The Queensland government faces the threat of Australia’s largest-ever class action lawsuit, with new flood modelling released showing that thousands of homes and businesses were needlessly flooded during the 2011 crisis because of the “negligence” and “incompetence” of Wivenhoe Dam’s operators, according to The Australian. The flood modelling was done as part of a 12-month, […]
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A young colleague of my husband is going on a trip around South America with his partner and expects to be able to find a job and safe up in Perth for what he hopes will be the next step. Here is why he might want to reconsider: Australia which like any other “developed” […]
The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country. Herman Göring The last couple of […]
Is Australia becoming the go between to help the US and NATO to get mercenaries or will they deploy mercenaries against their own when the time comes? Australia is boosting its military ranks with foreign soldiers by offering cash bonuses of up to AU$200,000 (US$198,060) and fast-tracked citizenship. Veterans have hit out at hiring “mercenaries” […]
It is said that if you want to know who is the oppressor find that of which can not be spoken. Who receives the Carbon tax proceeds? Find them and you will know! Praised by Barack Obama as a model for the world, Australia’s highly unpopular carbon tax, set to take effect from July 1st, […]
From the Blog See more Rocks a post well worth reading about the predictable bubble bursting in Australia
Could it be that the pollsters only call landlines and areas of well to do middle class, middle aged pakeha males because these people clearly cast a vote albeit with their feet! New Zealand’s net loss of people to Australia has averaged almost 25,000 a year in the three years since Prime Minister John Key […]
The leaders of the political coup that last month removed Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and installed his former deputy, Julia Gillard, were not just “faceless numbers men”, as sections of the media have insisted. Nor can the role of Rudd’s dispatchers – including Bill Shorten, Mark Arbib, David Feeney, Paul Howes and Gary Gray […]
Some things are not to be discussed in Australia according to John Pilger awarded journalist and one of my heroes. I put it to you that the same goes for New Zealand. I am a seventh generation Australian. My great-great grandfather landed not far from here, on November 8th, 1821. He wore leg irons, each […]
And this is what WAtoday has to say about the new terminator age we are entering. The white paper ignores the most important development in weaponry. THIS was a daunting task that faced the crafters of the defence white paper, which lays out a vision of an Australian military “Force 2030″. As an American reading […]
Australia’s role in the American Inquisition. The revelations of a once secret 2006 report by the International Committee of the Red Cross on the use of torture and “cruel, inhuman, or degrading punishment” on prisoners at Guantánamo and secret CIA jails came as a shock to many. This is odd, because anyone with a keyboard, […]
THE nation’s key food bowl, the Murray Darling Basin, is on the verge of economic collapse as the value of production plunges by at least $5 billion, experts say. Drought and declining irrigation water have plunged inland Australia’s heartland into crisis with the loss of at least one third of the basin’s $15 billion annual […]
(CNN) — Australian authorities have declared several coastal areas near Brisbane disaster zones after a massive oil spill earlier this week, according to the Queensland government. Large stretches of Queensland’s coastline are being affected by the oil. “This is a very serious situation,” Queensland Premier Anna Bligh said, according to a news release on Friday. […]
As the sites of the disastrous fires in Australia are treated as crime scenes and Australians are looking for answers rumours are beginning to circle the Blogosphere and for the first time our MSM is prodding victims of these horrific fires to tell us what they would like to see happen if arsonists where to […]
FFS. Somebody stick some sticky tape over the man’s mouth already. The Catch the Fire Ministries has tried to blame the bush fires disaster on laws decriminalising abortion in Victoria. The evangelical church’s leader, Pastor Danny Nalliah, claimed he had a dream about raging fires on October 21 last year and that he woke with […]
(CNN) — At least 96 people have been killed in Australian wildfires that the country’s public broadcaster Sunday called the worst in the nation’s history. A policeman and forensics officer look over a house where five people died at Kinglake, north of Melbourne. 1 of 2 more photos » var CNN_ArticleChanger = new CNN_imageChanger(‘cnnImgChngr’,’/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/08/australia.wildfires/imgChng/p1-0.init.exclude.html’,1,1); //CNN.imageChanger.load(‘cnnImgChngr’,’imgChng/p1-0.exclude.html’); […]
But we’re only doing this to protect your kids against big bad paedophiles! Yeah right. More than 2,000 opponents of the federal Labor government’s plans to censor the Internet rallied in cities across Australia on December 13—the second national protest in the past two months. The demonstrations, which were convened by the Digital Liberty Coalition […]
The good new just keeps on coming. ——————————– By James Cogan December 11, 20008 “WSWS” — An Australian Defence Department (ADD) report published in October, and highlighted on November 26 by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s “Lateline” program, provides a rare account of the shameful operations being performed by the Australian military as part of the […]
AUSTRALIA’S mandatory net filter is being primed to block 10,000 websites as part of a blacklist of unspecified “unwanted content”. Some 1300 websites have already been identified by the Australian Communications and Media Authority. Communications Minister Senator Conroy revealed details of the Rudd Government’s proposed web filter as he called for expressions of interest from […]
In an extraordinary attempt to shore up the country’s banking system and stem the local share market crash, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) yesterday reduced official interest rates by a full percentage point—double the cut expected by the money markets. Financial commentators were stunned and initially elated by the move, the first time that […]
Australian shares shed A$30 billion (NZ$37 billion) within minutes of the market opening today as investors reeled following a dive on Wall Street overnight. The Australian dollar also plunged, hitting a two-year low against the yen and sinking against the greenback. The benchmark S&P/ASX-200 index fell as much as 2.85 per cent, or 141.9 points, to […]
SYDNEY (AFP) – Clearing natural forests in Australia would pose a greater danger to the global climate than previously thought because they hold three times as much carbon as estimated, a report released Tuesday said. The Australian National University report warns that all nations, not just those in the developing world, should prevent the clearing […]
For those Kiwi’s that think it is going to be any better in Oz. Australian home-loan approvals fell more than expected in June as decade-high interest rates scared buyers out of the real estate market. The number of home loans, seasonally adjusted, dropped 3.7 percent in June from the previous month, according to the Australian […]
AN AUSTRALIAN doctors’ group is pushing to have former prime minister John Howard charged with war crimes for sending troops to Iraq. The Medical Association for the Prevention of War said the war was illegal because it was not backed by the United Nations. Association spokesman Robert Marr said Mr Howard committed Australian troops to […]
The deep rifts caused by the US-led invasion of Iraq are still being patched up more than five years after US President George W Bush pushed determinedly ahead with his recruitment of countries for a “coalition of the willing”. And questions persist about just how willing some coalition members were and what sort of a […]
Is Australia unwittingly helping the US Central Intelligence Agency with the notorious secret flights known as renditions?Australian politicians and defense officials are refusing to address claims that Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) servicemembers are unwittingly involved in CIA flights that transport terror suspects from Afghanistan to face possible torture, Australia’s Seven News reports. Read more
