By Laurie Patton. Come September a group of industry leaders, politicians, academics and consultants will gather in Canberra to grapple with some of the most challenging social, economic and political issues facing Australia. Provocatively titled “Regionalisation – Rebalancing the nation”… Continue Reading →
Julieanne Lamond, Australian National University. Frank Moorhouse, who died in Sydney last Sunday, made a significant and multi-faceted contribution to Australia’s literary life. He was born in 1938 in Nowra, which he described as “a small Australian country town (two… Continue Reading →
Since the beginning of literature technologies have shaped the written word. And thereby publishing technologies have shaped history, culture, politics and war. The adage history is written by the victors has transposed in this truly astonishing era into something else…. Continue Reading →
The Great City: Extract from Dark Dark Policing by John Stapleton. From Malcolm Turnbull’s first day as Prime Minister in 2015, the bombings on Iraq increased. That is, he was responsible for killing more Muslims than any other Prime Minister… Continue Reading →
Create Sacred Space: The Red Hand Files. Boundless talent and a solid work ethic has turned Nick Cave into one of the world’s most admired artists. And whether you’re a musician or an accountant, you need an office. But not… Continue Reading →
Interview with Gigi Foster: Author of The Great Covid Panic How many people would you be willing to kill in order to save one from COVID? That is essentially the trade-off. That’s the kind of question we should have been… Continue Reading →
By Paul Collits. Illustrations by Virginia Frances Sterrett The irrepressible anti-lockdown architect turned filmmaker Robin Monotti, a close friend of musician Eric Clapton, recently stated that, in the age of “fact checkers”, “science had been reduced to marketing”. Well, isn’t… Continue Reading →
Susan Pavan: i3 Publications. Six Minutes After Landing A Captain Pilot Suffers A Cardiac Arrest… Pilots & Experts World-Wide Voice Concerns Of A “Catastrophic” Aviation Accident. The Reason? Silenced. In a slight clearing of murky waters, the world is slowly… Continue Reading →
By John Stapleton. Photography David Sandford. The spooks were easy to spot. Most Australians couldn’t afford a new iPhone, and certainly not in that part of town. Old Alex felt decidedly unsafe, packed up the apartment, both glad to be… Continue Reading →
If you Google ‘Dr Stephen Edwards’ you will find news stories of him allegedly murdering his elderly mother, being sent to jail for three months and then on bail for four years until the case was dropped. Edwards, a former… Continue Reading →
Anne Pender, University of Adelaide. In a letter accompanying the advance copy of her latest novel, Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks reveals the inspiration for Horse. The author was propelled into the research for this masterly work by a chance… Continue Reading →
Three more major companies are being referred to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner over their use of facial recognition technology in stores. Australia’s leading consumer advocacy group has raised serious concerns about major retailers using facial recognition technology to… Continue Reading →
Michael West: Michael West Media. Recession is likely. Share markets, bonds, property, crypto; it’s all falling, just as the cost of living is soaring and central banks around the world are hoisting rates to crush demand and curtail rising prices. Michael… Continue Reading →
Sydney Criminal Lawyers Blog: Paul Gregoire. Six years after Four Corners exposed the atrocities being perpetrated upon children at Darwin’s Don Dale Youth Detention Centre – and the subsequent push for reforms in its wake – the Northern Territory government has successfully… Continue Reading →
David Carter, The University of Queensland Nathan Hobby’s The Red Witch: A Biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard takes on the challenging task of sorting out the complicated details of Prichard’s life as a child, sibling, governess, teacher, friend, lover, wife,… Continue Reading →
James Fodor, The University of Melbourne Recently developed artificial intelligence (AI) models are capable of many impressive feats, including recognising images and producing human-like language. But just because AI can perform human-like behaviours doesn’t mean it can think or understand… Continue Reading →
Naomi Wolf has been one of the world’s most famous feminists ever since publishing The Beauty Myth back in 1990. Her latest book, The Bodies of Others, a stunning, insightful, piercing deconstruction of the Covid narrative, has jumped straight onto… Continue Reading →
By Ethan Nash: TOTT NEWS. Despite state governments beginning to abolish harsh vaccine mandates, major employers have stated policies will not change and “high-risk” workplaces are pushed for a fourth dose. Some of Australia’s biggest employers will continue to require… Continue Reading →
By Augustine Zycher: Independent Australia. By governing for the few and treating Australia to the misuse of public funds, rorts and a lack of transparency, the Coalition ensured our worst-ever score on the international corruption index, writes Augustine Zycher. THIS IS… Continue Reading →
TOTT NEWS An investigation has revealed over 4 million Australian children were exposed to surveillance and tracking from third-party apps during lockdown remote learning periods. The school students were put at risk of unprecedented tracking and surveillance during remote learning… Continue Reading →
By Professor Ramesh Thakur: Spectator Australia. I recently received a communication from my GP’s surgery: ‘Influenza is spiking early. Our GPs report that those with 2022 flu have a rapid onset of illness with high fevers, dry cough, body aches,… Continue Reading →
Elizabeth Sinclair, Gary Kendrick and Jane Edgeloe, The University of Western Australia; Martin Breed, Flinders University. Next time you go diving or snorkelling, have a close look at those wondrously long, bright green ribbons, waving with the ebb and flow… Continue Reading →
By Paul Collits. Images from The New England High Country. There is nothing more likely to get under the skin of the pro-vaxxer establishment than pointing out that the magic mushroom vaccines designed by politicians to give them a get-out-of-jail-free… Continue Reading →
Maria Popova: The Marginalian. In these darkening times, when the powerful and the political class have become utterly corrupted and indifferent to the concerns of ordinary people, there are, as a kind of counterwave, a significant number of people trying… Continue Reading →
By Paul Collits. Photography Courtesy of Old and Abandoned Australia. The Brownstone Institute is the leading academic centre countering the Big Government, Big Tech, Big Pharma Covid narrative. Its head Jeffrey Tucker recently wrote that looking back to the “before… Continue Reading →
By Sonia Hickey: Sydney Criminal Lawyers Blog. Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carrol has come under fire in the Supreme Court over her directive last year compelling officers to be vaccinated against Covid-19 in order to keep their jobs A number of Queensland… Continue Reading →
Matthew Ricketson, Deakin University. It is easy to forget why Julian Assange has been on trial in England for, well, seemingly forever. Didn’t he allegedly sexually assault two women in Sweden? Isn’t that why he holed up for years in… Continue Reading →
By Sue Price: Men’s Rights Agency. The more things change the more they stay the same. There’s an old saying: in times of crisis clichés come true. This country seems to have forgotten two time worn adages: There are two… Continue Reading →
Thomas Harrington: Brownstone Institute. When most people hear the terms “shock and awe” and “full spectrum dominance” they probably think—if they think about them at all—of the early moments of the premeditated US destruction of Iraq and the ever-smug grin… Continue Reading →
The Day Australia Changed Forever. This is an extract from the upcoming book Convoy to Canberra: The Day Australia Changed Forever. This is Part One of Chapter Eight, The Great March. The book is now in production. The series so… Continue Reading →
W. Joseph Campbell, American University School of Communication The “Napalm Girl” photograph of terror-stricken Vietnamese children fleeing an errant aerial attack on their village, taken 50 years ago this month, has rightly been called “a picture that doesn’t rest.” It… Continue Reading →
UNSW Newswire Golden bandicoots have returned to the Strzelecki Desert in far-west NSW after a 100-year absence thanks to the Wild Deserts team, a partnership between UNSW Sydney scientists and NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. Up to 40 golden… Continue Reading →