These are but a few reports on the chameleon attitudes and thoughts of the unelected PM of Australia, Julia Gillard. At least what she seems to be taking as a jaunt in the Afghan photos has caught up with even this princess of poor ideas and even worse decisions. After shedding a sufficient [...]
Breaking: California Gov. Jerry Brown Cancels Official Reports About Australian Kangaroo Harvests! Nick Gillespie | April 18, 2012 Anybody who thinks California Gov. Jerry Brown is taking it easy in his second round as the Golden State’s top official can suck on this: California lawmakers won’t be briefed any longer on kangaroo harvests in Australia under a plan to [...]
Gareth Evans, former attorney-general and foreign minister in Australia. Photo Credit: London School of Economics Library/Wikimedia Commons Despite being ‘idolised’ as some sort of peace advocate Gareth Evans was a long way from anything like that description. The Australian support for the murderer Suharto is a matter of national disgrace, the stealing or at least [...]
Pepe Escobar: ‘Pentagon freaks creep into China‘s backyard’ Apr 4, 2012 The first rotation of about 200 US marines has arrived in Australia on a six-month training deployment. A total of 2,500 troops are expected to arrive over the next few years in Darwin to enhance the US’s military presence in [...]
Australian Govt Votes to Make Aboriginal Land Nuclear Dumping Ground The Australian government has passed legislation today that allows nuclear waste to be stored at a remote Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory, a decision Aboriginal groups and environmentalists have vowed to fight. The Australian government has passed legislation today that allows [...]
Julia Gillard’s rise marks the triumph of machine politics over feminism 8 March 2012 In 1963, a senior Australian government official, A.R. Taysom, deliberated on the wisdom of deploying women as trade representatives. “Such an appointee would not stay young and attractive forever [because] a spinster lady can, and very often [...]
. “Indicting Assange represents a dramatic assault on the First Amendment, journalists and the public right to know.” (Photo: AP) The email was from Fred Burton, Stratfor’s vice-president for counterterrorism and corporate security, and former deputy chief of the Department of State’s counterterrorism division for the Diplomatic Security [...]
Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard are providing a masterclass in how to alienate voters. Photograph: Daniel Munoz/REUTERS Echoes of UK politics in showdown between Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard John Major’s ‘put up or shut up’ challenge to Tory right and wars between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown playing out in Australia Tony Blair has been [...]
If you are feeling bored try looking at the Australian political non event happening now between the present unelected PM and a former PM. It seems that the unelected one has called the former PM to task and a ballot to decide who captains a sinking boat will happen next Monday. It seems that the rats [...]
If you really are interested in a feather fight between two non entities keep tuned to Australian events. In the continuing saga a former PM has resorted to confrontation with the unelected present PM. Gillard or Joolya as she should be known is once again called on to get her loyal [...]
There seems to be something missing in all the talk in Australia about refugees. Where is the evidence for what people and politicians say about the “Border Security” issue or problem. Perhaps you may expect that if there is an issue [...]
Here in Australia once you get past the mindless Labor arrogance as shown by Gillard when she effectively said Europe got what it deserved, perhaps you may like to think about what really lies ahead. Now with blinding arrogance the capitalist war horse is getting saddled as it prepares to convince us all that the [...]
Julia Gillard, the Australian prime minister, has been weakened by independent MP Andrew Wilkie withdrawing his support for her government. Photograph: Patrick Hamilton/EPA Perhaps these articles should be read while listening to an old song. Here are some of the lyrics. I pretend that I’m carefree But what am I I pretend that I’m carefree [...]
In one of those drive by type comments, a bit like a drive by shooting the PM Gillard was talking about her heartfelt and serious concerns for people who have fallen foul of an addiction to gambling, in particular to poker [...]
Just in case you have been seeing, reading or listening to the never ending stream of media types who in their economic wisdom see only the bright side or at least feel it is their god given right to spin the [...]
Top Israeli Official Slams Obama For Not Being More Hostile to Iran Vice PM Blames ‘Election-Year Considerations’ by Jason Ditz, January 15, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum It should not take long for Australia’s puppy dog politicians [...]
Recent developments regarding the Japanese whaling ship and the three people who got on board has shown Australian Labor politicians, particularly the PM Julia Gillard in their true light. The position seems to be that as usual Labor policy is [...]
A recent squabble or perhaps more correctly feather fight between a past so called Labor great in Bob Hawke and the present unelected Australian PM Gillard shows up a classic divide between what the Labor portrays its public image as and what the grubby realities are. This was a party supposedly with [...]
With the Australian PM you learn to crawl and stay in that position. You start as she did with the mining community in West Australia after a quick trip to let the Zionists know in Israel you are with them all the way. Then comes another break for crawlers and sycophants you get to meet [...]
Recent reports say that there have been deaths at an Australian gold mining area in Indonesia. The Australian company Arc has taken an active interest in Indonesia and some information is included in this article prepared by me. Apparently the deaths were caused when police opened fire on people who were [...]
After the grovelling to Obama so willingly supplied by the Australian PM Gillard comes a few home truths. Lapdogs and the like never get any more than table scraps, while the elite dine in luxury. Only someone as foolish and as pro US as Gillard and her racist Labor Party could [...]
Australia has continued a slide to total subservience to warmongers like Obama for some time. But the most recent behaviour under Gillard is the most remarkable for the tin pot toadies she commands in her unelected role as Prime Minister. We are witnessing the final stages of crawling to the US and then [...]
Unemployment is on the rise. December 8, 2011 – 2:28PM Australia‘s economy shed almost 40,000 full-time jobs last month, pushing the unemployment rate up to 5.3 per cent, and raising the likelihood of more interest rate cuts to come. ANZ first big bank to cut rates Rate cut delays bolsters bank coffers Two-speed economy now [...]
7 December 2011 Julian Ronald Moti v The Queen [2011] HCA 50 Today the High Court held that further prosecution of charges against Mr Julian Moti should be stayed as an abuse of process because Australian officials facilitated his deportation from Solomon Islands to Australia knowing that his deportation [...]
The Australian government wants to sell uranium to India, but significant hurdles to the deal remain [GALLO/GETTY] This is a post-script for the two-part essay that discussed the debate currently taking place in Australia concerning the sale of uranium to India, in particular the consideration given to the Labour Party’s longstanding ban on uranium sales to countries which have [...]
Australia approves uranium exports to India Labour Party conference approves PM’s plan, despite Delhi not being signatory of nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Australia possesses nearly 40 per cent of the world’s known uranium reserves [Reuters] Australia’s ruling Labour Party has approved plans to open up uranium sales to India, clearing the way for talks on a [...]
On the 7th of February 2011 a document was made that spoke of the Australian government‘s actions toward the indigenous people of Australia. The original actions were part of a policy put in place by a Liberal based conservative Federal government. That government was later replaced by a Labor Party government that has allowed the [...]
Photo: Kate Ausburn Toowoomba protests coal seam gas Saturday, June 25, 2011 By Jim McIllroy, Brisbane About 150 protesters rallied at a mining expo in Toowoomba on June 22 to protest the expansion of coal and coal seam gas mining in the Darling Downs region. They confronted state mining minister Stirling Hinchliffe to demand that other areas [...]
Some Australian states ban smoking in cars if a child is a passenger [Reuters] Philip Morris, one of the world’s largest tobacco companies, has announced that it is suing the Australian government over a new law requiring all cigarettes to be sold in plain packages. “We are left with no option,” Anne Edwards, a Philip Morris Asia [...]
Cluster munition or parts of the munition often do not explode on impact, causing great harm to the envrionment [EPA] Brisbane, Australia: A US military “base” in Darwin, Australia (spun as a “rotational deployment” for China, I suspect), will necessitate foreign weapons systems and armaments being stockpiled, retained and transited on and in Australian [...]
Clinging to the US as if it were a life raft in a stormy sea and expecting to be respected by our Asian neighbours makes Australia look both complicit in US war crimes and a partner in future US imperial expansion in the area. The Australian record in Asia is deplorable. From the White [...]
It was not that long ago that a defence paper in order to justify the expenditure of an enormous amount of the Australian people’s money on defence that India was named as a future enemy, along with China. It seems that now all has been forgiven and the win elections at [...]
I, along with many others was warning readers about the awful killing machines, the Drones. They are a weapon with nothing more than a continually updated capacity to kill and destroy while using highly suspect forms of surveillance. What they really do is to simply be employed against a site where there is some suspicion or advantage attaching [...]
India has not signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty, but is one of few countries willing to discuss disarmament [GALLO/GETTY] When the Commonwealth heads of government meet in Australia later this month, one prominent leader is almost certain to be conspicuously absent: India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. India is a strong backer of the association of [...]
Following our own Australian security fears about just about anyone who is not white anglo saxon protestant it is worthwhile looking at the position in the US. Remember no matter what ASIO or UNCLE may say it is in the end a matter of trust to believe them. The extreme likelihood that if there is [...]
This article is not a bad reminder to all the true believers that the Gillard great Australian crawl to the miners in WA was just that. A sickening example of a sell out to big business. Not a human rights abuse perhaps but a gross abuse of humans in this country when dealing with the people’s [...]
There has been comment that the High Court case involving the refugees turned on what has been said to be the weakness of the Minister’s affidavit. If the unelected government was in fact so highly prepared it may raise the question as to why such a document was to be relied on. As always it [...]
Australia has unveiled one of the world’s most ambitious schemes to tackle climate change. From July 2012, Australia’s biggest polluting companies will pay $25 a tonne for their carbon emissions, increasing 2.5 per cent a year until moving to a market-set price in 2015. The plan will create the largest emissions trading scheme after the [...]
According to their massive profit figures it seems that BHP may have really needed that Gillard to crawl all the way to WA to speak to the miners and then reduce the amount the miners pay, if the profits were going to get astronomical. As Gillard was at pains to tell the Australian people, negotiating [...]
David Hicks’s Guantanamo Memoir ©iStockphoto.com/andrewmedina Given the hundreds of prisoners who have been released from the military facility at Guantanamo over the more than nine years of the prison’s existence, it shouldn’t be surprising that some number of these former detainees have written memoirs. Ranging from mass-market, English-language books available on Amazon.com to Pashto- and [...]
Anti-carbon tax rally hits Australian parliament Thousands of people gather in Canberra to protest at Prime Minister Julia Gillard‘s plans for the unpopular tax Associated Press guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 16 August 2011 08.43 BST Article history Australia’s opposition has called on Gillard to apologise for winning the election on a falsehood that her government would [...]
Despite what you may read in the Australian media there is really no blood lust at large in the UK. To the contrary there seems to be a reasoned approach in some quarters to address the issues before the shooting starts. It probably has a lot to do with the absolutely miserable Australian media outlets [...]
Australia is blessed with rugged beauty and a wealth of natural resources – including coal, iron, natural gas and gold. Such minerals are powering Australia’s economy to record highs. And as demand from China for more resources grows, new mines continue to open across the country. But critics say there is a dark side to [...]
Debt Ceiling Deal Outrages Some Environmentalists The deal has prompted fear that spending cuts would harm public health and that in the end, big, profitable oil companies would keep their existing government subsidies. August 2, 2011 | LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest [...]
The following is a somewhat conservative look at Obama’s failings as President. As an employee of the elite it was never possible to expect anything more than failure. It however, is not a matter of his being doomed from the start, he really had nothing to start with. The capital and imperial projects demand total [...]
How the Murdoch press keeps Australia’s dirty secret 12 May 2011 The illegal eavesdropping on famous people by the News of the World is said to be Rupert Murdoch’s Watergate. But is it the crime by which Murdoch ought to be known? In his native land, Australia, Murdoch controls 70 per cent of the capital [...]
The Intervention Examining the impact of the Australian government‘s so-called ‘intervention’ policy on aboriginal communities. (The video can be seen at http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/witness/2011/07/2011729121416628187.html) Filmmaker: Julie Nimmo Recorded over eight months in the community of Katherine in the Northern Territory of Australia, The Interventionreveals the federal government’s implementation of its so-called ‘intervention’. JOIN THE DEBATE Send us your views [...]
Marching for Anzac in the 51st State 20 April 2011 The street where I grew up in Sydney was a war street. There were long silences, then the smashing of glass and screams. Pete and I played Aussies-and-Japs. Pete’s father was an object of awe. He weighed barely 100 pounds and shook with malaria and [...]
Demonstrators protest against Malaysia’s treatment of refugees and asylum seekers [Reuters] From its inception as a convict colony Australia has sought to exclude anyone that in their outlook do not belong. After starting on the local indigenous population Australians have repeatedly engaged in conduct aimed at ensuring what has often been described as the White Australia Policy. This policy supposedly born out [...]
Please do not think this means support for Abbott or any of the proven disastrous Liberal policies. Disastrous to the very many but a godsend the the very few both the ALP and the Liberals and whoever attaches themselves limpet like to either are simply factions of the one party system we have. In that system the only party is [...]
