Dr. Rout Logger, a fictional management professor and consultant, secures funding for a unique democratic dialogue experiment held monthly in rotating U.S. cities from October 2019 to March 2020. Each session gathers forty randomly selected, demographically diverse citizens to engage in rational, Adult ego state discussions about global human challenges.Meetings begin with a copper rooster spinner, "the Truther rooster," which randomly designates a "Leader of the Moment" to answer ...

The unique enterprise A Sense Of Place Publishing has just released its newest publication, Bangkok Busted: You Die For Sure. This is a deeply personal story by author William John Stapleton on the fallout after he wrote a book about being robbed, lied to and deceived by one of the city's go-go boys and the subsequent personal distress and widespread public ridicule he endured.Few foreigners are crazy brave or stupidly insane enough to tell their often embarrassing and humiliating ...

Dark Dark Policing compels the reader's concentration as it documents a nation polarised between the working poor and the uber rich at a time when ultranationalist groups are on the rise.Written with hallucinatory intensity by one of Australia's most experienced journalists, author John Stapleton, it uses novelistic techniques to depict Australia during the early millennial period, a pivotal point in its history.Dark Dark Policing i...

Terror in Australia: Workers' Paradise Lost, by veteran journalist John Stapleton, is a beautifully written snapshot of a pivotal turning point in the history of the so-called Lucky Country.This book is a sidewinding missile into the heart of Australian hypocrisy.In 2015 there were well attended Reclaim Australia demonstrations in every major capital city, all protesting what the demonstrators saw as the growing Islamisation of Australia, along with countering anti-racism d...

The daily robbing, bashing, drugging, extortion and murder of foreign tourists on Thai soil, along with numerous scandals involving unsafe facilities and well established scams, has led to frequent predictions that Thailand's multi-billion dollar tourist industry will self-destruct. Instead tourist numbers more than doubled in the decade to 2014. The world might not have come to the hometowns of the many visitors fascinated by Thailand, but it certainly came to the Land of Smiles.W...

JESUS presents a unified, chronological account of Jesus' life, drawn faithfully from the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Rather than treating the four accounts as parallel biographies, this book weaves them into a single, continuous narrative, allowing Jesus' life to unfold with clarity, movement, and historical flow. The story begins in a world marked by expectation and longing, shaped by ancient promises and Roman rule. Jesus enters quietly—born into obscurity, raised within o...

Dads On The Air, often shortened to DOTA, is a community radio program which began in western Sydney in August of 2000 with a small group of extremely disgruntled separated men who had no experience of radio and no resources. The author of Chaos at the Crossroads: The Birth of Dads On The Air, William John Stapleton, worked as a mainstream journalist and was the only one with any media experience.The series of short books in the Chaos at the Crossroads series tell the story of the ...

Hideout in the Apocalypse is about surveillance and the crushing of Australia's larrikin culture.In the last three years the Australian government has prosecuted the greatest assault on freedom of speech in the nation's history.The government knew from international research that when it introduced the panopticon, universal surveillance, into Australia it would have a devastating impact on the culture.When people know they are being watched, they behave differently....

Thirty seven years after the end of the Vietnam War an historic event occurred at busy Da Nang Airport, an Agent Orange hot spot where tonnes of the infamous herbicide were decanted and reloaded on to cargo planes for spraying across the country's lush fields and forests. Dioxin, the accidental contaminant in Agent Orange responsible for many tens of thousands of birth defects and early deaths, is regarded as probably the most poisonous of all the compounds ever devised by man. This 10,000...

Refusing to hide, Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia Alastair Nicholson, scheduled to appear before an inquiry into family law and child support, entered Australia's Parliament House in Canberra via the front door on the 10th October 2003.As Chief Justice of one of the most unpopular courts in the country, Nicholson had become a key figure fuelling discontent with Australia's political, bureaucratic and judicial wings of government. With millions of Australians having g...

Despite the heat the issue of divorce, separation and the welfare of children had been generating for decades, the Australian Government was slow to address family law reform. While more than a million children were listed with the Child Support Agency, an institution as roundly and profoundly despised as the Family Court itself, politicians were reluctant to move into such an emotionally charged and gendered arena. Finally, with an increasingly large number of disenchanted constituents, t...

The humanitarian crimes committed by Australian authorities against their own citizens, beginning in early 2020, will live on in infamy, but it is the people themselves who create a nation's history.On the 12th of February 2022, the largest gathering of Australians in the nation's history marched on the National Parliament in Canberra to protest the totalitarianism of the Australian Government, chanting "Sack Them All, Sack Them All".Crowd numbers are notoriously difficult ...