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A Time Of Hope: Brownstone Institute

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 →

Michael Leunig: The closest thing Australian cartooning had to a prophet

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 →

Classics of the Fatherhood Movement. Legalizing Misandry: From Public Shame to Systemic Discrimination Against Men

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 →

Leunig’s Last Clue: Vale Michael Leunig, Leading Australian Cartoonist

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 →

A Memorial To A Tribute: The Martin Place Siege

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 →

Failure Family Law Reform Australia: Extract

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 →

MAD – Misinformation and Disinformation Bill Passes Australia’s Lower House

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 →

Australia’s Misinformation Bill and Freedom of Speech

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 →

Classics of the Fatherhood Movement. Not Guilty: The Case in Defense of Men by David Thomas

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 →

Australian Whistleblower Police: Reluctant Enforcers for Feminist Domestic Violence Regime

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 →

They Are Scrubbing the Internet Right Now

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 Chairman’s Lounge: The Qantas Controversy Engulfing Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

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 →

Australia’s Covid-19 Inquiry Report: 996 pages of Manufacturing Consent. Democracy Theatre for Stupid People.

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 →

Powder keg in the Pacific

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 →

Classics of the Fatherhood Movement: The Myth of Male Power by Warren Farrell

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 →

YouTube Deletes Cafe Locked Out’s Kulture Page Dedicated to Australian Protest Songs

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 →

As We Sit and Squander: Trigger Warning

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 →

Classics of the Fatherhood Movement: Who Stole Feminism by Christina Hoff Summers

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 →

American based Australian author Miranda Devine pens an Absolute Blockbuster in Lead Up to American Election

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 →

Proposed Hate Speech Laws Abound in Australia

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 →

Social media footage reveals little-known ‘surfing’ whales in Australian waters

Vanessa Pirotta, Macquarie University As humpback and southern right whales return to Antarctica at the tail end of their annual migration, east coast whale watchers may think the show will soon be over. But some whale species are still here,… Continue Reading →

MAD – Australia’s Insane Mal And Disinformation Legislation. Could Senator Alex Antic Be Locked Up??

By John Stapleton Of all the many things that Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese did not mention prior to his election an eternity ago, that is in May of 2022, was that he would be launching some of the most… Continue Reading →

The making of Australia’s first Dark Sky Community at Carrickalinga

Sharolyn Anderson, University of South Australia In a world increasingly illuminated by artificial light, the beautiful night skies of a small coastal town in South Australia have attracted international recognition. Carrickalinga on the Fleurieu Peninsula is Australia’s first official Dark… Continue Reading →

Classics of the Fatherhood Movement. Divorced Dads: Shattering the Myths by Sanford Braver

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 →

WORLD FIRST: Australian local government calls for suspension of Covid mRNA vaccines

By Rebekah Barnett: Dystopian Down Under In a surprise move, the local government of West Australian mining town Port Hedland has voted to call for the immediate suspension of the Moderna and Pfizer Covid vaccines pending an investigation into evidence… Continue Reading →

Anthony Albanese buys $4.3 million house in the midst of a Housing Crisis: Political Suicide

With Matthew Camenzuli  Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s $4.3 million purchase of a flash house on the Central Coast has ignited a firestorm of criticism, primarily focusing on the timing, insensitivity to economic pressures faced by many Australians, and the… Continue Reading →

Classics of the Fatherhood Movement: Kangaroo Court by John Hirst

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 →

Australia’s Dismal Economy: The Bad News Courtesy of MacroBusiness

Everyone who lives in Australia knows the worst is upon us, the spiraling costs of just about everything, the death of all common optimism, the increasing despair of the nation’s small business owners and the general grumbles about a rapacious… Continue Reading →

Dark Tourism: Attracting Visitors to War Zones and sites of atrocities in Israel and Ukraine 

Juliet Rogers, The University of Melbourne There is a disturbing trend of people travelling to the sadder places of the world: sites of military attacks, war zones and disasters. Dark tourism is now a phenomenon, with its own website and… Continue Reading →

Classics of the Fatherhood Movement: Men on Strike by Helen Smith

“Men on Strike: Why Men Are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood, and the American Dream—and Why It Matters” by Helen Smith explores the phenomenon of men opting out of traditional societal roles in an increasingly hostile environment towards masculinity and fatherhood. Helen… Continue Reading →

United States makes Western Australia vital for Fighting its Wars and a Target for its Enemies

By Bevan Ramsden: Pearls and Irritations Successive Australian governments have allowed the United States to carry out a program of militarisation in Western Australia (WA) which has made it a vital US war-fighting base and thus an inevitable target for… Continue Reading →

‘It’s the crime of the century’: Leading Cancer specialist warns Australia on mRNA tumors, briefs Parliament

By Alison Bevege: Letters from Australia The covid gene-vaccines cause cancer. UK Oncology Professor Angus Dalgleish and US critical care doctor Paul Marik are on tour for the Australian Medical Practitioners Society. Nobody likes the topic of cancer. Sudden Stage… Continue Reading →

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