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By Andrew Lowenthal The Australian Labor Party reintroduced its misinformation and disinformation bill. I did a deep dive into the bill last May. Among its many flaws, the biggest is its very origins. As Communications Minister Michelle Rowland said in Parliament on… Continue Reading →
Australia was deeply impacted by the Covid hysteria, medical malpractice and government malfeasance beginning in early 2020. This significant book adds to the growing body of literature deconstructing the era which has destroyed so many Australians’ faith in their government… Continue Reading →
An alleged mastermind behind a secret app for criminals and violent enforcers has been charged by the Australian Federal Police during a global takedown of an encrypted communications network. AFP Operation Kraken charged a NSW man, aged 32, for creating… Continue Reading →
By Tracy Thurman: The Brownstone Institute Life in the United States has changed drastically in the last several decades. Technology, pharmaceutical and medical interventions, dietary shifts, educational policies, and social trends have radically altered our way of life. Over the… Continue Reading →
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 →
With TOTT News and Glenn Greenwald So extreme has Australia’s push to censor free speech become that it is now making international headlines and being condemned worldwide. Here is the internationally renowned and highly respected Glenn Greenwald on what is… Continue Reading →
By John Stapleton Martin Chulov is one of the single most outstanding journalists to have ever emerged from Australia, his coverage of Muslim radicalisation at the turn of the century without peer. Formerly employed by The Australian, his on-the-ground knowledge… Continue Reading →
“Government Gangsters” by Kash Pramod Patel is a scathing critique of what the author describes as the ‘Deep State’ within the U.S. government, detailing how unelected officials and bureaucrats have allegedly manipulated national policy for their own ends, undermining democratic… Continue Reading →
Ceremonies were held in Australia and Indonesia this week to commemorate the 10 people killed on the day of the attack and more than 200 people injured in the bombing outside the Australian Embassy in Jakarta 20 years ago. On… Continue Reading →
Matthew Ricketson, Deakin University and Andrew Dodd, The University of Melbourne Until recently, Elon Musk was just a wildly successful electric car tycoon and space pioneer. Sure, he was erratic and outspoken, but his global influence was contained and seemingly… Continue Reading →
Forward by Senator Ron Paul In Life after Lockdown, Jeffrey Tucker paints a picture of the living hell that was the government lockdown and outlines a roadmap for never again allowing such a police state to occur. During the multiple winters… Continue Reading →
By Paul Gregoire: Sydney Criminal Lawyers Blog Indonesian president-elect Prabowo Subianto was in Canberra last month to meet with soon-to-be counterpart prime minister Anthony Albanese and to further negotiate a new defence deal, in his current capacity as Indonesian defence minister… Continue Reading →
Erica Mealy, University of the Sunshine Coast The Australian government this week released voluntary artificial intelligence (AI) safety standards, alongside a proposals paper calling for greater regulation of the use of the fast-growing technology in high-risk situations. The take-home message… Continue Reading →
By Robert F. Kennedy In July 2021, one year and four months into the misery of the global lock down, the Federal Aviation Administration had to divert air traffic over a section of the country stretching from the west coast… Continue Reading →
By Michael Gray Griffith How did we reach a point where a play about three young straight males lost out at seacould be seen as theatrically dangerous? One reason is, our young men have borne the brunt of a full-on… Continue Reading →
By Rebekah Barnett: Dystopian Down Under Two thirds of submissions made to the Australian Government’s Excess Mortality Inquiry have been suppressed and key evidence omitted from its concluding report, calling the inquiry’s integrity and findings into question. The world-first inquiry set out… Continue Reading →
From Jeffrey Tucker: Brownstone Institute The Australian Government has long colluded with Facebook to censor the Public. Why Did Zuckerberg Choose Now to Confess regret over Covid Censorship? This piece is from an American perspective. But Facebook censorship in Australia… Continue Reading →
From Australia’s TOTT News Israel and Hamas have agreed to a “series of pauses” in ‘fighting’ to allow children to be vaccinated against polio, with WHO successfully rolling out the first 640,000 shots. The first full campaign to vaccinate 640,000… Continue Reading →
From Professor Ramesh Thakur of the Australian National University The following is an excerpt from Dr. Ramesh Thakur’s book, Our Enemy, the Government: How Covid Enabled the Expansion and Abuse of State Power. The top global agency, part of the United… Continue Reading →
Bill Gates and his foundation have had a major impact on Australia, and the nation’s taxpayers have made a major contributions to his various enterprises, whether it be in his roles as vaccine-profiteer-in-chief or climate czar. He has been embraced… Continue Reading →
With Bettina Arndt Equality before the law no longer exists in Australia. The presumption of innocence has been tossed aside – totally discarded by our biased media and undermined by legislative tampering with basic principles of justice. For decades Australia’s… Continue Reading →
By Rebekah Barnett How do we live well through hard times, bad governance and constant fear mongering? A subscriber commented the other day with a question that I feel is relevant to many of us. Mike is a fellow West… Continue Reading →
By Australian Academics: Sarah Hellewell, Curtin University; Anastazja Gorecki and Charlotte Sofield, University of Notre Dame Australia Plastic is in our clothes, cars, mobile phones, water bottles and food containers. But recent research adds to growing concerns about the impact… Continue Reading →
Mark Beeson, University of Technology Sydney Nautical metaphors are irresistible, I’m afraid, when talking about Australia’s seemingly endless submarine saga. But as investigative journalist Andrew Fowler makes clear in Nuked: The Submarine Fiasco that Sank Australia’s Sovereignty, his excellent and… Continue Reading →
Evan Jones: Independent Australia When it comes to the issues that matter, both domestic and international, the Sydney Morning Herald has become a journalistic laughing stock. WHEN I WAS an undergraduate, many moons ago, the student paper editors would occasionally… Continue Reading →
One of the world’s most famous and celebrated feminists, Dr Naomi Wolf, has been a vociferous critic of the Covid narrative. At first she was ostracised. Now, she has been fully vindicated. As the scandals over the greatest medical fraud… Continue Reading →
TOTT NEWS A new study, using 10 years worth of dental insurance records of 6.4 million adults in England, has found essentially no reduction in tooth decay for those living in fluoridated areas, no evidence that fluoridation reduced social inequalities, and no reduction… Continue Reading →
Here is a sampling of some of the recent pieces in the Brownstone Institute, one of the world’s leading academic forums to have been birthed from the Covid era. There is only one major social media platform that is relatively… Continue Reading →
Rebecca Sullivan, University of Calgary In a devastating story about Alice Munro’s complicity in the sexual abuse of her youngest daughter, we have discovered how Munro, a Nobel Prize-winning author acclaimed for her uniquely Gothic interpretation of women’s lives, actually… Continue Reading →
Katya Johanson, Edith Cowan University and Bronwyn Reddan, Deakin University At its height, Australia’s largest online bookseller, Booktopia, had a A$2.4 million turnover, 5 million customers, and sold a book “every 3.9 seconds”. Earlier this July it entered voluntary administration,… Continue Reading →
Rebekah Barnett: Dystopian Down Under In Australia, you can preside over human rights abuses, you can run the healthcare system into the ground, you can authorise police violence on citizens, you can blow millions-to-billions on cancelled infrastructure projects, and you… Continue Reading →
As the blurbs go: a fascinating insight into the white underclass who voted for Donald Trump en masse, ensuring a Presidency like no other. The book The Deplorables may yet to be written. But Hillbilly Elegy comes mighty close.
It is one of those books which is most striking not for what it says, not for its lyricism or poetic insights, but simply because it exists. Because it tells a simple tale of life as it is lived.
Here is an extract from the Introduction: