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Millions of Australian School Students tracked during Lockdown Remote Learning

TOTT NEWS An investigation has revealed over 4 million Australian children were exposed to surveillance and tracking from third-party apps during lockdown remote learning periods. The school students were put at risk of unprecedented tracking and surveillance during remote learning… Continue Reading →

Success? Or a Criminally Irresponsible Failure by Australian authorities?

By Professor Ramesh Thakur: Spectator Australia. I recently received a communication from my GP’s surgery: ‘Influenza is spiking early. Our GPs report that those with 2022 flu have a rapid onset of illness with high fevers, dry cough, body aches,… Continue Reading →

Meet the World’s Largest Plant: a single seagrass clone stretching 180 km in Western Australia’s Shark Bay

Elizabeth Sinclair, Gary Kendrick and Jane Edgeloe, The University of Western Australia; Martin Breed, Flinders University. Next time you go diving or snorkelling, have a close look at those wondrously long, bright green ribbons, waving with the ebb and flow… Continue Reading →

Pandemic of the Vaccinated

By Paul Collits. There is nothing more likely to get under the skin of the pro-vaxxer establishment than pointing out that the magic mushroom vaccines designed by politicians to give them a get-out-of-jail-free card in relation to Covid are experimental,… Continue Reading →

The World’s First Fake News: The Cello and the Nightingales

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 →

A Very Good Covid

By Paul Collits. The Brownstone Institute is the leading academic centre countering the Big Government, Big Tech, Big Pharma Covid narrative. Its head Jeffrey Tucker recently wrote that looking back to the “before times” – meaning before the middle of March… Continue Reading →

Queensland’s Police Commissioner Under Fire Over Vaccine Mandates

By Sonia Hickey: Sydney Criminal Lawyers Blog. Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carrol has come under fire in the Supreme Court over her directive last year compelling officers to be vaccinated against Covid-19 in order to keep their jobs A number of Queensland… Continue Reading →

A New Book argues Julian Assange is being tortured. Will Australia’s new Prime Minister do anything about it?

Matthew Ricketson, Deakin University. It is easy to forget why Julian Assange has been on trial in England for, well, seemingly forever. Didn’t he allegedly sexually assault two women in Sweden? Isn’t that why he holed up for years in… Continue Reading →

A Helpless People, Weary and Traumatised

Thomas Harrington: Brownstone Institute. When most people hear the terms “shock and awe” and “full spectrum dominance” they probably think—if they think about them at all—of the early moments of the premeditated US destruction of Iraq and the ever-smug grin… Continue Reading →

Fifty years after ‘Napalm Girl,’ a horrific photo of the Vietnam War

W. Joseph Campbell, American University School of Communication The “Napalm Girl” photograph of terror-stricken Vietnamese children fleeing an errant aerial attack on their village, taken 50 years ago this month, has rightly been called “a picture that doesn’t rest.” It… Continue Reading →

Golden Bandicoots Return to the Desert

UNSW Newswire Golden bandicoots have returned to the Strzelecki Desert in far-west NSW after a 100-year absence thanks to the Wild Deserts team, a partnership between UNSW Sydney scientists and NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. Up to 40 golden… Continue Reading →

Australia’s Energy Crisis

Tim Nelson and Joel Gilmore, Griffith University. Australia is in the grips of an energy crisis, with electricity generation prices roughly 115% above the previous highest average wholesale price ever recorded. The price for electricity in New South Wales for… Continue Reading →

Australia and the World Health Organisation

By Susan Pavan: i3 Publications. Manipulation of the mainstream media during the Covid era has left a bad taste in many people’s mouths, but also spawned a talented and highly motivated new generation of citizen journalists who have refused to… Continue Reading →

A Flourishing Ecology and a Healthy Economy? Henry David Thoreau thought you couldn’t have one without the other

Alda Balthrop-Lewis, Australian Catholic University Australians have just decided another “climate election”. What this meant, basically, was that we had to choose between two difficult futures. The result has yielded a new mandate for meaningful work on climate policy. “Liberal… Continue Reading →

The Ever Widening Scandal: The Pfizer Papers. The Company Exploited and Misapplied a Controversial Clinical Trial Method

By Dr T.J. Coles: TOTT NEWS. Documents reveal sleight-of-hand tactics were used on clinical trial protocols to ensure the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was granted a license. In April last year, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a confidential Biologics… Continue Reading →

Wild animals are evolving faster than anybody thought

Timothée Bonnet, Australian National University. How fast is evolution? In adaptive evolution, natural selection causes genetic changes in traits that favour the survival and reproduction of individual organisms. Although Charles Darwin thought the process occurred over geological timescales, we have… Continue Reading →

Stellar first week for Australia’s new Prime Minister Anthony Albanese but tough months ahead

Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra. Anthony Albanese had expected the election might be a week earlier than it was, because last Saturday would bump up against Tuesday’s Quad meeting in Tokyo. But Scott Morrison wanted maximum time to try to… Continue Reading →

Clive Palmer and One Nation flopped at the election. What happened?

Benjamin Moffitt, Australian Catholic University. Many commentators tipped Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party (UAP) and Pauline Hanson’s One Nation to perform well this election by scooping up the “freedom” and anti-vax vote from voters angry about how the pandemic was… Continue Reading →

Suburban Fight Club 

By Jeremy Aitken. It is 8.00 pm on a Saturday night.  I am standing near the sliding glass entrance doors of a large suburban function room.  The room is packed. Well-dressed diners are seated, eating entrees and drinking wine. In… Continue Reading →

Is there evidence Aliens have visited Earth? Here’s what’s come out of US congress hearings on ‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomena’

Steven Tingay, Curtin University. The United States Congress recently held a hearing into US government information pertaining to “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAPs). The last investigation of this kind happened more than 50 years ago, as part of a US Air… Continue Reading →

Germophobes to the Left and Right

Steve Templeton: Brownstone Institute. With the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic hopefully waning, it will be time for many to take a step back and assess the collateral damage. And there is, and is going to be, a lot of it. With two years of… Continue Reading →

Did Australia just make a move to the left?

Frank Bongiorno, Australian National University. Political commentators often use the idea of a political spectrum from left to right as shorthand for understanding political ideologies, parties and programs. Derived from the arrangement of the National Assembly in the French Revolution,… Continue Reading →

It’s time. Time for Labor and the Greens to say yes to love

Mark Sawyer: Michael West Media. Labor has won a working parliamentary majority in a sullen, angry country. Perhaps more by pure luck than design, Australia has avoided a hung parliament. That’s the good news. But for this Labor government to… Continue Reading →

Assault from the Left: Election result a victory for the Popular Left, despite what you may hear

Martin Hirst: Independent Australia. In spite of mainstream media discourse, Dr Martin Hirst argues that the election result was a resounding victory for the popular Left. IF YOU’VE BEEN watching TV news or reading the mainstream press, you might think that Anthony Albanese actually lost… Continue Reading →

Scott Morrison defeated – Labor to govern in Minority or Majority

Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra The Morrison government has been resoundingly defeated, with Labor headed for office, although whether in a minority or majority was unclear late Saturday night. Anthony Albanese becomes Australia’s 31st prime minister. Labor had 73 seats… Continue Reading →

The corrupt Coalition gone, PM Anthony Albanese confronts the immense Challenge of Repairing Australia

Michael West: Michael West Media. This is a great result. The tired and corrupt Coalition government has been turfed out despite the billions in public money wasted in bribing Australians for their votes, despite the relentless propaganda of the government’s… Continue Reading →

Governments Benefit From Drug Prohibition to the Detriment of Public Health

By Paul Gregoire: Sydney Criminal Lawyers Blog. Politicians across the globe choose to disregard the overwhelming and mounting evidence that drug prohibition has been an abject failure. The century-old experiment of outlawing most popular psychoactive drugs, with the major exception… Continue Reading →

Scott Morrison endorses handing over Pandemic Powers to the World Health Organisation

Ethan Nash: TOTT NEWS. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has endorsed the prospect of more powers for international health bodies such the World Health Organisation (WHO) at a press conference in Darwin today. One reporter raised an upcoming WHO meeting on… Continue Reading →

The Book that Changed Me: Falling for Eve Babitz’s Sex and Rage

Sally Breen, Griffith University. In this series, writers nominate a book that changed their life – or at least their thinking. I first read Eve Babitz at the tail end of the 20th century, holed up in the rumpus room… Continue Reading →

‘Bulldozer’ Morrison: Can he fix it? No, he can’t!

David Donovan: Independent Australia. Is Scott Morrison so delusional, so out of touch with reality, so lacking in insight, that he actually believes some of the nonsense he says? Because nothing he says – or so close to nothing as… Continue Reading →

‘We Choose Freedom!’: Large crowds across Australia REJECT the Major Parties ahead of Federal Election

TOTT NEWS “SACK THEM ALL” A call for freedom from the two-party false paradigm. The 2022 Election represents the essential political conflict of our time — one between the corporate oligarchy and the beleaguered working classes. Less than a week… Continue Reading →

Eight Things you never knew about Mining on Mars, the Moon… and even Asteroids!

Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research. Off-earth mining may once have been purely the stuff of science fiction, but now it’s potentially a US$1 trillion industry that is likely to be vital if humans are serious about colonising Mars or… Continue Reading →

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