ASIO asked the CIA to keep secret details of US phone discussions about the assassination with its Australian embassy prior to the assassination of JFK - Gerard Rennick
Australia’s top spy wrote to the CIA asking to keep secret details of an investigation into phone calls made to the US Embassy in Canberra about an assassination plot before President John F. Kennedy was killed, newly declassified files have revealed. Australia’s top spy wrote to the CIA asking to keep secret details of an investigation into phone calls made to the US Embassy in Canberra about an assassination plot before President John F. Kennedy was killed, newly declassified files have revealed.
[Update 20 March 2025 - It appears that there has been another 
It is not just in Victoria, or NSW, or South Australia, or West Australia, or the Northern Territory. Activity Centres and densification are being pushed in every part of Australia. And decentralisation is not the answer either; country towns are being forced to accommodate dense new settlements too. And it's not just we humans who are impacted. Dogs are flooding animal shelters because their owners can no longer afford space or food to keep them. Horses cannot find paddocks.
Australian Bureau of Statistics’ net overseas migration data released today shows the nation’s migration intake remains out-of-control.
The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) is calling for the public’s help in its investigation into the suspected mass poisoning of hundreds of native Corella birds across multiple Newcastle suburbs, including Hamilton, Carrington, Waratah, Broadmeadow, Lambton, and near Newcastle University. The EPA received initial reports on Monday 17 March 2025 of 14 sick and dead birds in Hamilton but by midday reports had escalated to hundreds of affected birds in Carrington and surrounding areas.
Non è solo in Victoria, o nel NSW, o in Australia Meridionale, o in Australia Occidentale, o nel Territorio del Nord. I Centri di Attività e la densificazione vengono spinti in ogni parte dell'Australia. E la decentralizzazione non è la risposta; anche le città di campagna sono costrette ad accogliere nuovi insediamenti densi. E non siamo solo noi umani a essere colpiti.
The memorial service honoring Frankston environmentalist Olwen Margaret Bawden has been put back until next week on Saturday 22 March, and the venue has changed to The Frankston Arts Centre, Cube 37, between 2pm and 3pm. But on Saturday 15 March 2025, The family Autumn Picnic will proceed from 12.00 to 2 pm at Seaford Senior Citizens' Hall, Broughton Avenue, Seaford.
As I understand it, fundamentally, all coups and all revolutions - left and right - are based on changes to land-tenure systems. It seems to me, based on my observation and experience in Victoria, not on what anyone says, that the State here is trying to make massive changes to the land-tenure system. It is engineering those changes by removing power at local level and refusing to represent people at any level.
Paul Edbrook, State Labor MP for Frankston, has repeatedly failed to respond usefully to complaints from constituents regarding the forced accommodation of a Metropolitan Activity Centre under the increasingly authoritarian regime of Premier Jacinta Allan's Victorian Government. Inside this article, we have published two complaint letters, along with the negligent and empty responses from Mr. Edbrook or his staff, despite the great importance of the matter.
Exercising his independence since leaving the Liberal Party, Senator Rennick, (
Is Turkey's role in the Middle East, especially regarding its support or provocation of wars and unrest, underestimated? Indeed, it often seems ignored. For instance, during the ongoing genocide against Gaza, much of Israel's oil has come from Azerbaijan, routed through Turkish ports.
Following the WA Government’s reckless decision to approve South32’s bauxite mine expansion last year, Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has chosen to greenlight South32’s massive bauxite expansion in the Northern Jarrah Forest, near Boddington. Join us from 8.30am to 9:30 on Wednesday 19 Feb to protest this dangerous extension outside South32’s Perth/Boorloo headquarters, on William Street.
Victorian Parliament is about to come out with shocking announcements that will remove many Victorians' property rights so that planners can redesign Melbourne to be a massive high-rise city like Shanghai or Mumbai. The announcement will probably be made in March. Environmentalists, ecologists, and people concerned about human rights and property rights need to be ready to respond. However, Australians and Victorians do not actually have any strong protection for p
Venue: Camberwell Historical Society Meeting 25 February 2025 7.30pm. Speaker Michael Buxton, "Camberwell: Urban Planning and Heritage Protection." 25 Inglesby Road, Camberwell 3124. RSVP by Monday 24 February 2025. 
On Wednesday 5 February, Queensland Senator Gerard Rennick asked of The Foreign Minister Senator Penny Wong, why, given her government's treatment of the former Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad, she had said nothing about the large number of crimes committed against the people of Syria by the new regime of Mohammad al–Julani.
For the past few days, ABC Melbourne has been creating a talkback fest to make-believe the electorate is looking happily forward to having this city blown up and out beyond recognition and beyond their control. I've received a plethora of emails and phone calls indicating the exact opposite.
6.30pm Feb 6, 2025, at Seaford Community Centre: Talbot Hall or (depending on the weather) in the shade on the lawn between the Hall and the Creek. Public meeting to discuss the future of Kananook Creek Corridor planning. Please join us in attending to show your support for the Kananook Creek Association (KCA). FCC has dissolved the Kananook Creek Governance Group without consultation.
The letter below was sent to Prime Minister Albanese on 24 January 2025. In it, I refer to the 
The corporate takeover of Ukrainian land from about 2011 up to and during the Ukraine war is extremely immoral, corrupt, cruel and disenfranchising. I understand it as a process of privatisation, corporatisation and debt, which means ultimately that Ukraine is no longer governed by its people, but by corporates and oligarchs.
Australia, sadly, takes its orders from the US and so Trump's government and policies is of major importance to us here. Tulsi Gabbard, who is also a US soldier, has made it further than any other female politician in the US in terms of carving out an independent policy course and is now seeking confirmation of a Trump cabinet appointment as Director of US Intelligence.
Video inside by Kevork Almassian, a Syrian living in Germany, gives a complex overview of the situation in Syria. We have transcribed it with headings in square brackets for clarity, and included links and explanations for some specific names and places. While we have previously supported Bashar al-Assad's rule and elections amid brutal external interference, we were concerned by his departure from Syria and the Syrian Arab Army's decline.
Students for Palestine are launching the People’s Inquiry into Free Speech on Palestine at Australian Universities in collaboration with other organisations, groups, and prominent individuals around the country, including the Australian Greens and the Australian Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN).
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