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By Mark Sawyer: Michael West Media. Why would the ABC put barriers in the way of Australians’ enjoyment of its cultural treasure house? Mark Sawyer wonders whether management understood the implications, or simply fell under the spell of its seemingly unlimited… Continue Reading →
By Sonia Hickey: Sydney Criminal Lawyers Blog A man has been arrested over the theft of human body parts from graves at Melbourne’s Footscray Cemetery last month. Detectives arrested the 40-yesr old man at a residence just 10 minutes south of the… Continue Reading →
By Gregory Moore, The University of Melbourne One afternoon in the late 1970s, my colleague and fellow student Helen Quirk handed me a brown, shrivelled fern frond. It appeared to be dead, and was so dry that when I crushed… Continue Reading →
Oak Flats is a working class suburb south of Wollongong on Australia’s east coast. Its demographic of tradies, electricians, plumbers, tilers, truck drivers, school teachers and nurses do not like or trust the nation’s politicians and to a man and… Continue Reading →
With Photography by Tim Ritchie There is no more historic, more superbly located or visually rich part of Sydney than The Rocks. Tucked in under the southern flank of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, from the earliest days of the colony it… Continue Reading →
By Professor Ramesh Thakur: The Daily Sceptic. What does the Australian experience teach us about the efficacy of Covid vaccines? Why, for instance, have infections and ICU admissions been hugely higher after vaccination campaigns really got under way? Australia hit… Continue Reading →
In his Last Poems, one of Australia’s Greatest Writers Les Murray offers a Gentle, Gracious Farewell
Lyn McCredden, Deakin University There are so many strange serendipities, and antipathies, forged across Les Murray’s work, verbal, historical and spiritual. In Continuous Creation also, Murray’s last, posthumous book (published almost three years after he died in a nursing home… Continue Reading →
TOTT News and Others With election season in full swing, Australians have taken to the streets across the country to let their so-called ‘representatives’ know just what they think of them, their behaviour over the last two years, the agenda… Continue Reading →
Pressure from public opinion has ended lockdowns and vaccine mandates in some sectors, and politicians in most places are rushing away from catastrophic pandemic policy. All this is happening without apology, remorse, or a genuine change in outlook at the… Continue Reading →
Barbara Rugendyke and Jean S. Renouf, Southern Cross University. The flood crisis in northern New South Wales has left lives shattered. Those worst affected are dazed and struggling to comprehend the loss of life, homes, livelihoods and possessions. We are… Continue Reading →
By Michelle Pini: Independent Australia. ScoMo joins Laura Tangle on ABC $7.10 and reveals all disaster management and what it really means to be “real”. Really. TANGLE: Reports also indicate that your $1,000 one-off payments plus the additional $1,000 payments are only… Continue Reading →
TOTT News. Demonstrators have taken to the streets of Brisbane to protest against the extension of emergency COVID-19 powers. A three-day event, hosted by The People’s Revolution, gathered outside Queensland Parliament House, expressing their opposition to vaccine mandates and COVID emergency… Continue Reading →
Nigel Stork, Griffith University; Claire Gely and Susan Laurance, James Cook University. When you walk through a rainforest, you might feel like you’re missing out. You can hear birdsong and insect noises from way up high. For decades, the rainforest… Continue Reading →
John Woinarski, Charles Darwin University. In a new series, writers nominate a book that changed their life – or at least their thinking. Books have been good to me: they have nurtured me, inspired me, taught me about life, helped… Continue Reading →
By Caitlin Johnstone. Australian whistleblower David McBride just made the following statement on Twitter: “I’ve been asked if I think the invasion of Ukraine is illegal. My answer is: If we don’t hold our own leaders to account, we can’t hold… Continue Reading →
Paul Gregoire: Sydney Criminal Lawyers Blog. Esteemed political commentator MIT Professor Noam Chomsky has long warned that the two greatest existential threats the globe is facing are climate change and nuclear war. Although for many, the latter used to seem like a… Continue Reading →
Jaana Dielenberg, Alyson Stobo-Wilson, Brett Murphy, John Woinarski, Charles Darwin University; Sarah Legge, Australian National University, and Trish Fleming, Murdoch University. Foxes kill about 300 million native mammals, birds and reptiles each year, and can be found across 80% of… Continue Reading →
Death triumphs over the mundane. An army of skeletons raze the Earth. All life is extinguished. The background is a barren landscape in which scenes of destruction are still taking place. In the foreground, Death leads his armies from his… Continue Reading →
TOTT News. Two years ago — on 11 March 2020 — the coronavirus was officially declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, and with in a matter of weeks, the entire world would be changed forever. Countries would begin to enter… Continue Reading →
Sergio E. Morales, University of Otago; Christina Hulbe, University of Otago; Clara Martínez-Pérez, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, and Federico Baltar, Universität Wien. Antarctica represents one of the last frontiers for discoveries on Earth. Our focus is on what… Continue Reading →
By William Ried. Ansel Tone has been named “The Golden Boy of Popular History.” He teaches propaganda at Columbia University and writes Redux Revisionist History best-sellers. His looks and family wealth help him to hawk his books on late night… Continue Reading →
An Interview with Australian Injecting and Illicit Drug Users League CEO Jake Docker: Sydney Criminal Lawyers Blog. Despite being an abject failure from its inception, the war on drugs continues and its casualties are mounting. Although its victims are not… Continue Reading →
Hanne E.F. Nielsen, University of Tasmania and Alessandro Antonello, Flinders University Superbly clear images of the shipwreck Endurance, 3,000 metres below the ocean’s surface in Antarctica’s Weddell Sea, were this week broadcast around the world. Found by the Endurance 22… Continue Reading →
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 →