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“This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal” – Aaron Bushnell  As news of yet more immoral, illegal, moronic war waged by a cadre of borderless psychopathic pedophiles started to break, the ABC’s John Lyons labelled Prime Minister Albanese’s declaration of support “political propaganda”. Hearing such unvarnished truth is rare these days,…

As the shattering of the comfortable illusion of Western democracy enters its Epstein-drenched speedrunning phase, a number of disturbing developments in Australia have emerged that, when viewed collectively, reveal a pattern: a slide into authoritarianism at the hands of the Australian government, state governments, and their parasitic, supremacist leash holders.  Without attempting to be definitive,…

Yesterday, the gulf between the will of the Australian people and the actions of the Australian government revealed itself to be a chasm. A chasm filled with hundreds of thousands of murdered Palestinians, genocidal war criminals on state visits, and the authoritarian destruction of norms we once considered innate democratic rights. Clearly, the beatings will…

Chuck D from Public Enemy knew about Pauline Hanson.  Back before the dark times, those of streaming platforms and corporate ticketing, the Australian music industry had quite a big feather in its cap: its music festival season. For decades, gatherings like the Big Day Out, Homebake, Falls, Splendour In The Grass, Summadayze and Soundwave crashed…

**Warning: This article contains graphic references to cannibalism and torture. Reader discretion is advised.** Three million files related to the activities of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were released by the Trump administration last week. A joint effort by Deepcut News and The Shot has seen thousands of files read. While only scratching the surface,…

“Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me” – Rage Against the Machine The state-sanctioned, IDF-trained, ICE murders on the streets of Minneapolis. The genocidal massacres of Gaza, Sudan and Congo. The Albanese government and Coles supermarket signing contracts with Palantir, corporate dealers of mass surveillance and death on an AI-fuelled platter. Isaac Herzog’s…

It might seem a far cry from Australia’s Adelaide Festival in the summer of 2026 and a West Virginian ladies club in the winter of 1950, but they both carry the taint of hysterical and unsubstantiated public accusations that ended in tales of woe. In his speech at a Republican ladies’ club in 1950, US…

For many Adelaideans, Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW) is the highlight of their year. A glorious six days when the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Gardens in the heart of the city is transformed into an intellectual Arcadia in which great minds from the worlds of literature, journalism and the academy gather under the sun and plane trees…

Breathe, slowly. It helps.  Cry if you need to. All of this hurts. But please understand, before we go any further, that living without truth just ensures that we all die twice. Screaming into the void in the informative fashion we sometimes call journalism, the hardest part of work these last few years has been…

I’m angry. We’re all angry. Perhaps that’s part of the problem. At the moment, we’re angry at two twisted individuals on a Bondi footbridge who suddenly turned our country into something it isn’t. Or perhaps it is, and we simply haven’t noticed. We only notice what we must in this ugly billionaires’ world of unceasing…