Independent blogs
Get in touch if you wish to have your blog featured here. It’s free, all you need is an RSS feed (most blogs do) and post at least once a month.
Scathing Backlash: Australian Labor Party’s Disaster Budget
While you might expect criticism from from their traditional opponents, the Australian Federal Government’s March budget has been met with almost universal condemnation. A country already reeling from the impacts of mass migration and a cost of living crisis is now...
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...
Nobody Sincerely Believes Cuba Threatens The United States
Reading by Tim Foley: In a sign that the US is preparing for yet another evil war, Marco Rubio is now claiming that Cuba poses a “national security threat” to the United States, saying the likelihood of a peaceful agreement is “not high”. “Cuba not
They’re Not Mad At Ben-Gvir For Being Evil, They’re Mad At Him For Being Honest
Reading by Tim Foley: Western and Israeli officials are currently wagging their fingers in faux outrage at Israel’s national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir for publicly boasting about the mistreatment of flotilla activists attempting to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza. Ben-Gvir’s Twitter account shared a video
American Democracy Does Not Exist
Reading by Tim Foley: Thomas Massie has lost his congressional seat against a primary opponent whose Israel lobby funding made the race the most expensive House of Representatives primary in history. Massie has been a rare Republican opponent of Israeli abuses on Capitol Hill. The
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...
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...
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
It’s not a lie, I just changed my position Your Honour
While Labor’s Federal Budget has copped a lot of flak from investors and potential property buyers including young people it is supposed to help, it may have created a new defence loophole in legal cases it was never designed to influence.Anyone facing charges of perjury for lying in evidence, which
Trump reaches historic agreement with Xi on handling Iran
The meeting between President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping this week marks one of the most consequential diplomatic moments of the decade – when the two leaders quietly reached agreement on an issue that has threatened global stability for more than twenty years: preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear
Of trust and trusts
Our existing political elites fundamentally broke trust over the COVID debacle. They panicked, threw the manual out the window, and then used the full power of the state, and state adjacent institutions like universities and media, to impose panic on the whole population and make it compulsory.Now the lies and
No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.
The Royal Commission, Palestine and the clampdown on free speech
The Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion is revealing something much larger than the question of how Australia responds to discrimination. Increasingly, the inquiry is becoming a test of where political dissent begins and ends – particularly when it comes to Israel and Palestine. As governments, media organisations and
Palestine, protest and free speech: The real crisis behind the Royal Commission
What was meant to be a Royal Commission to examine antisemitism and social cohesion in Australia has quickly become much broader and far more politically dangerous: the attempt to recreate the boundaries of acceptable political debate and dissent surrounding Israel, Zionism and the destruction of Palestine.While it was established to
Housing crisis, a Budget backlash and the neoliberal panic
This week’s briefing outlines the big issues to look out for: the political panic over Labor’s property tax reforms… the concocted backlash to the federal Budget… the fragmentation of conservative politics… and how rising fuel and cost-of-living pressures are exposing deeper problems in Australia’s economy.Australian politics has tried to set