Why the Ruling Class Fears Democracy
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Being unheard and vilified has broken public trust in the underpinning institutions of democracy. In the 2024 Edelman Trust Barometer, less than half the people... Read more.
The Forces That Imperil Public Order
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Public disquiet has grown but bubbled along under the surface for decades at serially repeating instances of police refusing to enforce the law for fear of tran... Read more.
Perrottet’s Covid Apology Is Not Good Enough
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Australians cannot like a post on Facebook without police knocking on the door, and yet every level of our government engaged in crimes against our humanity –... Read more.
The WHO Is No Longer Fit for Purpose
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Unfortunately, the WHO’s performance in helping the world manage Covid-19 proved, to be kind, very patchy. This makes it all the more surprising that there sh... Read more.
Voters Take Vengeance on the Tories
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The policy agenda should commit to restoring sovereign decision-making, shrinking government, strengthening free speech, reducing immigration, and cutting the a... Read more.
Self-Inflicted Harm: The Persecution of Assange
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The WikiLeaks document dumps caused embarrassment to some governments. However, for all the repetitions of the charge against Assange that he put the lives of U... Read more.
The Crisis of Democracy and the New Right
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The old left-right divide has become obsolete. Instead, the new divide is between the international technocratic elite in alliance with national elites against ... Read more.
Covid Vaccines: Savior or Killer Shot?
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In sum, therefore, looked at together, the two pairs of examples from North America and Australasia indicate a weak to negligible role of vaccines and the criti... Read more.
WHO Accords Warrant Sovereignty Concern
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The two sets of changes to the architecture of global health governance, I argued, will effectively change the WHO from a technical advisory organisation offeri... Read more.
Six Explanations for Rising Vaccine Hesitancy
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In April last year, UNICEF reported that vaccination coverage had decreased in 112 countries and 67 million children had missed out on at least one vaccination ... Read more.
How Gender Ideology Breeds Toxic Law
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The lesson is to privilege fact-finding and evidence over gender, put faith in a due process-centred rule of law over mob rule, reaffirm presumption of innocenc... Read more.
Australian Senate to Investigate Excess Mortality
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Clearly, most people are done with Covid and have stopped paying heed to the advice from public health authorities. This of course contains its own long-term da... Read more.