What to do about Yuendumu? Where black female lives appear not to matter Tony Letford Getty Images Tony Letford 18 June 2022 9:00 AM The Weekend Australian recently ran a series of articles providing in unflinching, graphic detail, an account of a young woman from the remote Central Desert community of Yuendumu, ‘Ruby’, who wasContinue reading “Features Australia“
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Prince William has shared a special memory with his mother, Princess Diana, for a special edition of The Big Issue, out now.
The edition celebrates Prince William’s 40th birthday today. In the magazine, he writes about his first experience visiting a homeless shelter with his mother when he was just 11, and the impact it had on his life. “I was 11 when I first visited a homeless shelter with my mother, who in her own inimitableContinue reading “Prince William has shared a special memory with his mother, Princess Diana, for a special edition of The Big Issue, out now.”
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Where are the visionary politicians? Ron Pike Getty Images Ron Pike 9 June 2022 11:00 AM As I watch my Australia transition from a Liberal government that only managed around 36 per cent of the primary vote to a Labor government that got even fewer primary votes, I ponder if Australia has the unity ofContinue reading “Flat White“
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Coal to the rescue? Tim Smith Getty Images Tim Smith 20 June 2022 11:30 AM What sort of a third-world country have we become, with an abundance of natural resources, that ‘load shedding’ or electricity rationing was forced on businesses and residents up and down the eastern states of Australia last week? New South WalesContinue reading “Flat White“
Waiter, There’s a Flighty Lefty in My Soup
Media David Barton A funny thing happened to me at the pub not long after May 21’s election. I was having dinner with a friend and there was another couple, a man and a woman (can I even say that these days?), at a nearby table. For some reason, probably to do with drugs and/orContinue reading “Waiter, There’s a Flighty Lefty in My Soup”
Editors as door mats
Insights from Quadrant When newsroom silverbacks and grey beards gather a frequent topic of rueful conversation is the inversion of the old order. Once, and not so long ago, hacks lived in fear of their editors, but no longer. These days, as woke staffers package their worldview in ink and pixels, it is a braveContinue reading “Editors as door mats”
Green Doctors: Suitable Cases for Treatment
Doomed Planet Tony Thomas On climate, a lot of medicos are out there on the nuttiest end of the doom spectrum. But I had no idea their hysteria could even out-do and embarrass Greenpeace, The Guardian and Tim Flannery’s Climate Council. Last month three anaesthetists published a peer-reviewed paper in Australasian Anaesthesia discouraging birthing mothersContinue reading “Green Doctors: Suitable Cases for Treatment”
Aborigines
Giving Voice to the Wrong Question 16th June 2022 Comments (9) Antony Barraclough The laws that affect all Australians are voted in by two bodies – the House of Representatives and the Senate – and both must agree to the laws. Each electorate in Australia gets a 1-in-151 say in the vote of the HouseContinue reading “Aborigines”
AUSTRALIAN VIP PAEDOPHILE RING
VIPs like Allan Jones sent love letters to boys. He and other VIP paedophiles were never prosecuted. Did you ever watch Young Talent Time? Some of our highest politicians and most influential people are connected. Warning contains content some people could find offensive. AUSTRALIAN PEDOPHILE RING EXPOSED; AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT August 2nd, 2020 Awake Goy PEDOPHILEContinue reading “AUSTRALIAN VIP PAEDOPHILE RING”
Health
Trapped inside (Part 3): AHPRA protects alleged sex offenders By Fiona Barnett | 3 November 2014, 2:00pm | 9 comments | 7,262 | After Fiona Barnett was bullied out of her Bond University psychology course, health regulator AHPRA treated her case with a curious mixture of incredible incompetence and callous contempt. Trapped inside Australia’s vast childContinue reading “Health”
Crime
Trapped inside (Part 2): Bond University exposed By Fiona Barnett | 20 July 2014, 11:30am | 15 comments | 37,563 | Bond Uni has been in the news recently with criminologist lecturer Professor Paul Wilson facing court on child abuse charges. Former student Fiona Barnett says the rot at the University goes deep. Trapped insideContinue reading “Crime”
Crime
Trapped inside Australia’s vast child abuse network (Part 1) By Fiona Barnett | 9 May 2014, 6:00pm | 197 comments | 81,179 | In the first part of a heartbreaking, yet inspiring, three part account, child abuse victim Fiona Barnett details the shocking systematic abuse she saw and was subjected to from an early age, along with her battleContinue reading “Crime”
Aborigines
Bogus Identity and Constitutional Change 20th June 2022 Comments (9) Keith Windschuttle Editor-in-chiefEditor, Quadrant Magazinekeithwindschuttle@quadrant.org.au In July 2000, Allen Appo of Bundaberg, Queensland, was charged in the Townsville Magistrates Court with a breach of the Fisheries Act by illegally catching undersized and female mud crabs. He was represented by Townsville Aboriginal Legal Aid who arguedContinue reading “Aborigines”
The End is Here
Our Economy In A Nutshell June 18, 2022Algora BlogLeave a comment Spread the Word Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The economy has reached an inflection point where everything that is unsustainable finally starts unraveling. Our economy is in a crisis that’s been brewing for decades. The Chinese characters for the English wordContinue reading “The End is Here”
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Lindy Chamberlain’s case foreshadowed Covid mania Kurt Mahlburg Getty Images Kurt Mahlburg 16 June 2022 2:00 PM As the dust settles on Covid, many Australians are still trying to make sense of the radical hysteria that overtook so many in our purportedly laid-back, larrikin nation. This week, a married couple shared with me the tragic story ofContinue reading “Flat White“
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Cook cancelled: when will we call this out as racism? Alexandra Marshall Getty Images Alexandra Marshall 18 June 2022 6:46 PM Peaceful explorer, cartographer, and navigator Captain James Cook has been removed from the Australia versus England Test match crystal Cook Cup. After a quarter of a century, one of the greatest men in historyContinue reading “Flat White“
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Australians are being watched Flat White Getty Images Flat White 17 June 2022 4:52 PM If it’s not bad enough that Australians have had their retail habits monitored via the (ethically questionable) government Vaccine Passport system, or that Silicon Valley apps hide their stalking habits in the fine print – an investigation has alleged thatContinue reading “Flat White“
World
We need to talk about Scotland Kevin Hague Nicola Sturgeon (Photo: Getty) Kevin Hague 18 June 2022 6:31 PM The Scottish government has published the first instalment of its new independence prospectus, a paper with the remarkably verbose title: ‘Building a New Scotland – Independence in the Modern World. Wealthier, Happier, Fairer: Why Not Scotland?’Continue reading “World“
Towards the Wall of Blackouts
Planned Chaos in Power Generation By Viv Forbes Politicians are inviting electricity chaos in Australia by promoting closure of coal-fired power stations, but also promoting more electric cars – more demand, less supply. And Green energy is a wild bull in the electricity china shop. Around mid-day on most sunny days, millions of roof-top solarContinue reading “Towards the Wall of Blackouts”
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Australia’s perfect economic storm John Andriano Getty Images John Andriano 10 June 2022 4:00 AM Successive Australian governments are directing our economy into the eye of a perfect storm. It should be avoidable, but due to their failure to consider fundamental economic principles, it has become inevitable. Australia entered the Covid pandemic period in earlyContinue reading “Flat White“
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