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Gun Control, Part 3: The 1996 Gun Buy-Back in Australia
by Terry Shulze
If you have wondered what really happened during the "buy-back", you are not alone. The Federal government will not release the breakdown...
Gun Control, Part 2: Health Funds, “Statistics,” and Port Arthur
By Terry Shulze
Although there are many, one of the reasons in Australia that there has never been an in depth analysis of the gun...
Gun Control, Part 1: Yes It’s UN-led
by Terry Shulze, retired barrister, NSW
Editor’s Note: This very informative essay will appear at Gumshoe in three parts. It first appeared under the title...
Whose Chaos and Instability: Pot and Black Kettle
By James O’Neill*
At the official launch of the Liberal Party campaign last Saturday, and ad nauseam ever since, Malcolm Turnbull seized on the Brixit referendum...
Australia’s Phantom War In Syria
By James O’Neill*
A specific part of the general silence that blankets foreign affairs and defence issues in this election campaign is the complete lack of...
Those Floods We Had Recently: Did Cloud-Seeding Do the Trick?
Prime Minister Turnbull inspects flooding at Tamar River in Launceston
by Mark Wilhelm
Hydro Tasmania used cloud-seeding to create rain in spite of a forecast of...
Got Knuckles? Use ’em
“Good Morning, I love you” type thing
by Mary W Maxwell
The federal election is July 2. Today is June 18. So you can use your...
The Orlando Massacre: Some Wider Issues
By James O’Neill*
“Violence is as American as cherry pie.” H Rap Brown 26 July 1967.
The mass shooting of more than 100 people, with 50+...
Jahar, Monis, Bryant – Is It Time To “Accept” the Official...
Martin Place, Sydney, the Lindt Chocolate Café
by Mary W Maxwell
Gumshoe reader Paul commented to my article on the Sydney siege: “Monis didn’t seem to...
MH17: The Continuing Charade
(L) Reconstruction of MH17, (R) European Court of Human Rights
By James O’Neill*
The Sun Herald (Sydney) of 22 May 2016 reported that the Australian families...
The FBI’s Cute Trick: Form 302 and the Marathon Bombing Case
(L) Zacarias Moussaoui, (R) Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
by Mary W Maxwell
It infuriates me that “the Marathon bomber,” Jahar Tsarnaev, made an apology to his “victims.” He...
A Word about Standards of Proof at Gumshoe News, and the...
by Mary W Maxwell
Both science and the law get involved in “proving” things. In science one may want to prove a fact or a...