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Two of the Greatest Creative Spirits of Our Age join forces: Nick Cave and Maria Popova together

There are affinities that feel less like coincidence than recognition. For years Maria Popova, the Bulgarian-born, New York-based polymath behind The Marginalian, has returned again and again to the work of Nick Cave — not as fan service, but as… Continue Reading →

Prison Island: Australia’s Totalitarian Hate Speech Laws

Australia used to export its convicts. Now it is building the walls inward. After one massacre on Bondi Beach, Canberra recalled Parliament and, in a single sitting, handed ASIO and a minister the power to list groups as “prohibited hate… Continue Reading →

A Deflated Australian Prime Minister Flies Home: Duty of Care Meet the Rogue Agent

The Prime Minister flew to America to be seen as a statesman. Australia watched a weak man walk into the same problems he left at home. California first. The welcome party was Australia’s own ambassador. No American official on the… Continue Reading →

Blood in the Water: Australians Celebrate Albanese’s American Disasters

Journalists hunt in packs, and now there is blood in the water. The Prime Minister is being dismembered, metaphorically, limb by limb, press conference by press conference, one disastrous headline after another. The entire country is experiencing a severe case… Continue Reading →

Full Scale Derision: Australian Prime Minister Accepts Global Citizen Award

Anthony Albanese’s decision to collect the Atlantic Council’s Global Citizen Award in New York this week is a masterclass in tone-deaf vanity. While Labor’s primary vote slumps to 27 per cent and his net approval sits worse than Scott Morrison’s,… Continue Reading →

Australia’s Digital Duty of Care an Astro Turfed Fake Movement: You Are Being Lied To

Institute of Public Affairs “#FixOurFeeds, the campaign widely credited with pushing the federal government toadopt a digital duty of care model has received millions of dollars from the federalgovernment. The Prime Minister claims the digital duty of care is a… Continue Reading →

The Pandemic Preparedness Narrative Gets a Reality Check

Reality Check Radio While much of the debate around pandemic preparedness takes place behind closed doors,New Zealand’s Reality Check Radio had the opportunity to take part in that conversation at Australia’s Parliament House. In June, RCR’s Head of Legal, Katie… Continue Reading →

Australia’s Extreme Censorship Blows Up Relationship with America

One of the world’s best journalists, American Michael Shellenberger, has dramatically weighed into the Australian government’s over-the-top efforts to censor the Australian public. In his newsletter he writes that Australia’s Censorship Bill Is Aimed At Americans. And that it has… Continue Reading →

Book Brief: The Vaccine Mafia

With John Stapleton and Michael Gray Griffith Profit, Power, and the Pandemic Rollout—Inside the Global mRNA Vaccine Debacle Former Pfizer chief toxicologist Helmut Sterz presents a critical examination of the development, approval, and global rollout of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines—particularly those… Continue Reading →

AI Exposes the Climate Change Fraud

Safe and effective. Cheap and Reliable. Keeping Australians Safe. Diversity is Our Strength. The most successful multicultural society on Earth. One lie after another. That’s the Australian government for you. Here the AIs expose the climate change fraud as the… Continue Reading →

Australia’s Labor Government to Destroy One of the World’s Greatest Whale Migration Routes

By John Stapleton Three years on from alienating much of their natural constituency in the Illawara on the NSW South Coast, the increasingly despised Labor Party is continuing its massive destruction of Australia’s environment. Old faith believers in the Labor… Continue Reading →

Playing God: Scientists propose ‘gradual population decline’ to four billion people

From TOTT News A new study has proposed that the world should gradually reduce its population to around four billion people to ‘ease pressure on the planet’s resources and ecosystems’, as the grand eugenics transhumanist replacement agenda pushes on. Researchers… Continue Reading →

ASIO’s “Police State” Compulsory Questioning Regime Has Been Expanded 

By Paul Gregoire: Sydney Criminal Lawyers Blog Some of the most controversial laws ever to have been enacted in this country have been temporarily reenacted for another three years. Legislation extending ASIO’s compulsory questioning regime passed federal parliament on 20 August 2026…. Continue Reading →

Australia’s Broken Heartlands: Michael Gray Griffith. The Interview.

Goodbye Road: Australia’s Broken Heartlands is one of the rawest, most poignant, powerful and consequential books of the 2020s. Here author Michael Gray Griffith, speaking from an abandoned industrial park in Western Australia, talks in depth about the creation of… Continue Reading →

More than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban, new eSafety report finds

Lisa M. Given, RMIT University As countries around the world look to follow Australia’s lead in restricting young people’s access to social media, a new report by the eSafety Commissioner might give them reason to pause, at least temporarily. Australia’s… Continue Reading →

Sunday Morning At Cafe Locked Out: This Week’s Guest John Shipton

John Shipton is an Australian architect and anti-war activist, best known as the biological father of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Born around 1944, he met Christine Hawkins at a Vietnam War rally in 1970. Their relationship ended before or shortly… Continue Reading →

On interviewing the last surviving Anzac

By John Stapleton After decades in mainstream journalism, and having written literally thousands of stories, there aren’t too many things I haven’t written about. But there was one story about the world’s last survivor of the Gallipoli campaign, Alec Campbell,… Continue Reading →

Aboriginal Allodial Sovereign Rights: The Interview Three Years on From Australia’s Voice to Parliament Referendum

Steven Porter: Moree Three years on from Australia’s polarising Voice to Parliament Referendum, the debate over Indigenous recognition, sovereignty, and rights continues to resonate. In October 2023, Australians decisively voted No, rejecting the proposal to enshrine an Aboriginal and Torres… Continue Reading →

Scott Kuru: Australia is about to become the World’s Fastest Dying Country

A new generation of podcasters is transforming Australia’s media. One of the best is property expert Scott Kuru. His signature blend of data, outrage, and calls to individual action paints a picture of avoidable decline accelerating through poor policy choices…. Continue Reading →

How drug demand in New Zealand and Australia is driving calls for the death penalty in Fiji

By Kya Raina Lal, Auckland University of Technology Fiji is at the centre of an illicit narcotics crisis described as a national emergency, driven by an escalating demand for hard drugs in Australia and New Zealand. Drugs, particularly cocaine and… Continue Reading →

Mindless: How the Education System is Indoctrinating Children and Destroying Our Civilisation. The Book. The Author Interview.

Drawing on research from Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, Mindless exposes how education has been captured by radical ideas that elevate victimhood, identity politics and climate alarmism above learning. To watch the Sunday morning Cafe Locked Out… Continue Reading →

Imprisoned Dr Bruce Paix Released on Bail: Given A Hero’s Welcome. From 2022. Lest we Forget the Abuses we endured at the hands of the Australian Government.

By John Stapleton War veteran and trauma specialist Dr Bruce Paix was arrested near Canberra airport while on his way to attend the Convoy to Canberra gathering. Cheering crowds celebrated Dr Paix’s release today, 11 February, 2022, as he was… Continue Reading →

How to Sell a Genocide: The Double Standards of Reporting on Gaza

Jeff Sparrow, The University of Melbourne When the University of Queensland Press cancelled the publication of Wiradjuri poet Jazz Money’s book Bila: A River Cycle because of a blog post by its illustrator, 60 UQP contributors signed a letter of… Continue Reading →

Latest From A Sense of Place. Our Government The Enemy: Updated and Expanded. Ramesh Thakur. Extract.

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 →

Die Laughing: Fred Pawle On Bill Leak and the State of Australia Today

We sit down with Fred Pawle, one of Australian journalism’s great characters, to discuss his recently updated book Die Laughing: The Wild Life of Bill Leak. Though an ill-fit in corporate journalism, Pawle worked at The Australian for many years… Continue Reading →

Scathing Backlash: Australian Labor Party’s Disaster Budget

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: The Latest from A Sense of Place Publishing

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 →

A primal scream from the Australian Seat of Farrer throws Liberals into Deeper Crisis

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 →

Disaster for Disaster Bay: Industrial Kelp Farm Threatens NSW’s Last Coastal Wilderness. With Ian Williamson.

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 →

Gender Affirming Care in Australia: With Mianna and Cafe Locked Out

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 →

The Taxman. Paul Collits: Political Science

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 →

Convoy to Canberra. Seven. The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth.

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 →

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