In what might be a world first, the Australian parliament has just dealt a death blow to counter-disinformation legislation that threatened to fundamentally reshape the country’s free speech landscape. The bill, which would have created a two-tier system of speech …
Interview 1914 – If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, ATACMS! (NWNW #572)
This week on the New World Next Week: Ukraine crosses Russia’s nuclear retaliation line with Western missile strikes; Trump signals a national emergency to start a mass deportation; and the Australian government opens the door to digital ID with an …
Australia: erasing the evidence
The Australian Actuaries Institute [1] has published its latest report on mortality.
They are using a “new conceptual framework” whereby they now measure excess mortality relative to 2023, not to “pre-pandemic” years.
They also say:
As our baseline measurement for …
A war is brewing in the Pacific
The US may be losing ground to new global powers in many respects, but when it comes to the business of sowing conflict around the world, it remains unrivalled. As it slowly abandons Ukraine to its own fate, after playing …
How liberals betrayed indigenous Australia
On election night two years ago, at a celebration packed with ecstatic Labor Party faithful, an emotional Anthony Albanese rose for his victory speech. “I begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we meet,” he said. …
The hypocrisy of Australia’s Net Zero policy
An unbroken canopy of ancient eucalypts rides over the ridges of the Atherton Tablelands and disappears into the horizon. Queensland’s wet, tropical ecosystem is like nowhere else on Earth, the sacred remnants of the ancient Gondwanan forest that covered Australia …
What’s the point of the Women’s World Cup?
A useful guide to the significance of a sporting achievement can be gleaned from how desperate politicians are to be associated with it. And given that within minutes of England’s 3-1 World Cup semi-final win over Australia on Wednesday, Lib …
Australia’s divisive race referendum
When the Australian prime minister invites his countrymen to join him “on the right side of history” later this year, they will almost certainly decline. If the current polls are anything to go by, Anthony Albanese’s referendum on the creation …
How PwC captured Australia
PricewaterhouseCoopers claims it was created to fulfil one purpose: “To build trust in society and solve important problems”. Inevitably, its mission statement contains a list of platitudes explaining how it hopes to achieve this; among them is the insistence that …
Kylie Minogue’s glorious artifice
George Orwell once said that, by 50, everyone has the face he deserves. These days, most 50-something female celebrities seem to have exactly the same face, which they paid for. Cheeks are stuffed like upholstery. Foreheads are stretched taut as …
What Posie Parker learnt from Brexit
When I call Posie Parker the Nigel Farage of Terfs, I mean it as a compliment. I can’t think of another single-issue campaigner so effective at popular communication, so successful in reordering the political landscape — and so reviled for …
Australian drug kings have gone global
It wasn’t the flap of a butterfly’s wing that triggered a transformation in transnational crime, but the steady blows of a metal bollard pulverising the head of a bikie gang member. Anthony Zervas was murdered at Sydney Airport in 2009, …
Wieambilla Labelled Australia’s First ‘Christian Terror Attack’ / Hugo Talks
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Australia’s immigration lessons for Labour
“Stop the boats!” With that three-word slogan, Tony Abbott, the Leader of the Australian Liberal Party systematically attacked the Labor governments of my boss Julia Gillard and her predecessor and successor Kevin Rudd. The arrival of boats from Indonesia carrying …
The tragedy of Australian republicans
The Australian Republic Movement (ARM) has always been nervous about making its move too early — it has been waiting for this moment for a long time. For the past decade, polls showed that Elizabeth II, who visited Australia 16 …