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Aboriginal language could help solve complex AI problems with Swarm Systems

Rachel Packham: University of News South Wales. Jingulu – a language spoken by the Jingili people in the Northern Territory – has characteristics that allow it to be easily translated into AI commands. An Aboriginal language could hold the key… Continue Reading →

The Rorting Years of Australian Politics: how Scott Morrison put a Shark Bite on the Taxpayer

By #Mate: Michael West Media. Speculation surrounding Scott Morrison’s post-parliamentary ambitions includes the possibility of a job with the Australian Rugby League. His involvement with the sport poses plenty of questions, including the grants largesse that defined his time as… Continue Reading →

James Webb deep field images: The Divide between Science and Art is Artificial

Cherine Fahd, University of Technology Sydney The first task I give photography students is to create a starscape. To do this, I ask them to sweep the floor beneath them, collect the dust and dirt in a paper bag and… Continue Reading →

Move Aside 5G: Here Comes 6G

Neil Martin: University of New South Wales. The next generation of wireless communication is already being developed and is set to revolutionise the world around us. The pace of change in telecommunications is increasing every year. A case in point is… Continue Reading →

Governments Were Given Credible Warnings about Lockdown Harms but Didn’t Listen

By Ramesh Thakur: Brownstone Institute. As countries emerge from the Dystopia of lockdown restrictions, there’s growing awareness of the phenomenon of excess deaths, for example in the  UK and Australia. On July 8, The Daily Mail (UK) reported that collateral damage of lockdowns is killing 1,000… Continue Reading →

A Cosmic Time Machine: The James Webb Space Telescope

Sara Webb, Swinburne University of Technology It has been an exciting time with the release of breathtaking photos of our Universe by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Images such as the one below give us a chance to see… Continue Reading →

The End of the Individual Freedoms of the Private Motor Vehicle Looms: Australian Capital Territory to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars from 2035

TOTT NEWS. Australia’s capital plans to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles starting from the middle of next decade, according to reports. The ACT Government will later this week release a strategy document detailing a plan for 80 to… Continue Reading →

Jobs for Mates: The Political Stacking of Australia’s Institutions

Kate Griffiths, Anika Stobart and Danielle Wood, Grattan Institute. Handing out a cushy job to a political mate might seem harmless – after all, everyone does it, right? – but the politicisation of public appointments has real, pervasive consequences for… Continue Reading →

Private Charles James Bradley, 11th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force

By John Aitken John Aitken is a retired Science teacher who has a passion for WW1 military history.  John has an extensive collection of Australian WW1 ephemera, including  photographs of soldiers and letters they wrote to their family and friends… Continue Reading →

Two experts break down the James Webb Space Telescope’s first images

Karl Glazebrook, Swinburne University of Technology and Simon Driver, The University of Western Australia. We have recently seen the release of the first batch of images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. This is something we have both been… Continue Reading →

Prosecution for Profit: New South Wales Government Expands Power to Seize Unexplained Wealth

Paul Gregoire: Sydney Criminal Lawyers Blog. Acting NSW police commissioner David Hudson flagged the scenario of his officers pulling up a young person driving a luxury sports car and questioning them as to how they came to be behind the… Continue Reading →

Moral Enhancement Technologies

TOTT NEWS Over the last few years, scientists have argued that we can, and perhaps should, use technology to ‘enhance’ our moral abilities — to become a more cooperative, empathetic, or ‘properly motivated’ species. Traditionally, moral development has been facilitated… Continue Reading →

The Unconscionable Prosecution of Bernard Collaery was an Assault on the values Australia holds dear

Spencer Zifcak, Australian Catholic University. Last week Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus put an end to Canberra lawyer Bernard Collaery’s criminal prosecution.Collaery was prosecuted in 2018 and was facing five charges, including allegedly conspiring with his client, “Witness K”, to disclose confidential… Continue Reading →

The Murdoch Media and the Pandemic of the Vaccinated

By Paul Collits The Australian newspaper, News Limited’s flagship publication in the country of birth of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, has attempted a desperate throw of the dice in an effort to somehow maintain the Covid vaccine narrative.  In doing so,… Continue Reading →

Humans are Aggressive: Could ‘Moral Enhancement’ technologies change this?

Cohen Marcus Lionel Brown, University of Wollongong. It’s a mistake to think problematic aggression is limited to those with psychiatric disorders. Healthy people have also the capacity for impulsive violence – and resulting “morally” poor behaviour. Traditionally, moral development has… Continue Reading →

Marcus Aurelius in Love: The Future Stoic Philosopher and Roman Emperor’s Passionate Teenage Love Letters to His Tutor

Maria Popova: The Marginalian. In these darkening times, when the powerful and the political class have become utterly corrupted, and indifferent to the concerns of ordinary people, there are, as a kind of counterwave, a significant number of people trying… Continue Reading →

Book Out Now. Convoy to Canberra: The Day Australia Changed Forever.

The humanitarian crimes committed by Australian authorities against their own citizens, beginning in early 2020, will live on in infamy, but it is the people themselves who create a nation’s history. On the 12th of February 2022, the largest gathering… Continue Reading →

Words Are Eagles: The essays of Gregory Day

David Carlin, RMIT University Gregory Day’s essay collection Words are Eagles is carefully subtitled: “Selected Writings on the Nature and Language of Place”. The word “nature” has crept in there perhaps to give a nod to the reader to expect… Continue Reading →

Labor’s Attorney General Mark Dreyfus undoes unjust prosecution of whistleblower Bernard Collaery

By Bruce Haigh: Independent Australia. By the Government rightly dropping the charges against Witness K’s lawyer Bernard Collaery, Australia was reminded of the illegal bugging operation against Timor-Leste, writes Bruce Haigh. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL, Mark Dreyfus, has thrown out all the concocted and… Continue Reading →

Let the Recriminations Begin: The Great Unravelling

Brownstone Institute. The Brownstone Institute is the world’s leading academic centre confronting the Big Tech, Big Government, Big Pharma Covid narrative. Here is a sampling of their recent work. Finally, it has begun to dawn on people that there is… Continue Reading →

Another Spectacular Waste of Public Funds: Australia’s First Home Buyer Schemes

With Dr Chris Martin of University of NSW City Futures Research Centre. The $20 billion spent on assistance may have benefited existing home owners more than new home owners, a new report finds. First home buyer (FHB) assistance programs might bring forward… Continue Reading →

Five Big Trends in Australians Getting Scammed

Paul Haskell-Dowland, Edith Cowan University. Greed, desire, wishful thinking and naivety are lucrative markets for scam artists – and their age-old hustles are increasingly being supplemented by digital chicanery. In 2021 Australians lost an estimated $2 billion to fraudsters, more… Continue Reading →

Australia: The Tide of Tyranny

By Michael Gray Griffith: Cafe Locked Out and the Deplorables Epic Road Trip “We have become historians; capturing a history they are already trying to erase.”~Michael Gray Griffith. Of all the remarkably talented bloggers, vloggers, citizen journalists, musicians and artists… Continue Reading →

Sydney’s Monster Flood Crisis

Dale Dominey-Howes, University of Sydney. Again, thousands of residents in Western Sydney face a life-threatening flood disaster. At the time of writing, evacuation orders spanned southwest and northwest Sydney and residents of the Hawkesbury-Nepean Valley were being warned the crisis… Continue Reading →

“Tip of the Iceberg”: Aussie data sold on $23 Million Dark Web Market

TOTT NEWS. An analysis of one prominent dark web market has revealed a network that has sold over 720 thousand items of personal data for $23.2 million. A new study by cybersecurity company NordVPN has analysed one of the dark web markets that… Continue Reading →

Australia’s Atrocious Internet: Let the Farce Continue

By Kim Wingerei: Michael West Media. Australia has some of the slowest and worst internet in the world, a fiasco brought to its long suffering citizens by the Australian government. The newly elected Labor government has yet to say how… Continue Reading →

The Tonal Richness of Australia’s Indigenous End of Days Myths

By Nicolas Rothwell. Extract from Quicksilver. Nicolas Rothwell is one of Australia’s most exceptionally beautiful writers; his lyrical prose and depth of intelligence making him a unique figure in Australia’s literary landscape. He was the child of Czech and Australian… Continue Reading →

The Pfizer Papers: Company Secretly Planned for the Third Dose

T.J. Coles: TOTT NEWS. Documents reveal Pfizer was already planning for a third booster shot before the first two doses had finished an analysis period. Recently-released Pfizer/US Food and Drug Administration Clinical Overview documents from April 2021 show that the… Continue Reading →

The United States, the Pacific Bully

By Brian Toohey: Pearls and Irritations. The US dominates the Pacific Islands to an extent China can never hope to achieve. With Australia’s support, the US is now engaged in an arms build-up in its Pacific territories and de-facto colonies… Continue Reading →

A World Health Organisation Pandemic Preparedness Treaty: After the last Debacle!!!!!

With Professor Ramesh Thakur. Former United Nations Assistant Secretary-General Ramesh Thakur has warned in The Spectator Australia of the coming massive expansion of the international pandemic bureaucracy and the powers of the WHO to press countries towards authoritarian public health measures. Professor Thakur… Continue Reading →

Sky-high mortgages, 7.1% inflation, and a 20% chance of recession. How the Conversation Australia’s panel Forecast the Future

Peter Martin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University. Homeowners will face mortgage rates near 5.5% in a little over a year, according to a survey of 22 leading Australian economists. The Conversation’s 2022-23 forecasting survey predicts an increase… Continue Reading →

Jobs, Housing and Lifestyle the keys to Australia’s Future

By Laurie Patton. ​​​​Come September a group of industry leaders, politicians, academics and consultants will gather in​ ​Canberra to grapple with some of the most challenging social, economic and political issues facing​ ​Australia. Provocatively titled “Regionalisation – Rebalancing the nation”… Continue Reading →

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