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The head of a company developing gas in a vast 28,000 km-wide Northern Territory basin south of Darwin says the site can provide the type of energy revolution Australia needs as a power crisis continues to plague the territory. The head of a company developing gas in the Northern Territory’s Beetaloo Basin says the “huge” resource has the potential to transform the Australian energy market, lowering gas prices and reducing emissions. Empire Energy managing director Alex Underwood told Sky News his company expected to produce the first gas from the Beetaloo by mid-2025. “Just in the next five or six...

This has become so common that people are becoming desensitized to it. Plagiarism used to be a very serious charge in higher education. The Daily Wire reports: University of Maryland President Copied Rocket Science Paper From Aussie Student University of Maryland President Darryll Pines appears to have committed significant plagiarism, lifting large portions of two academic journal articles from a tutorial website made years prior by an Australian student, a Daily Wire investigation found. A 1,500-word stretch of a 5,000-word paper by Pines and a co-author published in 2002 — accounting for nearly a third of the paper — is...

On Sunday, August 25, 2024, thieves broke into the Lithgow Small Arms Factory Museum, in Lithgown, Australia. They broke into display cases and stole 27 antique and collectable firearms. The police have recovered 13 of the 27 firearms which were stolen.From Police.nsw.gov.au/news:Drug and Firearms Squad detectives with assistance from Chifley and South Coast Police Districts have charged three men for their roles in the alleged theft of 27 guns during a break and enter of a Lithgow Museum last week.Police were called to the Lithgow Small Arms Factory Museum on Methven Street, Lithgow, about 3.30am on Sunday 25 August 2024,...

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Four days of maneuvers in the South China Sea involving three Italian warships a US Navy vessel and... In Australia COVID freedom activist Monica Smit winning a court fight over two of her arrests during COVID lockdowns... Explosions in the Odessa region of Ukraine... A North Dakota district judge ruling against a six-week abortion law in the state... Turkey's Justice Minister says international arrest warrants will be issued for the killing of Turkish-American citizen by Israeli soldiers... US politics four national polls today... Russian President Vladimir Putin says that any decision to use long-range missiles by the US and other...

Even seasoned detectives who were part of an elite squad were left shocked by the mammoth number of men they found gathering in a secret online space to share sickening child abuse material, with babies among the young victims depicted. Strike Force Parker was established by New South Wales Police early last year after a Zoom room comprising more than 500 alleged pedophiles was uncovered. The Child Exploitation Internet Unit led an international effort to unmask those who met regularly to view broadcast vision and images, teaming up with the Australian Federal Police and forces in Victoria, Queensland and Western...

Shares of vaccine stocks Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA), Novavax (NASDAQ: NVAX), and BioNTech SE (NASDAQ: BNTX) rallied this week, appreciating 23.4%, 16.4%, and 9.3%, respectively, through Thursday trading, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. While these three stocks gained notoriety back in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, it appears this week's detection of avian bird flu in a second U.S. citizen and the first-ever detection of avian flu in a human in Australia are spurring fears of an outbreak and thus a possible boon for companies that can quickly produce a bird flu vaccine. Bird flu detected in Michigan...

Australians will need to cut back on red meat and ditch petrol cars for electric vehicles in order to reach net zero emissions by 2050, according to the government agency advising Anthony Albanese on the target. The Climate Change Authority has suggested a series of lifestyle changes to get Australia to net zero in a new report released on Wednesday. The Authority has suggested Aussies swap red meat like beef and lamb for more emission-friendly options like kangaroo, chicken and pork. The advice comes after the Climate Council found that agriculture was responsible for over half of Australia's methane emissions...

Australians will soon be able to verify their identity with a business or service by tapping their smart phone, with the rollout of new technology funded by the federal government. Labor says the system will be more secure and save time, but concerns remain about how much data the government could collect.

The days of handing over your drivers licence and passport to book a hotel or buy a phone may soon be over. The Albanese Government has revealed that a new digital ID system is in the works, with hopes to have it up and running by next year.

An amateur Australian soccer team has stirred controversy after the squad, which includes five transgender women, dominated a women-only tournament and claimed the $1,000 prize, according to a report. The Sydney-based Flying Bats FC went undefeated during the four-week tournament, including one game in which one of the transgender women scored six goals en route to a 10-0 beatdown, the Daily Telegraph reported. Some parents pulled their daughters from matches over safety concerns, officials from other soccer clubs in the North West Sydney League told the paper. They believe the Flying Bats, who are backed by Pride Football Australia, should...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran, which the United States accuses of secretly pursuing nuclear weapons, has a stake in the world's biggest open-pit uranium mine in the African state of Namibia, the mine's owner told Reuters. Rossing Uranium Limited, which is majority owned by Anglo-Australian firm Rio Tinto, sells its uranium to nuclear power plants in the United States, Japan, South Korea and Sweden. Graham Davidson, the general manager for operations at Rossing, said in a letter to Reuters that the company's board of directors only permits the sale of uranium for use in generating electricity. "The government of Iran has...

China is planning to restrict exports of a key mineral needed to make weapons while a U.S. company that could be reducing America’s reliance on foreign suppliers is languishing in red tape, energy experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The Chinese government announced on August 15 that it will restrict exports of antimony, a critical mineral that dominates the production of weapons globally and is essential for producing equipment like munitions, night vision goggles and bullets that are essential to national security, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Perpetua Resources, an American mining company, has...

A new law protects workers from punishment for refusing to respond to work calls and emails from their employers outside work hours. The new rule, which came into force on Monday, means employees, in most cases, cannot be punished for refusing to read or respond to contacts from their employers outside work hours. Supporters say the law gives workers the confidence to stand up against the steady invasion of their personal lives by work emails, texts and calls, a trend that has accelerated since the Covid-19 pandemic scrambled the division between home and work. To cater for emergencies and jobs...

An Australian scientist has claimed he’s found the “perfect hiding place” for missing plane MH370. The Malaysia Airlines flight vanished from radar after taking off from Kuala Lumpur in 2014, with this March marking 10 years since the disappearance. There were 239 people on board, including six Australians. Now Tasmanian researcher Vincent Lyne believes he’s figured out where the plane is, with a 2021 research paper of his being accepted into the Journal of Navigation.

Senator Babet’s proposal to the Australian Senate to save aborted but live babies. The video is below and the transcript at the end of the Substack.Click picture below.The following list provides the names of the Australian politicians who voted against Senator Babet’s plea to protect live babies from being left to die. So many females. Criminal. OPINIONThe Sanctity of Life and the Role of the Medical ProfessionThe sanctity of life is a principle that holds life as inherently valuable and worthy of protection. It is a concept rooted in religious, philosophical, and ethical traditions, emphasising the intrinsic worth of every...

An international team of astronomers has overturned a longstanding belief that stars and dark matter interact in a mysterious way to create uniform density structures across different galaxies. This finding, published in 'Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS)', challenges a theory that had perplexed scientists for 25 years. The research team, which includes scientists from Australia, the UK, Austria, and Germany, utilized the Very Large Telescope in Chile to observe and analyze 22 galaxies that are approximately four billion years old. The results revealed that the perceived uniformity in galaxy density may not be a real phenomenon but...

The boss of Foxtel - a majority News Corp-owned cable television company in Australia - has "unreservedly" apologised after an image surfaced of him performing a Nazi salute. Patrick Delaney said he believed he was showing "the similarity" between the gesture and one used by some fans of a Western Sydney soccer club when the photo was taken a decade ago. "Regardless of the context, the fact I demonstrated this offensive salute was wrong," he said in an email to staff seen by the BBC. The Jewish Council of Australia condemned Mr Delaney's actions as "deeply concerning". “Equally [concerning] is...

A New York Times reporter in Australia leaked the names of Jews in Australia on a WhatsApp group that was then leaked to pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel activists who “doxxed” and targeted them for harassment and vandalism. The Wall Street Journal reported: Early this year, the contents of a WhatsApp group for Jewish creative professionals and academics, set up in Australia after the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, leaked and fell into the hands of pro-Palestinian activists. The activists posted snippets on social media, along with the names, photos and social-media page links of many of the group’s 600-odd members. Before long,...

Real womanhood is drawn to and celebrates men. This love is the foundation of families and society. We must not let the carping, whining man-haters of the modern world drown out love. Please celebrate Rita's words and encourage others to do so too.