Tag A Sense of Place Magazine
For a disengaged and bitterly disillusioned electorate struggling to regain a sense of normality after two years of authoritarian derangement the sight of the Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Opposition leader Anthony Albanese, two aging political con artists masquerading in… Continue Reading →
By Gordon Weiss. The train pulls into Platform 4 at Przemyśl station, track 102, the first stop after crossing the Ukrainian border. It wheezes, hissing and spitting until a last lurch into its bay forces its stop. These trains usually… Continue Reading →
Sam Baron, Australian Catholic University Does time exist? The answer to this question may seem obvious: of course it does! Just look at a calendar or a clock. But developments in physics suggest the non-existence of time is an open… Continue Reading →
By Christine Milne: Michael West Media. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has “let her rip” on the pristine native forests of Tasmania in the early days of the 2022 election campaign. It was his “This is coal” moment for another dying… Continue Reading →
By Jen Webb: University of Canberra. For decades, researchers have investigated what reading affords us, whether “us” means individuals or communities. Their research points to the benefits reading offers in terms of physical and mental health, education, and, perhaps most… Continue Reading →
By Michael Gray Griffith: Café Locked Out. The people mover was new and the afternoon sun was deepening its maroon paint as the mother of these five children filled its boot with bags of shopping. Around the RV her young… Continue Reading →
Simon Eckermann: University of Wollongong. As an opening gambit to his re-election campaign, Prime Minister Scott Morrison claimed his handling of the pandemic had saved 40,000 lives. This figure compares Australia over 2020 and 2021 with an average derived across… Continue Reading →
By Kathy Lette. Why is it that just when you think you have all the answers, life starts asking all the wrong questions? The last few months have taken me on a hair-raising ride – a parachute-free plunge from a… Continue Reading →
Andrew Childs, Griffith University Many would be familiar with Reddit as one of the largest social networking sites, with a large group of forums (“subreddits”) catering to almost any interest. Since the beginning of April, Reddit has played host to… Continue Reading →
By Caitlin Johnstone. If you’ve got a gut feeling that your rulers are working to control your perception of the war in Ukraine, it is safe to trust that feeling. If you feel like there’s been a concerted effort from… Continue Reading →
Jeffrey A. Tucker: The Brownstone Institute. At the end of the Cold War, the end-of-history theory was that every country in the world that desired prosperity and progress would necessarily have to embrace both economic liberty and political democracy. You… Continue Reading →
T.J. Coles. TOTT NEWS. The Pfizer-FDA health and safety documents reveal the COVID vaccination was originally intended to “prevent” the virus. This is Part One of a series of articles from TOTT NEWS exploring the explosive Pfizer-US Food and Drug… Continue Reading →
By Nicholas R. Longrich, University of Bath. Humans evolved in Africa, along with chimpanzees, gorillas and monkeys. But primates themselves appear to have evolved elsewhere – likely in Asia – before colonising Africa. At the time, around 50 million years… Continue Reading →
Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra. Australian voters will go to the polls on May 21. The government enters the battle trailing the opposition 46-54% in the latest Newspoll, conducted after the budget, with Morrison and opposition leader Anthony Albanese virtually… Continue Reading →
By Sue Price: Men’s Rights Agency. Illustrations from Artsper Magazine’s piece on The World’s Most Famous Street Art. Coercive Control: When this terminology first came into focus as the next label women were seeking to use to expand the meaning… Continue Reading →
Claire Corbett, University of Technology Sydney. Writers can’t always be trusted when they talk about the power and importance of story. We have a vested interest and can get sentimental, promoting the immense power of story, of narrative, as inherently… Continue Reading →
Maggie Coggan: Pro Bono Australia News. The NSW parliament has passed tough new anti-protest laws with less than a week’s notice, prompting 39 civil society groups to spring into action to call for an end to the “draconian” measures. The NSW… Continue Reading →
Tom Barnes, Australian Catholic University “Our recovery leads the world,” treasurer Josh Frydenberg told Australia on budget night last week. “We have overcome the biggest economic shock since the Great Depression.” The government has repeatedly emphasised forecasts of the lowest… Continue Reading →
By Professor Augusto Zimmerman. IS THE CHILD SUPPORT SCHEME LEADING TO THE GROWTH OF PARENTAL ALIENATION AND MALE SUICIDE IN AUSTRALIA? The answer is an undoubted yes. Both sides of politics have ignored the massive social damage the Agency has… Continue Reading →
Dr Tegan Westendorf: Australian Strategic Policy Institute. For policing agencies, AI is considered as a force-multiplying solution not only because it can process more data that human brains can conceivably do within required time frames, but also because it can… Continue Reading →
TOTT NEWS The Australian Federal Police (AFP) will set up a “specialised investigative taskforce” to help “ensure the security of parliamentarians during the 2022 Federal election”. The Australian Federal Police (AFP) task force will use “real time intelligence” to investigate… Continue Reading →
Anne Tiernan, Griffith University. Awaiting the official start of the 2022 campaign, published polls show Labor is comfortably ahead of the government. Pundits agree this year’s election is Albanese’s to lose, but predictions range along a spectrum from a Labor… Continue Reading →
Peter Tuthill and Barnaby Norris, University of Sydney. How do planets form? For many years scientists thought they understood this process by studying the one example we had access to: our own Solar System. However, the discovery of planets around… Continue Reading →
By Jorg Probst On 19 March 2022 I attended a protest outside the prime minister’s humble abode in Sydney. I would estimate the crowd on this showery day at somewhere between 300-500 people. The event was noisy, entirely peaceful, and… Continue Reading →
By Ethan Nash: TOTT News The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has unveiled a new facility in Canberra to house the expansion of its intelligence gathering and threat detection capabilities The national security agency has opened a new cyber and foreign intelligence facility in Majura… Continue Reading →
Malcolm Roberts: Senator in the Australian Parliament. Malcolm Roberts of the minority Australian party One Nation has been one of the only politicians in the country to call out the tyranny of Covid and the nation’s response to the “pandemic”,… Continue Reading →
By Paul Collits. Featuring the Paintings of Sir Arthur Streeton. The recent, unnerving revelations about unvaccinated Environment Protection Authoritystaff being forced out of their jobs were jolting for New South Welshmen; huddled inside as so many of them are, with… Continue Reading →
By Gregory Moore, The University of Melbourne One afternoon in the late 1970s, my colleague and fellow student Helen Quirk handed me a brown, shrivelled fern frond. It appeared to be dead, and was so dry that when I crushed… Continue Reading →
Oak Flats is a working class suburb south of Wollongong on Australia’s east coast. Its demographic of tradies, electricians, plumbers, tilers, truck drivers, school teachers and nurses do not like or trust the nation’s politicians and to a man and… Continue Reading →
With Photography by Tim Ritchie There is no more historic, more superbly located or visually rich part of Sydney than The Rocks. Tucked in under the southern flank of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, from the earliest days of the colony it… Continue Reading →
By Professor Ramesh Thakur: The Daily Sceptic. What does the Australian experience teach us about the efficacy of Covid vaccines? Why, for instance, have infections and ICU admissions been hugely higher after vaccination campaigns really got under way? Australia hit… Continue Reading →
In his Last Poems, one of Australia’s Greatest Writers Les Murray offers a Gentle, Gracious Farewell
Lyn McCredden, Deakin University There are so many strange serendipities, and antipathies, forged across Les Murray’s work, verbal, historical and spiritual. In Continuous Creation also, Murray’s last, posthumous book (published almost three years after he died in a nursing home… Continue Reading →