Month: March 2022

New Dam Proposals Shelved for Years Despite Major Flood Risks in Australian State: Report

Thousands of homes could have been saved from major floods that swept through Queensland in early March had the government acted on a 2014 report to build additional defences against flooding. The study was put together by Queensland’s then-Department of Energy and Water Supplies, following the devastating 2011 floods that inundated Toowoomba, Ipswich, and large…


South Australian COVID-19 Restrictions Change to Align with Rest of Nation

The South Australian government has announced changes to its COVID-19 restrictions in order to bring the state in line with the rest of the nation. The changes, which came on the back of the first Emergency Management Council meeting on Friday under the new government, were all in effect by Saturday morning and revolve primarily…


Book Review: An Assessment of the Australian Coalition Government

Commentary In a resort on the Sunshine Coast, I recently saw a poster with the caption, “How beautiful it is to do nothing … and then rest afterwards.” The poster obviously served as an encouragement for people to visit the Coast, enjoy themselves and do nothing, and then rest afterwards. However, the caption could appropriately…


We Warned Australia of Chinese Military Deal: Solomons’ Opposition Leader

Matthew Wale, the prominent opposition party leader in the Solomon Islands, claims to have warned Australian officials last year that Beijing and the Sogavare government were working on a military deal that would allow the People’s Liberation Army to base assets in the region. The deal, which surprised officials last week, was revealed after it…


Monday, March 28, 2022: Epoch Sudoku Easy


Live Q&A: Hunter Biden Emails Show Ties to Ukraine Biolabs; Trump Sues Clinton and Steele

Emails from the Hunter Biden laptop show that the U.S. president’s son helped secure funding for Metabiota, a Pentagon contractor that works in disease research, and introduced the company to Burisma regarding high biosecurity level labs in Ukraine. Daily Mail reported, “The emails show Hunter helped secure millions of dollars of funding for Metabiota, a…


Monday, March 28, 2022: Epoch Crossword


How The World’s Deadliest Regime Uses ‘Psy-ops’ To Get Inside Our Heads

Psy-ops (psychological operations) is a term to describe methods in war that alter the perceptions and thinking of the targeted population—be it an individual, a group, or even a whole country. The invasion of Ukraine started long before missiles were fired or Russian troops crossed the border. In 2022, invasions are launched in the digital…


Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘Turbo’: The Tale of How a Snail Became Very Fast

Giant robots, monsters, and oceans of digital wizardry can’t hold a candle to the simple story of a cartoon snail. You’ll yawn at this summer’s realistic robots, but you’ll be thoroughly engrossed in the tale of this tiny toon called Turbo, even if you’re not 6 years old. Good storytelling always rules.


Waging War On Fossil Fuels Enflames Inflation

When you pull aside the curtain of its moral pretensions, the green movement of global warming fanatics is just another socialist scheme to replace the free enterprise’s real-world judgment of how to navigate the economic long term with coerced, illegitimately law-enforced faith in government control. There is one preeminent tool that players in the economy—meaning…