Just weeks before independent MP Helen Haines was allegedly deliberately rammed twice by a vehicle outside her Wangaratta office, resulting in the amputation of both legs and leaving her in critical condition, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s office circulated a five-page… Continue Reading →
Helen Haines, the independent member for Indi, remains in critical condition after a man deliberately drove a Toyota LandCruiser into her outside her Wangaratta electorate office. She has lost both legs. Police have charged 43-year-old Brendan Nugent, a local with… Continue Reading →
Ten separate stories. Same bloody problem: Nobody tells the Australians affected. 1. The Roads Vanished, and 000 Can’t Get You September 2020. The Queensland Roads Team swapped the old Baseline Roads and Tracks (BRAT) dataset for the new Queensland Roads… Continue Reading →
There are now so many scandals attaching to the Australian government headed by the beleaguered Prime Minister Anthony Albanese that it is difficult to keep track. To make things easier we have compiled the following Field Guide. For its many… Continue Reading →
Mired in scandal and plummeting in popularity, the Albanese government is desperate to crush free speech in Australia any way it can. Australia’s new hate-speech laws, rammed through Parliament with almost no public consultation and the full support of the… Continue Reading →
Hear the author’s live interview via Café Locked Out on Rumble, Facebook, and X. We don’t get such great numbers on YouTube for reasons known only to the algorithms. Signed copies will also be made available through Café Locked Out’s… Continue Reading →
There is no hotter issue in Australia today than mass migration. The public sentiment has soured dramatically. A once reasonably successful immigrant nation has become hostile to strangers, and the divide between the nation’s political elites and the average citizen… Continue Reading →
Australian businesses are closing at rates that would have been unthinkable a few years ago, and the human cost is spreading into personal bankruptcies and late payments that signal more pain ahead. Official figures show 14,153 companies entered external administration… Continue Reading →
The Australian government wants the power to arbitrarily censor scenes of violent crime, or violence, for any reason. And it wants the power to use an unlimited number of fake accounts to wage offensive disinformational warfare against the Australian people…. Continue Reading →
The fish and chip shop had a Lest We Forget flag pinned above the door. That’s why we stopped. When I went in, the store was small. Outside it was a light marine blue, and inside it was painted and… Continue Reading →
High profile free speech advocate Michael Shellenberger has returned to Australia after a two year absence. Asking why in the world anyone would want a government to be able to silence practically any citizen online, his message has been blunt…. Continue Reading →
In the glossy narratives of artificial intelligence, Australia – and the wider West – stands on the threshold of Universal Abundance. Machines will free us from toil, algorithms will optimise every need, and the old constraints of scarcity will dissolve… Continue Reading →
The Nullarbor is supposed to be the place where the country runs out. From the car it is a ruled line, a white edge on bitumen, saltbush and sky, and the long habit of calling it empty. This spring the… Continue Reading →
A Billion-Dollar Australian Broadcaster Takes Aim at an Independent Michael West has put his reply to the ABC’s Media Watch on the record after the program accused him of perpetuating unsubstantiated conspiracy theories. On Friday, executive producer Mario Christodoulou wrote… Continue Reading →
In Penong, on the Nullarbor, the Ampol station is the only public room for a hundred kilometres in any direction that pretends to offer the internet. I sat there for an hour yesterday trying to join the Telstra public network…. Continue Reading →
Fiji for him. The power bill for everyone else. The man who promised cheaper power is in Fiji. The woman who never promised anything of the sort is packing halls in Victoria. Between those two facts sits the ugliest week… Continue Reading →
There are affinities that feel less like coincidence than recognition. For years Maria Popova, the Bulgarian-born, New York-based polymath behind The Marginalian, has returned again and again to the work of Nick Cave — not as fan service, but as… Continue Reading →
Drive past almost any major roadworks site in Australia and the picture is the same. High-vis vests, orange cones, and young women in hard hats twirling the red-and-white stop/slow bats that have earned them the name lollipop ladies. Some are… Continue Reading →
The Australian continent has always been useful to other people’s wars. What has changed is the density of that usefulness. The Nautilus Institute, an American security think tank with a nuclear disarmament brief funded mainly by American philanthropic foundations, has… Continue Reading →
The Australian Liberal Party is not in trouble. It is finished. Their demise, years in the making, has been well earned. For international readers, in the Upside Down World known as Australia, the Liberal Party are the nation’s conservatives. Repeated… Continue Reading →
Walk a Perth street, enter a hardware store, queue at a stadium gate or present a driver’s licence and the same technology may already be reading your face. This month Western Australia Police reported that an Australia-first live facial recognition… Continue Reading →
The RBA lifts the cash rate to a 15-year high of 4.6 per cent. Young families wear the extra repayments. Canberra wears the blame. “RBA throws mortgage holders under the bus.” “Dark day for hardworking Australian families.” “Labor’s spending addiction… Continue Reading →
For most Australians, a sock puppet is a homemade toy. Online, the term means something else entirely. A sock puppet account is a fake identity created by someone who already exists on the internet. The operator pretends to be another… Continue Reading →
Victoria Barracks in Paddington has been military ground since 1840. Convicts and tradesmen cut the Hawkesbury sandstone. Soldiers marched out those gates for Sudan, two world wars, and every conflict that followed. RSL NSW still calls it the spiritual home… Continue Reading →
A Sense of Place Publishing and Cafe Locked Out are collaborating in the production of a 5th Anniversary Memorial Edition of the upcoming book: Convoy to Canberra. As anyone who attended knows, the Convoy to Canberra in February of 2022… Continue Reading →
Michael West Media has spent weeks mapping the Australian state’s quiet bargain with Palantir and Cellebrite. The picture is not subtle. The scrutiny has been. Michael West is one of the few Australian journalists still treated, even by people who… Continue Reading →
Australia used to export its convicts. Now it is building the walls inward. After one massacre on Bondi Beach, Canberra recalled Parliament and, in a single sitting, handed ASIO and a minister the power to list groups as “prohibited hate… Continue Reading →
The Prime Minister flew to America to be seen as a statesman. Australia watched a weak man walk into the same problems he left at home. California first. The welcome party was Australia’s own ambassador. No American official on the… Continue Reading →
Journalists hunt in packs, and now there is blood in the water. The Prime Minister is being dismembered, metaphorically, limb by limb, press conference by press conference, one disastrous headline after another. The entire country is experiencing a severe case… Continue Reading →
Anthony Albanese’s decision to collect the Atlantic Council’s Global Citizen Award in New York this week is a masterclass in tone-deaf vanity. While Labor’s primary vote slumps to 27 per cent and his net approval sits worse than Scott Morrison’s,… Continue Reading →
Institute of Public Affairs “#FixOurFeeds, the campaign widely credited with pushing the federal government toadopt a digital duty of care model has received millions of dollars from the federalgovernment. The Prime Minister claims the digital duty of care is a… Continue Reading →
Australia’s unfortunate EV drivers are reporting headaches with EV chargers across outback and far west New South Wales. Recent accounts mention the NRMA units in places like Wilcannia, Bourke, Walgett, and Cobar regularly failing or running at reduced speeds. Plus… Continue Reading →
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