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The Incremental Gifting of Australian Military Control to the United States Is Alive and Well

By Paul Gregoire: Sydney Criminal Lawyers Blog Veteran journalist Brian Toohey outlines in 2019’s Secret that US intelligence agents weren’t too keen on then Australian prime minister Gough Whitlam’s mid-1970s questioning of the viability of US government operations at local military installations… Continue Reading →

Research reveals 111 times Australian Quolls reportedly Chewed on Human Corpses

By David Eric Peacock. Warning: this article contains graphic descriptions of human disfigurement. In 1878, the body of Sergeant Michael Kennedy lay in the bush in Victoria’s Wombat Ranges. He’d been shot by the notorious Ned Kelly gang – but… Continue Reading →

Pfizer in the Australian Parliament: Senator Matt Canavan. The Best of the Transcripts.

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA SENATE EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT LEGISLATION COMMITTEE Members in attendance: Senators Antic, Canavan, Grogan, Hanson, O’Sullivan, Payman, Rennick, Roberts and SheldonTerms of Reference for the Inquiry:To inquire into and report on:COVID-19 Vaccination Status (Prevention of Discrimination) Bill 2022Fair… Continue Reading →

Out of the shadows: Making New Zealand’s Security Threat Assessment public for the First Time

Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato The release of the threat assessment by the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (SIS) is the final piece in a defence and security puzzle that marks a genuine shift towards more open and public discussion… Continue Reading →

Screens can Manipulate the Nervous System

From TOTT NEWS The manipulation of the human nervous system through the use of television and computer monitors is a reality in the modern world, according to a number of registered patents. Techniques studied in the 1970s reveal the ability… Continue Reading →

Death of Sovereignty: Everyday Australians will pay the cost of US kowtowing, AUKUS and Inevitable War

By Rex Patrick: Michael West Media. The spiralling cost of our alliance with the United States goes way beyond the $368B AUKUS deal and joined intelligence and communications facilities. Australia is paying the price of reduced independence, as Rex Patrick reports. The… Continue Reading →

Australian Cocaine Use Highest in the World: Calls for Legalisation in the Wake of a Spate of Shootings

By Paul Gregoire: Sydney Criminal Lawyers Blog Released in June, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime World Drug Report 2023 outlines that the Australian use of the illegal drug cocaine is per capita the highest in the world, whilst Sydney has long been… Continue Reading →

The Vaccine and the Censorship

By Paul Collits One of the single most most damaging paper of the pandemic has just been published in The Lancet. one of the most famous and most respected scientific journals in the world. Well, it was. Those who have… Continue Reading →

Pfizer’s Appalling Performance in the Australian Parliament

TOTT NEWS Representatives from Pfizer and Moderna have been called before an Australian Senate to face a barrage of serious questions surrounding the COVID-19 vaccination program. Members of the Australian Senate asked Pfizer and Moderna executives a series of questions… Continue Reading →

Abandoned sovereignty: Australia’s Intelligence Function Colonised by US

By Mike Scrafton: Pearls and Irritations. That the Albanese government could further compromise Australia’s sovereignty, international integrity and national interests seemed inconceivable. Yet, intelligence, a vital government function inextricably connected with independence and protecting national interest, is being penetrated and colonised… Continue Reading →

Controversial ‘Forever Chemicals’ could be phased out in Australia

Sarah Wilson, University of Technology Sydney and Rachael Wakefield-Rann, University of Technology Sydney There’s growing global concern about potential risks to human health and the environment from a group of industrial chemicals commonly known as PFAS, or “forever chemicals”. While… Continue Reading →

Was the Covid Response a Coup by the Intelligence Community?

By Michael Senger: Brownstone Institute From an early date, commentators have noted that the response to COVID had all the look and feel of a coup attempt. The masks, the slogans, the symbols, the lies, the sudden inversion of long-cherished norms and… Continue Reading →

Australia will soon have its first Islamic Bank.

Md Safiullah (Safi), RMIT University and Abul Shamsuddin, University of Newcastle Islamic banks have become an integral part of the financial system in many Muslim-majority countries, as well as in nations with sizeable Muslim minorities such as the United Kingdom,… Continue Reading →

Alfred W. McCoy: What I Learnt From Fifty Years of Writing About Drugs

We live in a time of change, when people are questioning old assumptions and seeking new directions. In the ongoing debate over health care, social justice, and border security, there is, however, one overlooked issue that should be at the… Continue Reading →

16 Life-Learnings from 16 Years of The Marginalian: The Extraordinary Journey of Maria Popova

Reflections on keeping the soul intact and alive and worthy of itself. In these darkening times, when the powerful and the political class have become utterly contemptuous of the concerns of ordinary people, there are, as a kind of counterwave,… Continue Reading →

Covid Cover-up Front Page News, but Hardly Anyone Cares

By Rebekah Barnet: Dystopian Down Under Over the weekend, Australia’s legacy masthead, The Australian, ran the news of the proximal origins cover-up on the front page of both the paper and the pull-out magazine. In an article titled, ‘Covid cover-up:… Continue Reading →

A Rocky Diplomatic Road: Julian Assange’s hopes of Avoiding Extradition take a blow as United States Pushes Back

By Holly Cullen, The University of Western Australia. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s hopes of avoiding extradition to the United States, where he’s charged with espionage and computer misuse offences, have taken a blow. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, asked… Continue Reading →

Post-COVID Victoria begins to Come Apart at the Seams: A Debt Ridden Slave Population

TOTT NEWS It has been a interesting few months for Victoria, Australia, with the state now staring down financial consequences caused by the plethora of devastating lockdown policies unleashed during COVID. Delusion may soon implode the state. After being subjected… Continue Reading →

Voyager 2 has lost track of Earth. Only one Antenna in the world, in Australia, can help it ‘Phone Home’

Glen Nagle, CSIRO In 1977, five years before ET asked to “phone home”, two robotic spacecraft began their own journey into space. Almost 46 years later, after exploring the Solar System and beyond, one of those spacecraft – Voyager 2… Continue Reading →

Chasing the Scream: The Hounding of Billie Holiday.

Almost 60 years later, venal self-serving governments continue to promote moral panic and public hysteria perpetrating policies they know perfectly well don’t work. The same policies that achieve nothing but empowerment of thugs inside and outside of governments, all at… Continue Reading →

The Star-Spangled Kangaroo

By Caitlin Johnstone A new US warship has been ushered into service in Sydney. The ship is called the USS Canberra to honor the military union of the United States and Australia, and, if that’s still too subtle for you, it has… Continue Reading →

Maralinga: The Abuse of Australian Servicemen, Politicians Sacrificing Their Own People, Scientists treating the Population as Lab Rats

By John Stapleton If the ABC TV drama series Operation Buffalo piqued your interest in the British atomic tests in the South Australian desert in the 1950s and 60s, Frank Walker’s book Maralinga, a classic of Australian journalism, reveals the… Continue Reading →

A 140-year-old brain sample of the extinct Tasmanian Tiger survived Two World Wars and made it into the Laboratory

Rodrigo Suarez, The University of Queensland Researchers often think how and when their results will be published. However, many research projects don’t see the light until decades (or even centuries) later, if at all. This is the case of a… Continue Reading →

Australian Government’s Misinformation Bill inconsistent with Human Rights

Rebekah Barnett: Dystopian Down Under “It’s inconsistent with human rights.” That’s how human rights lawyer Peter Fam describes the Australian Government’s proposed new legislation to combat mis- and disinformation. The bill outlines new powers that will allow the Australian Communications and… Continue Reading →

You’ve heard the Catchy Kid’s Song viewed 13 Billion Times: Incredible facts about Baby Sharks

Jaelen Nicole Myers, James Cook University “Baby shark doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo, baby shark doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo …” If you’re the parent of a young child, you’re probably painfully familiar with this infectious song, which now has more than 13 billion… Continue Reading →

Pick of the Crop: Our Best Stories for July, 2023

Sinéad O’Connor: a troubled soul with immense talent and unbowed spirit

Adam Behr, Newcastle University Few artists have straddled the boundaries between acclaim, controversy and public affection as effectively as Sinéad O’Connor who passed away on the 26th of July at the age of 56. Her status as a household name… Continue Reading →

Chapter Fifteen: A Time For All Time. Extract, Australia Breaks Apart.

We are living interludes, bookended between not yet and no more, each of us a random draw of the cosmic lottery, each allotted a sliver of spacetime in which to live out our lives as chance configurations of stardust suspended… Continue Reading →

Will New Federal Laws Protect Australians From Disinformation or Serve to Silence Political Dissent?

By Paul Gregoire: Sydney Criminal Lawyers Blog. The freedom of expression the internet has brought to the global community has always posed an issue for governments, as the information they disseminate can now more easily and openly be questioned and… Continue Reading →

The Collapse of Australia’s Ponzi Economy

By Paul Collits Australia’s economy has, as long as we can remember, relied upon mass immigration, including by, but not limited to, Asian students on a visa pathway, to keep the place afloat.  It is a Ponzi scheme. Since we… Continue Reading →

Virginia Woolf’s copy of her first novel was found in a University of Sydney library.

Mark Byron, University of Sydney One of just two copies of Virginia Woolf’s first novel, The Voyage Out (1915), annotated with her handwriting and preparations to revise it for a US edition, was recently rediscovered in the Fisher Library Rare… Continue Reading →

Australia’s Share Market of Deathly Hollows: $100b of equity passes from public to private hands in takeover binge

By Stephen Mayne: Michael West Media Australian companies worth billions of dollars are slipping into private hands at an alarming rate. Stephen Mayne explores what’s driving it and why it’s a worry.   After 38 years as a public company, vitamins group… Continue Reading →

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