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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 →
By Allan Patience: University of Melbourne. Pearls and Irritations. When will Australians realise, as former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating has been unerringly consistent in arguing, that they are part of the cosmopolitanism and complexity of Asia, and not a Western… Continue Reading →
Alexander Howard, University of Sydney Our cultural touchstones series looks at books that have made an impact. Ayn Rand is “one of the most important intellectual voices in our culture,” wrote Gregory Salmieri, co-editor of the Blackwell Companion to Ayn… Continue Reading →
Transcript of a Speech Given by Matt Taibbi, One of America’s Best Journalists. Racket News. The following text is from an address given at “Freedom Fest” in Memphis, Tennessee on July 13, 2023. You can follow Matt Taibbi’s excellent work… Continue Reading →
By Paul Collits: Substack What exactly do you say when your country betrays you and disgraces itself before the world? When you find out that it is run by thugs and goons? When you realise that the institutions that you… Continue Reading →
By Debbie Lerman: Brownstone Institute Scandalous incompetence. Profound stupidity. Astounding errors. This is how many analysts – including Dr. Vinay Prasad, Dr. Scott Atlas, and popular Substack commentator eugyppius – explain how leading public health experts could prescribe so many terrible pandemic response policies. And… Continue Reading →
By Rebekah Barnett: Dystopian Down Under Dr John Campbell, retired nurse educator and Covid data YouTuber, features the West Australian Vaccine Safety Surveillance 2021 report in a new video. “I was completely appalled by this report,” he says. Dr Campbell says… Continue Reading →
By Ian Williamson and John Stapleton Surrounded by nature reserves and national parks, Wonboyn Lake is a spectacular waterway nestled within the absolutely beautiful wilderness of the far south coast of New South Wales, Australia. Encircled by forests and remote… Continue Reading →
Jen Webb, University of Canberra Milan Kundera, that remarkable novelist, essayist, poet, philosopher and political critic, has died at the age of 94. It feels too soon, perhaps because in everything he wrote, he opened up new ways of thinking,… Continue Reading →
By John Stapleton Want to shut up an Australian? Just ask them this: “When did you last have a good Prime Minister?” The incumbent, Anthony Albanese, is turning out to be worse than anyone could possibly have imagined. His predecessor,… Continue Reading →
By Rebekah Barnett: Dystopian Down Under Meta platforms are a primary source of news for most Australians. Meta, Facebook’s parent company, is the latest international mega-company to get involved in Australia’s upcoming referendum regarding an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, after Pfizer pledged its… Continue Reading →
By Rebekah Barnett: Brownstone Institute Thirty minutes of truth bombs is how one Twitter user described Liberal Democrat John Ruddick’s maiden speech to the New South Wales (NSW) Parliament, Wednesday 28 June. Indeed, Ruddick, who left the Liberal Party in 2021 after… Continue Reading →
By Bettina Arndt: Substack Last week, Nigel Farage’s bank announced they were closing his accounts. The controversial UK politician had been with the bank for 40 years and was given no reason for the decision. Since then, Farage has tried unsuccessfully to… Continue Reading →
Maria Popova: The Marginalian. We at A Sense of Place Magazine are unabashed fans of New York based Bulgarian born polymath Maria Popova, whose transformative blog Brain Pickings entrances and challenges readers worldwide. Her first book, Figuring, is a fascinating… Continue Reading →
By Jommy Tee: Michael West Media. When the Governor-General’s man knocks, you open the door. Simple. Many avenues of influence were used in the making of the $18m taxpayer-funded Australian Future Leaders Foundation. When your charity has the GG’s David Hurley’s… Continue Reading →
David Hoinski, West Virginia University In an apostolic letter released on June 19, 2023, Pope Francis praised the “brilliant and inquisitive mind” of the influential French philosopher Blaise Pascal, born on that date 400 years ago. When Pascal lived, at… Continue Reading →
At the end of February 2023, the Labor Party unexpectedly introduced changes to the Family Law Act, without any pre-warning or discussion. A Sense of Place Magazine is publishing this submission in particular because of the one-sided nature of the… Continue Reading →
The Russian ‘revolt’ that wasn’t strengthens Putin’s hand. The Biden administration had a glorious few days. The ongoing disaster in Ukraine slipped from the headlines to be replaced by the “revolt,” as a New York Times headline put it, of Yevgeny Prigozhin,… Continue Reading →
By Paul Collits Is the eSafety Commissioner – one Julie Inman Grant – coming for me? Or you? Well, she is coming for Elon Musk, threatening Twitter with $700,000 a day fine unless the company shows that it is countering… Continue Reading →
Geraint Lewis, University of Sydney. According to our best understanding of physics, the fact space is expanding should influence the apparent flow of time, with the distant Universe appearing to run in slow motion. But observations of highly luminous and… Continue Reading →
By Richard Kelly: Brownstone Institute. John Stapleton’s incredible new book Australia Breaks Apart has a surreal quality to it. He taps into the dissonance, the discord, and the disillusionment of those among us who were able, or who dared, to step outside… Continue Reading →
TOTT NEWS The federal government has released a new draft bill that would give the communications watchdog more powers to be able to fine social media giants for hosting ‘misinformation’ on their platforms. Here we go, ladies and gentlemen. If… Continue Reading →
By John Stapleton Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance “When two truths meet the most courageous one wins.” Chinese proverb. This piece was originally written some 20 years ago and is republished here out of curiosity. Falun Gong remain a powerful if essentially… Continue Reading →
Matt Taibbi: Racket News This is a speech given by Matt Taibbi, to our mind America’s best journalist. He was a major player in the spectacular revelations of the Twitter Files, which demonstrated once and for all the clear involvement… Continue Reading →