Rebekah Barnett
Rebekah Barnett is an independent journalist based in Western Australia. She holds a BA (Hons First Class) in Communications. Find her work at Dystopian Down Under.
Articles by Rebekah Barnett:
26 November 2024
6.3 MINS
Two Australian local governments have joined a grassroots campaign calling for state and federal officials to take precautionary action over Covid vaccine safety concerns.
20 November 2024
4.9 MINS
Despite stiff pushback from legal experts and the public, the misinformation bill passed in the House of Representatives on 7 November. It now goes to the Senate, where Labor, with the possible support of the Greens, needs to shore up the votes of enough crossbench senators to pass it into law.
8 November 2024
4.6 MINS
Online, people can be obsessive, hyper-partisan, haranguing total strangers without thinking twice. In the streets, people are largely going about their business, dealing with the day as it comes – election results and all.
30 October 2024
4.4 MINS
In a report handed down yesterday, Australia’s federal Covid Inquiry found that extreme public health restrictions, coupled with lack of transparency about the evidence informing these decisions, has led to a major slide in public trust.
16 October 2024
6.8 MINS
Councillor Blanco, who formerly served as Port Hedland Mayor, said that although healthcare is not normally within the remit of local government, he considered the evidence presented to be “a real and undeniable threat to public health.”
Up to 5 Years in Prison for Hate Speech Under Victorian Government’s Proposed Anti-Vilification Laws
11 October 2024
7.8 MINS
The new laws would lower the legal threshold for prosecuting people for vilification and would add gender identity, sex, sex characteristics, sexual orientation and disability to the list of protected attributes alongside race and religion, which are already protected.
7 October 2024
11.1 MINS
Two-thirds of submissions made to the Australian Senate’s Excess Mortality Inquiry have been suppressed and key evidence omitted from its concluding report, calling the Inquiry’s integrity and findings into question.
30 September 2024
2.5 MINS
The Australian Government’s Covid vaccine injury compensation scheme ends today, leaving anyone injured by the ongoing administration of these vaccines without a safety net.
27 September 2024
5.9 MINS
First, those in charge of adjudicating what is and is not misinformation are sometimes wrong, resulting in the censorship of true information. Second, there are harms associated with the suppression of true information.
19 September 2024
10.3 MINS
The first independent testing of Australian vials of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines confirms findings from the US, Canada and Germany, highlighting that oncogenic and genomic integration risks are a global concern.
19 September 2024
2.9 MINS
The Australian Government is set to impose social media age limits, amid increasing concern over the effect of social media on youth mental health, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced last week.
16 September 2024
8.1 MINS
Communications Minister Michelle Rowland tabled a new version of the bill which she said is intended to “carefully balance the public interest in combatting seriously harmful misinformation and disinformation with the freedom of expression that is so fundamental to our democracy.”
23 August 2024
5 MINS
The Australian Government has voted down a bill to establish a Covid Commission of Inquiry, which would have essentially the same powers and independence as a Royal Commission.
15 August 2024
15.8 MINS
Graham Linehan is a multiple BAFTA-winning Irish comedy writer best known for his popular TV sitcoms "Father Ted" and "The IT Crowd". Around six years ago, he was cancelled for the mortal sin of criticising trans activism, while upholding women's rights and child safety.
13 August 2024
11.2 MINS
Melbourne doctor Jereth Kok was suspended under emergency provisions by the medical regulators in 2019 after two anonymous complaints triggered an investigation into his social media posts.
6 August 2024
11.3 MINS
Insights from social listening suggest that official figures on Covid vaccine injuries and deaths provide an incomplete picture of the true impact of Covid vaccinations. The excess deaths inquiry should attempt to quantify the true rates of injuries and deaths attributable to vaccination.
2 August 2024
2.9 MINS
Since 2021, Australia has experienced excess mortality at rates not seen outside of wartime. A committee investigating causes of Australia’s record excess deaths has refused to publish a comprehensive interdisciplinary submission by the Australian Medical Professionals Society (AMPS).
1 August 2024
1 MINS
We discuss the mRNA Covid vaccine contamination and VAERS data. Why do people at the top who should know better approve and continue to push dangerous products? Where do you get your information from? What makes journalism good, and why is so much of it not good?
30 July 2024
4.8 MINS
The art historian sophistry prompted educated-sounding people on social media to inform the world that the opening ceremony scene definitely wasn’t inspired by the Last Supper, because can’t you uneducated brutes tell a Dionysian feast when you see one?
29 July 2024
16.9 MINS
The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) denies that the Pfizer mRNA Covid vaccine is contaminated, as at least four independent labs around the world claim to have detected plasmid DNA contamination in vials of the mRNA Pfizer and Moderna shots, most well over regulatory limits.





