Turkeys showing its independence for sure, as Erdogans
whirling dervish foreign policythrows NATO into a
tail-spin.
In this episode of the Patrick Henningsen Show on TNT Radio which aired
on June 13, 2023, Patrick shares his thoughts on Turkey not backing
Sweden and Finlands NATO membership due their Kurdish problem, as
well as the anti-Islamist movement in Sweden. Also, the illegal
drugs and narcotics trafficking from Kurdish and Turkish regions
echoes similar western intelligence black market trade in other war
zones such as the heroin trade in Afghanistan, and arms and cocaine
in Central America during the 1980s. All this and more.
Listen:
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In this episode of the Patrick Henningsen Show on TNT Radio which aired
on June 14, 2023, Patrick talks with 21WIRE writer and commentator
Blake Lovewell, about our fiat economy being on
extended life support, with politicians left to rearrange the deck
chairs on the Titanic. Meanwhile, the EU country Liechtenstein has
adopted Bitcoin as an official state method of payment. All this
and more. Listen:
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12PM-2PM (NEW YORK) | 5PM-7PM (LONDON) | 2AM-4AM
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Survivors of a shipwreck off
Greece's Peloponnese peninsula sit inside a warehouse at the port
in Kalamata town, on 15 June 2023 (AFP)
Three days on and more questions than answers are emerging on
how a rusty trawler carrying "hundreds" of people
sank off the Greek coast in the deepest part of the
Mediterranean Sea.
On Friday, the United Nations called for an
urgent investigation into the incident as hundreds were feared
missing - including 100 children onboard the vessel.
Greek officials said it recovered the dead bodies of 78 men,
women and children in the immediate aftermath of the shipwreck on
Wednesday. Since then, no bodies have been found.
Around 104 survivors - all men and primarily Syrian,
Egyptian and
Pakistani - were rescued after the incident, though as many as 500
more people are missing and feared dead.
But as Greek officials wrap up its search operation, many are
asking if the Hellenic coastguard and its European partners could
have done more to rescue people onboard the ship.
** Sorry the Earth Changes Summary Video for May is so late -
all Sott.net chroniclers were attending a wedding! ** If you
thought the unseasonable snow and cold temperatures would end in
April, you were wrong. Records continued to be broken in May in
both hemispheres, and many countries suffered from heavy floods due
to tons of melting snow. Some snowy events to highlight: Michigan -
26 inches of record snow.West Virginia - 20 inches of record
snow.Sierra Nevada, California - 15 inches in 48 hours. (State
snowpack over 300% of average)Teller County, Colorado - Heavy
unseasonable snow.Spain - Unseasonable snow after an early
heatwave.Iwate Prefecture, Japan - Record snow for May.New South
Wales and Australian Capital Territory - Record coldest May
temperatures.And flooding events: Alaska - Catastrophic flooding
after ice jams and melting snowEmilia Romagna, Italy - Heavy floods
take the life of 14.Southwestern Germany - Heavy floods cause
closure of rail lines.Lapland, Finland -...
Renowned for its month-long celebrations of ice cream, rocky
road, and hot chocolates, the
Great Ocean Road Chocolaterie is back with its annual Brownie
Festival a delicious 18-day festival dedicated to the oozy, gooey,
chocolatey treat.
Expertly crafted by the European Chocolatiers, this year the
festival boasts 16 amazing kinds of limited-edition decadent
Brownies, from the expected all the way to the unexpected. In
the past, weve seen flavours from banoffee, bourbon pecan pie and
Neapolitan, to even chocolate gingerbread and a vegan avocado
nougatine brownie.
This year however the team have upped the ante and has come up
with flavours like Caramel obsession, very berry daiquiri and minty
coco pops. Sounds entirely indulgent right?
You can enjoy all of the flavours via indulgent tasting plates
of Brownie Bites, and/or treat yourself to special creations like
Brownie Sundaes, Brownie waffles, Brownie hot chocolates, Brownie
ice cream and of course, their traditional Best Brownie will be
available throughout the festival and all year round!
The Platypus is enjoying something of a population
boom around Queenslands Sunshine Coast following three years of
above-average rainfall. However, the Queensland Government is under
pressure to follow the rest of the country by banning a type of
yabby trap that is needlessly slaughtering Platypus and other
aquatic wildlife, posing a local extinction threat in times
ahead.
Patypus in Petrie Creek
During drought conditions the monotreme population
drops sharply, with survivors sometimes being confined to isolated
pools for instance in Booloumba and Little Yabba creeks - or making
hazardous journeys overland in search of better habitat. Right now,
however, the animals are being seen locally in watercourses where
theyve been infrequent or absent in
It has
been reported that the Queensland Freedom of Information
Office (QFOI) and the States Police Force (QPS) are working
together to prevent citizens from accessing their own personal
data.
Restricting access to information
The Queensland Police Records and Information Management
Exchange (QPrime) database stores a range of personal information
about Queensland residents.
Officers from the QPS and QFOI sat down for a meeting last year
to discuss the nature or the breadth of the applications that were
being received and the consequences of the breath of those.
The government agencies say they identified there were much
broader public policy implications to be considered in terms of
what documents get released, before agreeing that citizens should
be block from accessing inform...
Australia Trying to Play Down War Crimes
Committed in Afghanistan Russian MFA
According to Maria Zakharova, new data about Australian war
crimes make it clear that "this issue is institutional and
deeply-rooted, particularly in the elite units of the countrys
armed forces"
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova Sergey
Bobylev/TASS
Sergey Bobylev/TASS
MOSCOW, June 16. /TASS/. The Australian authorities are seeking
to "soft-pedal" the war crimes that the countrys troops committed
in Afghanistan, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria
Zakharova said in a statement on Friday.
"Its absolutely clear that the ruling establishment of the Green
Continent is trying its best to soft-pedal the issue of the war
crimes committed by Australian troops in Afghanistan, a topic it
finds very uncomfortable. In any case, this seemed to be the
underlying reason behind the activity - or, more precisely, the
inactivity - of the previous liberal cabinet led by disgraced Prime
Minister Scott Morrison, which included a no less notorious defense
minister, Peter Dutton," the diplomat noted.
"Members of veteran organizations, media outlets and some
political forces not affiliated with the current authorities have
been pointing out that attempts to close the shameful Afghan files
by putting all the blame on privates and sergeants from special
operations forces were unacceptable. In particular, Senator Malcolm
Roberts of the One Nation opposition party suggested during
parliamentary hearings in May that Chief of the Australian Defense
Force General Angus Campbell return the Distinguished Service Cross
that he was awarded in 2012 as commander of the Australian troops
in the Middle East," Zakharova went on to say.
According to her, new data about Australian war crimes make it
clear that "this issue is institutional and deeply-rooted,
particularly in the elite units of the countrys armed forces." "The
ruling circles attempts to hush the public outcry by taking only
palliative measures indicate double standar...
Ukraines failed counter offensive and NATOs weapon
trafficking business being run through Ukraine.
In this episode of the Patrick Henningsen Show on TNT Radio which aired
on June 14, 2023, Patrick talks with independent French researcher
and journalist Freddie Ponton, about NATOs weapon trafficking
business through Ukraine, as Kiev gradually collapses after
successive failed counter offensives. Also, Olaf Scholz is shaping
up to be the worst German leader since WWII. Saudis MBS is taking
the lead in the Middle East a major geopolitical broker, with Iran
and BRICS emerging as an economic force. All this and more.
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A new mood of defiance in the Global South has generated
bewilderment in the capitals of the Triad (the United States,
Europe, and Japan), where officials are struggling to answer why
governments in the Global South have not accepted the Western view of the
conflict in Ukraine or universally supported the North Atlantic
Treaty Organisation (NATO) in its efforts to weaken Russia. Governments that
had long been pliant to the Triads wishes, such as the
administrations of Narendra Modi in India and Recep
Tayyip Erdogan in Trkiye (despite the toxicity of their own
regimes), are no longer as reliable.
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Indias Foreign Minister
S. Jaishankar has been vocal in defending his governments refusal
to accede to Washingtons pressure. In April 2022, at a joint press
conference in Washington, DC with US Secretary of State Antony
Blinken, Jaishankar was asked to explain Indias continued purchase
of oil from Russia. His...
The technicality? Informed consent. Very minor. Totally
unimportant. I dont know why we even bother.
For those unfamiliar with this slop, the assessment of the
psychological state of young trans people was obtained by
soliciting self-reports from their parents, parents
recruited from web sites where people obsessed with trans issues
gather. All their data was gathered from an anti-trans website! Its as
if someone looked up the parents of scientists by finding their
posted comments on Answers in Genesis, and then came to the
conclusion that all evilutionists were formed by resentment of
their pastors and association with god-hating school clubs, and
determined that scientists were all pathological basket-cases.
I dont know how it got published in the first place. The authors
are openly biased, they pulled all their data from an openly biased
website, and they even admit in the paper that there is a chance
their results were biased, and somehow, it got accepted anyway.
Surprise, if you poll posters to a site called ParentsOfROGDKids,
youll get testimonials to the existence of ROGD.
Another surprise: they even say in the paper that The initial
purpose of the survey was not for scientific publication, but
information gathering for a community of parents with shared
concerns. Then, what the hell, they published it anyway.
Oh, and if you want to know where one of the authors, J. Michael
Bailey (hey, I also
mentioned him yesterday) is coming from, this might help:
Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) considers
Australias 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 Australias
population grew by nearly half a million (496,800 or 1.9%) in the
year ending 31 December 2022. The two components of growth were net
overseas migration (immigration minus emigration = NOM) at 387,000
and natural increase at 109,800.
SPA national president Ms Jenny Goldie says nearly half a
million added to a population of 25.8 million from the year before
was simply unsustainable.
As all recent and reliable surveys confirm, the Australian
people are strongly opposed to whats going on, says Ms Goldie.
Prime Minister Albanese knows this.
At 387,000, NOM is simply too high and must be cut, though
Treasury is clearly planning to maintain these extremely high
levels. Its rationale is to increase economic growth yet it takes
no account of environmental and social factors.
And although immigration increases economic growth at the
national level, at the per capita level, growth does not
necessarily occur.
Our environment continues to decline with important habitats
threatened by urban expansion, not least the last remaining
Chlamydia-free koala habitat in Sydney.
And housing is simply not keeping up with the increased demand.
Nor can other infrastructure keep up with such unrelenting
immigration-fed population pressures.
Western Australia experienced the highest growth of 2.3% in the
country and, as a consequence, Perth is predicted to record the
biggest shortfall of 25,200 dwellings by 2027.
Ms Goldie notes that, historically, new migrants have
understandably gravitated to the major cities because that is where
they are more likely to find people of their own nationality.
Our cities, however, are under immense strain with inadequate
public transport and massive road congestion, particularly in
Sydney and Melbourne, each with populations of over five million,
she says.
Strategies to get people to move to the country have had limited
success. The only solution is to slow population growth
significantly by cutting immigration, given natural increase is
declining naturally at last.
I ask MPs to do the simple sums and answer this: Given the rate
of population increase and the much lower rate of building housing,
hospital and other infrastructure requirements, when if ever will
al...
On Tuesday 16 May, Qantas Freight
(Pionair Australia) BAe 146-200(QT) VH-SFW made what we believe to
be its first visit into Central Queensland - and it was spotted
visiting Rockhampton Airport on what appeared to be a different
'rotation'.
Over the weekend, Aerlink (formerly Hevilift) ATR 72-500
turboprops took a break from their regular Fly-in Fly-out (FIFO)
duties from Brisbane and Townsville, being spotted and noted
operating a pair of closed tourist charter flights into Central
Australia that also passed through a couple of Central Queensland
Airports.
On Saturday 13 May, VH-FVY was photographed
above at Birdsville Airport after arriving from Brisbane as
HT708. It then continued to Port Agusta in South Australia
via some sightseeing over Lake Eyre as HT707. On Sunday 14 May, VH-FVY flew back up to Charleville Airport
and then back to Brisbane as HT710/709.
VH-FVI at Moranbah Airport on FIFO
duties (File photo)
While on Saturday 13 May, VH-FVI departed
Brisbane for Broken Hill and Coober Pedy as HT701, before returning
to Brisbane via sightseeing over Lake Eyre and then a stop at
Birdsville Airport on Sunday 14 May as
HT702.
Meanwhile, also on Sunday 14 May, Mackay-based
Piper PA-34-200T VH-COP departed Rockhampton Airport and
Innisfail. It fle...
On Friday 12 May, Royal Australian Air Force
(RAAF) Airbus A330-200 / KC-30A Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT)
A39-004 was spotted as it completed a missed approach at
Rockhampton Airport.
Every family deserves their home to be a safe haven. However,
there are often hidden hazards hiding in plain sight. While some
household hazards are obvious and next to impossible to miss, the
real danger lurks in those less obvious hazards that so many of us
overlook.
Today, well discuss 5 of the most common hidden dangers around
the home, and what you can do to eliminate them. Lets begin.
Old Lead Paint
If your home was built before 1970, theres a very good chance
that lead paint was used on your walls. Even if your home has been
repainted, it could still be lurking a few coats deep. The
recommended amount of lead in domestic paint has dropped from 50%
in 1965 to 0.1% in 1997 due to toxicity, and is especially harmful
to children, pregnant women and unborn babies.
While well-maintained lead paint thats in good condition doesnt
pose any hazards, its if it begins to flake or chalk that the
trouble begins. It can also be very hazardous when its on surfaces
that are exposed to high amounts of friction, such as windows,
doors or railings. People renovating their homes are in the most
danger when it comes to lead exposure, so if you suspect your home
has any traces of lead paint do not attempt to amend the issue
yourself. Instead, hire professional
painters who will know how to safely remove lead paint
and replace it with a lead-free alternative.
Radon
Radon is a naturally occurring gas, and can often find its way
into your home through cracks in your foundations, gaps surrounding
your pipes or wall joints. While its found in all homes at some
level, if the levels are too high then it can release radioactive
particles and cause damage to the lung tissue.
Radon is tasteless, odourless and colourless, meaning that the
only way to assess its levels is through a radon test kit. If you
find that the levels in your home are too high for comfort, the
best way to fix this is often through improving ventilation and
sealing cracks found in your foundation.
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)
If youre buying new furniture, painting your
walls or installing new carpet, chances are that these
upgrades are bringing volatile organic compounds (VOCs) into your
home along with them. These VOCs, such as methylene, benzene,
toluene and xylene, can release gas into the air that can cause
headaches, cold-like symptoms and nausea in the short-term and
cancer, liver and kidney damage and central nervous system damage
in the long-term.
The best way to avoid harmful exposure to VOCs is to buy either
VOC-free or low-VOC products, or ventilating any rooms where
upgrades have been made for at least a w...
Off the back of delivering a huge, highly-anticipated inaugural
event last year, Drencher Festival is back for 2023 bringing along
an impressive lineup to rattle your bones.
Taking place on Saturday, 26 August, Drencher will make
its grand return to the Barwon Club, in a homage of sorts, to once
again prove just why the BC has earned the reputation of an
essential Aussie rock Pub with a huge and hard-hitting lineup of
brilliant local and national touring acts.
Keep up with the latest music news, festivals,
interviews and reviews here.
After finally getting the first event done and dusted in 22, and
to moderate success, Drencher returns for another fun-filled year
of toe-tapping, vein-popping, hip twirling, nail-biting,
thigh-slapping, discombobulating, elbow knocking, mouth flapping,
rug cutting night of hard-hitting, and unique bands thatll give you
something to write home about, the event description reads.
Curated by extreme-metallers Nemesiums vocalist, Clint Williams,
this years Drencher festival will feature the likes of gritty
Melbourne four-piece Nephalem, Geelong metallers Smoke Witch, local
legends and melodic hardcore act Detach Me, Frankston extreme metal
outfit Womb to Tomb, and Death Metal and Blackened Thrash band
Munitions, featuring members of renowned Melbourne bands from the
likes of Join The Amish, Nemesium, Desecrator, Vulture Culture,
MYC, Blunt Shovel, Shallow Grave, Dawn of Retribution and
Embodied.
A highlight of the festival will be the reunion of Sydney death
metal titans Automation, the pinnacle of 90s death metal.
This week is National Blood Donor Week,
raising awareness on how critical it is to give blood to save
lives. For a critical paramedic, every second
counts, and immediate access to blood products allows the frontline
workers to save lives. But blood is usually not readily
available.
Produced By: Shannon Kirkwood
Featured In Story: Dr Sonja Maria Associate
Head of School in Paramedicine at Charles Sturt University and
emergency healthcare professional
Its not news the cost of living in Australia
is affecting everyone with rising inflation and interest rates and
a slow economic growth. But now some
experts are warning Australia is heading towards a recession. Is
this something we need to worry about?
Recent studies from ISME Communications reveal that the rise of
sea temperatures are causing sea sponges to lose important microbes
that lead to necrotic sponges.
Sea sponges play a crucial role in the coral reef ecosystem;
they detoxify, collect bacteria and process chalcogens. Some
species of sea sponges have even been wiped out in certain areas
due to climate change impacting the sea temperatures, thus
affecting certain species and climates of certain countries.
Image: Image supplied
Produced By: Bianca Mulheron
Featured In Story: Dr Emanuelle Botte Research
Officer at the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental
Sciences at the University of New South Wales
Last year on budget night, Queensland caught the coal industry
off-guard, announcing three new upper-level tiers to the states
royalties regime. Queenslands previous royalty schedule had
only two brackets: seven per cent up to $100 a tonne, then 15 per
cent for coal sold above $150 a tonne. The changes brought in
progressively high rates []
Two internationally acclaimed photographic artists, Yvonne Todd
and Erik Johansson, are set to headline the 2023 Ballarat
International Foto Biennale when it makes its grand return this
August.
Returning for its 10th year, the bi-annual
Foto Biennale will once again turn the regional Victorian city
of Ballarat into a temporary cultural archive, boasting an artefact
repository of global significance. From galleries to laneways, city
streets to businesses, and historic buildings, the Biennale will
showcase the works of both international and Australian
photographers, offering a unique perspective on the world we live
in.
Keep up with the latest in regional art and local
events here.
Joining previously announced headline exhibition
People Power Platon, a comprehensive exhibition of
photographer Platons portraits, the immersive, world-class event
has added two mesmerising headline exhibitions featuring the work
of internationally renowned photographic artists Yvonne Todd (New
Zealand) and Erik Johansson (Sweden).
Making its Australian premiere, Yvonne Todds The Stephanie
Collection will feature compelling photographs and moving
image, enticing curious audiences to look twice and explore their
comfort levels and awkward feelings towards the works.
The New Zealand-based photographer is known for her unique and
unconventional approach to portraiture and in 2019 Yvonne was a
recipient of a Laureate Award from the Arts Foundation of New
Zealand. Yvonnes work challenges photographic cliches by
manipulating traditional photographic styles to create unexpected
and provocative relationships.
Yvonnes unsettling images often feature characters in striking
costumes in unnatural poses. Their unfathomable glossy complexions,
and a hint of ghoulishness: wigs, fake teeth, and prosthetics are
highly styled and manipulated.
State MP for Heathcote,
Maryanne Stuart and NSW Health Minister Ryan Park (centre) at Bulli
Hospital this morning
NORTHERN Illawarra residents will have more options to access
timely medical care with the Bulli Urgent Care Centre (UCC)
extending its operating hours to six days a week, from this
weekend.
Bulli UCC, currently operating Monday to Friday, 8am to 8pm,
will from tomorrow (June 17) open on Saturdays from 8am to
4.30pm.
The Bulli UCC provides treatment for minor injuries and
illnesses, such as sprains and strains, or minor burns and
lacerations.
NSW Health Minister Ryan Park said the extended hours was an
important first step towards re-establishing seven-day-a-week
coverage at the Bulli Urgent Care Centre (UCC).
More than 42,000 people presented to emergency departments
across the Illawarra and Shoalhaven between January and March this
year, Mr Park said.
We know a significant portion of those patients could have
avoided the ED altogether if they had an alternative model of care,
such a...
With an impressive array of local and international artists,
this years festival has both kinds of music:
country and Western. Head down to Williamstowns
historic Seaworks on October 14 for a rootin tootin good time.
One of the highlights of the new additions is Willie Watson,
known for his work with the classic Old Crow Medicine Show. Watson
will be bringing his solo troubadour country sounds to the Out On
The Weekend stage, captivating the audience with his heartfelt
lyrics and soulful melodies.
Keep up with the latest music news,
festivals, interviews and reviews here.
Making her first trip Down Under, the beloved ramblin country
soul singer Melissa Carper is set to grace the stage. Known for her
old-timey gold sound, Carper will be performing new songs from her
sensational new record, ensuring a night filled with nostalgia and
pure musical delight.
Hailing from the Peach State of Georgia, the country-rockers The
Pink Stones will be making their Australian debut at the festival.
Fresh off the release of their hot new album, You Know Who, they
are ready to deliver a full serving of cosmic country, leaving the
audience craving more.
On the local front, Out On The Weekend will showcase the talent
of Watty Thompson and his band, treating the crowd to rollicking
country drawls and deep emotions. Additionally, Charlotte Le Lievre
will bring her tear-soaked alt-country songs, creating a unique and
captivating experience for festival-goers.
Its well known that we are fans of a cheeky wine or two but we
also do enjoy a sale, especially when the sale comes at the hands
of our beloved winemakers who decide its time to clear out the
warehouse.
Yep, its back.
Scotchmans Hill is bringing back the Barrel Hall Wine Sale this
weekend (Saturday, 17 June and Sunday, 18 June).
Keep up with the latest food and booze
news across the region here.
Located at onsite at the winery inside the big, beautiful barrel
hall, the sale will see prices starting at $100 per dozen (which,
FYI, that works out to be $8 per bottle), individual bottles on
sale from the winerys museum wine (first time ever on offer to the
public), as well as those gorgeous Empty Full barrels, which will
be on sale at $150 each. If you purchase a barrel just be aware you
will need your own method of transport.
For generations, the music of Disneys princesses has been the
soundtrack to our lives.
Captivated hearts and imaginations for decades, showcasing an
enduring appeal that transcends generations, these iconic
characters possess a magical charm that resonates with both young
and old, reminding us of the power of dreams, resilience, and inner
strength while their songs have come anthems of joy,
inspiration, and empowerment. These beloved musical numbers have
woven their way into the hearts of fans across the globe, leaving
an indelible mark on popular culture. From Part of Your World in
The Little Mermaid to Let It Go belted out by Elsa in Frozen, these
songs have become cultural touchstones, evoking a sense of
nostalgia and enchantment.
Now, for the first time, these beloved songs come to life on
stage in Disney Princess The Concert, which is arriving in Geelong
this October.
Presented by TEG Dainty, the Disney Princess The Concert tour
will kick off on the Gold Coast in September, and head to Brisbane,
Sydney, Canberra, Geelong, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Perth, making
Geelong its only regional stop.
Stay up to date with whats happening
in and around the region here.
With a magical Music Director and enchanting Prince, the
enchanting songs of Disneys princesses will be brought to life on
stage by a quartet of Broadway, television, and animated film
icons. Promising an unforgettable evening, expect to hear the likes
of How Far Ill Go, A Whole New World, Colors of the Wind, Part of
Your World, Almost There, Let It Go and more.
With the full cast due to be announced soon, your every dream
will come true as larger than life animation and theatrical effects
immerse the audience in pure Disney magic, while these acclaimed
stars sing your favourite songs and share their exclusive,
hilarious, and heartfelt behind-the-scenes stories from their time
on the stage and screen.
Its the perfect opportunity to relive your VHS glory days, dress
up in your favourite royal attire, and share the joy with your
loved ones.
General public tickets go on sale Tuesday 20 June from
12pm. Find out more
here.
Everyones favourite felt-faced comedian, Randy Feltface, is
heading back to Australia this year, bringing along
his high-energy existential crisis, full of biting
observations, razor-sharp crowd work and rapid arm movements.
Returning down under in July, Randy Feltface will be bringing
his show Feltopia to the masses, hot on the heels of his incredible
world tour.
Randy Feltface Australian Tour
Bendigo, Bendigo Bank Theatre Friday 21 July
Ballarat, Ballaarat Mechanics Institute Saturday 22 July
Albury-Wodonga, The Cube, Wodonga Wednesday 26 July
Wollongong, The Music Lounge Thursday 27 July
Sydney, Enmore Theatre Friday 28 July
Newcastle, City Hall Saturday 29 July
Gosford, Laycock Theatre Sunday 30 July
Launceston, Du Cane Brewing & Dining Hall Wednesday 2
August
Hobart, Theatre Royal Thursday 3 August
Melbourne, Palais Theatre Friday 4 August
Canberra, Canberra Theatre Centre Saturday 5 August
Wagga Wagga, Wagga Wagga Civic Theatre Sunday 6 August
Adelaide, Norwood Concert Hall Friday 18 August
Perth, Regal Theatre Saturday 19 August
Byron Bay, Byron Theatre Thursday 24 August
Gold Coast, HOTA (Surfers Paradise) Friday 25 August
Brisbane, Brisbane Powerhouse Saturday 26 August + Sunday 27
August
Noosa Heads, Villa Noosa Hotel Wednesday 30 August
Gladstone, Harvey Road Tavern Thursday 31 August
Mackay, Metropolitan Hotel Friday 1 September
Townsville, Kirwan Tavern Saturday 2 September
Cairns, Edge Hill Tavern Sunday 3 September
Keep up with the latest in local news
and entertainment here.
The Teskey Brothers were always going to take out this
issues feature album. How could they not? Theres just something so
monumental about them that makes each new release that they bring
out to feel like youre witnessing history unfold in front of you.
Its as if every album in their catalogue is destined to go on to
become timeless Australian treasures in the years following their
release.
Their first two
albumsHalf Mile
Harvest (2017), and the
Grammy-nominated Run Home Slow
(2019) already have, with the
Warrandyte-raised brothers finding stardom as R&B/Soul
megastars both at home and away before taking some time to step
away and focus on side projects.
Keep up with the latest music news,
festivals, interviews and reviews here.
So naturally, the news that the brothers were planning on
returning for album number three sent most fans into an absolute
frenzy, however, the coinciding announcements that it would be
recorded amid a new lineup, and with acclaimed dance music producer
Eric J Dubowsky (Flume, Chet Faker, Chemical Brothers) were met
with trepidation by a handful of online commenters fearful that the
group were drastically changing up their sound.
And while those commenters were right the group have
changed it up theyve done so in the best ways possible, with
Dubowskys subtle touch helping The Teskey Brothers to deliver their
most stunning, yet adventurous album to date. Fuller in tone and
less formulaic in approach, The Winding
Waysees The Teskey Brothers dive head-first into
a wealth of rich textures and instruments previously unexplored by
the group while maintaining the integrity, power and levity of
their first two releases.
Opener Im Leaving is one for the purists, keeping its
cards close to its chest with classic
Teskey Brothers sensibilities Joshs voice is as powerful as
ever, as is Sams minute yet deliberate strums. Itl...
<p><p>Fresh from releasing his brand new album
<em>Miracles</em>, out today, Australian artist Nathan
Cavaleri has announced an extensive run of shows right around
Australia from July onwards to celebrate the albums
release.</p> <p>An authentic and adventurous
exploration in and beyond the blues and alternative rock realms,
the brand-new album is a dazzling journey of stylistic evolution
and masterful execution. Taking you far beyond the limits of
Cavaleris trademark creative leanings,
<em>Miracles</em> dives headfirst into fresh elements
of alternative rock, psych blues, surf rock melodics, funk and
swagger alongside Cavaleris effortlessly smooth vocals and
knock-your-socks-off guitarwork.</p> <p>Kicking off on
Friday 7 July in Katoomba, Nathans Miracles Tour will journey to
regional and metropolitan Australia, visiting Taree, Elizabeth
Beach, Kununurra, Darwin, Alice Springs, Adelaide, Mount Gambier,
Sydney, Canberra, Bulli, Brisbane, Kandanga, Eumundi, Rossville,
Wamberal, Newcastle, Hobart, Launceston, Ulverstone, Franklin,
Belgrave, Fitzroy, Warburton, Bermagui and, finally, an appearance
at Rock The Boat Cruise on Friday 24 November.</p>
<h3>Nathan Cavaleri Australian Tour</h3> <p>Fri 7
July | Baroque Room, Katoomba NSW | 18+<br> Fri 21 July |
Bohemian Caf, Taree NSW | 18+<br> Sat 22 July | Pacific Palms
Rec Club, Elizabeth Beach NSW | 18+<br> Sat 29 July | Hotel
Kununurra, Kununurra WA | 18+<br> Sun 30 July | Darwin
Railway Club, Darwin NT | 18+<br> Fri 4 Aug | Witchettys,
Alice Springs NT | 18+<br> Sat 5 Aug | The Grace Emily Hotel,
Adelaide SA | 18+<br> Sun 6 Aug | Limestone Coast Pantry,
Mount Gambier SA | 18+<br> Sat 19 Aug | The Lady Hampshire,
Sydney NSW | 18+<br> Fri 1 Sept | Canberra Theatre Centre,
Canberra ACT | 18+<br> Sat 2 Sept | The Heritage Hotel, Bulli
NSW | 18+<br> Thur 14 Sept | Black Bear Lodge, Fortitude
Valley QLD | 18+<br> Fri 15 Sept & Sun 17 Sept | Mitchell
Creek Rock n Blues Festival, Kandanga QLD | All Ages<br> Sat
16 Sept | Imperial Hotel, Eumundi QLD | 18+<br> Fri 22 Sept
& Sat 23 Sept | Wallaby Creek Festival, Rossville QLD | All
Ages
Sat 7 Oct | Ocean View Beach Club, Wamberal NSW | 18+
Sun 8 Oct | Lizottes, Newcastle NSW | 18+<br> Thur 19 Oct |
Republic Bar, Hobart TAS | 18+<br> Fri 20 Oct | Royal Oak
Hotel, Launceston TAS | 18+<br> Sat 21 Oct | Gnomon Room,
Ulverstone TAS | 18+<br> Sun 22 Oct | Palais Theatre,
Franklin TAS | 18+<br> Thur 26 Oct | Sooki Lounge, Belgrave
VIC | 18+<br> Fri 27 Oct | The Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy VIC |
18+<br> Sat 28 Oct | Alpine Hotel, Warburton VIC |
18+<br> Sat 11 Nov | Bermagui Country Club, Bermagui NSW |
18+<br> Fri 24 Nov | Rock the Boat Cruise, SYD-Pacific
Islands | 18+</p> <p class="p1"><b><i>Keep
up with the latest m...
Heres my interview with ABC Radio Australia in Sydney and
Canberra where I discuss Cellebrite and other mass surveillance
tools that exist in the West with barely any public awareness.
The trio has reworked the classic Rooms for the Memory,
originally composed by Olsen in 1978 and later popularised by
Michael Hutchence, the frontman of INXS, in 1987.
The song featured in the cult Australian film Dogs in Space,
directed by Richard Lowenstein, holds a special place in the hearts
of many. To honour Olsen and support him during his battle with
Multiple System Atrophy (a form of Parkinsons), Adalita, Melbournes
Sing Sing Studios in January of this year.
Keep up with the latest music news, festivals,
interviews and reviews here.
Renowned producer Nick Launay, who mixed the original and this
new version, also participated in the project. Filmmaker Richard
Lowenstein, who directed the original Rooms video, captured the
entire recording session, interweaving footage of Hutchence and
Olsen from the past with the modern-day clip. The video is set for
a digital release today June 16.
The extended format of Rooms for the Memory 2023 will be released
this weekend, on July 14, through DRW Records. This release will
Space and a reworked rendition by Kav Temperley, the frontman of
Eskimo Joe.
Its just a hauntingly brilliant and beautifully written song and
when myself and a few of Ollies friends heard he was not well, we
felt we needed to do something to help, said Jane Gazzo, the songs
executive producer. Remarkably all the musicians, including Adalita
and Mick Harvey two of the countrys finest artists were completely
up to donating their time and had belief in the project. I think
this is a stunning rework and I really hope the music industry and
public get behind it and give it the new lease of life we know it
deserves.
All proceeds from the sales of the vinyl, CD, and digital
versions of the song will directly contribute to assisting Ollie
Olsen and his ongoing medical care. Olsen, a prominent figure in
electronic and avant-garde music in Australia, has been diagnosed
with Multiple System Atrophy, a degenerative condition for which
there is currently no cure. The Australian music industry has
rallied behind Olsen, raising over $20,000 through a GoFundMe
campaign to date.
Rooms for the Memory 2023 stands as a testament to the power of
music and the collective support of the music community. It is an
opportunity for music lovers to contribute to a worthy cause while
experiencing a hauntingly brilliant and beautifully written song in
a renewed form.
The boundary-pushing dark arts, food and music festival
WinterWild is returning to the Otways this August for three
days of music, art, food and fire.
Far from your average festival, the annual event will be taking
place on Gadubanud Country in Apollo Bay on the last weekend of
winter, 2527 August, featuring performances from satanic collective
Dane Blacklock & the Preachers Daughter, the formidable Jen
Cloher, Harvey Sutherland and rapper RidzyRay, as well as an
exciting lineup of art, winter feasts, masterclasses and much
more.
Keep up with the latest music news,
festivals, interviews and reviews here.
Beyond the glitz of Lorne, the untamed, rugged landscape of the
Southern Otways will provide a mysterious backdrop for ambitious
music, food and arts programming destined to bring thousands of
adventure-seeking audiences to the far reaches of the Great Ocean
Road to embrace the dark beauty of winter.
The festival will kick off on Friday 25 August, opening with a
Welcome to Country from Eastern Marr Aboriginal Corporation,
followed by free performances from Wemba-Wemba rapper
RidzyRay and other contemporary First Nations artists.
The music continues at the Apollo Bay Mechanics Institute Hall
with Ngpuhi & Ngti Kahu songwriter and performer Jen
Cloher, whose taut, terse brand of rock is charged with the
static tension that comes with being an eternal misfit. Jen will be
supported by disco-infused space-pop project Zo Fox and the
Rocket Clocks, Apollo Bays beloved singer songwriter Sid
ONeil, and the soulful vocals of local indie-jazz five-piece
band Outtatime.
The Great Ocean Road Brewhouse will stage a night of free music
with 80s legends Inked Factor, re-formed and travelling down
the coast to play their distinctive blend of post-punk and
prog-surf rock.
Editor's Note: This article is a reprint. It was
originally published April 29, 2018.
Electromagnetic fields (EMFs) have been shown to cause
biological damage and even cancer, but exactly how does this
happen? In this interview, Paul Hroux, Ph.D., a researcher and
professor of toxicology and health effects of electromagnetism at
the faculty of medicine at McGill University in Montreal, helps
answer that question.
Originally trained as a physicist, he eventually ended up
studying electrical power transmission lines, the topic of his
Ph.D., and in the course of working for a power utility, he started
investigating the health effects associated with the fields emitted
from power lines.
"I got involved in biology, followed courses in medicine and
became, so to speak, a different person from what my supervisors
initially would have expected me to be," he says. In time, he
became a specialist on the effects of magnetic fields on the human
body, and joined the Faculty of Medicine to help protect health and
the environment.
Types of EMFs
Broadly speaking, EMFs include electric, magnetic and radio
frequency fields. While the literature tends to discriminate
between low-frequency fields, high-frequency fields, microwaves,
electric fields and magnetic fields, all of these have certain
commonalities that allow you to lump them together, at least in
terms of their biological action.
"It's true that frequency influences the effects,"
Hroux says, "but basically I could, using an electric field or
a magnetic field, produce the same effect in a cell. Most higher
frequency signals have enough low-frequency components to have a
lot in common with low-frequency components.
The practical aspect of this is that usually the fields have
an effect maybe in one application, but they are mirrored in other
applications as well. There's a type of great unifying view that
you can have about these fields."
Nonthermal Effects Matter
It's important to realize that the damage EMFs cause has nothing
to do with thermal effects. At typical exposures, EMFs do not
create heat, which has been the telecommunication industry's main
defense and argument for the safety of cellphone radiation.
However, hundreds of researchers have in fact noted biological
effects both at low and high frequencies.
"Covering the whole spectrum, there is no doubt that there
are biological effects," Hroux says, adding "There's no
doubt there are substantial health effects that we have been
experiencing for a long time, and that have been increasing our
health bills.
German industrial company K+S has submitted a proposal to build
a saltworks in the Exmouth Gulf in Western Australia. Reaction from
conservationists opposed to the 2,600 square kilometre project by
the worlds largest salt company has been swift. The plan is to
produce 4.7 million tonnes of salt per year in the nationally
listed wetland, one of the last undisturbed arid-zone wetland
ecosystems along the coast.
Salt ponds walls will be built over the nationally listed
wetlands, which could disrupt the ecosystems nutrient flows via
tidal or flood waters into the gulf and disrupt the marine food
chain.
Photo by Andre Rerekura: Urala Creek at the top of
the Exmouth Gulf will be part of the development footprint
The proposal has bee submitted to the environment Protection
Authority (EPA). Almost 15 years ago, the EPA rejected a similar
project, because the evidence suggested the environmental harm
could be serious. This time the company has enlisted the support of
dome local business interests and managed to get an agreement from
some local First Nations people, and the outcome is not
certain.
Opponents say the K+S plan will risk the discharge of toxic
hypersaline water from the salt ponds, which will kill highly
sensitive mangroves and harm marine animals, such as critically
endangered sawfish and shovelnose rays living in the nearby creeks
and marine waters.
Rejection of the earlier project resulted in a set of
recommendations. They led the McGowen government to introduce
protective measures for the region, which included the
establishment of a new marine park for the eastern and southern
parts of the Gulf, and A status for areas of significance. This was
a recognition of the need to protect the Exmouth Gulf. The K+S
proposal flies in the face of this.
Local conservation group Protect Ningaloo wants to see the
project stopped. Its director, Paul Gamblin, said it poses too many
risks to the local environment.
The Tnr wastelands of northeastern Niger were once populated
by a forest of trees. By the 20th century, desertification had
wiped out all but one solitary acacia.
The Tree of Tnr, as it came to be called, had no companions
for 400 kilometers in every direction. Its roots reached
nearly 40 meters deep into the sand.
The tree had become a sacred object among the nomadic Tuareg
people that would pass by it on their journeys, never using it for
firewood, or allowing their camels to graze on it. As more desert
explorers came across the shockingly hardy plant, it became quite
well known and was even included as a landmark on European military
maps of the otherwise desolate expanse during the 1930s. When
Michel Lesourd of the Central Service of Saharan Affairs first came
upon the tree in 1939, he wrote:
One must see the Tree to believe its existence. What is its
secret? How can it still be living in spite of the multitudes of
camels which trample at its sides? How at each azalai does not a
lost camel eat its leaves and thorns? Why dont the numerous Touareg
leading the salt caravans cut its branches to make fires to brew
their tea? The only answer is that the tree is taboo and considered
as such by the caravaniers. There is a kind of superstition, a
tribal order which is always respected. Each year the azalai gather
round the Tree before facing the crossing of the Tnr. The Acacia
has become a living lighthouse; it is the first or the last
landmark for the azalai leaving Agadez for Bilma, or
returning.
For around 300 years, the Tree of Tnr was fabled
to be the most isolated tree on the planet. The acacia was the only
tree for 250 miles in Nigers Sahara desert, and was used as a
landmark by travelers and caravans passing through the hostile
terrain. The tree sprouted when the desert was a slightly more
hospitable place, and for years was the sole testament to a
once-greener Sahara.
In the 1930s, the tree was featured on official maps for
European military campaigners, and a French ethnologist Henri Lhote
called it, an Acacia with a degenerative trunk, sick or ill in
aspect. But he noted, as well, that nevertheless, the tree has nice
green leaves, and some yellow...
TheCharge of the
Light Brigadewas a catastrophic military
action of the Crimean War in which a British error of judgment
ordered cavalry to gallop directly into Russian
artillery.
This fatal mishap of1854, costing casualties of
two-thirds of the brigade, caught the imagination of the
Victorians, who couldnt stop obsessing about it. The calamity
inspired a popularpoemby Alfred, Lord
Tennyson, and eventually three films (made in1912, 1936, and 1968).
Americans tend to celebrate success, such as
the raising of the flag over Iwo Jima in World War II, or the
storming of the Normandy beaches on D-Day (along with British and
Australian support).
More recently, American success has been
equated with money, represented by such films asAir, which touted
the triumph of Nike in marketing the Air Jordan shoe, netting the
company (and namesake Michael Jordan) billions of dollars. This
monetary windfall is heralded in an end-credit crawl with solemn
pomp, as if the company had vanquished cancer or solved the climate
crisis.
But the British continue to have a curious
relationship with national failure or personal mishap. They have
their heroic moments, such as when Winston Churchill intoned his
inspiring speeches during the Blitz, the subject of countless books
and films. But youll just as likely find a movie about a
kingstuttering,
going mad, or getting hishead cut off.
Other films have celebrated General Gordon,
who wasbeheaded........
<p><p><p><strong><em>Why Novaxx is
the GOAT, and how will America flip the political coin between
Trump and Biden scandals.</em></strong></p>
<p>In this episode of the <a href=
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class= "s1"><b>Patrick Henningsen
Show</b></span></a> on TNT Radio which aired on
June 12, 2023, Patrick talks with our roving correspondent for
culture & sport, Basil
Valentine, to discuss the incredible sporting
achievement of Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic and his 23 grand
slam titles making him the GOAT, and among sports greatest ever
competitor but also because hes Novaxx standing up to the Pharma
fascists over the Covid vaccine mandate. Also, as Trump gets
indicted by a corrupt FOJ, Joe Biden finds himself embroiled in a
major bribery scandal in Ukraine. All this and more.
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The world can only hold its breath as NATO continues
to play its dangerous game of Russian
roulette.
In this episode of the Patrick Henningsen Show on TNT Radio which aired
on June 13, 2023, Patrick talks with former German and NATO
military member, Markus
Kraus, about the massive Air Defender 2023 and
BALTOPS23 drills being run in Europe by NATO, and why this is
extreme in light of the Wests escalation over Ukraine. All this and
more. Listen:
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The Israeli government is at it again, actively
discussing the construction of thousands of illegal settlement
units as part of a massive settlement expansion scheme known as
E1.
Though Israeli construction in the East Jerusalem area has
supposedly been
halted under international pressure, the Israeli government has
found ways to keep the plan alive.
It did so through constant expansion
of the various settlements in the name of natural expansion,
confiscation of Palestinian land and the ruthless yet
routine demolition of Palestinian homes.
But why does Washington, Israels main defender and benefactor,
oppose, at least verbally, the construction in E1 while turning a
blind eye to illegal construction throughout the West Bank?
The answer lies in the fact that E1 will further expand the
Jerusalem municipal boundaries, minimize any Palestinian demographic presence
in the city (from the current 42 percent to about 20 percent), and
prejudice any political solution that includes East Jerusalem.
East Jerusalem is a Palestinian city
occupied by Israel during the June 1967 war. It is
recognized by the United Nations and international law as part
of the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Israel should have neither
legal rights nor jurisdiction there.
Washington, which rarely cares about the rights of Palestinians,
is concerned that, without East Jerusalem as part of the political
equation, any discussion of a two-state solution will become
forever obsolete.
In other words, the US is more worried about the political, not
territorial, consequences of the Israeli decision. Indeed, the US
entire political program in Palestine and Israel is situated within
the two-state solution template. Without it, Washingtons role would
cease to serve any purpose.
This is precisely why US Secretary of State Antony Blinken
criticized Israeli settlements during his speech to the
American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on June 5.
Finding anyone, regarding any
subject of your choice, with whom I will wholeheartedly agree is
getting more and more difficult as I cut through the quagmire that
the internet is starting to consist of.
Even some of the people whose opinions I took as gospels six or
seven years ago are seemingly losing the plot. Its a little
bewildering. Is it me? Maybe its me losing the plot. Ill readily
admit its getting more and more difficult to understand everything
thats going on as it all unravels faster and faster.
Last week I featured another YouTube video starring someone who
was campaigning on the issue of the growing metabolic syndrome
epidemic, but even he didnt understand the role or otherwise of
fiber in the diet. Then along comes this heart surgeon who, again,
had so far flown under my radar. Philip Ovadia
seems more than qualified to talk about metabolic syndrome, hes
operated on many victims of this epidemic and he was one of its
victims himself.
Yes its a long video, but knowledge always comes at a price. I
found this faultless, and I really appreciate his honesty and
passion.
Last week saw the end of a 10-year battle over the naming of
Queenslands World Heritage listed Fraser Island now known
as Kgari, officially restoring the name used by traditional
owners for more than 60 thousand years.
Local Butchulla people and Australians nation-wide celebrated
the landmark change, and the latest in several decades of
re-naming events across Australia which acknowledge Indigenous
heritage and connection to place.
However, place-name restoration is often a complex issue. So,
what determines a place-name change and what can this mean in the
broader intricacies of cultural significance?
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Produced By: Emma Wotzke
Featured In Story: Jamie Lowe CEO at National
Native Title Council and proud Gundjitmara Djabwurrung man,
Professor James Charles Director of First Peoples Health Unit
Griffith University and proud Kaurna man, and
Today is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, and to mark the day,
Aged and Disability Advocacy Australia launched an event in
Brisbane.
This year, the organisation is focusing on elder abuse
perpetrated by people who have been appointed under an Enduring
Power of Attorney a grey area with very little information on how
to act.
Image: Image courtesy of
christian-langballe: Unsplash
Produced By: Eduardo Jordan
Featured In Story: Geoff Rowe CEO of Aged and
Disability Advocacy Australia, and
Throughout their nearly three-decade career in their
current formation, each of these plural nouns and their final
statement holds true to their global phenomena story.
In 1989, sisters Martie Maguire and Emily Strayer started
the bluegrass quartet, Dixie Chicks, in Dallas, Texas. After some
reformation of shape, parting ways with bassist Laura Lynch and
vocalist/guitarist Robin Lynn Macy, and onboarding Natalie Maines,
Dixie Chicks really took flight, becoming the heralded country trio
that they are today.
Keep up with the latest music news,
festivals, interviews and reviews here.
It all began with Wide Open
Spaces. The 1998 album saw all three singles,
Theres Your Trouble, You Were Mine and the titular track all reach
the number one spot on the country charts. The album itself would
open the groups doors into the vast pop space, setting a record for
the best-selling duo or group in country music history at 12
million initial copies sold, an RIAA-certified diamond standard. It
saw them gain Grammy Award-winning status and significant
recognition from music institutions including the Country Music
Association and the Academy of Country Music.
The trajectory was fast for the three females, as they
continued to back it up with
1999s Fly, an album that
introduced us to the revenge story Goodbye Earl, and a song that
has amassed over 163 million streams, the revered Cowboy Take Me
Away.
It was after this rise that the first obstacle hit in the
form of a dispute with their record label, Sony, where they had
been withheld $4 million US dollars in royalties. Following a
private settlement, the Dixie Chicks were awarded their own record
label imprint, Open Wide Records, affording them more control over
their creative process and finances; a win in the industry game and
a platform for other female artists who had shared label
experiences to take action. It was at this point in their career
that the trio came into their own.
Perhaps one of the most famous covers in country history,
Dixie Chicks took on Fleetwood Macs iconic Landslide, released
under their third
album Home...
Powerful unions want Labors rank and file to formally condemn
the $368 billion AUKUS submarine deal this weekend, potentially
setting up an awkward clash with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese
when he addresses Victorian Labors first state conference in four
years
Both the prime minister and Premier Daniel Andrews will deliver
speeches to party faithful at the conference, according to several
state and federal government sources.
The conference will be the first since 2019 before the pandemic,
Melbournes long lockdowns, and the federal intervention that
followed revelations
by The Age about branch stacking, especially
by former Labor right powerbroker Adem Somyurek.
The 606
delegates will be asked to vote on a motion from manufacturing
union the AMWU seen by The Age, slamming Australias
decision to acquire a
nuclear-powered...
As noted in the previous post, Australia's
population has been revised up, with estimated population growth
running faster than previously believed.
The rebound in population has been electric.
The ABS reported its December quarter estimates
which showed annual population growth at very high levels in New
South Wales (+138,000), Victoria (+137,700), Queensland (+116,600),
and Western Australia (+62,700).
Total population growth in 2022 was close to
+500,000, despite a surprisingly big drop in the estimated natural
growth of the population.
That's less than, say, Canada, but it's extremely
strong growth for Australia.
Its happening! Monopoly Dreams theme park has officially passed
GO and will be arriving in Melbourne this September.
Bringing to life the economics-themed board game that was such a
staple of everyones childhood (and the game most likely to end in a
bitter familial disagreement), the long-awaited
Monopoly Dreams indoor theme park will officially open its
doors in September.
Modelled after Melbourne itself, the upcoming amusement park
will open September 1, 2023, taking over a 1650-square-metre space
at Melbourne Central with the nostalgic iconography from Monopoly.
With two sections and 15 attractions across both, its going to be
double the size of its original Hong Kong location.
Monopoly Dreams Melbourne
A Monopoly theme park is opening up in Melbourne
Central on September 1 2023
Monopoly Dreams will be a fully immersive and interactive
Monopoly experience featuring games, prizes, laser challenge and
4DX technology
Its set to be twice the size of the one that opened
in Hong Kong in 2019
Stay up to date with whats happening in and
around the region here.
Henry A. Murray has much to answer for. Between 1959 and 1961,
the Harvard psychology academic, as the leader of a team of equally
unprincipled academics,
was responsible for conducting an CIA-funded experiment most
unethical on twenty-two undergraduates. The individuals in question
were pseudonymised. One particularly youthful figure, named Lawful,
was the mathematically gifted Theodore John Kaczynski.
A central theme of the experiments was examining the effects of
stress, characterised by what Murray
called vehement, sweeping, and personally abusive attacks.
Ideals and beliefs were assailed; egos pulverised. For Murray, this
came naturally. He had cut his teeth designing psychological
screening tests for the forerunner to the CIA, the Office of
Strategic Services. It was perfect preparation for what came to be
known as Multiform Assessments of Personality Development Among
Gifted College Men.
Kaczynski was the less than grateful recipient of the higher end
of the experiment. I had been talked or pressured,
he told his attorney Michael Mello in August 1998, into
participating in the Murray study against my better judgment. It is
indisputable that he, along with other subjects, had been
sufficiently deceived to be victims of a breach of experimental
ethics known more commonly as the Nuremberg Code.
Drafted in the aftermath of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial of
German concentration camp doctors, the code stressed the importance
of informed consent. The voluntary consent of the human subject is
absolutely essential, declared the judges responsible for
formulating the code. The subject should also be so situated as to
be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention
of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress
Kaczynski can hardly be said to go on to better things, but they
were certainly bigger. In terms of notoriety, his position in the
technology obsessed undergrowth of the United States was assured by
his murderous and maiming efforts. His favourite method: the
package bomb, 16 of which were mailed to his intended victims.
Three people died; 23 were injured.
A central tenet of Kaczynskis thought was levelled at those
complicit representatives of what he called the Industrial Society
and its state manifestation. Far from being critical of power, its
methods, and its wielding by bureaucrats and planners, its members
were adjutants and prosecutors of a sinister agenda of behavioural
control.
If youre looking for somewhere new to show off your swing,
Marvel Stadium is the new place to be with the arrival of Stadium Golf
this September.
In a Melbourne first, Stadium Golf will see Marvel Stadiums
iconic pitch, known for hosting internationally acclaimed concerts
and Australias most loved sporting codes, including AFL, Soccer,
Rugby, and Cricket, transformed into an interactive nine-hole golf
course.
Presented by Sportsbet, Stadium Golf will run exclusively
from September 14-24 and give people the chance to hone in on
their skills by driving golf balls onto the very pitch where
sporting heroes have made history.
Keep up with the latest in local news
and entertainment here.
The Ukrainian blonde had the smell
of trouble. She had perched herself, along with her mute friend, in
a restaurant across from the famed South Melbourne Market. On
arriving at
[RECORDED MAY 20, 2023] via ChildrensHealthDefense.org: Where did the global
biosecurity agenda come from? Where is it going, what was it
intended to do? Was it hijacked, or was it always nefarious? How
then do the IHR Amendments and Pandemic Treaty fit into this, and
who were the funders? Dr. Meryl Nass and James Corbett continue
their discussion in the 7th installment of their series on the WHO
+ One Health to answer these questions and more, with former WHO
expert Dr. David Bell. Tune in!
To celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Frozen and 100 years of
Disney in 2023, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is bringing Frozen
to life this weekend.
Happening on Saturday 17 June, relive Elsa, Anna, Olaf, and
Kristoffs beloved adventure with the MSO performing the music while
you watch the entire movie with its dialogue on the big screen for
two very special performances.
Stay up to date with whats happening
in and around the region here.
With a live show that invites you in and makes you never want to
leave, the ARIA-nominated project Georgia State Lines unique brand
of country-infused melancholy yields music thats equal parts
heartsick and hopeful.
The moniker of Melbourne-based songwriter and musician Georgia
Delves, and her innately talented band of Tom Brooks, Laura Baxter,
and Patrick Wilson will be bringing their infectious blend of both
vintage and contemporary sounds and songs steeped in Tennessee
sunsets to Geelong this weekend as part of the new Lightning and
Rhinestones Festival.
Keep up with the latest music news, festivals,
interviews and reviews here.
Joining the likes of Ben Mastwyk, Freya Josephine Hollick,
Patrick Wilson and more, Georgia State Line is an exceptionally
exciting addition to the lineup of the new alt-country
festival.
As one of the most talked about Americana acts in Australia,
thanks to the refreshingly honest sound that is even parts
heartsick and hopeful, Georgia State Line has been on a hot streak
since their release of the highly acclaimed debut album, In
Colour, released through Cheatin Heart Records/Spunk
Records.
Their 2021 debut album In Colour is a coming-of-age,
for not just the band but also its listeners. Their unique brand of
sound feels like home, a genuine and warm acknowledgment of the
infinite possibilities of life. It is no surprise that the group
have been nominated for a string of highly esteemed awards
including ARIA and AIR Awards, and recently took home the trophy
for Best Country Work at the 2022 Music Victoria Awards. Theyve
performed as part of major festivals across Australia including CMC
Rocks and Tamworth Music Festival and have warmed up the stage for
major international acts like Justin Townes Earle and Eilen
Jewell.
Having just been named amongst the dynamic group of Australian
songwriters and composers as a recipient of the 2023 APRA
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AWARDS (PDAs), we sat down with Georgia
Delves ahead of the groups performance this Sunday.
Were looking forward to having you in Geelong for the very
first Lightning and Rhinestones festival. What is it about this
festival that made you keen to be involved?
Whilst I love Melbourne and the Northern suburbs of which we
frequent, I always love any opportunity to diversify the venues we
play through. Really excited to be playing the Barwon Club and to
be featured on a bill alongside a bunch of country artists (and our
peers) that are just out there doing their own thing. I think thats
the most exciting part each of us belongs to a strong...
<p>A tour forged out of mutual artistic appreciation and
kinship, three alt-kilter powerhouse Naarm-based musos, V, Maxine
Gillon & Ghost Bitch (US) are bringing triple threat to Medusa
Bar this Friday.
Taking place within the laneway bar on Friday 16 June, the three
bands will come together for a night of new wave, post-punk,
alt-rock, dark-wave and non-genre conforming realness, gifting the
region that most epic way to cap off the working week.
<p>An incredible group of dynamic and inspiring Australian
songwriters and composers have been announced as the recipients of
the 2023 APRA Professional Development Awards (PDAs).</p>
<p>With an aim to create serious opportunities for emerging
songwriters and composers, the APRA PDAs is a game-changing
initiative presented by APRA AMCOS and NATSIMO (National Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Music Office) that exist to provide
impactful support in the form of a $10,000 cash prize at a pivotal
stage in their respective careers.</p>
<p><b><i>Keep up with the latest music news,
festivals, interviews and reviews </i></b><a
href= "https://fortemag.com.au/music/"><span class=
"s2"><b><i>here</i></b></span></a><b><i>.</i></b></p>
<p>The 2023 PDAs showcase music creators across multiple
disciplines, from Telenovas Angeline Armstrong for popular
contemporary, to pianist, composer and improviser Sophie Min,
screen composer Luna Pan, Country & Americana artist Georgia
Delves (Georgia State Line) and music theatre honouree Vidya
Makan.
For the first time in 2023, NATSIMO honours three Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander songwriters in Yirrmal (NATSIMO General),
Jem Cassar-Daley (NATSIMO Youth) and Andrew Gurruwiwi (NATSIMO
Senior), who performed with his band at todays
announcement.</p> <h3>2023 PDA recipients</h3>
<p>Andrea Guterres Classical/ Experimental<br> Georgia
Delves (Georgia State Line) Country/ Americana<br> Alex
Hosking Dance/ Electronic<br> Soli Hip Hop/ Rap/ R&B/
Soul<br> Sophie Min Jazz/ Improvised<br> Vidya Makan
LIGHT Music Theatre<br> Angeline Armstrong (Telenova) Popular
Contemporary<br> Elizabeth M. Drummond Popular
Contemporary<br> Luna Pan Screen Composition<br>
Yirrmal NATSIMO (General)<br> Jem Cassar-Daley NATSIMO
(Youth)<br> Andrew Gurruwiwi NATSIMO (Senior)</p>
<p>We are very proud to support the next chapter for the
three inaugural NATSIMO PDA category winners: Yirrmal, Jem
Cassar-Daley and Andrew Gurruwiwi. While each winner is at a
different career and life stage, they are all on the cusp of an
exciting next step in their songwriting and artistry, said Leah
Flanagan, Director, NATSIMO</p> <p>The NATSIMO created
these categories to reflect the diversity of Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander music creator members and the professional strides
they make in their own unique way. We are particularly proud to be
able to recognise and award our senior songwriters who are admired
and active contributors to the Australian musical and cultural
landscape.</p> <p><strong>For more information,
visit <a href=
"https://www.apraamcos.com.au/about/supporting-the-industry/awards/professional-development-awards-2023">
apraamcos...
The people have spoken with their dollars, and companies are now
less likely to go woke. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) pushes the
CEI (Corporate Equality Index), a companys social woke credit
score. The Open Society Foundation, operated by the Soros family,
funds the HRC. The ESG promotes a companys green social credit
score, promoted by BlackRock and the World Economic Forum.
Companies were 31% less likely to mention these absurd social
scores during earnings calls this quarter, marking the steepest
annual drop and the fifth consecutive quarter of declines.
Financial research platform AlphaSense polled
companies from April 1 to June 5 to see where they stood. The
easiest thing to do is just to stay out of the conversation and
emphasize other facets of business that are going to be perceived
as less controversial and more core to the traditional metrics of
the business, said Jason Jay, senior lecturer of sustainability at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This is the approach
Berkshire Hathaway has taken under the lead of
Warren Buffett, who refuses to answer these asinine surveys.
The National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative
thinktank, states that companies are discarding their fiduciary
responsibilities to shareholders by taking up social issues. They
also claim that these companies are discriminating against those
who do not share these far-left beliefs.
<p>When it comes to Australias most revered rock outfits,
Cold Chisel and Midnight Oil are amongst the crme de la crme of
classic pub rock.</p> <p>With a shared history that
spans decades and an extensive catalogue of songs and albums that
have become part of the nations psyche, Geelongs Elephant and
Castle Hotel will be the place to be for fans of old-school rock
this July as it hosts an <a href=
"https://www.facebook.com/events/585920419635325">epic double
headline tribute show</a>, dedicated to these two iconic
bands.</p> <p><b><i>Stay up to date with
all the epic events happening in and around the region <a
href=
"https://fortemag.com.au/entertainment/">here</a>.</i></b></p>
<p>Taking place on Saturday 8 July, GOLD CHISEL, Australias
No. 1 Cold Chisel Tribute Show, and The Australian MIDNIGHT OIL
Tribute Show, will descend upon the main bar stage, recapturing the
sound, energy and anthems of these two legendary bands with great
authenticity.</p> <p>Hailed as Australias very best
Cold Chisel tribute act, Gold Chisel is fronted by singer Andy
Lutze and features a handpicked group of the finest musicians in
the country, reproducing what has been described as the closest
thing to the real deal that one could possibly imagine. Not only do
GOLD CHISEL recapture the true sound and spirit of the iconic band,
but they also recreate the energy and excitement that made Cold
Chisel one of the largest draw cards in the history of the
Australian live music scene.</p> <p>Consisting of five
seasoned and accomplished players, The Australian Midnight Oil
Tribute Show is simply the most dynamic and energetic Midnight Oil
tribute to be found across the nation. Hailing from Melbourne, this
tribute band has earned a stellar reputation over the years for
their extensive catalogue of Oils hits from the early albums and
EPs, such as their debut album, Head Injuries, Bird Noises &
Place Without a Postcard right through to the chart smashing
10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1, Red Sails in the Sunset, Diesel & Dust
and Blue Sky Mining.
Recreating the passion, energy and big, big sound that Midnight
Oil were famous for in concerts such as 1982s Live at Capitol
Theatre, this show is a pulsating, hot and sweaty must see for any
kind of Oils fans.</p> <blockquote
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Wollongong Botanic Garden Greenplan Nursery is getting ready to
hold the next Native Plant Sale on Friday June 16 from 7.30am.
Although spring and autumn are really the two best seasons to
plant your garden, Wollongongs warm temperate climate means we can
extend our planting season into a milder winter season. But before
you pull your gardening gloves on, heres what you need to know
about gardening in winter.
We asked Wollongong Botanic Garden Living Collections Curator,
James Beattie for his advice on winter gardening.
The 2005 murder of German backpacker Simone
Strobel at the Tourist Caravan Park in Lismore led to the
extradition of her then boyfriend Tobias Moran (previously
Suckfuell, he changed his name when he married) from Western
Australia on 27 July, 2022. He was charged with murder
following a $1 million reward for information that led to a further
investigation into the homicide of Simones suspected
murder.
However, the charges have now been dropped by
the Department of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
The naked body of 25 year old Ms Strobel was
found on 17 February 2005 covered by palm fronds on a sports ground
about 90 metres from the Tourist Caravan Park nowhere she had been
staying with Mr Moran.
Tobias Suckfuell and Simone Strobel. (supplied)
Ms Strobel had last been seen at the Caravan
Park on Friday 11 February 2005, after a night out with her
then-boyfriend and friends, said the NSW Police in a media release
at the time. Her body was found s...
Three seemingly disparate events that occurred last week the RBA
raising interest rates, the leaked audio and text messages from
Brittany Higgins and the resignation of Victorias Chief Health
Officer (CHO) Brett Sutton might well spell the start of the true
red pilling, or an awakening, for Australians.
You might wonder how?
Its obvious how the RBA rate rise matters to everyone.
Then theres Brett Suttons move to the CSIRO which you might
applaud or seethe over his legacy on households and small
businesses in Victoria.
But what about the Brittany Higgins scandal? Isnt it just a
political smear campaign gone wrong?
Let me explore with you how these events fit into the dire
situation our society is facing.
The RBA Governors Marie Antoinette
moment
Let me start with the Reserve Bank of Australia raising the
24-hour cash rate last Tuesday.
That event itself wasnt much of a surprise. Its the events after
that are worth shining a light on.
Right after raising rates and socking them to the ordinary
Australian, the RBA Governor Philip Lowe spent the night in an
extravagant function with the outgoing WA
Premier Mark McGowan, State Opposition Leader Libby Mettam and
several key business leaders. That dinner cost around $25,000, paid
for by you and me.
If thats not enough, the next day, he put his foot in his mouth
at the Morgan Stanley Summit when he
said:
If people can cut back spending, or in some cases find
additional hours of work, that would put them back into a positive
cash flow position.
So this is what he did.
He increased your financial burden, then headed off to an
extravagant night out at your expense. The next
day he told his buddies that you need to work harder and spend less
to make ends meet.
Talk about rubbing it in your face!
For months people have called for Lowes replacement given his poor
handling of monetary policy where he misled Australian borrowers,
stating that therell be no rate rises until 2024.
I can imagine these calls are going to escalate following last
week.
Victoria CHO Sutton off to the CSIRO, what
legacy will he d...
Gifting the destination of Echuca-Moama an immersive experience
not to be missed, the beloved Horseshoe Lagoon will be transformed
into a spectacular exhibition of light and sound from 30 June to 23
July as Moama Lights takes visitors on a powerful journey
through the elements of air, fire, water and earth.
Created and produced by world-class design studio Mandylights,
Moama Lights 2023 will be split into seven zones as it guides
event-goers through an interactive story that will showcase the
wonders of the earth and the beauty of the bush.
Stay up to date with whats happening in and
around the region here.
Ella up a tree at Boambee State Forest. Photo supplied
The koala in NSW is predicted to become
extinct by 2050. In response the Great Koala National Park (GKNP)
was proposed and in 2020 the Department of Planning Industry and
Environments (DPIE) identified 55,000 hectares of State Forests for
addition to existing National Parks as the Great Koala National
Park.
At the time the North East Forest Alliance
(NEFA) spokesperson
Dailan Pugh welcomed the news saying Its a step in the right
direction.
During the NSW election the Labor Party
committed $80 million to establish the GKNP which would connect
175,000 hectares of state forests with existing national parks,
creating a nature reserve of more than 300,000 hectares according
to the ABC.
However, in the meantime the NSW Forestry
Corporation, a government agency, continues to heavily log areas
that are proposed for the GKNP. Local communities have, and
continue, to actively block their logging attempts of these native
forests.
Boambee State Forest on the western edge of
Coffs Harbour, that is proposed to be part of the GKNP, is today
being blocked from logging by activist Ella, a forest protector,
who is 100 feet up a tree in a secured tree-sit in Boambee State
Forest.
Combatting the winter chill, Kryal Castle in Ballarat is being
set alight these school holidays with the return of its
much-anticipated Knights of Fire from Saturday 24th June to Sunday
9th July.
A highlight of the Ballarat Winter Festival, the free event
centres around the storyline that the Ice Queen has gripped Kryal
Castle in eternal frost and only the valiant knight Sir Hector can
break her icy curse. Each day, several incredible fire performers,
knights, queens, princesses and wizards will show off their skills
in an epic battle between Sir Hector and the Ice Queens Dark
Knight!
Keep up with the latest in local news
and entertainment here.
As part of the event, Kryal Castles iconic displays will be set
on fire along with a range of thrilling new performances. On entry,
visitors can learn the full story of how the Ice Queen brought her
frozen curse in the Shadow Puppet Show, while with swords flaming,
Sir Hector will be battling it out in a sword duel against the
Black Knight in the main arena and in a heroic final stand-off, the
Fire Joust will see the knights charge at each other on horseback
with their lances set alight.
Other thrilling entertainment will include fire-twirling
displays and knights atop their loyal steeds leaping over burning
obstacles in a feat not for the faint of heart. Those interested in
discovering how medieval Blacksmiths crafted weapons and jewellery
should be sure to stop by the Blacksmith Hut for a live
display.
Guests can also join in on the fiery fun with a range of
hands-on activities for those of all ages, including crafting a
fire stick at the Magna Carta Room and learning what it takes to
become a professional fire-twirler with a twirling class.
Archery and axe-throwing will be on offer as well for those
wanting to train in arms, along with a range of winter-inspired
crafts.
Another feature and a real highlight of Knights of Fire will be
Kryal Castles exclusive Feast of Fire dining experience on Saturday
1st July. Held in The Abbey, guests will enjoy a mouth-watering
menu amidst the warmth of a crackling fire...
Antidepressants can cause severe, sometimes irreversible, sexual
dysfunction that persists even after discontinuing the
medication.
Sufferers have described it as chemical castration a type of
genital mutilation caused by antidepressants, mainly selective
serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs).
The condition is known as post-SSRI sexual dysfunction (PSSD), a
condition largely unrecognised, and the true incidence of which is
unknown.
David Healy, psychiatrist and founder of RxISK.org said, I saw my first
patient with PSSD in 2000, a 35-year-old lady who told me that
three months after stopping treatment, she could rub a
hard-bristled brush across her genitals and feel nothing.
Josef Witt-Doerring, psychiatrist and former FDA medical officer
said, This condition is so devastating that it will cause serious
changes to your life and to those around you.
It happened to
Rosie
In 2020, during protracted covid lockdowns in Melbourne,
23-year-old Rosie Tilli felt an increasing sense of anxiety and
depression.
Her psychiatrist prescribed a low dose of Lexapro
(escitalopram), an SSRI to help Rosie calm down, assuring her that
if she experienced side effects, theyd go away once she stopped the
medication.
What drive is for 'content' creators, you
know OnlyFans?
What SSD is best for workstation type
loads?
Is 7300MB per second too slow for my
games?
There are many misconceptions and 'lies'
used to promote a manufacturer's wares, in order to be the sales
kings of the industry.
It's a bit like reading an automotive
manufacturer's fuel economy figures which can even be 30% less than
in the real world.
Unfortunately many so called tech reviewers
also have little to no idea, where all they're doing is supporting
the advertising babble.
"What's the best gaming SSD in 2023?" could
be answered in a simple line being: The same one as in 2020?
There are other more crucial specifications
that are deliberately not focused on such as longevity, endurance,
or even how long can the maximum speed be kept for, or a more real
world use case scenario that 99% of the computing population does,
where the speed of random read and writes are most important.
One of the better explanations out there is
presented in this video:
Thank you Ms Queensland Attorney General: We've passed new laws
to ensure Queenslanders legal identity can match their lived
identity. Put me down as a multi-billionaire thanks Queensland.
What new 'Lived Identity' are you gunna be?
The status of NATOs and Ukraines underwhelming
Counter Offensive.
In this episode of the Patrick Henningsen Show on TNT Radio which aired
on June 9, 2023, Patrick talks with Arnaud Develay, an international human rights
lawyer who was recently on the ground in Donbas to discuss the true
status of NATO and Ukraines much-vaunted Counter Offensive which
has thus far been underwhelming and leaves conflict watchers asking
if NATO is now looking for an exit strategy from what is clearly a
losing proxy war against Russia which has all but destroyed Ukraine
as a country and left over 200K Ukrainian soldiers dead and many
others injured and maimed. All this and more. Listen:
TUNE-IN
LIVE to TNT RADIO for the Patrick Henningsen Show every MON-FRI at
12PM-2PM (NEW YORK) | 5PM-7PM (LONDON) | 2AM-4AM
(BRISBANE): https://tntradio.live
NSW CSE synthetic turf report a lot to chew overA major review
and report on current scientific assessment of synthetic turf was
published by the NSW Office of the Chief Scientist and Engineer.
This is of global significance. The NSW government released
the NSW Office of the Chief Scientist and Engineer Review report on
synthetic turf on Friday 9 June 2023. The actual report is 77 pages
but
Melbourne is hosting the first Metro Comic Con with appearances from Tommy
Flanagan, Vico Ortiz , Kim Coates, Katy OBrian, Brendan Fehr to
name a few.
Indigenous Superhero Dark Hearts creators Scott Wilson and Benny
Eggmolesse will also be there from the Indigiverse to mentor new
artists and writers whos imaginations are stimulated by some of the
adventures hero Adam Hart gets involved in.
Image: Image: Supplied- Scott Wilson
Produced By: Roderick Chambers
Featured In Story: Scott Wilson Co-Creator Dark
Heart and Indigiverse
The Ukrainian blonde had the smell of trouble. She had perched
herself, along with her mute friend, in a restaurant across from
the famed South Melbourne Market. On arriving at the modish,
glorious bit of real estate known as Tipsy Village, a Polish
establishment famed for accented French cuisine, she shrieked: Why
do you have Ruskie dumplings on your menu?
The Polish host, a man of butter mild manner and infinite
tolerance, covered in stout glory, took it in his stride. That is
what they are called where I come from and that is what we serve,
Peter Barnatt stated with serene clarity. (Such wickedness! Such a
radical disposition!) The blonde shrieking wonder continued to
invest in the dumplings some satanic quality, as if each one had
been a shell, soldier, a weapon massed and launched against her
pristine homeland which she had, it seemed, abandoned. We would
just like coffees, she demanded. His temper finally disturbed, the
host insisted that, as the two were not intent on dining, might
just as well leave.
In a luxurious huff, they exited. Such behaviour was fascinating
for being irresolvable no dining establishment worth its salt and
cutlery should ever change that aspect of things. But for them, the
issue had been decided, a prejudice firmed up and solid.
Names on the menu are a signature of a restaurants worth.
Besides, dishes do not invade countries in tanks nor bomb cities.
The episode was also strikingly, amusingly moronic. Food had been
made out as somehow guilty, disgusting, revolting all because of a
name, an identity. The sin had moved in the dough, the mixture and
the potatoes, dumplings with agency. The restaurateur was all the
more guilty for hosting them.
Since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the
gastro-culture war on serving dishes with a Russian name, be it
with hint, flavour, or substance, has been total. Hatred of the
Kremlin has become bigotry towards the dish. In Madrid, Sergiy
Skorokhvatov, himself Ukrainian and an owner of a restaurant called
Rasputin serving both Russian and Ukrainian cuisine, sensed
trouble. He
ventured into the thorny world of online discussions to clarify
the nature of what he was serving, which was considered wise given
what has happening to other restaurants serving Russian fare.
This method of insurance was not full proof. I thought that
changing things would help us, but then people started posting
similar stuff about us Dont go to Russian restaurants and pictures
of blown-up buildings in Ukraine.
When politics ventures into the field of gastronomy, imbecility
is sovereign, its crown heavy. The French restaurant chain Maison
de la Poutine, specialising in the combination of chips, cheese
curds and gravy (poutine, you might say),...
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Elder statesman and Ijaw
leader, Chief Edwin Clark, on Wednesday, described the
immediate-past governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa as a traitor
and a very crafty man.
Clark also alleged that Okowa emerged as Atiku Abubakars
running mate for the 2023 presidential election on the platform of
the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) after spending Delta States
money on (Atikus) campaign.
He made the claim while appearing as a guest in an
interview on Arise TVs Morning Show.
Clarke revealed that the 17 southern governors had, ahead of the
2023 presidential election, resolved to oppose any party that
presented a northern presidential candidate in their primaries but
Okowa went behind his colleagues to team up with Atiku.
Let me tell you the reason why the whole of southern Nigeria
regards Okowa as a traitor. Let me tell you, he is a betrayer.
Okowa volunteered to host a meeting of the 17 governors of the
south. He provided accommodation for every one of them, Clark
said.
He provided his secretariat, I know the person who was the
secretary to the government at the time. They were there, they
drafted the communique supervised by him and gave it to Akeredolu
to read. He read it, then they all went to Lagos to confirm it,
they went to Enugu to confirm it, not knowing that the same Okowa
was spending our money for Atiku. I asked him in my letter to
answer it.
He added, The delegates of the PDP primary, who did they vote
for? Did they vote for Wike or Emmanuel Udom of Akwa Ibom? They all
voted for Atiku. So, he deceived his colleagues that we should
produce the president from the south only to team up with Atiku to
betray us. All the governors know about that. He is a man who is
very ambitious, quiet and gives a wrong impression about himself
that he is a very good man. Very crafty man.
To ask the Secretary
of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is
talking to (a) enable and (b) promote to the public the potential
benefits of water supply fluoridation.
Oklahoma joined the lawsuit against the University of North
Carolina that SCOTUS is considering in a national affirmative
action ban. But some in Oklahoma say the states ban has hurt
diversity in larger ways than the government acknowledges.
Ive run into instances in work when dealing with a city, and
were asking questions about consultants or contractors, and a lot
of times they [cant give the] answer because of the
anti-affirmative action ban, says Charity Marcus. Shes a consultant
in Tulsa, Oklahoma, who works with cities, mapping out strategies
for economic and community development.
Further update, Wed 15 June:
Assange mentioned only once this week in Parliament this week,
whilst German MP speaks up (see Appendix 2 below). Although
Julian Assange was not mentioned either in the House of
Representatives or the Senate, yesterday, on Tuesday 13 June, there
is still good reason to hope that, over the remaining 7 days, in
which both houses sit (including today), we will hear members of
the Bring Julian Assange Home Parliamentary Support Group (Assange
Support Group) speak loudly in support of Julian Assange and hold
to account Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for his failure, thus
far, to uphold his duty of care towards Julian Assange.
At 6pm on Monday 12 June, Kirsten Kennedy, on behalf of
Queensland Greens Senator Penny Allman-Payne (pictured
above), responded to my email. Her response has been posted as a
comment beneath the article containing my
Open Letter. From her reply and from the page linked to in that
reply (greens.org.au/magazine/free-assange) I can see
that Senator Allman-Payne speaks on behalf of all Greens Senators
and Members of Parliament.
Nonetheless, I still think it critical that the case for Julian
Assange be debated. From past experience, we can see that
yet further statements in support of Assange or the presentation of
more petitions will have zero impact on this government. Even a
further Question Time question will only, at best, embarrass the
Government momentarily, but do little to improve Assange's
circumstances.
As I have written before, if, as has been the case up until now,
Standing Orders don't allow supporters of Julian Assange to move a
motion, such as my suggested motion of Monday 12 June (see Appendix
1 below), then move for a Suspension of those Standing Orders.
Should the Speaker pronounce that procedural motion defeated, then,
this time, call for a division so that the people of
Australia will know - as Julian Assange faces extradition to the
United States and imprisonment there for the rest of his life in
conditions even worse than what he is now enduring at Belmarsh
prison - which of their 'represent...
Buying art in cryptocurrency has seen record-breaking prices
followed by a crash in recent years, but there are ways to remove
the volatility to benefit both artists and buyers.
FOUR Northern Territory land councils last Friday handed
Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney the Barunga Voice
Declaration, which calls on the nation to vote yes in the upcoming
referendum.
More than 200 representatives of the Northern, Central, Tiwi and
Anindilyakwa land councils were gathered on the traditional lands
of the Bagala people southeast of Katherine for the Barunga
Festival.
THE legacy of Eddie Koiki Mabo was celebrated in style in Naarm
(Melbourne) on Mabo Day (June 3) with dramatic and colourful
performances by a range ofdancers and musicians from the
Torres Strait Islands. Curated by veteran performer and Torres
Strait Islander Lisa Maza, the event held in the BMW Edge,
Federation Square featured a Welcome to Country by Uncle Bill
Nicholson
In Sport:
WIRADJURI man Buddy Oldman wants to become the first Aboriginal
person to be immortalised in the history books and not just any old
history book.
Under the guidance of the Guinness World Records, the world
champion Masters boxer will be punching a boxing bag for 72 hours
to set a new world record.
QUEENSLANDS bold selection call to include in-form tyros Reece
Walsh and Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow proved decisive in the Maroons brave
and extraordinary 26-18 win over NSW in State of Origin I in
Adelaide.
Algerias President Starting State Visit to
Russia at Invitation of Putin
FILE - Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune gestures during a
press conference in Algiers, Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. Algerian
President Abdelmadjid Tebboune is starting Tuesday June 14, 2023 a
three-day state visit to Russia meant to strengthen relations of
"friendship and cooperation" at the invitation of Vladimir Putin,
according to a statement from Algerian authorities. (AP Photo/Fateh
Guidoum, file)
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on
Tuesday is starting a three-day state visit to Russia meant to
strengthen relations of friendship and cooperation at the
invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin, authorities said
Tuesday.
The Algerian presidency said in a statement that Tebboune will
attend an economic forum to be held this week in the city of St.
Petersburg.
Putins invitation had been conveyed by Russian Foreign Minister
Sergey Lavrov during his visit to Algiers in May last year with the
aim of developing bilateral military, economic and humanitarian
ties, and in other areas.
Some Algerian media have criticized the visit amid Russias war
in Ukraine.
The timing is not at all appropriate, as this visit by the
president could be understood as a bias in favor of Russia in its
conflict with Ukraine, whereas officially, it has a position of
neutrality, the Maghreb Emergent website wrote on Monday, raising
concerns about a potential backlash from Western countries.
Tebboune answered a question on the issue during his last
appearance on public television last month.
Russia is a friendly country which helped our revolution and
with which we have historic political, diplomatic and economic
relations, but we also have good relations with the United States
and the countries of the European Union, he said.
Gas-rich Algeria is in a delicate position regarding its
long-standing ties to Russia.
With drastically less capacity, Algeria is increasingly eyed by
Eur...
While we all want a better transport system, disruption fatigue
is becoming a real factor for passengers, particularly on the train
network. On some lines, there have now been major disruptions every
year since 2016. Not all of these are in the name of better rail
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After seven months of nutrition
investigation, Im utterly convinced that this is the truth. No
conspiracies here, its occurring in broad daylight right in front
of our faces.
Amazingly, he makes a terrible mistake when he mentions the
removal of fiber from processed food. Nobody needs fiber. It has
zero nutrional value. Its removal has absolutely nothing to do with
the metabolic syndrome epidemic.
It may not yet have dawned on Australia, but the rest of the
world is waking up to the threat of net zero policies. At our
recent editorial meeting in Melbourne, I was shocked to discover
just how far behind Australia is on this awakening.
Almost all media coverage in Europe and the US is already highly
critical of net zero. Even the politicians have woken up.
In Europe, French President Emmanuel Macron has called for a
halt on new green legislation coming out of the EU.
Germany successfully torpedoed the EUs attempt to ban combustion
engine cars.
In the UK, some councils are refusing to cooperate with the
governments demands to impose net zero policies.
Net zero is so unpopular in the UK that politicians are using it
as a punching bag for all sorts of barely related shortcomings. For
example, one minister is blaming her inability to carry out Brexit
reforms on the constraints imposed by the emissions commitment.
Companies worldwide are also turning their backs on net zero at
an increasing pace. Seven insurance companies have quit the
Net-Zero Insurance Alliance a part of the powerful group called the
Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero which pressures financial
industries into adopting net zero policies.
Even the only remaining cheerleaders for net zero journalists
are having second thoughts. The Financial Times covered the
staggering cost of a green hydrogen economy.
Financial markets cottoned on to this shift first. Green energy
stocks plunged in 2022 and clean energy tech companies favourite
bank in California went bust in 2023
Just when an energy crisis was supposed to prove renewable
energys credentials and capabilities, the world concluded the
precise opposite. It turned to coal instead.
While Australia still grapples with the impossible implications
of net zero, the rest of the world is already moving on to
pondering solutions instead. And, as slowly as humanly possible,
theyre reaching the painlessly obvious solution: nuclear power.
In October 2021, the UKs Independent Review of Net Zero report
commissioned by the government concluded that nuclear power is a
no-regrets option for the UK.
In April 2022, the UK government outlined its plans for nuclear
power. These include building eight new reactors plus smaller
modular reactors, set to provide 25% of the UKs electricity demand
by 2050.
In Japan, utility companies are applying for 27 reactor
restarts, with 17 passing safety checks and 10 resuming
operations.
In South Koreas March 2022 presidential elections, a pro-nuclear
candidate defeated an anti-nuclear incumbent who planned to phase
out nuclear power.
The countrys 26 reactors produce about a quarter of its
electricity, but the new president wants to increase this to at
least a third. Plans include extending the life of existing
reactors and building new ones.
Not only does music add colour to life, new research has shown
that playing and actively engaging with music can also
significantly increase the amount of grey matter in our brains, the
area of our noggins where our valuable neurons are stored.
Establishing a practice of regular music making has the potential
to alter the
Continue reading Growing Grey
Gratefully
The Reserve Bank of Australia lifted interest
rates for a 12th time in this cycle, to a cash rate target of 4.10
per cent.
This will have the desired effect of slowing
spending further in the economy (the latest data actually show this
is already happening, so the impact will be
accentuated).
CBA noted the decision was largely attributable to
the large increase in award wages announced over the past week or
so, and the 8.6 per cent increase in the minimum wage.
From a housing market perspective, this likely
means sharper increases in mortgage arrears, more builder and
developer insolvencies, and yet further declines in lending to buy
or build new homes (already at 15-year lows).
The Housing Industry Association noted that
approvals for multi-units have already fallen by two-thirds from
their highs, and that due to the long lags in this cycle we're only
now just starting to see the impacts of
the first interest rate hike.
Thus there is a monumental housing shortage
brewing in Sydney, while Melbourne's land tax grab on landlords
looks like lunacy, and seemingly risks creating a rental market
inferno.
Low-deposit lending fell to a record low in the March quarter
on the available data series.
High debt-to-income lending has also dried up, falling to
record lows.
Interest-only loans also fell to a record low 11.1
per cent of outstanding loans, which will suck a lot of dollars out
of the economy, but investors aren't going to be much interested in
the rental market this cycle until rents in Sydney and Melbourne
rise by approximately 50 per cent.
The Melbourne Institute eased a little
year-on-year from 6.1 per cent to 5.9 per cent.
The monthly reading was still elevated at 0.9 per
cent, although the figures do bounce around a lot from month to
month.
The highest ever monthly reading on this series
was seen in July 2022, so we can expect a more significant decline
in the year-on-year figure next month.
With the housing market firming, the Reserve
Bank's interest rate decision will be line ball this week, although
Gareth Aird (Commonwealth Bank) and Westpac (Bill Evans) have both
called rates on hold.
Financial markets are also leaning that way, given
the decelerating trend in inflation, weak wages growth, and
significant lag in the rate hikes delivered to date, with most data
coming in weaker than the latest published RBA forecasts, despite
the housing market rebound.
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Inventories will add modestly, to this week's GDP
figures, contributing 0.3ppts.
May 31, 2023: The Australia-UK Free Trade Agreement
(A-UK FTA), negotiated and signed by the Morrison Coalition
government, came into force today, with the lazy media reporting
about its apparently wonderful benefits. Two Melbourne University
academics, Professor Margaret Young and Georgina Clough, analysed
its impacts on climate change policy in
The Conversation, and found it wanting.
The A-UK FTA does refer to the net zero Paris Agreement but does
not commit parties to specific interim carbon emission reduction
targets, or other measure to reduce climate change. This contrasts
with the UK FTA with New Zealand, and with the FTA Australia is
currently negotiating with the European Union.
The academic analysis showed that the UK-New Zealand
trade deal, for example, signals that in some circumstances, it
may be justifiable for climate action to affect trade. The European
Union has
proposed such action, in its plan to impose reporting - and
potentially, a financial charge on emissions-intensive imports.
The UK-NZ agreement also takes steps to eliminate fossil fuel
subsidies, in recognition that government support for the coal, oil
and gas industries distorts
prices and discourages climate action.
And the
pact between the European Union and Canada requires the
development of climate-friendly labelling and certification
standards on products.
Young and Clough acknowledge that the exclusion of
Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) from the agreement will
prevent fossil fuel companies from suing both governments over
climate change policies. They suggest that a working group required
under the A-UK FTA to review and monitor environmental provisions
relating to marine pollution from ships, ozone-depleting
substances, illegal logging and the wildlife trade should extend
its work to better integrate the climate and trade goals of both
nations by connecting agricultural trade with land...
A couple of weeks ago, Nafeez
Ahmed, whom I respect and whose work Ive been
following for a long time (even
featured here) wrote a piece attacking Simon Michauxs work on
the difficulties we will face transitioning away from fossil fuels.
I was gobsmacked to be honest because to me it looked like a total
backflip from his previous views on the future of civilisation and
its access to energy. You can read the article
here.
Ahmeds debunking of Simons work was entirely based on
assumptions of the ERoEI of non renewable renewable energy
harvesting technologies being far superior to the numbers Simon has
been using. Ive personally always thought that solar powers ERoEI
numbers were totally inadequate for running complex civilisation,
especially after reading Pedro Prietos work featured
here and
here.
ERoEI is critical to the success or otherwise of any transition
away from fossil fuels. As far as I am concerned, non renewable
renewable energy harvesting technologies simply dont cut the
mustard and Nafeez Ahmed is simply wrong. I cant help thinking hes
joined the ranks of the likes of George Monbiot who just cannot
come to grips with the fact their cushy lifestyles are as good as
over.
If youve been following DTM for a while now you will have heard
me talking about Dr Tim Morgan of Surplus
Energy Economics. Tim Morgan has been studying the collapse of
ERoEI, except he calls it ECoE or energy cost of energy. Its
catching on, heres
another great article explaining the impact of failing ECoE on
the global economy with some focus on the British one which is now
seriously floundering.
Simon has informed me that, perhaps as a result of the many
attacks on his work hes had to tackle, hes going to embark on a
seminal work on ERoEI with the father of the concept, Charlie Hall.
Im really looking forward to seeing what they come up with.
Also perhaps because of Nafeez article and the fact that Nate
Hagens is a close friend of Simons, Nate has just posted a very
informative video about ERoEI which explains why its so hard to get
the numbers right. I thought my readers would like to see it too,
enjoy..
Every day, I open the internet and
more stupid crap falls through the door. The amount of insanity
taking over civilisation today truly beggars belief. Its
incomprehensible. And its thoroughly depressing.
Take this push to destroy farming in the Netherlands and other
countries in Europe. To be sure, nitrogen pollution is a major
problem, but this will actually make it worse. Farming certainly
needs major reforms, no doubt about it, but this kind of reform
will cause serious food shortages. And just as we should be
recognising the
Metabolic Syndrome epidemic and eating more meat, not less Its
almost as though those in charge have finally worked out were in
overshoot, and are out to kill millions of people. Yep, my own
private conspiracy theory!
Done properly, animal grazing could improve the climate, not
worsen it. But hardly anyone seems to have any idea. Instead of
closing down farms, farmers should be re-educated. Heres a great
scientific paper written by a Dutchman about what needs to be done
:
The push for plant based diets is moving ahead at an amazing
pace. And just like the push for non renewable renewable energy
harvesting technologies, this is not only a technology doomed to
fail, but it is just as unachievable.
Technology cannot save us from a social predicament.
Its been a big week for property tax. On Sunday we learned the
new NSW government was extending stamp duty concessions for first
home buyers and will introduce legislation this week to scrap the
former governments opt-in stamp duty to land tax scheme. We dont
think thatll do much for first home buyers theyll []
Prospers submission to the Victorian Legislative Council Inquiry
into Land Transfer Duty Fees reflects our evolving thinking around
the core motivations for the reform. 14 April 2023 Prosper
Australia is an independent research institute focused on the
management of land and other natural resources through taxation.
Prosper was formed over 100 years ago to further []
The Public Transport Users Association (PTUA) has welcomed
measures in the 2023 Victorian Budget funding incremental public
transport improvements, particularly in outer suburban communities.
Bus upgrades for growth areas such as Melton, Maddingley, Wyndham
and Casey will provide vital connections for those communities,
enabling better access to education, employment and other
opportunities, said PTUA spokesperson Continue
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welcome, but no step change
Prospers latest report sounds a cautionary note for policymakers
placing market supply at the centre of affordable housing policy.
Report author, Dr Tim Helm, Prospers Director of Research and
Policy, described the report, entitled Melbournes pandemic rental
dynamics: an (un)natural experiment in excess supply, as an
exploration in data of housing market imbalances through the []
ERoEI, or rather lack of it, is
what will determine our future. So when a video explaining it
really well comes along I like to watch. Id never heard of Leigh
Goeringbefore. Initially he certainly sounds like
an intelligent person with a great grasp of the subject of ERoEI
and its history and the history of the deployment of modern energy
systems like fossil fuels and renewables. I even learned quite a
lot from this video. But then, he inexplicably starts waxing
lyrical about nuclear power as if it wasnt subject to all the
limits of the other energy sources he obviously thinks have no
future
Over the past few years I have come across a lot of this nuclear
fantasy. Its where Simon Michaux shines methinks, no vested
interest in any BS!
Leigh Goehring believes nuclear power has astonishingly high
ERoEI while he correctly pulls non renewable renewable energy
harvesting technologies down to realistic levels. A quick search on
work by Charlie Hall who invented the idea of ERoEI reveals
nuclear power has an actual ERoEI of 5~15. This is what always
happens when you include everything and dont cherry pick stuff to
make your favourite saviour look good.
Digging a bit further,
I found that the literature is very divided on the EROI of nuclear,
listing it at anywhere from 1:1 (i.e., uneconomical at any price)
to 90:1 (i.e., the most bountiful energy source in history). Limits
to growth will be nuclears last nail in the coffin. Were already in
a surplus energy crisis and theres nowhere near enough left to save
complex civilisation. I think its ironic this video is titled
shortage of everything, except, obviously, nuclear power
I cannot express how chuffed I am
this podcast has come up Nate is obviously too busy with all he
does to get involved with mere Mike Stasse on a personal basis, but
I do know he reads at least some of the stuff I post on social
media because hes left the odd comment on my FB wall. Then a week
or three ago, he mentioned metabolic syndrome in one of his
franklies I could not help thinking, did he pick this up from me?
Because to be honest Im literally the only one banging on about the
importance of this epidemic on FB, as it ties in with all the other
emergencies were facing.
Over the past seven or eight months, Ive learned a huge amount
regarding nutrition. Ive watched hundreds of videos and read tons
of articles on the low carb high fat diet, insulin resistance, and
metabolic syndrome but had never come across Robert Lustig. Having
said that, Im really starting to think that this whole issue is
finally coming out of the woodwork, as it should. Because I think
its a definite driver of collapse as health systems everywhere are
crushed. More and more people are joining the dots, at last.
Father Bob Maguire was an advocate for the poor, the homeless
and those who were marginalised by society. He was also a fierce
advocate for refugee rights. Many will have seen him at the
Park Hotel/Prison last year at age 87, when he entered the cage in
solidarity with the men held in the Park. []
The stroll takes in 12 sites along a 6.8km stretch around
Elwood, telling an oral history through songs celebrating a
wonderfully broad range of local topics from weavers to water rats;
music halls to middens; sourdough to spotties; migration and many
more to delight and enlighten listeners of all ages.
Out of the blue, this video of
someone Id never heard of before came up on my feed. It sure looked
interesting, and by the time I was half way through, I thought,
this guy is on the money, hes even on Simons page! But I was
wrong.. How anyone smart enough to show the best explanation of
climate change and its repercussion on the food supply Ive ever
seen could not know about peak oil is really amazing
Adam Simon is an associate professor of mineral resources with
the
University of Michigans Department of Earth and
Environmental Sciences. When you google him with oil or peak oil as
search terms, you get nothing. Bizarre
And as I suspected, hes also wrong about renewable energy being
cheaper. Everywhere I have looked, the deeper the penetration of
renewable energy, the costlier electricity is, and Texas is no
exception.
This should but wont put the idiocy
of the Hydrogen economy concept to bed. Paul Martin really knows
his stuff when it comes to the smallest atom in the Universe.
However, I was gobsmacked when he started waxing lyrical about
electrifying everything! He really needs to talk to Simon
Michaux..
As a result of the local greenies making an appearance
on our local Huon FM radio station, the southernmost station in the
nation, and talking the usual nonsense youd expect from energy
blind greenies, I offered to set the record straight and they
accepted. And theyre igoing to have me back.
RISE: Refugees, Survivors and eX-detainees is the first
not-for-profit Refugee and Asylum seeker organisation in Australia
to be governed by eX-detainee Refugees. We were founded in 2010 by
an eX-detainee who was held hostage in both offshore and onshore
detention camps after arriving by boat to Australia to seek
asylum.
We eX-detainee Refugees from RISE who were detained upon arrival
by boat in so-called Australia are alarmed by the UK governments
proposed stop the boats bill. We cannot call it a mere
coincidence that the current British ruling political party is
touting these xenophobic policies while at the same time employing
white supremacist Australian election campaign managers who have a
long history of using anti-refugee wedge tactics to win elections
in Australia at the cost of human life. Former Australian Prime
Minister and current advisor to the UK government, Tony Abbott, has
demonstrated an eagerness to spread this neo-fascist model in a
past statement, saying that Europe is facing a peaceful invasion of
asylum seekers while urging European leaders to secure their
borders with Australian-style policies to avoid losing control as
they risk losing their character. Australia is notorious for
creating the modern blueprint of refugee detention torture and
refugee boat turn back policies over decades to whip up xenophobic,
white supremacist sentiments for votes. Many of us eX-detainee
refugees are permanently disabled, and many of our community
members have lost their lives on land and sea due to these
murderous policies.
According to our experiences in Australia, the stop the boats
and boat turns back policy has caused a permanent blockade of the
right to seek asylum in Australia by boat. Persecuted refugees have
no choice but to make perilous journeys, traversing both land and
sea to seek refuge and safe haven. Australia undermines this
wholeheartedly and turns refugee boats back into the arms of
persecutors without any accountability. The Australian government
implements this final solution against refugees by brazenly
participating in joint military operations and espionage activities
with military dictatorships and war criminals and funding corrupt
government officials in the Asia Pacific to stop people smuggling
and save deaths at sea. We, eX-detainees in Australia, call on
UK-based rights supporters and politicians to stop more crimes
against humanity by blockin...
On Tuesday 7 March the RAC activists who had been fined in 2020
for our car cavalcade outside the Mantra Hotel, to show support for
Medevac refugees detained there, went to Heidelberg Court for a
contest mention. We held a brief protest out the front. The
magistrate listened to our lawyer summarise our case: that we
[]
The Untapped project is a marvellous initiative which gives
readers access to long lost books in both print and digital
form.
More than 150 titles are available to borrow from libraries and to
purchase. Partners in the project include the Australian Society of
Authors, National State and Territory Libraries, the Australian
Library and Information Association and Ligature Press.
Amongst those 150 titles are the 7 Writers Anthology,
Canberra Tales, first published by Penguin in 1988.
This article, published in the Canberra Times today, April 15,
tells the story of how 7 Writers came into existence, and how we
continued meeting as a writers group for over 15 years.
My novel, One for the Master, published by Wakefield
Press in 1997 and short-listed for the 1998 Miles Franklin Award,
has also been re-published as part of the Untapped Project .
Its wonderful to be able to hold this long out of print novel in
my hands again. Thanks to all those involved in the project, in
particular Airlie Lawson and publisher Matt Rubinstein.
Here is a new concept for you,
Limbic Capitalism. I was drawn to this because of
Nate Hagens idea that we do what we do because of our addictions to
dopamine. This video doesnt equate addictive limbic capitalism or
abundance specifically to the availability of fossil fuels, but it
is definitely interesting Especially to all you social media
addicts! Enjoy.
Bedding with the Australian Department of Home
Affairs, who tortures and abuses us, makes you a white supremacist
eX-detainee Refugees about Queer Displacement conference
While queers were parading with politicians, military, police,
and detention profiteers at the Mardi Gras, in so-called Sydney,
Australia, an organisation established by white queer refugees
called Forcibly Displaced People Network held a Queer Displacement
Conference. One of their sponsors was the Australian Department of
Home Affairs. In addition to this, the Department of Home Affairs
funded parts of their research on queer refugee settlement in
Australia.
What is comical here, is that their white saviour privilege and
colonial approach cannot be hidden. The organisers of this event
are clearly collaborators with our torturers. Thousands of refugees
who came by boats, all of whom are people of colour, have been and
are still being indefinitely detained, tortured, murdered, abused,
and deported under the direction of the Australian Department of
Home Affairs headed by Senator Claire ONeal. eX-detainees who
are subjected to torture and abuse by the Australian Department of
Home Affairs include people of all genders, sexualities, and sex
characteristics. There are an unaccountable number of queerphobic
practises and incidents of sexual abuse, torture, and murder faced
by the refugees in Australian-run detention centres for over 30
years.
In addition to overseeing detention torture and refugee boat
pushbacks of black and brown refugees, the Australian Department of
Home Affairs is also involved in ongoing espionage and border
security operations with overseas military dictatorships and other
corrupt money hungry officials in the Asia Pacific through the Bali
process to stop the boats and keep so called Australia white. Many
of us eX-detainees and detainees have sought protection from these
very same military dictatorships and perpetrators of genocide.
The eX-detainee and detainee community is arguably ONE of the
poorest, racially profiled, and systematically discriminated
against community groups in Australia as well as around the world.
Reducing our ongoing systemic oppression and cancelling our lives
in Australia is white supremacy Bedding with the Australian
Department of Home Affairs, who tortures and abuses us, makes you a
white supremacist. You are likely to know this, if you are
an eX-detainee or person of c...
Theres a lot of talk over the
internet about the current excess deaths numbers. Theres no doubt
its happening, the data is clear. Pundits like to blame the covid
vaccines. Maybe those vaccines have killed people, but what I find
interesting is that those people are dying of EXACTLY what people
suffering from Metabolic Syndrome die from.. It cannot be a
coincidence.
Tim Noakes reckons that 80% of Americans are insulin resistant,
and Id be prepared to bet Australian and British people wouldnt be
far behind. Insulin resistance must surely be growing
exponentially, just like everything else in the world is. Global
health systems are getting overwhelmed by this and will likely be
part of the looming collapse. Im more certain than ever that a
population crash is imminent. This is a couple of years old and pre
excess deaths data, but I think he pretty much would agree with me
today.
To top it all, the powers that be are wanting to make it all
worse by reducing meat consumption. I have no doubt that
agriculture is a serious contributor to climate change. You cant
drive all that diesel powered machinery, manufacture all the agro
chemicals and fertilisers, process all that resulting food and
distribute it globally with more fossil fuels in ships, planes and
trucks without belching more CO2 into our already overburdened
atmosphere. But then to blame cows is utterly bizarre. Because
theyre carbon neutral and could be carbon sinks if managed
properly.
Queer eX-detainees urge artists, presenters, and other
participants to boycott the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
Festival, which also hosts WorldPride 2023, in so-called Sydney,
Australia.
Who are we ?
RISE:Refugee, survivors and eX-detainees is a not-for-profit
association and the FIRST eX-detainee led and governed welfare and
advocacy organisation in Australia. RISE is a unique organisation
distinguished by our ethics of self-determination and community
control. RISE raises the bar in the non-profit sector by ensuring
we are not subservient to politicians or businesses by not
accepting blood money from the Federal government, State
government, local government, or corporations who invest in
detention, prisons, the military, or are complicit in land grab or
labour exploitation.
What is the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
(SGLMG)?
Started in Sydney as a celebration after a protest march and
commemoration of the Stonewall Riots of New York City back in 1978,
the parade was a march against discrimination, police harassment,
and the criminalization of queerness. Their rally was met with
violence by the police. Many of these protesters were arrested and
abused in police custody, and those arrested were further outed by
mainstream media, leading to detrimental consequences to their
lives.
The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is now an annual queer
party, arts and cultural festival for the privileged middle class
based in Sydney, Australia. It is predominantly run by queer white
people and a few handpicked queer people of colour. Like many
queer festivals around the western world, SGLMG is now bedding with
politicians as well as boot-licking the military, police, and
corporations. Following the diversity trend, in recent years,
Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras has been working towards ticking
diversity boxes after many years of centering [white] gays and
lesbians, whilst not updating the Gay and Lesbian in their festival
name.
What is InterPride and WorldPride?
Founded in the US, InterPride is a western global organisation
whose members are mainly organisers of queer festivals across the
world. A licensed event by InterPride, WorldPride is run every 13
years, each time in a different location. InterPride members would
nominate and elect which city/queer festival in the world would win
the right to host WorldPride during a particular year.
Being US- and Western centric, InterPrides Global Advisory
Council has around 2 representatives from each of the 20 re...
A short one for you today. No punches pulled, forceful
truth destroys bullshit
For anyone interested, you can watch the whole series of seven
short 25 minute episodes on SBS TV on demand. Its very well done
with English subtitles. Pulls no punches and stressful to
watch.
Watch The Collapse streaming now on SBS On Demand.
An excellent video by my friend
Paul Mobbs which explains the correlation between food (and
cereals, food products incompatible with longevity for humans) and
fossil fuels growth.
The announcement that the more than 19,000 refugees on temporary
and safe haven visas (TPVs and SHEVs) will finally be able to get
permanent residency is welcome but long overdue.
The amount of crap available on the
internet these days seems to be growing exponentially. And unless
you are equipped with the best quality BS filter, its not hard to
be taken in by it. Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes gospel
truth.
Take my recent health/diet epiphany. When I
wrote about it, I stated that going keto had fixed my prostate
problems. And I was amazed, because frankly, how could this even
happen in two days? It turns out that it didnt. Its a long story I
wont bore you with, but what the keto diet repaired wasnt my
prostate, it was my kidneys. So why did I think it was my prostate?
Because for years, medicos had been leading me up the garden path.
Yes I have an enlarged prostate, yes its probably impeding urine
flow, but its only mild and had nothing to do with my nocturnal
visits to the loo.
In July last year, I had my annual blood test and the doctor
said that my kidney and liver functions were not great, but it was
nothing to worry about just yet, keep an eye on things. Meanwhile,
I was getting UTIs far more regularly than any bloke should have
(women are far more prone to such problems), even puzzling the
doctors. Its not supposed to be my job to work out what is wrong
with me, its theirs, but so ignorant are doctors regarding chronic
inflammation and the damage carbs do that none of this even crossed
their minds.
Dr YouTube to the rescue. It turns out that among the
bewildering list of things carbs can do to you, kidney disease and
fatty liver disease are prominent. Having had another bout of urine
looking like strong tea after eating a single apricot (I am not
making this up) it was back to the doctor. By the time I got an
appointment (remember that our health system has started
collapsing) my urine looked normal again and I had another blood
test, which revealed, drum roll, that two months into the keto diet
those kidney and liver functions had gone back to normal. Even
then, the doctor started talking about antibiotics and seeing a
specialist. Im not doing any such thing I told her, Ill look after
myself thank you very much.
Ive since learned that more and more doctors are challenging the
standard nutritional diet guidelines. The result though is that the
establishment is attacking them left right and centre. We cant
expose all their lies, now can we?
Heres the latest, a UK cardiologist fighting the same fight our
local Tassie orthopaedic surgeon Dr Gary Fettke was exonerated for
two or three years ago. His name is Dr Aseem Malhotra.
The truth is slowly but surely
coming out. I had never heard of Mark Mills before and his sudden
appearance on YouTube came as some surprise. My old sparring
partner from Eclipse recently attacked and ridiculed me and Simon
Michaux, yet heres someone who apparently doesnt even know Simon
(he never mentions him) using IEA data, and comes up with exactly
the same conclusions.... As usual, zero mention of
limits to growth, but hey, nobodys perfect!
The PTUA is alarmed about cuts in the frequency of trains on
Melbournes busiest rail lines, only days after the completion of
works which were supposed to improve services. Having endured the
closure of the Cranbourne and Pakenham lines for almost a month to
allow the installation of new rail equipment, passengers have had
their
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frequency cuts cause turmoil
Yes, more Simon. Does he ever
sleep? The amount of work Simon does is gobsmacking. Andrii is a
new podcast kid on the block who is doing a good job and is
planning to interview me too, so watch this space. Just because
youve heard Simon before doesnt mean you wont learn from these two
videos, I guarantee it.
Death in Villawood (suburb in
Sydney, Australia) Another immigration death in custody in
Australian-run torture camps. 30/01/2023
It is not the first time and it wont be the last another death
in administrative immigration detention in front of your eyes.
Australia continues its white supremacy through refugee detention
policies. Who is accountable now? Racist politicians or the people
who voted them in?
Deaths in detention custody are triggering and trauma awakening
for our community members who have been in detention or are in
detention.
Who is going to repay the family and the loved ones for the loss
of this person who was driven by the detention torture system to
take their life?
There have been many inquiries and many reports of deaths in
custody, torture and sexual abuse within Australian-run immigration
detention centres yet nothing has changed and no one has ever been
held accountable. There have been eX-detainees including
eX-detainee elders who have spoken out against detention policies
for over 30 years but nothing has changed.
ALL three major parties in Australia, the Australian Labor
party, the Greens and the Liberal/National coalition endorse
mandatory detention policies ignoring how it contributes to
torture, trauma and deaths in custody like this. Australian
detention centres are torture factories and have caused irrevocable
harm to detention survivors. For Adam Bandt, Anthony Albanese and
Peter Dutton and most members of the Australian public, this news
is likely to be another headline story, but for the family who have
lost their loved one in the hands of the Australian government,
this is a lifelong trauma and loss. Another white supremacist day
in the colony.
Finally, the sinister, white supremacist dog whistling media
reporting on detention centres continues in Australia with for
example Guardian Australia and Australian associated press
concluding their news report of this victim who died after enduring
at least 5 years of detention torture with this bizarre statement:
Immigration detainees have access to health services, including
mental health services.
I started at Mount Buller a ski resort in winter, popular
mountain bike destination in summer and dropped down the Four Mile
Spur track to the Howqua River and then the first campsite at Seven
Mile Flat. Youd think going down would be easy. It was not. It was
a warm day and it was steep and rough and there were a few places
where you needed to clamber over and around
fallen trees.
For the 11th year running, RISE: Refugee, Survivors and
eX-detainees, the FIRST self-determined advocacy and welfare
organisation in Australia governed and led by eX-detainees, is
making a public statement, supporting the boycott of Australia Day
aka Invasion day. Even before we made our first public statement
our organisation has never celebrated this day from the time we
were founded in 2010.
As eX-detainees, in so-called Australia, we acknowledge that the
land we seek protection on is the land of Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Peoples whose sovereignty was never ceded.
Always was, always will be Aboriginal
land.
On this day RISE, on behalf of the eX-detainee community,
continues to acknowledge Sovereignty was never ceded, and we stand
in solidarity with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples of
this country. We are committed to fighting for justice on the terms
set by people and nothing else.
Refugees coming to Australia are being indefinitely detained
both onshore and offshore, involuntarily deported back to their
countries to danger and physically and sexually abused in detention
centres. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples have shown
their greater solidarity with eX-detainees by raising their voices
against Australias white supremacist refugee policy. We would also
thank the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples for their
recognition and ongoing solidarity with us.
The crisis of disproportionate numbers of Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander youths and adults being placed in institutionalised
care, incarcerated and separated from their families and
communities is not a recent one. We believe this is systemic abuse
which has resulted in over 200 years of discrimination as part of
the British colonial genocide strategy.
RISE eX-detainees call on members of our community to stand on
the side of justice and equity. Take action at the very least, by
condemning any refugee community representatives who partake in
celebrations on Australia Day or event, that disrespects and erases
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples by glorifying
stolenwealth and genocide.
Finally, RISE eX-detainees urge members of our community, allies
and supporters to amplify and donate where possible to
self-determined Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples-led
movements and organisations.
In Solidarity
RISE eX-detainees
Nothing About Us Without Us
You may be interested to know about the upcoming event presented
by Wadawurrung Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation with the
support of Surf Coast Shire Council Pilk Purriyn (meaning sunrise)
on 26 January 2023 from 5:30am-7am. Perhaps youre already planning
to come along.
Open and free for everyone to attend, this inaugural event for
Torquay and the Surf Coast follows this Councils decision in
September 2021 to no longer support Australia Day activities within
its municipality.
Pilk Purriyn will be an opportunity for truth-telling, deep
listening and recognition of the meaning of this day for First
Nations people; and a chance for their allies within the Surf Coast
community to show their support.
You can help spread the word by circulating this event to your
networks. You can find out more about the event at www.surfcoast.vic.gov.au/pilk-purriyn.
<p>Music and food make great mates, their charismatic
combination creates the perfect context for friendships to flourish
and where theres one you will invariably find the other. From Vocal
Noshes to music camps and choirs, there is nothing like a spot of
music-making to work up an appetite and a gathering of like minded
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We eX-detainees urge the Midsumma Festival to immediately cut
ties with security company Serco, Victoria police or any current
relationships with politicians both federal and state. There is
nothing to be proud of about the detention industrial complex and
any individual, political party, corporation and agency who benefit
from this industry. There is also nothing to be proud of about
police racial profiling.
Who are we ?
RISE: Refugees, Survivors and eX-detainees is a not-for-profit
association and the FIRST eX-detainee led and governed welfare and
advocacy organisation in Australia. RISE is a unique organisation
distinguished by its ethics of self-determination and community
control. RISE eX-detainees raise the bar in the non-profit sector
by ensuring we are not subservient to politicians or businesses by
not accepting blood money from the Federal government, State
government, local government or corporations who invest in prisons,
military or are complicit in land grab or labour exploitation.
What is the Midsumma Festival?
Midsumma Festival is a queer arts and culture festival based in
Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. They are predominantly run by queer
white people and a few handpicked queer people of colour. In recent
years, Midsumma Festival has been working towards ticking diversity
boxes after many years of being cis-white-able-bodied-queer
centric.
1. Serco
Midsumma Festival allowed detention supply chain provider Serco to
have a stall at the Midsumma Carnival last year. This is utterly
abhorrent and triggering for queer eX-detainees who have survived
rape and torture in the hands of Serco security as well as
dismissive of the torture and trauma experienced by other
eX-detainee survivors.
We question Midsumma Festival, who have authorised Serco to have
a stall at their Carnival event on 23rd January 2022. Serco has a
direct role in the Australian governments abusive, human rights
violating, asylum seeker trafficking, and detention supply chain in
Manus and Nauru as well as in onshore detention centres. Giving a
podium to Serco is an investment in the Australian mandatory
detention scheme and the continued abuse and torture of refugees.
There have been countless reports and inquiries regarding the
deaths, torture, sexual abuse and gendered violence faced by
refugees who have been incarcerated within Australias mandatory
detention centres.
Detention Supply chain security company Serco at last years
Midsumma Carnival 2022
...
Australia has detained and stripped the rights
of all those who arrived by boat including hundreds of refugees
seeking protection from gendered violence. A Significant
number of them are Afghan Refugees. Thousands of Afghan
refugees are languishing inside and outside Australias detention
centres, without basic rights. We also cannot forget Kevin Rudd, a
former Australian Labor party Prime Minister and proposed Candidate
for UN secretary General, implementing a cruel and discriminatory
act in 2010, by freezing the Refugee VISA process for all Afghan
asylum seekers who came to Australia by boat.
The racist Mandatory detention centre policy
against refugees was created three decades ago, when some of the
current players on the national team were not even born at this
time. Yet so far, not a single cricketer or member of the
Australian cricket board has condemned this.
The Australian cricket board and its players
are a sample of white supremacy in Australia which thrives without
question. Furthermore, public figures and institutions in
Australia, conveniently call out and condemn other countries while
turning a blind eye to Australia a Disneyland for white supremacy
and refugee torture.Of course, we should
not be surprised by this, given that the entire board of Cricket
Australia, selectors, and as well as the top coaching team is
white. This is how white Australia reigns supreme in the silence
regarding torture and rape occurring in detention centres in their
backyard.
Shame on you cricketers and Cricket
Australia.
We are also wondering when Australian sports
organisations will for example boycott France given it has deprived
Muslim women/children of their rights by banning the hijab in
schools since 2004. We are further waiting for Australian sport
teams to boycott and withdraw from every sporting event connected
to countries like Israel, Sri Lanka etc for crimes against
humanity, land-grab, occupation and genocide. After all, to quote
the CEO of Cricket Australia himself Basic human rights is not
politics.
Afghanistan and Australia must be held
accountable for crimes against humanity and breaching the
fundamental rights of human beings.
Dr Gary Fettke is a Tasmanian
orthopaedic surgeon whose day job is amputating toes and feet from
diabetics. He also does hip and knee replacements. Years ago he
worked out that all this pain and suffering was not only
unnecessary, but easily fixed with diet. Yes you guessed it, a low
carb high fat (LCHF) Ketogenic diet. His story is amazing. He
started giving his patients dietary advice and someone didnt like
it and reported him to some overarching medical organisation which
threatened to have him deregistered from medicine! I kid you not,
the cereals industry is that powerful. He was exonerated, and now
hes on a campaign. Probably too late as everything is going to
collapse anyway, not least our health system.
The origin of the anti meat industry is thoroughly fascinating.
If it wasnt real, it would be a conspiracy theory. Someone should
make a movie about this, it has all the intrigue As an aside, since
embarking on my own keto adventure, all signs of the arthritis that
was developing in my hands have disappeared. The way my BP is
trending down Ill be off my meds within a month or two.
No-one will ever likely make a
documentary on collapse that I could completely agree with, but
this one comes close because it at least discusses most of the
important issues we discuss here. Climate, economy, energy, etc
Never mentions growth as a problem. And it ends, as usual, on an
optimistic note. No mention of ERoEI or surplus energy and my old
mate Ugo Bardi gives his usual thumbs up to renewables. At two
hours long Id recommend watching it on your TV.
RAC Vic has made a submission to the Department of Home Affairs
review of Australias migration system. RACs recommendations
include: Read the RAC submission in full.
When Labor recently announced without any
clear details, that 19000 eX-detainees are eligible for permanent
visas, Australian journos simply appeared to rehash the governments
PR/media brief and failed to question the Labor Partys own
culpability in Australias brutal refugee torture system. News
reports were published with minimal research, with token sound
bites from a few white saviours in the refugee support industry,
peppered with stories of trauma from an eX-detainee or two without
proper context.
In fact, some Australian journalists were not
even aware that eX-detainees on TPV were already allowed to travel
overseas to see family based on emergency reasons under the
Liberal/National coalition government. Job done this is journalism
in so-called Australia. By not exercising due diligence Australian
journalists have normalised the experience of detention torture,
rape and the existence of eX-detainee discrimination and violation
of refugee rights.
According to these various Australian news
outlets, the government says that they will give permanent
residency to 19000 refugees early next year.Next yearis in fact tomorrow! yet, not
a single journalist has questioned what early next year means. Is
it next week, the week after or just before June 2023? How long are
politicians and their advisors allowed to keep gaslighting and
tamper with our lives?
Furthermore, if you are applauding the Labor
party for allowing nearly 19 000 eX-detainee Refugees on TPV and
SHEV visas being granted permanent residency, you must do a reality
check onwhythese
eX-detainees were subjected to these miserable conditions in the
first place First inside detention centres and then outside
detention centres. The Australian Labor party is responsible for
the mandatory detention of ALL these 19000 Refugees as soon as they
landed in Australia to seek asylum by boat.
It is Labor politicians who crafted Australias
indefinite mandatory immigration detention system and tortured
eX-detainees back in 1992. Keeping this in mind, the Labor party
has blood on their hands more than any party in Australia over the
last three decades.
From 1 February 2023, problematic single-use plastics will be
banned from sale or supply in
Victoria.
The ban applies to single-use plastic drinking straws, cutlery,
plates, drink stirrers and cotton
bud sticks made from conventional, degradable, and compostable
plastics. The ban also applies
to food service items and drink containers made from expanded
polystyrene.
Single-use plastics make up a third of the litter in our streets
and waterways. They remain in the
environment for a long time, harming our wildlife and contaminating
our food and water. This
ban will also help reduce plastic waste and contamination at
recycling facilities.
Compostable plastics, such as biodegradable plastics, degradable
plastics, renewable plastics,
and bioplastics are included in the ban. This includes plastic
items with composting
certifications. Biodegradable or compostable plastic items can
still harm wildlife the same way
conventional plastic items do, if they are littered. Such plastics
require extended periods of time
or processing at a specialised composting facility in order to
break down.
The use of reusable containers is legal and an easy, affordable and
sustainable solution
businesses can adopt to manage the single-use plastic ban.
Consumers can BYO straws
especially for items such as bubble tea or smoothies and businesses
can encourage the use of
portable cutlery sets.
For more information: www.vic.gov.au/single-use-plastics
Its never been hard to get excited about a Vocal Nosh, whats not
to love about informal harmony singing, hearty soup and crusty
bread? For the folks of Euroa, the agonising wait for the return of
this well-loved event is about to end this weekend, after more than
two years in hiatus. We had our
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Appetite for the Return of Vocal Nosh
RAC has called out the systemic torture of people held in
Australian immigration detention facilities (IDFs) in a submission
to a United Nations body. We have called for an end to mandatory
detention, for refugees and asylum-seekers on Nauru and in Papua
New Guinea to be brought here, as well as a raft of legal []
<p>Presidents report: (2<sup>nd</sup> November
2022)</p> <p>Another big year for the SCEG
committee:</p> <p><strong>Community Climate
Forum:</strong></p> <p>Apart from SCEGs core
work, weve also linked up twice with Surfers for Climate & SCS
at their Community Climate Forum. This was an opportunity for
people to find out what other groups are doing and to tap in to
areas of interest.
SCEG strategy document:
Weve also completed our 5 year strategy and its now under way
with 4 pillars: Andrew to provide details</p> <ul>
<li>Energy Transition to zero carbon energy</li>
<li>Natural environment & biodiversity
Reducing and preventing waste
A sustainable built environment.
The strategy is very much about a SYSTEMS approach to human
sustainability; its not just energy or carbon or just about waste
or biodiversity but responding to all of it as a network of
interconnected parts as opposed to silos. Graeme will provide some
more detail on that.</p> <p><strong>Spring Creek
valley:</strong></p> <p>The vision in a nutshell
is providing ecological stewardship to Spring Creek valley and to
return the ecological vegetation class of Grassy Woodland with
Bellarine Yellow Gum as the chief character species. It currently
mostly exists as just a thin sliver along the creekline. We plan to
do that using multiple strategy lines: For example:</p>
<ol type="1"> <li>By community ownership of a parcel of
land that is owned by the community and operated through a Board of
Trustees.</li> <li>Developing our Biolink strategy; and
SCEG has a high level Roundtable event later on this month to
assist us with our strategy on this.</li> <li>Through
encouraging Trust for Nature covenants on land titles</li>
<li>And by partnering with other landowners to develop
opportunities in say regenerative agriculture consolidated land use
such as BnBs or Ashmore Arts for example.</li> </ol>
<p>Importantly, the approach to this is SYSTEMS thinking with
Ecology, Energy, Economy and Equity our guide in thinking.
Using this approach not only helps us integrate planning but also
to think big. I constantly reference the work done by the community
in Wellington , New Zealand as the gold standard. Theyve literally
retrieved a lost ecosystem and in the process created a $30
million/annum economy for the local community.</p>
<ul> <li>Our partnership with TDLG means we are able to
implement a 2<sup>nd</sup> round of the Wild Otways
grant- another $19,030.00 for works out to June
2023.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>In addition, our
community development plans around Spring Creek valley through our
Old Great Ocean Road ridgeline trail project have been funded by
Patagonia to the tun...
RACs Art Meets Activism art auction on Saturday 12 November was
a huge success, with more than 100 attending and 90 per cent of
artworks sold. The in-person auction and online, silent auction
raised more than $40,000 between them. Refugees whose works sold
received 100 per cent of the bid price. The remaining income, after
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Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) considers
Australias 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 Australias
population grew by nearly half a million (496,800 or 1.9%) in the
year ending 31 December 2022. The two components of growth were net
overseas migration (immigration minus emigration = NOM) at 387,000
and natural increase at 109,800.
