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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
From TOTT News Former Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) for his “eminent service” to the country. The COVID-era puppet. The clown show continues to roll on. FORMER PM HONOURED Just… Continue Reading →
Michael Gray Griffith There is so much space out here. It’s like the gods left before they were able to add the mountains and valleys and grand forests. You could hide an entire civilization out here. We did, and they… Continue Reading →
From Rebekah Barnett: Dystopian Down Under Like the Marvel franchise, with its unlimited instalments and spin-offs, a new Covid scare campaign is underway in Australia. Like the Marvel franchise, the entertainment content exists largely to sell merchandise. Unlike most Marvel… Continue Reading →
By Laura Nicole Driessen, University of Sydney On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut down its communication systems and central computer and said goodbye to… Continue Reading →
By Jeffrey Tucker: Brownstone Institute It was about a month into lockdowns, April 2020, and my phone rang with an unusual number. I picked up and the caller identified himself as Rajeev Venkayya, a name I knew from my writings… Continue Reading →
From Gaz’s A Defender’s Voice Greg Sheridan’s bombshell article in The Australian, “Australia Divided, Misgoverned, in Retreat,” doesn’t just diagnose a nation in trouble; it rips off the bandages to expose the systemic rot infecting every major artery of the country…. Continue Reading →
Professor Ramesh Thakur: Brownstone Institute A Doctor Dies by Suicide Mei-Khing Loo is a former practice manager whose 43-year-old obstetrician-gynaecologist husband of 21 years, Dr Yen-Yung Yap, died by suicide in 2020 while under investigation by the Australian Health Practitioner… Continue Reading →
Jacqueline Halpin, University of Tasmania and Nathan R. Daczko, Macquarie University Have you ever imagined what Antarctica looks like beneath its thick blanket of ice? Hidden below are rugged mountains, valleys, hills and plains. Some peaks, like the towering Transantarctic… Continue Reading →
From Dystopian Down Under Rebekah Barnett, one of Australia’s best journalists, interviews Debbie Lerman, one of the world’s best researchers, on what really happened during Covid. What if the pandemic response was run by national security agencies according to a… Continue Reading →
From Ethan Nash of TOTT News In attempt to give themselves godlike abilities, the technocratic elitist class is pushing society towards a transhumanist future powered by their own ‘intelligent design’, in an attempt to rewrite human rights as we know… Continue Reading →