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Australia’s New Covid Scare Campaign a Massive Flop
From Rebekah Barnett: Dystopian Down Under Like the Marvel franchise, with its unlimited instalments and spin-offs, a new Covid scare campaign is underway in Australia. Like the Marvel franchise, the entertainment content exists largely to sell merchandise. Unlike...
The Best Space Telescope Ever just shut down: Gaia heads into the Sun
By Laura Nicole Driessen, University of Sydney On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut down its communication systems and central computer and said goodbye to this amazing space...
The Deep State Goes Viral: Foreword
By Jeffrey Tucker: Brownstone Institute t was about a month into lockdowns, April 2020, and my phone rang with an unusual number. I picked up and the caller identified himself as Rajeev Venkayya, a name I knew from my writings on the 2005 pandemic scare. Now the head...
We Are, Of Course, Being Lied To About Iran
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Iran and Israel are at war, with the US already intimately involved and likely to become more so. Which of course means we’ll be spending the foreseeable future getting bashed in the face with
Israel’s Own Actions Invalidate All Pro-Israel Arguments
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): I didn’t make Israel be this way. It’s not my fault that this is what the Zionist project looks like. You can call me an antisemitic monster all day for criticizing Israel’s genocidal atrocities
Refresher On The Rules For Discussing Israeli Wars
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Okay it’s been a few months since the last war Israel started, so now that Iran’s on the chopping block let’s go over the rules once again. Rule 1: Israel is never the aggressor.
AUSTRALIA MUST HOLD A REFERENDUM TO ADD A PREAMBLE TO OUR CONSTITUTION.
I have drafted a Preamble I believe our Founding Fathers should have adopted as the opening statement of the Australian Constitution in 1901. We should vote on it (or a better version) at a Referendum to be held on the same day as Federal Election 2028 so that future...
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE AN AUSTRALIAN?
Alfred Deakin was Prime Minister of Australia three times. He was also a powerful founding father of our nation, having a huge influence in drafting our Constitution. It is important to note that he made a significant effort to include a Preamble to the Constitution...
SEARCHING FOR THE GROUND OF OUR BEING
Each and very one of us has an inner personal power and our way of using it determines the quality of our lives. Some of us decide also to add a power to our lives that is beyond our own until we take steps to welcome it. In my case, during the 93 years since …...
The Native Title Tribunal rules against Gomeroi people and the threat of climate change
Last week, the Native Title Tribunal (NTT) ruled again against Gomeroi people and in favour of Santos, granting the resources conglomerate permission to destroy our Native Title rights and proceed with the Pilliga/Narrabri coal seam gas project despite the staunch opposition of our Nation. The project will see up to
Media Statement from Ned Jampijinpa Hargraves
Readers please be advised this article mentions someone who has passed away.The young Warlpiri man who died in police custody in Coles in Alice Springs on Tuesday May 27 is my jaja (grandson). Our family, all Warlpiri people and many other people here in Central Australia are devastated by this
What is white genocide?
Many will have seen that Trump has brought 50 white South Africans to America as ‘refugees’ because of a ‘white genocide’. Some in Australia will remember Peter Dutton tried to do something similar back in 2018, when he wanted to fast track humanitarian visas, claiming that “they need help from
The fraying of reality
On May 18, the Chicago Sun-Times published a summer reading list: fifteen books to enjoy during the holiday months. Unfortunately, ten of the books did not exist. The author of the feature, Marco Buscaglia, was not a staff journalist but a contributor from a syndicate the Sun-Times relies on, having
The Liberal Party’s future can’t be teal progressivism
There have been many interesting reactions to the Liberal Party’s catastrophic loss on May 3. But surely one of the most bizarre has been how leading progressive voices in the party have declared it needs “modernisation” and a focus on the values and priorities of contemporary Australians, while at the
Bad old habits: Israel backs Palestinian militias in Gaza
It is one of those things that should be recorded and replayed for eternity: Israel, in order to guard some misplaced sense of security, happily backs Palestinian groups in order to divide themselves. Hamas, seen now as an existential monster, was tolerated and even supported for lengthy stints in efforts
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The ghost of Morrison, Fascism USA, and political football in Tasmania
Photo/illustration credit: Elise Swain/The Intercept/Getty Images. In this episode, we report on one of the most baffling political decisions in recent memory: the awarding of Australia’s highest civilian honour, the Companion of the Order of Australia, to former Prime Minister Scott Morrison. The award for Morrison has ignited criticism
The Gaslit Nation and Sending Rockets To China
Greenpeace campaigner above dead coral in Ningaloo Marine Park. Credit: Greenpeace Australia. In this explosive episode of the New Politics podcast, we look at the federal Labor government’s quiet but devastating climate betrayal, exposing its recent approval of Woodside’s massive fossil fuel North West Shelf gas expansion, extending emissions
A Coalition meltdown, Labor’s big test, and a new era for Australia–Palestine politics
We look at the continuing fallout of the 2025 Australian federal election, exploring the fractures within the two-party system, the Coalition’s internal chaos, and the future of the Liberal and National parties, with their the deep divisions over nuclear energy, supermarket policies, climate action, and regional funding, and how the