While you might expect criticism from from their traditional opponents, the Australian Federal Government’s March budget has been met with almost universal condemnation. A country already reeling from the impacts of mass migration and a cost of living crisis is… Continue Reading →
My Angry Breast tells a personal journey through diagnosis, chemotherapy, mastectomy, and the aftermath of hearing those devastating words: “You have cancer.” Having experienced the trauma of a cancer diagnosis through her father’s final years, Robyn’s passion was to find a… Continue Reading →
Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra One Nation’s smashing victory in Farrer fires up the insurgent party, and casts fresh doubts over the future of the Liberal Party. The result could not be a more devastating rebuff for Liberal leader Angus… Continue Reading →
Professor Ramesh Thakur, one of Australia’s most esteemed academics. You can see his interview with Cafe Locked Out on X, YouTube, Rumble, Facebook and Substack. Here is the link on Rumble. A Sense of Place has just published the Revised… Continue Reading →
To watch the interview with Cafe Locked Out and Ian Williamson go HERE. A pristine stretch of the New South Wales far south coast – widely regarded as one of the most beautiful and untouched marine environments on Australia’s east… Continue Reading →
Watch the Rumble Interview HERE. Gender affirming care in Australia encompasses a range of medical, psychological, and social interventions designed to support transgender and gender diverse individuals in aligning their physical characteristics and social presentation with their gender identity. This… Continue Reading →
This is the story of how networks of Mates have come to dominate business and government, robbing ordinary Australians. Every hour you work, thirty minutes of it goes to line the Mates’ pockets rather than your own. Mates in big… Continue Reading →
By John Stapleton Four years ago Australia saw the largest demonstrations in its history, as hundreds of thousands of people descended on the nation’s capital. The Australian media and the Australian authorities colluded in lying about the numbers, and lied… Continue Reading →
John Stapleton Four years ago Australia hundreds of thousands of people march on Canberra, disgusted by the extremism of lockdowns and vaccine mandates. At its peak, more than 12 million people were under lockdown protocols. While the authorities managed to… Continue Reading →
By John Stapleton Four years ago the sedate public service infested Australian capital saw the largest protest gathering in its history. The public were well and truly over the draconian, and as it turns out entirely unnecessary, restrictions on their… Continue Reading →
By John Stapleton Four years ago the Australian government was faced with the closest thing the country has ever seen to a genuine People’s Revolution, as hundreds of thousands of people, furious over the excessive authoritarianism of the Covid era,… Continue Reading →
Interview by John Stapleton Johnny Allen was the motivating force behind some of the most exciting activity in Australia during the 1970s, from The Arts Factory to the Nimbin Festival to Cabaret Conspiracy. He will be remembered as one of… Continue Reading →
For anyone who knew him, there are memorial drinks in Sydney at the El Rocco Room corner Brougham and William St Kings Cross from 6.30 to 9.30 pm on Tuesday December 9! Stephen passed away after a long struggle with… Continue Reading →
Michael Gray Griffith There is so much space out here – it’s as if the gods left before they could bother with mountains, valleys, or grand forests. You could misplace an entire civilisation inside it. We did, and they are… Continue Reading →
Australian Federal Police Assistant Commissioner Cyber Command Richard Chin has announced that the Australian Federal Police are tracking a concerning rise across the industry in what are known as Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams. These involve cyber criminals impersonating a… Continue Reading →
Sean Tomlinson, University of Adelaide and Damien Fordham, University of Adelaide To a newly-arrived red fox, the abundant rolling grasslands and swamps of Wadawurrung Country, around what is now called Port Phillip Bay, must have seemed like a predator’s paradise…. Continue Reading →
The AFP has set up new National Security Investigations (NSI) teams to target groups and individuals causing high levels of harm to Australia’s social cohesion, including the targeting of federal parliamentarians. The NSI teams began operations in Sydney, Melbourne and… Continue Reading →
Tony Hughes-d’Aeth, The University of Western Australia A.D. Hope and Patrick White are towering figures of 20th-century Australian culture. Few cast larger literary shadows over the postwar period. White, with his dizzying, monumental novels and Nobel prize, holds pride of… Continue Reading →
By Erin Rolandsen: Beyond the Rage Machine Cybernetics pioneer Stafford Beer once said: “The purpose of a system is what it does.” If that is true, what, then, do we make of Australia’s systems? Everywhere we look, the systems designed… Continue Reading →
Lisa M. Given, RMIT University Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, has outlined an updated list of platforms that may fall under the social media age restrictions that will take effect later this year. While Australians expected platforms such as… Continue Reading →
Michael Gray Griffith: Cafe Locked Out In the trial of Paul Offe, the prosecutor, towards the end, left a free frame of the rear of Paul’s truck on all the screens of the court. On the top of Paul’s truck… Continue Reading →
50th Anniversary of the Family Law Act. Warnings that there were serious problems with the court came early. In 1985, only a decade after the court’s establishment, Australia’s proud old weekly The Bulletin ran a story on its front cover:… Continue Reading →
Joseph Janes, Swansea University Yaba, a cheap and potent methamphetamine-caffeine pill often dubbed “crazy medicine”, has become one of Thailand’s most pressing public health crises. Easy to produce and widely available, yaba is used by everyone from factory workers seeking… Continue Reading →
Bert Oliver: Brownstone Institute On a flight back to South Africa from attending a conference in South Korea recently, I watched the gripping biographical film, Lee (2023; directed by Ellen Kuras), with Kate Winslet in the title role of Lee Miller, intrepid… Continue Reading →
Jeffery Tucker: Brownstone Institute In 1973, as the bicentennial of the US approached, the great American essayist and illustrator Eric Sloane was commissioned to write a book commemorating what is great about America. He focused on what we once had… Continue Reading →
The latest from A Sense of Place Publishing “If you have a book, you have a friend,” says Robyn. When a child, she always had her nose in a book and, walked around the playground at school, her nose in… Continue Reading →
Tim Rowse, Western Sydney University Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names and images of deceased people. The homicidal actions, flight, capture, trial and punishment of Jimmy and Joe Governor (and their accomplice Jack Underwood)… Continue Reading →
Toby Rogers: Brownstone Institute It seems to me that the proper way to understand the autism epidemic is to read everything that has been written on autism causation, throw out any studies that are characterized by a financial conflict of… Continue Reading →
Rachael L. Brown, Australian National University and Rob Brooks, UNSW Sydney Head lice, fleas and tapeworms have been humanity’s companions throughout our evolutionary history. Yet, the greatest parasite of the modern age is no blood-sucking invertebrate. It is sleek, glass-fronted… Continue Reading →
Michael Gray Griffith There is so much space out here. It’s like the gods left before they were able to add the mountains and valleys and grand forests. You could hide an entire civilization out here. We did, and they… Continue Reading →
By Laura Nicole Driessen, University of Sydney On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut down its communication systems and central computer and said goodbye to… Continue Reading →
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