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Stasi Australia.
Written in 2020, at the beginning of Australia’s truly insane reaction to Covid, regarded as one of the worst if not the worst in the world, spearheaded by the now much reviled Prime Minister Scott Morrison, it has proved all too prophetic. An overwhelmed and...
Fire the Liar: Pauline Hanson’s Crowdfunding Blitz Turns Australian Politics Upside Down
In just days, a simple slogan has captured the Australian public’s imagination like few political campaigns in recent memory. “Fire the Liar” – Pauline Hanson’s audacious One Nation fundraising drive targeting Prime Minister Anthony Albanese – has raised over $3.6...
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...
The World’s First Trillionaire Is Not Your Friend, And Other Notes
Reading by Tim Foley: ❖ It’s so pathetic watching Elon Musk’s groveling bootlickers fall all over themselves on social media to defend their favorite oligarch from criticism as he becomes the world’s first trillionaire. They’re like “Don’t be mean to the trillionaire, just become a
Podcast: Painting Pete Hegseth And Then Burning The Painting
Caitlin and Tim discuss Trump, trillionaires and other tribulations. Caitlin paints the US Secretary of War and then sets fire to the painting. Available in video or audio, and can be found on all your favorite podcast platforms. VIDEO: AUDIO: _____________________ The best
Under The Western Empire You Get Punished For Having A Conscience
Reading by Tim Foley: The UK has sentenced four anti-genocide activists to years in prison on terrorism charges, and the US is working to deport a prominent foreign policy analyst for criticizing the war in Iran. Four members of the group Palestine Action were sentenced
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
Back to bad beginnings: the Iran-US memorandum of understanding
Let us, if only briefly, give thanks for the peacemakers, whatever their poor qualifications and whatever folly drove them to war in the first place. On June 15, the secretariat of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council revealed that, based on the agreement reached with the United States, “the war and
Securing the South Pacific’s uncertain future
Long regarded as a marginal theatre of operation for strategists from around the world, the South Pacific has increasingly become a critical focus of security concerns. Rather than a series of relatively isolated island states subject to conventional threat, today Pacific governments and their respective communities are struggling to come
Australian digital sovereignty
The European Union’s push for digital sovereignty is no longer a niche Brussels debate. It has become a central organising idea for how Europe regulates data, platforms, cloud services, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. In broad terms, digital sovereignty means the capacity to shape the digital environment according to one’s own
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The war that achieved nothing: Why the US and Israel are the biggest losers
For months, if not years, the world was told – mainly by the United States and Israel – that a confrontation with Iran was totally necessary and inevitable. When the attacks on Iran commenced in late February, the markets reacted accordingly, oil prices surged and the shipping routes through the
The One Nation reality check is coming soon
Recent polling showing strong support for One Nation continues to generate fear on the left and excitement on the right across Australia’s political class. These numbers won’t hold up until the 2028 election – still two years away – but that’s almost beside the point. The real story is a
The One Nation poll surge: Protest or a passing fad?
For much of modern Australian political history, federal politics has been defined by a stable contest between Labor and the Coalition. While minor parties have sometimes disrupted the landscape, they have rarely threatened the dominance of the major parties in any sustained way. That is why recent opinion polls showing