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1News Needs a History Lesson

It’s okay. It’s nothing to be too concerned about, that is, for those of us with the inside knowledge that 1News weekend international politics stories are written by their cadet internship of 12-year-olds from local intermediate schools while the grown-up reporters take a break to relax and interview

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Dealing With Enemies of This Ministry

Dealing With Enemies of This Ministry

Michael Bassett Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former minister in the 1984–1990 governments. Ever wondered who or what is constantly trying to block the new government’s policies? Why is it that announcements

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A Perfectly Preserved Trilobite Changes the Game

A Perfectly Preserved Trilobite Changes the Game

It’s become drearily commonplace for an over-excited media to proclaim that every moderately interesting scientific discovery “turns science on its head”. For once, though, they’re onto something. Perhaps the most exciting development in paleontology since the Ediacara discovery in South Australia in 1946 has taken place in Morocco.

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The Strange History of a Charming Meme

Who was Kilroy, and why was he here? He was what might be considered a prototypical example of what biologist Richard Dawkins dubbed a “meme”, a simple cartoon drawing of a man peering over a wall, with the tag, “Kilroy Was Here”. It spread across every theatre in WWII were

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From Milk Runs to Madness

From Milk Runs to Madness

George Ford Smith George Ford Smith is a former mainframe and PC programmer and technology instructor, the author of eight books including a novel about a renegade Fed chairman (Flight of the Barbarous Relic) and a nonfiction book on how money became an instrument of theft (The Jolly Roger Dollar)

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Are We All the Weakies?

Are We All the Weakies?

We can all sense that Western civilisation is collapsing around us. The left celebrate it, the rest of us worry about it – hence the surprising, to some, women especially, fact that a great many men ponder the Fall of Rome quite regularly – and we all want to blame (or lay

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It Is Darkest Before Dawn

It Is Darkest Before Dawn

Jeffrey A Tucker Jeffrey Tucker is Founder, Author, and President at Brownstone Institute. He is also Senior Economics Columnist for Epoch Times, author of 10 books, including Life After Lockdown, and many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. It’s been a painful four years watching the

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Welfare – No Good News

Welfare – No Good News

Lindsay Mitchell Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio,tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under commission and exhibits

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Lessons from the Persecution of Assange

Lessons from the Persecution of Assange

Brownstone Institute Brownstone Institute is a nonprofit organization conceived of in May 2021 in support of a society that minimizes the role of violence in public life. After 12 years of confinement, Julian Assange now stands on the verge of freedom after agreeing to a guilty plea in exchange for

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Do You Think Ardern Actually Failed?

Do You Think Ardern Actually Failed?

At the weekend I read a rather amusing post on a friend’s Facebook. It was titled “World’s Shortest Books”, intended to be jokesy, and included such ‘titles’ as “Hawaii: a travel guide” by Captain Cook and “Maori Parliament: The Early Years” by Rawiri Waititi. One of the joke

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The History of the American Empire

Garet Garrett Garet Garrett (1878–1954) is a case study in a forgotten genius, about whom Ludwig von Mises said: “His keen penetration and his forceful direct language are … unsurpassed by any author.” Mises was speaking about his book The People’s Pottage (1953), which is a collection of three

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Is Putin really a Communist?

Is Putin really a Communist?

Augusto Zimmermann Augusto Zimmermann is Professor and Head of Law at Sheridan Institute of Higher Education. He is a former Associate Dean, Research, at Murdoch Law School. The modern nation of Russia was formally the centre of the Soviet Union, a socialist state founded after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.

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Facing China with a Third Path

Facing China with a Third Path

Warren Wang Warren escaped Communist China a decade ago to pursue education in Australia. Now a finance businessman, he passionately defends libertarian freedoms. Vigorously opposing Covid lockdowns and mandates, Warren champions traditional Western liberties, hoping Australia avoids becoming the repressive nation he left behind. Chinese Premier Li Qiang has just

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These Are NOT UN Agencies

These Are NOT UN Agencies

JM White Do you recall the shooting of PM Fico of Slovakia? The MSM stated he was shot because he was against supplying weapons to Ukraine and was therefore a supporter of Russia. But Fico was also an ardent opponent of the WHO Pandemic Treaty and the revised WHO International

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