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American Antidepressants Increase 130% for Teen Girls, Drop 7% For Boys. Watch Out Australia.
By Robert McFillin: Brownstone Institute In Australia, where mental health challenges have surged post-pandemic — with one in seven people (around 3.9 million) now taking antidepressants, one of the highest rates globally — the stark U.S. trends highlighted in this...
Australian Federal Police Target Groups Threatening Social Cohesion
The AFP has set up new National Security Investigations (NSI) teams to target groups and individuals causing high levels of harm to Australia’s social cohesion, including the targeting of federal parliamentarians. The NSI teams began operations in Sydney, Melbourne...
Literary Critic A.D. Hope called a Australia’s Nobel Laureate Patrick White’s classic novel The Tree of Man ‘verbal sludge’. New books celebrate these rivals
Tony Hughes-d’Aeth, The University of Western Australia A.D. Hope and Patrick White are towering figures of 20th-century Australian culture. Few cast larger literary shadows over the postwar period. White, with his dizzying, monumental novels and Nobel prize, holds...
Israel Is Still Starving Gaza, And Other Notes
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): ❖ Israel is still blocking humanitarian groups from delivering the aid necessary to alleviate the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza. In an article titled “Not enough tents, food reaching Gaza as winter comes, aid
New Issue Of JOHNSTONE: Tech Dystopia In The Shadow Of The Empire
The new edition of JOHNSTONE is now available to order in print or download as a pay-what-you-want e-book version. Life under the empire is getting more and more dystopian. Everyone’s getting dumber, sicker, lonelier, and less happy, and our rulers are offering us no solutions besides vapid distraction while our
They Tortured Lambs In The West Bank
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Israeli settlers were filmed torturing lambs which belonged to Palestinians in the West Bank. Gouged their eyes out. Smashed them with cinder blocks. Beat them to death in front of their mothers. Lambs. It’s
PRODUCTIVITY SUMMIT IGNORES FACT THAT AUSTRALIA CARELESSLY WASTES EXPERIENCE OF ITS OLDER CITIZENS
I have tried and failed to have the huge potential of unused productivity of Senior Australians on to the agenda of the Productivity Roundtable that takes place in Canberra next week. While I have been treated with courtesy and respect, my comments have fallen on deaf...
5 OCTOBER 2026 (NOT 2025). MARK IT IS YOUR DIARY AS EVERALD’S 95th BIRTHDAY WHEN YOU WILL WALK ELEVEN KILOMETRES WITH ME AROUND ULURU TO HELP ME RAISE 100,000 DOLLARS FOR ‘DORCAS ACTS’, A CHARITY OF WHICH I AM PATRON.
My hope is that 100 friends will join me at ULURU on a WALK IN THE SPIRIT and each set a goal of funds they will raise personally for Dorcas ACTS. I hope that another 1000 friends, scattered all over Australia, will do a ‘symbolic’ ULURU WALK IN THE SPIRIT of eleven...
LUNCH WITH GRANTLEE KIEZA
Currently, my friend Grantlee Kieza is Australia’s best selling history author, a honour that he richly deserves. Over the past decade he has published a dozen books about the history of Australia that some of you will have read. Absolute gems like Sister Viv,...
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The age of the ‘soulless’ corporation: how corporations have lost their people-centric orientations
Management students in “B” schools over the last 60 years have been taught that ‘people-centric’ management brings out the best in corporate performance. Many of the management classics have been based upon people-centric management theories and philosophies. These include the works of Max Weber, Elton Mayo, Henry Murray, Abraham Maslow,
Chatbot dystopia: the quick march of AI sycophancy
We really have reached the crossroads, where such matters as having coitus with an artificial intelligence platform has become not merely a thing, but the thing. In time, mutually consenting adults may well become outlaws against the machine order of things, something rather befitting the script of Aldous Huxley’s Brave
Products, fuel, and electricity are the real climate challenges for the future
A global challenge exists today in reconciling the conflict between policies seeking to ensure that society is provided with affordable and reliable products to generate electricity for everyone, while at the same time protecting the environment everywhere.The sheer scale of humanity’s needs today adds urgency to the truism that “quantity
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