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Convoy to Canberra. Two. From All the Lands We Come
By John Stapleton Four years ago the sedate public service infested Australian capital saw the largest protest gathering in its history. The public were well and truly over the draconian, and as it turns out entirely unnecessary, restrictions on their freedoms. To...
Convoy to Canberra: One. A Time for All Time.
By John Stapleton Four years ago the Australian government was faced with the closest thing the country has ever seen to a genuine People’s Revolution, as hundreds of thousands of people, furious over the excessive authoritarianism of the Covid era, marched on the...
Vale Johnny Allen
Interview by John Stapleton Johnny Allen was the motivating force behind some of the most exciting activity in Australia during the 1970s, from The Arts Factory to the Nimbin Festival to Cabaret Conspiracy. He will be remembered as one of the seminal figures in our...
The Problem Isn’t “Kings”, The Problem Is US Presidents
Reading by Tim Foley: There’s another giant “No Kings” protest scheduled for this weekend, and right now all I can think about is how disgusting it is that this is the closest thing to a mass-scale antiwar protest in the United States right now. The
The Only Worthwhile Western Culture Is That Which Opposes The Western Empire
Reading by Tim Foley: The only worthwhile “western culture” in modern times is culture which rejects and opposes the dystopian nature of western civilization and the abuses of the western empire. Western civilization is what’s bombing Iran. It’s what’s strangling Cuba. It’s what’s torching Lebanon.
It’s Unethical To Have Sympathy For Israelis, And Other Notes
Reading by Tim Foley: ❖ Israel’s Foreign Ministry has posted a statement on Twitter which reads, “The Iranian regime devastated Arad and Dimona by deliberately striking civilians with missiles. Over 100 people were injured, including children. A blatant war crime. Pure terrorism.” I don’t want
PRODUCTIVITY SUMMIT IGNORES FACT THAT AUSTRALIA CARELESSLY WASTES EXPERIENCE OF ITS OLDER CITIZENS
I have tried and failed to have the huge potential of unused productivity of Senior Australians on to the agenda of the Productivity Roundtable that takes place in Canberra next week. While I have been treated with courtesy and respect, my comments have fallen on deaf...
5 OCTOBER 2026 (NOT 2025). MARK IT IS YOUR DIARY AS EVERALD’S 95th BIRTHDAY WHEN YOU WILL WALK ELEVEN KILOMETRES WITH ME AROUND ULURU TO HELP ME RAISE 100,000 DOLLARS FOR ‘DORCAS ACTS’, A CHARITY OF WHICH I AM PATRON.
My hope is that 100 friends will join me at ULURU on a WALK IN THE SPIRIT and each set a goal of funds they will raise personally for Dorcas ACTS. I hope that another 1000 friends, scattered all over Australia, will do a ‘symbolic’ ULURU WALK IN THE SPIRIT of eleven...
LUNCH WITH GRANTLEE KIEZA
Currently, my friend Grantlee Kieza is Australia’s best selling history author, a honour that he richly deserves. Over the past decade he has published a dozen books about the history of Australia that some of you will have read. Absolute gems like Sister Viv,...
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Four seats and no future: The Liberal Party’s existential crisis continues
After the South Australian election last Saturday, the Liberal Party was reduced to four members. While it could be a few more seats after the counting is completed, this is not just a poor result, it’s a systemic failure. The Liberals have lost their urban base, and that loss is
The New Politics Monday Brief – 23 March
This week’s briefing outlines the big issues to look out for: the fallout from Labor’s massive victory in South Australia… cost-of-living and fuel prices… Australia pays the price for being too close to the US… and retail politics of immigration.The South Australian election result has revealed something far more than
The Collapse of Trust: War, Censorship and Political Failure
Australia is entering a period of deep political and social uncertainty, where global conflict, domestic policy failures, and a growing crisis of trust are colliding in real time. In this episode of the New Politics podcast, we look at how the war in Iran is no longer a distant geopolitical