Victoria Police are struggling to recruit as trust in the force collapses, and a new video captures what that looks like on the ground. We cover the Geelong refinery fire, one of the worst in Australia's history, coming just days after the ABC warned the country had never been more vulnerable to an energy crisis. We look at the rise of what's being called a new, angrier feminism, drawing on Emily Lawford's New Statesman piece on the young women reshaping British politics, and expanding on our Plus discussion of Jay Stone's research into feminisation as the engine behind woke ideology. We also get into testosterone decline and what the latest research points to as a likely cause.

In the Plus+ extension, we look at the cultural forces accelerating that decline through the feminization of modern life. From literature and sexuality to education, identity and social expectations, the discussion examines how softness, emotionalism and degeneracy have been elevated as cultural ideals while strength, discipline and clarity are pushed further aside. The result is a civilisation becoming weaker, less stable and increasingly detached from reality.

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• Australia has never been more vulnerable to an energy crisis - ABC News
• Major fire at one of Australia's two oil refineries
• "Australia has never been more vulnerable to an energy crisis - ABC writes. Then 3 days later you have a major fire reported at Viva Energy refinery in Australia. https://t.co/AkQ3eKphdL" / X
• Fuel Crisis Australia — Live Oil Reserves, Petrol Prices & Supply Dashboard
• Uncovered ballots prompt new count in seat of Narungga won by One Nation - ABC News
• Liberals to offer $5,000 to overseas officers to relocate under plan to recruit 3,000 police - ABC News
• Melbourne police officer's height sparks debate
• Liberals to offer $5,000 to overseas officers to relocate under plan to recruit 3,000 police - ABC News
• " BREAKING The Irish Government is Making Ads Recruiting Military Age Muslim Men From PAKISTAN, to Join the Irish Gardai & Police the Irish People This is AFTER the Pakistani r*pe gangs were exposed across Britain This is TREASON @DewsNewz @HarrisonHSmith https://t.co/aEVqPn0rWQ" / X
• The jobs Australians won’t do | The Spectator Australia
• Meet the Angry Young Women - New Statesman
• TikTok Destroyed A Generation
• Bird Sex Identification Instrument

The US-Iran ceasefire is already fraying. We go through what's actually happened in the last 24 hours: the ten-point plan Iran had on the table for weeks before Trump presented it as a win, the Pakistan PM's copy-paste tweet, Israel's strikes on Lebanon, and the Strait of Hormuz closing again. The signals are contradictory and the official narrative doesn't hold up.

From there we get into Ben Roberts-Smith. His arrest and the campaign to strip his VC have split opinion sharply. We look at what his case reveals about how Australia treats its soldiers, what combat actually does to people, and whether this country still has any appetite for what war requires.

In the Plus+ extension: the Fabian Society, Annie Besant, George Bernard Shaw, and the eugenics program that ran underneath progressive thought in the early 20th century. The Fabians wanted to remake society from the top down and they were patient about it. We trace how their ideas moved from the drawing room into education, law, and bureaucracy, and how utopian language kept covering for what was a project of population management and elite control.

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• New Deadline Looms for U.S. and Iran as Truce Wavers - The New York Times
• The Empire Backs Down, For Now
• Iran Rejects U.S. Narrative That It Must Adhere to Trump’s ‘Disingenuous’ Negotiation Framework
• Did Trump Just Make Iran Great Again?
• What the Hell Happened with the Rescue of the F-15E WSO in Iran?
• "Oh, this is unbelievable. The edit history on this tweet shows that Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif originally copied and pasted everything he was sent, including: "*Draft - Pakistan's PM Message on X*" Now, obviously, Sharif's own staff don't call him "Pakistan's PM," https://t.co/lm2vSEElkb" / X
• SAS hero Ben Roberts Smith arrested over alleged war crimes
• Patriotic Aussies rally behind war hero Ben-Roberts Smith
• Australian Defence Force takes out war breach adverts in newspapers | The West Australian
• Ben Roberts-Smith and the confused battlefield | The Spectator Australia
• The Truth of War: Lethality in Combat, a Study of the Real Nature of Battle eBook : Lewis, Doctor Tom: Kindle Store
• Overview | Air Force
• War Hero or Poli...

Joel Davis is granted bail after 133 days at Long Bay over a Telegram post, with twenty conditions attached. We look at the case and the two-tier justice it exposes. Then: the federal government's $150 million package to monitor politicians' social media for "ominous characters," while ordinary Australians don't feel safe in their own homes.

From there, black teen takeovers. Three hundred black teenagers rampaged through Clapham over five days. Fifty shut down Werribee Plaza in Australia. The same pattern in Chicago. Social media coordinates the crowds, officials reach for euphemisms, and one commentator's response cut through all of it: I want my country back.

In the Plus+ extension we trace the word "racism" back to Magnus Hirschfeld, the Weimar-era sexologist who also coined "transvestite," ran the first trans clinic, and whose work seeded much of modern gender theory. Then: a string of violent incidents, axe attacks, train platform pushings, that look random until patterns emerge. We examine the role of online contagion, copycat behaviour, and ideology in what's starting to look less like isolated breakdowns and more like a trend.

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• Joel Davis granted bail after 133 days in isolation
• Police to monitor MPs' social media for 'ominous characters'
• Fury as black teen thugs go on looting rampages in Britain
• Fifty African teens brawl at Melbourne shopping centre
• Brawl Chaos at Werribee Plaza - YouTube
• I want my country back.
• "JUST IN: Victims of violent Chicago ‘Teen Takeover’ attack (video below) speak out, reveal that no arrests have been made. The victims stated that the attack was completely unprovoked and unexpected. “Everything went crazy… They said they were going to kill us…” Chicago is https://t.co/6QeGHutEvz" / X
• "‘According to police, a group of over 300 kids showed up at the sky-zone trampoline park to partake in what participants are calling a "Sky-zone Takeover". At some point, the takeover went in the downhill when large fights broke out amongst the participants… https://t.co/x64cbLb9nk" / X
• "BREAKING: Atlanta police say they will ARREST THE PARENTS of teenagers found breaking the law at “planned” take overs happening this weekend https://t.co/BTkT561j3V" / X
• “Unruly young people”
• "Teen Takeover"
• 'White Girl Bleed a Lot' | Chicago Public Library
• 'Don't Make the Black Kids Angry:' The hoax of black victimization and those who enable it. by Colin Flaherty
• Paved With Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America eBook