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Elon Musk’s Twitter faces a 28-day ultimatum from Australia’s internet safety watchdog to take decisive action against what it considers online abuse and “hate speech,” or face daily fines of $475,000. France24 reports that Julie Inman Grant, Australia’s eSafety commissioner, has issued a stern warning to Twitter in a move to muzzle free speech. Twitter has been given 28 days to prove that it is serious about combating what Australia considers online abuse and “hate speech.” There could be daily fines of $700,000 AUD ($475,000 USD) for noncompliance.

When feminity is defined by the right to destroy your own child, revolt is morally required. When a national anthem is a hollow shell nobody believes, then it should be rewritten not parrotted. When does the cancer of woke government get so bad that patriotism isn't an option? In the Australia I was born in, the answer is now.

The polls were unanimous that the leftist Labor Party was going to defeat the conservatives (confusingly called “The Liberal Party”) in yesterday’s election and take over the government of Australia. As with the inevitable Hillary Clinton presidency, the polls were wrong. While any election is decided on multiple issues, especially in a continent-sized nation like Australia, most close observers believe that global warming policies, especially the move to close the massive Adani Coal Mine project in Queensland – the subject of enormous demonstrations – and skyrocketing prices for electricity made the difference.

You'd think Al Gore, the big clown dumkopf who went off the rails after he lost the 2000 election to George W. Bush, would have learned a thing or two about what works in Western politics. One of those things is that foreign interference in another country's election is the most reliable way to get the opposite of the desired result. Well meaning Brits who wrote letters to Ohio voters, after all, urging them to vote for John Kerry in 2004, were pretty much the example of how well that idea works out. Well, either Gore is a slow learner...

A Diesel in the Shed. You can have your solar panels and your turbines on the hills; You can use the warmth of sunshine to reduce your heating bills. You can dream you’re self-sufficient as you weed your veggie bed; As long as you make sure to keep A diesel in the shed.

WOOSTER, Ohio: The Wayne County GOP headquarters in Wooster was victim to a reported "Australian internet news crew" that apparently attempted to smear the local party. (Subscription req'd) The rest here: https://pjmedia.com/trending/2016/10/30/agitators-storm-republican-office-in-ohio-with-playboy-calendar-material/

Australia will allow gun owners to hand in illegal firearms without penalty next year as concerns grow over gun crimes involving such weapons, a federal minister said Friday. Australia's police and justice ministers agreed at a meeting to start a nationwide gun amnesty from the middle of 2017, Justice Minister Michael Keenan said. "Australia is world-renowned for the strength of our firearm laws, but illegal firearms do remain a deadly weapon of choice for organized criminals," Keenan told reporters. It will be the first Australia-wide amnesty since a gun buy-back program in 1996 that followed a lone gunman killing 35...

Over the past five years or so, the United States has been more active pertaining to the gun control versus gun rights argument. However, this year has seen a shift in favor for the latter. The Inquisitr reported on news that Americans favored the Second Amendment far more than security as proven by the latest Pew Poll.

FIGHTERS from the bloody conflicts in Syria and Iraq are living in Queensland but Police Commissioner Ian Stewart said they were being “closely monitored’’ as part of the state’s terror watch. The “skill sets” and “potential” for “those within the community to commit terror” was a great source of concern, Mr Stewart said. “We are on the highest state of alert for terrorism in this country that we have ever been since World War II and that means we have all got to be very aware – we don’t have to be afraid – that there is a potential for...

Two proposals to legalize same-sex marriage in the Australian federal parliament last week were strongly defeated. On Sept. 19 the House of Representatives voted on a proposal by backbencher Stephen Jones, of the Australian Labor Party, the party currently in power at the federal level, to legalize same-sex “marriage.” The Labor Party allowed a free vote on the proposal, while the coalition of opposition parties, led by Tony Abbott, held to their promise of voting against any attempt to introduce same-sex “marriage.” The vote was 42 in favour of legalization and 98 against. Both Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition...

The Australian Government has ordered the first deportation of a failed Afghan asylum seeker from Australia, despite fears he will be killed if he returns home. This will be the first time an Afghan asylum seeker has been sent home involuntarily under a deal between the Afghan and Australian governments reached earlier this year. The 26-year-old man has only six days left in Australia. He is currently in maximum security at the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre in Sydney after his asylum claim was rejected. Documents obtained by Lateline show the Department of Immigration has now ordered his deportation to Kabul,...

"Nature's 97% production of Earth's annual CO2 production is a wonderful blessing essential for all life on Earth. How can humanity's 3% be harmful? It cannot." -

WARDAK, Afghanistan (March 31, 2011) – Afghan National Army soldiers in Tangi Valley, Afghanistan are beginning to reap the rewards of their training with the Australian Army as the start of the spring season begins. Afghans are not only taking the lead in combined combat operations, but they are also conducting a number of patrols completely on their own, said Australian Army Maj. Dave French, commanding officer, Combat Team C, Mentoring Task Force 2, Combined Team Uruzgan. “We’ve seen them start to do patrols with no input from us and actually do them quite well,” said French. “That’s been a...

The Terminator-style technology uses artificial intelligence and could be the next big thing in military training. "People train on static pop up targets or targets that move predictably on rails," Alex Brooks from Marathon Robotics, based in Redfern, told Nine News.

SYDNEY (AP) — Australia's Senate has rejected legislation to set up an emissions trading system in the country to reduce greenhouse gas pollution. The Senate voted Tuesday to defeat a bill that is the centerpiece of the government's plans to slash Australia's emissions by up to 25 percent below 2000 levels by 2020 as part of global efforts to fight global warming. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd wanted the legislation passed before he attends next week's U.N. summit on climate change in Copenhagen so he could portray Australia as a leader on the issue. The government's next step is unclear. Rudd...

See the article! A grant of $14000.00 AU for first time home buyers! Tax-cuts! I'm moving.

Australian special forces have killed a senior Taleban leader in southern Afghanistan, the Australian Defence Ministry has said. Mullah Abdul Rasheed was described as a senior Taleban commander responsible for bringing in fighters and potential suicide bombers into Uruzgan province. He was described as being responsible for the deaths of civilians and members of the coalition. More than 1,000 Australian troops are based in Afghanistan. "Rasheed was a senior commander in the Baluchi Valley and was believed to be responsible for Taleban operations in the area resulting in the deaths of Coalition Force members and Afghan civilians in recent months,"...

A NURSE has been suspended for leaving a premature baby with a stranger at a regional airport so she could catch a flight home to Adelaide. The baby's distressed father, Shahzad Hassan, said his five-day-old son, Rayaan, was left with a member of the public at Port Augusta airport on Christmas Eve because the nurse was "in a hurry" to get back to Adelaide. Children, Youth and Women's Health Service chief executive officer Gail Mondy confirmed yesterday that two staff members had been suspended and an investigation launched in the wake of this "deeply regrettable" incident, The Advertiser reports. She...

The Australian government announced Nov. 18 that it will shut down its navy for two months starting Dec. 3 to allow sailors to go home for the holidays. Australian Defense Minister Joel Fitzgibbon said the break is meant to help solve the navy’s long-term problem with recruiting and retention by making the service more family-friendly. However, the measure might also be a way to manage operational costs. Analysis The Australian government on Nov. 18 decided to shut down its navy for two months for the holidays, starting Dec. 3. Australian Defense Minister Joel Fitzgibbon said the extended break is intended...