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Cash Grab: Labor Party Sells Defence Heritage in Multibillion Dollar Fire Sale
Victoria Barracks in Paddington has been military ground since 1840. Convicts and tradesmen cut the Hawkesbury sandstone. Soldiers marched out those gates for Sudan, two world wars, and every conflict that followed. RSL NSW still calls it the spiritual home of the...
Urgent: Convoy to Canberra Images Wanted
A Sense of Place Publishing and Cafe Locked Out are collaborating in the production of a 5th Anniversary Memorial Edition of the upcoming book: Convoy to Canberra. As anyone who attended knows, the Convoy to Canberra in February of 2022 was a unique event, the largest...
Surveillance: The Australia Nobody Asked For
With Michael West Media Michael West Media has spent weeks mapping the Australian state’s quiet bargain with Palantir and Cellebrite. The picture is not subtle. The scrutiny has been. Michael West is one of the few Australian journalists still treated, even by people...
Be Kind To Your Adult Children Or They’ll Stop Talking To You
Video reading by Tim Foley: The Wall Street Journal has a new article out titled “Why Are So Many Adults Cutting Off Their Parents?” about the rising levels of family estrangement in our society. “Many experts believe that estrangements between adult children and their parents
Empire Psychosis
Video reading by Tim Foley: More and more humans are suffering from empire psychosis. People who can’t go ten minutes without checking their phones, losing hours a day to social media and mindless scrolling. People talking to chatbots, learning about the world from them, learning
Tech Plutocrats Cannot Lead Us Into A Healthy Future
Video reading by Tim Foley: Tech plutocrats are the high-budget expression of the “everyone is twelve now” theory. You wanna go to Mars? Of course you do, you’re twelve. You think you can merge your consciousness with machinery and unlock the key to immortality? Hell
TRACKS TO SOMEWHERE
I am in the 95th year of my life. I enjoy my memories as well as my thoughts on how I could have handled them better. One of them is my meeting with John Howard in 1996 when he gave me approval to begin planning a freight railway from Melbourne to Darwin via New South...
AM SELLING AND SIGNING MY BOOK ‘WALK IN THE SPIRIT’ AT DYMOCKS CHERMSIDE BRISBANE ON SATURDAY OF THIS WEEK FROM 11am TO 12.30pm. I LOOK FORWARD TO MEETING YOU. MY CO-AUTHOR NEILL FLORENCE WILL BE WITH ME.
WALK IN THE SPIRIT is a page turning novel about six people of different faiths who are not involved in organised religion but form a team to create a caring and sharing community while encountering bigoted and racist opposition. It is timely given the current war of...
JOIN ME ON OCTOBER 5 FOR A ‘WALK IN THE SPIRIT’ AROUND ULURU
Five years ago on my 90th birthday I walked with 50 friends along an old rail corridor in the Brisbane River Valley from my old hometown of Linville to Moore and back again, a distance of 14 kilometres. I completed the walk in three hours and raised $35000 for Dorcas...
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The rate is normal; the debt isn’t
On Tuesday the Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Board raised the cash rate by 25 basis points to 4.60 per cent, its fourth increase this year. The decision was unanimous, and the statement kept the door open to more. The commentary wrote itself within the hour: mortgage agony, borrowers crushed, families
Intelligence agencies, AI, and the new battlefield for public opinion
Artificial intelligence possesses a dramatic capacity to learn. Regular users already notice how chatbots attune their responses to the patterns and preferences revealed in conversation. What begins as a neutral tool quickly becomes attuned to the data it encounters. This adaptability is now being exploited in a systematic manner.Intelligence agencies
Four Corners and the decline of an icon of Australian media
Tuning in to Four Corners Timber Turmoil a few weeks ago, I wasn’t expecting a pro-forestry view to emerge – still, the opening statement was insightful – and left no one in any doubt as to where we were headed.Across Australia native forest logging has long been unpopular… That’s a
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What is ASIO really telling us about terror threats?
ASIO director–general Mike Burgess says the agency has disrupted 16 potential terror threats and four more serious plots since the Bondi Beach attack. Those numbers are designed to get the attention of the public but they also demand an explanation. What is meant by a “disruption”? How close were the
Forty years of privatisation have left Sydney in a mess. It didn’t have to be this way
A reader contacted New Politics recently about the condition of infrastructure in New South Wales and the Fifteenth Avenue upgrade in South Western Sydney, and his e-mail set me off thinking, if not exactly in the direction he intended.There’s no shortage of infrastructure spending in NSW: Sydney has been dug
ASIO claims it stopped 16 terror threats. What about the big one it missed?
Sixteen potential terrorist threats in just nine months sounds absolutely terrifying. But coming from AISO, these extraordinary claims should invite a healthy level of cynicism. And what is meant by a potential threat? A terrorist threat is either real, or it’s not, and for these claims to come from a