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By Michael Tomlinson: Brownstone Institute. Featured Artwork by John Prince Siddon. During my weekend shopping in Melbourne, Australia, I was turned away from my favourite café and not allowed to sit even at an outside table by order of my… Continue Reading →
By Sandy Barrett: Advocate Me Did you know that the Australian government has drafted legislation to introduce a Digital Identity by the end of 2021? The legislation is being introduced in three phases – and it is already in phase… Continue Reading →
By Glenn A Brock, Macquarie University and Luke Strotz, Northwest University, Xi’an Most groups of modern animals had their beginnings more than half a billion years ago in an amazing evolutionary event known as the Cambrian Explosion. This wasn’t the… Continue Reading →
By Paul Gregoire: Sydney Criminal Lawyers Blog NSW Supreme Court Justice Robert Beech-Jones delivered his ruling on the Kassam versus Hazzard case, which raised close to a dozen grounds contesting the validity of public health order restrictions, as well as vaccine mandates,… Continue Reading →
Emily S Wong, UNSW. Many human traits, such as height and disease susceptibility, depend on genes that are encoded in our DNA. These genes are switched on and off and further fine-tuned by important but hard-to-find regions in the genome…. Continue Reading →
By Sonia Hickey: Sydney Criminal Lawyers Blog The mandating of highly controversial vaccines, that is forcing a medical procedure onto an often reluctant populace, is creating havoc all around the world. No more so than in Australia, where this month… Continue Reading →
By John Stapleton Big Tech’s hefty manipulation of the Covid narrative is driving many dissenting Australians away from Facebook, Google and WhatsApp to less compromised applications less manipulated by governments and military contractors. In the age of surveillance capitalism, both… Continue Reading →
By Greg Barns: Pearls and Irritations This week Australian citizen Julian Assange’s long running battle against extradition to the United States where he faces espionage legislation charges relating to his publication in 2010 of material that revealed war crimes by… Continue Reading →
By TOTT News Those found “intentionally and recklessly” breaching health orders would face two years in jail or a $90,000 fine, while the Premier would get draconian powers to declare pandemics. Powerful emergency pandemic laws have been introduced to the… Continue Reading →
From Amnesty International During the COVID-19 pandemic, and particularly during periods of lockdown, police in Australia have been given unprecedented and extraordinary powers to enforce COVID-19 restrictions. From 25 June 2021, when Greater Sydney, the Blue Mountains, the Central Coast… Continue Reading →
Kelsie Nabben, RMIT University. The federal government has been asking the public for feedback on proposed legislation to create a “trusted digital identity” system. The aim is for Australians to use it to prove their identity when accessing public services…. Continue Reading →
By Sandy Barrett: Advocate Me Blog When I read that New South Wales was celebrating “Freedom Day”, I couldn’t help but laugh at the absurdity of it all, because what now exists there is the antithesis of freedom. How anyone… Continue Reading →
On the 17th of September 2021, I wrote an email to Management of Victoria Police where I outlined my reasons for refusing to be a part of any activity that I believed unfairly breached the Human Rights of Victorian citizens,… Continue Reading →
By John Stapleton While the heavily manipulated mainstream media has been filled wall to wall with climate alarmism, out in the real world thousands of Australians are being forced to leave their jobs in tears because they refuse to have… Continue Reading →
Steven W. Salisbury and Anthony Romilio, The University of Queensland. Ipswich, about 40 kilometres west of Brisbane, seems an unlikely place to find dinosaur fossils. Yet the area has produced the oldest evidence of dinosaurs in Australia. A fresh look… Continue Reading →
TOTT News: Towards a Social Credit Scheme The Australian government has made public a new draft text of legislation designed to officially introduce an oversight body for the country’s digital identity scheme. The Australian government has made public a new draft text… Continue Reading →
By ANU Professor Ramesh Thakur with Spectator Australia Figures don’t lie, my critics insist. Very well, let’s look at some figures. I make three arguments here. First, vaccines are not necessary to tame even the highly infections Delta variant of the… Continue Reading →
Rochelle Constantine, University of Auckland and Wendi Roe, Massey University The world’s rarest marine dolphin, Māui, is found only along the west coast of the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. Based on our surveys over the last two summers,… Continue Reading →
For Old Alex, on the cold but picturesque south coast of NSW, it was an entirely inflamed time. The Land of the Long Weekend was being destroyed. The population accepted it all as one bizarre edict after another flattened them… Continue Reading →
By Paul Gregoire: Sydney Criminal Lawyers Blog At the state and federal levels, there were legislative mechanisms in place to respond to the public health crisis that is COVID-19. As these laws and regulations were drafted, the particular disease they would be… Continue Reading →
TOTT News Dante Alighieri was early in recognising that our age has a problem. This character realised that awareness of divine reality was shifting, and if it were lost, dire consequences would follow. His masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, was born… Continue Reading →
By John Stapleton. With Professor Ramesh Thakur In the lockdown insanity which has gripped the Australian political class one of the country’s most distinguished academics, Professor Ramesh Thakur of the Australian National University, has stood out for his bold, erudite… Continue Reading →
As Greater Sydney starts to open up this week, and a range of new public health orders come into force across the state, several businesses have chosen to remain closed until everyone is allowed entry, rather than refuse unvaccinated customers. A… Continue Reading →
By Catherine Speck, University of Melbourne at the Art Gallery of South Australia The word “Tarnanthi”, from Kaurna language of the Adelaide Plains, means “to rise up, spring forth or appear”, and it informs the philosophy and curatorship of this… Continue Reading →
By Robert Carling and Simon Cowan: Centre for Independent Studies. In response to the emergence of the Delta variant, Australia’s experience of the coronavirus pandemic dramatically changed in June. Sydney ultimately endured 106 days of continuous lockdown while Victoria floated… Continue Reading →
With TOTT News As thousands of Australians face unemployment and exclusion from numerous venues and any semblance of normal life due to jab mandates, many have taken to the streets to continue their fight for freedom of choice. The disconnect… Continue Reading →
By the New South Wales Government. Australia is already the laughing stock of the world for its absurd mishandling of the Covid panic and the extreme authoritarianism which has overtaken the country, including the most violent scenes ever witnessed on… Continue Reading →
By Maria Popova: Brain Pickings. Maria Popova is a Bulgarian born New York based polymath who has read everything so the rest of us don’t have to. Not just hyper intelligent, she has an uncanny eye for beauty combined with… Continue Reading →
By Jeremy Aitken It is 7.00am Wednesday morning in early Spring. It is hot under an almost transparent clear blue sky; the tarmac is already starting to radiate heat and is steadily becoming hotter. A large white marquee has… Continue Reading →
By Javier Alvarez-Mon and Yasmina Wicks, Macquarie University. Inhabitants of the ancient city-states of the Middle East enjoyed a vibrant social and economic life centred on palace and temple institutions, supported by surrounding agricultural and pastoralist communities. People, goods and… Continue Reading →
By Caitlin Johnstone So hey they’ve started mounting sniper rifles on robodogs, which is great news for anyone who was hoping they’d start mounting sniper rifles on robodogs. At an exhibit booth in the Association of the United States Army’s annual meeting… Continue Reading →
TOTT News. The NSW Supreme Court has dismissed two cases challenging the validity of COVID vaccine mandates for certain activities, including the ability to work in a number of industries. Two legal challenges to NSW public health orders that restrict the activities of… Continue Reading →