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By Graham Young. Mandating or coercing COVID vaccination is one of the most important civil liberties issues of my lifetime. It’s a fundamental breach of human rights allegedly guaranteed by a number of international conventions and Australian law, as well… Continue Reading →
By Michelle Pini, Managing Editor of Independent Australia. The resignations of the Premier and Deputy Premier of New South Wales, blaming ICAC and Friendlyjordies, respectively, signal the worst time of mourning for establishment media. WHY DID both Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Deputy… Continue Reading →
By Paul Gregoire: Sydney Criminal Lawyers Blog Soon the lockdowns will end. The disparities in the enforcement of public health measures will disappear. Most who have been forced to stay at home will return to work. The vaccination drive will… Continue Reading →
By Stephen Saunders: Independent Australia. ‘His opponents will only assist the marketing-man-turned-prime-minister if they continue to underestimate him.’ So goes the final sentence and key takeaway of The Accidental Prime Minister. Annika Smethurst, now state political editor at The Age, made her… Continue Reading →
By Human Rights Advocates and Advocate Me This letter was originally addressed to the NSW Minister of Education Sarah Mitchell but is relevant across multiple industries and jurisdictions. Thousands of teachers, police officers and many others face the sack in… Continue Reading →
With zero ethical political leadership, and with violent scenes of authoritarian derangement now being a regular feature of life in Australia’s major cities, here’s images and links from the last few days. Australia is at a turning point, on the… Continue Reading →
By Callum Foote: Michael West Media. Dear Premier Gladys Berejiklian and NSW Health, thank you for finally responding to our Freedom of Information request. We ask that, in future, you simply send us an old roll of toilet paper. An… Continue Reading →
By Denis Muller, University of Melbourne. Journalists are adept at creating and reflecting public sentiment. It is a reciprocating process: journalistic portrayal creates the sentiment, then the sentiment feeds back into journalistic portrayal. This phenomenon can be seen clearly in… Continue Reading →
By Tania de Jong I recently saw this acronym for COVID. C = Censor O = Oppress V = Victimise I = Isolate D = Divide In a country that is supposed to be free, we have politicians, bureaucrats and corporations controlling, bullying, harassing, discriminating, ordering,… Continue Reading →
TOTT News There have been powerful scenes of workers from a variety of industries holding silent protests in dozens of locations across Australia, as the shards of Australian democracy begin to signs of complete collapse. Mass vaccine coercion has arrived in… Continue Reading →
Paula Matthewson, senior reporter with one of the nation’s few mainstream news outlets not behind a paywall, The New Daily, wrote way back in early 2020: “If there’s one clear message to emerge from Australia’s efforts to combat COVID-19 it’s… Continue Reading →
By Paul Begley: Independent Australia. Time and time again, Scott Morrison has demonstrated that he is ill-equipped to serve in a position of power, In recent days a number of Australian media outlets drew on Annika Smethurst’s insightful new Scott Morrison biography, The… Continue Reading →
TOTT News It’s now official: Australia has had the worst response of any nation on Earth to Covid-19, with some of the world’s longest and most draconian lockdowns, the Federation destroyed with most internal borders shut, millions of people under… Continue Reading →
By Tania de Jong The great Albert Einstein said: “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it”. Our politicians and public servants need to find a new way of dealing with the pandemic which… Continue Reading →
By Professor Ramesh Thakur Norwegian health authorities believe coronavirus has become just ‘one of several respiratory diseases with seasonal variation’. Accordingly, all remaining restrictions were lifted on Saturday 25 September, making Norway the latest country to end pandemic curbs. At… Continue Reading →
By Paul Gregoire, Sydney Criminal Lawyers Blog. “G’day,” said the prime minister as he addressed the nation on 16 September. Scott Morrison then went on to reveal that he’s been busy committing us to a tripartite defence alliance – known as… Continue Reading →
The first person in Australia to die with COVID was James Kwan, a 78-year-old man from Perth, on 1 March, 2020. He was a passenger on board the cruise ship Ruby Princess. The ship later became infamous as the single… Continue Reading →
TOTT News, Rebel News, Real Rukshan and Others. With Australia having become world famous for the worst response to Covid anywhere around the globe, including the city with the longest and most draconian lockdowns, Melbourne, and the most over the… Continue Reading →
By Paul Collits. The Freedoms Project. Writer, columnist and researcher Paul Collits has been one of Australia’s leading writers since the beginning of this entire benighted era. A Sense of Place Magazine has been proud to publish him. As millions… Continue Reading →
Elise Thomas: Australian Strategic Policy Institute. Over the past week there has been a great deal of debate about who exactly has been storming through Melbourne’s streets. It’s been repeatedly claimed, including by union leaders, that the protests, which started… Continue Reading →
Ethan Nash: TOTT News. Opinion. Call me crazy, but something just doesn’t add up about today. These are unprecedented days in Australia, a turning point in the nation’s history. The utterly brutal crushing of dissent we have seen in Melbourne… Continue Reading →
By John Stapleton In the previous few days Australians have witnessed unprecedented scenes of the brutal crushing of dissent on the streets of Melbourne, which has now officially suffered through the strictest and longest lockdowns in the world. The result… Continue Reading →
By Paul Collits. Is it a peculiarly modern phenomenon to wish endlessly to label your opponents stupid or evil? Or, was it ever thus? A persistent human trait to indulge in ad hominem arguments. I always believe that when you… Continue Reading →
In the COVID insanity which has gripped the Australian political class and destroyed so much of the country, one of the nation’s most distinguished academics, Professor Ramesh Thakur of the Australian National University, has stood out for his bold, erudite… Continue Reading →
By Ethan Nash: TOTT News. Tens of thousands of Australians have marched across the country for the principles of democracy, freedom, medical choice and objection to segregation. Freedom protesters staged unified protests across Australia yesterday, delivering messages of resistance to… Continue Reading →
By Alan Austin: Independent Australia. Virtually every new data release confirms Australia’s economic demise under Prime Minister Morrison and Treasurer Frydenberg. Alan Austin updates the tally of disastrous outcomes. INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT IS at an all-time low. As is Australia’s net worth and its global… Continue Reading →
By Ethan Nash with TOTTNews TOTT News provides readers with an on-the-ground timeline of events from Saturday’s violent freedom protest in Melbourne – including what the mainstream media, hostage to government agendas and having abandoned their traditional roles of holding… Continue Reading →
Part One: Alan Austin. Independent Australia. As the Coalition approaches the eighth anniversary of its election, Alan Austin surveys some of this regime’s most destructive records. THE MORRISON GOVERNMENT passed its third anniversary last week. The Coalition will soon celebrate eight years… Continue Reading →
Last September we saw some of the most violent demonstrations and mass arrests ever seen in Australia. A year on, the protests have got larger, the heavy handed police response has made us the laughing stock of the world, and… Continue Reading →
Extracts from Unfolding Catastrophe: Australia The democratic right to protest has been abolished in Australia, with brutal scenes of suppression and violent clashes between police and demonstrators now part of daily life. Further wild scenes are expected this weekend, with… Continue Reading →
By Professor Ramesh Thakur: Australian National University. Illustrated with paintings by Franz Marc. As Western forces beat a hasty retreat from Afghanistan, all exit and no strategy, it’s worth highlighting uncomfortable parallels between the coronavirus policies using military metaphors and… Continue Reading →