By Mark Mordue
The sun gets buried behind afternoon cloud cover. I drive towards Westfield Bondi Junction in Sydney as a gloom drops from above upon the suburb and the day.
Inside the large shopping centre things are unusually muted, all its retail outlets closed for business. Large, lit images of black ribbons signal this is a place for shared ...
From TOTT News
Australia’s digital identity scheme is almost set to expand nationally, after a landmark bill, first drafted more than three years ago, passes the Senate.
Australia’s Minister for Finance, Senator Katy Gallagher, has led the charge to move amendments to the Digital ID Bill 2024, and it has now passed the Senate.
The Digital ID ...
Olaf Meynecke, Griffith University
For the second year in a row, over 100 hammerheads have gathered at one of Australia’s busiest beaches, Burleigh Beach in the Gold Coast.
Why aren’t we alarmed? Because these are small scalloped hammerheads, not the larger great hammerhead. Even this species is feared far more than it deserves. Plus, these ...
Kim Wingerei: Michael West Media
Meta’s declaration that Facebook will no longer pay (some) Australian publishers for their news content has again highlighted the folly of the News Media Bargaining Code. It’s a poor solution to the wrong problem.
Facebook’s threat to jettison news puts the Government in a bind. If the Albanese Government decides ...
James Miller-Jones, Curtin University
How fast can a neutron star drive powerful jets into space? The answer, it turns out, is about one-third the speed of light, as our team has just revealed in a new study published in Nature.
Energetic cosmic beams known as jets are seen throughout our universe. They are launched when material – mainly dust ...
By Binoy Kampmark: Michael West Media
Should the government decide what news is appropriate and what is not for its people?
The heralded arrival of the Internet caused flutters of enthusiasm, streaks of heart-felt hope. Unregulated, and supposedly all powerful, an information medium never before seen on such scale could be used to liberate mind ...
From Jorg Probst’s Think For Yourself Blog
It was without a doubt the interview of the year. On 6 February 2024, US journalist Tucker Carlson talked with Russian president Vladimir Putin. Even more fascinating than the 2-hour conversation itself was how the media reported on this event.
Swiss peace researcher Daniele Ganser analysed how ...
By Jeffery Tucker: Brownstone Institute
On May 5, 2021, White House press secretary Jen Psaki issued a mob-like warning to social-media companies and information distributors generally. They need to get with the program and start censoring critics of Covid policy. They need to amplify government propaganda. After all, it would be a shame if ...
From TOTT News
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, who is a regular at the World Economic Forum’s annual Davos event, will enforce her powers to develop mandatory online scanning standards for tech companies.
Tech giants will be forced to scan emails, online photo libraries, cloud storage accounts, and dating sites of Aussies for “illegal content”, ...
From Jeffrey Tucker: Brownstone Institute
In the 1990s and for years into our century, it was common to ridicule the government for being technologically backwards. We were all gaining access to fabulous things, including webs, apps, search tools, and social media. But governments at all levels were stuck in the past using IBM mainframes and large ...
Civil Disobedience: The Ten Best Quotes of Henry David Thoreau
Although the essay was written 168 years ago, the subject of Civil Disobedience is more relevant than ever.
As people debate the scope of government power in regards to Covid-19 lockdowns, some are openly defying the law.
Henry David Thoreau believed that it was not only proper ...
Daniel Wild: Institute of Public Affairs
“The latest data from the ABS reinforces the unprecedented and unplanned size and growth of Australia’s migration intake. This is placing immense pressure on housing and our critical infrastructure and has not solved our worker shortage crisis,” said Daniel Wild, Deputy Executive Director of the Institute of ...
By Mark Mordue
The sun gets buried behind afternoon cloud cover. I drive towards Westfield Bondi Junction in Sydney as a gloom drops from above upon the suburb and the day.
Inside the large shopping centre things are unusually muted, all its retail outlets closed for business. Large, lit images of black ribbons signal this is a place for shared ...
From TOTT News
Australia’s digital identity scheme is almost set to expand nationally, after a landmark bill, first drafted more than three years ago, passes the Senate.
Australia’s Minister for Finance, Senator Katy Gallagher, has led the charge to move amendments to the Digital ID Bill 2024, and it has now passed the Senate.
The Digital ID ...
Olaf Meynecke, Griffith University
For the second year in a row, over 100 hammerheads have gathered at one of Australia’s busiest beaches, Burleigh Beach in the Gold Coast.
Why aren’t we alarmed? Because these are small scalloped hammerheads, not the larger great hammerhead. Even this species is feared far more than it deserves. Plus, these ...
Kim Wingerei: Michael West Media
Meta’s declaration that Facebook will no longer pay (some) Australian publishers for their news content has again highlighted the folly of the News Media Bargaining Code. It’s a poor solution to the wrong problem.
Facebook’s threat to jettison news puts the Government in a bind. If the Albanese Government decides ...
James Miller-Jones, Curtin University
How fast can a neutron star drive powerful jets into space? The answer, it turns out, is about one-third the speed of light, as our team has just revealed in a new study published in Nature.
Energetic cosmic beams known as jets are seen throughout our universe. They are launched when material – mainly dust ...
By Binoy Kampmark: Michael West Media
Should the government decide what news is appropriate and what is not for its people?
The heralded arrival of the Internet caused flutters of enthusiasm, streaks of heart-felt hope. Unregulated, and supposedly all powerful, an information medium never before seen on such scale could be used to liberate mind ...
From Jorg Probst’s Think For Yourself Blog
It was without a doubt the interview of the year. On 6 February 2024, US journalist Tucker Carlson talked with Russian president Vladimir Putin. Even more fascinating than the 2-hour conversation itself was how the media reported on this event.
Swiss peace researcher Daniele Ganser analysed how ...
By Jeffery Tucker: Brownstone Institute
On May 5, 2021, White House press secretary Jen Psaki issued a mob-like warning to social-media companies and information distributors generally. They need to get with the program and start censoring critics of Covid policy. They need to amplify government propaganda. After all, it would be a shame if ...
From TOTT News
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, who is a regular at the World Economic Forum’s annual Davos event, will enforce her powers to develop mandatory online scanning standards for tech companies.
Tech giants will be forced to scan emails, online photo libraries, cloud storage accounts, and dating sites of Aussies for “illegal content”, ...
From Jeffrey Tucker: Brownstone Institute
In the 1990s and for years into our century, it was common to ridicule the government for being technologically backwards. We were all gaining access to fabulous things, including webs, apps, search tools, and social media. But governments at all levels were stuck in the past using IBM mainframes and large ...
Civil Disobedience: The Ten Best Quotes of Henry David Thoreau
Although the essay was written 168 years ago, the subject of Civil Disobedience is more relevant than ever.
As people debate the scope of government power in regards to Covid-19 lockdowns, some are openly defying the law.
Henry David Thoreau believed that it was not only proper ...
Daniel Wild: Institute of Public Affairs
“The latest data from the ABS reinforces the unprecedented and unplanned size and growth of Australia’s migration intake. This is placing immense pressure on housing and our critical infrastructure and has not solved our worker shortage crisis,” said Daniel Wild, Deputy Executive Director of the Institute of ...
