Prime Minister Scott Morrison led his conservative government to a surprise victory in Australia’s election, seeing off a challenge from the left-leaning Labor opposition with his pledge to safeguard the slowing economy. “I have always believed in miracles,” Morrison, 51, told cheering supporters in Sydney, flanked by his wife and two daughters. “Tonight we’ve been […]
Australia’s Morrison Leads Conservatives to Shock Election Win…
Judge Sentences Cardinal Pell to Six Years in Prison…
Cardinal George Pell was sentenced yesterday in a Melbourne court to six years in jail on five convictions of the sexual abuse of minors. The Cardinal has steadfastly maintained his innocence. Judge Peter Kidd also ruled Pell could not be paroled for three years and eight months, telling the 77-year-old prelate he may die in jail, and […]
Australian Cardinal George Pell Convicted of Molesting 2 Choirboys, CHOIRBOYS!!!
Sickening details of Australian Cardinal George Pell’s child sexual abuse conviction were revealed Monday, including how he raped one choirboy and molested another inside a cathedral after Sunday mass 22 years ago. News outlets were barred by a gag order from reporting on the trial and Dec. 11 guilty verdict of 77-year-old Pell, the highest-ranking […]
Political Turmoil Throws Australia Off Balance…
For the past decade, Australia has been politically adrift. Like some counterparts in the Western world, it has been experiencing a cycle of deep fragmentation, polarization and swings in the political balance that have put its governments off kilter. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s downfall in late August ushered in the country’s sixth prime minister in […]
Trust Us, We’re Secretly Working for a Foreign Government: How Australia’s Proposed Surveillance Laws Will Break the Trust Tech Depends On…
In the last few years, we’ve discovered just how much trust — whether we like it or not — we have all been obliged to place in modern technology. Third-party software, of unknown composition and security, runs on everything around us: from the phones we carry around, to the smart devices with microphones and cameras […]
FBI Pinpoints New Person of Interest in Las Vegas Shooting, Then Told to Stand Down, Not Pursue Suspect (Part 4/5)…
The hushed FBI investigation unfolding inside the FBI’s public Broadway show version of the Las Vegas shooting investigation started when a witness claimed he hid outside Mandalay Bay in the bushes for hours after the stream of gunfire started raining down on concert goers on Oct. 1. The same man also claimed he was inside […]
Australia: The Cabinet Files…
The Cabinet Files is one of the biggest breaches of cabinet security in Australian history and the story of their release is as gripping as it is alarming and revealing. It begins at a second-hand shop in Canberra, where ex-government furniture is sold off cheaply. The deals can be even cheaper when the items in […]
An Australian Cafe Charges Men 18% ‘Gender Tax’ to Highlight Pay Gap…
A cafe in Melbourne, Australia, is giving male customers a taste of gender equality with their lattes. First reported by CNN , Handsome Her charges men an 18 percent premium “to reflect the gender pay gap.” Similar to the gender pay gap in the United States, Australian men earn 17.7 percent more on average than […]
Fred Hickey Warns “It’s Only Question of When the Tech Time Bomb Goes Off”…
Wall Street is in a champagne mood. Last week, thanks to a rally in Apple, the Dow Jones surpassed 22,000 for the first time ever. Nevertheless, Fred Hickey doesn’t share the bubbly vein. The renowned contrarian cautions investors of an unpleasant surprise because central banks like the Federal Reserve are pulling back from their super […]