democracy alert
Planning Democracy Report No.41 - July 12, 2024
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.
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.
VCAT: Port Phillip Conservation Council on Big Frankston C160 - Jenny Warfe
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.
Objections to Frankston as Metropolitan Activity Centre - C160fran -VCAT Frankston hearing
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
Planning Democracy Report No.40 - June 2023
The Future of Frankston

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’.
Bombshell Frankston Council Notice of Motion re State Planning overreach/Inequities/takeover
Basically signals Victorian State Gov attempts to remove Local Governments by stealth: Taking over Council powers without consulting the electorate. Planning is the tool. Council writing to all other Vic Councils encouraging them to stand up to State Gov similarly.
Australia must stop huge increases in defence spending for war preparation
Public expenditure must instead address the climate emergency and other urgent social needs. There is no evidence that China presents a military threat to Australia. Continued trade and pursuit of mutually beneficial relations in our region offers our best security.
IPAN: Restoration of UNRWA Funds welcome: Ceasefire and End to Occupation are critical
Some welcome relief for two million people in Gaza as Australian Government restores lifesaving aid. Massive public pressure has greatly contributed to the Government’s decision following Open Letters and history making 22 consecutive weeks of tens of thousands marching in capital cities for the people of Gaza. Australia must pressure for immediate and permanent ceasefire to stop the genocide and end occupation.
The Nazis may have lost WW2 but did they win in the end?
Looking at recent world events, one might be forgiven for wondering if the Nazis secretly won WW2 and captured the United States. If we look back and forth at war-alliance dynamics then and war-alliance dynamics now, we are struck by how the elites dominating western allies were all against communism leading up to WW2. Yet, these dynastic, corporate, and state leaders, who were so against communism, finished up as allies of Russia during WW2. The conventional explanation is that everyone good united against the Nazis because they were so undeniably evil, in order to save the world.
Frankston's battle continues. Rally Monday 6th November 12 noon outside WAVES
Frankston Beach Association: "The fight to save our coastal amenity from high rise buildings along Kananook Creek is not yet over despite the Minister overturning the decision to impose 3 storey mandatory height limits along the precinct.
We are asking that you join with STGW supporters in solidarity at
Noon on Monday 6 November 2023 outside Waves café/restaurant at Frankston Lifesaving Club, I Long Island Drive Frankston.
Councillors demoted for political views in Waverley NSW - Excerpt from article by Vivienne Porzsolt
Waverley Council in Sydney recently voted to remove Greens councillors from their positions as Deputy Mayor and Committee members due to their position on the Israel/Palestine conflict. I was terrified of the deep irrationality and over-powering hatred and anger on display at the meeting. How can we usefully engage with such trauma and stop the horrors now being perpetrated against the people of Gaza? (Vivienne Porzsolt)
Video: Stop Destroying The Housing Market - The Referendum We Deserve - by Biko Konstantinos
Funny and interesting delivery. "Australia has spent several months promoting and holding a referendum on the Voice for Indigenous Australians - all the while the Housing Crisis is destroying millions of Australians' Lives. This video highlights the critical issues that are destroying the Australian Housing Market which must be voted on now (with a referendum.)" (Bikos Konstantinos)
Housing End Game - What Happens When No One Can Afford a Home - Biko Konstantinos video
"The housing market is facing the worst housing affordability ever - yet house prices continue to show extreme strength. So what's the housing end game when the majority of people can't afford a home - what's the future for house prices. This video features sections from the video: "If Nobody Can Afford A Home...
PM Albanese has Australia on course for 150m within life-time of a child born today
Australia’s population of 26.5m grew at the rate of 2.2% (year ending March 2023.) At 2.2% growth rate our current population would increase to 30m within 10 years and double in 31.85 yrs and would reach 150m by 2103, within the life-expectancy of a child born today. Less than 25% of that 2.2 rate of population growth was due to natural increase. Without the 454,361 migration, we would have grown at about 0.55%.
Auntie ABC comforts learned helplessness on demography, not democracy - Article by Sally Pepper
Every time I turn on ABC Melbourne radio I am confronted with problems about which I can do nothing. A friend of mine visiting from Thailand described this radio station as “a problem a day,” which resonated loudly with me. The latest problem which gets non-stop air time is “the housing crisis.” Then there is the problem of Melbourne's newer suburbs with only one way in and one way out, keeping cars waiting in long queues to exit on the way to work.
SPA: Annual growth of well over half a million undemocratic and unacceptable
Australia’s annual growth of 2.2 per cent (563,200 people) is undemocratic and unacceptable according to Sustainable Population Australia (SPA).
Today the ABS released its figures to the year ending 31 March 2023 showing the growth comprised Net Overseas Migration (NOM) of 454,400 and natural increase of 108,800.
Jacob Greber's "Why Australia needs millions more people - and is getting there fast," essay in dystopia
Jacob Greber’s Fin Rev article, “Why Australia needs millions more people – and is getting there fast,”[1] seriously proposes a shocking dystopia where a constant stream of imported people continuously boosts a so-called working age cohort. In the scenario he promotes, very soon the incumbent population of today will be completely supplanted, which is
‘Michael Brennan: make affluent local councils pay for 1.2 million homes target’ (The Australian)
The property development lobby, as readers of this site know well, constantly badgers government to raise migration levels in order to keep up demand for housing beyond that which would naturally occur without massive overseas migration.
AUKUS agreement is a noose around Australia’s neck, leading us to war
Rally for Peace NOT WAR at the Labor Party National Conference, 8.30am – 11. 00am, Friday 18 August, Convention Centre, Corner Glenelg and Merivale Streets, South Brisbane. A large nuclear submarine prop will headline the street theatre and music to demonstrate the depth of community objections to the Labor Government’s decision to continue a dangerous foreign policy decision of the previous Morrison government.
"NIMBYism in Sydney is leading to racist outcomes," Developer agenda slurs democratic resistance to subdivision
Developers want to treat Australia as their backyard, and they want you to shut up.
ABC National helps UDIA push to cover golf-courses with housing VIC
We predicted this would happen when the Vic government put developers in charge of what happens to the many golfcourses in Melbourne and regional Victoria. The seizure of these green public and private lands is now being normalised on public media.
Self-serving Australian property & construction industry argue supply, ignore demand
The property development and construction industry is having a lend of Australia: By promoting massive migration numbers, it keeps housing and land costs high and it keeps its own costs low.
SPA: Australia’s population growth rate of nearly half a million ‘too high’
Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) considers Australia’s population growth rate in 2022 too high and called on the federal government to put a brake on immigration. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released the latest population figures today showing Australia’s population grew by nearly half a million (496,800 or 1.9%) in the year ending 31 December 2022.
Tucker Carlson hilariously explains why President Biden is not a dictator

Ep. 4 Wannabe Dictator pic.twitter.com/MDcs5g0gxB
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) June 15, 2023
Assange prosecutions are a giant fraud and we are being lied to
More fantastic speaking from the Friday afternoon Julian Assange support group at the Sydney Town Hall.
SPA: Australia-India Migration Agreement confirms Albanese’s ‘Excessively Big Australia’
The Australia-India Migration and Mobility Partnership Agreement reconfirms that Australian Prime Minister Albanese stands for an ‘Excessively Big Australia’, according to Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). Voters are coming off third best.
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