Reclaiming Australia’s Core Institutions
To keep a strong, independent, and accountable society, Australia must protect its labour unions, regulatory bodies, policing services, and military from both external influence and internal power abuse.
Old Dog Thoughts | News Corporation employs Right-Wing Broadcasters providing them with a platform ensuring the inequality of speech. Their Social Media Platforms not only advocate conservative, and extreme right-wing wing views. They monitor out most opposing opinions which they are entitled to do. However, they also simply lie when they say they provide an arena for fair and balanced discussion in a no-spin zone. They don't it's all spin.
To keep a strong, independent, and accountable society, Australia must protect its labour unions, regulatory bodies, policing services, and military from both external influence and internal power abuse.
This letter is the immediate reaction of distinguished Australians, who hope many more will express their outrage that the State of Israel continues to ignore the United Nations, breach its charter and attack its personnel.
It is time the Australian Government stood up to Israel to demand a halt to all military violence and offered its full support to the United Nations and the Office of the Secretary General.
They may be short on detail, but Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is charging ahead with two policies that may swing the Teals to Labor and deliver Albanese a second term as PM.
by Michael Pascoe | Oct 14, 2024
There was a time when Netanyahu’s tactics would go unquestioned. That time helps explain those who continue to give Israel unqualified and unquestioning support and ties in with the “hard man” image Peter Dutton wants to own, writes Michael Pascoe.
by Rex Patrick | Oct 14, 2024
Because of the NACC’s secrecy we are forced to guess a lot, but as per above, there are enough known facts that by themselves prove blatant corruption and cover-ups. Imagine if there were public hearings at the NACC and we knew all of the facts.
As I already said, the NACC is bouncing from one cover-up scandal to the next and it will be a major issue at the federal election.
Rupert Murdoch’s latest News Corp director, Tony Abbott, is launching the biography today of former British PM Liz Truss tonight. Rosco Jones reports on a big week for the conservative movement in Australia and the weekend CPAC conference.
Not content with wiping ourselves out, we are also intent to wipe out all life.
The planet would be better off without us. Have we earned our place in the future? Will we be in it? Unless we can evolve into a higher level of consciousness we’d better start looking for another planet about a billion years earlier than expected.
But as it is, the earth is a very dangerous place. Nobody gets off alive.
Free trade remains, in general, a fantasy, dangerous for the naïve who feel that by embracing it, they are somehow enlarging their appeal and standing. Often, countries extolling its value are only those desiring exclusive or privileged access to a market. From 2016 onwards, the free traders have been pummeled. With Donald Trump in the White House, America First meant imposing, among other things, tariffs of 25% on US$50 billion on Chinese goods under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974. More rises followed.
Under the Biden administration, Trump’s tariff legacy remained in place, though some suspensions were made. (These were subsequently reimposed.) This enabled President Joe Biden to sharpen the focus on specific categories: electric vehicles (EVs), semiconductors, lithium ion batteries. Tariffs on Chinese semiconductors spiked to 50%, while Chinese EVs received a bruising 100% increase.
by Dr Sarah Russell | Oct 11, 2024
The challenge is to sort out the difference, which is true information, which is misinformation and which are blatant lies?
Both in the news and information presented to us and in the way histories have been framed.
And that task is not easy.
by Rex Patrick | Oct 9, 2024