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Our Government The Enemy: Ramesh Thakur. Extract.
Professor Ramesh Thakur, one of Australia’s most esteemed academics, will be on Cafe Locked Out with John Stapleton and Michael Gray Griffith. It will be streamed at 10am Australian Eastern Time and also be available on X, YouTube, Rumble, Facebook and Substack. A...
Disaster for Disaster Bay: Industrial Kelp Farm Threatens NSW’s Last Coastal Wilderness
A pristine stretch of the New South Wales far south coast – widely regarded as one of the most beautiful and untouched marine environments on Australia’s east coast – is facing an industrial-scale threat. Disaster Bay, which directly abuts the Nadgee Nature Reserve...
Gender Affirming Care in Australia: With Mianna and Cafe Locked Out
Gender affirming care in Australia encompasses a range of medical, psychological, and social interventions designed to support transgender and gender diverse individuals in aligning their physical characteristics and social presentation with their gender identity....
I’ll Stop Talking About Israel When Israel Gets The Fuck Out Of My Face
Reading by Tim Foley: I’ll stop talking about Israel when Israel gets the fuck out of my face. I don’t enjoy writing about this shit. I don’t enjoy getting called a Nazi by state-funded shills all day. I didn’t ask to spend years watching a
Israel Accuses The New York Times Of Antisemitic Journalism, And Other Notes
Reading by Tim Foley: ❖ The Israeli government is currently accusing The New York Times of antisemitic blood libel for publishing a report on Israel’s already well-documented systemic rape of Palestinian prisoners. Contrary to popular belief, the highest award in journalism is not the Pulitzer.
Netanyahu Stresses The Need For More Propaganda As Israel’s Hasbara Budget Soars
Reading by Tim Foley: In a fawning softball 60 Minutes interview released Sunday, Benjamin Netanyahu stressed the importance of winning “the propaganda war” on social media. This comes as Israel moves to quadruple its propaganda budget to $730 million a year. Major Garrett (which apparently
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...
I INVITE YOU TO CLICK BELOW TO READ AND SIGN MY PETITION TO PARLIAMENT TO HAVE A PREAMBLE ADDED TO AUSTRALIAN CONSTITUTION STATING EXACTLY WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AN AUSTRALIAN.
(Alfred Deakin, pictured below, tried in 1895 to include a Preamble in our Constitution but Federation delegates couldn’t agree on its wording) https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN8147 PETITION CLOSES 22 OCTOBER. Together, we can ensure that, before they...
‘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...
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As the definition of autism expands, are we losing sight of those with the greatest needs?
About the Authors Andrew Whitehouse is the Deputy Director of The Kids Research Institute Australia. He is also the Angela Wright Bennett Professor of Autism research, the Director of at The Kids Research Institute Australia, and the Research Strategy Director of the Cooperative Research Centre for Living with Autism (Autism CRC).
How to transform Australian foreign, economic and defence policies from mindlessness to mindfulness?
Liberal democracies like Australia and the G7 face disruptive and complex challenges, wars, democratic backsliding, deconsolidation, harmful trends and devastating scenarios. Young Australians are deliberately not ready to meet these challenges under the current system.Australian citizens, communities, industries, civil society and the media are actively discouraged from envisioning and implementing
Intergenerational inequity? The young have never had it so good
The Albanese government’s latest budget has been partly framed to promote “intergenerational equity” and is aimed at skewing policy to the young as they are supposedly worse off compared with previous generations who now owe them extra support through additional taxes on their past earnings, investments and alleged accumulated wealth.
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The Budget: Labor’s slow and stuttered crawl toward reform
On Tuesday night, Treasurer Jim Chalmers will deliver what is being regarded as one of the most important federal Budgets in many years, promising action on housing affordability, productivity, cost-of-living pressures and long-awaited tax reform.Of course, we’ll have to wait to see whether this will be the case or not,
Budget, gas and housing: Can Labor finally deliver real reform?
This week’s briefing outlines the big issues to look out for: Labor’s defining Budget test over tax reform, housing affordability, gas exports and cost-of-living pressures, as the Albanese government faces growing demands for economic change while navigating the rise of One Nation, deepening tensions with China and mounting questions about
What did they know? Secrets, silence and the Bondi failures
In this episode of the New Politics podcast, we examine the interim findings of the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion following the devastating Bondi Beach attack that killed 15 people and injured more than 40 others. While the Commission’s initial recommendations on gun control, policing resources and intelligence