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As we all know, Australia hasn't been a bastion of freedom of late. Gun confiscation, Covid lockdowns, and entrenched leftist politicians like Dan Andrews seem to be pushing the Land Down Under in the direction of the Soviet Union.I've noticed lately on Sky News Australia the coverage of skyrocketing crime in the the city of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. It seems that there is a particular crime problem among the indigenous population, similar to the Native American population on reservations here in the US.The news coverage of this issue, however, seems to be putting the blame for the...

VIDEOThe former Chief Minister of Australia's Northern Territory, Michael Gunner, has resigned from government forever. No wonder. He was best known to the world when he made a laughingstock of himself when he went Full Mental Jacket over enforcing authoritarian vaccine mandates.Good riddance, Gunner! Your mental meltdowns will live on for all eternity on the Web as your final legacy.

VIDEOWe have already seen the Tasmanian Devil aka Jacqui Lambie go full mental jacket. Now she is joined in the unhinged Aussie department by Michael Gunner, Chief Minister of Australia's Northern Territory. As you can see, Gunner has been served with papers charging him with malfeasance and misfeasance for going far off his rocker.

Australian authorities are removing COVID-19-positive patients and residents in the Northern Territory to a quarantine camp in Howard Springs, after nine cases were identified in the community of Binjari, according to a local official. Hard lockdowns were implemented in Binjari and nearby Rockhole on Nov. 20, according to Northern Territory’s chief minister. “Residents of Binjari and Rockhole no longer have the five reasons to leave their homes,” Chief Minister Michael Gunner said in a Facebook post dated Nov. 20. Australia’s five allowable reasons for people to leave their homes include going to work or school, buying food or supplies, exercising,...

In an appalling breach of human rights, 38 indigenous Australians in the Northern Territory have been hauled into quarantine camps by the army.The Australian army has begun forcibly removing residents in the Northern Territories to the Howard Springs quarantine camp located in Darwin after nine new Covid-19 cases were identified in the community of Binjari. The move comes after hard lockdowns were instituted in the communities of both Binjari and nearby Rockhole on Saturday night.Northern Territory Chief Minister Michael Gunner announced today that the “Residents of Binjari and Rockhole no longer have the five reasons to leave their homes,.” The...

Essential workers in the Northern Territory will be subject to one of the strictest Covid-19 vaccination mandates in the world to begin in just a month. Chief Minister Michael Gunner said employees who interacted with the public needed to get least one Covid-19 jab by November 13 or they wouldn’t be allowed back to work and faced a $5000 fine.

A 400 kilometre-wide impact zone from a huge meteorite that broke in two moments before it slammed into the Earth has been found in Central Australia. The crater from the impact millions of years ago has long disappeared. But a team of geophysicists has found the twin scars of the impacts – the largest impact zone ever found on Earth – hidden deep in the earth’s crust. Lead researcher Dr Andrew Glikson from the ANU School of Archaeology and Anthropology said the impact zone was discovered during drilling as part of geothermal research, in an area near the borders of...

POLICE used capsicum spray on a golfer they later charged with drink-driving after he allegedly did burnouts and doughnuts on a Northern Territory golf course yesterday. The golfer, who was driving a golf buggy, returned a blood alcohol reading of 0.12 after he was arrested at the Palmerston Golf and Country Club. Senior Sergeant Mark Stringer said the Palmerston man was allegedly doing burnouts and doughnuts and driving with a person on the roof. Police were alerted by a member of the public playing in the club's Sunday competition who allegedly saw the man hooning with friends at the 1st,...

Movie producers have given assurances to Katherine residents that a new horror film Rogue shot at the Nitmiluk National Park in the Northern Territory will not scare tourists away. On-site production on the film about a seven-metre crocodile stalking a tourist boat on the Katherine Gorge wrapped up earlier this month. Katherine's Mayor Ann Shepherd says the film-makers made it clear the movie would be good for tourism in the area. "Particularly for the Nitmiluk Gorge, the Katherine River and the surrounds and I think that'll certainly happen," she said. "There'll be some sort of a clause at the end......