Convoy to Canberra. Seven. The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth.

By John Stapleton Four years ago Australia saw the largest demonstrations in its history, as hundreds of thousands of people descended on the nation’s capital. The Australian media and the Australian authorities colluded in lying about the numbers, and lied… Continue Reading →

Convoy to Canberra. Six. Joy and Calamity, Brutality and Kindness

John Stapleton Four years ago Australia hundreds of thousands of people march on Canberra, disgusted by the extremism of lockdowns and vaccine mandates. At its peak, more than 12 million people were under lockdown protocols. While the authorities managed to… Continue Reading →

Convoy to Canberra. Five. We Will Wash Away Tyranny.

By John Stapleton Four years ago this month the largest mass protest in Australia history occurred. It was called the Convoy to Canberra, and protested the extreme abuses of Australian authorities during this era: including extreme lockdowns, for which there… Continue Reading →

Convoy to Canberra. Four. The Prime Minister Who Destroyed Australia.

By John Stapleton Four years ago Australia saw the largest protest in its history, with people travelling from all over Australia to protest the conduct of its hated government, headed by the equally despised Scott Morrison. With faith in government… Continue Reading →

Convoy to Canberra. Three. The Fulcrum Points of History

By John Stapleton Four years ago this month hundreds of thousands of people, fed up with lockdowns, vaccine mandates, censorship and the totalitarian instincts of the Australian government, marched on Parliament House in Canberra. Shamefully, the official lies of the… Continue Reading →

Sunday Morning Rumble Podcasts with John Stapleton, Michael Gray Griffith and various Guests

With Alison Bevege: Independent Australian Journalist https://rumble.com/v76fduo-meet-one-of-australias-best-independent-journalists-alison-bevege.html? With Daniel Wild: Institute of Public Affairs https://rumble.com/v762h7q-daniel-wild-deputy-executive-director-at-the-ipa-pops-into-the-cafe.html? With Robin Robyns: Author of The Jackboots, 15 February, 2026. https://rumble.com/v75q70w-sundays-at-cafe-locked-out-special-guest-robyn-robins..html? With Jacob Welsh: The AI Family Law website RYTZ, 8 February, 2026. https://rumble.com/v75ed00-could-jacobs-ai-app-save-you-in-the-brutal-family-courts.html?e9s=src_v1_sa%2Csrc_v4_sa_o%2Csrc_v1_ucp_a With… Continue Reading →

Convoy to Canberra. Two. From All the Lands We Come

By John Stapleton Four years ago the sedate public service infested Australian capital saw the largest protest gathering in its history. The public were well and truly over the draconian, and as it turns out entirely unnecessary, restrictions on their… Continue Reading →

Convoy to Canberra: One. A Time for All Time.

By John Stapleton Four years ago the Australian government was faced with the closest thing the country has ever seen to a genuine People’s Revolution, as hundreds of thousands of people, furious over the excessive authoritarianism of the Covid era,… Continue Reading →

Vale Johnny Allen

Interview by John Stapleton Johnny Allen was the motivating force behind some of the most exciting activity in Australia during the 1970s, from The Arts Factory to the Nimbin Festival to Cabaret Conspiracy. He will be remembered as one of… Continue Reading →

Memorial Drinks for Dr Stephen Edwards

For anyone who knew him, there are memorial drinks in Sydney at the El Rocco Room corner Brougham and William St Kings Cross from 6.30 to 9.30 pm on Tuesday December 9!  Stephen passed away after a long struggle with… Continue Reading →

The Long Drive: Goodbye Road

Michael Gray Griffith There is so much space out here – it’s as if the gods left before they could bother with mountains, valleys, or grand forests. You could misplace an entire civilisation inside it. We did, and they are… Continue Reading →

Criminals are weaponising vulnerabilities in Australia’s construction industry to steal millions of dollars

Australian Federal Police Assistant Commissioner Cyber Command Richard Chin has announced that the Australian Federal Police are tracking a concerning rise across the industry in what are known as Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams. These involve cyber criminals impersonating a… Continue Reading →

It took just 60 years for red foxes to colonise Australia from Victoria to the Pilbara

Sean Tomlinson, University of Adelaide and Damien Fordham, University of Adelaide To a newly-arrived red fox, the abundant rolling grasslands and swamps of Wadawurrung Country, around what is now called Port Phillip Bay, must have seemed like a predator’s paradise…. Continue Reading →

American Antidepressants Increase 130% for Teen Girls, Drop 7% For Boys. Watch Out Australia.

By Robert McFillin: Brownstone Institute In Australia, where mental health challenges have surged post-pandemic — with one in seven people (around 3.9 million) now taking antidepressants, one of the highest rates globally — the stark U.S. trends highlighted in this… Continue Reading →

Australian Federal Police Target Groups Threatening Social Cohesion

The AFP has set up new National Security Investigations (NSI) teams to target groups and individuals causing high levels of harm to Australia’s social cohesion, including the targeting of federal parliamentarians. The NSI teams began operations in Sydney, Melbourne and… Continue Reading →

Literary Critic A.D. Hope called a Australia’s Nobel Laureate Patrick White’s classic novel The Tree of Man ‘verbal sludge’. New books celebrate these rivals

Tony Hughes-d’Aeth, The University of Western Australia A.D. Hope and Patrick White are towering figures of 20th-century Australian culture. Few cast larger literary shadows over the postwar period. White, with his dizzying, monumental novels and Nobel prize, holds pride of… Continue Reading →

Goodbye Road by Michael Gray Griffith. Introduction by John Stapleton.

Goodby Road is an utterly compelling collection of essays from the founder of Cafe Locked Out.  It is of significant historical interest for the fact that Michael Gray Griffith is the only citizen journalist to have travelled Australia interviewing people… Continue Reading →

Our Systems Work Exactly as Designed: Just Not For Us

By Erin Rolandsen: Beyond the Rage Machine Cybernetics pioneer Stafford Beer once said: “The purpose of a system is what it does.” If that is true, what, then, do we make of Australia’s systems? Everywhere we look, the systems designed… Continue Reading →

Australia’s Social media age restrictions may go further than you thought.

Lisa M. Given, RMIT University Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, has outlined an updated list of platforms that may fall under the social media age restrictions that will take effect later this year. While Australians expected platforms such as… Continue Reading →

Deadly Nepal protests reflect a wider pattern of Gen Z political activism across Asia

By DB Subedi, The University of Queensland Editor’s Note: This story’s central premise is particularly relevant in the Australian context because of the Australian governments moves to ban social media for Under 16s. Two paragraphs have been updated with the… Continue Reading →

A Man and his Truck: The Australian Trial of Paul Offe

Michael Gray Griffith: Cafe Locked Out In the trial of Paul Offe, the prosecutor, towards the end, left a free frame of the rear of Paul’s truck on all the screens of the court. On the top of Paul’s truck… Continue Reading →

Failure: Family Law Reform Australia. Extract

50th Anniversary of the Family Law Act. Warnings that there were serious problems with the court came early. In 1985, only a decade after the court’s establishment, Australia’s proud old weekly The Bulletin ran a story on its front cover:… Continue Reading →

Yaba’s grip: how cheap methamphetamine is fuelling Thailand’s addiction crisis

Joseph Janes, Swansea University Yaba, a cheap and potent methamphetamine-caffeine pill often dubbed “crazy medicine”, has become one of Thailand’s most pressing public health crises. Easy to produce and widely available, yaba is used by everyone from factory workers seeking… Continue Reading →

Failure: Family Law Reform Australia. Interviews, Reviews and Excerpts.

50th Anniversary of the Family Law Act Interviews With Bettina Arndt Extracts Reviews

Dr Reiner Fuellmich: A Persecuted Hero of the Resistance

Bert Oliver: Brownstone Institute On a flight back to South Africa from attending a conference in South Korea recently, I watched the gripping biographical film, Lee (2023; directed by Ellen Kuras), with Kate Winslet in the title role of Lee Miller, intrepid… Continue Reading →

The Lights Are Going Out All Over Australia

By Fred Pawle The recent three-day talkfest in Canberra has only confirmed what we already knew: Australia under this government is totally doomed. Being stuck in a windowless room with nerds discussing ways to stimulate an economy is, to normal… Continue Reading →

To The Supporters of Cafe Locked Out: A New Book collecting the work of Michael Gray Griffith Coming Soon

Australia’s response to the Covid era was the worst in the world, with its insane lockdowns, destructive vaccine mandates and out of control authoritarianism, accompanied by a blizzard of lies from our politicians. So few people stood up to the… Continue Reading →

The Spirit of Respect

Jeffery Tucker: Brownstone Institute In 1973, as the bicentennial of the US approached, the great American essayist and illustrator Eric Sloane was commissioned to write a book commemorating what is great about America. He focused on what we once had… Continue Reading →

The Jackboots by Robyn Robins

The latest from A Sense of Place Publishing “If you have a book, you have a friend,” says Robyn.  When a child, she always had her nose in a book and, walked around the playground at school, her nose in… Continue Reading →

Australia’s Indigenous Bushrangers, Brothers Jimmy and Joe Governor, were hanged in 1901. Their Story.

Tim Rowse, Western Sydney University Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names and images of deceased people. The homicidal actions, flight, capture, trial and punishment of Jimmy and Joe Governor (and their accomplice Jack Underwood)… Continue Reading →

Mapping the Entire Field of Autism Causation Studies in One Article

Toby Rogers: Brownstone Institute It seems to me that the proper way to understand the autism epidemic is to read everything that has been written on autism causation, throw out any studies that are characterized by a financial conflict of… Continue Reading →

Your Smartphone is a Parasite

Rachael L. Brown, Australian National University and Rob Brooks, UNSW Sydney Head lice, fleas and tapeworms have been humanity’s companions throughout our evolutionary history. Yet, the greatest parasite of the modern age is no blood-sucking invertebrate. It is sleek, glass-fronted… Continue Reading →

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