Gigi Foster Journalist Profile

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What Must Modern Top-Flight Education Look Like?

2 weeks ago | brownstone.org | Gigi Foster |Paul Frijters |Michael Baker

A good education prepares one for the realities of adulthood and successful interaction with the world. At the university level, whether via college or homeschooling, a good education develops the intellectual, emotional, and social muscles. One is moulded into a person who uses tools, not crutches; who accepts responsibility rather than accepting stories of victimhood; and who recognises that human flourishing happens in communities, not in isolation.
Has Team Trump Blinked?

2 months ago | activistpost.com | Gigi Foster |Michael Baker |Paul Frijters

Empire Brownstone Institute, Gigi Foster, Michael Baker, Paul Frijters There is much to celebrate in the first seven weeks of the Trump presidency. Most importantly, the Western globalist elite has fractured, no longer a united front that belittles and enslaves all others. Through those cracks, the light of free speech and renewal is shining.
Has Team Trump Blinked?

2 months ago | brownstone.org | Gigi Foster |Paul Frijters |Michael Baker

There is much to celebrate in the first seven weeks of the Trump presidency. Most importantly, the Western globalist elite has fractured, no longer a united front that belittles and enslaves all others. Through those cracks, the light of free speech and renewal is shining. There is a sense of hope. The WHO is dying (and good riddance!), peace is truly on the table in Ukraine (finally!), and common sense is back as a player inside US government agencies.
Trump Administration Achievements You Should Know

2 months ago | activistpost.com | Gigi Foster |Michael Baker |Paul Frijters

Health Brownstone Institute, Gigi Foster, Michael Baker, Paul Frijters It has been highly entertaining and heartening to watch the reforms embarked upon by Team Trump this past month, although not for the minority that voted for his opponent who has maintained a steady rage on social and legacy media since things actually started getting done.
What Will the Trump Wrecking Ball Hit Next?

2 months ago | brownstone.org | Gigi Foster |Paul Frijters |Michael Baker

It has been highly entertaining and heartening to watch the reforms embarked upon by Team Trump this past month, although not for the minority that voted for his opponent who has maintained a steady rage on social and legacy media since things actually started getting done.
COVID-19 Response Inquiry report whitewashes colossal mismanagement by Australian governments

Oct 29, 2024 | afr.com | Gigi Foster

We expected from the limited Terms of Reference set by the Albanese government that the COVID-19 Response Inquiry report would ignore the lion’s share of the abuse experienced by Australians.
A tale of covid-era censorship from the front lines of economics

Apr 11, 2024 | collateralglobal.org | Gigi Foster |Paul Frijters |Nova Academia

In March 2024, the journal Australian Economic Papers published our paper, “Hiding the Elephant: The tragedy of Covid policy and its economist apologists.”The paper was based on invited keynote conference presentations that each of us gave to the online Australian Conference of Economists held in July 2021, and a working-paper version had been published nearly two years earlier. Our paper contained two parts.
Hiding the elephant: The tragedy of COVID policy and its economist apologists

Mar 6, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Gigi Foster |Paul Frijters

1 INTRODUCTION The Covid era started with fear, followed by extreme policy reactions. In early 2020, the health threat posed by the virus was broadly perceived, both in science and in the general public, to be far greater than it truly was, with the health threat posed by policy reactions to the virus often going unexamined or severely underestimated.
Gigi Foster, Author at Brownstone Institute

Mar 4, 2024 | brownstone.org | Gigi Foster |Paul Frijters |Michael Baker

ByGigi Foster | March 4, 2024 SHARE | PRINT | EMAILIn mid-November 2023, Australians for Science and Freedom held its inaugural conference under the banner ‘Progress through Science and Freedom’ on the campu... Read more. ByGigi Foster,ByPaul Frijters,ByMichael Baker | February 28, 2024 SHARE | PRINT | EMAILWe call on you to join us. Become mentors, teachers, or sponsors of novacad.org or scienceandfreedom.org. Better yet, set up your own communities and organisati... Read more.
We Build Anew in Australia

Mar 4, 2024 | brownstone.org | Gigi Foster

In mid-November 2023, Australians for Science and Freedom held its inaugural conference under the banner ‘Progress through Science and Freedom’ on the campus of my employer, the University of New South Wales.