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A Sense of Place Magazine

Australia’s EV Fiasco

Australia’s unfortunate EV drivers are reporting headaches with EV chargers across outback and far west New South Wales. Recent accounts mention the NRMA units in places like Wilcannia, Bourke, Walgett, and Cobar regularly failing or running at reduced speeds. Plus...

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The Pandemic Preparedness Narrative Gets a Reality Check

Reality Check Radio While much of the debate around pandemic preparedness takes place behind closed doors,New Zealand’s Reality Check Radio had the opportunity to take part in that conversation at Australia’s Parliament House. In June, RCR’s Head of Legal, Katie...

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Some Words About This Whole Caitlin Johnstone Project

Video reading by Tim Foley: Every so often I like to write out an explanation of who I am and what I’m trying to do here, for the benefit of new followers and for my own mental clarity. The Caitlin Johnstone project is actually run

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I Still Believe Humanity Is Headed For A Mass Awakening

Video reading by Tim Foley: I still believe humanity is headed toward a mass awakening, as unfashionable as that is to admit here in the late 2020s. The fashionable thing to say these days is that everything’s fucked and we are headed to our doom,

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Assange Returns To Public Commentary, And Other Notes

Video reading by Tim Foley: Julian Assange is officially back on Twitter, restoring to the world an important voice we were robbed of by the US empire’s years-long campaign to silence the WikiLeaks founder via lifelong imprisonment for forbidden acts of journalism. Not everyone will

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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...

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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...

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Armageddon and artificial intelligence

Just when some online worry-warts and so-called “climate experts” are starting to ease a little on warnings that the end is nigh thanks to an era of global boiling, we have a new doomsday scenario to contend with which could make all that redundant by the end of the decade.Maybe

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Australia can’t outbid a blockade

Australia’s fuel security conversation is usually based around how much fuel we have in reserve and how quickly we can secure additional cargoes in a supply crunch. That’s important but it neglects the critical role of domestic supply in a true crisis.For decades Australia prioritised lower prices and access to

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The greater israel delusion may undo israel

The vision of “Greater Israel” draws on maximalist readings of biblical verses, especially Genesis 15:18–21, which some interpret as a promise of Jewish sovereignty from the “river of Egypt” to the Euphrates. In contemporary politics, this theology has produced two overlapping ambitions: unchallenged Israeli control of all land between the

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New Politics

Labor is becoming what it once condemned

The Labor government came to office promising higher standards of integrity, transparency and accountability after almost a decade of Coalition government corruption. Four years later, those promises are becoming harder to reconcile with the way Labor is actually governing.A $560 million infrastructure program that directed roughly three-quarters of its funding

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Macklemore, Mary Kostakidis and the red line on Palestine

The most effective political power isn’t obtained through governments, legislation or formal institutions. Sometimes it works through other means: vexatious litigation, lobbying, money and the ability of well-connected organisations to impose consequences on people who challenge powerful interests. The experiences of former SBS journalist Mary Kostakidis in Australia and musician

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The price of speaking out against Israel

Zionist groups aggressively deny suggestions that they exert excessive influence over politics, media and cultural institutions, yet when prominent people speak out against Israel or in support of Palestine, those same groups will cancel people, force them into long-winded litigations, damage their reputations and proceed to ruin them commercially. Not

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