“ If you live in Frankston, and you’ve got a problem with Victorian women being assaulted by foreign criminals, vote against Labor. “If you do not want to see Australian women being assaulted by foreign criminals, vote against Labor. Send Labor a message.” Labor easily wins Dunkley, increasing its primary vote to forty per cent.…
Last week Senator Cash tweeted the… Is it still correct to say “tweet”? I mean now that it’s X, should it be “Senator Cash Xed…”? Whatever, Senator Cash put out the following message on the social media platform that was once Twitter but is now X: “Australians should be able to choose what car they…
Just as the Atlas Network-connected Advance body intervened in the Voice referendum in Australia and, in recent weeks, a bye-election, similar organisations spawned from the American model are distorting New Zealand’s politics from within as well as from without. One of the key researchers into the Atlas Network, Lee Fang, observed that it has “reshaped…
Deeds of substance, rather than words of forced concern, will always take precedence in the chronicles of history. Superficially, the Australian government has been edging more closely towards expressing concern with aspects of Israel’s relentless war in the Gaza Strip. While claiming to be targeted, specific and directed against Hamas and other Islamic militants, the…
Continued from Authoritarianism is taking over the world. Will it snare Australia? To recap, in Part 1 I wrote that: In recent years, we have witnessed three individual politicians who have used the techniques of the authoritarian leader, fear, negativity, misinformation and lies. I refer to Tony Abbott, Scott Morrison and the now opposition leader Peter…
Oxfam Australia Media Release As the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) -Australia Special Summit commences this week in Melbourne, Oxfam is calling for the Australian government and other world leaders attending to ramp up ambition to tackle the climate crisis in the region, beginning with an urgent phase out of Australia’s massive coal and…
The starvation regime continues unabated as Israel continues its campaign in the Gaza Strip. One of the six provisional measures ordered by the International Court Justice entailed taking “immediate and effective measures” to protect the Palestinian populace in the Gaza Strip from risk of genocide by ensuring the supply of humanitarian assistance and basic services. …
The Australia Institute Yanis Varoufakis, visionary economist and former Finance Minister of Greece, is touring Australia discussing ‘Technofeudalism’, his boldest and most far-reaching book yet, in which he argues that capitalism is dead and that a new economic era has begun. Varoufakis is visiting Australia as a guest of the Australia Institute in 2024 to…
Productivity Commission Media Release A new report from the Productivity Commission shows that labour productivity fell sharply in 2022-23, as a record-breaking increase in hours worked failed to generate a similar increase in economic output. The Annual productivity bulletin 2024 provides the most complete picture to-date of the drivers of Australia’s productivity decline over 2022-23.…
My first port of call was to think about what we know of the first cities on Earth, should we resurrect them in the name of exploration and settlement of mankind’s first off world home – The Red Planet. The first one would need to be auspicious. About names and some contenders later, first a…
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