Big Sister ( to Big Brother ): 1984 in 2026:

BIG SISTER IS WATCHING YOU:

ORWELL’S 1984 COMES TO AUSTRALIA IN 2026

George Orwell warned us about a society where government controls information, monitors citizens, manipulates language and decides which ideas are acceptable.

Seventy-seven years after 1984 was published, Australia is heading in a deeply troubling direction.

Except our version of Big Brother would be called BIG SISTER.

Consider the extraordinary concentration of power exercised by Anika Wells, Michelle Rowland, Tanya Plibersek, Ged Kearney, eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant and others across government.

Look at the direction of travel:

🔴 THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH: Labor attempted to legislate against “misinformation”. That bill failed, but the ambition to regulate online information continues.

🔴 THE THOUGHT POLICE: The proposed Digital Duty of Care regime would pressure platforms to anticipate and mitigate broadly defined harms. Who decides which opinions are harmful? Big Sister, of course.

🔴 BIG SISTER’S SECRET AGENTS: Proposed powers for eSafety to use fictitious online identities, including AI-generated material, raise disturbing questions about covert monitoring and accountability.

🔴 THE MEMORY HOLE: Content removal, algorithmic suppression and search restrictions can make inconvenient information disappear from public view.

🔴 THE TELESCREEN: Age verification, digital monitoring and compulsory information-gathering increasingly threaten the anonymity Australians once enjoyed online.

🔴 THE MINISTRY OF PROPAGANDA: The ABC and SBS receive billions in public funding, while Labor is expanding subsidies for commercial journalism. How independent can our information ecosystem remain when government increasingly finances it?

🔴 NEWSPEAK AND DOUBLETHINK: Censorship becomes “safety”. Monitoring becomes “protection”. Restrictions become “duty of care”. Ideological conformity becomes “inclusion”. And questioning government-approved narratives risks being labelled “harmful”.

Here is the fundamental transformation:

Australia is moving from regulating specific unlawful online acts toward regulating the CONDITIONS under which information is made available, recommended, encountered and assessed for potential harm...

The information-control architecture is being transformed from punishing unlawful acts toward proactively managing the information environment, using regulatory powers, financial incentives, technological monitoring and ever-expanding definitions of harm.

That's an extraordinary shift in power from citizens to the state. And Big Sister wants to take us there.

Australia is not yet Orwell's Oceania. We retain elections, independent courts and the freedom to challenge government.

But the direction of travel is unmistakably concerning...

The danger isn't merely what today's politicians intend. It's the machinery of information control they're building for tomorrow's governments.

Freedom isn't something that governments generously grant us. It is something citizens must defend against government overreach.

Orwell wrote 1984 as a WARNING.

Australia must not turn it into an instruction manual.

#1984 #GeorgeOrwell #BigSister #FreeSpeech #Censorship #Australia #eSafety #CivilLiberties

 

by Unnamed Contributor. 

 

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Always do a Good Job

“The Lord God put the man in the garden of Eden to care for it and work it.” Genesis 2:15 NCV

 

The first thing God did when He made Adam was put him to work. That’s because work gives us a sense of purpose, meaning, and dignity. “God put the man in the garden…to…work it.” So Adam was a gardener.

But whether you count cash in a bank, trade on the stock market, flip burgers at a takeaway shop, whip up pasta specials at a five-star restaurant, fell giant timber in the forest, or split and deliver firewood, coach a team, pastor a congregation, publish bestselling books, deliver newspapers in the early morning hours, star in your own television show, farm a large acreage, mow and edge neighbourhood lawns, go out on the road as a salesperson for computers, drive a truck loaded with machinery, build homes, clean swimming pools, argue cases before a judge, or settle family disputes as a counsellor, always do a good job. 

A wise man once said: “Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence.” The biblical character Daniel did that. And like cream, he rose to the top in Babylon. “Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him” (Daniel 6:3 KJV). No task is insignificant when doing it faithfully for the Lord. 

 

The Bible says: “Lazy people want much but get little, but those who work hard will prosper” (Proverbs 13:4 NLT). So always do a good job.

SoulFood: 1 Cor 1–3 Mark 14:53–65 Ps 34:1–10 Pro 

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Honour GOD in your Home:

Honour God in your home

“As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” Joshua 24:15 NKJV

Consider the story of a carpenter named Joe who worked for a building contractor. One day, the contractor said to him, “Joe, I’m putting you in charge of the next house we build. I want you to order the materials and oversee the job.” Joe accepted the assignment with great enthusiasm. He studied the blueprints and checked every measurement and specification.

Then he had a thought: “If I’m really in charge, why couldn’t I cut a few corners, use less expensive materials, and put the extra money in my pocket? Who will know? Once the house is painted, it will look great.” 

So Joe ordered second-grade lumber and inexpensive concrete, put in cheap wiring, and cut every corner he could. When the home was finished, the contractor came to see it. “What a fine job you have done!” he said. “You have been faithful to me all these years, and I have decided to show you my gratitude by giving you this house that you just built as a gift.”

 Night after night, as Joe lay in bed listening to the roof leaking and the floor creaking, the message came through loud and clear: The house you built is the house you will live in! Are you short-changing your spouse and your family in love, time, example, and instruction? The choices you make today will shape the home you live in tomorrow. 

And depending on time and opportunity, you may or may not have a chance to undo it. So make this your prayer: “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

SoulFood: Exo 36–38 John 5:16–30 Ps 41 Pro 27:7–9

My gratitude to Vision.org.au

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Number of Teen Girls Identifying as LGBT Plummets Suddenly:

The number of teen girls identifying as lesbian or bisexual has plunged rapidly over the last four years.

According to new data by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a whopping 30 percent of ninth-grade girls identified as lesbian or bisexual in 2021. By 2025, that figure had fallen to 17 percent.

Those identifying as bisexual alone fell by half -- from 26 percent to 13 percent. 

While researchers agree the statistics show a significant downward turn, they emphasize that the exact causes of the decline remain unclear.

However, plenty of speculation has begun. Terry Schilling, president of the American Principles Project, wrote on X, "Amazing what happens when you cut the Department of Education and USAID."

Glenn Stanton, the Director of Global Family Formation Studies at Focus on the Family, spoke to CBN News about this sudden shift away from LGBT identities. 

He believes the dramatic decline is a natural correction following an artificial spike in these identities, arguing that these sexual labels are often adopted for social or experimental reasons rather than being inherent truths. 

He states, "LGBT and T and all those things are not really things. They're sociopolitical identities that young people seem to identify with because it's the hip thing to do or because they want to be experimental or because they're confused about who they are." 

When it comes to the binary nature of sexuality, Stanton highlights what he sees as hypocrisy within the LGBTQ agenda, noting that the "LGB" identities rely on a sexual binary that newer transgender or queer concepts have rejected. 

He explains, "The LGBTQ community is not really a community... The letters fight with one another like crazy... LGB... are fundamentally binary." 

He says the recent 180-degree shift in teen identities exposes the truth behind all the political rhetoric. "You can take a beach ball and push it under the water and say it belongs under the water, but it needs pressure to keep it down there. What we're seeing in culture today is that pressure cannot sustain itself. That beach ball is coming back up."  

Stanton concludes that this is a chance for Christian believers to focus on sharing the biblical worldview, which is a "more beautiful and true story about male and female and about the beauty of men,women and boys and girls.

© 2026 The Christian Broadcasting Network, Inc., A nonprofit 501 (c)(3) Charitable Organization.

 

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Z-Repost of a Memory:

Z-Repost of a Memory:

( Saturday, 29 June 2024)

Z

I am writing this short letter to remind you that I am in love with you.With as much love for you as the dancing bee has for the cherished pollen from stunning flowers.

Much of the recent times where I feel pressured by the circumstances of our lives comes from my poor inner life. Years ago, I used to read whole chapters of the Bible gaining some solace, some peace, much mercy and much grace for a troubled person like me. With prayer about all kinds of troubling things, whether trifling, minor or major would set my feet upon a solid Rock. 

Now more of my God Habit is being rushed through like a quickly burning-petrol- soaked rag in a blustery wind. Oh, the sand- laden rock strewn wilderness. 

Perhaps it's because I have believed I don't need to read a few chapters and some heart- felt prayerfullness, instead I read a short paragraph with a few lines of prayer.

I know you are experiencing stronger physical pain mixed with an emotional pool of feelings about a number of recent events.

I don't want to add to your pain; instead I aim to ease it.

Your horrifying experiences lately have been a drain on your emotional and spiritual inner core. I know that--in part-- I am to blame for those diminished reserves.

I long for your mind to be relieved and released from as much of the mental pollution as possible. Shouldering the burden with you, replacing it with smiles, cool summer breezes on a 25 degree days,laughter like a waterfall gushing over rocks and good company of like-minded souls. 

I wish for you to enjoy yourself as necessary as possible with your family of children, gathered for your enchantment. All engaged, swirling about you on extraordinary day like a celebration of life from God.

To enjoy a feast of delicate seafood, icy waters and crisp conversations. 

With my love B.

Post script:

Over the past 3 days, I have read many chapters and knocked on the heart of God.

at June 29, 2024

 The Noble Savage:

 

The field was long dominated by a myth.

Postwar anthropology, inspired by Rousseau and Marx, held that "savages" were peaceful and cooperative. Violence, hierarchy, and inequality were supposed to be diseases of civilization, invented by property, colonization, and markets. Abolish those, and the natural harmony of man would return. 

Then a kid from rural Michigan went to check.

In 1964, Napoleon Chagnon, one of twelve children from a poor family in Port Austin, traveled to the Venezuela–Brazil border. He went to live with the Yanomamö, roughly 20,000 people scattered across the Amazon rainforest, largely untouched by the state, by markets, or by modernity. 

He would return nearly thirty times over the next three decades. His 1968 book, Yanomamö: The Fierce People, sold nearly a million copies and was translated into fifteen languages. 

But this is what he actually found:

Raids between villages were routine. Infanticide was common. Women were regularly abducted and traded after violent conflict. Headmen, as a rule, were killers. 

Chagnon mapped Yanomamö genealogies using early computer methods, learned the language, and lived inside the villages for months at a stretch. The data was not hearsay. 

A particular finding broke the field.

In a 1988 paper in Science, Chagnon documented that the unokais, men who had killed in raids, had on average more wives and more surviving offspring than non-violent men of the same age. 

In a state of nature, violence was being reproductively selected for. The Rousseauian premise ran backwards. 

If violence, hierarchy, and inequality were what civilization produces, they should be rare where civilization is absent. 

Chagnon found the opposite. 

Where the state, the market, and modern institutions had never arrived, up to 30% of adult male deaths were violent. The men who killed were the men whose lineages survived. In the modern United States that figure is under 1%. 

The reaction was immediate. Marshall Sahlins, one of Chagnon's former graduate teachers at Michigan, turned on him. 

Terence Turner and Leslie Sponsel circulated a warning to the American Anthropological Association (AAA) describing "an anthropological heart of darkness beyond the imagining of even a Joseph Conrad, though not, perhaps, a Joseph Mengele." Salesian missionaries in the region joined the coalition. 

What Chagnon had found could not be answered on its merits, so the man who found it became the target instead. 

Then came the book that ended him.

In 2000, journalist Patrick Tierney published Darkness in El Dorado. He accused Chagnon of triggering a measles epidemic through vaccine experimentation, arming rival factions to stage conflicts on film, cooking his data, and behaving as "a war criminal or even a genocidaire." 

The New Yorker ran Tierney's companion article the same month. Chagnon's career effectively ended before any serious investigation reached a verdict. 

But every serious charge eventually collapsed. 

The vaccine complied with WHO protocols. The measles epidemic predated Chagnon's arrival. Venezuelan physicians, the Rockefeller Foundation, the University of Michigan, the American Society of Human Genetics, and the U.S. Department of Health each investigated. 

Each reached the same verdict: no crime, no cover-up, no fraud. Jane Hill, who chaired the AAA's own inquiry, wrote privately that Tierney's book was "a piece of sleaze, that's all there is to it." 

The AAA task force issued its own report in 2002 anyway, condemning Chagnon for prioritizing his research over the Yanomamö. 

Raymond Hames had already resigned from the panel mid-inquiry, and Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, a National Academy of Sciences member, quit the AAA in protest. 

Three years later, the AAA membership voted to rescind the report. 

In 2012, Chagnon was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. The following year, Sahlins resigned from the Academy over it. 

The noble savage myth outlived the twentieth century's political movements. 

Today it powers the decolonial framework that dominates the humanities and much of political discourse. The claim is unchanged: violence, hierarchy, and inequality are artifacts of property, civilization, and colonization, and would vanish once those were abolished. 

Three decades of Chagnon's evidence showed the claim was wrong. 

In the absence of the institutions the utopians wanted to destroy, human beings behaved more violently than within them. 

The discipline that could not answer his data answered his character instead. 

That is what an intellectual monoculture does when evidence contradicts its premises. It goes after whoever brought the evidence.

 

by Unknown Contributor.

 

 

 

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