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Temporary migrants’ anguish and exclusion in COVID-19
A comprehensive research report from paints a bleak picture of the way Australia has treated temporary migrants — of all nationalities — throughout this pandemic 17 September 2020 | Bassina Farbenblum (UNSW) & Laurie Berg (UTS) In early April, Prime Minister Scott...
Sino-Australian media ‘cold war’ on ice
The shock and indignation of the Australian media over the forced departure of two China correspondents has quickly dissipated following revelations that ASIO raided the homes of four Chinese journalists two months earlier 14 September 2020 | Marcus Reubenstein The...
China data good for Australia
Despite diplomatic tensions getting in the way beef, barley and wine exports, Australia’s economic exposure to the Chinese recovery is good news 3 September 2020 | Shane Oliver, AMP Capital In a time where our national mood fluctuates on a daily basis with the...
Gas Gush: The Toadies of Mainstream Media Trot Out Government’s Fossil Fuel Campaign
By Michael West, founder of Michael West Media Gas fracking and a new fossil fuel power plant got a big leg-up today as News Corp, Nine Entertainment, ABC News and Guardian Australia faithfully splashed with the latest government gas plan on their front pages today....
Secrecy Covers Up Abuse of Power and Poor Performance by Australia’s Security Services
By Jack Waterford with Pearls and Irritations One would have to go back to the 1970s to find the nation so ill-served. All the more so as politicians have politicised national security, and reverted to 1960s games of gathering and using secret information for...
Is Lockdown Worth the Pain? No, it’s a Sledgehammer
By Julian Savulescu, University of Oxford Melbourne’s lockdown has been described as one of the harshest in the world. And jurisdictions outside Australia have taken other measures to limit the spread of COVID-19 once case numbers have eased. So, in the absence of a...
Morrison, China and Aged Care
It has always been difficult to read Scott Morrison’s motives. Many attribute his hard line policies and actions, and his intolerance of dissent, or criticism, to his religion, but that seems too simplistic. His religion, for example, did not seem to hobble him when...
Abbott – a national disgrace
Just when you thought it was safe to open a newspaper again, Tony Abbott is back in the news. This time he is in the U.K., where the Brits are about to make a monumental mistake. They want to appoint him as a ‘trade envoy’. He will be advising them on matters of...
Frydenburg and Morrison – a double act
Josh Frydenburg showed his true colours today. He ripped into the Victorian Premier and blamed him directly for the second wave of coronavirus. Obviously if Daniel Andrews is in charge, and the outbreak occurred on his watch, then at some point in time, he will be...
RBG Death Means Two-Headed Uniparty Will Threaten Americans With Removal Of Civil Rights
US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died, which means the US election is going to revolve around abortion and other civil rights for the foreseeable future. Which won’t change much since this presidential race hasn’t really been about anything since the end of the Democratic primaries. The opportunistic
Exposing War Crimes Should Always Be Legal. Committing And Hiding Them Should Not.
The Kafkaesque extradition trial of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange continues, with each frustrating day making it clearer than the day before that what we are watching is nothing other than a staged performance by the US and UK governments to explain why it’s okay for powerful governments to jail journalists
News Media Who Ignore The Assange Trial Are Admitting They Don’t Care About Journalism
The Sydney Morning Herald just published an article titled “Julian Assange interrupts extradition hearing again” about the WikiLeaks founder’s correct interjection that he never put anyone’s lives in danger with the publication of the Manning leaks a decade ago. It’s actually a rather shocking smear piece for the SMH, who
Climate truth should guide recovery spending
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The virtues of weeds
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Class and COVID-19
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CLIMBING THE COVID MOUNTAIN
TEN ECONOMIC STEPS THAT FORM A PATHWAY TO THE TOP THEKOUK and EVERALDATLARGE OUTLINE A WAY FOR THE PEOPLE OF AUSTRALIA TO CREATE AND MAINTAIN SUSTAINED PROSPERITY Covid19 has opened a door for Australians to positively accept significant changes that … Continue...
A BUSH HOLIDAY IS MOST EFFECTIVE VACCINE FOR COVID19
Helen and I decided to go bush last week for a change of scenery and an escape, mentally and physically, from COVID19. We achieved this by signing up as travellers with NATURE BOUND AUSTRALIA, a unique bush touring operation that … Continue reading →
THE VISION OF THE INLAND RAILWAY IS NOW A TRAGEDY.
EVERALD COMPTON RELATES HIS LONG AND PAINFUL JOURNEY Soon after John Howard became Prime Minister of Australia in 1996, I met him at Parliament in Canberra to outline my plan to build an Inland Railway. He agreed that it was … Continue reading →
What now for the NBN? Answers to questions from iTWire.
I have been asked by iTWire to provide my thoughts on where the NBN should go from here as the rollout of the network is announced as completed. The article appeared on 20 July 2020 and can be read here. My full answers to the questions submitted are as follows
NBN declares rollout finished but what about those left behind?
While NBN Co may have declared “Mission Accomplished” on the rollout of the NBN, where does that leave up to 250,000 premises who cannot receive the minimum download speed of 25 Mbps. 1 NBN Co’s riding instructions from government, the so-called Statement of Expectations, makes it very clear that
High time for Government to upgrade its expectations of NBN Co
The Minister for Communications, Mr Paul Fletcher, has made it clear that the government will not provide any further equity or debt funding to NBN Co now that the rollout of the network is largely complete – see AFR ($$$). A total of $49 billion has been provided by the
To my fellow blerds: this is for you
To my fellow blerds: this is for you | Without accountability, there is no justice History Made: Torres Strait Adoption Bill passes
Without accountability, there is no justice
Without accountability, there is no justice | History Made: Torres Strait Adoption Bill passes Racism still exists in social work today – we need
History Made: Torres Strait Adoption Bill passes
History Made: Torres Strait Adoption Bill passes | Racism still exists in social work today – we need more Black faces in the profession
“Julian Assange’s ‘crime’ is to have initiated a wave of truth-telling in an era of lies, cynicism and war.” John Pilger
Australian journalist Julian Assange’s court case in the United Kingdom started again last week after a break of several months with the United States seeking his extradition. Its outcome could have an […]
Rupert Murdoch’s attempt to shakedown Facebook and Google is underwritten by Scott Morrison and the Liberal Party
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp and the Scott Morrison government are conspiring in an attempt to shakedown Google and Facebook for hundreds of millions of dollars. To prove the first point, about Murdoch’s […]
Scott Morrison’s Hillsong mate Leigh Coleman who has allegations of fraud and bribery against him given $42 million in government grants
Leigh Coleman who is a former Hillsong Church executive and close friend of Prime Minister Scott Morrison has had numerous allegations of fraud made against him over the last 15 years including […]
What now for the NBN? Answers to questions from iTWire.
I have been asked by iTWire to provide my thoughts on where the NBN should go from here as the rollout of the network is announced as completed.The article appeared on 20 July 2020 and can be read here.My full answers to the questions submitted are as follows :I would
NBN declares rollout finished but what about those left behind?
While NBN Co may have declared “Mission Accomplished” on the rollout of the NBN, where does that leave up to 250,000 premises who cannot receive the minimum download speed of 25 Mbps. 1NBN Co’s riding instructions from government, the so-called Statement of Expectations, makes it very clear that all Australian
The business of ending poverty
We may need some people to get out of the business of ending poverty. So, this is not a call for more volunteers to the cause, but less. We do not need more magicians. There are no magic solutions to poverty no matter how much one likes a trick. Advertisement
Trump triumphs as PLO continues to dig its own grave
President Trump’s announcement on 11 September that Israel would be signing a peace treaty with a fourth Arab State – Bahrain – and possibly several others very soon – has triggered a spiteful response from Saeb Erekat, Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Trump added:
Paul Keating's HECS-style loans plan unfair; aged care insurance simpler and more efficient
Funding aged care through a system of government loans, as suggested by former prime minister Paul Keating, is a thoroughly bad idea. What is required instead is a system under which every Australian is protected against the risk of needing extended periods of expensive residential aged care, due to dementia
