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Net Zero

In the 17 th and 18 th centuries, the European elite underwent a transformation in thinking known as the ‘Age of Enlightenment’, which among other things emphasized the importance of equality. Of course, some people are ‘more equal than others’, hence why the black slave trade raged on unaffected in countries like Britain, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands and the US. A few hundred years later, the West is still robbing Africa blind. Rita Bodrina explains.

A years-long coronial inquiry and investigation recently found that the Grenfell Tower Fire in the UK, which killed 72 people and injured many more in 2017, was preceded by numerous government failures. But thanks to the boffins over at Sky News, we now know who the real culprit is… ‘extreme Green ideology’. Rewriting history neverMore

Instagram page of popular 90s TV presenter Fiona MacDonald, who passed away late this week, aged 67.

Is it possible for an electricity giant that rakes in almost $2 billion in revenue each year to give less than zero f*cks? As in, minus f*cks? Well, it might sound like a theoretical impossibility, but Essential Energy – the NSW Government-owned corporation that runs the electricity network in the Far West of NSW, isMore

In case you’ve been living under a rock, there’s a US presidential election in the wings this week. But whatever Tuesday’s outcome, the one group of folks you probably shouldn’t blame for the outcome are the ‘conspiracy theorists’. Dr Kari James looks back on the recent assassination attempt on Donald Trump to help explain whyMore

Alex Vickery-Howe asks the question that may define the 2024 US Presidential election. This article can have only one title. It’s the question that keeps me up at night. I’ve posted it here so I’m not alone in my rising sense of panic, and we can all breathe into paper bags at 3am together. EverMore

As we all wait with baited breath for the election outcome in the US, below is a stunning piece of writing by Kari James, a Brisbane-based researcher who specialises in trauma.

Broken Hill doesn’t often make the news, but when it does, it’s often for the wrong reasons. Over to Geoff Russell to explain why the recent power crisis was so shambolic that it made national headlines. AUTHOR’S UPDATE: The article below was written before the failure of the backup diesel generator in Broken Hill. It turnsMore

Donald Trump is awful on lots of things, Palestine and the Middle East in particular. But given Kamala Harris has signed the cheques that are funding the Israeli slaughter of Palestinians, how can anyone who cares about the fate of the Palestinian people be expected to vote for her? Dr Michael Karadjis ponders the impossibleMore