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Black Ribbons, White Flowers: A Community Reflection at Westfield Bondi Junction
By Mark Mordue The sun gets buried behind afternoon cloud cover. I drive towards Westfield Bondi Junction in Sydney as a gloom drops from above upon the suburb and the day. Inside the large shopping centre things are unusually muted, all its retail outlets closed for...
Digital Identity Bill passes through Australia’s Upper-house
From TOTT News Australia’s digital identity scheme is almost set to expand nationally, after a landmark bill, first drafted more than three years ago, passes the Senate. Australia’s Minister for Finance, Senator Katy Gallagher, has led the charge to move amendments to...
Masses of Scalloped Hammerheads have returned to one of Australia’s busiest beaches, Burleigh Beach on the Gold Coast
Olaf Meynecke, Griffith University For the second year in a row, over 100 hammerheads have gathered at one of Australia’s busiest beaches, Burleigh Beach in the Gold Coast. Why aren’t we alarmed? Because these are small scalloped hammerheads, not the larger great...
Stopping The Slaughter In Gaza Is More Important Than Your Feelings
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Stopping the slaughter in Gaza is more important than your feelings. Your feelings don’t matter. Stopping the slaughter in Gaza is more important than playing along with the persecution-LARPing of Zionist university students. Stopping the slaughter in Gaza
Israel Is Turning Hospitals Into Mass Graves While The West Fixates On ‘Antisemitism’
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): A mass grave created by the IDF has been uncovered at a Gaza hospital, where Palestinian civilians appear to have been the victims of a gruesome massacre. “Bah, that’s old news Caitlin,” you may be saying. “We already
In Gaza The Sniper Drones Are Crying Like Babies
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): They’re hunting civilians with armed quadcopters in Gaza. The drones play recordings of crying babies and women screaming in distress in order to lure people out into the open, and then shoot them. This is reportedly happening at
EASTER BUNNY SENDS YOU GREETINGS
In the minds of most Australians, not just the 10% who go to Church, what is the foremost reason we have for celebrating Easter? It’s time to be honest with ourselves as a nation and acknowledge an order of priority instead of pretending to be religious. Firstly, most...
‘DINNER WITH THE FOUNDING FATHERS’
Enjoy reading my book about how Edmund Barton and Alfred Deakin and other giants of Australian History created a nation of six States on New Years Day, 1901, the very first Australia Day. It was an extraordinary achievement that was attained within 12 years from when...
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Enough is enough. Australia is in a crisis of violence against women
Readers please be advised that this article contains mentions of violence against women and ongoing violence and discrimination against a First Nations person. As we have not seen prosecution of the alleged perpetrators, we must refer to deaths in these articles as alleged murders. We understand this may cause distress,
Terra nullius 2.0 – what AUKUS means for First Nations peoples
The ramifications of the military alliance between Australia, the United Kingdom and United States (AUKUS) will weigh heavily on First Nations communities for generations to come, as the Commonwealth of Australia cedes lands and waters that never belonged to them, in a bid to become the 51st state of the
Black Life, Black Solidarity, and Late Stage Settler Colonialism
Life – Black life – does not stop once the article is written and the words are published. I wrote the first of what was intended to be a series of five articles for IndigenousX in August last year. Black Grief and the Elimination of the Native traced the ways
School funding caught in old shemozzle, not driven by evidence
It is astonishing to see Catholic archbishops and school authorities complaining that the Albanese Labor government is letting them down over the Australian Law Reform Commission’s report to remove key protections from the Sex Discrimination Act as it threatens to destroy religious freedom and faith-based schools. The Catholic school sector
Nuclear is essential
Many citizens believe that “renewables” (really weather-dependent intermittents whose costly equipment has to be replaced every 25 years or less….not renewable) are the answer to our energy future because they have been told that, and it gives them a nice cosy feeling. The technology, which is above politics (the technology
The modern perils of getting laid
One of the things that seems to have been irrevocably killed off in today’s woke world, is the art of seduction.Forget the theme songs of many Hollywood movies that entertained growing teenagers and their parents in the ’50’s and ’60s such as Bing Crosby crooning to a wavering Doris Day,
Imagine This…
Imagine this scenario. All across Australia, as children in pre-school colour-in dinosaur pictures and make clay cupcakes, a sinister thing is happening. It is revealed that 39.2% of them have been subjected to abuse. Some have been bashed, and some have even been sexually assaulted. What do you think would
Inspiring women: Jen Webb
BroadAgenda is featuring a short series of profiles on amazing women and LGBTIQ + folks. You’re about to meet Distinguished Professor of Creative Practice at the University of Canberra, Jen Webb. If you were sitting next to someone at a dinner party, how would you explain your work and research
Recognising diverse perspectives in environmental accounting
Have you ever heard of the concept “what gets measured, gets managed”? It means that when we put a value on something, people are more likely to pay attention to it. This approach is traditionally used in business settings but has become increasingly relevant for environmental issues. Implementing this concept
A tragedy in the east, and unpacking a week of global tensions and domestic drama
In a deeply impactful week, the latest episode of New Politics discusses the broad range of events that have not only shaken local communities but also stirred international relations. We begin with the tragic attack at Westfield shopping mall in Bondi Junction, Sydney, where six lives were abruptly ended. This
Lost in the supermarkets, the housing crisis, factchecking the IPA and the war against the new Governor-General
In this new episode of New Politics, we explore the pressing concerns impacting Australians today. Starting with the grocery and supermarkets sector, we analyse the interim report from the Food and Grocery Code Review which highlights the significant power imbalance favouring major supermarkets like Coles, Woolworths, and Aldi. We discuss
A new crisis in Gaza, fair politics, immigration law and Liberal’s preselection fail
In this episode of New Politics, we explore a series of pressing global and domestic issues that have unfolded recently. We start with a development in Gaza, where the killing of Zomi Frankcom, an Australian working for the food charity World Central Kitchen, has sparked international controversy. Initially attributed to