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Sydney Airport: Addicted to Privatisation, Addicted to Failure

By Michael West: Michael West Media. The takeover bid for Sydney Airport all but done, a takeover frenzy grips the share market. Investors, foreign and local, know Australian governments are an easy touch, that they allow their citizens to be… Continue Reading →

How a 450-kilogram Heroin Seizure shows Australia’s Drug Policies Aren’t Working

Teagan Westendorf, Australian Strategic Policy Institute. Last month a whopping 450 kilograms of heroin being imported by ship was seized in Melbourne. That number sounds huge, but it does not convey the true gravity of the challenge faced by police and the… Continue Reading →

Australia Breaks Apart: Inept One Day, Deranged the Next

By Paul Collits. AFTER the sad demise of the previous NSW premier, I thought, well, one eastern State’s unspellable spinster-premier is gone, one to go.  The then State of Origin contest over who could be the more ghastly premier came… Continue Reading →

Mounting Protest: Australia’s Real Rukshan

The Digital Realm Outflanks the Official Narrative The breakup of Australia and the breakdown of Australian society is also transforming the media landscape. One figure, the Real Rukshan, has captured a significant following, and even plaudits from some of the… Continue Reading →

Who is Policing Australia’s Lockdowns? Inside the Military-Police Interoperability Doctrine.

By Dr T.J. Coles: TOTT News. The brutality of the Australian government in suppressing opposition to its lockdown policies has provoked international outrage. Even the BBC propaganda machine has reported the terror struck into the hearts of residents. Many protestors… Continue Reading →

Parramatta’s Archaeological Past Reveals the Deep-time History of the Heart of Sydney

Alan N Williams, UNSW and Jo McDonald, The University of Western Australia We know quite a lot about the past 200 years of history in Parramatta. Located in Sydney’s geographical centre, on the Parramatta River, it was the first township… Continue Reading →

Questioning Covid: We Need Answers

By Professor Ramesh Thakur: Spectator Australia. Featuring the Art Work of David Downes from his COVID 19 Series of Paintings. In lighting the way out of the nightmare of serial lockdowns, new New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet has said… Continue Reading →

Social Media: Turning Around the Weapons

By Manal al-Sharif: Michael West Media. For all the benefits wrought by the information revolution, social media has become a tool of dictators. Its profit-driven, surveillance-based business model favours those with deep pockets and deadly motives. In the first of two… Continue Reading →

How Steinbeck Used the Diary as a Pacemaker for the Heartbeat of Creative Work

Maria Popova: Marginalian. A Sense of Place Magazine is an unabashed fan of Maria Popova’s celebrated blog Brain Pickings, easily one of the best and most accessible literary journals in the world. The blog has been recently renamed The Marginalian…. Continue Reading →

Surveillance State Grows Under the Cover of COVID

By Sonia Hickey: Sydney Criminal Lawyers Blog Just quietly over the past couple of months, with the rest of Australia conveniently distracted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Government has introduced draft legislation with a view to creating what it… Continue Reading →

COVID Restriction Breaches Were Driven by Police Enforcement, Report Finds

BY Paul Gregoire. Sydney Criminal Lawyers Blog. The measures that were set in place by the Berejiklian government in NSW in response to the outbreak of the Delta strain of COVID-19 were extreme. Designed to prevent the mass death that… Continue Reading →

Australia Breaks Apart: The Melbourne Protests

TOTT NEWS Melbourne is Ground Zero for the disintegration of Australia as a functioning country. Victorians protesters have once again flocked to Melbourne’s CBD to oppose mandatory vaccination requirements and new permanent pandemic laws. A massive group of protesters gathered… Continue Reading →

Facebook relaunches itself as ‘Meta’ in a Clear Bid to Dominate the Metaverse

Marcus Carter, University of Sydney and Ben Egliston, Queensland University of Technology Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has announced the company will change its name to Meta, saying the move reflects the fact the company is now much broader than… Continue Reading →

Outspoken Deputy President of Australia’s Fair Work Commission can no longer hear Vaccine Mandates Cases: Off to the Retraining Camps

By Sonia Hickey: Sydney Criminal Lawyers Blog Vaccine Mandates are creating havoc and promoting demonstrations around the world, no more so than in Australia. The Fair Work Commission’s Deputy President, Lyndall Dean, who expressed her views against vaccine mandates in… Continue Reading →

Coming Apart: The Centre Cannot Hold

By Paul Collits Turning and turning in the widening gyre   The falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere   The ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack… Continue Reading →

Australian Protests Ground Zero: Melbourne and the Rise of Citizen Journalists

The abject failure of the mainstream media to do anything but parrot the destructive alarmism and propaganda of government over the past twenty months means that much of the population has turned off mainstream media. The failures of legacy media… Continue Reading →

Australia Breaks Apart: States Trial Biometric Quarantine Enforcement System

TOTT News As Australia starts ‘opening up’, states are moving to adopt home quarantine with facial recognition, legitimising a deeply intrusive and dangerous biometric policing system. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING Some of Australia’s most populous states are trialling facial recognition software that… Continue Reading →

Jab Mandates Are Both Unethical and Fail the Cost/Benefit Test

By Michael Tomlinson: Brownstone Institute. Featured Artwork by John Prince Siddon. During my weekend shopping in Melbourne, Australia, I was turned away from my favourite café and not allowed to sit even at an outside table by order of my… Continue Reading →

Australia Steps Into A Frightening Future: Your Digital Identity Your New World Order

By Sandy Barrett: Advocate Me Did you know that the Australian government has drafted legislation to introduce a Digital Identity by the end of 2021? The legislation is being introduced in three phases – and it is already in phase… Continue Reading →

With No Australian Bill of Rights, Freedom Fighting Anti-Vaccine Mandate Case Kassam v Hazzard Was Bound to Fail: An Interview With Professor George Williams

By Paul Gregoire: Sydney Criminal Lawyers Blog NSW Supreme Court Justice Robert Beech-Jones delivered his ruling on the Kassam versus Hazzard case, which raised close to a dozen grounds contesting the validity of public health order restrictions, as well as vaccine mandates,… Continue Reading →

Workers Push Back Against Covid-19 Vaccination Mandates

By Sonia Hickey: Sydney Criminal Lawyers Blog The mandating of highly controversial vaccines, that is forcing a medical procedure onto an often reluctant populace, is creating havoc all around the world. No more so than in Australia, where this month… Continue Reading →

Telegram: The Rise and Rise

By John Stapleton Big Tech’s hefty manipulation of the Covid narrative is driving many dissenting Australians away from Facebook, Google and WhatsApp to less compromised applications less manipulated by governments and military contractors. In the age of surveillance capitalism, both… Continue Reading →

US Continues Pursuit of Assange, and Australia Neglects its Moral Obligation to Protect Him

By Greg Barns: Pearls and Irritations This week Australian citizen Julian Assange’s long running battle against extradition to the United States where he faces espionage legislation charges relating to his publication in 2010 of material that revealed war crimes by… Continue Reading →

Australia Breaks Apart: Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews Moves to Secure Permanent Pandemic Powers

By TOTT News Those found “intentionally and recklessly” breaching health orders would face two years in jail or a $90,000 fine, while the Premier would get draconian powers to declare pandemics. Powerful emergency pandemic laws have been introduced to the… Continue Reading →

Australia Breaks Apart: The Policing of the 2021 New South Wales Lockdowns

From Amnesty International During the COVID-19 pandemic, and particularly during periods of lockdown, police in Australia have been given unprecedented and extraordinary powers to enforce COVID-19 restrictions. From 25 June 2021, when Greater Sydney, the Blue Mountains, the Central Coast… Continue Reading →

The Australian Government wants to Expand the Digital Identity System: There are Many Pitfalls.

Kelsie Nabben, RMIT University. The federal government has been asking the public for feedback on proposed legislation to create a “trusted digital identity” system. The aim is for Australians to use it to prove their identity when accessing public services…. Continue Reading →

The Roadmap is not the Terrain

By Sandy Barrett: Advocate Me Blog When I read that New South Wales was celebrating “Freedom Day”, I couldn’t help but laugh at the absurdity of it all, because what now exists there is the antithesis of freedom. How anyone… Continue Reading →

Craig Backman: Until Recently a Proud Senior Constable with Victoria Police

On the 17th of September 2021, I wrote an email to Management of Victoria Police where I outlined my reasons for refusing to be a part of any activity that I believed unfairly breached the Human Rights of Victorian citizens,… Continue Reading →

Mandates Provoke Protests Worldwide

By John Stapleton While the heavily manipulated mainstream media has been filled wall to wall with climate alarmism, out in the real world thousands of Australians are being forced to leave their jobs in tears because they refuse to have… Continue Reading →

Australia’s Oldest Dinosaur was a Peaceful Vegetarian, Not a Fierce Predator

Steven W. Salisbury and Anthony Romilio, The University of Queensland. Ipswich, about 40 kilometres west of Brisbane, seems an unlikely place to find dinosaur fossils. Yet the area has produced the oldest evidence of dinosaurs in Australia. A fresh look… Continue Reading →

Australia’s Digital ID System will soon get an Oversight Body

TOTT News: Towards a Social Credit Scheme The Australian government has made public a new draft text of legislation designed to officially introduce an oversight body for the country’s digital identity scheme. The Australian government has made public a new draft text… Continue Reading →

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