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What freedom of speech?
Human rights lawyer, Greg Barns SC, argues the arrest of Kristo Langker—a 21-year-old producer on a YouTube comedy channel—represents gross misuse of resources and threat to our freedom of speech 21 June 2021 | Greg Barns (Image: supplied) When politicians in...
Slowing stimulus
The drumbeat of central banks looking to start slowing monetary stimulus continued over the last week with the Fed surprisingly hawkish and the RBA heading in that direction albeit slowly. But while this could drive a correction in share markets its way too early to...
Not so magnificent G7
Weaponizing G7 summit to counter China rise is not going to work 18 June 2021 | CCCA (Supplied: Official Photo) A recent article which appeared in the Asia Peace Program affiliated with the University of Singapore carries the title “Can Bid In an article published on...
Fermi’s Other Paradox
In the summer of 1950, four nuclear physicists were walking to lunch from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Their names were Emil Konopinski, Herbert York, Edward Teller, and Enrico Fermi. One of them was not human. On the walk the four discussed...
A Rare Bird — The Black Swan
By David Haworth, Monash University The black swan is an Australian icon. The official emblem of Western Australia, depicted in the state flag and coat-of-arms, it decorates several public buildings. The bird is also the namesake for Perth’s Swan River, where the...
AI could cause ‘1984 by 2024’, says Microsoft President
George Orwell’s dystopian vision of the world in Nineteen Eighty-Four “could come to pass in 2024” if artificial intelligence is not better regulated, the President of Microsoft has warned. A new documentary shines light on the dark side of artificial intelligence in...
Morrison Government uses kids as pawns
This week we have seen the Government tie itself in knots, as it tries to find a balance between torturing children, and on the other hand, not torturing them. The situation has become so grave that the Government has called on one of its own, a former paediatrician...
Booing Adam Goodes was disgraceful
Some perspective on our beautiful game In VFL/AFL football there is a time honoured tradition of the crowd being vocal during matches. Most of the watchers know the game, many have played the game, or aspired to do so. Many who watch, or listen, know the intricacies...
Morrison sees himself as ‘our boss’
Australians have never seen the like of this Government before, precisely because of the unlucky convergence of two unique circumstances. The first is Scott Morrison’s relentless ambition, and the second is the sycophantic, supine nature of his governmental...
Humanity Is Sloppily, Awkwardly Lumbering Toward Consciousness
Listen to a reading of this article:Humanity is becoming more conscious.It is. This is not a popular thing to say in the more cynical and pessimistic corners of the internet, but it’s true.I’m not referring to anything “out there” or “spiritual” when I make this assertion. I’m talking about a
The Left Isn’t Failing, It’s Being Sabotaged: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Listen to a reading of this article:❖In later years we’re going to learn about some of the covert operations which US intelligence agencies and their proxies were using to smash the rise of socialism in America today and a lot of people are going to feel silly for all their
Who Wants To Hear My Crazy, Kooky Conspiracy Theory About 1/6?
Listen to a reading of this article:Glenn Greenwald has a new article out titled “Questions About the FBI’s Role in 1/6 Are Mocked Because the FBI Shapes Liberal Corporate Media” about the backlash against right wing media highlighting the incredibly suspicious fact that rank-and-file participants in the January 6 Capitol
EVERALD’s TRIO OF BOOKS
In my twilight years, I enjoy writing books and have published three over the past five years, with another five in the planning stages. I reach 90 years of age in October this year and I will have those five finished by the time I am 95. Then, I plan to write a few...
CONTINUING THE WORK OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS
HELP SEND THREE PETITIONS TO THE AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT Many of my Facebook friends have read my book DINNER WITH THE FOUNDING FATHERS and have expressed interest in helping to upgrade the work of the Founders of our nation by advocating constitutional changes that...
CLIMBING THE COVID MOUNTAIN
TEN ECONOMIC STEPS THAT FORM A PATHWAY TO THE TOP THEKOUK and EVERALDATLARGE OUTLINE A WAY FOR THE PEOPLE OF AUSTRALIA TO CREATE AND MAINTAIN SUSTAINED PROSPERITY Covid19 has opened a door for Australians to positively accept significant changes that … Continue...
Critical Race Theory – what isn’t it?
Chris Kenny, senior advisory group member to the Government’s Indigenous Voice committee, linked Critical Race Theory to a “worldwide movement to view all white people as privileged and innately racist, and to see everything through the prism of identity politics”. Critical Race Theory isn’t a worldwide movement to view all
Appropriate terminology for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people – it’s complicated.
I run a media, training and consultancy company called IndigenousX. It is 100% Indigenous owned and staffed. We work on local, regional, national, and international projects; we run training workshops on anti-racism, digital strategies, and media training. We run school incursion programs on Indigenous science. We get to do
9 months pregnant and Aboriginal
I’m a 9-month pregnant, highly educated, employed, married cis-woman who has a few disabilities. I am also a white-passing Aboriginal woman. I am due to give birth to my daughter in the next few weeks. Despite the burdensome (and frankly exploitative) costs, due to my health conditions, I have, out
Did 68-year-old Magistrate Rodney Higgins murder his 23-year-old lover Ashleigh Petrie so he could claim her $180,000 death benefit?
Magistrate Rodney Higgins, who is clearly unfit to be a magistrate, has in effect stolen the $180,000 superannuation death benefit of his deceased former partner, Ashleigh Petrie, that should have gone to […]
Corrupt NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro turns NSW Police into a Nazi goon squad to assault, harass and jail journalists
Corrupt NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro has lied to NSW Police to have a journalist Kristo Langker charged for stalking as the video evidence below proves which could end up being his […]
Ben Roberts-Smith’s end game is to avoid jail, so he won’t be following Christian Porter and Alan Jones by cutting and running
Ben Roberts-Smith’s main objective in suing the media companies and journalists is not the alleged defamation. His main goal is to avoid being charged with war crimes allegedly committed in Afghanistan and […]
Biden’s ‘build back better world’ partnership must be big and bold
Since I began writing on China’s influence in Papua New Guinea and the South Pacific for On Line Opinion I have stressed that China is not slowing its expansionary strategies centred on the Belt and Road strategy.Just about every week I have come across a new initiative that ties PNG
Free trade agreement
Most Australians know of Cobden and Bright as charming towns in north-eastern Victoria, but few are aware of the work of Richard Cobden and John Bright in repealing the Corn Laws in the 1840s, and the exponential prosperity which flowed from their free trade policies.As Britain frees itself from the
Malaysia: forget about politics, what really has to be done
Over the last week, political pundits have been reporting the events and rumors around the Yang Dipertuan Agong, or King Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah, calling up all political leaders one by one for meetings. With each meeting, there have been various proposals made for how Malaysia should be governed
The time for equality is now – let’s turn the heat up, not let things cool
For Canberra women, it’s hard to drive past Parliament House up on the hill without thinking about every time we’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted. Without feeling slightly ill with remembering. Without recollecting every friend and colleague who has disclosed their similar experiences to us. On and on the disclosures
Too Much Icing and So Little Cake….
Like the budget before it, the 2021-22 Budget held out the promise of structural reform to address gender equality. Disappointedly, it delivered yet another missed opportunity for doing so. Those examining the fiscal entrails of this latest effort look for a way forward. Engaged citizens committed to lasting
Will this budget reflect a government representing the needs of all Australians?
Déjà vu or “haven’t we heard this all before” lurks distinctly as we approach next week’s budget. Last year we wrote in this Public Service Informant of hopeful signs with the Treasurer hinting at things to come. There was a strong sense that female voices were
Quarantine fiasco, a media clampdown and the beast of the NSW Labor Right
Victoria will complete a two-week lockdown soon but if the Morrison government had done its job properly on quarantine management and the vaccination rollout, the lockdown – which will cost around $2 billion in lost revenues and other expenses – may have been avoided. And it’s
The Budget Mirage And The Debts And Deficits Ruse
It’s Budget time and we’ve spent the last week analysing the third Budget announcement from Treasurer Josh Frydenberg. Our verdict? Don’t believe the hype: it’s not a ‘big-spending’ Budget; and it’s not a Budget the Labor Party would have introduced. We think it’s yet another lost
Climate Change Action, Do We Need Religion In Politics, Vaccination Envy
The world is slowly moving towards climate change solutions and, once again, Australia is the laggard on the world stage but trying to tell everyone how well it’s performing, even though no other world leader believes it. And this is the modus operandi of the Morrison government:
TRUE OPINION: Bonking Beetroot Barnaby Joyce Back Again Is Peak Bogan Australia!
TRUE OPINION: Beloved by readers of True Crime News Weekly everywhere, Barnaby Joyce has once again returned as leader of the Nationals Party this week just a little over three years after the alleged serial sexual harasser and toxic drunkard was booted out as the
RENEGADE RADIO: June 4, 2021
On Renegade Radio this week, we discuss alleged rapist Christian Porter and the “worst ever defamation action in Australian legal history” as well as other hot topics such as Harvey Norman’s billionaire cheapskate boss Gerry Harvey and his JobKeeper swindle. New contributor, stand-up comedian and satirist Kieran
HARDLY NORMAL! Billionaire cheapskate & self-proclaimed “family man” Gerry Harvey carried out 20 year affair even after marrying second wife Katie Page who is Harvey Norman’s CEO
EXCLUSIVE: He is the billionaire cheapskate retail king who controls the weak, pliable Australian mainstream news media with the bundles of cash he throws at them through his incessant and annoying advertising, but Harvey Norman big boss Gerry Harvey has been hiding behind his self-proclaimed image as