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By Robert McFillin: Brownstone Institute In Australia, where mental health challenges have surged post-pandemic — with one in seven people (around 3.9 million) now taking antidepressants, one of the highest rates globally — the stark U.S. trends highlighted in this... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
The AFP has set up new National Security Investigations (NSI) teams to target groups and individuals causing high levels of harm to Australia’s social cohesion, including the targeting of federal parliamentarians. The NSI teams began operations in Sydney, Melbourne and... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
Tony Hughes-d’Aeth, The University of Western Australia A.D. Hope and Patrick White are towering figures of 20th-century Australian culture. Few cast larger literary shadows over the postwar period. White, with his dizzying, monumental novels and Nobel prize, holds pride of... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
Goodby Road is an utterly compelling collection of essays from the founder of Cafe Locked Out. It is of significant historical interest for the fact that Michael Gray Griffith is the only citizen journalist to have travelled Australia interviewing people... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
By Erin Rolandsen: Beyond the Rage Machine Cybernetics pioneer Stafford Beer once said: “The purpose of a system is what it does.” If that is true, what, then, do we make of Australia’s systems? Everywhere we look, the systems designed... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
Lisa M. Given, RMIT University Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, has outlined an updated list of platforms that may fall under the social media age restrictions that will take effect later this year. While Australians expected platforms such as... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
By DB Subedi, The University of Queensland Editor’s Note: This story’s central premise is particularly relevant in the Australian context because of the Australian governments moves to ban social media for Under 16s. Two paragraphs have been updated with the... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
Michael Gray Griffith: Cafe Locked Out In the trial of Paul Offe, the prosecutor, towards the end, left a free frame of the rear of Paul’s truck on all the screens of the court. On the top of Paul’s truck... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
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Joseph Janes, Swansea University Yaba, a cheap and potent methamphetamine-caffeine pill often dubbed “crazy medicine”, has become one of Thailand’s most pressing public health crises. Easy to produce and widely available, yaba is used by everyone from factory workers seeking... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
50th Anniversary of the Family Law Act Interviews With Bettina Arndt Extracts Reviews| A Sense of Place Magazine
Bert Oliver: Brownstone Institute On a flight back to South Africa from attending a conference in South Korea recently, I watched the gripping biographical film, Lee (2023; directed by Ellen Kuras), with Kate Winslet in the title role of Lee Miller, intrepid... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
By Fred Pawle The recent three-day talkfest in Canberra has only confirmed what we already knew: Australia under this government is totally doomed. Being stuck in a windowless room with nerds discussing ways to stimulate an economy is, to normal... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
Australia’s response to the Covid era was the worst in the world, with its insane lockdowns, destructive vaccine mandates and out of control authoritarianism, accompanied by a blizzard of lies from our politicians. So few people stood up to the... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
The latest from A Sense of Place Publishing “If you have a book, you have a friend,” says Robyn. When a child, she always had her nose in a book and, walked around the playground at school, her nose in... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
Tim Rowse, Western Sydney University Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names and images of deceased people. The homicidal actions, flight, capture, trial and punishment of Jimmy and Joe Governor (and their accomplice Jack Underwood)... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
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Rachael L. Brown, Australian National University and Rob Brooks, UNSW Sydney Head lice, fleas and tapeworms have been humanity’s companions throughout our evolutionary history. Yet, the greatest parasite of the modern age is no blood-sucking invertebrate. It is sleek, glass-fronted... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
From TOTT News Former Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) for his “eminent service” to the country. The COVID-era puppet. The clown show continues to roll on. FORMER PM HONOURED Just... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
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 most Marvel... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
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... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
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... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
From Gaz’s A Defender’s Voice Greg Sheridan’s bombshell article in The Australian, “Australia Divided, Misgoverned, in Retreat,” doesn’t just diagnose a nation in trouble; it rips off the bandages to expose the systemic rot infecting every major artery of the country.... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
Professor Ramesh Thakur: Brownstone Institute A Doctor Dies by Suicide Mei-Khing Loo is a former practice manager whose 43-year-old obstetrician-gynaecologist husband of 21 years, Dr Yen-Yung Yap, died by suicide in 2020 while under investigation by the Australian Health Practitioner... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
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From Dystopian Down Under Rebekah Barnett, one of Australia’s best journalists, interviews Debbie Lerman, one of the world’s best researchers, on what really happened during Covid. What if the pandemic response was run by national security agencies according to a... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
From Ethan Nash of TOTT News In attempt to give themselves godlike abilities, the technocratic elitist class is pushing society towards a transhumanist future powered by their own ‘intelligent design’, in an attempt to rewrite human rights as we know... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
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From Grok: The World’s Most Intelligent AI Picture a rust-red landscape, jagged rocks strewn under a thin, alien sky. This is Mars, the planet that’s haunted human imagination for centuries—home to sci-fi dreams, ancient myths, and now, Elon Musk’s boldest... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
From Thomas Buckley: Brownstone Institute Climate change is an existential threat. Misinformation is an existential threat. Inequality is an existential threat. The next pandemic is an existential threat. Our democracy is facing an existential threat. And everyone must be prepared... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
Sydney Criminal Lawyers Blog: An Interview with Renegade Activists Jacob & Mercedes| A Sense of Place Magazine
With Fred Pawle, Paul Collits and Rebekah Barnett As always in Australia these days, some of the best political analysis is coming from independent media. The faux Australian conservatives, who didn’t have the gumption, the courage or the integrity to... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
Counterfeit pain medications have emerged as the latest threat posed by illicit drug importation, as Australian authorities detect a worrying spike in nitazenes. Nitazenes are an illicit and dangerous synthetic opioid which can cause serious and unpredictable health effects, including overdose... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
Terror in Australia: Workers’ Paradise Lost. Extract. By John Stapleton. As a young man Alex had taken every opportunity to travel. He stayed several times at a beach on Penang island known as Batu Ferringhi. In the 1970s it was... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
Extract from Terror in Australia: Workers’ Paradise Lost. Australian governments had always appealed to nationalism in their aggressive drives to recruit young men to war. World War One posters included: “Under Which Flag Will You Live? Enlist Now”; “The Trumpet... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
Paul Collits VOTERS will not need reminding that elections in Australia are meaningless affairs these days. They are contested by two undeserving branches of the UniParty that together struggle to get two thirds of the primary vote. Real problems are... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
By Fred Pawle This election is becoming a test for who can hold the most contradictory opinions at once about religion, immigration, housing and what’s left of our culture. Albo, aka Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, will win it in a... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
Alison Bevege: Letters from Australia Bureaucracy is destroying Democracy as unelected regulators take power from parliamentary lawmakers. The shock judgement on Thursday against Australians injured by the covid vaccines has revealed a deadly chasm between the public and an unaccountable... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
Michael Gray Griffith is Australia’s leading contemporary historian. His stunning work documents not just the national derangement which overtook Australia during the Covid era, when the country became notorious internationally for having the worst response to the so-called “pandemic” of... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
Alison Bevege: Letters from Australia Thousands of covid vaccine-injured Australians are in distress after the Federal Court of Australia ruled against their class action on Thursday. Justice Anna Katzmann’s verdict was delivered briefly on Thursday morning and the judgement is published... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
“Indoctrinated Brain: How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your Mental Freedom” by Michael Nehls is a clarion call against what the author perceives as a deliberate and insidious assault on cognitive freedom worldwide. Michael Nehls, a German... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
From Rebekah Barnett: The Brownstone Institute Three years after it became universally acknowledged that Covid vaccines provide negligible protection against infection and transmission, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) has finally dropped its Covid vaccine mandate. AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw announced... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
The violence card has been played, and it won the game. A Royal Flush. As Dads On The Air said so long ago, the liars, the lawyers, the bureaucrats and the social engineers have won the day. Fifty years of... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
From Gaz’s – A Defender’s Voice The battlefield is no longer land—it’s your mind. Manipulated by data, steered by AI, controlled by fear. You’re not being informed. You’re being programmed. Wake up—before it’s too late. “Humans are hackable animals.” These chilling... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
From War Powers Reform Zero Transparency – New Report investigates the AUKUS Pact “AUKUS and the surrender of transparency, accountability and sovereignty” A new report on the massive AUKUS military pact has found the agreement has been plagued by an... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
From Rebekah Barnett: Dystopian Down Under Do people have the right to participate in charged social debates online? This is the question at the heart of a lawsuit between Australia’s online harms regulator, the eSafety Commissioner, on one side, with... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
By John Stapleton Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance “When two truths meet the most courageous one wins.” Chinese proverb. This piece was originally written some 20 years ago and is republished here out of curiosity. Falun Gong remain a powerful if essentially... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
Steve Turton, CQUniversity Australia The small Queensland town of Eromanga bills itself as Australia’s town furthest from the sea. But this week, an ocean of freshwater arrived. Monsoon-like weather has hit the normally arid Channel Country of inland Queensland. Some... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
By Bettina Arndt “The Family Court system is in enormous trouble.” That’s a momentous statement given that the speaker, former judge and now Adelaide barrister Stuart Lindsay, has dealt with more than 2000 family law cases. But there’s much more… This... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
By Nudge Mieli Boxing coach Nudge Mieli, who came from a martial arts background, started boxing to become more proficient with his hands. “They call boxing the sweet science, and that’s what drew me to it,” Nudge says. “It is... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
The year 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Family Law Act, the single most intrusive and destructive piece of legislation to ever pass the Australian parliament. In that time the Family Court has been the subject... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
Chris Wallace, University of Canberra The Albanese government has a fighting chance of winning the 2025 election, but will need to achieve in five weeks of campaigning what it hasn’t in three years in office. That is, work out a... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
By John Stapleton “Spiritual truth is not something elaborate and esoteric, it is in fact profound common sense. When you realize the nature of mind, layers of confusion peel away. You don’t actually “become” a buddha, you simply cease, slowly,... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
From Michael Gray Griffith: Café Locked Out In the Kimberleys, I saw the broken backbone of a mountain range—time had spent millions of years pruning it down to here. Its rocks were cracked and angry, too hot to touch, for... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
A new book chronicles the Family Court’s 50 years of destroying families and men’s lives. It is a harbinger of the deeply flawed secular world into which we are sleepwalking. The creation of the Family Court of Australia in 1975... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
Alison Bevege: Letters from Australia Three key confirmations may go a long way to ripping the Gates/Pharma influence network from the US health system – but it’s doubtful the win will flow through to Australia. Our health sector has been... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
From Augusto Zimmerman: Spectator Australia John Stapleton spent a quarter of a century working as a general news reporter for two of Australia’s leading mastheads, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian. He is currently the editor of A Sense of Place Magazine and is... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
By Hayley Stannard, Charles Sturt University and Julie Old, Western Sydney University In Australia’s arid and semi-arid zones lives a highly elusive predator. It’s small but fierce and feisty, with big eyes, long hind legs and a pointy nose. A... Continue Reading →| A Sense of Place Magazine
