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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 →
By Jeffrey Tucker: Brownstone Institute It was about a month into lockdowns, April 2020, and my phone rang with an unusual number. I picked up and the caller identified himself as Rajeev Venkayya, a name I knew from my writings… Continue Reading →
From Gaz’s A Defender’s Voice Greg Sheridan’s bombshell article in The Australian, “Australia Divided, Misgoverned, in Retreat,” doesn’t just diagnose a nation in trouble; it rips off the bandages to expose the systemic rot infecting every major artery of the country…. Continue Reading →
Professor Ramesh Thakur: Brownstone Institute A Doctor Dies by Suicide Mei-Khing Loo is a former practice manager whose 43-year-old obstetrician-gynaecologist husband of 21 years, Dr Yen-Yung Yap, died by suicide in 2020 while under investigation by the Australian Health Practitioner… Continue Reading →
Jacqueline Halpin, University of Tasmania and Nathan R. Daczko, Macquarie University Have you ever imagined what Antarctica looks like beneath its thick blanket of ice? Hidden below are rugged mountains, valleys, hills and plains. Some peaks, like the towering Transantarctic… Continue Reading →
From Dystopian Down Under Rebekah Barnett, one of Australia’s best journalists, interviews Debbie Lerman, one of the world’s best researchers, on what really happened during Covid. What if the pandemic response was run by national security agencies according to a… Continue Reading →
Counterfeit pain medications have emerged as the latest threat posed by illicit drug importation, as Australian authorities detect a worrying spike in nitazenes. Nitazenes are an illicit and dangerous synthetic opioid which can cause serious and unpredictable health effects, including overdose… Continue Reading →
Terror in Australia: Workers’ Paradise Lost. Extract. By John Stapleton. As a young man Alex had taken every opportunity to travel. He stayed several times at a beach on Penang island known as Batu Ferringhi. In the 1970s it was… Continue Reading →
Extract from Terror in Australia: Workers’ Paradise Lost. Australian governments had always appealed to nationalism in their aggressive drives to recruit young men to war. World War One posters included: “Under Which Flag Will You Live? Enlist Now”; “The Trumpet… Continue Reading →
Michael Gray Griffith is Australia’s leading contemporary historian. His stunning work documents not just the national derangement which overtook Australia during the Covid era, when the country became notorious internationally for having the worst response to the so-called “pandemic” of… Continue Reading →
From Rebekah Barnett: The Brownstone Institute Three years after it became universally acknowledged that Covid vaccines provide negligible protection against infection and transmission, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) has finally dropped its Covid vaccine mandate. AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw announced… Continue Reading →
The violence card has been played, and it won the game. A Royal Flush. As Dads On The Air said so long ago, the liars, the lawyers, the bureaucrats and the social engineers have won the day. Fifty years of… Continue Reading →
From Gaz’s – A Defender’s Voice The battlefield is no longer land—it’s your mind. Manipulated by data, steered by AI, controlled by fear. You’re not being informed. You’re being programmed. Wake up—before it’s too late. “Humans are hackable animals.” These chilling… Continue Reading →