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A Sense of Place Magazine

Dr Bruce Paix. The Rumble Interview.

Yes, jail. Arrested on bogus charges that were later thrown out in court, Bruce was locked up for seven days — all of it in isolation. That was when he first collided with A Sense of Place Magazine. We interviewed him on the same day he was released. To see the...

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It’s Been Ten Years. It’s Time To Admit Bernie Sanders Was Wrong.

Reading by Tim Foley: Everyone’s talking about how progressive Democrat Graham Platner has been forced to drop out of his Senate race following allegations of sexual assault. Personally I never paid attention to Platner’s campaign, because I long ago stopped taking Democrats seriously. The first

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The Cure For Despair Is Awe, Wonder, And Humility

Reading by Tim Foley: The cure for despair is awe, wonder, and humility. It is true that there is unfathomable cruelty in this world that will bring you crashing to your knees. And it is true that we are ruled by monsters with deeply entrenched

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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...

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Trash politics with brio: Count Binface versus Nigel Farage

Let the mockery and disdain begin. The elected member of the Essex seat of Clacton, also leader of the populist Reform UK party, has decided to avoid the investigation into his financial affairs by going to the polls on August 13. To do so, Nigel Farage has resigned, thereby forcing

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Property investors have gone on strike, and who can blame them?

Australia’s housing market reportedly fell by 0.4 per cent in June, the biggest monthly decline since December 2022. This was largely in response to Budget tax hikes on investor owners, which were imposed despite a litany of Albanese Government promises to keep the status quo.Even “Blind Freddy” can now see

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The irreversible bloat of bureaucracy

Imagine an economy where nobody ever gets fired; the unemployment rate is always low; GDP always goes up. How wonderful – and even better – we’re living in it.And it’s a disaster. The ABC recently reported that over 8 million Australians now rely on some form of government income, up

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New Politics

China’s missile launch and Australia’s panic merchants

China’s latest ballistic missile test generated predictable headlines warning of an escalating security threat across the Pacific, but the reaction revealed as much about Australia’s political culture as it did about Beijing’s military ambitions. While missile testing is hardly unique to China – with the United States, Russia and other

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Labor’s power without purpose: Who does Labor govern for?

The NSW Labor Conference was designed to project unity ahead of the party’s national conference, but it instead exposed a deeper question confronting Australian politics: what does the modern Labor Party actually stand for? While grassroots members pushed for gambling reform, affordable housing, civil liberties and a stronger response to

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Was Menzies a Nazi appeaser? The history is more complicated

Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy was right to argue at his National Press Club address that Labor should not surrender patriotism, defence or national security to the conservative side of politics. He was also right that Menzies’ record on appeasement is considerably more complicated than the polished version preserved by

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