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This election Australians have a stark and historical choice: vote for Dutton and his seven nuclear reactors or build ocean wind farms off the coast. The Coalition reckons reducing the roll out of renewable energy, extending the life of ageing coal plants and building publicly funded nuclear plants after 2040, will be cheaper and more…

In the next five to 10 years, artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics will transform every sector of Australian society, from the cars we drive, the books we read, to the jobs we work. Yet the two major parties in the federal election have failed to detail how AI will be managed, if at all. It’s like…

This blurb is from the SMH and it identifies what is wrong with much immature published fiction. It’s as if a whole generation or two have carved V for victim on their forehead. I don’t mind a bit of trauma in my fiction like I don’t mind helping an old lady across the road. But…

By Anson Cameron, The Age, April 11, 2025 I had a good hoot over this as it is so true. No one in the so-called ‘progressive movement’ today reads Marx. They bow before multiculturalism and various PC gods, but I know what he means. “The Australian Left were once a carnival of zealots fevered with…

This is from writer Sonia Orchard, who might have gone to RMIT when I ran the writing programs. There were plenty of young women like Orchard, who, in another time, would have made solid cadres for the Cultural Revolution. Looks like Orchard, who reminds me of an over-educated Madame Defarge, has just read The Knowledge Gene and…

Can creative writing programs turn a crap writer into a professional, publishable writer? No. Surely if they are willing to learn, they may graduate to competent writers but most writers, who think they can string a sentence together, don’t want to learn. Creative writing programs will molly coddle you along because the middle class PC…

I edited this rather spineless bit of commentary. Typical of writers with marshmellow spines. He could have chosen not to sign Black Inc’s pact with the devil. Black Inc has asked consent from its authors to train AI models on their work and then share the revenue with those authors. I have published four books…

Australian writers and literary agents are worried after Black Books asked its authors to consent to their work being used to train artificial intelligence, according to The Guardian. I have made a few editorial comments in the text. This story should come under the heading of What the Fuck! But that’s too crude. Black Books…

Popular UK speculative fiction writer Neil Gaiman has been ‘cancelled’ following allegations of sexual assault. Eight women have accused Gaiman of sexual assault. The allegations first surfaced when two of the accusers spoke out on the British podcast Master: The Allegations Against Neil Gaiman in July 2024. The women have not gone to the police and charges…

I like little bookshops. It reminds me of the old world and there’s something comforting about that except for the war in Algeria, Vietnam, the Cambodian genocide, Iraq, etc, etc. You know what I mean. The comfort of crawling up on mummy’s lap as a child. But independent bookshops are done like a dogs dinner….