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A Sense of Place Magazine

Convoy to Canberra. Three. The Fulcrum Points of History

By John Stapleton Four years ago this month hundreds of thousands of people, fed up with lockdowns, vaccine mandates, censorship and the totalitarian instincts of the Australian government, marched on Parliament House in Canberra. Shamefully, the official lies of the...

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MEET ME AT REDCLIFFE ON MELBOURNE CUP NIGHT (TUESDAY)

An active group of Progressive Christians meet regularly at Redcliffe to debate the core issues of modern Christianity. They call themselves the REDCLIFFE EXPLORERS and they are interesting people who have expansive minds. I am delighted to have accepted their...

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Bring on the Iranian nuke

The idea of nuclear non-proliferation has come in for some heavy punishment of late. For one thing, powers with nuclear weapons, pre-eminently the United States, have been shown up as blackguards in seeking to prevent other powers in acquiring the option. In its conduct of talks with Tehran, ostensibly to

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Autism isn’t the problem. The system is.

Autism costs the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) more than $10 billion annually. A record 62,500 people diagnosed with autism were added to the scheme last year. Autism now accounts for 43% of NDIS participants. Those are staggering figures for a condition once considered rare. They also raise an

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Solidarity and education – essential  pillars  of the future

During a period when multiateralism as a diplomatic reality is in obvious decline, all reepresentatives of 36 States members of the United Nations Commission for Social Development attended its sixty-fourth session (New York,2–10 February 2026) chaired by the representative of Ukraine,H.E. Khrystyna Hayovyshyn . Asia was represented by delegations from

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New Politics

The Democrats return? Leonie Green and Australia’s next political disruption

Could the fragmentation reshaping Australia’s political right eventually hit the progressive and centre-left? Can the Australian Democrats be a part of this? In today’s episode, we explore the shifting dynamics of Australian politics, the dominance of the Labor Party, and whether history could repeat itself as voter dissatisfaction grows and

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The mirage of the One Nation surge

The South Australian election result has sent shockwaves through the Australian political landscape – but not for the reasons you might think. We look at Labor’s dominant victory under Premier Peter Malinauskas, the collapse of the Liberal Party into near irrelevance, and the much-hyped rise of One Nation.While mainstream media

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