Letters to the Editor
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Holbrook and USUKA
The belief by many that an expensive purchase of some submarines will benefit Australia needs to be put in perspective. We as citizens of this country greatly benefit two other much larger powers in their purchase and the descriptive acronym should be more honest. Our national inferiority complex is being used to progress the sordid deal.
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Proposed New Aged Care Act. Shonky deal.
Recipients of aged care are concerned the proposed new aged care act is not fit for purpose It has been written by consultants based on a very limited understanding of lived experience. A revamped old bomb that will require endless repair.
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The nuclear option: Peter Dutton’s bid for power
The Coalition has embarked on a nuclear road to nowhere. Or has it? Despite all the rational, well-argued, fact-filled explanations, all the Gencost reports, all the signs from around the world that the nuclear industry is on its last legs, the Murdoch press continues to back the Opposition’s promotion of nuclear, and demotion of renewables. It is the next wrecking-ball device in their bid for power.
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November 11, 1975 vs January 6 2021
These were big events in two democratic countries but there was only one successful revolution; November 11 1975 vs January 6 2021.
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DVD The Search for the Palace Letters
Whilst watching the excellent video of the dismissal of Gough Whitllam, the video stopped and I was unable to retrieve it. I searched the ABC archives where possible only to find it was no longer available.
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People power to the rescue
It seems that people power in the form of ordinary Australians, their rooftops and batteries are leading the nation's progress to it's 82 percent renewables target.
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It’s peace USA, UK , France fear most
Not my children…… Being a relative novice to war games I was astonished to see this article that concludes what my war games research exposed. How Assange has opened the window and let some light in.
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Shrewd dealings
"Australians should be preparing to deal shrewdly with an America under (Trump's) ugly tutelage."
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ABC missed the Genocide
Jafar Ramini keeps us in touch with what is really happening on the ground in Gaza by publishing a detailed and descriptive letter by Yasmin Petrucci to Senator Penny Wong and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
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SE Australia Global Warming impacts from 1990s
It is well-known that global warming is affecting Australia’s climate. Less known is that global warming has accelerated since the 1990s. So have the impacts. Attribution techniques can assist in identifying those climate drivers used in seasonal or longer forecasts of atmospheric variables, for example, rainfall and temperature, routinely provided by national weather agencies such as the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. The attribution techniques help also in eventually pointing to other causes involving complex interaction with the climate drivers, e.g., atmospheric circulation changes. Two examples are presented followed by the current situation where atmospheric circulation changes are important.
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We must recover the common good
Through the era of neo-liberalism we have lost our sense of the common good. We must recover it to move forward sustainably.
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Why was Whitlam not angrier?
The forces which feared the Whitlam government clearly found a willing political assassin in Kerr. But what became of Whitlam's rage after 1975? Why did he not work to expose the forces which had destroyed both his government and Australia's chance for true independence?
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The Australian’s ongoing climate disinformation
It is timely that a former editor-in-chief of The Australian newspaper should publicly support the work of the Bureau of Meteorolgy when in recent months, despite a Senate inquiry into the Murdoch Press, the paper has waged an ongoing and sustained attempt to undermine the work of our two leading climate institutions.
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Beauty in our world
Beauty in our lives.
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Check your facts.
Fact Check
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WA GST revenue vs NSW pokies Revenue
Fairly unbalanced, did not consider any other factors
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ALP cooperating with US intelligence conceivable
The statement that stands as a prelude to Mike Scrafton's article "That the Albanese government could further compromise Australia’s sovereignty, international integrity and national interests seemed *inconceivable*," is an erasure of grassroots voices and the Greens politicians and greens community as a whole. We have all been shouting at the ALP for 20 years. It is only the ALP rusted on, their intelligencia and their defenders and hopers who do not recognise that which has been in plain sight. You legitimise the ALP with your membership and support.
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Additional Extraordinary Australian Journalist
Phillip George Knightley
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Bit Sized But Brilliant
Love the analogy, love the blatant, screwball, arrogance of the whole thing. Hate the fact that it's on the button. Totally true - and if it was on Broadway, or in the movies they'd applaud. That's the tragedy.
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It’s about a healthy mindset
The important thing is that Australians are getting into the wellness mindset. If we can increase the amount of exercise we do, eat a plant based diet, quit smoking and get close to our correct weight we're on a winner. In 2023, the revenue in the Soft Drinks market in Australia amounts to AU US$15.4bn. It is projected to grow annually by 3.59% That is three times what we spend on 'wellness crap.' So where's the article condemning soft drink? We could just get everyone to carry a water bottle and drink water instead of soft drink.
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US Sanctions are not working
Great article. Over half of the world's population is under some type of US sanction. To counter this the BRICS have expanded to include some strategic countries. They're increasing trade with each other and moving away from using the US dollar or SWIFT. Even the Saudis are taking other currencies for their oil. The US is doing what it can to damage China's technological growth because the leader in technology is the leader in military warfare weapons. The leader in military warfare capabilities has a large stick to make countries do what is not necessarily in their best interests.
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John Pilger – a great journalist
John Pilger was a man with a continuing counter narrative to the constant flow of misinformation from Canberra and Washington.
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Why Israel envies the Palestinians so much.
Marwan Bishara (Aug 17, 2022) mounts a compelling case that Israel hates the Palestinians, and that this hatred is driven by three basic sentiments, fear, envy and anger. Having little knowledge of the region until October 7 this year, I have since read more widely to attempt to fill my information gap.
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US/Israeli strategy for the Middle East
It is important to realise the US and Israeli strategy for the Middle East. The US has stopped the rebuilding of Syria and has its military illegally in the country so that it can 1) steal the country's resources, further reducing the ability of the government to rebuild, 2) overthrow the government and install a puppet government, and 3) so that it can orchestrate the transfer of Syrian land to Israel along with parts of Iraq and Jordan.
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Media bias
Among the media bias regards the current war/massacre in Gaza, that of a supposedly enlightened SBS is particularly egregious.
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So called “private” schools
There’s an urgent need to restore some justice to education funding by the federal government.
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Theological reform . . . an oxymoron?
The question Mr. Morwood poses on the need for theological reform misses the point.
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The new Holocaust – Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza
Alison Caddick identifies the right subject, but with the wrong target
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More than theology
Great article - but don't just look to theological discussion
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A new study may have strengthened the COP28 text
The findings of a recent Australian study about temperature rise and the West Antarctic ice shelf vindicate the concerns of the Pacific Island nations and may well have led to a more realistic final text at COP28 if read to the delegates.
