In an article about how youth and middle classes are being priced out of housing ("Sydney should act now to prevent young people, middle class from being priced out of housing, NSW treasurer says"), the NSW Minister for Youth & Housing has grotesquely scapegoated older generations, rather than point to the role of overseas buyers via the internet, massive migration, and government subsidies to the property development industry, none of which were ever put before any Australian electorate.  How dare she!

"Minister for Youth and Housing Rose Jackson said young people weren't at fault.

"It's older generations who are too lazy and careless to show up to the platforms and the forums young people inhabit to engage them in the conversations they want to have," she said."

With ministers like this, don't you wish Australia had a real democracy? How can the ABC quote comments calculated to increase confusion, without pointing out how false and harmful they are?

In the meantime, in the name of 'more housing', whilst 77% of Australia's population growth is descretionary - i.e. comes from overseas migration - Sydney is throwing more precious green space to developers:

"It comes as the state government revealed plans today around the 114-hectare Bradfield City Centre in Western Sydney.

The proposal includes housing, commercial spaces and green space near the Nancy-Bird Walton Airport due to open in 2026.

"Bradfield City Centre could deliver 10,000 new homes in the coming years, making a significant contribution to more, and more diverse, housing supply in Western Parkland City," Minister for Planning Paul Scully said."

Read more at https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-05/nsw-sydney-housing-crisis-san-francisco-treasurer/103426896

What human rights are being violated in Palestine? Deprivation
of the right to self-determination, extrajudicial killings,
restrictions on freedom of movement and assembly and illegal
settlements were some of glaring manifestations of human rights
violations of the Palestinian people see why Israel can kill
innocent children with American taxpayer money 1- Because the
God of Money of our World is a Zionist who supports and lives
in Israel. For more details, click on the following link. https://mega.nz/file/FqhzGKbB#bsX4PD-O59HEA0-rynD29xkk47dmddycY5CjZfoDLYg 2-
Because https://www.tiktok.com/@thefearlessqueenmel/video/7307640994579680542?lang=en&q=why%20dont%20Americans%20knowl%20what%20you%20have%20seen%20&t=1701880206555

See how innocent children are killed by the most powerful Israeli using American bombs at Al Jazeera Arabic Live at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNyUyrR0PHo
if you do not do something then you do not have a HEART

• By Al Mayadeen English
• Source: Al Mayadeen Net URL Source: https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/us-warship-in-red-sea-nearly-hits-gabon-tanker-in--hysterica
• 24 Dec 2023 21:57

The head of the Sanaa negotiating delegation Muhammad Abdul Salam revealed that an American warship "hysterically" released fire during a Yemeni Armed Forces' exploratory mission in the Red Sea. 

The head of the Sanaa negotiating delegation Muhammad Abdul Salam revealed that an American warship "hysterically" released fire during a Yemeni Armed Forces' exploratory mission in the Red Sea. 

He clarified that "While a Yemeni Naval forces reconnaissance aircraft overpassed the Red Sea in an exploratory mission, the American warship hysterically fired using multiple weapons, an act that unveiled its confusion and concern."

He also added that one of the missiles fired by the battleship exploded near a Gabon-owned tanker sailing through the Red Sea from Russian ports. 

If US attacks Yemen, its battleships will be struck

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Earlier this week, the leader of the Ansar Allah movement warned the United States of America against attacking Yemen, stressing that American battleships and vessels would become a target for Yemeni missiles in the event of any attack.

In a speech, the Yemeni Resistance leader Sayyed al-Houthi said, "If the United States is considering targeting Yemen, we will not stand idly by," adding that engaging in a direct war with the US and “Israel", instead of US proxies, is what they aspire for the most. 

He stressed that “if America wants to fight Yemen’s stance in support of Palestine, then it would have to confront the entire Yemeni people,” adding that “if that is what America wants, then it will face a harsher situation than that it faced in Afghanistan and Vietnam.”

Sayyed al-Houthi warned Washington against launching any strikes because that would render it completely involved, stressing that Yemen has developed its capabilities on many levels.

Regarding the military US navigation in the Red Sea, he called it “illegal” and “a reckless and foolish aggression that only serves Israel,” stressing, however, that European countries that are complicit in the US move are risking their interests.

He stressed that the Yemeni Naval Forces’ only target in the Red Sea is Israeli ships and “Israel”-bound vessels because the Yemeni actions are never meant to undermine international navigation. Rather, the only target is to support the oppressed Palestinian people, he added.

On the US-led coalition in the Red Sea, Sayyed al-Houthi announced that its actual goal is not to protect international navigation; Rather, it only aims to implicate countries in protecting Israeli ships, in pursuit of militarizing the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, and Bab al-Mandab.

[See Candobetter Editor's comment at the end of this comment on use of the term 'White Australia.']

On this day 1854 the diggers of Ballarat made a stand for democracy and justice against an old order of patronage and privilege.

The miners "rebellion" on the Ballarat gold fields of 1854 left  Australians a powerful legacy:  The Eureka Stockade incident and its Southern Cross Flag were elements in defining who the Australians were in the then environment of imperial control of the continent.

Today, the freedoms won by past struggles - from our working conditions, to our culture, heritage and European derived identity - all the values that make for our Australian way of life - are being undermined by the UN/Globalisation Agenda, presided over by Lab/Lib/fake Greens.

Yet a rebellious spirit is on the march in declining Australia today as Australians consider their national future.  

The men of Eureka were not a riotous mob, but had formed the Ballarat Reform League  on 11th November 1854, which submitted their complaints to authority in an orderly fashion through democratically decided resolutions, appeals and formal deputations. 

The miners’ grievances related to restrictive licence fees, and enforcement. They were also disturbed by the presence of “coolie labour”; wanted access to land,  and sought the vote and representation in government. But in the face of an authoritarian administration serving colonial interests, they sought to attain their rights as free men.

This was the first time on our continent that men from the old nations of Europe joined together with an Australian mindset and under a uniquely Australian flag. Australia's nativist movement, from the 1850's onwards, celebrated the Eureka Stockade as an inspiration for the character and identity of Australians - European, democratic, independent, mateship, disliking of authority, determination, just returns from labour. 

The Southern Cross flag was subsequently taken up in the quest for independence and freedom from colonialism in the struggle to build "the Great Southern Nation".  In our history it has been acclaimed as "the Australian flag", "the safeguard of  Australian nationality", "the symbol of Australian liberty and unity",  "the emblem of White Australia".

In confirmation of solidarity, hundreds of the diggers swore an oath - "We swear by the Southern Cross to stand truly by one another and to fight to defend our rights and liberties".

The fight took place at 4 a.m. on Sunday 3rd December 1854 when the diggers’ stockade was charged by the troopers and police, being overwhelmed in a short time, the stockaders and bystanders continuing to be brutalised after surrender. The camp, as a peoples’ militia, was a failure, with some thirty diggers killed, as well as five troopers. Our Cross of the South was trampled in the dirt of Bakery Hill.

But at the price of the diggers’ blood, although the true spirit of their demands was never accepted,  the basic reforms they sought later came to be implemented, and the incident passed into our folklore tradition as "the finest thing in Australian history". 

In these new times our Southern Cross flag remains above all, a  flag to be raised high in our struggle for survival against the globalisation agenda for foreign dictates and financial control,  overpopulating by mass immigration, doctrines that compromise a future for our Australian nationality, and disaster for the ecological order of our ancient continent.

The Eureka flag reflects the spirit of Australians still - freedom, identity, democracy,  independence.

Commemorate the Anniversary.

Editor's comment

Candobetter Editor: Note that the White Australia policy, although later remarketed as something gratuitously racist, was historically an anti-slavery and cheap labour policy obtained by workers in exchange for allowing a free market to manufacturing. It was supposed to protect Australian workers' wages and conditions from being undermined by the import and use of slave labour. 

The British had managed with difficulty to gain an agricultural foothold in Australia, first by using ‘white’ slaves in the form of convicts, many of whom were convicted of crimes of political resistance or of poverty.  Their number was later supplemented by indentured labour, displaced aboriginals, and, until Federation, ‘black-birding’ – the practice of kidnapping Pacific Islanders and bringing them to work in Australia, principally for the Colonial Sugar Refinery Company.

The gold-rushes of the 1850s attracted capital, finance and economic migrants, resulting in rapid population growth and  economic and class diversification, and the formation of a working class. This class made a national wage-fixing pact with capital at Federation in 1904 and also obtained the agreement of the Colonial Sugar Company (CSR ) to outlaw black-birding and the importation of other 'non-white' labour, widely perceived as synonymous with slaving.  Australians did not want the problems that slavery had brought the United States.

“With Federation, the Commonwealth Parliament became dominated by spokesmen for ‘White Australia’. In October 1901 legislation was passed prohibiting the introduction of Pacific Islanders after 31 March 1904.” ( McKillop, R.F., referring to Bolton, G.C., A Thousand miles away: A History of North Queensland to 1920, ANU Press, 1972, p. 239, in “Australia’s Sugar Industry” on the Light Railway Research Society of Australia site, www.lrrsa.org.au/LRR_SGRa.htm)

The Colonial Sugar Company aroused similar responses among indigenous Fijians who also objected to black-birding as well as to the importing of Indian indentured labour. (“The Indian Connection”, Frontline, Volume 17 - Issue 12, June 10 - 23, 2000, www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1712/17120130.htm.)

The White Australia policy was abolished by the Whitlam Government. At the time, Australia had a relatively robust system of state industrial awards and a reasonable system to deal with industrial disputes across state boundaries. This system meant there was little profit in importing labor from overseas because you had to pay most industries according to the awards and that applied to migrants too.  Under John Howard around 2009, this was radically changed with the abolishing of state awards, and it became profitable and possible to import cheap labour. Migration has since been massively ramped up. (See https://candobetter.net/admin/blog/4612/sheila-newman-kennett-population-policy-numbers-and-flow-ons-regional-migration-and)

See also https://candobetter.net/sheila-newman/blog/287/overpopulation-immigration-multiculturalism-and-white-australia-policy

This breaching of a Person of the Commonwealth right to personal freedom is unacceptable.

No doubt the piece of paper from the police employee would be addressed to an entity in Capital letters. Such an entity is the property of the State Corporation, and is not that of the living person it was handed to.

The claim for a debt under a fine as issued is in clear breach of the Imperial Acts Application Act which denotes Fines and Forfeitures before conviction are illegal and void. The same illegality emanates from the Magna Carta and Bill of Rights, and as per our Constitution.

Check out Constitution Watch, and Know your Rights websites.

Illegal intent from such paper should be rejected by posting it back to originator.

What sort of low grade individual could abuse this inspirational lady with her commitment to righting the appalling treatment to Julian.

No wonder recruits to police employees is reported to be collapsing.

The best to Lorine.

I heard an interview on Radio National today about this. https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/drive/report-blames-nimbys-for-a-more-racially-segregated-sydney/102622354 They seemed to be basing it on black & white neighbourhoods in America, an entirely different scenario. Apart from that, Sydney is west vs east whereas Melbourne luckily is more scattered with its low socio-economic areas, Frankston right next Mt. Eliza, Footscray in another direction etc. so we are quite different to Sydney demographically.  They also don't take into account that a lot of migrants want the big house with a back yard in the suburbs. A lot of Indians buy in new estates in Wyndam when a lot of them could probably afford a townhouse in Hawthorn for example. And they never talk about heritage and character being the main reason for NIMBYism of course most if this being in a city's oldest inner suburbs, although from memory the interviewer Andy Park did query this in the interview.  

Another point is that when the American soldiers returned from the war they were allowed to apply for government mortgages but only whites could apply. So I suppose a lot of segregation in the suburbs started from thereon. Although I know things were racist there before that, but when the soldiers cames back it was when America really prospered and the middle class and sprawling suburbs were created but the blacks had no help to be part of it.

The developer wanting to build up on 446-450 Nepean Hwy, Danny Ciarma, was quoted describing the people fighting for height limits as NIMBYs and seemed to think Kilkenny acting on behalf of her electorate was somehow a slur.  

"But the developer of 446-450 Nepean Highway, Urban DC founder Danny Ciarma, said the minister’s intervention was “suspicious”, “a slap in the face” and would “undermine investment confidence in the whole state, not just Frankston”. “She’s unsettled the whole investment fraternity, which is going to further exacerbate the whole undersupply issue that we face.”

“It is very clear to me that Sonya bowed to her voters as a local member of the area and put her local constituents in front of and before the greater planning policies of the state,” Ciarma said.

Premier Daniels Andrews has flagged a housing and planning reform package, expected within the next two months, that is widely expected to include greater state government planning controls and a smaller role for councils.

No decision had been made yet by VCAT, and Ciarma said he was unsure what the overlay would mean for the decision.

“I’ve spent the last 18 months working with council and the council planners very closely in formulating a design that meets the proposed structure plan in every way,” he said.

“It’s not for some disgruntled local NIMBYs to put their thoughts forward and have their wishes granted to the detriment of the greater good.”"

Source: Article by Rachael Dexter in the Age, 5 July 2023, "Minister intervenes on ‘Great Wall of Frankston,’" https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/minister-intervenes-on-great-wall-of-frankston-20230705-p5dlxh.html

Many will remember Julianne seeking proof of corroboree grounds in the park during the fight against East West link.  Friends of Royal Park and Royal Park Protection Group have organised a Special meeting with presentations about the Wurundjeri relationship to  Royal Park.

You are invited to hear 2 presentations.

"(Not) Royal Park” – Recovering the Enduring Importance of a Kulin Nations Gathering Place for Culture, Health, Wellbeing and Healing”. 

Presentation by Alasdair Vance, Associate Professor, Child Psychiatry, Royal Childrens’ Hospital, University of Melbourne &  Janet McGraw, Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Building & Design, University of Melbourne

“A name for Royal Park – Quor-nóng?”  Presentation by Andrew Tanner, Graduate Researcher, Linguistics, La Trobe University.

When: July 15th at 2pm

Where: Walmsley House

Regards

Paul Leitinger

Convenor – RPPG

End Politicians plague-level immigration and resultant overpopulation chaos. Clogged roads, crowded schools/hospitals/public facilities, pollution, waste, eco-system/environmental decline, home invasions, house price-rent madness, homelessness, wages falling, poor living conditions - Aussis now strangers in the street!
 
Population has increased by 30% in 13 years - 
70% being alien immigrants/ foreign 
students, and 457 Visa workers.    
     
The Conservation Society holds to 14 Million People as the Sustainable Population for Australia:-
Australia First will:-
I]    Introduce a Peoples’ Commission for Population, with paid delegates from community and environmental  groups to oversee sustainable population directions for our Native Land and Australian civilisation. 

ii]    The Commission to be authorised under the Citizenship Act, to direct Legislators for closing down the Lib/Lab/fake Greens destructive Immigration Programme.

iii]     The Commission to oversee orderly repatriation of [edited out for legal reasons] immigrant excess, to pursue a population level in accord with the Conservation Society optimum for our Australia. 

iv] Repatriation to involve [edited out for legal reasons] , welfare parasites, fake refugees, criminals, drug cartels, 457 visa workers, foreign students, etc.

v] A Public Educative programme to expose the extensive overpopulation effects to our Ancient Continent and its Ecological Order, Australian Heritage, and cause for economic decline to 
our People. 

   End all immigration!   
Australia First Party 
Reclaiming the Vision Splendid

 www.australiafirstparty.biz. 

I pull no punches as the time for polite discourse with these three Judases is long past.

To say that Australia as a government have no say over the protection of its own citizens is absolute bullshit of the ALP kind...

Let me make a suggestion, PM can tell Britain, now no longer great that unless it releases Julian Assange, we can cut contacts and trade with that decaying once great stealer, robber, rapist and genocidist of nations of the world and...for...

The US: Unless it releases Julian Assange forthwith, it can remove all its Australia bases and take them back to where-ever it likes...

Are these suggestions helpless?

What is helpless is that the Three Clown Judases of the ALP prefer to kowtow to the interests of a Foreign nation over and above our very own and they have a hide to insist that Australia has sovereignty over our political decisions...see ex PM Paul Keating's excellent interview in the ABC Journalists Club...

More foreign countries including organisations and Democratic members of Congress of the US are calling for the freedom of Julian Assange yet, our three faking Judas clowns are twitting their fingers doing fuckall saying they can do nothing. (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9MDpxVl0lY)

This I can say: Henceforth, I will no longer vote for or support the ALP and I exhort all True Believers to work to remove all three including Richard Marles who is instrument to yoke our Australian Treasury to continue to pay contributions and tribute to the UK and US for software upgrades, spare parts, maintenance etc. etc...And...

To add insult to injuries, the Yanks will have a lapdog to do the fighting in proxy for them whilst they sit back to direct the wars plus the US can say if and when we can use the nuclear submarines for whatever purposes we liked.

Good one???

Richard Seeto

Editor's comment: Thank you, Richard Seeto, for your insightful and informative comment. I have changed the title from "Pensioner's Discount" to "Remove military bases of the country now torturing Assange."

I think that the kind of Australian government which acts to make the US desist from its illegal efforts to extradite Assange would also remove, from Australian soil, all military bases of the US and its UK ally and it would end the military occupation of Northern Australia by 2,500 US Marines. Such a government would not need to allow such bases to remain in return for the US abandoning its illegal and morally repugnant efforts to extradite Assange. Could I also suggest that next time you post a comment, not to boldface the whole comment with the <strong> </strong> tags, but, for now, I have left the content of the above comment the way you originally posted it.