Even by the standards of the Canberra Bubble, this one’s a jaw-dropper: disgraced former ACT director of public prosecutions Shane Drumgold has been appointed as a lecturer at Canberra University. Even more astonishing, he’s teaching a unit on the law of evidence. Which makes about as much sense
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The Herald reports Auckland University Associate Law Professor, a Carrie Leonetti, saying she’s never seen any evidence to suggest banning gang insignia and consorting had an impact on gang membership and violence. That’s about as logical as me saying I’ve never seen
The Labour-Greens Government wasted precious time and money on Covid when the country needed relief from the high cost of living, poorly maintained roads, hospital staffing shortages, high truancy rates, the explosion in youth crime and rising welfare dependency. The politicians in government today cannot be trusted. Some were in
Augusto Zimmermann mercatornet.com Augusto Zimmermann is professor and head of law at Sheridan Institute of Higher Education and served as associate law dean at Murdoch University. He is also a former commissioner with the Law Reform Commission of Western Australia. He is the co-author with Gabriël Moens AM of
A Midwestern Doctor midwesterndoctor.com Ron Johnson has gradually become one of my favorite senators in American history. In 2020, he repeatedly advocated for early Covid-19 treatments to be made available to Americans (which had they been made available would have ended the pandemic). Throughout 2021, he spoke out against
I’ve noticed two things recently. The first is you want to get pseudoephedrine back on the shelves and, secondly, your opposition to the previous government’s plans to ban tobacco. This to me demonstrates one thing – that you get that prohibition and the war on drugs has been an
CJ Hopkins consentfactory.org Remember HAL, the homicidal Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic Computer from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey? Well, if you haven’t had the pleasure yet, let me introduce you to Gemini, Google’s “multimodal large language model.” Gemini hasn’t killed anyone yet – as far as
Rebekah Barnett Rebekah Barnett is a Brownstone Institute fellow, independent journalist and advocate for Australians injured by the Covid vaccines. She holds a BA in Communications from the University of Western Australia, and writes for her Substack, Dystopian Down Under. brownstone.org Covid vaccine mandates enforced on Queensland police and
James Parker James Parker is a former gay activist and abuse survivor who supports people and their loved ones around sexuality, gender and identity. mercatornet.com Tasmania could follow Queensland, the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and Victoria in banning conversion therapy – which includes therapeutic or spiritual interventions linked to sexuality
It was Mahatma Ghandi who said that throughout history, there have always been tyrants, “and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall”. Which is true enough, but too often the falling is a long time coming, and without a due accounting. Think of
cfact.org Last week, there were more victories for the rule of law over the rule of climate bureaucrats and activists when the judiciary reversed a lower court ruling on a federal coal moratorium and rejected a bogus class-action lawsuit on emissions. These were encouraging steps, but the larger threat
Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the Editor at Large of FEE.org at FEE. fee.org On the evening of March 20, 2020, Waylon Bailey was bored. Like nearly all members of the public at the time, he was under “lockdown” because of the COVID-19 pandemic. So, he decided to
Michael Cook Michael Cook is editor of Mercator. mercatornet.com There are one million frozen embryos in IVF clinics across the United States and they are all “extrauterine children”. That is the stunning opinion handed down last week by the Alabama Supreme Court and it has sent shivers up and
[Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith] said over the last five years, gangs have recruited more than 3000 members, which is a 51 per cent increase. “At the same time, we’ve seen a significant escalation in gang-related violence, public intimidation and shootings, with violent crime up 33 percent.” […] “Police will be
The NZDF lost in the Court of Appeal which upheld an earlier case declaring the vaccine mandates for the NZDF were illegal. I’ve lost count of how many times Ardern’s draconian mandates and lockdowns have been found illegal. But now: In a bombshell legal decision, the Court of
Sonia Elijah Sonia Elijah has a background in Economics. She’s a former BBC researcher and now works as an investigative journalist. brownstone.org On Wednesday, February 14, a highly controversial law was pushed through the National Assembly in France, potentially turning a critic of mRNA treatment into a criminal.
