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A Sense of Place Magazine

Let’s Stay Human

Reading by Tim Foley: There’s a creepy tweet going around by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recommending that parents feed their kids’ interests and schedules into ChatGPT so it can generate a daily custom-made bot podcast to listen to on their morning drive to school. Gravity

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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...

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New Politics

Antisemitism education as the new propaganda

The Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion commenced as an examination of prejudice and “social cohesion” – the Prime Minister’s most favourite phrase – but is now developing into an attempt to hijack Australian educational institutions and redefine acceptable political debate, according to the diktats of a very small,

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Power, distraction and the price of political failure

The Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion has become something far bigger than an inquiry into antisemitism. What began as an examination of discrimination and social cohesion is now becoming a plot to reshaping education, public institutions and the boundaries of acceptable political debate. The proposal by the Special

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Reclaiming democracy for the people

Australian democracy isn’t totally broken and unfixable, but political power is increasingly flowing towards those with the money, influence and access to shape government decisions. Anthony Albanese’s appearance at a $10,000-a-head fundraiser, the widening divide between Labor’s national conference and its parliamentary leadership, instability inside Victorian Labor, and ideological conflict

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