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Author Interview. Failure Family Law Reform Australia.

To listen to the Café Locked Out interview with author John Stapleton on his new book Failure Family Law Reform Australia go HERE. I strongly recommend this book, which compellingly demonstrates that the family law system allows false accusations to… Continue Reading →

USAID Projects in Australia and Associated Controversies: An Overview

While USAID does not traditionally fund projects directly within Australia, it collaborates with the Australian government to support initiatives in neighbouring Pacific Island countries. Here are some notable projects: Controversies Surrounding USAID Projects Broader Implications Conclusion The collaboration between USAID… Continue Reading →

Australia: The Great Silence. The Power Of Now.

Michael Gray Griffith: Café Locked Out “I’m a paramedic,” he said. “Forty years. And do you know how many cases of myocarditis I saw in that time? Zero. Pericarditis? A few times, not many. But now—it’s everywhere.” “I’m a paramedic,”… Continue Reading →

Trump inherits the Guantánamo prison, complete with 4 ‘forever prisoners’

By Lisa Hajjar, University of California, Santa Barbara President Joe Biden’s record of handling the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is decidedly mixed. He succeeded in reducing the detainee population he inherited by more than half, but he… Continue Reading →

The Australian Electoral Commission wants to stop AI and misinformation. But it’s up against a problem that is Deep and Dark

Susan Grantham, Griffith University From the moment you open your social media feed, you’re stepping into a digital battleground where not all political messages are what they seem. The upcoming federal election will see an influx of deepfakes, doctored images,… Continue Reading →

Whipping up Aboriginal enthusiasm

Jack Waterford: Pearls and Irritations Here’s a sad prediction for 2025. By the end of next year, more states and territories will have dropped the age of criminal responsibility to 10, and adopted punitive laws based on slogans such as… Continue Reading →

DeepSeek shatters beliefs about the cost of AI, leaving US tech giants reeling

Michael J. Davern and Matt Pinnuck, The University of Melbourne Almost A$1 trillion (US$600 billion) was wiped off the value of artificial intelligence microchip maker Nvidia overnight on Monday, when a little-known Chinese startup, DeepSeek, threatened to upend the US… Continue Reading →

Why do some vaccine-injured people wake up – but others don’t?

By Rebekah Barnett: Dystopian Down Under As Covid vaccine injuries started mounting up, and the topic became somewhat less taboo in the media – albeit always accompanied by boilerplate text about how the benefits outweigh the risks – some of… Continue Reading →

Failure: Family Law Reform Australia. Out in February. Extract.

Chapter Two: A Little Bit Of History On the 5th of January 1976 the Family Law Act 1975 came into effect It was passed into law by just one vote This marked a controversial and historically significant turning point for… Continue Reading →

Why the Australian Media Failed during Covid: An Insider Perspective

David Southwell: Dystopian Down Under I’m a Daily Mail Journalist. When the Albanese government’s expert panel on Australia’s Covid response delivered its report late last year the verdict was damning. The panel found that harsh Covid measures were imposed often… Continue Reading →

The Age of Big Brother: Australia’s Biometric Shift

By Ethan Nash: TOTT News Biometric surveillance — the use of facial recognition, fingerprint scanning, voiceprints, and even behavioural tracking to monitor people — is rapidly expanding. Governments, corporations, and private institutions are quietly rolling out these technologies with promises… Continue Reading →

Sydney City Council snubs its own colonial history on Australia Day, gives $2 million to Chinese New Year instead

Alison Bevege: Letters from Australia British heritage demonised as Aboriginal cause used to bludgeon Australia. January 26 is not just Australia Day, it was the first settlement of Sydney. The First Fleet set up camp in Sydney Cove on 26… Continue Reading →

A Front Page Reminisce

John Stapleton Newspapers are collaborative efforts – journalists, editors, layout people, printers, distributors, the office manager, all combine to produce order out of the chaos of daily life. And every now and then, the universe decides to collaborate as well,… Continue Reading →

The Scrub Bulls of Mildura

Michael Gray Griffith: Café Locked out The station was so vast and remote that chances are the bull had never seen a fence or a house. Now in his prime, he was the king of this harsh terrain—a king who… Continue Reading →

Failure: Family Law Reform Australia. Extract. From the Introduction.

Community radio program Dads On The Air was in a singular position to cover and even at times to contribute to the years of government reports, committee inquiries, public debate and media coverage on reforms promoting cooperative care of children after divorce. While… Continue Reading →

Surveillance tech is changing our behaviour – and our brains

Kiley Seymour and Roger Koenig, University of Technology Sydney From self-service checkouts to public streets to stadiums – surveillance technology is everywhere. This pervasive monitoring is often justified in the name of safety and security. But our recent study, published… Continue Reading →

Whales Can Live Way Longer than Previously Thought

Greg Breed, University of Alaska Fairbanks and Peter Corkeron, Griffith University, Australia Southern right whales have lifespans that reach well past 100 years, and 10% may live past 130 years, according to our new research published in the journal Science… Continue Reading →

Classics of the Fatherhood Movement: Of Boys and Men

To mark the 50th anniversary of the Australian Family Law Act in 2025 A Sense of Place Magazine is running this series Classics of the Fatherhood Movement. Also, keep an eye out for the upcoming book from A Sense of… Continue Reading →

20 Years On: the Boxing Day Tsunami

The Australian Federal Police are today remembering the victims and families impacted by the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami and reflect on the support and assistance provided by Australian law enforcement and forensic specialists as part of the large scale international response to… Continue Reading →

That’s A Wrap: Rebekah Barnett

One of the brightest stars of Australian journalism to have emerged from the Covid era, Rebekah Barnett has now been honoured with a Fellowship from the Brownstone Institute, one of the world’s leading academic think tanks. A Sense of Place… Continue Reading →

A Time Of Hope: Brownstone Institute

Over the past four years, trust in all the systems that were supposed to make modern life run smoothly has been steadily eroded, even to the point of utter collapse. At the same time, we find ourselves strangely optimistic about… Continue Reading →

Michael Leunig: The closest thing Australian cartooning had to a prophet

Richard Scully, University of New England; Robert Phiddian, Flinders University, and Stephanie Brookes, Monash University Michael Leunig – who died in the early hours of Thursday December 19, surrounded by “his children, loved ones, and sunflowers” – was the closest… Continue Reading →

Failure Family Law Reform Australia: Extract

IT REMAINS surprising that the ultra-woke extremist ideology which is synonymous with the Family Court of Australia evolved in the Land Down Under. For Australia, founded as a penal colony, has always been associated with anti-establishment sentiment. In the early… Continue Reading →

MAD – Misinformation and Disinformation Bill Passes Australia’s Lower House

Australia’s left adopted almost all of its policies from the American Democrats, including extreme levels of censorship. A prime example of the deliberate crushing of the voices of ordinary Australians by the nation’s elites is the Albanese government’s Misinformation and… Continue Reading →

Australia’s Misinformation Bill and Freedom of Speech

Professor Anne Twomey, University of Sydney The federal government’s proposed legislation on misinformation and disinformation has passed the House of Representatives, but faces a rocky time in the Senate. Opponents have dubbed it the MAD Bill, and it has certainly… Continue Reading →

Classics of the Fatherhood Movement. Not Guilty: The Case in Defense of Men by David Thomas

To mark the 50th anniversary of the Australian Family Law Act in 2025 A Sense of Place Magazine is running this series Classics of the Fatherhood Movement. Also, keep an eye out for the upcoming book from A Sense of… Continue Reading →

Australian Whistleblower Police: Reluctant Enforcers for Feminist Domestic Violence Regime

By Bettina Arndt The feminists have it all sewn up. All it took was very effective bullying of politicians to have draconian legislation pushed through various state parliaments resulting in unproven domestic violence accusations flooding our criminal law system. My… Continue Reading →

They Are Scrubbing the Internet Right Now

By Jeffrey Tucker and Debbie Lerman: Brownstone Institute Instances of censorship are growing to the point of normalization. Despite ongoing litigation and more public attention, mainstream social media has been more ferocious in recent months than ever before. Podcasters know… Continue Reading →

The Chairman’s Lounge: The Qantas Controversy Engulfing Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

The release of “The Chairman’s Lounge” by Joe Aston has thrust Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese into a whirlpool of controversy, questioning his integrity and closeness with corporate entities, particularly Qantas Airways. This essay delves into the ramifications of this… Continue Reading →

Australia’s Covid-19 Inquiry Report: 996 pages of Manufacturing Consent. Democracy Theatre for Stupid People.

By Alison Bevege: Letters from Australia The Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet has released the Covid-19 Response Inquiry Report and it is 996 pages of exactly what you would expect. It’s an exercise in what Noam Chomsky called “manufacturing consent”. It’s… Continue Reading →

Powder keg in the Pacific

By Alfred McCoy: Pearls and Irritations While the world looks on with trepidation at regional wars in Israel and Ukraine, a far more dangerous global crisis is quietly building at the other end of Eurasia, along an island chain that… Continue Reading →

Classics of the Fatherhood Movement: The Myth of Male Power by Warren Farrell

To mark the 50th anniversary of the Australian Family Law Act in 2025 A Sense of Place Magazine is running this series Classics of the Fatherhood Movement. Also, keep an eye out for the upcoming book from A Sense of… Continue Reading →

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