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...

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 ...

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...

Discover a simple step-by-step system for finally becoming fluent in English!Do you struggle with your English fluency?Are you frustrated because your English is not at the level you want it to be?If you're someone who wants to finally be fluent in English, then you're about to discover a simple process for developing your fluency fast!Download this book now and read instantly on your PC, Mac, Smartphone, Tablet or Kindle!"Simple English Fluency Syst...

"Combining meticulous research with thoughtful personal reflection, this is a devastating indictment of Australia's response to the Covid pandemic." Steve Waterson, The Australian."Well researched, courageous and revealing of the truth. One of Australia's most important books this century. A must read. Unfolding Catastrophe couldn't be more timely, coming at a pivotal point in our nation's history." Guy Campbell, GP.Unfolding Catastrophe: Australia aims to...

The year 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Family Law Act, the single most intrusive and destructive piece of legislation to ever pass the Australian parliament.In that time the Family Court has been the subject of dozens of government inquiries and attempts at reform on its road to becoming a cash cow for lawyers and the single most hated jurisdiction in the country.Far from the caring, helpful court promoting joint custody and cooperation after separat...

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....

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...

Of all the thousands of stories he had written across his lifetime, author and journalist William John Stapleton had never been happier to write the words "The End" than when he completed The Twilight Soi series with the short book "Bangkok Busted: You Go To Jail For Sure".The series began in an anguished state after the author wrote a book detailing the decline of Bangkok's famous strip of go-go boy bars known as Soi Twilight, a narrow street adjacent to Bangkok's oldest red light...

The Twilight Soi dwells on the dangers of one of the world's most beautiful and intoxicating cities, Bangkok. It is named after one of Bangkok's more infamous small streets, or sois as they are known. Soi Twilight runs off the main thoroughfare of Surawong in the centre of Bangkok's oldest entertainment district Patpong and is known to travelers around the world. It is here where touts from go-go boy bars such as Ocean boys, Bangkok Boys and Classic Boys hustle for the attention of local a...

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 ...