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The Deep State Goes Viral: The Interview

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 →

Rise of the Machines: Humanity’s Crossroads | New Dawn

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 →

‘The Boy-Girl’, a crime journalist and a Black activist – meet the radical ratbags of 19th-century Melbourne

By Lucy Sussex, La Trobe University “The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there,” wrote English author L.P. Hartley in The Go-Between (1953). Modern Melburnians may feel the same. But while they live with an increasing cityscape… Continue Reading →

Elon Musk’s Martian Dream: Sending Optimus Robots to the Red Planet in 2026

From Grok: The World’s Most Intelligent AI Picture a rust-red landscape, jagged rocks strewn under a thin, alien sky. This is Mars, the planet that’s haunted human imagination for centuries—home to sci-fi dreams, ancient myths, and now, Elon Musk’s boldest… Continue Reading →

The Existential Threat of the Existential Threat

From Thomas Buckley: Brownstone Institute Climate change is an existential threat. Misinformation is an existential threat. Inequality is an existential threat. The next pandemic is an existential threat. Our democracy is facing an existential threat. And everyone must be prepared… Continue Reading →

Australia’s Arms Exports System Is a Loose Free-for-All: Reimagining Mass Murder

Sydney Criminal Lawyers Blog: An Interview with Renegade Activists Jacob & Mercedes By Paul Gregoire Australian arms exports became a front and centre issue in October 2023, on outbreak of the Gaza genocide, and regardless of the fact that former… Continue Reading →

Australia’s Conservatives Smashed Into Political Oblivion

With Fred Pawle, Paul Collits and Rebekah Barnett As always in Australia these days, some of the best political analysis is coming from independent media. The faux Australian conservatives, who didn’t have the gumption, the courage or the integrity to… Continue Reading →

Australian Federal Police warn over detections of dangerous drug Nitazene in Fake Pharmaceuticals

Counterfeit pain medications have emerged as the latest threat posed by illicit drug importation, as Australian authorities detect a worrying spike in nitazenes. Nitazenes are an illicit and dangerous synthetic opioid which can cause serious and unpredictable health effects, including overdose… Continue Reading →

It Could Not Have Been A More Wonderful Day

Terror in Australia: Workers’ Paradise Lost. Extract. By John Stapleton. As a young man Alex had taken every opportunity to travel. He stayed several times at a beach on Penang island known as Batu Ferringhi. In the 1970s it was… Continue Reading →

The ANZAC Day Terror Plot: The Tenth Anniversary

Extract from Terror in Australia: Workers’ Paradise Lost. Australian governments had always appealed to nationalism in their aggressive drives to recruit young men to war. World War One posters included: “Under Which Flag Will You Live? Enlist Now”; “The Trumpet… Continue Reading →

For Australians Voting is a Meaningless Waste of Time: The Major Parties are Almost Identical and Equally Hopeless

Paul Collits VOTERS will not need reminding that elections in Australia are meaningless affairs these days.  They are contested by two undeserving branches of the UniParty that together struggle to get two thirds of the primary vote.  Real problems are… Continue Reading →

The Australian Election: Albo Wears Hypocrisy With Pride

By Fred Pawle This election is becoming a test for who can hold the most contradictory opinions at once about religion, immigration, housing and what’s left of our culture. Albo, aka Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, will win it in a… Continue Reading →

How the Government censored the Nation, killing up to 100,000 Australians with No Accountability. And it’s getting worse.

Alison Bevege: Letters from Australia Bureaucracy is destroying Democracy as unelected regulators take power from parliamentary lawmakers. The shock judgement on Thursday against Australians injured by the covid vaccines has revealed a deadly chasm between the public and an unaccountable… Continue Reading →

Australia’s Leading Contemporary Historian in Hospital: Michael Gray Griffith Suffers Heart Attack

Michael Gray Griffith is Australia’s leading contemporary historian.  His stunning work documents not just the national derangement which overtook Australia during the Covid era, when the country became notorious internationally for having the worst response to the so-called “pandemic” of… Continue Reading →

Australia’s Covid Vaccine Injured have one Last Chance to fix their Class Action in Quest for Justice

Alison Bevege: Letters from Australia Thousands of covid vaccine-injured Australians are in distress after the Federal Court of Australia ruled against their class action on Thursday. Justice Anna Katzmann’s verdict was delivered briefly on Thursday morning and the judgement is published… Continue Reading →

The Indoctrinated Brain: How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your Mental Freedom

“Indoctrinated Brain: How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your Mental Freedom” by Michael Nehls is a clarion call against what the author perceives as a deliberate and insidious assault on cognitive freedom worldwide. Michael Nehls, a German… Continue Reading →

Australian Federal Police Finally Drop Covid Vaccine Mandates: Devastating Effects Remain

From Rebekah Barnett: The Brownstone Institute Three years after it became universally acknowledged that Covid vaccines provide negligible protection against infection and transmission, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) has finally dropped its Covid vaccine mandate.  AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw announced… Continue Reading →

Australia Marches to a Totalitarian Future: Extract from Failure Family Law Reform Australia

The violence card has been played, and it won the game. A Royal Flush. As Dads On The Air said so long ago, the liars, the lawyers, the bureaucrats and the social engineers have won the day. Fifty years of… Continue Reading →

Hackable Minds: The Silent War for Your Thoughts

From Gaz’s – A Defender’s Voice  The battlefield is no longer land—it’s your mind. Manipulated by data, steered by AI, controlled by fear. You’re not being informed. You’re being programmed. Wake up—before it’s too late. “Humans are hackable animals.” These chilling… Continue Reading →

The Eye Boggling Multi Billion Dollar AUKUS Fiasco: Australian Government Squanders Your Taxes Yet Again

From War Powers Reform Zero Transparency – New Report investigates the AUKUS Pact “AUKUS and the surrender of transparency, accountability and sovereignty” A new report on the massive AUKUS military pact has found the agreement has been plagued by an… Continue Reading →

Billboard Chris vs. Australia lawsuit wrap-up

From Rebekah Barnett: Dystopian Down Under Do people have the right to participate in charged social debates online? This is the question at the heart of a lawsuit between Australia’s online harms regulator, the eSafety Commissioner, on one side, with… Continue Reading →

Falun Dafa: The End of Days

By John Stapleton Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance “When two truths meet the most courageous one wins.” Chinese proverb. This piece was originally written some 20 years ago and is republished here out of curiosity. Falun Gong remain a powerful if essentially… Continue Reading →

Torrential rains create Inland Seas in Outback Australia

Steve Turton, CQUniversity Australia The small Queensland town of Eromanga bills itself as Australia’s town furthest from the sea. But this week, an ocean of freshwater arrived. Monsoon-like weather has hit the normally arid Channel Country of inland Queensland. Some… Continue Reading →

Former Judge spills the beans on Australia’s rotten to the core Family Law System

By Bettina Arndt “The Family Court system is in enormous trouble.” That’s a momentous statement given that the speaker, former judge and now Adelaide barrister Stuart Lindsay, has dealt with more than 2000 family law cases. But there’s much more… This… Continue Reading →

The Art Of The Fight

By Nudge Mieli Boxing coach Nudge Mieli, who came from a martial arts background, started boxing to become more proficient with his hands. “They call boxing the sweet science, and that’s what drew me to it,” Nudge says. “It is… Continue Reading →

The Dads4Kids Interview: Failure Family Law Reform Australia

The year 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Family Law Act, the single most intrusive and destructive piece of legislation to ever pass the Australian parliament. In that time the Family Court has been the subject… Continue Reading →

The Australian Election: Labor’s in with a fighting chance, but must work around an Unpopular Leader

Chris Wallace, University of Canberra The Albanese government has a fighting chance of winning the 2025 election, but will need to achieve in five weeks of campaigning what it hasn’t in three years in office. That is, work out a… Continue Reading →

The Laughing Lama: On Meeting a Buddhist Master.

By John Stapleton “Spiritual truth is not something elaborate and esoteric, it is in fact profound common sense. When you realize the nature of mind, layers of confusion peel away. You don’t actually “become” a buddha, you simply cease, slowly,… Continue Reading →

Australia: Land of Slaves

From Michael Gray Griffith: Café Locked Out In the Kimberleys, I saw the broken backbone of a mountain range—time had spent millions of years pruning it down to here. Its rocks were cracked and angry, too hot to touch, for… Continue Reading →

It’s a Family’s Despair: Fred Pawle

A new book chronicles the Family Court’s 50 years of destroying families and men’s lives. It is a harbinger of the deeply flawed secular world into which we are sleepwalking. The creation of the Family Court of Australia in 1975… Continue Reading →

Australia IS tangled in a Gates Foundation web even as the new US Administration rips itself free with three key appointments

Alison Bevege: Letters from Australia Three key confirmations may go a long way to ripping the Gates/Pharma influence network from the US health system – but it’s doubtful the win will flow through to Australia. Our health sector has been… Continue Reading →

The Failure of Family Law reform in Australia

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 →

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