The Australian continent has always been useful to other people’s wars. What has changed is the density of that usefulness. The Nautilus Institute, an American security think tank with a nuclear disarmament brief funded mainly by American philanthropic foundations, has… Continue Reading →
Walk a Perth street, enter a hardware store, queue at a stadium gate or present a driver’s licence and the same technology may already be reading your face. This month Western Australia Police reported that an Australia-first live facial recognition… Continue Reading →
Australia used to export its convicts. Now it is building the walls inward. After one massacre on Bondi Beach, Canberra recalled Parliament and, in a single sitting, handed ASIO and a minister the power to list groups as “prohibited hate… Continue Reading →
Anthony Albanese’s decision to collect the Atlantic Council’s Global Citizen Award in New York this week is a masterclass in tone-deaf vanity. While Labor’s primary vote slumps to 27 per cent and his net approval sits worse than Scott Morrison’s,… Continue Reading →
Institute of Public Affairs “#FixOurFeeds, the campaign widely credited with pushing the federal government toadopt a digital duty of care model has received millions of dollars from the federalgovernment. The Prime Minister claims the digital duty of care is a… Continue Reading →
One of the world’s best journalists, American Michael Shellenberger, has dramatically weighed into the Australian government’s over-the-top efforts to censor the Australian public. In his newsletter he writes that Australia’s Censorship Bill Is Aimed At Americans. And that it has… Continue Reading →
With John Stapleton and Michael Gray Griffith Profit, Power, and the Pandemic Rollout—Inside the Global mRNA Vaccine Debacle Former Pfizer chief toxicologist Helmut Sterz presents a critical examination of the development, approval, and global rollout of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines—particularly those… Continue Reading →
Goodbye Road: Australia’s Broken Heartlands is one of the rawest, most poignant, powerful and consequential books of the 2020s. Here author Michael Gray Griffith, speaking from an abandoned industrial park in Western Australia, talks in depth about the creation of… Continue Reading →
Lisa M. Given, RMIT University As countries around the world look to follow Australia’s lead in restricting young people’s access to social media, a new report by the eSafety Commissioner might give them reason to pause, at least temporarily. Australia’s… Continue Reading →
While you might expect criticism from from their traditional opponents, the Australian Federal Government’s March budget has been met with almost universal condemnation. A country already reeling from the impacts of mass migration and a cost of living crisis is… Continue Reading →
Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra One Nation’s smashing victory in Farrer fires up the insurgent party, and casts fresh doubts over the future of the Liberal Party. The result could not be a more devastating rebuff for Liberal leader Angus… Continue Reading →
Watch the Rumble Interview HERE. Gender affirming care in Australia encompasses a range of medical, psychological, and social interventions designed to support transgender and gender diverse individuals in aligning their physical characteristics and social presentation with their gender identity. This… Continue Reading →
This is the story of how networks of Mates have come to dominate business and government, robbing ordinary Australians. Every hour you work, thirty minutes of it goes to line the Mates’ pockets rather than your own. Mates in big… Continue Reading →
Lisa M. Given, RMIT University Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, has outlined an updated list of platforms that may fall under the social media age restrictions that will take effect later this year. While Australians expected platforms such as… Continue Reading →
Michael Gray Griffith: Cafe Locked Out In the trial of Paul Offe, the prosecutor, towards the end, left a free frame of the rear of Paul’s truck on all the screens of the court. On the top of Paul’s truck… Continue Reading →
50th Anniversary of the Family Law Act. Warnings that there were serious problems with the court came early. In 1985, only a decade after the court’s establishment, Australia’s proud old weekly The Bulletin ran a story on its front cover:… Continue Reading →
By Rebekah Barnett How do we live well through hard times, bad governance and constant fear mongering? A subscriber commented the other day with a question that I feel is relevant to many of us. Mike is a fellow West… Continue Reading →
From TOTT NEWS Bankwest recently announced it will close more branches in Western Australia as it moves towards a “digital future”, citing staffing issues and a rapid decline of demand for cash services. The changes come as Commonwealth Bank pursues a plan… Continue Reading →
Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra Peter Dutton has his tail up, but he’s being careful to manage expectations. As the opposition celebrates its suddenly improved fortunes, Dutton told the party room this week that inevitably the government would recalibrate over… Continue Reading →
By David Bell: Brownstone Institute If you place a frog in cool water and slowly raise the temperature, it’s said that you can boil it without it noticing and fighting to free itself. I never tested this, as I liked… Continue Reading →
TOTT NEWS Dramatically rising costs of living are provoking fears of a recession, if not another Great Depression. Mid-year Australia’s Council of Financial Regulators reviewed the nation’s economic crisis management arrangements in the wake of recent overseas collapses. “The council… 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 →
With poetry by Kenneth Slessor. Michael Fitzjames, whose work is collected in a number of Australia’s leading institutions, is best known as an illustrator for newspapers, but his paintings are also highly valued. Here is a collection of his depictions,… Continue Reading →
TOTT NEWS Recently, a class action was launched in the NSW Federal Court against the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), the Health Department and senior public servants, by those claiming vaccine harm. The suit is reported to have has 500 members, including three… Continue Reading →
By John Stapleton The story below was written some four years ago. It showed the massive connivance between social media platforms and the Australian government. It also covered the violent suppression of protests, in this case over Australia’s high immigration… Continue Reading →
If the geniuses of Australian government weren’t satisfied with all the cautionary voices emerging from some of the world’s most venerable tertiary institutions, they only had to go as far as the Australian National University, to Professor Ramesh Thakur, whose… Continue Reading →
By Paul Collits: The Freedoms Project. Artwork Trees at Night by Arthur Henry “Art” Young. Since the beginning of the Covid era, Paul Collits has stood out as one of the boldest and most cogent of commentators on the moral… Continue Reading →
TOTT NEWS An independent audit into the government’s digital interface myGov has recommended a revamp through a five-year plan in conjunction with the states and territories along with ongoing funding. This is the central theme of Developing an improved myGov for all Australians –… Continue Reading →
From TOTT NEWS Australian soldiers have participated in a drill that simulates the ‘controlling of aggressive protesters’ for ‘population protection’. After the last few years, everyone has a right to be concerned. ‘PEOPLE PROTECTION’ Australian soldiers are being trained on… Continue Reading →
From the Informed Medical Options Party ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON THE SAFETY OF VACCINES (ACSOV) ROLE: “The ACSOV is established …. to advise and make recommendations to the Minister for Health (TGA) on the safety, risk assessment and risk management of vaccines.”… Continue Reading →
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