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With Amazon Australia retailing the book for more than $100 the question of where best to buy Failure Family Law Reform Australia becomes a live one. There is some suggestion that the Amazon price point, which has varied between $89… Continue Reading →
From Augusto Zimmerman: Spectator Australia John Stapleton spent a quarter of a century working as a general news reporter for two of Australia’s leading mastheads, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian. He is currently the editor of A Sense of Place Magazine and is… Continue Reading →
By Hayley Stannard, Charles Sturt University and Julie Old, Western Sydney University In Australia’s arid and semi-arid zones lives a highly elusive predator. It’s small but fierce and feisty, with big eyes, long hind legs and a pointy nose. A… Continue Reading →
The picture above was taken in 1909, at the height of the what was known as the Three Mile Rush. The bicycle polisher rigged up in the centre of this picture was being used to rub down opal. The commercial… Continue Reading →
By Rebekah Barnett, The Daily Sceptic Five years on from the declaration of a global pandemic, I’m weary of Covid inquiries. They tend to go either of two ways. They either run through bureaucratic checkboxes and give everyone a medal… Continue Reading →
From Michael Gray Griffith: Café Locked Out Michael Gray Griffith is Australia’s leading contemporary historian. An inspiration to his thousands of followers, he travels Australia in his bus, which he calls Florence. A truly beautiful writer, everywhere he goes he… Continue Reading →
It is the 50th anniversary of Australia’s Family Court. That’s hardly cause for celebration. Over the last half century, what was originally designed as a “helping court” became the frontline of feminism’s gender wars and thus one of the country’s most… Continue Reading →
The new book Failure Family Law Reform Australia is now available on some platforms and will become more broadly available in the coming weeks. Recommended retail is $59.99 but the pricing varies wildly across the various platforms. Here’s links to… Continue Reading →
By Abraham David Australian consultant Abraham David travelled across America on public transport during the 2024 election period, when Trump gained a a thumping victory. Here he looks back at the experience. What he saw on the streets explains why… Continue Reading →
By Adrian Beaumont, The University of Melbourne A national Resolve poll for Nine newspapers, conducted February 18–23 from a sample of 1,506, gave the Coalition a 55–45 lead by headline respondent preferences, a three-point gain for the Coalition since January…. Continue Reading →
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 →
Chapter Two: A Little Bit Of History On the 5th of January 1976 the Family Law Act 1975 came into effect It was passed into law by just one vote This marked a controversial and historically significant turning point for… Continue Reading →
David Southwell: Dystopian Down Under I’m a Daily Mail Journalist. When the Albanese government’s expert panel on Australia’s Covid response delivered its report late last year the verdict was damning. The panel found that harsh Covid measures were imposed often… Continue Reading →
By Ethan Nash: TOTT News Biometric surveillance — the use of facial recognition, fingerprint scanning, voiceprints, and even behavioural tracking to monitor people — is rapidly expanding. Governments, corporations, and private institutions are quietly rolling out these technologies with promises… Continue Reading →
Alison Bevege: Letters from Australia British heritage demonised as Aboriginal cause used to bludgeon Australia. January 26 is not just Australia Day, it was the first settlement of Sydney. The First Fleet set up camp in Sydney Cove on 26… Continue Reading →
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 →