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Is Australian democracy at risk from an authoritarian leader?

March 2, 2024 - 06:00 -- Admin

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…

ASEAN-Australia Special Summit must address climate crisis in the region: Oxfam

March 1, 2024 - 15:07 -- Admin

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…

Conscious and Unconscionable: The Starving of Gaza

March 1, 2024 - 12:16 -- Admin

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. …

Yanis Varoufakis Australian speaking tour March 2024

March 1, 2024 - 12:00 -- Admin

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…

New insights into Australia’s productivity problem

March 1, 2024 - 10:44 -- Admin

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.…

First city on Mars – what’s it called?

March 1, 2024 - 10:12 -- Admin

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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Online retail saved Australians from even higher price rises: new research

February 29, 2024 - 12:25 -- Admin

Australia’s inflation crisis would have been worse if it wasn’t for lower priced products and increased competition from online retail channels, according to new research by Mandala Partners.  The new report, Surf, Shop, Save: Online retail helps lower the cost of living, analysed the impact of online retail channels on inflation, by comparing the prices…

The Burning Man

February 29, 2024 - 12:14 -- Admin

By James Moore   I suppose it is an easy argument to make that anyone who sets themselves on fire has mental health issues. Aaron Bushnell, however, seemed beset with conflicts of political morality. When the young active-duty U.S. Air Force serviceman put himself to flame outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., he said, and…

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Cognitive Bias

February 28, 2024 - 20:33 -- Admin

By Bert Hetebry   A term I had not come across before but can cover a multitude of sins: Cognitive Bias. Reading an article in the Guardian this morning, there was a report on an inquest into the death of a man who had died from perforated stomach ulcers a day after being sent home from…

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Homelessness funding guarantee will save critical jobs

February 28, 2024 - 18:08 -- Admin

Homelessness Australia Media Release Homelessness Australia has strongly endorsed the Federal Government’s decision to plug a $73 million funding shortfall for homelessness services. Funding for the Equal Remuneration Order (ERO) supplementation for homelessness services to cover the wages of the workforce was due to expire in July 2024. Homelessness Australia CEO Kate Colvin congratulated the…

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