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A Sense of Place Magazine

The failure of Family Law reform in Australia

From Augusto Zimmerman: Spectator Australia John Stapleton spent a quarter of a century working as a general news reporter for two of Australia’s leading mastheads, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian. He is currently the editor of A Sense of Place...

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Trump Is Just Bush In A Red Hat

Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): ❖ Trump is butchering children in Gaza, stomping out free speech in the US, bombing Yemen for Israel, and preparing for full-scale war with Iran in

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You Cannot Separate Yourself From What’s Happening In Gaza

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): The Gaza holocaust has reignited with as much sadistic fury as it ever saw under the Biden administration. More than five hundred people have reportedly been killed by Israeli bombardment since the onslaught resumed

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SEARCHING FOR THE GROUND OF OUR BEING

Each and very one of us has an inner personal power and our way of using it determines the quality of our lives. Some of us decide also to add a power to our lives that is beyond our own until we take steps to welcome it. In my case, during the 93 years since …...

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MY SISTER VIVIENNE AND ANNE OF GREEN GABLES

On Friday evenings Helen and I enjoy a couple of relaxing hours watching a television movie. Two days ago we chose ANNE OF GREEN GABLES on ABC iview. It has recently been released by Canada Television. Our choice was made as the book played a significant role in the...

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WHEN YOU REACH AGE EIGHTY IT’S TIME TO START WRITING BOOKS.

On the day I celebrated my 80th birthday I decided to become an author who would write best sellers. I had written a few books about fund raising in my earlier life, as well as a biography for my family, but no serious novels that could find a place on shelves of book...

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International Women’s Day: For ALL Women and Girls

“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own” Audre Lorde declared in her 1981 speech ‘The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism’. Since reading this speech during my time as a late-teen at university it has continuously informed

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The role of universities in balanced national conversations about racism

We continue to see the fallout from the Carumba Institute’s National Symposium on Racism  held last month, with attacks on organisers, delegates, and academic freedom. What followed was a confected pile-on by predictable conservative commentators. They claimed the conference was ‘anti-semitic’, ‘violent’ and had ‘no place on campus’, conveniently feeding

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Memo to Coalition: maybe next time

At MacroBusinessalso The Australian, I’ve portrayed Election 2025 as a winning romp for the top 20% regardless of who becomes prime minister.Meaning, little improvement across crucial indicators such as inequality, immigration and housing, energy and environment, education and taxation. This comes through in parties’ motherhood policies. Taken in alpha order,

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Elon Musk’s Grok 3 backs Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution

Elon Musk’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) company – xAI – released its latest flagship AI model Grok 3 on 17 February, so I thought I might try using it to help explain why the real world seems to have virtually buried the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (HKOPS) since its publication

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Sporting contradictions: athletes, the Olympics and climate change

The time has come for arguably the sporting world’s most famous mafia organisation to select its new chief. The various turf-conscious representatives of the International Olympic Committee will be busy with the task of finding a replacement for Thomas Bach when ballots are cast at Costa Navarino, Greece on March

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New Politics

Housing with Purple Pingers and an election on the horizon

In this episode of the New Politics podcast, we explore the political narratives and media framing surrounding the upcoming federal budget to be announced by Treasurer Jim Chalmers, amidst ongoing concerns about budget deficits and economic management. With a critical eye on the media’s portrayal of deficits as “catastrophic” under

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WA Votes and Dutton unravelling

The WA election delivered another landslide for Labor, securing a third consecutive term with 45 seats, while the Liberals managed just eight. Eight! Despite a 10 per cent swing against Labor, gains went mostly to Greens, independents, and One Nation, reflecting broader discontent with the Liberal Party rather than an

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The economic recovery, US alliance tensions, and News Corp exposed

This episode of New Politics explores the latest shifts in Australia’s economy, revealing that the country has emerged from a per capita recession – a rarely referenced figure that has fluctuated over the past seven years, spanning both the Morrison and Albanese governments, and focus on how improved interest rates,

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