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Tanya Hill, Museums Victoria. On Thursday 20 April, the Ningaloo region of Western Australia will experience a total solar eclipse. Eclipse chasers from around the world are converging on the town of Exmouth in hopes of experiencing the profound awe… Continue Reading →
By Julian Cribb: Pearls and Irritations Bruce Haigh, who died on April 7, was a diplomat, an adventurer, an artist and writer, a humanist, a romantic and a man with a deep love of his country, who mourned its fading… Continue Reading →
TOTT NEWS After a quick introduction letting the program know I wish to speak about transhumanism and the future, the following was asked: Q: How will we use technology to enhance our intelligence? A: From a transhumanist perspective, I think the answer… Continue Reading →
Danielle Clode: Flinders University. The koala was clinging to an old tree stag while stranded in the Murray River, on the border between New South Wales and Victoria. A team of students from La Trobe University noticed its predicament as… Continue Reading →
With Professor Ted Snell: University of Western Australia. One of the Australia’s best known artists passed away this week. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports: John Olsen, one of Australia’s most acclaimed artists who was known for his distinctive depictions of… Continue Reading →
By Adam Creighton: Brownstone Institute. The dam wall has finally broken. In the US and Australia, the chapter of silence on reporting Covid-19 vaccine injuries appears to have slammed shut, due in no small part to Christine Middap’s excellent series… Continue Reading →
By Sue Price: Men’s Rights Agency. Censorship’s alive and well in Australia Recently, the Australian Labour Government announced an inquiry into their proposal that the Family Law act should be altered to remove Shared Parental Responsibility and interfere with the… Continue Reading →
Future of Life Institute. AI systems with human-competitive intelligence can pose profound risks to society and humanity, as shown by extensive research and acknowledged by top AI labs. As stated in the widely-endorsed Asilomar AI Principles, Advanced AI could represent a profound… Continue Reading →
Stan Karanasios, The University of Queensland; Olga Kokshagina, EDHEC Business School, and Pauline C. Reinecke, University of Hamburg. Last week, artificial intelligence pioneers and experts urged major AI labs to immediately pause the training of AI systems more powerful than… Continue Reading →
If the geniuses of Australian government weren’t satisfied with all the cautionary voices emerging from some of the world’s most venerable tertiary institutions, they only had to go as far as the Australian National University, to Professor Ramesh Thakur, whose… Continue Reading →
By John Stapleton. Illustrations by John Brack. This isn’t just a temporary setback, it’s an extermination. Australia’s conservatives are going through their worst period since the formation of the Liberal Party in 1944. Their rout at the May Federal election… Continue Reading →
Rex Patrick: Michael West Media. Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong has all but confirmed in Parliament the government is doing nothing to bring the world’s foremost political prisoner home. What’s the scam with “quiet diplomacy”? Despite claiming the government is… Continue Reading →
TOTT NEWS In many ways Australia has already joined up with China’s Belt and Road Initiative. And the nation’s political class did not bother to inform the Australian public. Begun in 2013, the Belt and Road scheme had the goal… Continue Reading →
By Bettina Arndt “Partner won’t pay for a new kitchen? That’s coercive control.” “Keeps asking for sex? That’s coercive control.” “Get that male sent to jail with new coercive control!” Take a quick look at the video on the Mothers of… Continue Reading →
By Paul Collits: The Freedoms Project. Artwork Trees at Night by Arthur Henry “Art” Young. Since the beginning of the Covid era, Paul Collits has stood out as one of the boldest and most cogent of commentators on the moral… Continue Reading →
TOTT NEWS An independent audit into the government’s digital interface myGov has recommended a revamp through a five-year plan in conjunction with the states and territories along with ongoing funding. This is the central theme of Developing an improved myGov for all Australians –… Continue Reading →
Alexis Wolf and Andrew Lacey, Lancaster University. Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) is usually remembered as the inventor of a revolutionary miner’s safety lamp. But his wild popularity came as much from his influence on popular culture as it did from… Continue Reading →
Text by John Stapleton. Photography by Dean Sewell. Perpetrator of the Christchurch massacre Brenton Tarrant, 29, was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole on 51 charges of murder, 40 charges of attempted murder and a charge of committing… Continue Reading →
Matt Fitzpatrick, Flinders University. Much has been made of Australia’s renewed engagement with Asia and the Pacific since Labor came to power. Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s “charm offensive” in the Pacific was seen as the beginning of a new process… Continue Reading →
By Rex Patrick: Michael West Media Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has just committed Australia to spending $368 billion on somewhere between three and five second-hand US Virginia Class submarines, and a follow on build of eight next generation British AUKUS… Continue Reading →
Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra Former Prime Minister Paul Keating has launched a swingeing attack on the Labor government over the AUKUS submarine agreement, accusing Anthony Albanese of relying on “two seriously unwise ministers, Penny Wong and Richard Marles”. Keating… Continue Reading →
By Michael West: Michael West Media There will be no better opportunity than now for Anthony Albanese to ask US President Joe Biden for the release of Julian Assange. This week Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese met with US President… Continue Reading →
Naomi Wolf These days, to my surprise, people want to talk to me about evil. In an essay last year, and in my book The Bodies of Others, I raised a question about existential, metaphysical darkness. I concluded that I had… Continue Reading →
Matt Kasson, West Virginia University; Brian Lovett, West Virginia University, and Patricia Kaishian, Bard College It’s no secret that Earth’s biodiversity is at risk. According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, 26% of all mammals, 14% of… Continue Reading →
TOTT NEWS Just to rely on their good work, the Australian media outlier TOTT News is one of the only significant media outlets to follow this utterly massive scandal in any detail; in a series of articles badged The Pfizer… Continue Reading →
From Five Times August You know the world has finally changed when a video claiming that no one is safe until Bill Gates is behind bars is readily available on YouTube; yes the same YouTube that made itself one of… Continue Reading →
Ivo Labbe, Swinburne University of Technology “Look at this,” says Erica’s message. She is poring over the very first images from the brand new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). It is July 2022, barely a week after those first images… Continue Reading →
From TOTT NEWS Australian soldiers have participated in a drill that simulates the ‘controlling of aggressive protesters’ for ‘population protection’. After the last few years, everyone has a right to be concerned. ‘PEOPLE PROTECTION’ Australian soldiers are being trained on… Continue Reading →
By Sue Price: Men’s Rights Agency. The Australian government is winding back modest reforms which encouraged the inclusion of fathers in their children’s lives post-separation. While the Australian Labor government has painted itself as inclusive, waging a major and extremely… Continue Reading →
David Uren: Australian Strategic Policy Institute. Fewer than one in 10 Western multinationals with subsidiaries in Russia has quit any of them in the year since the Ukraine invasion began. This finding by two highly regarded academics, Simon Evenett from University of… Continue Reading →
By ChatGPT. Illustrated by Stable Diffusion. Human Element: Café Locked Out. This is a conversation between the group Café Locked Out and chatGPT, with illustrations by Stable Diffusion. Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the ability of an intelligent agent to understand or learn… Continue Reading →
By John Stapleton Way back in the 1970s, that’s before Noah’s Ark for all the Millennials, Tony Westwood was a founding member of the Australian Dance Theatre. He is back in Australia for a visit after spending much of his… Continue Reading →