Labor digs Australia deeper in Middle East war with B2 bombers on our air-bases
"Australia is clearly taking sides and showing disregard for the many Australians currently in outright despair." The Independent Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN) has expressed alarm about Australia getting involved in the fighting in the Middle East by letting other countries use our air bases up north. IPAN advises that Australia should quickly pull back and not help with the fighting.
CHIA's Agenda for local government: Beware the candy-coated housing strategy
What moral right does CHIA, a large, well-auspiced professional organisation, have in fueling animosity against local government candidates who defend their communities' planning powers and their right to veto subdivisions - key pillars of self-determination?
UNSW: Construction nightmares: How builder bankruptcies are costing Aussie homeowners millions
"Protection for consumer deposits in Australia's construction sector is vital as insolvencies rise, threatening the stability of the homebuilding industry," writes Dr Bradley Hastings[1] and Professor Peter Swan.
Planning Democracy Report No.44 - October 12, 2024
Weld Australia: Victorian Government Decimates Local Industry & imports unsafe steel for its infrastructure roll-out
You know those big infrastructure projects, and activity centres, that the Victorian government is ramming down our throats, telling us it will bring 'jobs' and 'affordable' housing? Well, Australian industry is being sidelined on these projects. Weld Australia—which represents thousands of local welders and fabricators—is calling for immediate action against the Victorian Government’s offshoring of steel for major infrastructure projects.
Reject the "Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation" bill
Update, 2/10/24: Of 25 submissions I could only find one that supported this legislation. The remaining 24 were strongly opposed. Unfortunately, I narrowly missed the dead-line, so my own submission, included below, was not included.
IPAN: Labor is risking war with China and has abandoned aspirations for independent foreign policy
IPAN Public Meeting Friday 4 October, 6 pm, Perth Library, with speaker Dr Carmen Lawrence, "Sleepwalking into War ? Breaking the US stranglehold on Australia: Peace or War? Also Senator Fatima Payman, Dr Carmen Lawrence, Professor Lisa Natividad and Senator Jordon Steele-John; Wakeley Award Winning Journalist Sophie McNeill will be the MC. There will also be a press conference.
Australia's dangerous "Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation Bill 2024."
While the Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2024 purports to aim to enhance transparency and accountability among digital platforms, it does not adequately protect users from arbitrary actions by governments regarding the content they post.
"Housing disaster will extend for years if population growth ignored" - Sustainable Population Australia
Without a mature discussion on population growth, the housing crisis will extend for years to come, according to Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). SPA National president Peter Strachan says there is deep denial within the government that population is the main factor driving housing demand.
Australian PM, Gough Whitlam says he was blackmailed by the Israeli lobby to support the 1973 Yom Kippur War…
Once upon a time, the Australian government declared it did not support Israel nor the Islamic, in the Six Day war — it was to stay ‘neutral’.
Whitlam says his government was “blackmailed by some Jewish hero’s, on the other side of the world to the conflict.”
History reveals… https://t.co/uwvD88ePjw
Diana Panchenko: "You often ask me why Ukrainians don't resist the government."
Thirty years too long to turn a blind eye to world population growth - Dr Jane O'Sullivan - SPA
September 13 marks thirty years since ideologues took control at the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo to stigmatise the idea of stabilising population numbers, falsely claiming it led to human rights abuses.
Planning Democracy Report No.43 - September 7, 2024
Planning Democracy Report No.42 - August 6, 2024
Planning Democracy Report No.41 - July 12, 2024
Concern for the kangaroo family on Australian National threatened species day 7/9/24
The seventh of September is a sombre day to acknowledge raising the plight of all our threatened species in Australia. As some politicians will have the opportunity to hold cute furry wildlife and many will advocate for stronger laws to protect nature and seek to increase funding for species recovery.
Melbourne anti-war protest: Hanwha & anti-imperialist rallies at Disrupt Land Forces
In the week of 8 – 14 September, Melbourne/Naarm is hosting a huge international weapons expo called Land Forces at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre.
Podcast & Transcript: A Post Growth Approach to Urban Planning with Michael Buxton
"It's really a disturbing that a government like the Victorian government, [...] repeat parrot-like the Property Council Mantra that there hasn't been enough dwelling approvals in Melbourne and in the state, [...] yet their own reports showed with graphs that was a false narrative. Their ultimate aim really, is to remove citizen interaction and involvement and local government involvement in decisions over the future of a city. And this is completely incompatible with the democratic ideal. It's a very authoritarian model.
Brisbane Doctors Debate: Whether Moderating Population Growth is an Important measure in the Climate Crisis
POSTPONED. Anyone in or around Brisbane might be interested in this event – please share with anyone you know who might be interested: Doctors for the Environment Queensland is hosting the debate on the topic of Whether Moderating Population Growth is an Important Measure in the Climate Crisis: Monday 16 September 2024. 19.00h -21.00h. UQ St Lucia, Gordon Greenwood Building, 32-207 Collaborative Room & online. See inside for bookings.
Money and war - can we escape destiny with satire?
Elephant seals have extraordinary sexual dimorphism where sexual competition has led to massive size and aggressive fighting between the males. Whilst the fighting between alpha elephant seals does not cause significant declines in their overall populations or life-support system, imagine if they had access to global finance and nuclear weapons.
Thugs kidnap pro-Imran Khan Australian blogger's brother, demand stop criticising Pakistan Gov
Drop Site News has published phone-calls recording the beating of an Australian-Pakistani citizen's brother as an inducement to stop tweeting in support of an Imran Khan government for Pakistan via Citizen Action overseas Pakistani voters (https://x.com/OPVoters).
Full Speech & Transcript: RFK Jr. officially suspends 2024 campaign and endorses Trump
Transcript added. In this highly informed speech, for those who want to know, Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy Junior whistleblows on US corporate Deep State as, sadly, he resigns from presidential campaign. BTW, Australia takes orders from the same rotten US Deep State. We are no more a democracy than America. Our governments are in an undeclared war with us.
Security Council meeting video shows how the US, with its veto and the supply of weapons to Israel, helps murder women, children, doctors and reporters in Gaza
On 22 Second August, Riyad Mansour (pictured) Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations spoke to the United Nations. In that meeting, Riyad called upon all the Ambassadors to the Security Council to come with him to Gaza to see for themselves how Israel is destroying the housing, hospitals, schools and other infrastructure whilst killing, so far, by one more conseravtive estimate, more than 40,000 unarmed Palestinian civilians. Much, but all of the discussion is
UK Riots: Is Tommy Robinson an Israeli Mossad Asset? | Syriana Analysis w/ George Szamuely
This discussion covers every important base on the push and pull factors for mass migration and the problems that ensue for the receiving populations on which it is imposed by elites. It is worth a library of books on the subject. Also, on Tommy Robinson, a surprising analysis.
Melbourne "punching above its weight" but in the wrong way!
A volunteers' pamphlet for the 1956 Olympic Games shows a photo of the then Lord Mayor (Sir Frank Selleck) and describes Melbourne as " a proud city of 1.5 million people" and its suburbs with tree lined streets giving privacy to "neat homes”.
Sheila Newman artist in residence Oak Hill Gallery comments on Frankston population and development dystopia
Artist Sheila Newman will be the artist-in-residence at Oak Hill Gallery in Mornington from Wednesday, July 31st to Tuesday, August 6th, 2024. This timely residency comes as the Victorian government prepares to impose significant population growth and high-rise development in the fragile and biodiverse region. Newman's exhibition will feature striking portraits of former M.P.
Let us help you plan a Kangaroo Walk and Talk in your area
Worried about the plight of your local kangaroos? Kangaroos Alive is promoting this great way to help them, in a video featuring Mornington Peninsula ecologist Craig Thompson of Wildlife Ecosystems Retention and Restoration.
Trump's policies and the others'
With the prospect of another Trump presidency, it is essential that we belatedly analyze his winning strategy or, perhaps more relevantly, the reasons for his opponent's failure. Far too often it has been assumed that Trump voters are all gun-toting rednecks but this is not the case, and could not anyway, explain the reason why nominally safe Democratic seats changed sides to give him his first win.
Video discussion: Patriotic Armenians resist Prime Minister Pashinyan's latest surrender to Azerbaijan
Narna Vasardnar (pictured left) and Alision Tahmizian Meuse @AliTahmizian (pictured right) discuss, in a 48 minute video, how Azerbaijan, by its use of the highway which connects its main territory in the east to its western Nakhchivan exclave, has made travel and trade between Armenia and neighbouring Iran, to the south, very difficult. They also discuss Prime Minister Pashinyan's collusion with Azerbaijan in this de-facto blockade.
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