Dutton is a man of little compassion and much less logic
All that I had predicted about Peter Dutton has come to pass. His comparing the 1996 mass murder of 35 people at Port Arthur with a […]
Politics
Balancing eSafety and Online Censorship, 2024
By Denis Hay Description: Explore how Australia’s eSafety laws impact free speech and how currency sovereignty can help balance regulation and rights. Introduction to eSafety […]
Violence in our churches
We must always condemn violence. There must be no tolerance for brutality, and we must take action to diminish violence whether it is tied to […]
Warring Against Encryption: Australia is Coming for Your Communications
On April 16, Australia’s eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, issued with authoritarian glee legal notices to X Corp and Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, […]
Censorship Wars: Elon Musk, Safety Commissioners and Violent Content
The attitudes down under towards social media have turned barmy. While there is much to take Elon Musk to task for his wrecking ball antics […]
Political Futures: Prepare for the Onslaught from Professionalized Lobbyists
By Denis Bright Australia is quite vulnerable to political instability associated with future downturns in global trade and investment. Despite the current affordability crisis, market […]
Reflections on the return of the Green Horned Devil
The green-horned devil, “Mother of Dragons”, or 12P/Pons-Brooks, a dirty big snowball, larger than Everest, hurtles into view from the edge of the solar system […]
The paradox of tolerance: do we suppress authoritarians’ speech before they suppress us?
The global movement towards authoritarianism took a step forward this week, and faced an experiment in checking its infiltration. In America, a frightening move towards […]
Nuclear Energy: A Layperson’s Dilemma
In 2013, I wrote a piece titled, “Climate Change: A layperson’s Dilemma” in which I pointed out the debunked theories of people like Andrew Bolt, […]
The Australian Defence Formula: Spend! Spend! Spend!
The skin toasted Australian Minister of Defence, Richard Marles, who resembles, with each day, the product of an overly worked solarium, was adamant. Not only […]
A Ghost in the Machine
By James Moore The only feature not mentioned was drool. On his second day in court, charged with multiple felonies, the putative leader of the […]
Suspending the Rule of Tolerable Violence: Israel’s Attack and Iran’s Retaliation
The Middle East has, for some time, been a powder keg where degrees of violence are tolerated with ceremonial mania and a calculus of restraint. […]
Fossil Fuel’s war on protest
Madeleine King, Minister for Resources in the Albanese government recently announced that she will curtail the ability of Australians to challenge resource corporation projects in […]
Despite Lehrmann’s rave parties, his silence is deafening as he waits for Lee’s other shoe to drop
“We’ve been experiencing horrific parties,” says a neighbour, with the most disturbing thing being “screeching karaoke … You never hear a peep from anyone in […]
Remember when they had vision
It seems Prime Minister Anthony Albanese does. In Brisbane this week he announced that the ALP Government would be considering legislation that would bring some […]