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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 →
By Brian McGlinchey: Brownstone Institute. Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, proponents of lockdowns, shelter-in-place orders, mask mandates and other coercive government interventions have characterized these measures as benevolently “erring on the side of caution.” Now, as the grim toll of those… Continue Reading →
Lawrence English, Griffith University. Vision is often regarded as first among the human senses, as our eyes are the way most of us come to know the world. However, vision has its limits. Even now, as you use your eyes… Continue Reading →
By Jorg Probst. Featured Artist Ludwig Meidner. After two years, I declare Covid over, at least for me. It’s time to move on. Over the last two years, I dedicated many hours reading, researching, and writing on my own blog about Covid…. Continue Reading →
Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian, Christelle Langley, Emmanuel A Stamatakis and Lennart Spindler, University of Cambridge. Consciousness is arguably the most important scientific topic there is. Without consciousness, there would after all be no science. But while we all know what it… Continue Reading →
By Michael Gray Griffith: Café Locked Out. We set this image up. The day before we had stood before the doors of Parliament with all our flags and banners and t-shirts with messages that all read Freedom. But today we… Continue Reading →
Julie Shiels, RMIT University. Review: Sidney Nolan: Search for Paradise, Heide Museum of Modern Art. A Sidney Nolan retrospective is being held in a contemporary Eden in the Melbourne suburbs — the place where the artist’s own search for paradise… Continue Reading →
TOTT News. Australia is ranked amongst the top ten countries which have no idea how their data is collected by Facebook. In April of 2018, Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that the social network collects data from people online even if they… Continue Reading →
Photography by Dean Sewell THE THINGS HE REMEMBERED MOST STARKLY from the early months of the Covid Era were empty trains churning through the night, a sense of threat as everything was altered, military helicopters hovering over a deserted Sydney… Continue Reading →
By Professor Ramesh Thakur: The Weekend Australian. From the very start of the pandemic, a small but critical minority of us has argued that irrespective of the paths taken to get there, the end state will be living with Covid-19… Continue Reading →
Lawrence English, Griffith University. At vaccine mandate protests in Canberra last week, police used powerful loud-hailing devices called Long-Range Acoustic Devices (LRADs) to address protesters. While some protesters claimed they were injured by the “sonic weapon”, those reports are inconsistent… Continue Reading →