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Jaelen Nicole Myers, James Cook University “Baby shark doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo, baby shark doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo …” If you’re the parent of a young child, you’re probably painfully familiar with this infectious song, which now has more than 13 billion… Continue Reading →
Adam Behr, Newcastle University Few artists have straddled the boundaries between acclaim, controversy and public affection as effectively as Sinéad O’Connor who passed away on the 26th of July at the age of 56. Her status as a household name… Continue Reading →
We are living interludes, bookended between not yet and no more, each of us a random draw of the cosmic lottery, each allotted a sliver of spacetime in which to live out our lives as chance configurations of stardust suspended… Continue Reading →
Will New Federal Laws Protect Australians From Disinformation or Serve to Silence Political Dissent?
By Paul Gregoire: Sydney Criminal Lawyers Blog. The freedom of expression the internet has brought to the global community has always posed an issue for governments, as the information they disseminate can now more easily and openly be questioned and… Continue Reading →
By Paul Collits Australia’s economy has, as long as we can remember, relied upon mass immigration, including by, but not limited to, Asian students on a visa pathway, to keep the place afloat. It is a Ponzi scheme. Since we… Continue Reading →
Mark Byron, University of Sydney One of just two copies of Virginia Woolf’s first novel, The Voyage Out (1915), annotated with her handwriting and preparations to revise it for a US edition, was recently rediscovered in the Fisher Library Rare… Continue Reading →
By Stephen Mayne: Michael West Media Australian companies worth billions of dollars are slipping into private hands at an alarming rate. Stephen Mayne explores what’s driving it and why it’s a worry. After 38 years as a public company, vitamins group… Continue Reading →
TOTT NEWS The World Economic Forum (WEF) has recently published its Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2023 report, which includes a look at a range of ‘innovative’ trends in the world. The WEF report “…outlines the technologies poised to positively impact society… Continue Reading →
Rebekah Barnett: Dystopian Down Under. A contentious new bill to crack down on misinformation and disinformation has drawn criticism for its potential to restrict free expression and political dissent. Notably, the government will be exempt from the proposed laws. Censorship will be… Continue Reading →
By Professor Ramesh Thakur: Spectator Australia. Medically idiotic, economically ruinous, socially disruptive and embittering, culturally dystopian, politically despotic: what was there to like in the Covid era? Billions, if you were Big Pharma. Unchecked power, if you were Big State…. Continue Reading →
TOTT NEWS Heading out to the Melbourne Cricket Ground any time soon? What about Sydney’s Allianz Stadium? If so, you can expect to be captured by facial recognition technology in use at each of these venues. Sensitive biometric data is… Continue Reading →
Alexander Howard, University of Sydney. One of the most haunting poems of the 20th century, T.S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men (1925), concludes: This is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper. In 1958, on his 70th… Continue Reading →
TOTT NEWS The Queensland government has made flu jabs free for all ages until the end of August, as the state battles an 18.6% drop in uptake since last year. ‘Please take our flu jabs!’, is the message coming from… Continue Reading →
Darius von Guttner Sporzynski, Australian Catholic University. Robert Oppenheimer is often placed next to Albert Einstein as the 20th century’s most famous physicist. He will forever be the “father of the atomic bomb” after the first nuclear weapon was successfully… Continue Reading →
By John Stapleton Ronan tells it like this: “I had full on psychosis. But I kept drawing all the time. I was living in Saigon in Vietnam, ended up homeless. I was pulling the cameras out of the wall in… Continue Reading →
By Paul Gregoire: Sydney Criminal Lawyers Blog At the White House last Friday, US national security advisor Jake Sullivan dropped it on the globe that the Biden administration, despite its having held off for a long as it could, will now be… Continue Reading →
Victoria is the biggest loser, modelling shrinks excess death rate by up to a third. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released an update this week, ‘Measuring Australia’s excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic until the first quarter 2023’. Excess… 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 →
TOTT NEWS Elon Musk has announced a new venture called ‘xAI’ that plans to “understand the true nature of the universe”. What will they ‘discover’? Billionaire Elon Musk launched an artificial intelligence company called xAI on Thursday, vowing to develop an AI… Continue Reading →
By Allan Patience: University of Melbourne. Pearls and Irritations. When will Australians realise, as former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating has been unerringly consistent in arguing, that they are part of the cosmopolitanism and complexity of Asia, and not a Western… Continue Reading →
Alexander Howard, University of Sydney Our cultural touchstones series looks at books that have made an impact. Ayn Rand is “one of the most important intellectual voices in our culture,” wrote Gregory Salmieri, co-editor of the Blackwell Companion to Ayn… Continue Reading →
Transcript of a Speech Given by Matt Taibbi, One of America’s Best Journalists. Racket News. The following text is from an address given at “Freedom Fest” in Memphis, Tennessee on July 13, 2023. You can follow Matt Taibbi’s excellent work… Continue Reading →
By Paul Collits: Substack What exactly do you say when your country betrays you and disgraces itself before the world? When you find out that it is run by thugs and goons? When you realise that the institutions that you… Continue Reading →
By Debbie Lerman: Brownstone Institute Scandalous incompetence. Profound stupidity. Astounding errors. This is how many analysts – including Dr. Vinay Prasad, Dr. Scott Atlas, and popular Substack commentator eugyppius – explain how leading public health experts could prescribe so many terrible pandemic response policies. And… Continue Reading →
By Rebekah Barnett: Dystopian Down Under Dr John Campbell, retired nurse educator and Covid data YouTuber, features the West Australian Vaccine Safety Surveillance 2021 report in a new video. “I was completely appalled by this report,” he says. Dr Campbell says… Continue Reading →
By Ian Williamson and John Stapleton Surrounded by nature reserves and national parks, Wonboyn Lake is a spectacular waterway nestled within the absolutely beautiful wilderness of the far south coast of New South Wales, Australia. Encircled by forests and remote… Continue Reading →
Jen Webb, University of Canberra Milan Kundera, that remarkable novelist, essayist, poet, philosopher and political critic, has died at the age of 94. It feels too soon, perhaps because in everything he wrote, he opened up new ways of thinking,… Continue Reading →
By John Stapleton Want to shut up an Australian? Just ask them this: “When did you last have a good Prime Minister?” The incumbent, Anthony Albanese, is turning out to be worse than anyone could possibly have imagined. His predecessor,… Continue Reading →
By Rebekah Barnett: Dystopian Down Under Meta platforms are a primary source of news for most Australians. Meta, Facebook’s parent company, is the latest international mega-company to get involved in Australia’s upcoming referendum regarding an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, after Pfizer pledged its… Continue Reading →
By Rebekah Barnett: Brownstone Institute Thirty minutes of truth bombs is how one Twitter user described Liberal Democrat John Ruddick’s maiden speech to the New South Wales (NSW) Parliament, Wednesday 28 June. Indeed, Ruddick, who left the Liberal Party in 2021 after… Continue Reading →
By Bettina Arndt: Substack Last week, Nigel Farage’s bank announced they were closing his accounts. The controversial UK politician had been with the bank for 40 years and was given no reason for the decision. Since then, Farage has tried unsuccessfully to… Continue Reading →