Paul Collins interviews former Australian Ambassador to Israel, Peter Rodgers, on the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict, the Zionist movement and the creation of the Israeli state, and the ongoing crisis in Gaza. Continue reading »
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Dr Sue Wareham OAM, President of the Medical Association for Prevention of War (Australia) talks with Helen McCue AM, recently awarded the Jerusalem peace prize for forty-one years of passionate advocacy and support for Palestine, through her work as founder of Union Aid Abroad – APHEDA. They discuss the destruction of medical facilities in Israel’s Continue reading »
Comedian Sooz Kempner shared with Richard K. Herring how she came to join the Doctor Who "Whoniverse" as the time-hopping assassin Doom.
Episode 20 of my – Podcast – Letter from The Cape – is now available. Coming today from The Cape, Victoria, Australia. In this episode, I discuss recent media commentary on Japan, which exposes falsehoods about Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) that prevail even among people who have held high-level positions in government policy-making departments. Duration:…
Episode 19 of my – Podcast – Letter from The Cape – is now available. Coming today from The Cape, Victoria, Australia. In this episode, I discuss the mess that privatisation and public-private partnerships have created. I note that these arrangements were all justified by the claim that the governments had run out of money…
Episode 17 of my – Podcast – Letter from The Cape – is now available. Coming today from Kyoto, Japan In this episode, I discuss the warped sense of priorities when a nation can see their way to fund and supply massive quantities of military equipment that is being used to murder thousands of people…
Episode 16 of my – Podcast – Letter from The Cape – is now available. Coming today from Kyoto, Japan In this episode, we discuss the way that governments shed their responsibilities to provide adequate housing and public infrastructure through the use of the ‘de-risking’ narrative. This is core neoliberalism and has been used to…
Episode 15 of my – Podcast – Letter from The Cape – is now available. In this episode, we consider the recently released White Paper on Full Employment by the Australian government, which purports to define its labour market policy agenda for the foreseeable future. We juxtapose it with the 1945 White Paper on Full…