Month February 2025
Picture this: an American-style Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)—the Elon Musk-Trump brainchild launched in January 2025—lands in Australia. In the U.S., it’s a temporary advisory crew with a wild mission: slash $2 trillion from federal spending, gut regulations, and shrink… Continue Reading →
Rex Patrick: Michael West Media The Albanese Government forked out tens of thousands of taxpayer’s dollars in legal fees to Clayton Utz to resist releasing a Ministerial brief on the prospective extinction of the Maugean Skate. That’s public money not… Continue Reading →
To listen to the Café Locked Out interview with author John Stapleton on his new book Failure Family Law Reform Australia go to the YouTube link here. I strongly recommend this book, which compellingly demonstrates that the family law system… Continue Reading →
While USAID does not traditionally fund projects directly within Australia, it collaborates with the Australian government to support initiatives in neighbouring Pacific Island countries. Here are some notable projects: Controversies Surrounding USAID Projects Broader Implications Conclusion The collaboration between USAID… Continue Reading →
Michael Gray Griffith: Café Locked Out “I’m a paramedic,” he said. “Forty years. And do you know how many cases of myocarditis I saw in that time? Zero. Pericarditis? A few times, not many. But now—it’s everywhere.” “I’m a paramedic,”… Continue Reading →
By Lisa Hajjar, University of California, Santa Barbara President Joe Biden’s record of handling the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is decidedly mixed. He succeeded in reducing the detainee population he inherited by more than half, but he… Continue Reading →
From Café Locked Out If anything is going to make you laugh it is this funny and profound podcast. Shot at by poachers, dealing with crocodiles and the many travails of establishing an alluvial gold mining operation in the country’s… Continue Reading →
Susan Grantham, Griffith University From the moment you open your social media feed, you’re stepping into a digital battleground where not all political messages are what they seem. The upcoming federal election will see an influx of deepfakes, doctored images,… Continue Reading →
Through the latter half of the twentieth century, as more than half of all marriages came to end in divorce, the belief that family law in Australia was overwhelmingly tilted against fathers and that this hostility was doing massive harm… Continue Reading →
Jack Waterford: Pearls and Irritations Here’s a sad prediction for 2025. By the end of next year, more states and territories will have dropped the age of criminal responsibility to 10, and adopted punitive laws based on slogans such as… Continue Reading →
Michael J. Davern and Matt Pinnuck, The University of Melbourne Almost A$1 trillion (US$600 billion) was wiped off the value of artificial intelligence microchip maker Nvidia overnight on Monday, when a little-known Chinese startup, DeepSeek, threatened to upend the US… Continue Reading →
By Rebekah Barnett: Dystopian Down Under As Covid vaccine injuries started mounting up, and the topic became somewhat less taboo in the media – albeit always accompanied by boilerplate text about how the benefits outweigh the risks – some of… Continue Reading →