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Police Pursuit Double Fatality Occurs After NSW Police Ignore Coronial Recommendations

Police Pursuit Double Fatality Occurs After NSW Police Ignore Coronial Recommendations

The New South Wales Police Force is conducting a critical incident investigation into the death of two women, who were travelling across Gundungurra land down the Old Hume Highway in the Sydney suburb of Camden South, when a 31-year-old man involved in a police pursuit crashed into their car on Saturday, 14 February 2026. And NSW police reported ...
PNG, tech, and the modern cargo cult

PNG, tech, and the modern cargo cult

Although fading into history, some readers may recall Melanesia’s cargo cults – scattered ritualistic island movements that sought to summon material Western goods from supernatural forces. Prevalent in the wake of the second world war, small groups of devoted followers marched, raised flags, and engaged in activities such as lighting torches to create ...
Pauline’s ‘good Muslims’ comment

Pauline’s ‘good Muslims’ comment

Senator Pauline Hanson recently made headlines for comments she made about radical Islam’s incompatibility with the values of Western democracies such as Australia. While many in the media have taken her words out of context to imply that she said there were ‘no good Muslims’, it is important to listen to what she actually said. To put the interview in ...
Is Trump being played by Iran?

Is Trump being played by Iran?

Half of America’s deployable air power sits within striking distance of Iran, and yet Washington is negotiating. Gaza is promised a gleaming future, and yet Hamas still refuses to disarm.Is this strategic patience, or proof that the US President has been dangerously misled, indulging adversaries who are buying time? By placing comprehensive proposals ...
The German army’s drones disaster

The German army’s drones disaster

German politicians like to talk about Zeitenwende – the country’s great turning point in its defence policy since the invasion of Ukraine. And it has certainly turned: towards spending billions of taxpayer euros on drones that cannot fly in frontline situations, seemingly cannot hit their targets, and whose largest investors sit not in Berlin or ...
The deep state vs Nixon

The deep state vs Nixon

Americans took a break from their partisan vituperation in February to mull over newly revealed testimony that Richard Nixon gave to grand jury investigators in 1975, a year after the Watergate scandal drove him from power. James Rosen, a veteran Washington journalist and the biographer of Nixon’s attorney general John Mitchell, revealed the episode in ...
High-speed rail from Sydney to Newcastle is a step closer. But what about Sydney to Melbourne?

High-speed rail from Sydney to Newcastle is a step closer. But what about Sydney to Melbourne?

An artist's impression of a high-speed train operating between Sydney and Newcastle. High Speed Rail AuthorityThe federal government will spend A$230 million towards a high-speed rail line between Newcastle and Sydney, promising the project will be “shovel ready” for a final decision on construction in 2028. The government also released

Police Pursuit Double Fatality Occurs After NSW Police Ignore Coronial Recommendations

Police Pursuit Double Fatality Occurs After NSW Police Ignore Coronial Recommendations
The New South Wales Police Force is conducting a critical incident investigation into the death of two women, who were travelling across Gundungurra land down the Old Hume Highway in the Sydney suburb of Camden South, when a 31-year-old man involved in a police pursuit crashed into their car on Saturday, 14 February 2026. And NSW police reported ...

PNG, tech, and the modern cargo cult

PNG, tech, and the modern cargo cult
Although fading into history, some readers may recall Melanesia’s cargo cults – scattered ritualistic island movements that sought to summon material Western goods from supernatural forces. Prevalent in the wake of the second world war, small groups of devoted followers marched, raised flags, and engaged in activities such as lighting torches to create ...

Pauline’s ‘good Muslims’ comment

Pauline’s ‘good Muslims’ comment
Senator Pauline Hanson recently made headlines for comments she made about radical Islam’s incompatibility with the values of Western democracies such as Australia. While many in the media have taken her words out of context to imply that she said there were ‘no good Muslims’, it is important to listen to what she actually said. To put the interview in ...

Is Trump being played by Iran?

Is Trump being played by Iran?
Half of America’s deployable air power sits within striking distance of Iran, and yet Washington is negotiating. Gaza is promised a gleaming future, and yet Hamas still refuses to disarm.Is this strategic patience, or proof that the US President has been dangerously misled, indulging adversaries who are buying time? By placing comprehensive proposals ...

The German army’s drones disaster

The German army’s drones disaster
German politicians like to talk about Zeitenwende – the country’s great turning point in its defence policy since the invasion of Ukraine. And it has certainly turned: towards spending billions of taxpayer euros on drones that cannot fly in frontline situations, seemingly cannot hit their targets, and whose largest investors sit not in Berlin or ...

The deep state vs Nixon

The deep state vs Nixon
Americans took a break from their partisan vituperation in February to mull over newly revealed testimony that Richard Nixon gave to grand jury investigators in 1975, a year after the Watergate scandal drove him from power. James Rosen, a veteran Washington journalist and the biographer of Nixon’s attorney general John Mitchell, revealed the episode in ...

High-speed rail from Sydney to Newcastle is a step closer. But what about Sydney to Melbourne?

High-speed rail from Sydney to Newcastle is a step closer. But what about Sydney to Melbourne?
An artist's impression of a high-speed train operating between Sydney and Newcastle. High Speed Rail AuthorityThe federal government will spend A$230 million towards a high-speed rail line between Newcastle and Sydney, promising the project will be “shovel ready” for a final decision on construction in 2028. The government also released