and plutocrats can hire trained CIA operatives to psychologically terrorize ordinary citizens who criticize them. E-commerce giant eBay has just agreed to pay $56 million to settle a lawsuit for damages caused by the company’s
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...
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...
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Thirty years on, the Coalition has no idea what to do about One Nation
It has been almost 30 years since the founding of One Nation, and the Coalition parties still haven’t worked out how to deal with it.When One Nation is on 6 per cent or thereabouts, that isn’t a major problem. However, since February 10 when YouGov put One Nation ahead of
Kevin Warsh’s quiet plan to shrink the Fed balance sheet
Today, we had the second meeting of the Federal Reserve overseen as Fed Chair by Kevin Warsh. The result of this meeting was that the Fed left the effective Fed Funds rate unchanged at 3.6%. Still, three of the twelve members of the Federal Open Market Committee voted for a
Anthony Fauci’s private diary and emails show he knew lockdowns failed
Sometimes you learn that people are exactly who you think they are.And that may never apply more accurately and comprehensively than it does with Anthony Fauci. Fauci was portrayed, starting in early 2020, as an objective, brilliant, virtually infallible God-like figure. Advertisement
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Power, distraction and the price of political failure
The Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion has become something far bigger than an inquiry into antisemitism. What began as an examination of discrimination and social cohesion is now becoming a plot to reshaping education, public institutions and the boundaries of acceptable political debate. The proposal by the Special
Reclaiming democracy for the people
Australian democracy isn’t totally broken and unfixable, but political power is increasingly flowing towards those with the money, influence and access to shape government decisions. Anthony Albanese’s appearance at a $10,000-a-head fundraiser, the widening divide between Labor’s national conference and its parliamentary leadership, instability inside Victorian Labor, and ideological conflict
Jacinta Allan: Legacy, debt and the end of an era
Jacinta Allan’s resignation is more than just another leadership change: it signals the end of the Daniel Andrews era and leaves Victorian Labor confronting the political cost of its own lofty ambitions. Allan helped oversee one of the largest infrastructure programs in Australian history, including the Metro Tunnel, West Gate