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My Angry Breast: The Latest from A Sense of Place Publishing
My Angry Breast tells a personal journey through diagnosis, chemotherapy, mastectomy, and the aftermath of hearing those devastating words: “You have cancer.” Having experienced the trauma of a cancer diagnosis through her father’s final years, Robyn’s passion was to...
A primal scream from the Australian Seat of Farrer throws Liberals into Deeper Crisis
Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra One Nation’s smashing victory in Farrer fires up the insurgent party, and casts fresh doubts over the future of the Liberal Party. The result could not be a more devastating rebuff for Liberal leader Angus Taylor, who has been...
Our Government The Enemy: Ramesh Thakur. Extract.
Professor Ramesh Thakur, one of Australia’s most esteemed academics, will be on Cafe Locked Out with John Stapleton and Michael Gray Griffith. It will be streamed at 10am Australian Eastern Time and also be available on X, YouTube, Rumble, Facebook and Substack. A...
I’ll Stop Talking About Israel When Israel Gets The Fuck Out Of My Face
Reading by Tim Foley: I’ll stop talking about Israel when Israel gets the fuck out of my face. I don’t enjoy writing about this shit. I don’t enjoy getting called a Nazi by state-funded shills all day. I didn’t ask to spend years watching a
Israel Accuses The New York Times Of Antisemitic Journalism, And Other Notes
Reading by Tim Foley: ❖ The Israeli government is currently accusing The New York Times of antisemitic blood libel for publishing a report on Israel’s already well-documented systemic rape of Palestinian prisoners. Contrary to popular belief, the highest award in journalism is not the Pulitzer.
Netanyahu Stresses The Need For More Propaganda As Israel’s Hasbara Budget Soars
Reading by Tim Foley: In a fawning softball 60 Minutes interview released Sunday, Benjamin Netanyahu stressed the importance of winning “the propaganda war” on social media. This comes as Israel moves to quadruple its propaganda budget to $730 million a year. Major Garrett (which apparently
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...
IT’S TIME TO ‘WALK IN THE SPIRIT’
You will enjoy this powerful and inspirational page turning novel about the lives of six very different people. Its fascinating pages will reveal to you that they are Muslim, Jew, Christian, Indigenous, Confucian, LGBTI. In varying ways and at different times they...
READING A SIGNED EVERALD BOOK IS A VERY PLEASANT WAY TO ENJOY YOUR CHRISTMAS BREAK.
Nothing better can happen to you during the holiday season than to spend a couple of hours every day in a cool spot under a shady tree reading an entertaining book that has a page-turning message to renew your soul. It won’t surprise you to discover that I...
The ACT appoints its first Aboriginal Chief Coroner, After Years of Calling For Justice for Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
This article includes the names of Aboriginal People who have died, and mentions instances of racism. History has been made with the announcement of the appointment of Justice Louise Taylor as Chief Magistrate of the ACT – a role that also makes her the Chief Coroner. Justice Taylor is
Intergenerational inequity? The young have never had it so good
The Albanese government’s latest budget has been partly framed to promote “intergenerational equity” and is aimed at skewing policy to the young as they are supposedly worse off compared with previous generations who now owe them extra support through additional taxes on their past earnings, investments and alleged accumulated wealth.
Ted Turner: the devil behind cable news
Being very much the all-American figure that he was, the passing of Ted Turner was bound to enliven the cliché machine with the usual, clotty descriptions: the philanthropist, the conservationist, the yachtsman, sporting proprietor and twenty-four hour news pioneer. “He thought big and lived large,” observed Guardian US columnist Margaret
Coastal tourist dollars don’t stay local
In 2024, an international report by The Travel Foundation showed that globally, around 50-80 per cent of coastal tourist dollars are ‘leaked’ from the destination, providing little or no local benefit.In New South Wales, towns with a Coles and Woolworths take the lion’s share of tourist dollars, followed by short
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The New Politics verdict: A slightly progressive budget that doesn’t go far enough
Treasurer Jim Chalmers had delivered his fifth budget – but the first for this term which commenced over a year ago – and it’s a mixed but ideologically revealing budget: it contains some redistributive reforms, especially on housing tax concessions, but it also preserves the deeper neoliberal framework that has
The Budget: Labor’s slow and stuttered crawl toward reform
On Tuesday night, Treasurer Jim Chalmers will deliver what is being regarded as one of the most important federal Budgets in many years, promising action on housing affordability, productivity, cost-of-living pressures and long-awaited tax reform.Of course, we’ll have to wait to see whether this will be the case or not,
Budget, gas and housing: Can Labor finally deliver real reform?
This week’s briefing outlines the big issues to look out for: Labor’s defining Budget test over tax reform, housing affordability, gas exports and cost-of-living pressures, as the Albanese government faces growing demands for economic change while navigating the rise of One Nation, deepening tensions with China and mounting questions about