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The Taxman
Paul Collits: Political Science This is the story of how networks of Mates have come to dominate business and government, robbing ordinary Australians. Every hour you work, thirty minutes of it goes to line the Mates’ pockets rather than your own. Mates in big...
The secret sensory life of plants
Samarth Kulshrestha, University of Canterbury Plants are often seen as passive organisms, rooted in one place and largely unable to react to the world around them. But a new field of research is challenging these assumptions and showing that plants are as...
Sunday Morning Rumble Podcasts with John Stapleton, Michael Gray Griffith and various Guests
Disaster for Disaster Bay: Industrial Kelp Farm Threatens NSW’s Last Coastal Wilderness. With Ian Williamson. Gender Affirming Care in Australia: With Mianna Gender Affirming Care in Australia: With Mianna and Cafe Locked Out On Interviewing The Last ANZAC...
We Are Being Driven To Our Doom By Mindless Machines Of Our Own Making
Reading by Tim Foley: It’s not impossible to solve our world’s problems, it only looks that way because we’ve created systems which cause human behavior to be driven by mindless mechanisms of our own making rather than by human interest. We allow the blind pursuit
They’re Attacking Online Anonymity, And Other Notes
Reading by Tim Foley: ❖ The EU is looking to ban VPNs, arguing that the ban is necessary to police recent online age verification laws. Critics have been warning for years that these age restriction laws are being rolled out around the world to erase
Ending Western Warmongering Should Be Our Number One Priority
Reading by Tim Foley: First and foremost the west needs to stop murdering people. Ending western warmongering should take priority over every other societal concern, in the same way your husband being a serial killer would be a more urgent concern than his refusal to
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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The questions that still need to be asked: Intelligence failures and the limits of the antisemitism Royal Commission
The interim findings of the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion have been released with a certain level of caution, containing a series of recommendations that, on the surface at least, appear to be largely uncontroversial – mainly relating to gun control measures and increased resources for policing. Yet
The empire of chaos: America’s unravelling power
The conflict now expanding across Iran and Lebanon – and forced on by Israel and the United States – is no longer a short-term regional crisis; it’s placing a great deal of pressure on the global order that countries like Australia have depended on for many decades. What began as
The continuing failure of politics: Secrecy, war and a Budget without direction
This week’s briefing outlines the big issues to look out for: the truths being withheld in the antisemitism inquiry… a US strategy unravelling in the Middle East… a federal Budget shaped by fear rather than reform… and a Liberal Party victory that masks the deepening fractures on the right.The interim