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Five charged as Australian authorities detail alleged $235 million in fraud across major government programs
The rapid expansion and heavy bureaucratisation of Australia’s largest social and support programs has become a persistent source of public controversy. Schemes built around large numbers of providers, plan managers, contractors and internal staff generate both high...
Collapsing Magnetic Field Meets Rising Cyber Attacks
Collapsing Magnetic Field Meets Rising Cyber Attacks Earth’s magnetic shield is continuing to weaken, and the South Atlantic Anomaly is still expanding and splitting. At the same time, cyber attacks on the everyday systems that keep food cold and populations informed...
Anthony Albanese’s Darkest Days
While Australians woke to the fifth interest rate rise of 2026 and mortgage repayments approaching levels last seen under Paul Keating, the Prime Minister was in the Caribbean boarding a billionaire’s low-carbon vessel with King Charles. The optics were as bad as the...
Screw The Troops, And Other Notes
Video reading by Tim Foley: ❖ Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is claiming that anyone who opposes Trump’s warmongering hates “the troops”. “If you want to take issue with what we did in Epic Fury or Rough Rider or NAB and Nicolas Maduro, you’re taking
Trump Official Claims Those Who Oppose Iran War Are Blinded By “Satan”, And Other Notes
Video reading by Tim Foley: ❖ US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee claims that anyone who opposes Trump’s war with Iran is being blinded by Satan. Like, the actual, literal devil character from the Bible. During an incredibly sycophantic recent interview on The Anchor Podcast,
The Powerful Re-Write The Past AND The Present
Video reading by Tim Foley: It is said that history is written by the victors, but what’s interesting is that this is also true of the present story. Those who are winning the capitalism game get to set the narrative about what is currently happening
PLEASE JOIN MY FAMILY OF DONORS IN MY QUEST TO RAISE $100,000 FOR ‘DORCAS ACTS’ ON MY 95th BIRTHDAY ON 5 OCTOBER AT ULURU.
The portrait of me was painted by a good friend for my 90th birthday when I raised $35000 for DorcasACTS which is the caring and sharing community service of my local church, the Aspley Uniting Church. On my 95th I intend to treble that figure so that DorcasACTS can...
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...
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A world without hydrocarbons is a past we escaped
Two hundred years ago, the world had about 1 billion people, roughly 7 billion fewer than today. Life expectancy at birth was under 30 years, and more than four in ten children died before their fifth birthday. Apart from coal in Britain and a few other places, it was essentially
A reset for Australia’s student visa policy: are we counting students and missing the economic value?
For three years, Australians have argued about how many international students should come here. Tighter visa rules, lower migration targets and housing stress have driven the fight.Something is missing from it. Few people ask what cutting student numbers does to jobs, household spending, universities, skills and our standing abroad. We
Thirty years of doing nothing
A law should be judged by what it does, not by what it says. On 22 November 1996 the European Union adopted Council Regulation 2271/96, the Blocking Statute, which turns thirty next month. It forbids European companies and citizens to obey a list of American laws on Cuba and Iran
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Who gets to write the history lessons? The fight over Australia’s classrooms and campuses
When does a history lesson become propaganda? The ancient adage is that it’s the victors who provide the answers, but in modern Australia, it’s the Antisemitic Education Taskforce that will decide the curriculum that comes into the classroom, and the conclusions students will arrive at.The federal minister for education Jason
Albanese’s gamble on Trump and Zionist appeasement will backfire badly
The Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is now scrambling to talk up the virtues of ending a war that he was one of the first leaders to support. Nine months after welcoming and eagerly endorsing Donald Trump’s military strikes against Iran – almost pushing himself to the head of the queue
RBA rate rise: Who pays the price for fighting inflation?
New Politics: Australian PoliticsThe best analysis and discussion about Australian politics and #auspol news. Presented by Eddy Jokovich and David Lewis, we look at all the issues the mainstream media wants to cover up, and do the job most journalists avoid: holding power to account. Seriously. / Twitter @NewpoliticsAU /