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Md Safiullah (Safi), RMIT University and Abul Shamsuddin, University of Newcastle Islamic banks have become an integral part of the financial system in many Muslim-majority countries, as well as in nations with sizeable Muslim minorities such as the United Kingdom,… Continue Reading →
We live in a time of change, when people are questioning old assumptions and seeking new directions. In the ongoing debate over health care, social justice, and border security, there is, however, one overlooked issue that should be at the… Continue Reading →
Reflections on keeping the soul intact and alive and worthy of itself. In these darkening times, when the powerful and the political class have become utterly contemptuous of the concerns of ordinary people, there are, as a kind of counterwave,… Continue Reading →
By Rebekah Barnet: Dystopian Down Under Over the weekend, Australia’s legacy masthead, The Australian, ran the news of the proximal origins cover-up on the front page of both the paper and the pull-out magazine. In an article titled, ‘Covid cover-up:… Continue Reading →
By Holly Cullen, The University of Western Australia. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s hopes of avoiding extradition to the United States, where he’s charged with espionage and computer misuse offences, have taken a blow. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, asked… Continue Reading →
TOTT NEWS It has been a interesting few months for Victoria, Australia, with the state now staring down financial consequences caused by the plethora of devastating lockdown policies unleashed during COVID. Delusion may soon implode the state. After being subjected… Continue Reading →
Glen Nagle, CSIRO In 1977, five years before ET asked to “phone home”, two robotic spacecraft began their own journey into space. Almost 46 years later, after exploring the Solar System and beyond, one of those spacecraft – Voyager 2… Continue Reading →
Almost 60 years later, venal self-serving governments continue to promote moral panic and public hysteria perpetrating policies they know perfectly well don’t work. The same policies that achieve nothing but empowerment of thugs inside and outside of governments, all at… Continue Reading →
By Caitlin Johnstone A new US warship has been ushered into service in Sydney. The ship is called the USS Canberra to honor the military union of the United States and Australia, and, if that’s still too subtle for you, it has… Continue Reading →
By John Stapleton If the ABC TV drama series Operation Buffalo piqued your interest in the British atomic tests in the South Australian desert in the 1950s and 60s, Frank Walker’s book Maralinga, a classic of Australian journalism, reveals the… Continue Reading →
Rodrigo Suarez, The University of Queensland Researchers often think how and when their results will be published. However, many research projects don’t see the light until decades (or even centuries) later, if at all. This is the case of a… Continue Reading →
Rebekah Barnett: Dystopian Down Under “It’s inconsistent with human rights.” That’s how human rights lawyer Peter Fam describes the Australian Government’s proposed new legislation to combat mis- and disinformation. The bill outlines new powers that will allow the Australian Communications and… Continue Reading →
Jaelen Nicole Myers, James Cook University “Baby shark doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo, baby shark doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo …” If you’re the parent of a young child, you’re probably painfully familiar with this infectious song, which now has more than 13 billion… Continue Reading →
Adam Behr, Newcastle University Few artists have straddled the boundaries between acclaim, controversy and public affection as effectively as Sinéad O’Connor who passed away on the 26th of July at the age of 56. Her status as a household name… Continue Reading →
We are living interludes, bookended between not yet and no more, each of us a random draw of the cosmic lottery, each allotted a sliver of spacetime in which to live out our lives as chance configurations of stardust suspended… Continue Reading →
Will New Federal Laws Protect Australians From Disinformation or Serve to Silence Political Dissent?
By Paul Gregoire: Sydney Criminal Lawyers Blog. The freedom of expression the internet has brought to the global community has always posed an issue for governments, as the information they disseminate can now more easily and openly be questioned and… Continue Reading →
By Paul Collits Australia’s economy has, as long as we can remember, relied upon mass immigration, including by, but not limited to, Asian students on a visa pathway, to keep the place afloat. It is a Ponzi scheme. Since we… Continue Reading →
Mark Byron, University of Sydney One of just two copies of Virginia Woolf’s first novel, The Voyage Out (1915), annotated with her handwriting and preparations to revise it for a US edition, was recently rediscovered in the Fisher Library Rare… Continue Reading →
By Stephen Mayne: Michael West Media Australian companies worth billions of dollars are slipping into private hands at an alarming rate. Stephen Mayne explores what’s driving it and why it’s a worry. After 38 years as a public company, vitamins group… Continue Reading →
TOTT NEWS The World Economic Forum (WEF) has recently published its Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2023 report, which includes a look at a range of ‘innovative’ trends in the world. The WEF report “…outlines the technologies poised to positively impact society… Continue Reading →
Rebekah Barnett: Dystopian Down Under. A contentious new bill to crack down on misinformation and disinformation has drawn criticism for its potential to restrict free expression and political dissent. Notably, the government will be exempt from the proposed laws. Censorship will be… Continue Reading →
By Professor Ramesh Thakur: Spectator Australia. Medically idiotic, economically ruinous, socially disruptive and embittering, culturally dystopian, politically despotic: what was there to like in the Covid era? Billions, if you were Big Pharma. Unchecked power, if you were Big State…. Continue Reading →
TOTT NEWS Heading out to the Melbourne Cricket Ground any time soon? What about Sydney’s Allianz Stadium? If so, you can expect to be captured by facial recognition technology in use at each of these venues. Sensitive biometric data is… Continue Reading →
Alexander Howard, University of Sydney. One of the most haunting poems of the 20th century, T.S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men (1925), concludes: This is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper. In 1958, on his 70th… Continue Reading →
TOTT NEWS The Queensland government has made flu jabs free for all ages until the end of August, as the state battles an 18.6% drop in uptake since last year. ‘Please take our flu jabs!’, is the message coming from… Continue Reading →
Darius von Guttner Sporzynski, Australian Catholic University. Robert Oppenheimer is often placed next to Albert Einstein as the 20th century’s most famous physicist. He will forever be the “father of the atomic bomb” after the first nuclear weapon was successfully… Continue Reading →
By John Stapleton Ronan tells it like this: “I had full on psychosis. But I kept drawing all the time. I was living in Saigon in Vietnam, ended up homeless. I was pulling the cameras out of the wall in… Continue Reading →
By Paul Gregoire: Sydney Criminal Lawyers Blog At the White House last Friday, US national security advisor Jake Sullivan dropped it on the globe that the Biden administration, despite its having held off for a long as it could, will now be… Continue Reading →
Victoria is the biggest loser, modelling shrinks excess death rate by up to a third. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released an update this week, ‘Measuring Australia’s excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic until the first quarter 2023’. Excess… Continue Reading →
Maria Popova: The Marginalian. In these darkening times, when the powerful and the political class have become utterly corrupted, and indifferent to the concerns of ordinary people, there are, as a kind of counterwave, a significant number of people trying… Continue Reading →
TOTT NEWS Elon Musk has announced a new venture called ‘xAI’ that plans to “understand the true nature of the universe”. What will they ‘discover’? Billionaire Elon Musk launched an artificial intelligence company called xAI on Thursday, vowing to develop an AI… Continue Reading →