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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...
Joe Biden Should Be Dying Of Cancer In The Hague
Reading by Tim Foley: Joe Biden’s cancer is moving into the advanced stages, according to the former president’s son Hunter. AP reports: “Former U.S. President Joe Biden’s prostate cancer has spread to other parts of his body and is causing him pain, even as
A Note To Patrons And Subscribers
This is just a note to my patrons and newsletter subscribers to say I’m sorry I haven’t published anything these past few days. I’ve received a number of messages from concerned readers wondering if I’m alright, so I just want to let everyone know I’m okay and Tim and I
There Is Beauty Everywhere. Even In Dystopia. Even In Armageddon.
Reading by Tim Foley: One point I will always adamantly insist on is that it’s entirely possible to live a joyful and exuberant life in the midst of this abusive dystopia. There’s a pervasive, unexamined notion throughout revolutionary politics that there’s some kind of nobility
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
Solemn anniversaries: the UN Refugee Convention turns 75
That grand old thing is getting on a bit. Still significant and still functioning wearily, the United Nations Refugee Convention of 1951 has suffered abuse, subversion and neglect from state parties. At times, it is only honoured in the breach. At other times, it is not honoured at all. After
Some things are just plain wrong
My wife and I were the first in either of our families to attend university. Everything that followed, the broadening of horizons, the raising of aspirations, and eventually the privilege of leading three universities, began there. Universities have been good to me, and I want others to share in the
Wrongly accused
Three years ago, Sydney engineer, let’s call him Simon, was accused of a home invasion – “aggravated break and enter with intent to commit a serious indictable offence.” His intent was rape, according to police. He’d never even met the woman who accused him, and police showed no interest in
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The continuing politics of evasion
The arrival of up to 2,300 US naval personnel, civilian employees, contractors and their family members, should finally end the political charade that HMAS Stirling in Perth is only hosting a short-term submarine rotation. The US Navy has established “Naval Support Activity Stirling” to provide housing, healthcare, childcare and recreation
The real Anthony Albanese: Power without purpose
Anthony Albanese commands the largest federal parliamentary majority in Australian history and exercises extraordinary control over the Labor Party, yet his government continues to behave as though meaningful reform is politically impossible. The contradiction raises a big question in Australian politics: is Albanese a progressive constrained by power, or a
The Indoctrination of Australia’s Classrooms
The Royal Commission on Antisemitism has moved beyond examining discrimination and public safety into a debate over education, political speech and who controls the national curriculum. Jillian Segal’s proposed expansion of antisemitism education – from early childhood through schools and universities – raises many questions about whether a necessary campaign