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Imprisoned Dr Bruce Paix Released on Bail: Given A Hero’s Welcome. From 2022. Lest we Forget the Abuses we endured at the hands of the Australian Government.
By John Stapleton War veteran and trauma specialist Dr Bruce Paix was arrested near Canberra airport while on his way to attend the Convoy to Canberra gathering. Cheering crowds celebrated Dr Paix’s release today, 11 February, 2022, as he was driven around the...
Australia’s Failed Suicide Policies: Feminist Takeover. With Author Bettina Arndt Interview.
Seven men die by suicide in Australia every day. In May 2026, the peak body for men’s health endorsed a plan to address this by teaching boys about gender equity. There is a moment in any institutional capture when the pretence falls away. For decades, men’s health...
Stasi Australia.
Written in 2020, at the beginning of Australia’s truly insane reaction to Covid, regarded as one of the worst if not the worst in the world, spearheaded by the now much reviled Prime Minister Scott Morrison, it has proved all too prophetic. An overwhelmed and...
The Din
Reading by Caitlin Johnstone: They’re designing park benchesso that homeless people can’t sleep on themand placing metal spikes beneath overpassesso they can’t be used as shelter. Jerry Seinfeld says Palestine doesn’t existand that sometimes socks go missing in the dryer,wocka wockaha ha hait’s funny because
Blaming Ordinary People For The Ecocidal Consequences Of AI, And Other Notes
Reading by Tim Foley: ❖ I just saw an article in The Conversation titled “Your AI habit is wasting precious resources. Here’s how to use it responsibly,” and it pisses me off because you can already see where this is going. Neoliberalism is already doing
True Spirituality Confronts The Abuses Of The Empire
Reading by Tim Foley: A spirituality that is uninterested in ending war, genocide, poverty and injustice is a dead spirituality. If you hold your time on the meditation cushion as something separate from the weeping mother clutching a small body in Lebanon, you’re wasting your
HAVE SOLD 126 TICKETS TO LAUNCH OF ‘WALK IN THE SPIRIT’. ROOM CAPACITY IS 140. WILL BE DELIGHTED IF YOU ARE ONE OF FINAL 14.
The launch of WALK IN THE SPIRIT is on Friday 27 March at Noon at the Royal on the Park in Alice Street Brisbane. The 126 who have bought tickets have paid 95 dollars each for a special Uluru Burger with a drink and coffee, as well as a signed book, with the surplus...
IT’S TIME TO ‘WALK IN THE SPIRIT’
You will enjoy this powerful and inspirational page turning novel about the lives of six very different people. Its fascinating pages will reveal to you that they are Muslim, Jew, Christian, Indigenous, Confucian, LGBTI. In varying ways and at different times they...
READING A SIGNED EVERALD BOOK IS A VERY PLEASANT WAY TO ENJOY YOUR CHRISTMAS BREAK.
Nothing better can happen to you during the holiday season than to spend a couple of hours every day in a cool spot under a shady tree reading an entertaining book that has a page-turning message to renew your soul. It won’t surprise you to discover that I...
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Climate chaos: planetary dangers and humanitarian emergency
Human activities such as deforestation, forest fires, mining, industrialized agriculture, the burning of fossil fuels (petroleum, natural gas, coal), and wars have been threatening nature, civilization, and humans. Those threats weaponize the planet’s temperature. Scientists describe that effect as climate change/climate chaos.Climate change/chaos is global and anthropogenic/artificial. It has been
The AUKUS spectre
By August I will be 85. I came here 64 years ago on a Colombo Plan Scholarship to what was God’s own country, my childhood imagination inspired by the ever-joyful matronly Methodist missionaries from Southern America. In 1984 Professor Geoffrey Blainey would blast me out of that reverie. Since then,
From healing to harm
Medicine is fundamentally oriented toward healing. Physicians have cured diseases, alleviated pain, extended life expectancy, and expanded collective self-understanding beyond what was conceivable a century ago. Few professions have contributed more to human well-being. However, medicine also confers significant power. Physicians influence individual behavior, shape public policy, direct scientific research,
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Hansonism and the rise of racist neoliberalism
Pauline Hanson is often described as angry, but the anger in itself is not the problem. We’ve seen historically that anger can be one of the great drivers of democracy: it has exposed the humiliation, exploitation and abandonment of people by terrible governments in the past, will continue to do
The billionaire’s megaphone: Who really runs Australian politics?
One of the big developments in Australian politics has been the growing influence of mining billionaire Gina Rinehart and a small circle of ultra-wealthy political donors. As we all know, very little in life is free, and that’s certainly the case when it comes to politics; it’s always a question
How America lost the war
For years, the public was told that conflict with Iran was unavoidable. Successive governments in the US and Israel have argued that diplomacy had failed, sanctions had reached their limits, and military action was the only remaining option. When the US and Israel launched their attacks on Iran in February,