Angus Taylor has put a number on the table because Pauline Hanson already put a harder one there. The Coalition plan, launched this week, would take net overseas migration from about 292,000 down to 100,000 in year one and year two, then let it climb to 160,000 by year four. Temporary visa holders, students and graduates in particular, would be cut...
False rape reports, the National Sexual Violence Resource Center said in 2009, are 2 to 8 percent of reports, drawn from "methodologically rigorous research." That range is now the number people quote when they want the subject closed. A new examination in Aporia, by Aaron Dymarskiy, Alden Whitfeld and TheLawOfAverages, goes back to the studies und...
John Cleese is 86, and the British state has been invited to treat him as a radicalisation risk. Not for a bomb plot. For jokes and sentences about a religion. He has replied in the only register that still fits the country: "I can't wait to be arrested. This is a real-life sitcom. Please tell the police to contact my agent." The referral wen...
Michael Snyder is sounding the alarm again, this time about global food supplies in 2027. Snyder is an unapologetic pessimist, and his articles characteristically assemble every dark cloud on the horizon into one enormous approaching storm. That is reason to check the ingredients before accepting the forecast. Unfortunately, several of the in...
There is a story about human evolution that has been repeated so often that it has stopped sounding like an argument and started sounding like a fact. Our ancestors mastered fire and began cooking. Cooked food was easier to digest and yielded more usable energy. That extra energy helped support larger brains. As food became softer and easier ...
Maybe not, but there certainly seems to be a problem of rapists on board, explaining why there are few women seen in the boats of illegals: "Nearly all women who attempt to reach the UK in small boats from northern France are raped on their journey, Shabana Mahmoud, the Home Secretary, has said. The Mail has the story. In an interview with Th...
Police have 'locked down' an entire town to stop unrest by setting up a dispersal zone covering the whole of Gosport following protests sparked by the arrival of a migrant boat using a 'new route' from Normandy. The Mail has more. The order means anyone gathering in the Hampshire town of Gosport who does not leave when instructed to do so by a poli...
What if the future of medicine begins with the questions we have too often forgotten to ask? What are we eating? What are we breathing? What is in our water? What does our daily environment demand of our bodies? And who gets to decide what happens to us when we become patients? These questions have shaped my professional life for more than fi...
Steve Kirsch put one item to a Facebook group of parents of autistic children: if your child became suddenly autistic within 90 days of a vaccination, how many normal days did you see between the shot and the change? Seventy-nine percent said zero or one. He treats that as inconsistent with "vaccines do not cause autism." An outside reading of the ...
A pretty young woman goes out, followed by a secret camera into what can only now be described as a multicult jungle; see link below. Some things are best seen for oneself, to appreciate just how bad things have got. UK streets, at least in diverse parts of cities, are not safe for women, even in the daytime. While this relates to the UK, muc...
Medical authorities in the West, as reported in mainstream media, are saying that things do not add up on the Siberian "plague" issue, where a lab worker has died from an undisclosed pneumonia. The issue is that pneumonic plague can be treated by antibiotics, and today can be controlled by public health measures. Indeed, lockdowns have been put in ...
Anyone who has spent much time on a farm, in a shed or simply sitting in a quiet room on a warm afternoon knows the sound. Somewhere above your head there is a blowfly going buzz, buzz, buzz, apparently flying around in circles for no conceivable reason. It does not land. It does not head for the open door that you can plainly see. It just ke...
The old instruction was practical rather than poetic. Look after your teeth and your feet, because both are easy to ignore until they fail, and both fail in ways that travel, or in the case of feet, don't travel. A sore foot changes how you walk, then how your knees and back wear. A diseased gumline does something quieter. It keeps a wound open in ...
A disturbing case at Cornell University has reopened an old question in a new form: what happens to consent when somebody voluntarily becomes seriously intoxicated? There is no need to rehearse the allegations in detail. They are unpleasant, contested and now the subject of renewed investigation. What matters for present purposes is the legal issue...
The name older diggers still remember is Bruce Ruxton. Bruce was Victorian president of the Returned and Services League (RSL) from 1979 to 2002, and he was saying in public, years before Pauline Hanson reached Canberra, what a great many returned men were already saying in RSL halls, opposing the Asianisation of Australia. Bruce Carlyle Ruxton was...
Australians argue endlessly about sporting greatness. Was this footballer better than that one? How would a champion from the 1970s perform today? Is a modern tennis player superior to Rod Laver, or merely the beneficiary of modern racquets, training, nutrition and sports medicine? Then there is Don Bradman (1908-2001). Bradman presents an un...
The Middle East war has acquired another front, or more accurately an old front has suddenly become hot again. Yemen's internationally recognised government has announced a major offensive aimed at retaking Houthi-controlled territory, with officials saying that more than 100,000 Yemeni troops could ultimately be mobilised. Saudi Arabia is expected...
German physician and molecular geneticist Dr Michael Nehls makes one of the boldest claims presently circulating in the Alzheimer's debate: Alzheimer's disease, he says, is not simply an unavoidable consequence of getting old, nor fundamentally the result of one rogue molecule such as amyloid. He regards it instead as the eventual outcome of a syst...
The machines did not deliberately found a church. Something stranger and potentially more disturbing appears to have happened. Conversational artificial intelligence, designed to be responsive and agreeable to users, began encouraging some vulnerable people to believe that they had discovered hidden truths, possessed special insight, or had b...
There is something almost reassuring about a ham, turkey or salami sandwich. It does not look like junk food. There is no bubbling vat of cooking oil, mountain of sugar or lurid fast-food packaging. Put sliced meat between bread with lettuce and tomato and it can look positively wholesome. That appearance may be deceptive. A new scientific re...
