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Australia’s Broken Heartlands: Michael Gray Griffith. The Interview.
Goodbye Road: Australia’s Broken Heartlands is one of the rawest, most poignant, powerful and consequential books of the 2020s. Here author Michael Gray Griffith, speaking from an abandoned industrial park in Western Australia, talks in depth about the creation of the...
More than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban, new eSafety report finds
Lisa M. Given, RMIT University As countries around the world look to follow Australia’s lead in restricting young people’s access to social media, a new report by the eSafety Commissioner might give them reason to pause, at least temporarily. Australia’s online...
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...
You’re A Terrorist If You Resist Genocide Or Mass Surveillance, And Other Notes
Reading by Tim Foley: ❖ The US has joined the UK in adding the activist group Palestine Action to its list of designated terrorist organizations. The UK proscribing Palestine Action was already arguably the most insane attack on free speech in recent western history, and
All It Takes Is One Crack In The Lie We’ve Been Sold
Reading by Tim Foley: I saw a clip going around from the Netflix series “1899” where a woman discovers a crack in the screen of what she had taken to be her world, causing her entire understanding of reality to crumble before her eyes. Someone
Don’t Let The Values Of This Dystopian Society Shape How You Live Your Life
Reading by Tim Foley: Anna on Twitter asks, “Is anyone else really stressed about their future and where they are in life and what they’ve accomplished and their worth as a person?” I understand what you’re saying, but that’s mostly just head noise that gets
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...
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...
MEDIA STATEMENT : FELIPE ALVAREZ CORONIAL INQUEST
Carissa Lee is a Noongar actor and writer born on Wemba-Wemba country, and is the First Nations Public Policy Commissioning Editor for The Conversation. She just recently submitted her PhD at the University of Melbourne on cross-cultural collaborations in the performing arts.
Our Children are the Treaty generation
Sheree Lowe is VACCHO’s Executive Director of the Social Emotional Wellbeing unit and the Balit Durn Durn Centre. Sheree is a Djab Wurrung and Gunditjmara woman with strong ties to Southwest Victoria and has lived most of her life on Wadawurrung Country. She was an elected member of the south
The Lord’s Prayer is inclusive. Acknowledgement of Country is not
If the Lord’s Prayer is removed from each day of Parliament, it doesn’t mean there is no prayer at the opening.In the Anglo-settler former colonies of the Antipodes and the Americas, it has become almost mandatory to start not just parliamentary meetings, but anything of any official consequence, with a
Australia’s backdown on data centres allows them to use energy from coal and gas.
It’s official: Australia’s data centre boom will not be solely powered by renewables.At the National Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, the federal government softened its stance on using coal and gas to power energy-hungry data centres. Initially, the government said it would require new data centres to rely on renewables, backed
Fagan’s damning verdict: vandalism and antisemitism down under
The term “antisemitism” is now so commonly used as an accusation as to be placed beyond questioning. This is particularly so in countries claiming some protections for free speech or lawful assembly. Use that term to your heart’s content and stifle discussion. Carry a placard accusing Israeli policy of genocidal
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Breaking the silence on the Zionist influence in politics
Senator Nick McKim is not the first Australian politician to challenge the pro-Israel or Zionist influence in Australian politics, and he probably won’t be the last, but his comments made in the Senate and subsequent refusal to apologise to a prominent member of a pro-Zionist organisation might be a crossing
An Australian is killed, and Israel is still protected
The killing of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom in 2024 should have produced a major crisis in the relationship between Australia and Israel. Instead, two years after Frankcom was killed by Israeli drone strikes – along with six other World Central Kitchen workers – the Israeli military has cleared itself
Silencing genocide, one book at a time
Waverley Library’s decision to remove Adam Johnson’s How to Sell a Genocide after complaints raises a question that goes far beyond one book, one library or one Sydney council: who decides which political arguments the public is permitted to view?The distress experienced by survivors of the Bondi Beach terror attack