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Australian Federal Police Finally Drop Covid Vaccine Mandates: Devastating Effects Remain

From Rebekah Barnett: The Brownstone Institute Three years after it became universally acknowledged that Covid vaccines provide negligible protection against infection and transmission, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) has finally dropped its Covid vaccine mandate.  AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw announced… Continue Reading →

Hackable Minds: The Silent War for Your Thoughts

From Gaz’s – A Defender’s Voice  The battlefield is no longer land—it’s your mind. Manipulated by data, steered by AI, controlled by fear. You’re not being informed. You’re being programmed. Wake up—before it’s too late. “Humans are hackable animals.” These chilling… Continue Reading →

The Eye Boggling Multi Billion Dollar AUKUS Fiasco: Australian Government Squanders Your Taxes Yet Again

From War Powers Reform Zero Transparency – New Report investigates the AUKUS Pact “AUKUS and the surrender of transparency, accountability and sovereignty” A new report on the massive AUKUS military pact has found the agreement has been plagued by an… Continue Reading →

Billboard Chris vs. Australia lawsuit wrap-up

From Rebekah Barnett: Dystopian Down Under Do people have the right to participate in charged social debates online? This is the question at the heart of a lawsuit between Australia’s online harms regulator, the eSafety Commissioner, on one side, with… Continue Reading →

Falun Dafa: The End of Days

By John Stapleton Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance “When two truths meet the most courageous one wins.” Chinese proverb. This piece was originally written some 20 years ago and is republished here out of curiosity. Falun Gong remain a powerful if essentially… Continue Reading →

Former Judge spills the beans on Australia’s rotten to the core Family Law System

By Bettina Arndt “The Family Court system is in enormous trouble.” That’s a momentous statement given that the speaker, former judge and now Adelaide barrister Stuart Lindsay, has dealt with more than 2000 family law cases. But there’s much more… This… Continue Reading →

Australia: Land of Slaves

From Michael Gray Griffith: Café Locked Out In the Kimberleys, I saw the broken backbone of a mountain range—time had spent millions of years pruning it down to here. Its rocks were cracked and angry, too hot to touch, for… Continue Reading →

It’s a Family’s Despair: Fred Pawle

A new book chronicles the Family Court’s 50 years of destroying families and men’s lives. It is a harbinger of the deeply flawed secular world into which we are sleepwalking. The creation of the Family Court of Australia in 1975… Continue Reading →

Australia IS tangled in a Gates Foundation web even as the new US Administration rips itself free with three key appointments

Alison Bevege: Letters from Australia Three key confirmations may go a long way to ripping the Gates/Pharma influence network from the US health system – but it’s doubtful the win will flow through to Australia. Our health sector has been… Continue Reading →

Australia’s Covid Response Caused Significant Harm, Yet Another Official Report Finds

By Rebekah Barnett, The Daily Sceptic Five years on from the declaration of a global pandemic, I’m weary of Covid inquiries. They tend to go either of two ways. They either run through bureaucratic checkboxes and give everyone a medal… Continue Reading →

Life in the Carpark Beneath Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s Clifftop Mansion

From Michael Gray Griffith: Café Locked Out Michael Gray Griffith is Australia’s leading contemporary historian. An inspiration to his thousands of followers, he travels Australia in his bus, which he calls Florence. A truly beautiful writer, everywhere he goes he… Continue Reading →

Failed Family Court Reform, Bettina Arndt

It is the 50th anniversary of Australia’s Family Court. That’s hardly cause for celebration. Over the last half century, what was originally designed as a “helping court” became the frontline of feminism’s gender wars and thus one of the country’s most… Continue Reading →

The Trump Ascendancy: Travels in America

By Abraham David Australian consultant Abraham David travelled across America on public transport during the 2024 election period, when Trump gained a a thumping victory. Here he looks back at the experience. What he saw on the streets explains why… Continue Reading →

Australia Wheels Into an Election Year: Labor crashes to a 55–45 Poll Deficit

By Adrian Beaumont, The University of Melbourne A national Resolve poll for Nine newspapers, conducted February 18–23 from a sample of 1,506, gave the Coalition a 55–45 lead by headline respondent preferences, a three-point gain for the Coalition since January…. Continue Reading →

Author Interview. Failure Family Law Reform Australia.

To listen to the Café Locked Out interview with author John Stapleton on his new book Failure Family Law Reform Australia go to the YouTube link here. I strongly recommend this book, which compellingly demonstrates that the family law system… Continue Reading →

USAID Projects in Australia and Associated Controversies: An Overview

While USAID does not traditionally fund projects directly within Australia, it collaborates with the Australian government to support initiatives in neighbouring Pacific Island countries. Here are some notable projects: Controversies Surrounding USAID Projects Broader Implications Conclusion The collaboration between USAID… Continue Reading →

Australia: The Great Silence. The Power Of Now.

Michael Gray Griffith: Café Locked Out “I’m a paramedic,” he said. “Forty years. And do you know how many cases of myocarditis I saw in that time? Zero. Pericarditis? A few times, not many. But now—it’s everywhere.” “I’m a paramedic,”… Continue Reading →

Trump inherits the Guantánamo prison, complete with 4 ‘forever prisoners’

By Lisa Hajjar, University of California, Santa Barbara President Joe Biden’s record of handling the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is decidedly mixed. He succeeded in reducing the detainee population he inherited by more than half, but he… Continue Reading →

The Australian Electoral Commission wants to stop AI and misinformation. But it’s up against a problem that is Deep and Dark

Susan Grantham, Griffith University From the moment you open your social media feed, you’re stepping into a digital battleground where not all political messages are what they seem. The upcoming federal election will see an influx of deepfakes, doctored images,… Continue Reading →

Whipping up Aboriginal enthusiasm

Jack Waterford: Pearls and Irritations Here’s a sad prediction for 2025. By the end of next year, more states and territories will have dropped the age of criminal responsibility to 10, and adopted punitive laws based on slogans such as… Continue Reading →

DeepSeek shatters beliefs about the cost of AI, leaving US tech giants reeling

Michael J. Davern and Matt Pinnuck, The University of Melbourne Almost A$1 trillion (US$600 billion) was wiped off the value of artificial intelligence microchip maker Nvidia overnight on Monday, when a little-known Chinese startup, DeepSeek, threatened to upend the US… Continue Reading →

Why do some vaccine-injured people wake up – but others don’t?

By Rebekah Barnett: Dystopian Down Under As Covid vaccine injuries started mounting up, and the topic became somewhat less taboo in the media – albeit always accompanied by boilerplate text about how the benefits outweigh the risks – some of… Continue Reading →

Failure: Family Law Reform Australia. Out in February. Extract.

Chapter Two: A Little Bit Of History On the 5th of January 1976 the Family Law Act 1975 came into effect It was passed into law by just one vote This marked a controversial and historically significant turning point for… Continue Reading →

Why the Australian Media Failed during Covid: An Insider Perspective

David Southwell: Dystopian Down Under I’m a Daily Mail Journalist. When the Albanese government’s expert panel on Australia’s Covid response delivered its report late last year the verdict was damning. The panel found that harsh Covid measures were imposed often… Continue Reading →

The Age of Big Brother: Australia’s Biometric Shift

By Ethan Nash: TOTT News Biometric surveillance — the use of facial recognition, fingerprint scanning, voiceprints, and even behavioural tracking to monitor people — is rapidly expanding. Governments, corporations, and private institutions are quietly rolling out these technologies with promises… Continue Reading →

Sydney City Council snubs its own colonial history on Australia Day, gives $2 million to Chinese New Year instead

Alison Bevege: Letters from Australia British heritage demonised as Aboriginal cause used to bludgeon Australia. January 26 is not just Australia Day, it was the first settlement of Sydney. The First Fleet set up camp in Sydney Cove on 26… Continue Reading →

A Front Page Reminisce

John Stapleton Newspapers are collaborative efforts – journalists, editors, layout people, printers, distributors, the office manager, all combine to produce order out of the chaos of daily life. And every now and then, the universe decides to collaborate as well,… Continue Reading →

The Scrub Bulls of Mildura

Michael Gray Griffith: Café Locked out The station was so vast and remote that chances are the bull had never seen a fence or a house. Now in his prime, he was the king of this harsh terrain—a king who… Continue Reading →

Surveillance tech is changing our behaviour – and our brains

Kiley Seymour and Roger Koenig, University of Technology Sydney From self-service checkouts to public streets to stadiums – surveillance technology is everywhere. This pervasive monitoring is often justified in the name of safety and security. But our recent study, published… Continue Reading →

Whales Can Live Way Longer than Previously Thought

Greg Breed, University of Alaska Fairbanks and Peter Corkeron, Griffith University, Australia Southern right whales have lifespans that reach well past 100 years, and 10% may live past 130 years, according to our new research published in the journal Science… Continue Reading →

Classics of the Fatherhood Movement: Of Boys and Men

To mark the 50th anniversary of the Australian Family Law Act in 2025 A Sense of Place Magazine is running this series Classics of the Fatherhood Movement. Also, keep an eye out for the upcoming book from A Sense of… Continue Reading →

A Time Of Hope: Brownstone Institute

Over the past four years, trust in all the systems that were supposed to make modern life run smoothly has been steadily eroded, even to the point of utter collapse. At the same time, we find ourselves strangely optimistic about… Continue Reading →

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