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John Stapleton Newspapers are collaborative efforts – journalists, editors, layout people, printers, distributors, the office manager, all combine to produce order out of the chaos of daily life. And every now and then, the universe decides to collaborate as well,… Continue Reading →
Michael Gray Griffith: Café Locked Out It was not a question of not wanting to take it, Tom was adamant, he was not going to. His wife felt the same. Trouble was, Tom was a young Australian father who had… Continue Reading →
By Professor Ramesh Thakur: Brownstone Institute Two months ago in the UK, a 17-year old girl with autism took the field in her all-women team for a match in a single-sex soccer league. She noticed that one of the players… Continue Reading →
Michael Gray Griffith: Café Locked out The station was so vast and remote that chances are the bull had never seen a fence or a house. Now in his prime, he was the king of this harsh terrain—a king who… Continue Reading →
Community radio program Dads On The Air was in a singular position to cover and even at times to contribute to the years of government reports, committee inquiries, public debate and media coverage on reforms promoting cooperative care of children after divorce. While… Continue Reading →
Kiley Seymour and Roger Koenig, University of Technology Sydney From self-service checkouts to public streets to stadiums – surveillance technology is everywhere. This pervasive monitoring is often justified in the name of safety and security. But our recent study, published… Continue Reading →
With Fred Pawle, Spectator Australia, Sky News, Macro Business, Danger Dan and Others As the joke goes, MAGA is coming to Australia. Make Albo Go Away. The Federal Election in Australia is most likely to be held, assuming the AIs… Continue Reading →
Greg Breed, University of Alaska Fairbanks and Peter Corkeron, Griffith University, Australia Southern right whales have lifespans that reach well past 100 years, and 10% may live past 130 years, according to our new research published in the journal Science… Continue Reading →
To mark the 50th anniversary of the Australian Family Law Act in 2025 A Sense of Place Magazine is running this series Classics of the Fatherhood Movement. Also, keep an eye out for the upcoming book from A Sense of… Continue Reading →
The Australian Federal Police are today remembering the victims and families impacted by the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami and reflect on the support and assistance provided by Australian law enforcement and forensic specialists as part of the large scale international response to… Continue Reading →
Michelle Grattan: University of Canberra Women and their issues were at the centre in the 2022 election. They were an important reason why Scott Morrison was turfed out of office. Morrison, his party and the government were seen to have… Continue Reading →
One of the brightest stars of Australian journalism to have emerged from the Covid era, Rebekah Barnett has now been honoured with a Fellowship from the Brownstone Institute, one of the world’s leading academic think tanks. A Sense of Place… Continue Reading →
Over the past four years, trust in all the systems that were supposed to make modern life run smoothly has been steadily eroded, even to the point of utter collapse. At the same time, we find ourselves strangely optimistic about… Continue Reading →
Richard Scully, University of New England; Robert Phiddian, Flinders University, and Stephanie Brookes, Monash University Michael Leunig – who died in the early hours of Thursday December 19, surrounded by “his children, loved ones, and sunflowers” – was the closest… Continue Reading →
To mark the 50th anniversary of the Australian Family Law Act in 2025 A Sense of Place Magazine is running this series Classics of the Fatherhood Movement. Also, keep an eye out for the upcoming book from A Sense of… Continue Reading →
With Michael Gray Griffith: Cafe Locked Out One job of great artists is to navigate our human soul and bring back any clues they find for us to ponder. In a time where our perceived identity could support us all,… Continue Reading →
Fred Pawle The tenth anniversary of the deadly ‘siege’ in Martin Place, Sydney, valiantly avoids using the M-word. There was a touching ceremony in Martin Place, Sydney, earlier this month as some of the most senior politicians in the nation… Continue Reading →
IT REMAINS surprising that the ultra-woke extremist ideology which is synonymous with the Family Court of Australia evolved in the Land Down Under. For Australia, founded as a penal colony, has always been associated with anti-establishment sentiment. In the early… Continue Reading →
Australia’s left adopted almost all of its policies from the American Democrats, including extreme levels of censorship. A prime example of the deliberate crushing of the voices of ordinary Australians by the nation’s elites is the Albanese government’s Misinformation and… Continue Reading →
Professor Anne Twomey, University of Sydney The federal government’s proposed legislation on misinformation and disinformation has passed the House of Representatives, but faces a rocky time in the Senate. Opponents have dubbed it the MAD Bill, and it has certainly… Continue Reading →
To mark the 50th anniversary of the Australian Family Law Act in 2025 A Sense of Place Magazine is running this series Classics of the Fatherhood Movement. Also, keep an eye out for the upcoming book from A Sense of… Continue Reading →
By Bettina Arndt The feminists have it all sewn up. All it took was very effective bullying of politicians to have draconian legislation pushed through various state parliaments resulting in unproven domestic violence accusations flooding our criminal law system. My… Continue Reading →
By Jeffrey Tucker and Debbie Lerman: Brownstone Institute Instances of censorship are growing to the point of normalization. Despite ongoing litigation and more public attention, mainstream social media has been more ferocious in recent months than ever before. Podcasters know… Continue Reading →
The release of “The Chairman’s Lounge” by Joe Aston has thrust Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese into a whirlpool of controversy, questioning his integrity and closeness with corporate entities, particularly Qantas Airways. This essay delves into the ramifications of this… Continue Reading →
By Alison Bevege: Letters from Australia The Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet has released the Covid-19 Response Inquiry Report and it is 996 pages of exactly what you would expect. It’s an exercise in what Noam Chomsky called “manufacturing consent”. It’s… Continue Reading →
By Alfred McCoy: Pearls and Irritations While the world looks on with trepidation at regional wars in Israel and Ukraine, a far more dangerous global crisis is quietly building at the other end of Eurasia, along an island chain that… Continue Reading →
To mark the 50th anniversary of the Australian Family Law Act in 2025 A Sense of Place Magazine is running this series Classics of the Fatherhood Movement. Also, keep an eye out for the upcoming book from A Sense of… Continue Reading →
By John Stapleton The appalling eradication of Australian culture at the hands of American behemoth tech companies continues apace. Australia adopts all of its policies, including mass migration and climate change, from America. This includes the current censorship push known… Continue Reading →
By Fred Pawle Even now, 90 years later, we don’t fully understand how Nazism came about. From the lofty height of hindsight, we simply conclude that its evilness and inevitable demise should have been blindingly obvious to everyone at the… Continue Reading →
To mark the 50th anniversary of the Australian Family Law Act in 2025 A Sense of Place Magazine is running this series Classics of the Fatherhood Movement. Also, keep an eye out for the upcoming book from A Sense of… Continue Reading →
The father of much admired journalist Miranda Devine was the legendary Frank Devine, a grand old man of Australian journalism who held a number of senior roles within the Murdoch Empire, including as editor for a decade of Readers Digest,… Continue Reading →
By Rebekah Barnett: Brownstone Institute Victorians could go to prison for up to five years for hate speech under new anti-vilification laws proposed by the Victorian Government. Under the proposed laws, it would be an offence to “incite hatred against, serious… Continue Reading →