Over the years we’ve had plenty of circumstantial evidence, but this is hard evidence that—before the jabs were rolled out, before the mandates, and before eleven thousand high-ranking New Zealanders secretly exempted themselves—the health minister had stated in a Memorandum of Understanding that.

“According to the Director of Public Health, Covid-19 does not have a particularly high mortality rate and it is not particularly transmissible.”So if they knew, it only makes sense that our health ministers knew. So why all the fear?Why the destruction of our social cohesion, economy, and institutions that many people no longer trust?Why, if they knew, was there a need to sack so many nurses and deregister doctors who either didn’t want to take it or administer it?Why?Why?Why?These are the questions that Brendan Murphy, Brad Hazzard, Greg Hunt, Dr. Kerry Chant, Dr. Nicola Spurrier, Brett Sutton, and others should be forced to answer.Will that ever happen?With the world spinning at an amphetamined pace, who knows. Maybe true justice is just an X post away.

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With John Stapleton, Michael Gray Griffith and Special Guest Alison Bevege

Alison Bevege is something of a rarity in Australia’s ballooning independent media scene.

That is, as well as being particularly bolshie and outspoken, she worked extensively in the mainstream media; with the Northern Territory News, The Daily Mail and the establishment wire service Reuters.

Then along came Covid, and everything changed. She set up her pioneering Substack page Letters from Australia, and the rest is history.

She is particularly outspoken about “medical tyranny”, that would be the vaccine insanities ruthlessly inflicted on a gullible Australian public by a corrupted health bureaucracy, “carbon lunacy”, that would be Australia’s headlong rush to Net Zero on the back of a globalist scam called climate change. And post the Bondi massacre, Bevege hasn’t hesitated to dive into the fraught subject of mass migration and the role of Islam in today’s Australia.

In the throes of writing her own book about the Covid era, she talks about several related books:

Michael Gray Griffith’s seminal book Goodbye Road: Australia’s Broken Heartlands

Professor Robert Clancy and Dr Melissa McCann’s Covid through our Eyes:An Australian Story of Mistakes, Mistreatment and Misinformation

Cam Wilson and Ariel Bogel’s Conspiracy Nation: Exposing the dangerous world of Australian conspiracy theories

And Victor Klemperer’s I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941

You can follow and or support Alison via her substack here : https://substack.com/@lettersfromaustralia

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Recently we’ve published stories on Iranian Freedom Fighters and now West Papuans. Why?

For the last six years we have often longed for our stories to be heard internationally.

Well surely if we want to be heard by others, we also have to be prepared to listen.

~MGG

When we aired this show, people in the comments kept telling us how their uncles were in New Guinea during the war. Several of them stated how they died there.Uncles.

Chances are young men who had not yet fathered a child. Young men whose story—that would travel back who knows how far—mother, father, mother, father after father, all of them surmounting the obstacle course of their lives at least long enough to bring a child into the world, until the last page of this lost story ended in the jungles of Papua.

Did they have dreams that they had to accept they would never realise? Did they make peace with a god before God accepted them? Or did they die with the last question that most fallen soldiers, if they had time enough to ask, ask before death’s collecting: Why?

We’ll probably never know. And yet years later, in this interview about the people of Papua, these lost uncles—nameless—are mentioned in a comment.

Can you imagine the grief in our society after the war? No wonder there are so many shrines. No matter how small the town or shire, there is always a shrine, with its list of names attached.

The people were so broken, they used the sacrifices of these men to build the foundation of our cultural identity. An identity that wasn’t questioned or challenged until covid.

But the ANZAC legend is interwoven with other stories of courage, determination and empathy.

One of those is of the Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels.

The native people of what is now called West Papua. A people who came to our aid when our situation was dire.

During World War II, Papua New Guinean ‘Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels’ carried 750 wounded up/down the Kokoda Trail. They prioritized feeding patients & built shelter with 4 sleeping on each side at night. No known injured soldier was ever abandoned by the Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels, even during heavy combat.

Men who held our injured soldiers back to base, who carried the severely injured on stretchers across the mountains, over the hand-made bridges spanning serious and unknown rivers, and through jungles that must have felt like they would never end.

There are many who claim that if it wasn’t for the efforts of these people, we might not have won the war in New Guinea.

And if we had lost, what sort of cultural identity would we have ended up with?

Now though, in their time of need, according to the investigations of Julian King, not only are we completely ignoring the genocide of these people by the Indonesian forces, but we are supplying the weapons and the training for those forces.

If you were watching this history like it was an SBS movie, what would you think of us, as a culture, that this is how we are repaying those who once risked everything to save us?

Or rather, if this is true—then beneath the fading lie of the identity we grew up with, who, as a people, are we?

~Michael Gray Griffith

The Bio of Julian King

Julian King holds a Honours 1E degree in Applied Geology, a Distinguished Record in Ecology, a Masters in Social Anthropology and is currently completing a PhD on West Papua’s failed decolonisation. He is a board member of the Bellingen Environment Centre (BEC) and founder of the West Papua Research Group with the Australian Association of Pacific Studies.

Julian has been involved with the West Papuan liberation movement Organisasi Papua Merdeka (OPM) or Free Papua Movement for over 25 years assisting the former OPM Spokesperson the late Dr Otto Ondawame at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney. Julian is currently the OPM’s legal officer and assists the OPM Diplomatic Spokesperson Mr Amatus Douw.

Julian has published peer-reviewed papers detailing: how West Papua legally remains a Non-Self-Governing Territory, albeit abandoned by The Netherlands and annexed by the United Nations and Indonesia;1 the breaches of international law covertly perpetrated by the United Nations in denying West Papua’s independence;2 and pathways to justice under international law;3 and argues that Western governments, on behalf of foreign multinational corporations, are responsible for the ongoing genocide where the loss of life in the Territory is now in the millions.4

After highlighting corruption over the Timor Gap oil dispute between Australia, East Timor, Conoco Philips and the United Nations in 2004 while undertaking doctoral research in East Timor, the Australian and East Timorese governments attempted to murder Julian via ambush, running his vehicle off a cliff. Having failed, he was then framed by the Police who placed ammunition in his house and charged him with Terrorism.5 The Dili National Court found the Police guilty of fabricating evidence and the case was dismissed.6 After announcing a case of defamation against President Ramos Horta – who labelled Julian a Terrorist – and seeking compensation, he was illegally deported.

Julian’s Presentation

More recently – after documenting human rights abuses including aerial bombings, torture, and extrajudicial killings in West Papua in 20227 and labelling Australia and other Western governments complicit in genocide for the supply of military hardware and training – a covert programme by ASIO and the Australian Federal Police Counter-terrorism Unit in 2023 led to Julian and Amatus being framed and charged with attempting to supply weapons to the OPM.

Over a ten-year period, these ASIO/AFP personnel acted as West Papuan activists, journalists, environmental consultants and shipping agents in a covert pre-orchestrated programme of entrapment. During this period Amatus and Julian were liaising with the governments of New Zealand, Australia, the United Nations regarding a New Zealand pilot taken hostage by the OPM in 2023.

Despite legal challenges and ongoing surveillance, Julian remains actively engaged in advocacy and pushing for international accountability over West Papua. While completing his PhD, he also manages the BEC’s West Papua Legal Campaign with Jomo Hutaa in Ghana to bring West Papua’s case of derailed independence, ongoing genocide and Western government complicity before the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court.

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We are a bit fatigued after crossing the Nullarbor and so we are playing an old interview from 2022.Who knew then that Reiner would end up in jail?

But here we are.

I was in a pub in Portland when we recorded this, and it was a mad dash to find a place to record it, for we did not have starlink then, or a bus.

But we still managed it.

I was joined by Gadi, a lawyer who we haven’t heard from for a long time.

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In August 2025 an incident occurred at Porepunkah, near Bright in Victoria. The incident shut down the town of Bright and its outlying communities have been severely impacted. Kay Reid is a Bright resident, well respected member of the community and one of Cafe Locked Out's celebrated Cardi-Girls podcasters. Tonight, Kay and Susannah discuss the some of the impacts the authorities have had on the townships in the area.

According to the internet today: the search operation has been the largest in Australian history, with hundreds of properties searched - some without warrants- causing community tension. A $1 million reward remains in place, and police have stated the operation will continue"for as long as necessary", though a former detective warned the cost could reach"multi-millions"and questioned the sustainability of such a prolonged effortBright, located just southeast of Porepunkah, has become a focal point for emergency coordination and community support. While Bright itself was not directly involved, the incident has deeply affected the region.Despite the somber mood, Bright continues to uphold its identity as a year-round tourist destination. The town remains a gateway to alpine scenery, offering activities like paragliding, hiking, and cycling on the Murray to the Mountains Rail Trail. The annualBright Autumn Festivaland the town’s historic heritage—including the preserved railway station and theBright Chinese Camp Site—remain key attractions.However, the recent events have added a layer of grief and tension to a community known for its resilience, having previously faced bushfires and floods.Cafe Locked Out is entirely listener-supported. We can't hold the line without you.We don't receive government grants, and we don't have corporate sponsors — we like it that way. It means you're free to speak your truth with us. Staying independent comes with real costs. If you value these conversations and the platform, please consider supporting us today. There are two ways you can help:The Shop — Click the link to our shop and grab some gear https://cafelockedout.com/clo-shop/ When you wear our gear out in the world, you're not just supporting us financially; you're starting conversations and showing others they aren't alone. You'll also find The Banned Book Company on our site, and signed copies of Michaels new book, 'Goodbye Road'.Direct Contribution — If you'd prefer to simply give, every dollar goes straight toward streaming costs, equipment, and keeping us on the road https://cafelockedout.com/donate/

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The Cafe Locked Out podcast episode features an in-depth conversation with Martin, a resilient Australian whose journey embodies the raw spirit of independence, adaptation, and speaking truth in challenging times. This episode dives into Martin's professional background, personal evolution, and the hard-won insights from a career that has spanned diverse roles and real-world experiences.

Episode Highlights:Early Foundations and Career Path — Martin shares how his working life began in hands-on, community-rooted roles that built character and practical skills. From entry-level positions requiring grit and reliability to progressively responsible leadership opportunities, he developed expertise in problem-solving under pressure, team coordination, and navigating bureaucratic and economic hurdles—skills honed in both private sector hustle and public-facing environments.Pivotal Shifts and Challenges — The discussion turns candid as Martin recounts major career transitions, including periods of uncertainty during economic downturns and industry changes. He opens up about the impact of recent years' societal divisions, mandates, and personal stands that led to professional isolation for many like him. Yet, rather than bitterness, Martin expresses a sense of liberation—choosing authenticity over conformity, even when it meant starting over or taking unconventional paths.Current Chapter and Philosophy — Today, Martin thrives in a role that values independence and direct contribution, perhaps in logistics, trade support, or a factory-based position where results matter more than politics. He reflects on the importance of self-reliance, community connections, and reclaiming personal agency in a world that often demands compliance. His story resonates with listeners who've faced similar crossroads: the courage to walk away from “safe” systems and build something real.

Kelli on the NullarborIm MggWe're on the Nullarbor highway, the long straight road joining the east to the west. We are taking it slow because our bus is old and so are we.We've done several online interviews thanks to our Starlink and generator.It has been raining and we’ve gone up to three days without a shower.I find the life invigorating but I feel most women would not. They would crave hot running water, a shower. A toilet, a medium-sized mirror at least, and cupboards if not a wardrobe for their clothes.Kelli has none of these, and the chair she is sitting on—the one I use to broadcast—we found on the side of the road in Melbourne, and she is wearing my jacket, for it’s cold, and my socks, and she can still look elegant and stylish and strong.All day, with me being sick with a cold, she has been working on the paperwork of Cafe Locked Out. Endless emails, interview requests and orders.I shot this late at night, for the light from the laptop was perfect.I always assumed relationships that started after middle age would be like a friends-with-benefits relationship. I was wrong. With the right partner and enough affection you can choose to grow, to unpack the first five decades of your life, a cleansing that allows you to grow closer, deeper, until despite all our grey hair and wrinkles, and lack of the ablutions most take for granted, you just know you’re in the right place at the right time, with the right person, and considering the challenging paths we took to reach here, to me, we are proof that you never know what’s coming and that there is always hope.Michael Gray Griffith

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Melika appeared on the show recently and stunned everyone with harrowing accounts of the recent horrors endured by Iran’s Freedom Fighters.

The response was widespread shock and revulsion, though a number of people accused her of fabricating the stories.

In this episode , Melika returns alongside her colleague Sepehr to directly address those claims and share even more powerful testimonies.

We will also explore a critical question: Why has the global feminist movement shown such a muted and lackluster response to the dire plight of women in Iran?

What is Happening in IRAN, part one here

Guest Bio :My name is Sepehr Sabeti. I have lived in Australia since the age of eleven. I entered politics to help my fellow Iranians secure the same freedoms and opportunities that we are fortunate to enjoy here in Australia.

The staggering image, which has now been removed from X, that inspired me to interview someone from IRAN.

Even before AI left us questioning everything we did, the online spaces were the front line for the truth. One post stating one thing, the next post stating the opposite—and both compelling.

But now AI has defeated the truth by its speed, and by overwhelming us. My Instagram and X feeds are full of videos that leave me struggling to tell if they are real or not.Soon, simply because of AI’s amphetamined evolution, there will be no struggle—for I will have to assume it is nearly all fake.

On the other hand, mainstream media has been caught lying so often in these past five years that even when they tell the truth, most of us question it. This leaves us with a profound question: how will we actually know what’s going on anymore?

A perfect example is Iran. This is the second video I did with some Iranians living in Australia. Both of them want the regime to collapse, and are happy for Israel or the USA to do it. In these interviews, Melika has spoken about terrible atrocities suffered by young people who are just craving freedom.

This is Nika Shakarami joyously and hauntingly singing an old Iranian song. She was 16. Listen to her laughter.

From what we know, she had just burnt her hijab. After this she went to a protest where she was thrown in the back of a van.

The BBC claims she was sexually assaulted in the van and then beaten to death by three men with batons, before being dumped in a street.

Melika claims that she was thrown off a building then, while lying on the ground with broken bones, she was raped, and then killed, and then dumped in the desert.

I’m not sure which is true, but I do know that both are awful and that she is now dead. And the tragedy of her death can be heard in the the innocent and yet defiant celebration of her brief relationship with freedom, that you can hear in her laugh.

When we were protesting we wanted the reach the ears of the international community, well now the young people of Iran might be trying to reach ours, so at the very least, couldn’t we find the time to listen and share?

Who knows, one share might just tip humanity’s scales, which have been balancing towards evil for too long, towards the light, which far more conducive to our souls.

She spoke of the severe bashing of protesters by the authorities, of virgins being raped before they are executed because the regime believes virgins go straight to heaven and they want to prevent that. And she spoke of executions and the price families have to pay to get the bodies of their young freedom fighters back—false confessions that their young loved one was a terrorist.

The other reason I wanted to find out what was happening, is to see what are the chances of what is apparently happening there, happening here.

We haven’t been forced to wear Hajibs, but we have been forced to wear masks. To take vaccinations many of us didn’t want. And we have see our police acting excessively brutally towards protesters. We might not be there, now, but we have travelled that path.

Yet not everyone bought her stories.We had lots of comments stating that the regime was benevolent and these tales were simply Israeli propaganda and that Melika herself was an Israeli spy using me to push an agenda that Iran had a tyrannical leader. But Melika did not approach me; I found her after spending weeks trying to find an Iranian who would speak.

Many I asked were too scared of what would happen to their relatives back in Iran if they spoke to me here.

But then there’s us—Australians here watching this podcast and trying to ascertain what is the truth. For if these two are right and the regime is being increasingly violent because they know the end is nigh, what will happen to our world if the West’s greatest boogeyman, Iran, was suddenly liberated, and began the journey back to the early seventies when it was cosmopolitan, driven, affluent, and freer?

And the last question, and this pertains to how the Afghans are apparently treating their women now—the last we’ve heard, if it’s true that is—is that Afghan women can no longer study.

Which boils down to men deciding that they prefer their women to be their personal slaves. A true woman’s rights issue. A culture screaming out, through their face-veiled silence, for support by the world’s powerful feminist movement.

But there is no help for them, for the feminists of the world seem too preoccupied with making sure trans women have the same if not greater rights than women—defending their right to use women-only spaces and platforms, and to participate in sports where they trample over the dreams of biological women.

Basically we have feminists defending the rights of men, and ignoring the plight of their biological sisters. The world is upside down and the lies and the truth are tangled into each other like fishing line and seaweed.

Which leaves us with a challenge: how do we untangle the truth, and once we have, what do we do with it, seeing how so many people seem to prefer the seaweed?

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Join John Stapleton and Myself as we chat with Daniel Wild.

Daniel Wild is Deputy Executive Director of the Institute of Public Affairs, with primary responsibility for delivering the IPA’s research programs.

Daniel has been with the IPA for six years, having previously held the roles of Research Fellow and Director of Research.

Daniel frequently appears in the media to communicate the IPA’s research and analysis, and has published a number of opinion pieces in The Australian, The Daily Telegraph, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Courier Mail, and The Spectator. Daniel also routinely appears on radio and television, including Channel 7, the ABC, Sky News, 2GB, 3AW, and 4BC.

Daniel previously worked at the Commonwealth Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet where he analysed global and domesticmacroeconomic policy. Prior to that he held positions at the Commonwealth Department of Finance where he worked on regulatory reform.

Daniel holds an honours qualification in economics and a degree in international studies from the University of Adelaide, and is currently undertaking a Master of Business Administration at the Melbourne Business School.

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Trina lives in a remote part of the coast. She’s always led a fringe life of sorts, and mainly because she is not good at conforming.With her long term partner they hand built a house out here where the short trees look spindly and angrily, as if each day from the seed has been tough.

But it’s still beautiful out here, the fresh air from the nearby Ocean, the noticeable silence from being far enough away from civilization.They rarely have the TV on, and so life is about talking and being, and because of this time slows down to a more philosophical beat.

I see her as a hermit watching the world transform, or decay around her.

So what has she seen?These are some of her thoughts.Cafe Locked Out is entirely listener-supported. We can’t hold the line without you.We don’t receive government grants, and we don’t have corporate sponsors — we like it that way. It means you’re free to speak your truth with us. Staying independent comes with real costs. If you value these conversations and the platform, please consider supporting us today. There are two ways you can help:The Shop — Click the link to our shop and grab some gear https://cafelockedout.com/clo-shop/ When you wear our gear out in the world, you’re not just supporting us financially; you’re starting conversations and showing others they aren’t alone. You’ll also find The Banned Book Company on our site, and signed copies of Michaels new book, ‘Goodbye Road’.Direct Contribution — If you’d prefer to simply give, every dollar goes straight toward streaming costs, equipment, and keeping us on the road https://cafelockedout.com/donate/

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The great contrarian, Richard Wosltencroft, and The Conspiracy Guru, David Thrussell are coming on to have their say about the Epstein Files.Do the codes, Jerky, really mean what they claim they mean?And why no arrests?You could be arrested for not wearing a mask to Aldi, but what, eating your neighbour’s pride and joy just gets you frequent flyer points the island?

Let’s see what the No Goats thinks.

Cafe Locked Out is entirely listener-supported. We can’t hold the line without you.We don’t receive government grants, and we don’t have corporate sponsors — we like it that way. It means you’re free to speak your truth with us. Staying independent comes with real costs. If you value these conversations and the platform, please consider supporting us today. There are two ways you can help:The Shop — Click the link to our shop and grab some gear https://cafelockedout.com/clo-shop/ When you wear our gear out in the world, you’re not just supporting us financially; you’re starting conversations and showing others they aren’t alone. You’ll also find The Banned Book Company on our site, and signed copies of Michaels new book, ‘Goodbye Road’.Direct Contribution — If you’d prefer to simply give, every dollar goes straight toward streaming costs, equipment, and keeping us on the road https://cafelockedout.com/donate/

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