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Convoy to Canberra. Two. From All the Lands We Come
By John Stapleton Four years ago the sedate public service infested Australian capital saw the largest protest gathering in its history. The public were well and truly over the draconian, and as it turns out entirely unnecessary, restrictions on their freedoms. To...
Convoy to Canberra: One. A Time for All Time.
By John Stapleton Four years ago the Australian government was faced with the closest thing the country has ever seen to a genuine People’s Revolution, as hundreds of thousands of people, furious over the excessive authoritarianism of the Covid era, marched on the...
Vale Johnny Allen
Interview by John Stapleton Johnny Allen was the motivating force behind some of the most exciting activity in Australia during the 1970s, from The Arts Factory to the Nimbin Festival to Cabaret Conspiracy. He will be remembered as one of the seminal figures in our...
The US Keeps Openly Admitting It Deliberately Caused The Iran Protests
Reading by Tim Foley: Speaking before the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent explicitly stated that the US deliberately caused a financial crisis in Iran with the goal of fomenting civil unrest in the country. Asked by Senator Katie Britt what
New Issue Of JOHNSTONE: The System Is Working Exactly As Intended
The new issue of JOHNSTONE is now available to order in print or download as a pay-what-you-want e-book version. As with all my work, everything contained in this magazine is free to reuse, reproduce or republish in any way. There are, broadly speaking, two different types of people who are
Please Understand That Nothing Will Be Done About The Epstein Files
Reading by Tim Foley: I need you to understand that nothing is going to be done about anything in the Epstein files. Nothing. The people in the documents will suffer no consequences. The institutions responsible for the abuses you’ve learned about will not change anything
‘WALK WITH THE MAN’ TO CREATE A CORNERSTONE OF VALUES ETHICS AND INSPIRATION FOR AUSTRALIA
Most readers of my book WALKING WITH THE MAN BUT NOT TO CHURCH enjoy it because it charts an inspirational pathway of life for the 90% of Australians who have left churches and have no intention of ever returning. They reject organised religion and its ancient outlook...
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...
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Hoplophobia – our national illness
In psychology, a phobia is defined as a type of anxiety disorder: an intense, persistent, and irrational fear of a specific object, situation or activity that is disproportionate to the actual danger.Because they are irrational, phobias are typically not amenable to facts or reason. Someone who is terrified of flying
Do we need Elon Musk to help fix our planning systems?
I know the mention of Elon Musk can be triggering for some. Mention of planning laws is equally triggering, but for a great many more people. You will see the connection soon.My first formal encounter with “planning law reform” was in the mid 1990s, when as a fairly new Executive
The future of California’s energy infrastructure is fragile
The Net Zero emission goals of California government leaders, including Governor Gavin Newsom, cannot ignore the fundamental reality that wind turbines and solar panels ONLY generate electricity.Beyond chemistry, hydrocarbons underpin physical mobility. Diesel powers heavy logistics: trucks, mining equipment, construction machinery, rail, and agricultural systems. Aviation depends almost entirely
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