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‘It’s Undemocratic’: NSW Anti-protest Laws spark a Civil Society Backlash

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 →

Pandemic Pain remains as Australia’s Economic Recovery leaves the Poor Behind

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 →

AFP Creates New Taskforce to Protect Politicians ahead of Imminent Election

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 →

The Polls look grim for Australia’s Ruling Coalition. Will the Sunshine State of Queensland Buck the Trend Again?

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 →

Is Australia Ready to Face Covid Truths?

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 →

Australia Breaks Apart: Human Resources, Big Companies and the Outsourcing of the Covid State

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 →

INDEPENDENT AUSTRALIA AUDIO EXCLUSIVE: Laura Tangle talks Floods and Photo Ops with PM Scott Morrespin

By Michelle Pini: Independent Australia. ScoMo joins Laura Tangle on ABC $7.10 and reveals all disaster management and what it really means to be “real”. Really. TANGLE: Reports also indicate that your $1,000 one-off payments plus the additional $1,000 payments are only… Continue Reading →

Freedom Protesters Gather in Brisbane Over State Of Emergency Extension

TOTT News. Demonstrators have taken to the streets of Brisbane to protest against the extension of emergency COVID-19 powers. A three-day event, hosted by The People’s Revolution, gathered outside Queensland Parliament House, expressing their opposition to vaccine mandates and COVID emergency… Continue Reading →

Freedom Artists: Reignite Democracy Australia

Born from the crucible of Covid oppression and Australia’s extreme authoritarian responses, Reignite Democracy Australia has emerged as a significant player in the current ferment of Australian politics, caught as we all are in an election year. A scent of… Continue Reading →

BUSTED: Australian Defence Force caught staging social media PR during Flood Recovery

TOTT News. The Australian Defence Force (ADF) and Scott Morrison have both received harsh criticism online, after locals in flood-affected northern NSW regions expose the so-called ‘help’ they are receiving on-the-ground. ASSISTANCE? Video and photos have emerged showing ADF members… Continue Reading →

A Year of Living With Discredited Mathematical Models: Best of the Archives.

By Professor Ramesh Thakur and David Redman After a year’s experience of COVID-19 worldwide, the continuing hold of discredited mathematical models regarding lockdowns remain. As well, it is increasingly evident that medical specialists put in charge of public policy ignored… Continue Reading →

Public Health Erred on the Side of Catastrophe

By Brian McGlinchey: Brownstone Institute. Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, proponents of lockdowns, shelter-in-place orders, mask mandates and other coercive government interventions have characterized these measures as benevolently “erring on the side of caution.”  Now, as the grim toll of those… Continue Reading →

The Day the Australian Flag Became the Yellow Star.

By Michael Gray Griffith: Café Locked Out. We set this image up. The day before we had stood before the doors of Parliament with all our flags and banners and t-shirts with messages that all read Freedom. But today we… Continue Reading →

Panic Merchants, Be Gone… Covid is just Another Virus

By Professor Ramesh Thakur: The Weekend Australian. From the very start of the pandemic, a small but critical minority of us has argued that irrespective of the paths taken to get there, the end state will be living with Covid-19… Continue Reading →

What’s an LRAD? Explaining the ‘Sonic Weapons’ Police use for Crowd Control and Communication

Lawrence English, Griffith University. At vaccine mandate protests in Canberra last week, police used powerful loud-hailing devices called Long-Range Acoustic Devices (LRADs) to address protesters. While some protesters claimed they were injured by the “sonic weapon”, those reports are inconsistent… Continue Reading →

Australia’s Conservatives Peddle Themselves as Good Economic Managers. You’ve Got To Be Joking.

By Alan Austin: Michael West Media. The Coalition as “superior economic managers”? The data demonstrates the polar opposite. Alan Austin looks at the leading measures of economic performance over 10 years and finds Australia has slumped sharply against other nations. The bright… Continue Reading →

An “Open Letter” to Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison from the World’s Most Powerful Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch. What Happens When the Public Realise It Was All For Nothing???

As the Covid story collapses worldwide, and jurisdiction after jurisdiction abandons all Covid restrictions and mandates, leading newspapers around the world, many of whom played a key part in panicking entire populations, have begun an intense period of naval gazing…. Continue Reading →

The Sad and Brutal Final Hours of Camp Freedom and the Convoy to Canberra

What had been a remarkably successful policing operation, handling the one million protestors who showed up in Canberra to protest two years of government overreach during the Covid era, turned sour in the final hours. Until that point there had… Continue Reading →

So are we really violent?

The 12th of February 2022, on some estimates more than one million Australian came from all over the country, some driving more than 24 hours to get there. At the very least it is clear that the official estimates of… Continue Reading →

Video From The Day Australia Changed Forever

The 12th of February 2022 is the day Australia transformed.Without counting the several hours missing from the police report of people coming on the 11th, over 1.2 millions cars entered ACT in the week preceding this epic day. Epic as… Continue Reading →

The People Find Their Voice: Australia 12 February, 2022.

By Susan Pavan. People were upset. They expected something to change. There was a tsunami of freedom. People don’t want to go back to their old lives. They want to stay. They want to start a new way, a new… Continue Reading →

The Day Australia Changed Forever. 12 February, 2022. Protestors Ring Australia’s National Capital.

By John Stapleton. Photography by John Napper. They’ve come with their dogs. They’ve come with their kids. They’ve come with their hearts. There are an estimated 200,000 protestors on one Canberra campsite alone. Today is the Ground Zero of days;… Continue Reading →

Imprisoned Dr Bruce Paix Released on Bail: Given A Hero’s Welcome at Canberra’s Camp Freedom

By John Stapleton. Photography John Napper. War veteran and trauma specialist Dr Bruce Paix was arrested near Canberra airport while on his way to attend the Convoy to Canberra gathering. Cheering crowds celebrated Dr Paix’s release today, 11 February, 2022,… Continue Reading →

The Meek Will Inherit The Earth: Inside Australia’s Camp Freedom

By John Stapleton. Photography by John Napper. With numbers now in their tens of thousands at the rallying point for Convoy to Canberra, the atmosphere at the heart of Australia’s Camp Freedom is both chaotic and glorious, jubilant, exultant. And… Continue Reading →

The Spirit Rises: The Photography of John Napper Inside Australia’s Protests

While mainstream journalists around the country continue to ignore the biggest story of their lifetimes, Australia’s independent media is on fire. Thousands of people from all around Australia are converging on Canberra as part of the Canberra Convoy protests. The… Continue Reading →

Israel Confounds the Promise of Vaccines as the way out of Covid

By Professor Ramesh Thakur: The Spectator Australia. Israel was meant to have been the showpiece of vaccination success in escaping from the threat of coronavirus. Instead, it has turned into an embarrassing example of the limitations and ineffectualness of Covid… Continue Reading →

How It All Ends: Australia Transforms. Part One.

John Stapleton. For years the biggest story in the country has been the slow motion collapse of the Australia of old. Now, with the country only slowly stumbling out of lockdown and insane levels of social restrictions introduced without parliamentary… Continue Reading →

Canberra Explodes: Australia’s National Capital Transformed

Sources: Various. Days of protest are marching towards a resolution. So here are the scattered notes from multiple sources; as the river of this history changes all our lives. And transforms the nature of the polity. They tried to crush… Continue Reading →

Covid Mania: You Might As Well Laugh

By Jorg Probst. Satire trigger warning: This text may offend some most people. To listen to the podcast go here. We’ve had a rough two years, so it’s all the more important that we remind ourselves how we can still feel really… Continue Reading →

Notes from the Frontline: Australia’s Capital Under Siege

Fortune favours the brave.  The scale of the catastrophe that is enveloping Australia, that is the most staggering thing about this period of history. The psychopathic lack of empathy by the perpetrators. The dismal state of the nation.  The Prime Minister… Continue Reading →

Scotty From Astra Zeneca

By Paul Collits: The Freedoms Project. Slowly during 2021 the truth on vaccine mandates emerged from the Prime Minister.  Even slitherers and prevaricators eventually give the game away, even if by accident.  And as slitherers and prevaricators go, Morrison is… Continue Reading →

This Utterly Extraordinary Day: The Fulcrums of History

TOTT News Massive crowds from across Australia descend on the nation’s capital. Huge crowds of pro-choice protesters have gathered in the Australian Capital Territory to demand freedom and no more COVID-19 vaccine mandates. But the powerful event was driven by… Continue Reading →

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