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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:
By Paul Gregoire: Sydney Criminal Lawyers Blog Australians are raised on ideas of freedom, justice and equality: principles that the nation is said to embody, and its defence forces uphold. And it’s implicitly understood that serving military officers take no… Continue Reading →
Rob Nicholls, University of Sydney, Australia Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has ordered social media platform “X” (formerly known as Twitter) to remove graphic videos of the stabbing of Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel in Sydney last week from the site. The incident… Continue Reading →
Internet Law Specialist Dan Svantesson: Michael West Media The debate continues to rage over Elon Musk’s refusal to take down videos of the church stabbing from X. Musk claims freedom of speech, and the Government wants to censor the world…. Continue Reading →
Rebekah Barnett and Andrew Lowenthal: Dystopian Down Under Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, has made international headlines over alleged censorship creep in an escalating standoff with social media platform X, owned by billionaire Elon Musk. Inman Grant’s current crusade… Continue Reading →
By Australia’s Professor Emeritus Ramesh Thakur: Brownstone Institute An important takeaway from the last four years for many governments is the surprising ease of winning public compliance with demands for intrusive behavioural changes that completely reset the balance of rights… Continue Reading →
By Mark Mordue The sun gets buried behind afternoon cloud cover. I drive towards Westfield Bondi Junction in Sydney as a gloom drops from above upon the suburb and the day. Inside the large shopping centre things are unusually muted,… Continue Reading →
From TOTT News Australia’s digital identity scheme is almost set to expand nationally, after a landmark bill, first drafted more than three years ago, passes the Senate. Australia’s Minister for Finance, Senator Katy Gallagher, has led the charge to move… Continue Reading →
Olaf Meynecke, Griffith University For the second year in a row, over 100 hammerheads have gathered at one of Australia’s busiest beaches, Burleigh Beach in the Gold Coast. Why aren’t we alarmed? Because these are small scalloped hammerheads, not the… Continue Reading →
Kim Wingerei: Michael West Media Meta’s declaration that Facebook will no longer pay (some) Australian publishers for their news content has again highlighted the folly of the News Media Bargaining Code. It’s a poor solution to the wrong problem. Facebook’s… Continue Reading →
By Robert Carling: Centre for Independent Studies As the end of the Australian financial year approaches, thoughts often turn to taxation and how to minimise it (legally). While the focus is on income tax paid to the federal government, the… Continue Reading →
James Miller-Jones, Curtin University How fast can a neutron star drive powerful jets into space? The answer, it turns out, is about one-third the speed of light, as our team has just revealed in a new study published in Nature…. Continue Reading →
By Binoy Kampmark: Michael West Media Should the government decide what news is appropriate and what is not for its people? The heralded arrival of the Internet caused flutters of enthusiasm, streaks of heart-felt hope. Unregulated, and supposedly all powerful,… Continue Reading →