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Is There Anything We Could Have Done to Make You Stay? Australia’s Broken Heartlands
Off the coast of Geraldton, ten container ships lay anchored on the horizon, waiting to be filled with wheat. Here on the manicured foreshore the windsurfers race over the choppy waves, and she sits on the bench, phone in hand, while the wind tries to cover her in...
The Future is in Play: How Safe Are Their Houses?
Angus Taylor, leader of the Australian Liberal Party, faces a real risk of losing Hume to One Nation if current trends hold to 2028. Anthony Albanese’s hold on his inner-west seat of Grayndler, despite soft primary numbers, the multiple scandals surrounding him, the...
The Biggest Story in Australia: The Economy
The Australian economy is not quietly deteriorating. It is being publicly flogged, and Treasurer Jim Chalmers is taking the whip. The front pages of the past seven days have read like a charge sheet. “What would you cut?” Chalmers challenges critics of government...
Iranian Strength Is What Killed The Republicans
Video reading by Tim Foley: Vice President JD Vance made the surprising admission on social media that Trump administration’s war with Iran was what caused the massive Democratic Party sweep of the midterm elections, stating plainly that “The reason we lost is the war.” Saying
Israel Supporters Always Pretend To Believe Things They Don’t Actually Believe
Video reading by Tim Foley: The New York Times has published a story about a supposed Iranian plot to use chemical weapons which nobody actually believes. Not even the perpetually war-horny New York Times tries to frame this as a real news report, presenting it
Western News Media Propagandists Describe US Bombing Iran As “Defensive”
Video reading by Tim Foley: The propagandists of the American press have been uncritically describing recent US airstrikes on Iran as “defensive” despite the US being the clear aggressor in this ongoing conflict, and despite the United States existing on the other side of the
JOIN ME ON OCTOBER 5 FOR A ‘WALK IN THE SPIRIT’ AROUND ULURU
Five years ago on my 90th birthday I walked with 50 friends along an old rail corridor in the Brisbane River Valley from my old hometown of Linville to Moore and back again, a distance of 14 kilometres. I completed the walk in three hours and raised $35000 for Dorcas...
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...
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Trump get a spanking in the midterms
Donald Trump’s midterm defeat exposes the weakness at the centre of his political project: a president can dominate public attention while losing the confidence of people struggling to pay their bills. With Democrats taking control of the House of Representatives and Senate, the US midterm elections become a test of
The Politics of Silencing Palestine
Protecting Jewish Australians from antisemitism has become a justification for restricting protest, policing cultural expression or narrowing criticism of Israel, and the question now becomes who controls the public debate – and whose rights are being diminished.In this episode, we examine Jillian Segal’s policy agenda through the broader politics of
The fight against antisemitism is becoming a war against freedoms
There’s a fundamental difference between reducing antisemitism and giving an unelected government official great influence over what Australians can say, where they can protest, which cultural events receive funding and how public broadcasters handle the complaints that are made against them.And it’s a difference that’s becoming increasingly difficult to see