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By Sonia Hickey: Sydney Criminal Lawyers Blog. Welcome to ‘Freedom Day’, Monday 11th October. It’s the day for which many residents of Greater Sydney have been waiting for more than 15 weeks – 107 days to be precise. Non-essential businesses… Continue Reading →
Tom Smith, University of Portsmouth. The importance of journalists who take considerable risks to bring people the truth in countries where this involves going up against authoritarian governments has been recognised by the Nobel committee’s decision to award the 2021… Continue Reading →
BY THE AUSTRALIAN autumn of 2020, following straight on from a Christmas of bushfires and extreme loss, the warning signs were clear. An uneducated public makes for easy victims. Australia of 2020 faced not only plummeting educational outcomes and a… Continue Reading →
By Sonia Hickey: Sydney Criminal Lawyers Blog. Many who watched the final press conference in which Gladys Berejiklian resigned from politics, have been wondering why the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) had chosen a critical time in the State’s fight… Continue Reading →
Lizzy Attree, Richmond American International University The Nobel Prize in Literature, considered the pinnacle of achievement for creative writers, has been awarded 114 times to 118 Nobel Prize laureates between 1901 and 2021. This year it went to novelist Abdulrazak… Continue Reading →
Claims Majority of Cops Agree with Her: A Break in the Wall. A 16-year veteran of the Victoria Police has given a blockbuster interview claiming the authoritarian abuses now making headlines around the world have left many police disturbed about… Continue Reading →
By Graham Young. Mandating or coercing COVID vaccination is one of the most important civil liberties issues of my lifetime. It’s a fundamental breach of human rights allegedly guaranteed by a number of international conventions and Australian law, as well… Continue Reading →
By Greg Barns: Michael West Media. The Morrison government, supported by the ALP, has passed a law that allows for security agencies, on the most flimsy of pretexts, to access and manipulate the electronic data of any citizen. It continues… Continue Reading →
By Michelle Pini, Managing Editor of Independent Australia. The resignations of the Premier and Deputy Premier of New South Wales, blaming ICAC and Friendlyjordies, respectively, signal the worst time of mourning for establishment media. WHY DID both Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Deputy… Continue Reading →
By T.J. Coles with TOTT News One sign reads: ‘Je ne suis pas une souris de laboratoire. Je ne vais pas a labattoir. Non a la piquouze. Résistance. Non pas sanitaire. Touche pas gosse. Non à la piquouze.‘ Translation: ‘I’m… Continue Reading →
By Paul Gregoire: Sydney Criminal Lawyers Blog Soon the lockdowns will end. The disparities in the enforcement of public health measures will disappear. Most who have been forced to stay at home will return to work. The vaccination drive will… Continue Reading →
Richard McLellan, Charles Sturt University; David M Watson, Charles Sturt University, and Kingsley Dixon, Curtin University. The sweet, earthy fragrance of sandalwood oil has made it immensely popular in incense sticks, candles and perfumes. But its beautiful scent may also… Continue Reading →
Jim Kimble: Independent Australia Book Club. Jim Kable reviews a book by Karen Throssell about the injustice suffered by her father in his life-long struggle to clear his name after being wrongly accused by Vladimir Petrov of being a Russian spy in the 1950s. FOUR… Continue Reading →
By John Stapleton. Photography by Dean Sewell. There is an old saying about journalism; it is the first draft of history. Part of the problem with the deteriorated and manipulated state of legacy media was that this noble function was… Continue Reading →
By Gregory Moore, University of Melbourne. From time to time, I’m contacted by people who have a favourite garden tree that seems suddenly to be in serious decline and lacking healthy foliage. Often the decline has been occurring over many… Continue Reading →
By Manal Al-Sharif: Michael West Media. “I left Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s most oppressive regimes. But the Australian Government’s recent draconian rules remind me so much of home.” Cyber security expert and human rights luminary Manal Al-Sharif reports… Continue Reading →
By Sonia Hickey: Sydney Criminal Lawyers Blog. Last week, a full three member bench of the Fair Work Commission refused former aged-care facility receptionist, Jennifer Kimber’s, application to appeal a single member decision in April 2021 which found she had not been unfairly dismissed… Continue Reading →
By Caitlin Johnstone. “Money has begun flowing into companies intending to monetize psychedelic therapy as new research has increasingly shown that blowing one’s mind can alter it for the better,” reads a new article for the Los Angeles Times titled “Money is… Continue Reading →
By Paul Collits: The Freedoms Project. I used to think that the Murdoch press supported the vaccines rollout because it wanted to support the Morrison Government. Now I am convinced that I got that one-hundred-and-eighty-degrees wrong. My new working hypothesis… Continue Reading →
By Stephen Saunders: Independent Australia. ‘His opponents will only assist the marketing-man-turned-prime-minister if they continue to underestimate him.’ So goes the final sentence and key takeaway of The Accidental Prime Minister. Annika Smethurst, now state political editor at The Age, made her… Continue Reading →
By Maria Popova: Brain Pickings. Maria Popova is a Bulgarian born New York based polymath who has read everything so the rest of us don’t have to. Not just hyper intelligent, she has an uncanny eye for beauty combined with… Continue Reading →
TOTT News Australian flags were flying in New York City overnight, as demonstrators chanted “Save Australia” in solidarity during an anti-mandate march across the city. Australia became the focus of an American pro-choice protest in New York City overnight, with… Continue Reading →
By Human Rights Advocates and Advocate Me This letter was originally addressed to the NSW Minister of Education Sarah Mitchell but is relevant across multiple industries and jurisdictions. Thousands of teachers, police officers and many others face the sack in… Continue Reading →
By Delia Falconer, University of Technology Sydney. When I experienced a great loss in in my early forties — almost a year to the day after another — I went to see my mother in the family home. She wasn’t… Continue Reading →
With zero ethical political leadership, and with violent scenes of authoritarian derangement now being a regular feature of life in Australia’s major cities, here’s images and links from the last few days. Australia is at a turning point, on the… Continue Reading →
By Callum Foote: Michael West Media. Dear Premier Gladys Berejiklian and NSW Health, thank you for finally responding to our Freedom of Information request. We ask that, in future, you simply send us an old roll of toilet paper. An… Continue Reading →
By Denis Muller, University of Melbourne. Journalists are adept at creating and reflecting public sentiment. It is a reciprocating process: journalistic portrayal creates the sentiment, then the sentiment feeds back into journalistic portrayal. This phenomenon can be seen clearly in… Continue Reading →
By Tania de Jong I recently saw this acronym for COVID. C = Censor O = Oppress V = Victimise I = Isolate D = Divide In a country that is supposed to be free, we have politicians, bureaucrats and corporations controlling, bullying, harassing, discriminating, ordering,… Continue Reading →
TOTT News There have been powerful scenes of workers from a variety of industries holding silent protests in dozens of locations across Australia, as the shards of Australian democracy begin to signs of complete collapse. Mass vaccine coercion has arrived in… Continue Reading →
Always generous with his immense talents, Nick Cave answers questions from his fans on his public blog The Red Hand Files. Here he answers the following question: I’ve always felt some sort of relation between you and Nick Drake. If… Continue Reading →
Paula Matthewson, senior reporter with one of the nation’s few mainstream news outlets not behind a paywall, The New Daily, wrote way back in early 2020: “If there’s one clear message to emerge from Australia’s efforts to combat COVID-19 it’s… Continue Reading →
Make no mistake. Premier of NSW Gladys Berejiklian, with every passing day, was becoming an ever more deeply despised and deeply divisive figure. Until one glorious day, the extremely powerful Independent Commission Against Corruption brought her down. And a glorious… Continue Reading →