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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...
Today In Dystopia: “We Have Cameras Everywhere In That Town”
Reading by Tim Foley: Today in dystopia, police have been wrongfully arresting people based on faulty information from AI-assisted Flock surveillance footage instead of actually investigating the evidence of the crime. In an article titled “She Spent 7 Months in Legal Hell After Cops Used
Let Your Love For This World Fill You With Joy And Compel You To Action
Reading by Tim Foley: Love and cherish our world. That’s the secret to remaining both (A) deeply happy and (B) well-informed about the dystopian abuses of the empire. You don’t have to choose. You can have both. I sometimes get called a Debbie Downer for
We All Know This Civilization Is Doomed, But They Keep Telling Us Everything’s Normal
Reading by Tim Foley: Life in the 2020s comes with so much dissonance and dysphoria because everyone knows this civilization is doomed, but it’s not being acknowledged by any of our mainstream institutions. We can all see everything getting worse and worse before our eyes
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...
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
For the right the next election is about renovation
Pauline Hanson is improving her position and making it less likely that this manifestation of One Nation will splutter out. At the same time, it is almost impossible for One Nation to translate its superior first preference vote over the Liberals, and probably Labor, into a governing position. That’s one
The geopolitics of railroads: Europe’s decoupling doctrine
Europe has spent the better part of the last decade debating decarbonisation. It has legislated ambitious climate targets, accelerated renewable energy deployment, embraced the electrification of transport and, increasingly, accepted that nuclear power must also play a central role in achieving carbon neutrality. Simultaneously, the European Union has sought to
The spirit of Cain
Last month the ABC broadcast a young woman inviting the nation to imagine what it would do to Gina Rinehart when the revolution comes. There was a stick. There were her intestines. There was a sausage roll. The national broadcaster said the tone was satirical.I have no interest in whether
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Scandals, factions and failure: The continuing collapse of the Liberal Party
The Liberal Party is no longer going through a short-term and cyclical downturn – it’s facing a continuing crisis of political identity, it’s lacking organisation skills which makes it more susceptible to extremist interest groups and, most importantly, its relevance is fading within the electorate. Despite losing two consecutive federal
The politics of distraction and the ongoing decline of the media
Illustration: Josh Adams/Green Left.Labor is doing its best to imitate Pauline Hanson’s racist magic-wand politics, sending out the message that migration numbers will fall dramatically, without causing any pain at all, without damaging universities, without making skill shortages worse or weakening an economy that has been calibrated to sustain itself
The police state of New South Wales
The Minns government presents its proposed expansion of digital surveillance powers as a necessary response to organised crime, but the big issue isn’t whether NSW Police should investigate criminal networks; it’s whether police should be able to access mobile phones without the judicial safeguards that prevent legitimate investigations from going