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Julieanne Lamond, Australian National University. Frank Moorhouse, who died in Sydney last Sunday, made a significant and multi-faceted contribution to Australia’s literary life. He was born in 1938 in Nowra, which he described as “a small Australian country town (two… Continue Reading →
Create Sacred Space: The Red Hand Files. Boundless talent and a solid work ethic has turned Nick Cave into one of the world’s most admired artists. And whether you’re a musician or an accountant, you need an office. But not… Continue Reading →
Susan Pavan: i3 Publications. Six Minutes After Landing A Captain Pilot Suffers A Cardiac Arrest… Pilots & Experts World-Wide Voice Concerns Of A “Catastrophic” Aviation Accident. The Reason? Silenced. In a slight clearing of murky waters, the world is slowly… Continue Reading →
Anne Pender, University of Adelaide. In a letter accompanying the advance copy of her latest novel, Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks reveals the inspiration for Horse. The author was propelled into the research for this masterly work by a chance… Continue Reading →
Three more major companies are being referred to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner over their use of facial recognition technology in stores. Australia’s leading consumer advocacy group has raised serious concerns about major retailers using facial recognition technology to… Continue Reading →
Michael West: Michael West Media. Recession is likely. Share markets, bonds, property, crypto; it’s all falling, just as the cost of living is soaring and central banks around the world are hoisting rates to crush demand and curtail rising prices. Michael… Continue Reading →
David Carter, The University of Queensland Nathan Hobby’s The Red Witch: A Biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard takes on the challenging task of sorting out the complicated details of Prichard’s life as a child, sibling, governess, teacher, friend, lover, wife,… Continue Reading →
James Fodor, The University of Melbourne Recently developed artificial intelligence (AI) models are capable of many impressive feats, including recognising images and producing human-like language. But just because AI can perform human-like behaviours doesn’t mean it can think or understand… Continue Reading →
By Ethan Nash: TOTT NEWS. Despite state governments beginning to abolish harsh vaccine mandates, major employers have stated policies will not change and “high-risk” workplaces are pushed for a fourth dose. Some of Australia’s biggest employers will continue to require… Continue Reading →
By Augustine Zycher: Independent Australia. By governing for the few and treating Australia to the misuse of public funds, rorts and a lack of transparency, the Coalition ensured our worst-ever score on the international corruption index, writes Augustine Zycher. THIS IS… Continue Reading →
TOTT NEWS An investigation has revealed over 4 million Australian children were exposed to surveillance and tracking from third-party apps during lockdown remote learning periods. The school students were put at risk of unprecedented tracking and surveillance during remote learning… Continue Reading →
By Professor Ramesh Thakur: Spectator Australia. I recently received a communication from my GP’s surgery: ‘Influenza is spiking early. Our GPs report that those with 2022 flu have a rapid onset of illness with high fevers, dry cough, body aches,… Continue Reading →
Elizabeth Sinclair, Gary Kendrick and Jane Edgeloe, The University of Western Australia; Martin Breed, Flinders University. Next time you go diving or snorkelling, have a close look at those wondrously long, bright green ribbons, waving with the ebb and flow… Continue Reading →
By Paul Collits. There is nothing more likely to get under the skin of the pro-vaxxer establishment than pointing out that the magic mushroom vaccines designed by politicians to give them a get-out-of-jail-free card in relation to Covid are experimental,… Continue Reading →
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 →
By Paul Collits. The Brownstone Institute is the leading academic centre countering the Big Government, Big Tech, Big Pharma Covid narrative. Its head Jeffrey Tucker recently wrote that looking back to the “before times” – meaning before the middle of March… Continue Reading →
By Sonia Hickey: Sydney Criminal Lawyers Blog. Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carrol has come under fire in the Supreme Court over her directive last year compelling officers to be vaccinated against Covid-19 in order to keep their jobs A number of Queensland… Continue Reading →
Matthew Ricketson, Deakin University. It is easy to forget why Julian Assange has been on trial in England for, well, seemingly forever. Didn’t he allegedly sexually assault two women in Sweden? Isn’t that why he holed up for years in… Continue Reading →
Thomas Harrington: Brownstone Institute. When most people hear the terms “shock and awe” and “full spectrum dominance” they probably think—if they think about them at all—of the early moments of the premeditated US destruction of Iraq and the ever-smug grin… Continue Reading →
W. Joseph Campbell, American University School of Communication The “Napalm Girl” photograph of terror-stricken Vietnamese children fleeing an errant aerial attack on their village, taken 50 years ago this month, has rightly been called “a picture that doesn’t rest.” It… Continue Reading →
UNSW Newswire Golden bandicoots have returned to the Strzelecki Desert in far-west NSW after a 100-year absence thanks to the Wild Deserts team, a partnership between UNSW Sydney scientists and NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. Up to 40 golden… Continue Reading →
Tim Nelson and Joel Gilmore, Griffith University. Australia is in the grips of an energy crisis, with electricity generation prices roughly 115% above the previous highest average wholesale price ever recorded. The price for electricity in New South Wales for… Continue Reading →
By Susan Pavan: i3 Publications. Manipulation of the mainstream media during the Covid era has left a bad taste in many people’s mouths, but also spawned a talented and highly motivated new generation of citizen journalists who have refused to… Continue Reading →
Alda Balthrop-Lewis, Australian Catholic University Australians have just decided another “climate election”. What this meant, basically, was that we had to choose between two difficult futures. The result has yielded a new mandate for meaningful work on climate policy. “Liberal… Continue Reading →
By Dr T.J. Coles: TOTT NEWS. Documents reveal sleight-of-hand tactics were used on clinical trial protocols to ensure the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was granted a license. In April last year, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a confidential Biologics… Continue Reading →
Timothée Bonnet, Australian National University. How fast is evolution? In adaptive evolution, natural selection causes genetic changes in traits that favour the survival and reproduction of individual organisms. Although Charles Darwin thought the process occurred over geological timescales, we have… Continue Reading →
Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra. Anthony Albanese had expected the election might be a week earlier than it was, because last Saturday would bump up against Tuesday’s Quad meeting in Tokyo. But Scott Morrison wanted maximum time to try to… Continue Reading →
Benjamin Moffitt, Australian Catholic University. Many commentators tipped Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party (UAP) and Pauline Hanson’s One Nation to perform well this election by scooping up the “freedom” and anti-vax vote from voters angry about how the pandemic was… Continue Reading →
By Jeremy Aitken. It is 8.00 pm on a Saturday night. I am standing near the sliding glass entrance doors of a large suburban function room. The room is packed. Well-dressed diners are seated, eating entrees and drinking wine. In… Continue Reading →
Steven Tingay, Curtin University. The United States Congress recently held a hearing into US government information pertaining to “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAPs). The last investigation of this kind happened more than 50 years ago, as part of a US Air… Continue Reading →
Steve Templeton: Brownstone Institute. With the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic hopefully waning, it will be time for many to take a step back and assess the collateral damage. And there is, and is going to be, a lot of it. With two years of… Continue Reading →
Frank Bongiorno, Australian National University. Political commentators often use the idea of a political spectrum from left to right as shorthand for understanding political ideologies, parties and programs. Derived from the arrangement of the National Assembly in the French Revolution,… Continue Reading →