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The Sky That Remembers the Dead
I woke to the sound of the sky being rent, like a curtain too heavy to mend. My pillow was dust and my blanket was fear, as I prayed for the nightmare to end. The […]
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Australia’s Environmental Policy Crisis: A Closer Look
Labor’s Eco Renaissance: Destroying the Joint, Sensitively As federal parliament resumes its familiar variety show of “Consensus or Catastrophe”, the Labor government unveils another environmental revolution; provided it doesn’t trouble its donors in hi-vis or […]
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Chatbot Dystopia: The Quick March of AI Sycophancy
We really have reached the crossroads, where such matters as having coitus with an artificial intelligence platform has become not merely a thing, but the thing. In time, mutually consenting adults may well become outlaws […]
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The “Greater Good”: A Haunting of Australia’s Political Memory
In Australian politics, the “greater good” has often been a convenient cloak for transformative and controversial decisions. From the seismic Whitlam Dismissal to the sweeping neoliberal reforms of Hawke, Keating, and beyond, the pursuit of […]
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Israel to the people of Gaza: “No food for you during ceasefire”
By Walt Zlotow The ceasefire brokered by President Trump was pitched as great relief for Palestinians being bombed to oblivion in Gaza. Some relief as hundreds of Palestinians have been killed or wounded by […]
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EPBC: Leading scientists call for nature law reforms to strengthen Great Barrier Reef protection
Greenpeace Australia Pacific Media Release More than 100 Australian scientists and researchers have called on the Labor Government to address deforestation in the new nature law reforms, warning that the impacts under the current Act […]
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No Kings and No Message
By James Moore “It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” (James Baldwin, 1972). The poetry and the profanity of the “No Kings” marchers […]
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Trump’s Time-Travel Election Rigging Blunder: A Cosmic Comedy of Errors
Dear readers, hold onto your hats – or at least your history books – because President Trump has just launched a late-night Truth Social tirade that’s less “stable genius” and more “Back to the Future” […]
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ACF responds to Labor’s Environment Protection Agency announcement
Australian Conservation Foundation Media Release The Australian Conservation Foundation acknowledges Environment Minister Murray Watt’s announcement today that the Albanese government intends to establish a national Environment Protection Authority (EPA). The details announced fall short of […]
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“I’ll be right after a good night’s sleep… if I ever get one”
By Maria Millers You often hear someone saying ‘I’ll be right after a good night’s sleep.’ And of course they are usually right. Whatever caused their difficulty in sleeping passes and life returns to […]
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Fake Boats and Bogus Admirals: Peter Cowell’s Fictional Mercy Fleet
The wish to be credulous is central to the fraudulent scheme. The one playing the fraud can always rely on some connivance and collaboration from the tricked and the gulled. Many an art curator is […]
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Government Corruption Australia: Failing Public Trust
By Denis Hay Description Government corruption Australia: eroding NACC integrity and public service accountability. 🎧 Prefer to listen to this article? Press play Introduction: The Erosion of Public Integrity For decades, Australians trusted that […]
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My Psychic Bingo Card of the Unthinkable
I’ve always fancied myself a bit of a psychic rockstar, my intuition sharp enough to cut through the noise of the universe. But lately? My crystal ball’s gone foggy, and my prized bingo card – […]
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The Age of Intellectual Enfeeblement
The West is governed by a paradox of its own making: it systematically eliminated its most capable minds through the mechanised slaughter of two World Wars, and now finds itself led by the descendants of […]
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An Open Letter to Jason Koutsoukis on Barnaby Joyce
Dear Jason, I read your Saturday Paper piece on Barnaby Joyce with growing frustration; not at Joyce, who is at least consistently what he is, but at your framing of his potential defection as primarily […]