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When Activism Trumps Learning: Webinar Unapproved at last Minute - Health & Education
3+ hour, 25+ min ago (146+ words) A talk to familiarise Australian family doctors with a safer treatment approach to youth gender dysphoria will not go ahead as planned after a medical college buckled to activist pressure. The well-subscribed March 10 webinar presentation by Finnish psychiatrist Riittakerttu Kaltiala…...
Cinema Review - The Biggest Step is the Next One: Project Hail Mary - Music, Cinema & Books
2+ hour, 6+ min ago (166+ words) Project Hail Mary is an awe-filled and hope-filled film, a tribute to technical ingenuity in both its subject matter and its execution. In a world awash with cynicism and nihilism and despair, it is refreshing to experience something that offers…...
Music Review - A Personal Manifesto of the Pale and What’s Beyond - Music, Cinema & Books
2+ hour, 16+ min ago (162+ words) Above image: Dear Bono, do the world a favour " stop clapping and stop pontificating. Today we are going to discuss musicians whom one (that is, me) would never interview even if one's (my) palms were crossed with enormous amounts of…...
Cost of Legal Smokes Pushes Smokers Into Drug-Saturated Black Markets - Health & Education
3+ hour, 7+ min ago (93+ words) Australia ranks among the highest tobacco-taxing nations in the world. The Federal Government draws about $34 tax on every $50 pack of cigarettes sold. This financial year, the Government expects to earn revenue of $7.4 billion, down from $12.6 billion in 2022-23, and down" Analysing…...
Letters – 21 March, 2026 (subscribe to read) - Letters to the Editor
1+ week, 6+ day ago (182+ words) International Women's Day " Too Much of a Good Thing? This International Women's Day the professional equality women ensconced in the bureaucracy reminded us how disadvantaged women are today and that there's a long way to go to achieve gender equality....
Legalisation of Marijuana: Oh, Australia, Don’t Blindly Follow Canada’s Lead -
2+ week, 4+ hour ago (1391+ words) I'm really happy to share what I know about marijuana because it took me 15 years to educate myself and to connect with people around the world who work on this policy. And it's always a delight to share my knowledge…...
State of the States - Home Sweet Home (subscribe to read) - Aus Politics
1+ week, 6+ day ago (90+ words) Margaret Tighe, the most durable figure in Australia's pro-life movement, has been remembered as a warrior for the defenceless,Note: This content requires site login. Please enter your username or email address. You will receive an email message to log…...
Islamic State Women and Children: What the Government Can Do (subscribe to read) - Aus Politics
2+ week, 19+ hour ago (182+ words) In recent weeks, amid reports of the repatriation to Australia of so-called "ISIS brides" and their children, numerous media articles have claimed that Australia is "obliged" to accept their return to Australia because of their Australian citizenship, and saying that…...
China Banished from the Panama Canal Zone (subscribe to read) - Foreign Affairs
2+ week, 19+ hour ago (114+ words) Although the two ports are located at either entrance to the Canal Zone, they do not fall under the jurisdiction of the Panama Canal Authority. The Chinese presence and operation was of major national strategic concern to the United States....
Cinema Review - Crime 101: Reflections on the Heist Life (subscribe to read) - Music, Cinema & Books
1+ mon, 4+ hour ago (188+ words) Crime 101 is a gritty, sun-drenched, washed-out neo-noir about people that may be decent, but for whom life has intervened and worn down their integrity, drive, and self-respect. It's about competent but confused people trying to do what they think is…...