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Born from the crucible of Covid oppression and Australia’s extreme authoritarian responses, Reignite Democracy Australia has emerged as a significant player in the current ferment of Australian politics, caught as we all are in an election year. A scent of… Continue Reading →
TOTT News. The Australian Defence Force (ADF) and Scott Morrison have both received harsh criticism online, after locals in flood-affected northern NSW regions expose the so-called ‘help’ they are receiving on-the-ground. ASSISTANCE? Video and photos have emerged showing ADF members… Continue Reading →
Stephan Rachel and Philipp Frey, The University of Melbourne. You probably know what a crystal is. We’ve all seen one, held one in our hands, and even tasted one on our tongue (for instance sodium chloride crystals, also known as… Continue Reading →
By Michael Sawyer: Michael West Media. Fifty years ago, an Australian government had big plans for the media, seeing it as biased in favour of conservatism and its ownership too narrowly held. Powerful interests saw a sinister attempt to impose… Continue Reading →
The spooks were easy to spot. Most Australians couldn’t afford a new iPhone, and certainly not in that part of town. Old Alex felt decidedly unsafe, packed up the apartment, both glad to be out of there and angry at… Continue Reading →
By Professor Ramesh Thakur and David Redman After a year’s experience of COVID-19 worldwide, the continuing hold of discredited mathematical models regarding lockdowns remain. As well, it is increasingly evident that medical specialists put in charge of public policy ignored… Continue Reading →
A show of force in Wellington. New Zealand Police have launched on anti-mandate protesters today in dramatic scenes, attempting to finally end a sitting that has disrupted the country’s capital for the past three weeks. Large numbers of police —… Continue Reading →
By Sheila Fitzpatrick, Australian Catholic University One interpretation of the name “Ukraine” is borderland. This needs to be taken seriously. Borderlands are all about diversity and competing understandings of community and nation. They are always mixtures of people with different… Continue Reading →
“For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.” Leonardo da Vinci The Currumbin Valley Rock Pools are about five minutes… Continue Reading →
By Brian McGlinchey: Brownstone Institute. Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, proponents of lockdowns, shelter-in-place orders, mask mandates and other coercive government interventions have characterized these measures as benevolently “erring on the side of caution.” Now, as the grim toll of those… Continue Reading →
Lawrence English, Griffith University. Vision is often regarded as first among the human senses, as our eyes are the way most of us come to know the world. However, vision has its limits. Even now, as you use your eyes… Continue Reading →
By Jorg Probst. Featured Artist Ludwig Meidner. After two years, I declare Covid over, at least for me. It’s time to move on. Over the last two years, I dedicated many hours reading, researching, and writing on my own blog about Covid…. Continue Reading →
Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian, Christelle Langley, Emmanuel A Stamatakis and Lennart Spindler, University of Cambridge. Consciousness is arguably the most important scientific topic there is. Without consciousness, there would after all be no science. But while we all know what it… Continue Reading →
By Michael Gray Griffith: Café Locked Out. We set this image up. The day before we had stood before the doors of Parliament with all our flags and banners and t-shirts with messages that all read Freedom. But today we… Continue Reading →
Julie Shiels, RMIT University. Review: Sidney Nolan: Search for Paradise, Heide Museum of Modern Art. A Sidney Nolan retrospective is being held in a contemporary Eden in the Melbourne suburbs — the place where the artist’s own search for paradise… Continue Reading →
TOTT News. Australia is ranked amongst the top ten countries which have no idea how their data is collected by Facebook. In April of 2018, Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that the social network collects data from people online even if they… Continue Reading →
Photography by Dean Sewell THE THINGS HE REMEMBERED MOST STARKLY from the early months of the Covid Era were empty trains churning through the night, a sense of threat as everything was altered, military helicopters hovering over a deserted Sydney… Continue Reading →
By Professor Ramesh Thakur: The Weekend Australian. From the very start of the pandemic, a small but critical minority of us has argued that irrespective of the paths taken to get there, the end state will be living with Covid-19… Continue Reading →
Lawrence English, Griffith University. At vaccine mandate protests in Canberra last week, police used powerful loud-hailing devices called Long-Range Acoustic Devices (LRADs) to address protesters. While some protesters claimed they were injured by the “sonic weapon”, those reports are inconsistent… Continue Reading →
People crawl across India to die in Varanasi for one reason: according to the Hindu faith if you die there, on the edge of the sacred Ganges River, you will not be reincarnated. The cycle of life, and therefore of… Continue Reading →
By Alan Austin: Michael West Media. The Coalition as “superior economic managers”? The data demonstrates the polar opposite. Alan Austin looks at the leading measures of economic performance over 10 years and finds Australia has slumped sharply against other nations. The bright… Continue Reading →
Melissa Starling and Claire Wade, University of Sydney. The recent ABC TV series Muster Dogs has brought into sharp focus the incredible skills of our working stock dogs. It’s not just their sensitivity to livestock movement that makes them so… Continue Reading →
As the Covid story collapses worldwide, and jurisdiction after jurisdiction abandons all Covid restrictions and mandates, leading newspapers around the world, many of whom played a key part in panicking entire populations, have begun an intense period of naval gazing…. Continue Reading →
TOTT News Researchers have unveiled a nationalised genomics surveillance platform that will enable real-time sharing, analysis and reporting of COVID-19 pathogen genomic data. Australian researchers have unveiled a nationalised genomics surveillance platform that will enable real-time sharing, analysis and reporting of… Continue Reading →
By John Stapleton. Extract from Hideout in the Apocalypse. “The world’s gone mad,” the old reporter said as he passed people on his morning walk. “Didn’t make any sense anyway,” comes the response. Australia is shutting down. Extreme measures introduced… Continue Reading →
What had been a remarkably successful policing operation, handling the one million protestors who showed up in Canberra to protest two years of government overreach during the Covid era, turned sour in the final hours. Until that point there had… Continue Reading →
The 12th of February 2022, on some estimates more than one million Australian came from all over the country, some driving more than 24 hours to get there. At the very least it is clear that the official estimates of… Continue Reading →
The 12th of February 2022 is the day Australia transformed.Without counting the several hours missing from the police report of people coming on the 11th, over 1.2 millions cars entered ACT in the week preceding this epic day. Epic as… Continue Reading →
By Susan Pavan. People were upset. They expected something to change. There was a tsunami of freedom. People don’t want to go back to their old lives. They want to stay. They want to start a new way, a new… Continue Reading →
By John Stapleton. Photography by John Napper and Janaya Markwell. Australia has just witnessed the largest demonstration in its history. Many people had streams of tears flowing down their faces. The emotion flowing through the entire crowd was overwhelming. Kath,… Continue Reading →
By John Stapleton. Photography by John Napper. They’ve come with their dogs. They’ve come with their kids. They’ve come with their hearts. There are an estimated 200,000 protestors on one Canberra campsite alone. Today is the Ground Zero of days;… Continue Reading →
Drone footage by Bailey and his Dad. Travelling from all states around Australia, including one lone driver from Perth who travelled 52 hours, the Convoy to Canberra is inundating the ACT like no event ever before seen in Australia’s history…. Continue Reading →