Michael Gray Griffith
There is so much space out here – it’s as if the gods left before they could bother with mountains, valleys, or grand forests. You could misplace an entire civilisation inside it.
We did, and they are still lost. On the beaches near Eucla – cliffs you have to climb down to reach – lie mounds of broken shellfish and the ...
Australian Federal Police
Assistant Commissioner Cyber Command Richard Chin has announced that the Australian Federal Police are tracking a concerning rise across the industry in what are known as Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams. These involve cyber criminals impersonating a business or its employees via email to deceive victims into ...
Sean Tomlinson, University of Adelaide and Damien Fordham, University of Adelaide
To a newly-arrived red fox, the abundant rolling grasslands and swamps of Wadawurrung Country, around what is now called Port Phillip Bay, must have seemed like a predator’s paradise.
This landscape was filled with small native marsupials and birds, and free of ...
By Robert McFillin: Brownstone Institute
In Australia, where mental health challenges have surged post-pandemic — with one in seven people (around 3.9 million) now taking antidepressants, one of the highest rates globally — the stark U.S. trends highlighted in this republished Brownstone Institute piece hit especially close to home. Here, ...
The AFP has set up new National Security Investigations (NSI) teams to target groups and individuals causing high levels of harm to Australia’s social cohesion, including the targeting of federal parliamentarians.
The NSI teams began operations in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra in September as part of the AFP’s well-established Counter Terrorism and ...
Tony Hughes-d’Aeth, The University of Western Australia
A.D. Hope and Patrick White are towering figures of 20th-century Australian culture. Few cast larger literary shadows over the postwar period. White, with his dizzying, monumental novels and Nobel prize, holds pride of place. But Hope, as a critic, poet and academic, exercised a considerable ...
Goodby Road is an utterly compelling collection of essays from the founder of Cafe Locked Out.
It is of significant historical interest for the fact that Michael Gray Griffith is the only citizen journalist to have travelled Australia interviewing people from all walks of life in the wake of the Covid epidemic. It is humane, funny, sad and shocking ...
By Erin Rolandsen: Beyond the Rage Machine
Cybernetics pioneer Stafford Beer once said: “The purpose of a system is what it does.” If that is true, what, then, do we make of Australia’s systems?
Everywhere we look, the systems designed to solve problems instead perpetuate them.
We have a housing system that operates like a casino, with ...
Lisa M. Given, RMIT University
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, today 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 Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube to be included, this new list ...
By DB Subedi, The University of Queensland
Editor’s Note: This story’s central premise is particularly relevant in the Australian context because of the Australian governments moves to ban social media for Under 16s. Two paragraphs have been updated with the assistance of Grok. These concern the death toll and the formation of a new Nepalese ...
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 you could make out the two bookend Australian flags, and on the rear of his big black truck, in almost luminous green font, someone had written ...
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: “The Devastation Of Divorce: Why Men Hurt The Most”.
It was written by Bettina Arndt, for many years ...
Michael Gray Griffith
There is so much space out here – it’s as if the gods left before they could bother with mountains, valleys, or grand forests. You could misplace an entire civilisation inside it.
We did, and they are still lost. On the beaches near Eucla – cliffs you have to climb down to reach – lie mounds of broken shellfish and the ...
Australian Federal Police
Assistant Commissioner Cyber Command Richard Chin has announced that the Australian Federal Police are tracking a concerning rise across the industry in what are known as Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams. These involve cyber criminals impersonating a business or its employees via email to deceive victims into ...
Sean Tomlinson, University of Adelaide and Damien Fordham, University of Adelaide
To a newly-arrived red fox, the abundant rolling grasslands and swamps of Wadawurrung Country, around what is now called Port Phillip Bay, must have seemed like a predator’s paradise.
This landscape was filled with small native marsupials and birds, and free of ...
By Robert McFillin: Brownstone Institute
In Australia, where mental health challenges have surged post-pandemic — with one in seven people (around 3.9 million) now taking antidepressants, one of the highest rates globally — the stark U.S. trends highlighted in this republished Brownstone Institute piece hit especially close to home. Here, ...
The AFP has set up new National Security Investigations (NSI) teams to target groups and individuals causing high levels of harm to Australia’s social cohesion, including the targeting of federal parliamentarians.
The NSI teams began operations in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra in September as part of the AFP’s well-established Counter Terrorism and ...
Tony Hughes-d’Aeth, The University of Western Australia
A.D. Hope and Patrick White are towering figures of 20th-century Australian culture. Few cast larger literary shadows over the postwar period. White, with his dizzying, monumental novels and Nobel prize, holds pride of place. But Hope, as a critic, poet and academic, exercised a considerable ...
Goodby Road is an utterly compelling collection of essays from the founder of Cafe Locked Out.
It is of significant historical interest for the fact that Michael Gray Griffith is the only citizen journalist to have travelled Australia interviewing people from all walks of life in the wake of the Covid epidemic. It is humane, funny, sad and shocking ...
By Erin Rolandsen: Beyond the Rage Machine
Cybernetics pioneer Stafford Beer once said: “The purpose of a system is what it does.” If that is true, what, then, do we make of Australia’s systems?
Everywhere we look, the systems designed to solve problems instead perpetuate them.
We have a housing system that operates like a casino, with ...
Lisa M. Given, RMIT University
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, today 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 Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube to be included, this new list ...
By DB Subedi, The University of Queensland
Editor’s Note: This story’s central premise is particularly relevant in the Australian context because of the Australian governments moves to ban social media for Under 16s. Two paragraphs have been updated with the assistance of Grok. These concern the death toll and the formation of a new Nepalese ...
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 you could make out the two bookend Australian flags, and on the rear of his big black truck, in almost luminous green font, someone had written ...
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: “The Devastation Of Divorce: Why Men Hurt The Most”.
It was written by Bettina Arndt, for many years ...
