The sudden alarm among Big Australia journalists is not really about plumbers or nurses. It is about a taboo being broken. One Nation has proposed cutting the stock of temporary migrants back toward pre-pandemic levels, and that is enough to bring out the familiar sermon: skills shortages, an ageing nation, and the suggestion that anyone who questi...
Steve Kirsch's claim is blunt. Averaging across the people who took COVID vaccines, he estimates about one death per thousand vaccinated persons over several years; not per dose, and not confined to the first fortnight after a shot. If roughly 5.5 billion people were vaccinated, that would imply more than five million excess deaths worldwide, or so...
"To see some of the reporting about Tony Burke's National Press Club address on Thursday, you might be led to believe that the government is going to do something about migration. But beneath all the talk is one basic truth – which is that, far from the migration reset Australia desperately needs, the minister responsible for migration announced th...
Donald Trump announced that the United States, Denmark, and Greenland had struck a security pact that, in his telling, gives Washington "permanent control over security, and all other needs" on the island: an "infinite life" deal, no U.S. purchase price, no Chinese or Russian bases, no sensitive adversary investment without American written approva...
The play is old, and it is not subtle once you see it. First a generation of boys is taught that what they are: aggression, drive, risk, the wish to build, to compete, to protect, is not a rough edge to be sanded but a disease. "Toxic masculinity" was never a description of a particular cruelty. It was a label for a category of person, and that per...
The body keeps time whether you notice it or not. Hormones rise and fall, temperature drifts, cells repair, the brain's overnight clean-up crew comes on shift. That 24-hour machinery is the circadian clock, and a large study in older adults has now tied the strength of that clock to who later receives a dementia diagnosis. The Natural News write-up...
Reg Hamilton has a memorable line in The Spectator Australia: "Australia has become a good place to watch the end of the world." For Australians of a certain generation, it is difficult to read that without thinking of Nevil Shute. Shute's 1957 novel On the Beach, and the famous film that followed, imagined Australia as the last waiting room of civ...
Artificial intelligence may become one of humanity's greatest instruments of progress. It may also become one of the most dangerous forces we have ever released. The central problem is not simply the machine. The central problem is us. Human beings are developing increasingly powerful systems without demonstrating an equivalent growth in wisdom, re...
Nation First warns that a deepening fuel crisis could hand governments control over when people travel, work and conduct their daily lives. Just days ago, BeInCrypto reported fuel rationing or shortages across five countries: France, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Nepal. Its examples included French petrol stations missing at least one fuel, c...
The numbers are not complicated, which is why they sting. Early American birth cohorts barely differed by politics when it came to children. Then, starting with people born in the mid-1940s, the Left began having fewer. The Right stayed near replacement. That is the finding from Fieder and Huber in the General Social Survey, and it is the sort of f...
Most people do not like to sit with the possibility of nuclear war. That is understandable. The war in Ukraine has also gone on long enough that Western publics have grown numb to it: another strike, another statement, another week. Numbness is not the same as safety. The question that keeps getting postponed is simpler and older than any press con...
To President Donald J. Trump and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Republican County Parties across Florida, Texas, and the country, have passed resolutions declaring COVID 19 and mRNA injections to be biological and technological weapons of mass destruction. The Idaho and Arizona Republican parties also passed resolutions declaring COVID/mRNA i...
In October 2018, a one-star review appeared on the Google My Business listing of Adelaide barrister Gordon Cheng. Written in English and Chinese, it warned people to stay away from him. It attacked his professionalism, accused him of giving misleading advice, and suggested that he pushed clients into court cases they could not win. There was one fu...
Kamala Harris is heading back to Michigan, and this time the company she is keeping may tell us more about the direction of the Democratic Party than another carefully scripted speech ever could. The former vice president is scheduled to campaign with Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for the United States Senate in Michigan. The immediate exp...
Rome's end was a catastrophe with a shape. Cities emptied, tax bases collapsed, frontiers failed, and new peoples took land that could no longer be held. That is miserable enough if you lived through it. It is not the same misery as a civilisation that still has electricity, courts, universities and stocked shops, and uses them to teach its childre...
There is something peculiar happening around Sydney Sweeney, and it deserves more serious examination than either side of the culture war usually gives it. Sweeney's latest offence against civilisation is an advertisement for the sports prediction platform Novig in which she appears largely naked, strategically concealed by sporting equipment. In a...
Tony Burke wants Australians to believe the housing crisis is mainly about smaller households. The more inconvenient explanation is the one his portfolio actually controls: the number of people the government keeps letting in. The Home Affairs Minister has been circulating a tidy claim. The real engine of housing demand, he says, is not the immigra...
Graeme Campbell was born on 12 August 1939 in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, and came to Australia as a child of that mid-century generation for whom migration meant something rather different from what it often means in political debate today. Australia was not regarded as a hotel or an economic zone. It was a country to join, build, work for and ultimate...
The British government is beginning to speak seriously about the possibility of a major European war. The difficulty is that Britain's military and civil-defence preparations do not yet appear to match the gravity of its warnings. Whitehall is rewriting its classified War Book for the first time since 2004. The government has encouraged households ...
It had to happen, eventually. They taught artificial intelligence mathematics, language, computer programming, medicine and law. They gave it tools, memory and the ability to communicate with other artificial intelligences. Then Google put a hundred AI agents together in something resembling a scientific community and discovered that some of them h...
