It’s a question many people ask quietly, after noticing something small but strange. An advert that feels too specific. A recommendation that echoes a private conversation. A sense that someone else is paying attention. Smart devices are designed to listen — at least sometimes. Voice assistants, smart TVs, baby monitors, and home hubs rely on […]
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I’ve been watching closely the debate around the old King Carnival site on Mandurah’s Western Foreshore — south of the waterway, near Hall Park — and I’ve felt pulled between nostalgia for what was and curiosity about what might be next. For more than 75 years, King Carnival was part of everyday Mandurah life —
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Most dangerous people don’t look dangerous. Unlike the above photo (and our perceptions), highly dangerous people don’t raise their voices. They don’t pace. They don’t threaten. They often don’t even stand out. If anything, they blend in. They’re familiar. Predictable. Often likable. That’s why danger is so often missed—not because people are stupid, but because
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We praise the truth like it is always brave.We tell kids to “just be honest.”We tell adults to “tell it how it is.”We treat blunt truth like a badge of pride. But the truth can fail. Not all truth is kind.Not all truth helps.Some truths land like a fist and then walk away, proud of
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I never thought I’d be haunted by the one that got away, but here I am—many years later—still asking what if. We loved deeply, and we let it go. Not because the love was weak, but because we were young and thought it wouldn’t work. That is how many great loves end. Not with fire
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A line of sunken wrecks off Tangalooma Resort was meant to be more than just “beautiful”. The ships were sunk to become a useful barrier for mariners visiting the holiday island. Between 1963 and 1984, fifteen vessels were deliberately scuttled along the western shore of Moreton Island, inside Moreton Bay, Australia. The idea was simple
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I just love the sound of old transistor radios. The crackle. The monophonic delivery. Their limited depth of tone. What’s not worth enjoying? I don’t just like their sound and their look and feel, I love their smell, their shape and colour, their knobs and buttons, their history. I don’t care if they don’t pick
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I hear the word misandry more now than I did years ago. Some say it means hatred of men. They say it is new, and strong, and on the rise. I have heard the claim. I just don’t know if I believe it. When I look at the world, it does not seem shaped by
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Guilt is supposed to arrive when it’s meant to. That’s the story, anyway. You do something wrong — or something questionable — and guilt supposedly follows like a shadow. It nags. It disrupts sleep. It insists on being felt. When it doesn’t turn up, the absence feels like another offence. A deeper one. Something harder
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