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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.

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.

"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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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

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.

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”.

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.

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.

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.    

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.

In 2024 Armenians and their country, Armenia, face existential annihilation, if neighbouring Azerbaijan fulfils its ambition to turn Armenia into "West Azerbaijan," and their Prime Minister (pictured right) continues to betray them. US-NATO countries have supplied arms, not to assist the Armenian army with defending the country, but to help the police suppress popular revolt. [1] Update 9 July: This is a battle against the evil within the Pashinyan government - Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan

Jenny Warfe delivered this submission and spoke to it verbally at Planning Panels Victoria, Frankston hearing on C160fran Ammendment. The Amendment would mandate population growth-engineering and a mega city in Frankston, at the head of the Mornington Peninsula, on Port Phillip Bay. Port Phillip Conservation Council (PPCC) Inc.

Currently Planning Panels Victoria is sitting in Frankston and hearing multiple objections to the State Government plans to force Frankston to absorb a continuously increasing number of new people, in order to provide profits to the Property Development and Finance oligarchy that has basically taken over much of government policy and planning in Victoria.  We begin by publishing the summary of Sheila Newman's verbal submission to the Planning Panel given 4 July 2024, with her

From this coming Thursday 11 July, weekly protests outside the office of Mark Dreyfus will resume, in support of David McBride, Daniel Duggan (pictured left) and Richard Boyle, at 1pm outside the electoral office of Federal Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus (pictured right). Mark Dreyfus' electorate office for the seat of Isaacs, is located at 566 Main Street Mordialloc, Victoria, 3195.

The Assange Saga gets more and more like something written by Tolkein, full of oligarchal monsters trying to kill tall heroic white-haired elves, and jealous witches and wizards lurking in dark towers of power.

Good evening. Earlier this evening, earlier today in a courthouse in Saipan, we had a hearing that brought to a close a prosecution that never should have been brought.

Today, a press release from a 'Monash Expert' came across my desk, entitled, "Monash expert: Julian Assange plea deal." It cited Associate Professor, Johan Lidberg, Head of Journalism, School of Media Film and Journalism.  My attention was caught by a statement a few sentences down, where the associate professor, said, "Assange's legacy is complex.

Julian Assange - Out of Belmarsh, but still not home 'free,' until he really is.  Maybe Thursday?

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You are invited to this informative seminar hosted by Proudly Frankston, which is supported by various community groups who are active in planning and environmental issues – most notably the recent campaign to ‘Stop the Great Wall of Frankston’.

If you haven't come across Sean Foo before, you are in for a treat. His economic, politically focused analyses, are usually brilliant. He approaches the world with an open mind and seems able to grasp a big picture. His take on Marine Le Pen's National Rally, and the clips he illustrates her policies with, are extremely well-chosen. It is also worth reading the comments under his video.

Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) congratulates Australians for making a sensible and sustainable choice to have smaller families. Despite the nation’s total population rising by 8.2 million since 2000, The Australian Bureau of Statistics reports that 15,900 fewer babies were born in the year to December 2023 than in the previous year, limiting natural population expansion to 103,900.

A fair part of Monday 6 May 2024’s Mediawatch program was an attack on Jordan Knight’s MigrationWatch organisation.
 
Barry takes great exception to its claim that “Nearly 25% of all social housing in NSW is lived in by foreign-born residents” although “refugees and asylum seekers make up only one per cent of those in social housing”.
 

The CFMEU says: Claims Australia is suffering a major shortage of tradespeople have been shot down in a major blow for bosses’ lobbyists trying to exploit and undercut workers.

A CFMEU analysis of Jobs & Skills Australia occupation and internet job advertisements data busts the myth peddled by employer groups that there is a worker shortage which must be addressed through migration.

The vast majority of building and construction-related jobs have an indicative vacancy rate below 1%.

Nobody controls immigration into Australia. If Big Australia wants to increase it, they can't. If Small Australia wants to reduce it, they can't. When John Howard said, "But we will control who comes to this country," he was lying then, and it is an even bigger lie now.