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Prison Island: Australia’s Totalitarian Hate Speech Laws
Australia used to export its convicts. Now it is building the walls inward. After one massacre on Bondi Beach, Canberra recalled Parliament and, in a single sitting, handed ASIO and a minister the power to list groups as “prohibited hate organisations.” No trial. No...
A Deflated Australian Prime Minister Flies Home: Duty of Care Meet the Rogue Agent
The Prime Minister flew to America to be seen as a statesman. Australia watched a weak man walk into the same problems he left at home. California first. The welcome party was Australia’s own ambassador. No American official on the tarmac worth the photograph. Then a...
Blood in the Water: Australians Celebrate Albanese’s American Disasters
Journalists hunt in packs, and now there is blood in the water. The Prime Minister is being dismembered, metaphorically, limb by limb, press conference by press conference, one disastrous headline after another. The entire country is experiencing a severe case of...
Under Capitalism It’s Legal For Employers To Steal From Employees
Video reading by Tim Foley: Doordash has reached a historic $131.5 million settlement to repay workers in New York City for wages the food delivery app stole from them over the last four years, which sounds like a big win for the little guy if
It’s Good To Bully Celebrities About Palestine
Video reading by Tim Foley: I strongly disagree with the idea that it’s unhelpful to bully celebrities about their position on Palestine. On the contrary, I think we should bully them more. We tend to underestimate the consequences of the fact that all the most
The Real Danger Of AI Is That It Is Run By Evil Warmongers
Video reading by Tim Foley: The biggest AI threat isn’t artificial superintelligence wiping out humanity in a fit of mechanical vengeance like some digital Old Testament God, it’s the same oligarchs and empire managers as usual inflicting the same evils and abuses as usual upon
ITS TIME TO BUILD COMMUNITIES NOT DIVIDED BY RELIGION.
WALK WITH THE SPIRIT is a page-turning novel about people – Christian, Muslim, Jew, Confucian, Indigenous, LGBTI, Atheist – who try to create a caring and sharing and generous society in the Queensland City of Rockhampton despite the current international war in which...
HAVE SOLD 126 TICKETS TO LAUNCH OF ‘WALK IN THE SPIRIT’. ROOM CAPACITY IS 140. WILL BE DELIGHTED IF YOU ARE ONE OF FINAL 14.
The launch of WALK IN THE SPIRIT is on Friday 27 March at Noon at the Royal on the Park in Alice Street Brisbane. The 126 who have bought tickets have paid 95 dollars each for a special Uluru Burger with a drink and coffee, as well as a signed book, with the surplus...
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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From Israel to immigration, Labor is losing its political nerve
The problem for the Albanese government isn’t just about Australia moving too slowly against illegal Israeli settlements – it walked up to the negotiating table but then decided that it was all too much and just walked away.Australia was a part of these negotiations with Britain, France, Canada and European
Labor is becoming what it once condemned
The Labor government came to office promising higher standards of integrity, transparency and accountability after almost a decade of Coalition government corruption. Four years later, those promises are becoming harder to reconcile with the way Labor is actually governing.A $560 million infrastructure program that directed roughly three-quarters of its funding
Macklemore, Mary Kostakidis and the red line on Palestine
The most effective political power isn’t obtained through governments, legislation or formal institutions. Sometimes it works through other means: vexatious litigation, lobbying, money and the ability of well-connected organisations to impose consequences on people who challenge powerful interests. The experiences of former SBS journalist Mary Kostakidis in Australia and musician