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22:33
Rental price growth has...peaked! "IndyWatch Feed Economics.au"
Rental growth peaks
SQM Research has been ahead of the curve on picking
rental market trends with its asking rents index ballooning more
than 25 per cent higher in Sydney and some other cities.
In real time, they are now seeing the rental crisis
easing as tenants push back on rental price increases and make more
efficient use of the housing stock.
Nationally the rental vacancy rate ticked up from
1.2 per cent to 1.3 per cent in June, and asking rents actually
declined over the past week in Sydney, for the first time in
ages.
Looking at the smoothed 6-month trend, Brisbane and
Adelaide and still very tight, but there are signs of pressures
easing elsewhere.
Of course, there is still rollicking rental demand
expected over the next 5 years - and there probably is a seasonal
element to this - but this does suggest that we may be through the
immediate worst of the rental crisis, especially in Canberra and
Hobart, and much of regional Australia to boot. ...
16:00
Centrelink bogus debts: How far can the vulnerable be pushed before they break? FLASHBACK 2017 "IndyWatch Feed Politics.au"
The Robodebt Royal Commission recommended prosecutions for the Coalition criminals behind the illegal welfare hunt.
In this article from 2017, Eleanor Green, one of the brave victims who spoke out about the scheme, shared her experience of receiving a Centrelink debt notice.
I AM ONE of the lucky people who have received a false debt notice from Centrelink.
The letter states:
We have completed our review of your employment income details and made a decision to change the amount you were entitled to receive.
You might notice it does not say I received more than I was entitled to. Rather, the Government has changed their mind about how much to pay me after the fact.
The debt notices scandal, or should I say scam, has been blamed on faulty government technology. When I received the notice, I was not surprised. It just seems typical of the Government, with its expertise in combining bullying and incompetence. The notice refers to a period over five years ago, when I was working casually as a checkout operator at Coles and I diligently reported my income at the time on a fortnightly basis.
Over the past six months, almost 200,000 debt notices have been delivered. They continue to be sent out at up to 20,000 per week, which is approximately the same amount that was sent for the whole of 2015. Meanwhile, Centrelink seems to be in no hurry to rectify the problem. There are plans to send out 1.7 million debt notices, in order to grab back $4 billion from welfare recipients.
Pressure on the Government to do something about it is hi...
15:35
Mr. Musk Goes to Malaysia "IndyWatch Feed Economics.au"
Tesla sees some Southeast Asian countries as promising markets for its electric vehicles, and others as possible sites for producing them.
15:02
Melbournes Triple R radio on The Palestine Laboratory "IndyWatch Feed Politics.au"
My interview with Melbournes Triple R Radio program, The Grapevine, about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory:
The Palestine Laboratory is a new book by journalist Antony Loewenstein that documents how Israels subjugation of the Palestinian people serves as a testing ground for weapons and surveillance systems that are then exported around the world.
Built on extensive research, interviews and on-the-ground reporting, the book draws on modern events including Harvey Weinstein, 9/11 and the current crisis in Ukraine to show the consequences of a military industrial complex that facilitates the persecution of groups in many parts of the world.
Antony joined Dylan and Kulja on The Grapevine to talk through it all.
Whats happening in Palestine is not staying there the occupation is being exported The technologies and tools that Israel has developed over decades whether its spyware drones or facial recognition technology is now a massive export business to countless countries around the world.
The post Melbournes Triple R radio on The Palestine Laboratory appeared first on Antony Loewenstein.
13:39
Untenable "IndyWatch Feed Politics.au"
If a political party had been playing host to someone accused of historical indecent assault, you'd think that's the sort of thing voters ought to be able to know during an election campaign. But not according to this snobby judge:
A former political party figure charged with indecent assault will keep his name under wraps until his trial next year.This is terrible for voters, who are being denied information which could affect their vote. Its terrible for the party, who are being denied the opportunity to defend themselves and dispel the inevitable suspicion that they knew or were careless about this historical offending. Its terrible for the party's candidates, who face being tarred by association and suffering reputational damage when the truth comes out. But most of all, its terrible for our democracy. Because if the party ends up in government and helping to make justice policy after the election, and then suppression is lifted, voters will rightly feel that they have been defrauded at the ballot box and that the government gained power by covering up child abuse. Which is obviously horrific for its legitimacy, and for public confidence in our democratic institutions.His lawyer Ian Brookie successfully argued the case could have become a political football in an election year, jeopardising his clients right to a fair trial.
Brookie defused what was alleged to be a potential election bombshell in two hearings about a month ago in the Auckland District Court.
Judge Anna Skellern recently released her reserved judgment to parties in the case, granting the man ongoing interim name suppression until his trial, scheduled to start on August 19, 2024.
But hey, we couldn't inconvenience a rich person, could we?
This is simply untenable. The consistent use of name suppression to protect the rich and powerful from the reputational consequences of their actions is already undermining public confidence in the justice system. Lets not let it take down our democracy as well.
13:00
One Simple Word Can Change Your Thinking "IndyWatch Feed Economics.au"
Since its dark days of March 2009, Wall Street ably assisted by its central bank benefactor has soared to levels beyond anything we could ever have imagined.
Nasdaq has clocked up a 16-fold gain and the S&P 500 a more modest seven-fold increase. Contrary to what people might think, compound returns of this magnitude ARE NOT normal.
However, the longer something goes on, the more ingrained the belief becomes in its permanency.
This headline from the 4 July 2023 edition of The Wall Street Journal captures the current mood of eternal optimismone-fifth of investors age 85 or older have gone all-in on the marketWOW
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I recall Buffett saying something like, when others are greedy, you should be scared.
Are this cohort of bullish seniors aware of just how overvalued the US market is?
Instead of being greedy, shouldnt they be scared?
As of 30 June 2023, 16 valuation metrics four of which have data points dating back to 1925/26 are ALL registering readings ofModerately to Extremely Overvalued.
Nothing is cheap out there.
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13:00
The Hardest Landing "IndyWatch Feed Economics.au"
So, we felt sorry for the owner of a huge mega-yacht that came into the harbour yesterday. Sleek and longwith its own starched-white crew and chefworth maybe US$50$100 million. The rule of thumb is that annual operating expenses come to about 10% of the purchase price.
How proud the owner must have been! His friends and family aboardall impressed by his floating palace
But then, mooring in Taormina bay
the poor owner must have felt like he needed a second job; the yacht was dwarfed by other super-super yachts already in the harbour.
Welcome to the world of the richin Taormina, Sicily.
Rates rocket
We are in Sicily attending a wedding. Despite all the advances in technology AI, cryptos, and luggage with wheels
and all the advances in public policy the Patriot Act, the war in Ukraine, removing statues, and almost 13 years of negative real interest rates
and progress in society itself using they to describe a single person, taking pride in things that used to be unmentionable and unpardonable, and recognising that we are all hopeless racists
people still hitch themselves, one to another, like plow-horses.
And sometimes they want to do it in exotic locationswhich is why we are here.
The wedding went smoothly and elegantly. And then we spent the weekend exploring the countrysideincluding the towns of Castiglione di Sicilia and Troina, where we heard they were giving away houses.
More about thattomorrow.
Today, let us look at the most important thing to happen in the financial markets.
Benzinga reports, 10-Year Treasury Yields Rise Above Inflation for the First Time in Three Years:
In a significant market development, the yield on the 10-year US Treasury note surpassed the rate of inflation for the first time in more than three years. With the current yield at 4.04% and inflation recorded at 4% year-on-year in May 2023, this milestone signals a crucial market shift.
when bond yields surge above inflation, the dynamics change dramatically.
And heres the Reuters report, US two-year Treasury yield surges to 16-year high after employment data:
The two-year US Treasury note yield rose to its highest level since June 2007 on Thursday after news that private payrolls jumped in June, showing that the labour market remains surprisingly strong despite risks of recession from higher interest rates.
Piping hot
What sent interest rates shooting up was news, last week, which told us that the labour market is piping hot. We dont believe it really is; most of the new jobs are actually second jobs taken by people who are desperate to keep up with ris...
12:00
Terrible truths about nuclear energy exposed "IndyWatch Feed Politics.au"
A documentary lifting the lid on secrets surrounding the Fukushima nuclear disaster exposes the terrifying dangers of nuclear power, writes Karl Grossman.
A NEW documentary titled The Fukushima Disaster: The Hidden Side of the Story is a powerful, moving, informative film that is superbly made. Directed and edited by Philippe Carillo, it is among the strongest ever made on the deadly dangers of nuclear technology.
Australians featured in the film are Dr Helen Caldicott, former president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, and John Keane, professor of politics at the University of Sydney. Carillo is a resident of the nation of Vanuatu, 1,750 kilometres northeast of Australia.
The documentary begins with the words of U.S. President John F Kennedy from 1961:
Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by an accident, or miscalculation or by madness.
It then goes to the March 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan after it was struck by a tsunami. Its backup diesel generators kicked in but did not run for long, notes the documentary. That led to three of the six plant reactors exploding and theres video of this releasing an unpreceded amount of nuclear radiation into the air.
Fukushima is the worlds largest ever industrial catastrophe, then says Professor John Keane. He says there was no emergency plan and, as to the owner of Fukushima, Tokyo Electric Power Company (...
10:35
The dole-bludger myth can die now the real cheats were highly paid public servants "IndyWatch Feed Politics.au"
The dole-bludger myth can die now the real cheats were highly paid public servants
The royal commission made clear what we already knew: the only dangers to the welfare system are public servants and policy makers.
08:27
The Old Run. "IndyWatch Feed Politics.au"
The Old Run.
Th bottom fifty lays fallow now,
No more to feel the hunger of the plough,
The fences lean a fair degree,
But its no longer a problem..
We dont run stock there any more, ysee?
The troughs are dry and filling with dust,
Rolly-pollys tumble over saltbush rough,
And the Mallee scrub is re-claiming its bush.
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Since last we spoke..Stellas in a home, yknow?
Yes..the dreaded D..taking her slow,
The memory, the speech..doesnt know me now..
Tis a blasted pity and rotten way to go,
And a bloody shame, considering the effort,
We put in..th sweat n tears, to run this show.
The ending now..shell never know.
A blasted shame n rotten way to go.
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Old Tom Hart shifted uncomfortable in his chair,
Took a sip from the cup at his elbow there,
Gave his nose a twitching.. Welsh combed his hair.
Took Stella for a walk along the riverside a ways,
Tother day..didnt recognise it..was just confused..aye..,
So what happens, on the day she passes away?
There will be no memory, no self..no dignity left to die,
Nothing at all, I spose, but a sad goodbye.a sad goodbye.
08:09
In which Dame Groan cultists must wade through murky Orwellian and bromancer waters before reaching their prize ... "IndyWatch Feed Politics.au"
Bitter regrets at astonishing sacrifices arising from sticking to the lizard Oz?
Sometimes the pond has a few, perhaps too many to mention ... what fragile beauty, what tender moment, what Pythonish juxtaposition, was lost to the pond for all eternity by not being able to embrace gorgeous George and share his devotion?
Plain-spoken appeal from a manly man cutting through ...and
yet was it not Kipling himself who said that a brave heart and a
courteous tongue would carry stout-hearted souls far through the
jungle, and so the pond must abandon George, leave his
plain-speaking tent, and move on to familiar fields ...
Hang on a 'mo, what else before turning to the usual day with
the reptiles of the lizard Oz?
Well the pond woke to the news that the WMO was at it again
... Preliminary
data shows hottest week on record. Unprecedented sea surface
temperatures and Antarctic sea ice loss
08:00
Disharmony plaguing international women's soccer "IndyWatch Feed Politics.au"
As the FIFA Womens World Cup draws near and national teams begin to descend on us, it is imperative we see beyond the jerseys and anthems and understand that female athletes are women deserving of support on and off the field.
In 2009, an author and an economist published a book together called Soccernomics, which was hailed as being soccers answer to Moneyball a book based on the data of the game.
In their book, the two allude to the fact that statistically, the English Premier League has more transfers from Scandinavia than it does from Latin America, despite the fact that Latin American players are more widely known for their talent and skill.
The reason, according to them, is that time and experience have shown that Latin American players adapt poorly to the culture in the UK, which is a prerequisite to performing well at any club within the English Premier League.
The authors write:
Latin Americans dont speak English, dont like cold weather and dont tend to understand the core traditions of English football, such as drinking twenty pints of beer in a night. Few Latin Americans adjust easily to English football.
Instead of Latin Americans, English clubs traditionally bought Scandinavians. On average, Scandinavians are worse footballers than Latin Americans, but they are very familiar with English, cold weather and twenty pints of beer.
The point that the authors, Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski, had set out to make is that players cannot simply be seen as merchandise and transferring players from club to club and country to country is not as simple as buying the best players and expecting them to perform.
Players, as obvious as it sounds, are people and the way that they are able (or unable) to adapt to a new culture, country and climate has a statistically proven effect on...
05:59
NATO must bring Putin down "IndyWatch Feed Economics.au"
NATO leaders will meet this week in Lithuania, a nation that suffered both the Nazi jackboot and the hammer of Soviet communism. Their main subject, of course, will be Ukraine, which suffered the same fate as Lithuania and now suffers at the hands of the Putin dictatorship.
As those leaders meet, they should reflect upon the words of Robert Jackson delivered during the opening the prosecution at the Nuremberg trial in 1945:
The . . . dream of a peace-and-plenty economy . . . can never be fulfilled if those nations are involved in a war every generation so vast and devastating as to crush the generation that fights and burden the generation that follows. . . .
Wars are started only on the theory and in the confidence that they can be won. Personal punishment, to be suffered only in the event the war is lost, will probably not be a sufficient deterrent to prevent a war where the warmakers feel the chances of defeat to be negligible. But the ultimate step in avoiding periodic wars, which are inevitable in a system of international lawlessness, is to make statesmen responsible to law.
[We must] take joint political action to prevent war if possible, and joint military action to ensure that any nation which starts a war will lose it . . . and that those who start a war will pay for it personally.
This is why NATO must ensure that Russia loses this war and that Vladimir Putin is tried for the crimes of waging an aggressive war; crimes against humanity; murder; and kidnapping.
And so must his associates. Fortunately, like the Nazis, Putin has helped the prosecutors. Remember when he gathered his top echelon and asked each in turn whether they agreed with the invasion of Ukraine. When each nodded assent, they committed a war crime. And each must be bought to account for it.
Of course, the trouble with international law is not lack of law or legal clarity, but the difficulty of enforcement.
The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant against Putin and others. But he visited China with impunity and must have flown over other countries airspace in doing so.
Th...
04:33
China's reopening proves...deflationary "IndyWatch Feed Economics.au"
China teeters on the edge of
deflation
There had been a line of thought that the grand
reopening of China's economy could prove to be inflationary,
adding fuel to the fire for the rest of the world and pushing
interest rates higher for longer.
It hasn't worked out that way, however.
Annual inflation in China fell to zero per
cent in May, and if recent trends in producer prices prove to be a
useful guide, then we can expect deflation for China
ahead.
Producer price inflation fell to a deeply negative
-5.4 per cent over the year.
This is a fairly dramatic and surprising data
release.
In the modern era inflation in China has only
turned negative previously during COVID, the global financial
crisis, and before that during the Asia crisis of the late 1990s
(carrying through to the early 2000s tech bust).
Source: Goldman
Sachs
China teetering at risk of recession might account
for a recent modest decline in Aussie share prices to the lowest
level since March - with miners wearing a fair chunk of the decline
- but on the other hand it might also prove to bring renewed
stimulus in China.
What's going on here?
What's the cause of this?
00:15
Trying to bring probity and ethics back into the ranks of the Australian Public Service in 2023 "IndyWatch Feed Politics.au"
The Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit is constituted by the Public Accounts and Audit Committee Act 1951. The Committee initiates its own inquiries into public administration matters and can conduct inquiries into matters referred to it by either House of Parliament.
The breakdown of the current membership of the Joint Committee is:
Five Upper House Senators 3 Labor, 1 Liberal, 1 Nationals; and
Nine Lower House MPs 6 Labor, 1 Liberal, 2 Liberal-Nationals.
This new inquiry into probity and ethics within the Australian Public Sector was referred to the Joint Committee by the Department of the House of Representatives.
Inquiry into probity and ethics in the Australian Public Sector
...
Monday, 10 July
23:28
Mongolia Signs Agreement with SpaceX to Utilize Starlink "IndyWatch Feed Economics.au"
Mongolia continues its digitalization push by bringing Starlink on board to provide satellite internet service to people in remote locations... in every corner of our vast country.
21:31
A watershed week in nuclear news "IndyWatch Feed Enviro.au"
A bit of good news -The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation
Its a watershed moment on 2 counts:
1. Ukraine. The determination of the USA-led Western countries to bring Ukraine into NATO is a red flag to Russia, and current events, indicate that the West, and its charismatic super-star Zelensky, will not countenance any negotiated end to the war.
2. The IAEAs Rafael Grossi has made it clear that the Fukushima nuclear wastewater MUST be emptied into the Pacific, to ensure that this practice is accepted, for the continued growth of the nuclear industry world-wide.
Christina notes. IAEA hypocrisy, and the little Fukushima nuclear radiation mill. And the prize for HYPOCRISY goes to Rafael Grossi,Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency. No real research into the effects of releasing nuclear waste-water into rivers and seas. Oh goody! That means its OK, (doesnt it?)
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Better, safer, alternatives for managing Fukushimas ra...
17:56
Queenslands Liberal National Party leader Crisafulli rejects Duttons push for nuclear power "IndyWatch Feed Enviro.au"
No nukes in Qld: Crisafulli rejects Duttons plan Financial Review, Mark Ludlow, Queensland bureau chief, 10 July 23
Queensland Liberal National Party leader David Crisafulli has rebuffed federal leader Peter Duttons push to repurpose the states retiring coal-fired power stations for nuclear power, saying it will never get off the ground without bipartisan support.
As Mr Dutton attempts to put nuclear power back on the agenda as a way to help Australia to reach net zero by 2050, Labor has ridiculed the idea as too expensive, despite the price of small modular reactors coming down in recent years.
Mr Crisafulli, who could become premier at Queenslands state election next year, according to the latest opinion polls, said there was no point discussing nuclear power until it was endorsed by both major parties.
Until both sides of federal parliament agree that is the course of action, it is not going to happen, Mr Crisafulli told The Australian Financial Review.
Im not spending any energy on it pardon the pun because no one will invest in it unless both sides agree to it. Its a reality.
When asked what he would do if he and Mr Dutton won their respective elections and it became federal government policy, Mr Crisafulli said investors would still steer clear of nuclear power until Labor was behind it.
Federal Labor is vehemently opposed to nuclear power, .
17:54
Daniel Kovalik: Why Russias intervention in Ukraine is legal under international law "IndyWatch Feed Enviro.au"
<div class="wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile"> <figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img alt="" class= "wp-image-236026 size-full" src= "https://antinuclearinfo.files.wordpress.com/2023/07/kovalik-daniel.jpg?w=225"></figure> <div class="wp-block-media-text__content"> <p><em>One must begin this discussion by accepting the fact that there was already a war happening in Ukraine for the eight years preceding the Russian military incursion in February 2022. And, this war by the government in Kiev against the Russian-speaking peoples of the Donbass a war which claimed the <a href="https://www.crisisgroup.org/content/conflict-ukraines-donbas-visual-explainer" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">lives of around 14,000 people</a>, many of them <a href= "https://reliefweb.int/report/ukraine/ukraine-conflict-emergency-response-situational-report-01-february-2022" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">children</a>, and <a href= "https://reliefweb.int/report/ukraine/ukraine-conflict-emergency-response-situational-report-01-february-2022" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">displaced around 1.5 million more</a> even before Russias military operation has been arguably genocidal. That is, the government in Kiev, and especially its neo-Nazi battalions, carried out attacks against these peoples with the intention of destroying, at least in part, the ethnic Russians precisely because of their ethnicity. </em></p> </div> </div> <p class="has-medium-font-size"><strong>The argument can be made that Russia exercised its right for self-defense</strong></p> <p><strong><em>10 July 23</em></strong> <a href= "https://www.rt.com/russia/554166-international-law-military-operation-ukraine/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target= "_blank">https://www.rt.com/russia/554166-international-law-military-operation-ukraine/</a></p> <p><em><strong>Daniel Kovalik</strong> teaches International Human Rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and is author of the recently-released book Nicaragua: A History of US Intervention & Resistance.
For many years, I have studied and given much thought to the UN Charters prohibition against aggressive war. No one can seriously doubt that the primary purpose of the document drafted and agreed to on the heels of the horrors of WWII was and is to prevent war and <em>to maintain international peace and security,</em> a phrase repeated throughout. </p> <p>As the Justices at Nuremberg correctly <a href= "https://harvardilj.org/2017/04/continued-debate-over-the-crime-of-aggression-a-supreme-international-irony/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target= "_blank">concluded</a>, <em>To initiate a war of aggression is not only an international crime; it is the supreme...
17:52
New Book -The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation "IndyWatch Feed Enviro.au"
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><a
href=
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width="414"></a></figure> <p> In this
radical new book Prof. Mark Diesendorf and Rod Taylor, who
are<br> based in Australia, say that major changes have to be
made in order the<br> move to a sustainable future.</p>
<p>They claim that we have allowed large<br>
corporations, the military and other vested interests to
capture<br> governments and influence public opinion and
markets excessively. The<br> result will be social, economic
and environmental disaster.</p> <p>They argue that the
way forward is to build social movements to apply overwhelming
pressure on government and big business, weaken the power of vested
interests and<br> strengthen democratic
decision-making.</p> <p>This, they say, must be done
simultaneously with action on the specific issues of climate,
energy, natural resources & social justice, so as to transition
to a truly
sustainable civilisation. That may sound Utopia, but the book takes
us
through the practical technology options and explores how the
transition to
their use might come about globally. However, it goes well beyond
just
offering technical and social fixes, challenging the idea that
technological changes alone will be sufficient to transition to
ecological
sustainability. It says that a sustainable civilisation needs
an<br> economic system that fosters ecological sustainability
and social<br> justice, whereas the current dominant system,
neoclassical economic<br> theory together neoliberalism
practice, is based on numerous myths. Its<br> practitioners
claim its a science although it does not stand up to<br>
scientific scrutiny.</p> <p> Renew Extra 8th July
2023</p> <p><a href=
"https://renewextraweekly.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-path-to-sustainable-civilisation.html"
rel=
"nofollow">https://renewextraweekly.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-path-to-sustainable-civilisation.html</a></p>
17:38
An Accident Waiting to Happen: NATO Looks to Asia "IndyWatch Feed Politics.au"
Since the end of the Cold War, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation has distinctly strayed from its original purpose. It has become, almost shamelessly, the vessel and handmaiden of US power, while its burgeoning expansion eastwards has done wonders to upend the applecart of stability. From that upending, the alliance started bungling. It engaged, without
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17:34
The Voice Referendum: Can Colonial Era Paternalism Be Overturned? "IndyWatch Feed Politics.au"
By Denis Bright By years end, voters will have delivered their verdict on the Voice Referendum. If supported in four states by a majority of voters, this constitutional change will begin a redefinition of our national culture by a timely reminder of those 60,000 years of Indigenous settlement in the only country which occupies an
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17:04
Realty Talk: How we got it wrong "IndyWatch Feed Economics.au"
Realty Talk
I joined Bushy Martin on Realty Talk to discuss housing supply
here (or click on the image below):
16:08
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16:06
Link "IndyWatch Feed Politics.au"
Follow up sent to Department
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16:00
Albanese Government taking steps to avoid student visa crash "IndyWatch Feed Politics.au"
The Federal Government is currently facing challenges that could see a crash in student visa numbers, resulting in a costly aftermath, writes Dr Abul Rizvi.
IN THE PAST 40 years, whenever student visa numbers have increased very rapidly, this has come to an end with an almighty crash with far-reaching consequences for both students and education providers. Often, the Australian taxpayer had to pay to clean up the situation.
It happened in 1989-90. Addressing the aftermath of that took almost a decade. It happened again in 2008-09 and again in 2019-20.
While each of these crashes was triggered by particular events, the broad ingredients were much the same: a very rapid rise in student visa holders associated with a strong labour market and lax regulation; a high level of fraud in the caseload; a rise in questionable education providers delivering low-quality courses designed to enable students to do little study and mainly work; and education and migration agents misleading students about the cost of living in Australia and the pathways to permanent residence.
In mid-2023, the Albanese Government faces a very similar set of circumstances plus a few additional challenges that past governments did not have to deal with. The question is whether the Albanese Government can manage this situation leading to a soft landing or whether we will have another painful crash.
The number of students in Australia has over the past 18 months increased at an unprecedented rate after the re-opening of international borders (see Chart 1). The total number of students in Australia at end May 2023 was 610,065. While that was still below the peak of 633,816 in September 2019, that peak will be easily surpassed in the next few months.
We also need to take into account...
14:40
Ozone layer in Recovery, Montreal Protocol reducing Greenhouse gases set to avoid global warming by about 0.51C by 2050 "IndyWatch Feed Enviro.au"
Photo: IISD/ENB OEWG contact group meetingThe Montreal Protocol, the little international treaty that reduces ozone depleting substances but also assists greatly with reducing greenhouse gases causing global warming.The 45th Meeting of the Open-ended Working Group of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol met in Thailand between 2 to 7 July 2023.The IISD/ENB summary report of the meeting notes:"The
14:03
Climate Change: Underwhelming "IndyWatch Feed Politics.au"
The Greens had their pre-election AGM on the weekend, and released their manifesto, including their climate change policy. Unfortunately, its a bit underwhelming. Climate change is the biggest policy challenge facing humanity, and Aotearoa needs to do a lot more if we are to meet our Paris commitments and the 1.5 degree target. And the Greens are offering us... the status quo. Oh, there are tweaks: a standalone Ministry, moving control of ETS settings to the Climate Change Commission and out of the hands of politicians - but these are bureaucratic fiddles. There's no new policies for emissions reduction, no increased ambition, nothing substantive.
On the one hand, this is probably to be expected. James Shaw is the Climate Change Minister, and the status quo is (mostly) his policy. So of course he's focused on fixing the bits where Labour has over-ruled him. But on the gripping hand, it is clear that what we are currently doing is simply nowhere near what we need to be doing. And on that front, a wishy-washy promise to simply "price" agricultural emissions seems weak, leaving open the crucial questions of "how much" and "how much will you shrink the sector by". Because that dirty, inefficient, polluting sector needs to shrink if we are to lower emissions (and improve water quality), and pretending it doesn't does no-one any favours.
This is still the best climate change policy on offer. But I expected more from the Greens. And if they're not going to offer what's required, then who will?
13:35
Britain's corrupt Parliament "IndyWatch Feed Politics.au"
Last month, Transport Minister Michael Wood was forced to resign after deliberately and repeatedly concealing his pecuniary interests. There's no suggestion that they ever influenced his decision-making, but in Aotearoa we're rightly suspicious of politicians being in a position to profit from public office, and have no tolerance for politicians who refuse to comply with the basic safeguards against it. Meanwhile, in Britain, Wood's crime would have been both legal and normal:
More than 50 MPs have owned stakes in publicly listed companies that raise questions about possible conflicts of interest and that until now have been in effect secret, the Guardian can reveal.That declaration threshold is around 80% of a backbench MP's salary - a ludicrously high amount. Meanwhile, in Aotearoa, there's no threshold - MPs are required to declare every company in which they have a pecuniary interest (though not, weirdly, its value). And that seems much safer. Allowing substantial financial interests - and over twice the UK median income is "substantial" to anyone who isn't a member of Britain's out-of-touch political elite - to remain secret is simply a recipe for corruption. And while UK MP's might argue that it's "within the rules", that's utterly unconvincing, given that they wrote those rules to suit themselves.Parliamentary rules mean MPs shareholdings, including ones that were held by the former prime minister Theresa May and the former education secretary Gavin Williamson, do not need to be publicly disclosed in parliamentary registers. But as a result voters are left in the dark about some of the financial interests of their elected representatives.
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Almost all of the holdings found are not strictly required to be publicly declared under current transparency requirements. Parliamentary rules, unchanged since 2015, require MPs to register holdings they have in a single company when they own more than 15% of its shares or when their shares in it are worth more than 70,000.
Westminster desperately needs reform to force disclosure, and ultimately divestment, of these corrupt financial interests. And until they do, UKanians are entitled to regard it as a corrupt sewer of self-serving pigs, perpetually ripping off the public to feather their own nests.
As for Aotearoa, the Guardian arti...
12:00
Nanoplastics: Small material causing huge problems "IndyWatch Feed Politics.au"
Plastic is in the air we breathe, the food we eat and the water we drink. How does it get there and what does it mean for human health? Erica Cirino reports.
THE AIR IS plasticised and we are no better protected from it outdoors than indoors. Minuscule plastic fibres, fragments, foam and films are shed from plastic stuff and are perpetually floating into and free-falling down on us from the atmosphere. Rain flushes micro- and nanoplastics out of the sky back to Earth. Plastic-filled snow is accumulating in urban areas like Bremen, Germany and remote regions like the Arctic and Swiss Alps.
Wind and storms carry particles shed from plastic items and debris through the air for dozens, even hundreds, of miles before depositing them back on Earth. Dongguan, Paris, London and other metropolises around the world are enveloped in air that is perpetually permeated by tiny plastic particles small enough to lodge themselves in human lungs.
Toxic tyres
Urban regions are especially full of what scientists believe is one of the most hazardous particulate pollution varieties: synthetic tyre debris. As a result of the normal friction caused by brake pads and asphalt roads, and of weathering and wear, these tyres shed plastic fragments, metals, and other toxic materials. Like the plastic used to manufacture consumer items and packaging, synthetic tyres contain a manufacturers proprietary blend of poisons meant to improve a plastic products appearance and performance.
Tyre particles from the billions of cars, trucks, bikes, tractors and other vehicles moving across the world escape into air, soil, and water bodies. Scientists are just beginning to understand the grave danger. In 2020, researchers in Washington State determined that the presence of 6PPD-quinone, a byproduct of rubber-stabilising chemical 6PPD, was playing a major factor i...
11:51
SCRC's draft Marine Turtle Conservation Plan - Mapping and ALAN results "IndyWatch Feed Politics.au"
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10:34
Link "IndyWatch Feed Politics.au"
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09:52
Report to the UN shows the threat of ISDS provisions to human rights and the environment "IndyWatch Feed Economics.au"
10 July, 2023 In response to a call from the UN, legal experts from the Centre for International Environmental Law, International Institute for Sustainable Development and ClientEarth have released a submission outlining the dangers of Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) on the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment.
The report finds that ISDS has a negligible positive impact on foreign investment but is responsible for disproportionate negative impacts on human rights and the environment. Indiscriminate investment protection gives equal protection and compensation to both activities that damage and those that protect the environment, undermining the polluter pays principle.
Moreover, the threat of ISDS claims disincentivises countries from adopting regulation to protect the environment. This, alongside ISDS tribunals focus on investor protections sidelines countries obligations to protect human rights and the environment, weakening implementation of international requirements.
The constraints ISDS has on environmental regulation are particularly clear in countries attempting to transition to low carbon economies, exacerbating inequalities between the Global North and South.
The report outlines four themes in the experiences of countries and public in challenging ISDS claims which undermine access to the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment.
- ISDS claims are numerous, often opaque, and largely inaccessible to the public. The use of ISDS enabled investors to bypass domestic courts, which meant the cases could remain, for the most part, private and shut out local communities from participating. Local communities were often denied admission to the case, when their evidence was allowed, environment and human rights considerations were restricted or given inadequate weighting. Moreover, their evidence did not have to be considered by the tribunal, and so for the most part, was not.
- ISDS is a powerful investor lobbying tool to prevent and delay government regulation. The threat of ISDS claims alone are often enough to prevent the government from enacting or maintaining policy measures. Compensation claims for lost future profits can be billions of dollars and cost millions in legal fees to defend. Indeed, both Denmark and New Zealand have...
09:35
US labour market weakening job openings fall and underemployment rises "IndyWatch Feed Economics.au"
Last Friday (July 7, 2023), the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released their latest labour market data Employment Situation Summary June 2023 which revealed that the the US labour market has probably reached a turning point but is certainly not contracting at a rate consistent with an imminent recession. There was
09:32
Robodebt royal commission has handed down 57 recommendations to improve the government and public service. "IndyWatch Feed Politics.au"
The inquiry has handed down 57 recommendations to improve the government and public service.
08:21
Seven public servants criticised in robodebt report as agencies consider response "IndyWatch Feed Politics.au"
Commissioner Catherine Holmes found that public servants had engaged in conduct including misleading cabinet that legislation was not required for the unlawful scheme, and misleading the commonwealth ombudsman.
Seven public servants criticised in robodebt report as agencies consider response. Robodebt royal commissioner Catherine Holmes found that public servants had misled cabinet, and misled the commonwealth ombudsman.
At least seven public servants (Mark Withnell,former general manager of business integrity at the DHS,Malisa Golightly, the former deputy secretary of DHS,Annette Musolino, chief counsel at the DHS,Russell de Burgh, branch manager of the pensions and integrity branch; Serena Wilson, DSS deputy secretary; and Cath Halbert the group manager of payments policy at the DSS. ) including former Department of Human Services (DHS) secretary, Kathryn Campbell, and former DHS secretary, Rene Leon, are the subject of adverse findings in the robodebt royal commission report released last week.
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08:20
Classification application, e-mail, database webpage screenshot of Halo Infinite and Halo Infinite (Campaign); e-mail about releasing footage file "IndyWatch Feed Politics.au"
Response by
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08:02
In which the pond starts the week with a Killer parade, thanks be unto the Major and the Caterist ... "IndyWatch Feed Politics.au"
Jason Clare seriously defamed rocks, and for a nanosecond, the pond thought of taking a defamation action against him on behalf of rocks everywhere, as they do their best to help humanity.. . All the empathy of a rock: Jason Clare accuses Peter Dutton of playing politics in the wake of bombshell Robodebt findings (warning, a click will reward News Corp).
But rocks are loved, rocks are empathetic, rocks are caring, and the rock love you take is equal to the rock love they make. And it's not just the passing fad of pet rocks, still being peddled on Amazon.
Why the pond can remember going to the Ryan-ji Zen temple and contemplating the fifteen most perfectly placed rocks , though it's alleged you can only see the fifteenth stone when you've attained enlightenment. Perhaps thinking of Queensland plods prevented the pond from reaching enlightenment.
Sure minerals and crystals and such like take the limelight with hippies, but if you look around you can get grounding stones for anxiety and panic attacks, and therapy rocks and massage stones and rocks.
Couldn't Clare have found a better, more suitable comparison, and left hapless, cuddly rocks alone? How about Sauron? Clare could even have flung in a joke about one Queensland plod to rule them all. What about all the empathy of a Hannibal Lecter? Darth Vader? Thanos? The Joker? Voldemort has a pretty close matching look - too close for some - and agent Smith is almost an aspirational figure in terms of style and presentation.
Or you could go high art like the immortal Rowe, with a hint of robo Terminator in the eye ...
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08:00
The saga of Donald Trump Jr Down Under "IndyWatch Feed Politics.au"
Australias security agencies must watch closely the speech and actions of Don Jr and expel him at the earliest opportunity, as Alan Austin reports.
*Also listen to the "https://open.spotify.com/episode/6pLhcQyjFVK1rxsAcgAzQe" target= "_blank">HERE.
DONALD TRUMP JR, the oldest son of former U.S. President Donald Trump, finally has his visa to visit Australia. There was some doubt the Albanese Government would grant this after an online petition garnered more than 20,000 signatures.
The petition simply read:
Donald Trump Jr is an illegal drug-taking bigoted person who should not be allowed to enter Australia for the purpose of earning himself and possibly his father any Campaign Contributions.
Ban him from this country.
Trump family criminality
Surprisingly, the petition doesnt mention Don Juniors role in the Trump Organisation, arguably the worlds most notorious criminal operation.
In January this year, the property development group was found guilty of multiple fraud charges arising from a 15-year scheme to evade taxes payable on senior executive incomes. The corporation was fined the maximum of US$1.6 million (AU$2.4 million). Chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg copped five months in gaol.
Those convictions came after decades of adverse judgments for illegal activities. The Trumps were...
06:00
We want the forest but fear the spirits: labour mobility predicaments in Samoa, part two "IndyWatch Feed Politics.au"
This three-part Professor Meleisea at the 2023 Pacific Update, on 15 June.
The Samoan government, which put an abrupt temporary stop to the labour mobility schemes earlier this year, is considering a draft policy paper that draws attention to key concerns about the impacts of labour mobility programs on Samoa.
The first of these policy considerations is in response to representations to government by private sector employers about losing workers, in particular losing technicians and service workers who they had trained on the job. The government is also concerned about the loss of junior skilled and educated government workers, including police, nurses, teachers and clerical staff, to seasonal work.
Michael Yemohs 2022 survey of 30 small businesses chosen at random from members of the Samoa Chamber of Commerce, found that all of them reported loss of middle and lower level employees that they had trained, and that many of the workers they lost were skilled technicians. Evidently their former employees were prepared to live in restricted conditions far from home doing mostly heavy unskilled work because the pay, even after hefty deductions, was far more than they could earn in Samoa.
It is often said that seasonal workers will return with better skills to contribute to Samoa. At a conference on labour mobility in Samoa in November 2022, speaker after speaker insisted that there was no brain drain but only brain gain. But as one young seasonal worker returning from Australia told us jokingly if we ever get a blueberry industry in Samoa, I will be able to train all the pickers.
In effect, private businesses in Australia and New Zealand are being backed by their government to source labour from overseas to overcome their labour shortages at the expense of Samoas private sector, which was clearly not intended when these schemes began. Except for the businesses selling cars, home appliances and building materials, the private sector has been hit hard, losing their investment in training workers and facing similar labour shortages to employers in rural New Zealand and Australia, in circumstances where they cant compete on wages.
Most of the industries in which Samoan seasonal workers are employed overseas are unlikely to ever be established in Samoa. Local wages will not attract Samoans to return to local employment unless they have no other choice. Most of them hope to do seasonal work again, year after year. This narrows n...
Sunday, 09 July
23:02
Local birdwatchers willing to show me your favorite spots? "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Hiya! I'm visiting Cairns for a conference in a few weeks and have some free days (July 26, August 2) to explore. I'm a biologist and birdwatcher and would love to learn more about the local birds from a local birder or birding group. If you don't like birds but want to show me other cool local stuff that's fun too! I'm into nature, rock climbing, knitting, tea drinking, and generally most things a grandma would enjoy I'm F 30 visiting from the US. Creeps please abstain from commenting :)
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21:29
Zodiac "IndyWatch Feed National"
Introduction
From time to time, someone will bring up the topic of "Zodiac." By this, they mean either "Zodiac" is one name for the MJ-12 cover-up group, or "Zodiac" is the name of a crashed UAP retrieval program. Bits of information are scattered in a number of places, so I thought it would be useful to bring together the threads of information which I have come across while researching "Zodiac."
1998 UFO Magazine
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An intriguing article appeared in the May/June 1998 (Vol.13 No.3) issue of "UFO Magazine." Titled, "Deep files Trans "X" Communique:Letter to a UFO Recruit," it is attributed to "Greg Halifax." The editor of the magazine prefaced the article with the following:
"What you're about to read is largely unverified...But that doesn't mean it's not true. It's the type of UFO information that will typically be deeply buried, then carefully studied and compartmentalized by a small faction within the intelligence community, as suits any sensitive black operation. As such straightforward corroboration is difficult at best. But UFO Magazine has the advantage of more than a decade's worth of collected bits of information and broad-based facts on which to construct some fair extrapolations, drawn from a range of sources. The following incident reflects upon one of the blackest of American covert operations - that deals directly with the UFO phenomenon."
The article
The article relates that a character called "Sedge Masters" who was recruited by the CIA and briefed on an assignment at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. The briefing letter...
21:05
1951 And A Reason To Avoid An Early Double Dissolution "IndyWatch Feed Allstate"
In recent weeks there has been a lot of speculation about a possible early federal double dissolution, after the Greens and Coalition deferred Labor's Housing Australia Future Fund Bill 2023 until October. The Albanese government says that this deferral constitutes "failure to pass" the Bill for the purposes of Section 57 of the Constitution and that if the Senate were to block or defer the Bill again, then the Bill would become a trigger for an early double dissolution election whenever the government wished to call one. The Greens dispute that the deferral is "failure to pass", but it would be a brave Governor-General who refused an election to a government that had an even arguable case that that box had been ticked, and in my view the government's case is more than merely arguable. There are questions about the mechanics regarding whether the Bill needs to be withdrawn before the Senate could fail to pass it again, but in some form or another it seems to me the HAFF Bill could become a double dissolution trigger if it is not passed in October or shortly afterwards.
This article concerns not the mechanics of whether and how Labor can acquire an early double dissolution should it be unable to pass the HAFF Bill (though I am happy to have that discussed in comments), but whether it is a good idea strategically.
During the last term of the Morrison government it was generally obvious that a DD was a terrible idea for the Coalition as it would throw away the government's excellent 2019 half-Senate result and flood the Senate with even more minor party Senators than in 2016. But for Labor, a DD now is considerably more thinkable in terms of the composition of the Senate. If Labor could roughly repeat their 2022 result, then they would erase the 2019 slate in which they won only 11 state seats to the Coalition's 17. The improved prospects for minor parties might not then mean that Labor's seat tally increased, but the DD would throw a bunch of Coalition seats to minor right parties and could also create extra avenues for (Labor+Greens+X) to pass Bills. My estimate of a DD result if the 2022 vote shares were repeated is Coalition 28 Labor 26 Green 12 One Nation 5 Legalise Cannabis 2 UAP 1 JLN 1 Pocock 1. Note that that is also only a few seats short of the level at which Labor plus the entire non-Greens crossbench is a majority, for what that's worth.
Enthusiasm for Labor improving its own seat position in 2022, with thoughts that the Greens should be very afraid as they could lose seats, has been seen since noises were made about the HAFF Bill as a DD trigger (...
21:01
Aotearoa/New Zealand book tour for The Palestine Laboratory "IndyWatch Feed National"
Im looking forward to visiting New Zealand between 17 and 21 July to discuss The Palestine Laboratory. Aside from the four public events listed here, Ill also be meeting religious communities, politicians, activists and journalists.
The post Aotearoa/New Zealand book tour for The Palestine Laboratory appeared first on Antony Loewenstein.
20:59
Queensland LNP corporate stooges vote to dump outstanding senator "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
By TONY MOBILIFONITIS THE Queensland Liberal Partys ranks of limp-wristed, left-wing progressives have ganged up with the partys corporate big guns to oust a senator who has distinguished himself in standing up against government violations of basic human rights, the big pharma mafia and their mRNA vaccines and woke big business pushing the global green, []
20:54
No seat for the community as developers shape Kurilpas future. "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
The Kurilpa Precinct in South Brisbane and West End has become the latest battleground between Adrian Schrinners LNP Council, local Greens representatives and Labor in Council. The Lord Mayor, and []
The post No seat for the community as developers shape Kurilpas future. first appeared on Westender.
20:32
Radio New Zealand interview on The Palestine Laboratory "IndyWatch Feed National"
My interview with one of New Zealands leading news programs, Saturday Morning with Kim Hill, to discuss my new book, The Palestine Laboratory:
Australian-German investigative journalist Antony Loewenstein argues Israel has used occupied Palestinian territories as a testing ground to develop weaponry and surveillance technology.
In his new book The Palestine Laboratory Loewenstein pulls together secret documents, interviews and contemporary reporting to argue Israel exports the resulting technology to other international conflicts.
Antony Loewenstein has written for The Guardian, and The New York Times, His books include Pills, Powder and Smoke, and the best selling Disaster Capitalism.
Antony Loewenstein is touring New Zealand later this month.
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20:07
I have some great news! "IndyWatch Feed National"
Hi to all my great mates! This is a group message to bring you all up to speed on what have been some quite tumultuous days for me! Last Tuesday I went to what was meant to be an innocuous, run-of-the-mill CAT scan of my heart and the arteries which...
19:21
Violent protestors force cancellation of Tbilisi Pride "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Up to 2,000 anti-LGBT organised protesters attacked Tbilisi Pride celebrations in Georgia yesterday. They forced the cancellation of the event and the evacuation of participants. The violence is reminiscent of 2021 when attacks on the offices of Tbilisi Pride forced the cancellation of that years Pride march. Although homosexuality is legal in Georgia, same-sex relationships ...
The post Violent protestors force cancellation of Tbilisi Pride appeared first on QNews.
18:55
Filling the Gaps "IndyWatch Feed Allstate"
This is my year for filling in gaps (not just in my blog, oops), but among my trees. Lots of non-tree things have also been happening, but Ill fill those gaps in separate posts.
First we had to go back and find the trees that didnt quite make it from last year. Ive now conclusively established that Phalaris grass is a killer of young native trees, and has to be sprayed out to stop it doing that . The only other grass that is a similar problem is couch. Otherwise the mulch maps are effective. We had to re-do 80 in one of last years windbreaks, but the main area along the pine line was in very good shape (no Phalaris).
The little enclosure by the Adnamira homestead is on its third go, however, after I had Marga and Dmitry plant Tagasaste as a possible forage tree (none survived), mixed natives and oaks last year (only the 3 oaks survived), and now slashing, plus spraying and planting Cunninghams casuarina . Well see how that goes, but casuarinas also have the ability to defend themselves using root phytotoxins which could take care of the Phalaris. These river casuarinas are rated well for fire danger, as are the oaks. The Phalaris is not. Well probably have to slash the little paddock again before the summer as any grazing animals will prefer the trees.
18:27
Aidas Poem "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
by Prue Kozlovski
Sometime ago, as a BMRSG volunteer, I was asked by a caseworker to support a young teenager, as the family were in crisis and her mother was in psychiatric care.
One of the first things this young girl told me was Be careful Pruebecause people like you usually get hurt themselves. Such wisdom in one so young.
BMRSG had helped to get her a laptop for school work during COVID lockdown and later organized a tutor to help with maths tuition.
Gradually I heard her story of Nauru.
Aida was a young eight year old child when she was taken to Nauru.
By the time she reached the age of 12 she was undernourished, severely depressed, and self-harming.
Both mother and Aida were Medivaced to Sydney. Aida to Westmead Childrens Hospital and her mother, who had suffered a miscarriage, to another. Aida was placed in the wonderful care of Prof. David Isaacs and his team.
A guard remained in her room at all times, not allowing any privacy between Aida and her mother during the mothers visits to see her daughter. When questioned by doctors and nursing staff the guards response was, It was their duty of care
In the middle of the night about 9 months ago Aida wrote a poem and messaged me at 1.00 in the morning.
Hey Prue I just wrote a poem
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17:12
Nuclear: Coalition remains trapped by climate and technology denial "IndyWatch Feed Enviro.au"
RenewEconomy, Giles Parkinson 7 July 2023 make no mistake, in Australia, it is a war a political one raging between science, engineering and economics on one hand, and single minded ideology on the other.
The nuclear push by the federal Coalition and its industry backers has been brewing for some time, and has now reached a crescendo with Opposition leader Peter Dutton calling for nuclear to be included in Australias mix, and accusing Labor of being mesmerised by renewables and storage.
Duttons position is sadly inevitable, and entirely predictable.
Having been the author of the Aukus deal which has committed Australia to spending up to $360 billion on half a dozen nuclear submarines none of which would be delivered within 20 years it follows that the Coalition should be signing up to another technology that could cost just as much and be just as delayed.
Duttons comments on Friday in a speech to the rabid anti-renewables and climate think tank, the IPA is yet more confirmation that the Coalition has no interest in doing anything about climate change.
This week the planet experienced its two hottest days on record, likely its hottest week, and is facing its hottest year in 2023 or 2024 as the El Nino strengthens its influence.
The need to accelerate emissions cuts, and finally deliver policies consistent with a 1.5C scenario, has never been clearer. But the Coalition after 10 years in power doing absolutely nothing is still running in the opposite direction.
...17:10
The future of nuclear as an alternative energy source relies on the success of the Fukushima release Rafael Grossi. "IndyWatch Feed Enviro.au"
more broadly, the future of nuclear as an alternative energy source relies on the success of the Fukushima release, he said. Though there has been heightened public alarm toward nuclear plants recently for instance, regarding the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia plant in Ukraine the problem there is war, the problem is not nuclear energy, Grossi said.
AEA chief completely convinced its safe to release treated Fukushima nuclear wastewater .
By Jessie Yeung, Marc Stewart and Emiko Jozuka, Tokyo CNN, 7 July 23
Japans plan to release treated radioactive water into the ocean is safe and there is no better option to deal with the massive buildup of wastewater collected since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, the head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog told CNN.
Japan will release the wastewater sometime this summer, a controversial move 12 years after the Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown. Japanese authorities and the IAEA have insisted the plan follows international safety standards the water will first be treated to remove the most harmful pollutants, and be released gradually over many years in highly diluted quantities.
But public anxiety remains high, including in nearby countries like South Korea, China and the Pacific Islands, which have voiced concern about potential harm to the environment or peoples health. On Friday, Chinese customs officials announced they would maintain a ban on food imports from 10 Japanese prefectures including Fukushima, and strengthen inspections to monitor for radioactive substances, to ensure the safety of Japanese food imports to China...
On Tuesday, Grossi formally presented the IAEAs safety review to Japanese Prime Minister Fum...
17:06
Ukraine great testing ground for Western weapons: Kiev "IndyWatch Feed Enviro.au"
Thursday, 06 July 2023, https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/07/06/706584/Ukraine-Russia-western-weapons-Reznikov-US-cluster-munitions-
Kiev says Ukraine is a great testing ground for the military industry of the West, which is constantly pouring advanced arms and military equipment in the ex-Soviet republic despite repeated warnings by Russia that such a flow of arms will only prolong the war.
In a an interview with Financial Times published on Wednesday, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said his country is an ideal testing ground for Western weaponry so that Kievs allies can see how their weapons work in real war and to see whether they are efficient or need upgrades.
For the military industry of the world, you cant invent a better testing ground, he said, claiming that American officials became very happy when Ukraines military reported that a US Patriot missile system managed to down a Kinzhal, a Russian hypersonic missile.
An American official called the news fantastic, Reznikov said.
The Russians come up with a countermeasure, we inform our partners and they make a new countermeasure against this countermeasure, the Ukrainian defense minister said.
Reznikov claimed many countries are closely watching the developments in the Ukraine-Russia war, including those that are already armed with Russian weapons.
Everyone is watching closely. And not only India. China too Everyone, even those who bought weapons from [Russia], will watch carefully, he said.
In July 2022, Reznikov made similar comments when he was asking for the United States and NATO to send more weapons to Ukraine.
We are interested in testing modern systems in the fight against the enemy and we are inviting arms manufacturers to test the new products here, he said at the time.
The US may reportedly decide later this week to send such internationally-banned cluster munitions to Ukraine.
Cluster bombs are banned under the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM), an international treaty that addresses the humanitarian consequences and unacceptable harm caused to civilians by cluster munitions through a categorical prohibition and a framework for action.
The weapons can contain dozens of smaller bomblets, dispersing over vast areas, often killing and maiming civilians. The CCMs are banned beca...
17:04
UN report on Japans Fukushima water plans fails to placate opponents "IndyWatch Feed Enviro.au"
The concern is not over external exposure, Burnie said. It is internal exposure to organically bound tritium that is the problem when it gets inside fish, seafood, and then humans. When tritium gets inside cells, it can do damage.
Tepco and the Japanese government are making a conscious decision to increase marine pollution with radioactivity, and they have no idea where that will lead.
While South Korea offers official support, China and other voices in region continue to express concerns over discharge from nuclear plant
Justin McCurry in Tokyo, 7 July 23 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/07/un-report-on-japans-fukushima-water-plans-fails-to-placate-opponents
The publication this week of the UN nuclear watchdogs positive assessment of Japanese plans to pump more than 1m tonnes of water from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the ocean has failed to placate opponents.
China is fiercely opposed to the plans, despite a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) backing the scheme, while the support of the government of South Korea has failed to quell widespread public opposition to the idea in the country.
The government in Seoul said on Friday that it respected the IAEAs review of plans by Japan and the plants operator, Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), to pump water from the plant into the Pacific over the next 30 to 40 years.
The discharge would have negligible consequences for South Korea, it said in an attempt to win over a deeply sceptical public. The countrys ban on food and seafood products from the Fukushima region will remain in place, however.
But South Korea, whose conservative president, Yoon Suk Yeol, is attempting to mend diplomatic fences with Japan over the cou...
17:02
Huge protest against Rafael Grossi at Gimpo airport, Seoul, South Korea "IndyWatch Feed Enviro.au"
Sung-Hee Choi , 7 July 23
Most western mainstream media says that the [right wing] South Korea government agrees with the IAEA draft that the Japanese governments decision to discharge nuclear contaminated water into the ocean fits to standard.
However, it does seldom say that just last night(July 7/8), Grossi, the director-general of the IAEA was hugely unwelcomed, stranded for hours in the Gimpo airport, Seoul, thanks to protestors with the signs including the one which read, Did you leak the draft for 1 million euroes? Around 280 policemen were mobilized to fence Grossi from the righteously angry South Korean protesters.
See the photos
https://www.kukinews.com/newsView/kuk202307080001?skin=news
Please watch the videos
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20230708_04/. (English)
https://www.ytn.co.kr/_ln/0101_202307080504347351
More than 80 percent of respondents in 11 countries in the
Asia-Pacific region except for Japan said Japans plan of dumping
nuclear-contaminated water into the sea is irresponsible and nearly
90 percent of respondents showed negative sentiments such as
worries and shock toward the plan, and 94 percent of them deemed
such move will have a negative effect not only on Japan and Pacific
Rim countries but also the whole world, a survey conducted by the
Global Times Research Center found.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20230630_20/?fbclid=IwAR3CNvbsTp_
17:00
The ultimate technocratic fantasy: a winnable nuclear war. "IndyWatch Feed Enviro.au"
The Era of Nukes and No Diplomacy: Crossing a Rubicon to Armageddon byEDITORJuly 7, 2023, https://scheerpost.com/2023/07/07/the-era-of-nukes-and-no-diplomacy-crossing-a-rubicon-to-armageddon/
Professor Jackson Lears warns the Ukraine war has wrought the ultimate technocratic fantasy: a winnable nuclear war.
he Doomsday Clock continues to tick toward nuclear war, but at its fastest pace ever. Professor Jackson Lears, a former naval officer serving on a U.S cruiser carrying tactical nuclear weapons, considers the current moment more frightening than at any time during the Cold War. Then, there was intense alarm for the fate of the earth and the survival of the human race. Today, rather than diplomacy or negotiation, talk revolves around new weapons shipments, disappointment in Ukraines counteroffensive failures, and even drone strikes in Moscow. But far less attention has been paid to the prospect of nuclear war between Russia and the U.S that threatens to end all life on this planet as we know it. That is the alarm sounded by cultural historian and author Jackson Lears who joins host Robert Scheer to discuss Learss essay for Harpers Magazine, Behind the Veil of Indifference.
Learss piece warns that despite the public indifference, a winnable nuclear war has entered the minds of American strategists and politicians once again, undermining years of work towards nuclear disarmament. Lears tells Scheer that it is similar to the attitudes from the Cold War, yet this time, there is an eerie disinterest from the American side about even talking to someone like Vladimir Putin. [T]his is, in a sense, a return to the worst kind of confrontations of the early 1960s but theres a big difference because even Kennedy and even Reagan, cold warriors that they were, were eager to create common ground ultimately between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. And that common ground no longer exists between the U.S. and Russia, and there is no interest in diplomacy at all, Lears said.
Scheer and Lears highlight a critical factor in shaping public perception: the Russiagate controversy and the medias role in complying with government demands for secrecy, beginning in the late 1970s, while also promoting narratives that fostered consent for war with Russia. Scheer...
15:53
Western Queensland - Winter 2023 Part 1: Longreach to Mt Isa "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
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| Chestnut-breasted Quail-thrush |
We set out with much anticipation for a string of bird, mammal
and other wildlife targets in far western Queensland. Unseasonal
rain prevented access to some planned sites and restricted time at
others. Still, it was a productive trip. We opted to travel via
Mitchell and Longreach, then south-west to the Winton-Jundah Road
before proceeding north. We had planned to head from there to
Diamantina National Park and the Coorabulka area but rain put paid
to that, so instead it was north to Cloncurry and then Mt Isa in
search of grasswrens and other goodies. From there it was south to
Boulia and beyond (second post to follow for the final
leg).
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| Black-breasted Buzzard |
| ... |
15:42
Deputy Premier to determine the fate of councils Kurilpa precinct plan. "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner sparked controversy in the local West End and South Brisbane communities last month when he announced the Kurilpa precinct would become Brisbanes most sustainable community. His []
The post Deputy Premier to determine the fate of councils Kurilpa precinct plan. first appeared on Westender.
15:00
My Geelong with Ashlan Smith "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Ashlan Smith is the customer service and allied health general manager at genU. She speaks with Independent journalist Jena Carr about what she loves about working for the disability and ageing support service and what makes Geelongs Armstrong Creek home.
What is your connection to Geelong?
I moved to Geelong from regional Victoria at 19 years old to study Psychology at Deakin University.
My husband and I decided to make Geelong our home, and we now live in Armstrong Creek with our two sons.
What do you like about where you live?
I love that Geelong has everything you need without being too big.
It has amazing beaches and great shopping, and you are close enough to Melbourne for any big sporting or music events not on offer here.
What, if anything, would you change about where you live?
Our families live in Regional Victoria and Werribee, so having our immediate family closer to us would be nice.
Thankfully we have created our close-knit group of friends and neighbours who are like an adopted family and provide us with support.
Where is your favourite place to spend time?
I am a bit of a homebody, and I love spending time with my family at home.
Whether swimming in our pool, playing cards or entertaining family and friends, there is no place like home.
I also love going to the beach with my husband and children, who love surfing and bodyboarding. Our favourite beaches are Point Roadknight and 13th Beach.
What is something people may not know about you?
I volunteer as the Disability Liaison Officer for the Geelong Little Athletics Centre. My boys are club members, and we love spending Saturday mornings over the summer at the Landy Field Athletics Track.
Given my experience in the industry, I was nominated to take on this role and ensure that Geelong Little Athletics Club is inclusive and can be accessed and enjoyed by all children, no matter their ability.
What do you like about your work?
I have worked for various Geelong-based disability support services for more than 20 years and have spent my last seven years at genU.
I love working for genU and particularly love that this organisation has been in the Geelong community for over 70 years.
The founders of the organisation were a group of parents who had children with a disability, and these families worked together to create a space that was inclusive and accepting of their loved ones.
The last seven years have seen significant growth for genU. However, the organisation remains committed to the people we support.
Our staff values are strong, and our operating models place the person at the centre of everything we do.
I work with so many committed and passionate people who are truly dedicated to people with a disability and those who are ageing.
It is great to come to work every day a...
15:00
Spectator: Aussie Opposition Leaders Call for Nuclear to Backup Renewables is Wrong "IndyWatch Feed Enviro.au"
Why not just build nuclear and ditch the renewables? Or better still, stick to cheap coal?
The post Spectator: Aussie Opposition Leaders Call for Nuclear to Backup Renewables is Wrong first appeared on Watts Up With That?.
13:35
Blocked: The battle over youth gender care "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Patricia Karvelas breaks open the feud over transgender youth healthcare on FOUR CORNERS. Blocked: The battle over youth gender care. ABC Monday 10 July 2023 at 8:30 pm. The battle over youth gender care Monday night, ABCs FOUR CORNERS takes on the latest culture war. RN Breakfast presenter Patricia Karvelas examines the battle over youth ...
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13:21
Mind Bender "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
According to greek myth Gaia was the Greek Godess of Earth mother of all life
13:13
The complexities of me "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
According to greek myth Gaia was the Greek Godess of Earth mother of all life
13:07
Gaia "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
According to greek myth Gaia was the Greek Godess of Earth mother of all life
13:04
13:00
Diapsalmata: A journey toward the self "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Composer/pianist Kym Alexandra Dillon and baritone Stephen Marsh, both based in Geelong, join forces with trailblazing Melbourne performing arts company Forest Collective to bring an important original work to local audiences.
Dillons composition Diapsalmata: Portrait of a Self is a reflection on her journey from gender dysphoria to self-discovery, featuring text from Danish existential philosopher Sren Kierkegaard set to music and sung by Marsh.
Marsh, who attended Christian College with Dillon (though his class was two years below hers), said Diapsalmata was one of the most important works he had ever performed.
Having the opportunity to perform a piece like this is a once in a lifetime opportunity, he said.
To be part of this project, a part of Kyms vision, to tell the story of someone, and a very personal story at that, is incredibly humbling.
I cant put into words how important this piece has been to me and my growth, both as an artist and a person. Although its a very personal story for Kym, it can be recognised and taken on by many people.
It is relevant. It has the potential to change minds, change worlds, to encourage and help people. It speaks to everyone, to put it simply.
For both Marsh and Dillon, the performance will be a homecoming of sorts, as they return to the school where both their musical journeys started.
Its exciting that Ill be able to share this piece of music, this work and this journey, with everybody that encouraged me on the path to where I am now, Marsh said.
To be sharing that with Kym is very special, we talk about it often.
Diapsalmata: Portrait of a Self is at Christian Colleges RW Gibson Centre at 2pm on Saturday, July 15.
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11:40
Megan Rapinoe to retire after World Cup "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Soccer superstar and Olympic gold medal winner Megan Rapinoe will retire at the end of next season after competing in her fourth world cup campaign. The Womens World Cup kicks off on July 20 in Australia and New Zealand. Megan and the US team hope to win a third consecutive title. Megan spoke of her ...
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11:35
Criminal Offences Related To Unlawful Gambling in NSW "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Whether its placing a bet at the track or trying your luck with the pokies, many Australians enjoy gambling as a form of entertainment. However, the lawfulness if gambling in NSW is tightly regulated, with unlawful gambling operations carrying strict...
The post Criminal Offences Related To Unlawful Gambling in NSW appeared first on Sydney Criminal Lawyers.
11:19
War and Peace "IndyWatch Feed National"
[A series of emails from G5]
by G5
Squadrons of SU-57s
Yesterday: US-NATO shit bricks as Russia wheeled out squadrons of SU-57s led by squadrons of SU-25s.
A little infrastructure adjustment for American Ukraine, while stretching wings.
Very serious overkill, as US-NATO have literally nothing to match SU-57s.
The birth of The FA-35 being one of the great comedy theatre of world military history. Keep singing the song, and one day you might believe it. A reminder that both The NATO and US navies exist at the pleasure of unmatchable Russian Air Supremacy.
A leisurely button pushing would extinguish all US-NATO naval assets.all. They know it. The Russians know it. And they know the Russians know they know it. Why do you think US-NATO has not fired a missile into Ukraine beyond their theatre junk? Being reserved you think. Look at their disgraceful history.
US-NATO brick shitting is not a new experience. The Berlin Air...
11:07
A bird of contrasts "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
In dry years this bird, the Swamp Harrier, is a notable absentee from the plains country.
Two wetter than average winters have encouraged a few individuals to hang around and to possibly breed. I came across a pair yesterday near Campbelltown, variously hunting and displaying over a rough paddock.
I came across a lovely article on the Swamp Harrier, published in 1932 in Emu, the journal of the Australian Ornithologists Union, which notes
The Swamp Harrier (Circus approximans) may well be regarded as a bird of contrasts; a bird to which inflexible rules are unknown, and one worthy of more sympathetic study than has hitherto been devoted to it. Its habits vary as greatly as its plumage colour; it is migratory in some districts, stationary in others; it often flies low, but sometimes very high; it is as much at home in timbered country as it is in a marsh, and apparently its only adherence to accepted rules is in regard to the general situation of the nest and the colour of the eggs well distributed over the southern States, especially Tasmania where most of my observations have been made, this fine Raptore can usually be identified by its low, measured flight close to the top of rushes or grain where it hunts, at which time the white rump on the tail coverts is to be seen.
The author, Michael Sharland, was a renowned Tasmanian naturalist and writer, and regular contributor to the Emu and other publications for more than fifty years learn more here.
On the mainland the Swamp Harrier is rarely seen over wooded country, unless on migration or undertaking longer range movements. Many of my observations in recent years have been of immature birds on the move.
...
11:02
$20,000 State Library of Qld Rainbow Research Fellowship "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Applications are now open for the State Library of Qld Rainbow Research Fellowship. This year, among other benefits, the Fellowship offers a $20,000 stipend. Founded in 2022, the State Library of Qld Rainbow Research Fellowship returns in 2023. The first of its kind in Queensland and probably Australia the Fellowship supports a more ...
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11:00
NAIDOC Week is a special time "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
It is special time on our calendar as the City of Greater Geelong celebrates NAIDOC Week.
NAIDOC Week commemorates the culture, history, and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and is observed across Australia in multiple places of work, schools, and tiers of government.
It is an occasion that continues to grow in stature, and I am proud that council is partnering with our First Nation communities again this year.
NAIDOC Week allows residents to get to know our regions First Nations communities in a more meaningful manner and celebrate their significance.
The theme for NAIDOC Week is For Our Elders, which pays tribute to the vital role that Elders have played and continue to play within First Nations communities as trailblazers, nurturers, advocates, teachers, survivors, leaders, and cherished individuals.
As a Council we are proud to be listening to, recognising and celebrating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
We did this recently at our The Heart A Shared Journey event, which brought Wadawurrung Traditional Owners, First Nations community elders and representatives from Reconciliation Victoria together at Wurriki Nyal.
And we have delivered more events and activities across the region during NAIDOC Week this year.
This week I have had the pleasure of attending several events, including a family-friendly gathering at Narana, which connected newly-arrived culturally and linguistically diverse families to First Nations culture, as well as the Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-operatives Flag Raising and Community Day.
There are still a number of different ways you can get involved too, including visiting the stunning First Nations art projections on City Hall and checking out the National Wool Museum, where First Nations living cultures, histories and knowledge are at the core of various exhibitions and programs.
I encourage you to get along to one or more of the events that are on across the weekend, and hopefully learn a little about the oldest continuous living culture in the world.
For more information, visit geelongaustralia.com.au/naidocweek and check out what is on.
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10:53
09:00
Sophisticated new X-Trail "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
In the process of researching this story I came across a review by one of my esteemed colleagues.
Not once did he mention the fact that Nissan X-Trail and Mitsubishi Outlander are one in the same car, sharing a platform and drivetrains. That makes Outlander, the X-Trails most direct competitor, or so I would have thought.
Of course, they dont look the same and there are plenty of other differences, but you wouldnt buy one without checking out the other first. Then again, the latest X-Trail is probably the pick of the mid-sized SUVs at the moment and thats a pretty big call.
STYLING
The styling is evolutionary rather than revolutionary and it is clearly recognisable as an X-Trail, but looks more sophisticated.
Inside, it is a very different story where the car has undergone a complete makeover and looks nothing like the previous model. Piano black has made way for a classy, dark, textured wood-grained effect, while all four doors get wide pockets that can accommodate 500ml drink bottles.
It feels bigger inside too, although slightly shorter than before (4680mm) with the same 2705mm wheelbase.
At the same time, it's 20mm wider and stands 15mm taller, and somehow, theyve managed to find more rear legroom, with rear doors that open wider for easier access.
Prices range from $36,750 for the five-seat, front wheel drive ST up to $52,990 for the top of the range Ti-L 4WD.
While they call it a 4WD, its really all-wheel drive, in the sense that it doesnt have a transfer case or low range gearing like a Patrol.
$3000 which adds all-wheel drive to the mix.Special attention has been paid to ergonomics and tactile feel of the switchgear and buttons used in the cabin to lend them a high-quality feel.
Research has shown a preference for easy-to-use core functions, so X-Trail features simple, intuitive heating/air-conditioning controls, as well as buttons that govern the central screen functions, such as audio and navigation.
A two-tier centre console provides plenty of space to stash items, with a charge pad in more expensive models for mobile devices.
Standard equipment for the entry model includes cloth trim and air conditioning, with second row air vents.
The drivers seat has six-way manual adjustment with power lumbar operation. It rides on 17-inch alloys, with LED head and tail lights, along with auto high beam and dusk-sensing activation plus auto fold, heated exterior mirrors, push-button start, an electric parking brake and rear parking sensors.
By the time you reach the Ti-L (subject of our test), theres larger 19-inch wheels, tan or black quilted Nappa leather, three-zone climate air, a heated steering wheel, intelligent rear-view mirror, matrix 12-element adaptive headlights and a power tailgate with ha...
08:02
Gippsland Alliance for Climate Action "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
From Environment Connect Winter Issue 23
The Gippsland Alliance for Climate Action (GACA) is a formal collaboration of councils across Gippsland working on climate change. The aim is to find shared and collaborative ways to address climate change at the local government level across our region.
The Alliance was established in 2022 and is a partnership between East Gippsland, Wellington, Latrobe City, South Gippsland and Baw Baw. GACA is also collaborating with the seven other Victorian Greenhouse Alliances, to deliver regional mitigation and adaptation programs, including emerging best practice solutions and advocacy.
GACA is auspiced by the Gippsland Climate Change Network, with supporting funds from the Victorian State Government Department of Energy Environment and Climate Action (DEECA) and council partners.
The Alliance will assist East Gippsland Shire Council to deliver on our sustainability commitments outlined in the Council Plan 2021-25 and Environmental Sustainability Strategy 2022-32.
The Alliance has developed a Strategic Action Plan 2023-24, with six priority projects proposed for collaborative development, including:
1. Climate change risk analysis
2. Electric vehicle fleet transition
3. Decarbonisation and gas elimination plan
4. Greenhouse gas monitoring
5. ESD adoption in council and community facilities 6. Communications
07:33
1) Rights commission criticised for towing government line in NZ pilot hostage case "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
2) Forests source of wealth for
Papua's local communities: official
3) A new church in West Papua, a
place where to radiate peace and reconciliation
4) Jokowis Papua approach must
do more than scratch an itch
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07:30
1990: Son removed from school over safe-sex "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
The AIDS crisis brought out the best in the LGBTIQA+ communities and their supporters but the worst in some others. In WA, a mother took her 15-year-old out of school rather than have him hear about safe sex. The Canberra Times reported in July 1990 that Beverley Carson spat the dummy after learning an HIV-positive ...
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07:28
Link "IndyWatch Feed Economics.au"
2-Sense podcast
This week on the Australian Property Podcast, Chris
Bates and I discussed the big 3 property news stories of the
week.
In the second month of the podcast, we've had over
21,000 unique listeners, so thanks for listening in.
Tune in here (or click on the image
below):
You can also watch the video
target="_blank">YouTube here:
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Interesting graph from CBA on population
growth versus growth in the dwelling stock (h/t Tim Boyle):
07:04
Lord Mayor launches scathing attack on the Greens. "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Yesterday The Courier Mail reported that Lord Mayor, Adrian Schrinner, had launched a scathing attack on the Greens nine months out from the next council elections. He branded them the most divisive []
The post Lord Mayor launches scathing attack on the Greens. first appeared on Westender.
05:56
Black militia and Antifa clash with white militia "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Louisville, Kentucky, 2021
00:54
Zelensky Cancels All Elections Becomes Dictator for Life "IndyWatch Feed Allstate"
QUESTION: Is it true that Zelensky is canceling elections?
HZ
ANSWER: On June 22, 2023, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a dictator installed by the West to create World War III against Russia. Zelensky told the BBC that Ukraines scheduled 2023 parliamentary and 2024 presidential elections would occur only if martial law had ended by that time, as reported by the New Voice of Ukraine. Hence, he has a personal reason not to seek any peace whatsoever.
There is NO WAY Zelensky is fighting for democracy -0 this is all propaganda. He hates Russians and refuses to allow them to separate as per the Mink Agreement and, at the same time, refuses them to vote in any Ukrainian election, no less for their independence. Zelensky is an outright war criminal, and over 8 million Ukrainians have now fled their own country because he refuses to end the war and is destroying his own country all for Blackrocks investment scheme. His own people would remove him from office, so he cannot allow any election, and there is no way NATO or the USA will allow free elections in Ukraine.
There is no way this war will end without the Donbas destruction and Russias fall. It is a proxy war that the United States started. CIA chief John Brennan traveled to Kiev in 2014 and instructed them to begin the civil war. Kiev called the Russians of the Donbas terrorist because they sought independence from LKiev just as Kiev sought independence from Moscow.
...
00:17
How is Forensic Chemistry Used in Criminal Law? "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Forensic scientists utilise a variety of techniques to assist in investigations, spanning such diverse scientific disciplines as medical pathology, ballistics, botany, serology and molecular biology. Chemistry is also a discipline heavily used during criminal investigations. Heres what you need to...
The post How is Forensic Chemistry Used in Criminal Law? appeared first on Sydney Criminal Lawyers.
Saturday, 08 July
23:16
The Gulf War Did Not Take Place "IndyWatch Feed Allstate"
FROM 2022: James answers an intriguing question about Gulf War embedded reporting that goes in a very unexpected direction.
23:10
Housekeeping job in Palm Cove "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
I want more than anything to vent and hear your opinions about my situation.
I arrived 3 weeks ago with my girlfriend from Sydney to Palm Cove to start working as housekeepers in a resort (kinda big, more than 30 apartments) but we have really started to feel that we are overexploited in this work, considering that my gf and I are the only housekeepers working in the resort.
This feeling started a few days ago when the manager talked with us and told us that we are cleaning slow the apartments and we should take less time. He even told us "maybe this job is not for you" but we can't understand how he expects that we clean one apartment in less than 90 minutes if all the apartments have 3 beedrooms (king and single sizes), the bathrooms, 2 balconies, kitchen, living room, etc. He pay us 30 aud per hour so the first thing we thought is that he doesn't want to spend too much money, specially after he said he is losing money with us (wtf, kinda rude imo).
With so many tasks to do per apartment and so many things to clean, with my gf we wonder if the manager is really overexploiting us or are we really not that good for the job? This is frustrating because the job is really tiring physically but looks like the manager really expect that we clean perfectly everything within little time. Also yesterday his wife asked me if today we could clean 4 appartments in 4 hours.
So just to finish, is this normal in a housekeeping job? The wage is worth it? (Not really imo). Are we really bad at this job? Since he talked with us, with my gf we use a chronometer to measure the time we take per apartment and is ok but moving between apartments also takes time and looks like the manager is not happy paying for that time (despite the fact he agreed to pay us by the hour of work)
Thank you for reading this far, I hope you can help me with your opinion!
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22:36
You missed your chance! "IndyWatch Feed Allstate"
Im sorry, the last day to register for the International Conference on Creationism was 3 July, so its too late for you. It will be held at Cedarville University, a glorified Bible college in Ohio.
Its sponsored by a fine assortment of organizations dedicated to promoting ignorance:
- Answers in Genesis https://answersingenesis.org/
- Apologetics Press https://apologeticspress.org/
- Biblical Science Institute https://biblicalscienceinstitute.com/
- Canyon Ministries https://www.canyonministries.org/
- Central Pennsylvania Creation Fellowship https://www.centralpacreationfellowship.org/
- Clearly Seen Events https://www.creationconf.com/
- Core Academy of Science https://coresci.org/
- Cornerstone Educational Supply https://cornerstone-edsupply.com/
- Creation Ministries International https://creation.com/
- Creation Research Society https://www.creationresearch.org/
- CREAVIT http://michael.oards.net/
- Ellen McHenrys Basement Workshop https://ellenjmchenry.com/
- Evidence Press, Inc. https://evidencepress.com/
- Genesis Apologetics https://crev.info/
- Institute for Creation Research https://www.icr.org/
- International Association for Creation https://associationforcreation.org/
- New Creation Blog https://newcreation.blog/
- NJBibleScience https://njbiblescience.org/
- ...
22:06
The wheel turns, and Crooked Timber turns 20 "IndyWatch Feed Enviro.au"
Crooked Timber, the group blog of which Im a member turns 20 today. Heres a post Ive written to mark the occasion.
Not quite 20 years ago, I got an invitation to spend a week as a visiting blogger at an exciting new group blog called Crooked Timber. In the manner of the most catastrophic house guests, I managed to turn that into permanent residence.
Looking back at posts from that time, its startling how active we were; with multiple posts most days. Thats ebbed away to one or two posts per week, but we are still here to celebrate our 20th anniversary, unlike most of the people who were blogging back then.
Its easy enough to see why this was so. Back then, although the term social media wasnt in widespread use, social media was blogs and not much else. There was no Facebook or Twitter and mainstream media maintained an air of snooty disdain.
Once these commercial platforms arrived, and began attracting millions, then billions of users, the writing was on the wall for traditional blogging. Their features made them accessible to lots of people for whom blogging was just too difficult and, at least initially, their reliance on advertising seemed like a small price to pay. Blogs carried on, but as bloggers moved on or passed on, or just got tired, they mostly werent replaced by new entrants.
The deal for users got worse and worse over time, in the process Cory Doctorow calls ensh*ttification. But network effects worked powerfully to keep us all locked into the platforms where our families/friends/interlocutors remained.
Until recently, there was no end in sight to this process. But, as Steins Law has it If something cannot go on forever, it will stop. In the last couple years, weve seen disastrous mis-steps from both Facebook and Twitter, as well as a sharp decline in public opinion of the tech giants and their products.
Thats allowed the emergence of alternatives to advertising-driven networks where algorithms (theyre really just models) determine what you see and what you dont. The most important examples, for me, at any rate, have been Mastodon (non-commercial Twitter alternative) along with the larger Fediverse, and Substack, a platform for subscription-supported newsletters.
We dont yet know what will become of all this. But we built by academics was strictly non-commercial. The introduction of the .com domain produced an explosion of commercial offerings and a speculative mania unsurpassed in scale and silliness, at least until the advent of Bitcoin. A crucial part of this was the attempt by portals like Yahoo and AOL to created walled gardens, where uses would remain while they were online, rather than wandering the wilds of the Internet....
21:49
Variation is wonderful "IndyWatch Feed Allstate"
Im stealing a fascinating thread on Twitter from Kathleen DePlume. In some ways, its unsurprising: if you compound the natural variation in enough parameters, youll discover that everyone is unique. Its a question of including broad tolerances, and the real question ishow broad do they have to be to accommodate 99% of humanity? And another question would bedont the remaining 1% deserve a place as well? The math is nifty but it isnt the whole of human reality.
So, did you ever wonder why car seats and seatbelts are so wonderfully adjustable? It all goes back to cockpit manufacture.
The USAF wanted to make aircraft with seats and belts fitted to the normal airman; the tolerances werent too wide, but lots of fellas are normal, right?
Wrong.
As it turned out, hilariously wrong.
You see, they measured several thousand enlisted men (just men these were the dark times before women were people) on just a few things.
Leg length, knee to ankle, hip to knee, various seat measurements. Seating height to shoulder.
Shoulder width. Arm length. Shoulder to elbow, elbow to wrist.
You get the point.
Measurements that would allow the cockpit and belts to be correct and safe, as long as they were close enough to the normal specifications.
So, after taking these measurements a great undertaking, the measures got so good at it that they could do all 38* measurements in under 2 minutes they analysed the data.
*I might be misremembering the exact number
They figured if every measurement had tolerances that fit 30% or so normal men, then theyd lose a few percent to the abnormally shaped weirdos (you know the ones people whose arms are way longer than their height, or who have tiny hands compared to their feet?) theyd still fit at least 20% of their potential pilots into the custom measured Everyman cockpits, right?
Wrong.
So, so very wrong.
How many pilots do you think fit in the normal measurements on all 38 metrics?
Go on, take a guess. Ill wait.
Actually, no I wont, because Im writing this as a thread.
Zero. The answer is zero.
Not a single soldier was within tolerances on all measurements.
Out of thousands and thousands of airmen measured, every last man was abnormal on at least one.
It turns out that while yes, arm length and leg length arent exactly independent (if youre tall you probably have long arms AND long legs), their r-value isnt anything like high enough...
21:42
Popfest transport "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
So I'm hoping to go to popfest tomorrow but have only now just figured out that there are no buses running and taxi prices seem to have been jacked up this weekend. Is there a ride share or lifts service or app that people use at all?
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21:12
Ash Kash Cause Of Death: Shocking Details Revealed "IndyWatch Feed Allstate"
Ash Kash Cause Of Death
The untimely death of Ash Kash has left many bewildered and searching for answers. As an expert, Ill delve into the possible causes of Ash Kashs death to shed light on this tragic event.
While the specific cause of Ash Kashs death has not been confirmed, speculation and rumors continue to swirl. Its important to approach this topic with sensitivity and accuracy, considering the lack of official information available at the moment.
In such situations, its crucial to await an official statement or report from authorities to determine the cause of death. Speculation can often lead to misinformation and further distress for those involved. As we await more information on the untimely passing of Ash Kash, its essential to respect the privacy of their loved ones during this difficult time.
Please note that the details surrounding Ash Kashs cause of death are subject to investigation. It is vital to rely on verified sources and official statements for accurate and up-to-date information. As they navigate this tragic loss, our thoughts go out to Ash Kashs family, friends, and fans.
The Facts Surrounding Ash Kashs Death
With a heavy heart, I delve into the tragic circumstances surrounding Ash Kashs untimely passing. The details surrounding Ash Kashs cause of death are still unclear, leaving many of us searching for answers and struggling to come to terms with the loss. Lets examine the available information to illuminate this devastating event.
1. Limited Information:
There is limited public information about the specific cause of Ash Kashs death. Authorities diligently investigate the circumstances to determine what led to this tragic outcome.
While frustrating, the lack of concrete details requires us to exercise patience and allow the investigative process to unfold.
2. Respect for Privacy:
Its important to respect the privacy and grieving process of Ash Kashs family and loved ones during this difficult time. Speculation and spreading unverified information can be detrimental and further compound their pain.
We can support those affected by this loss by demonstrating sensitivity and empathy.
3. Remembering Ash Kashs Legacy:
Ash Kash was known for their contributions to the arts and their impact on the community. Focusing on their positive influence and celebrating their accomplishments is crucial, rather than solely fixating on their cause of death.
By preserving and honoring Ash Kashs memory, we can contribute to a narrative highlighting their artistic talents and meaningful connections.
While seeking answers and closure is natural, it is important to allow authorities and Ash Kashs loved ones the spa...
21:12
"IndyWatch Feed Qld" "IndyWatch Feed Allstate"
4 birds in total resting and walking.
20:25
26,000-foot Himalayan mountain summit crumbled around 1190 CE, leaving evidence in the plains below "IndyWatch Feed Allstate"
Earth is home to 14 "eight-thousanders," summits that top off at more than 8,000 meters, or 26,247 feet, above sea level. All of these grand mountains tower over the Himalayas, the highest place in the world. But our planet is dynamic could there have been additional peaks like these, since lost? "We wanted to know whether, 830 years ago, the Earth and the Himalayas had one more," says Jrme Lav, a geomorphologist at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the University of Lorraine in France. The answer, according to Lav and his colleagues, appears to be yes. In a new paper, published in the journal Nature on July 6, they've found evidence of an ancient landslide that reshaped South Asia's geography and linked that to the collapse of a peak that would have once been one of the tallest mountains on Earth. Lav says his team first spotted the fingerprints of this medieval landslide not in the Himalayas, but far to the south, near the India-Nepal border, in the...
19:57
Dutch government collapses on Friday "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Dutch parliament house The Dutch government collapsed on Friday after the parties in its ruling coalition failed to reach an agreement on migration policy, underlining how the issue of asylum seekers coming to Europe continues to divide governments across the continent.Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who was overseeing his fourth cabinet and is one of Europes []
19:00
TIDBITS: THIS WEEKS HONOURABLE MENTIONS "IndyWatch Feed Allstate"
This was QUITE a week for some excellent stories and articles, so my thanks to all of you taking the time to spot and send
The post TIDBITS: THIS WEEKS HONOURABLE MENTIONS appeared first on The Giza Death Star.
18:54
start "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Next Meeting 26th June 2023 Virtual meeting this month as discussed and agreed at the May meeting. Talks start at 7.30pm but people often log on from 6pm onward. If you would really prefer to meet in person, add your name to the attendance list and email the group, especially if you see there are now 4 names on the list.
17:53
TODAY. No real research into the effects of releasing nuclear waste-water into rivers and seas. Oh goody! That means its OK, (doesnt it? "IndyWatch Feed Enviro.au"
it has become clear that regulation of tritium in the United States is grossly insufficient to the current risk from tritium contamination, not to mention future risks that could arise if tritium production, use, and associated leakage rise
tritium easily can cross the placenta and irradiate developing fetuses in utero, thereby raising the risk of birth defects, miscarriages, and other problems.
the dangers this pernicious contaminant will pose in the future, absent more effective regulation that includes lower limits for human tritium exposure. https://thebulletin.org/2023/06/exploring-tritiums-danger-a-book-review/
There is no way to separate tritium from contaminated water. Tritium, a soft beta emitter, is a potent carcinogen which remains radioactive for over 100 years. It concentrates in aquatic organisms including algae, seaweed, crustaceans and fish. Because it is tasteless, odorless and invisible, it will inevitably be ingested in food, including seafood, over many decades. It combines in the DNA molecule the gene where it can induce mutations that later lead to cancer. It causes brain tumors, birth deformities, and cancers of many organs. The situation is dire because there is no way to contain this radioactive water permanently and it will inevitable leak into the Pacific Ocean for over 50 years or longer along with many other very dangerous isotopes including cesium 137 which lasts for 300 years and causes very malignant muscle cancers rhabdomyosarcomas, strontium 90 which also is radioactive for 300 years and causes bone cancers and leukemia, amongst many other radioactive elements. http://akiomatsumura.com/2013/06/experts-explain-effects-of-radioactive-water-at-fukushima.htm
17:52
Peter Dutton ramps up nuclear power push and claims Labor down renewable rabbit hole "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Opposition leader to tell Institute of Public Affairs that domestic reactors are natural next step from Aukus pact
Daniel Hurst, 8 July 23
The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has ramped up calls for nuclear power in Australia, casting the move as a way to avoid dependence on wind and solar technology from China and a natural next step from the Aukus pact.
Dutton will make the comments on Friday at an event organised by the Institute of Public Affairs, a Liberal-aligned thinktank that has publicly opposed curbs on coal-fired power and has lobbied against the net zero by 2050 policy.
He will use the speech in Sydney to call for a debate about removing the legislative ban on nuclear power in Australia, a step that was not taken during the nine years of Coalition government, in which he was a senior member.
Duttons pitch comes just days before the Liberal National party in Queensland holds its state conference, where delegates are expected to propose several pro-nuclear resolutions.
He is likely to find a receptive audience for the message at the IPA, given tha...
17:50
Inside nuke school, the elite US training ground preparing Australian submariners for an AUKUS future "IndyWatch Feed Enviro.au"
(Looking forward to? Life for months on end in a cramped space, no sunlight or fresh air, very little private space, closed atmosphere all smells recirculated. Limited news, limited communication with family. Water supplies rationed. Stress and boredom. And its dangerous.)
The sale of Virginia-class submarines to Australia requires the approval of the US Congress, and significant changes are needed to a complex set of export controls restricting how sensitive technology is transferred.
By North America bureau chief Jade Macmillan and Bradley McLennan in Charleston
. Three members of the Royal Australian Navy have graduated from the Nuclear Power School in South Carolina, more commonly known as nuke school.
Three members of the Royal Australian Navy have graduated from the Nuclear Power School in South Carolina, more commonly known as nuke school
Years out from Australias acquisition of nuclear-powered subs, the graduation is an early step towards making AUKUS a reality.
But there are still major hurdles ahead when it comes to...
17:48
An Attack on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant Could Still be Catastrophic (- nuclear promoters minimise the risk) "IndyWatch Feed Enviro.au"
Ed Lyman, July 7, 2023 https://blog.ucsusa.org/edwin-lyman/an-attack-on-the-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-could-still-be-catastrophic/
Ukraine has accused Russia of planning to carry out a sabotage attack at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant that it has controlled since it seized it by force in March 2022. Although it reports this morning that this current threat is decreasing, the situation is fluid and the plant remains vulnerable to both accidents and attacks. While this ongoing crisis should not lead to panic, there is no cause for complacency either.
Unfortunately, the American Nuclear Society (ANS) and other commenters have been busy attempting to dismiss the risks that either an accident or a deliberate attack could lead to a significant radiological release with far-reaching consequences. Simply put, the ANS is dead wrong here, and by minimizing the potential risk it is endangering Ukrainians and others who may be affected by lulling them into a false sense of security and undermining any motivation to prepare for the worst. Effective emergency preparedness requires a clear-eyed understanding of the actual threat.
As I have pointed out previously, the fact that the six reactors have been in shutdown mode for many months (with one in hot, as opposed to cold, shutdown) does reduce the risk somewhat compared to a situation where reactors are operating or have only recently shut down. The decay heat in the reactors cores decreases significantly over time, although the rate of decrease slows down quite a bit after a few months. However, this does not mean, as ANS misleadingly implies, that there is no risk of a major radiological release that could disperse over a wide area. What it does mean is that if cooling were disrupted to one or more of the reactors, then there would be a longer period of timedays instead of hoursfor operators to fix the problem before the cooling water in the reactor cores would start to boil away and drop below the tops of the fuel assemblies, causing the fuel to overheat and degrade.
Timely operator actions are even more critical for reactors that are shut down than...
17:47
Better, safer, alternatives for managing Fukushimas radioactively polluted wastewater "IndyWatch Feed Enviro.au"
independent marine biologists and, ecosystem specialists have been opposed across the planet, to dumping this partially treated water since the ALPS system was exposed as an inadequate treatment program. All nuclear advocates do is parrot, the limited, legal liability mantra all corporations do.
When did, anyone, read, any BURNING FUEL FOR ENERGY FIRM EVER ADMIT LEGAL LIABILITY over, its production or waste they dump into the ecosystems on a global scale?
Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS) largely chosen because it was cheaper than treating it with the more expensive systems offered outside of TEPCO, on the international market.
REVERSE OSMOSIS-RO
TEPCO considered implementing a reverse osmosis system to remove radioactive contaminants from the water. RO is a widely used technology for desalination and purification. But the process was far too expensive given the volumes of water that needed processing, completely removing various radionuclides, including cesium, strontium, and cobalt, from the contaminated water.
CONCRETE ENCAPSULATION
Solidifying the wastewater in concrete has multiple benefits over ocean dumping, would allow all the water to be processed and removed from the tanks in as little as 5 years, considerably faster than the 30+ year timeframe for ocean disposal.
The tritium (which along with carbon-14 is not removed from the water) would remain trapped inside the concrete with negligible dose outside or on its surface since tritium betas cannot penetrate the skin.
Japan consumes approximately 40 million tons of cement annually, according to the Japanese Cement Association. If cement usage patterns in Japan are comparable to those in the United States, roughly one third of that amount, or 13 million tons, is likely used for making concrete for applications with minimal human contact or exposure.
Given this, a significant portion of the ALPS-treated wastewater could potentially be utilized for concrete required for various purposes at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant site itself.
This could include concrete for barrier walls, storage containers, stabilizing radioactive soil piles, and other similar applications.
Therefore, using concrete for low human contact is not without precedent as Japan plans to recycle far more radioactive soil for civil works projects which is another controversial topic domestically.
In addition, fresh water would be conserved since it is not used for manufacturing providing environmental benefits.
As a non-transboundary alternative, concre...
17:46
Worlds 30 major banks are NOT investing in so-called green sustainable nuclear energy "IndyWatch Feed Enviro.au"
None of the worlds 30 major banks have explicitly included
nuclear energy
in their criteria for issuing green or sustainability-linked
bonds,
researchers said on Thursday, despite an EU decision last year to
label it
as sustainable.
The European Union decided last year to include nuclear
power plants in its list of investments that can be labelled and
marketed
as green. The move aimed to guide investors towards
climate-friendly
technologies, but split EU countries who disagree on atomic energys
green
credentials.
So far, banks have not followed the EUs lead in their own
green bond rules, according to an analysis by Columbia Universitys
Center
on Global Energy Policy. The study looked at the 30 banks
deemed
systemically important by the Financial Stability Board. Of those
banks, 17
had explicitly excluded nuclear energy from their green
financing
frameworks, while 12 had frameworks that were silent on nuclear,
and one
had no such framework, the researchers said.
Reuters 6th July 2023
17:44
Despite Zelenskys claims, theres no evidence that Russia has rigged Ukraines Zaporizhzhya plant with explosives, nuclear watchdog says "IndyWatch Feed Enviro.au"
Business Insider, Charles R. Davis , Jul 8, 2023
- The IAEA said Friday theres no sign Russia plans to destroy the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant.
- Inspectors have not seen any mines or explosives, according to the head of the nuclear watchdog.
- However, the IAEA said its experts have not been provided full access to the facility.
The United Nations nuclear watchdog said Friday that it has seen no evidence that Russia intends to blow up the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, a finding that comes after the head of Ukraines military intelligence walked back an earlier warning of impending disaster.
In a status report on the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, which Russian forces occupied soon after last years full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Rafael Mariano Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said inspectors were recently provided some additional access to the facility after Ukraine claimed it had been rigged with bombs..
Russia has repeatedly denied it has any intention of causing a nuclear disaster. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov this week argued that the real threat is Ukrainian sabotage.. https://www.businessinsider.com/no-sign-russia-has-mined-zaporizhzhya-plant-nuclear-watchdog-says-2023-7
17:00
BOOK REVIEW: This Accidental Present A Story of Two Families "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
This Accidental Present is the little-known Brisbane story of the connection between two prominent Australian families, the Cilentos and the Noonuccals, and the birth of a child in 1953 that could not be acknowledged, writes history editor Dr Glenn Davies.
THIS ACCIDENTAL PRESENT is the fascinating story, both intimate and international, of the intersecting lives of extraordinary people. Sir Raphael and Lady Phyllis Cilento were among the most important families in Queensland in the 1950s and Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker), was an Aboriginal woman who went to work for them in 1951 as a domestic.
Ross Wilsons exploration of this story of two families began with listening to members of both families. This Accidental Present is the first telling of this extraordinary story. Wilson has nurtured this vivid story from many long conversations with members of both families, as well as close friends of the people in the story. He tells the story with permission and support from those who generously shared their memories with him.
When Oodgeroo Noonuccal (the unknown, but named Kath Walker) went to work as a housekeeper for one of Brisbanes most influential families the Cilentos she couldnt have guessed how much her life would change. Kath Walkers daily life through the 1950s was in the shadow of The Act, which governed a...
16:57
Weekend Listening: Alan Jones Greatest Hits "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Hate him all you like, but not without listening to Alan Jones Greatest Hits: Love Changes Everything, I Am Australian & THE SECRET BOOTLEG RECORDINGS! Theres much less opportunity to hear Alan Jones these days. Since his retirement from 2GB and after Sky News showed him the door, hes mainly available on his own digital channel. ...
The post Weekend Listening: Alan Jones Greatest Hits appeared first on QNews.
16:25
Visa snub could have US defence ramifications for Australia down the track "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Moronic Minister ONeil Tweeted Donald Trump Jr is a big baby who isnt very popular Next US President Donald Trump could not be blamed for ignoring Australia after his son was forced to cancel a much publicised speaking tour of Australia due to being granted a belated visa. There is absolutely no doubt in most []
16:15
Lies, Lies, and Autism, Part 3: Hypothesis of Deliberate Creation of Autism "IndyWatch Feed National"
The late excellent doctor Rashid Buttar, Photo: DrJudyAMikovits
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by Mary W Maxwell, LLB
In this article, I want to create a hypothesis, or two, about the existence of a disease which was first diagnosed in 1943, called autism. It remained rare until the late 1980s, and by 2014 in the United States it was found...
15:41
The Rise and Fall of Young Global Leaders "IndyWatch Feed National"
J.G.Olsen / Financial Expositor
Thankfully, weve said goodbye to Jacinta Ardern, its high time to cast eyes to the future and our somewhat less damaged crop of Australian Young Global Leaders. Are they more than just a bunch of nouveau yuppies, with precisely captured images featuring endless winning smiles, who are they, where are they, what are they doing and who are they doing it to.
https://www.younggloballeaders.org/community?class_year=&q=®ion=a0Tb00000000DCNEA2§or...
15:00
Painting for NAIDOC Week "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
A Geelong health insurance organisation has celebrated NAIDOC Week with an in-house painting session with Wadawurrung Traditional Owner and visual artist Jenna Oldaker.
GMHBA People and Culture chief Kate Barlow said it was a real privilege to have Ms Oldaker at the organisations main Geelong building on Tuesday, July 4, to discuss her artwork with staff.
People have been coming from all three floors in the building to ask questions and to see the artwork, she said.
For people to be able to talk to her, understand what shes doing, understand what the painting means, and how it connects to local landmarks and history creates a great learning opportunity.
Ms Oldaker said the event was an exciting opportunity to celebrate the NAIDOC Week theme For Our Elders and a testament to the community on taking on the First Nations culture.
My mum and my grandmother are the most inspirational people for me, she said.
For us as First Nations people, its (NAIDOC Week) a celebration of our achievements and everything that makes our culture wonderful.
Ms Oldaker said she received a lot of questions from GMHBA staff about her artwork and loved connecting with people through her art.
Painting is normally a solitary thing as I really just do it at home so its really lovely to be able to share it as I work and for people to see the process, she said.
For people to see it with their own eyes either passively as theyre walking past or to come and have a yarn with me has worked well.
Ms Oldakers mum Aunty Joy Oldaker said she was delighted to see her daughter incorporating their heritage in her artworks.
Im so proud of what shes achieved and where shes come from, its amazing, she said.
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14:29
13:52
Doctor tells real story of Afghanistan war "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
The real story of Australian soldiers in Afghanistan has not been reported By Dr Daniel Mealey Dear Australia, You havent been told the truth. You could be forgiven for believing the war in Afghanistan is over. Since the early days post- 9/11, the world worlds media has simply not reported the Talibans worsening []
13:16
The Robodebt Rogues Gallery "IndyWatch Feed Enviro.au"
If ever there was an instance of such a hideous failing in government policy and its cowardly implementation by the public service, Australias cruel, inept and vicious Robodebt program would have to be one of them.
Robodebt was a scheme developed by the Department of Human Services (DHS) and submitted as a budget measure by the then Minister for Social Services, Scott Morrison, in 2015. Its express purpose: to recover claimed overpayments from welfare recipients stretching back to the 2010-11 financial year. The automated scheme used a deeply flawed income averaging method to assess income and benefit entitlements, yielding inaccurate results. Vitally, the assumption there was that recipients had stable income through the financial year. The scheme also failed to comply with the income calculation provisions of the Social Security Act 1991 (Cth).
The results were disastrous for the victims in receipt of crude, harrying debt notices. The scheme induced despair and mental ruin. It led to various instances of suicide. It saw a concerted government assault on the poor and vulnerable. A remorseless campaign was waged by such unwholesome types as the former human services minister, Alan Tudge, ever keen to libel the undeserving. Media outlets such as A Current Affair were more than happy to provide platforms for the demonising effort. We will find you, he told the program, we will track you down, and you will have to repay those debts, and you may end up in prison.
The grotesque policy eventually caught the ire of the courts, which ruled the scheme unlawful. That, along with a change in government, eventually led to the establishment of a Royal Commission, whose findings by Commissioner Catherine Holmes were released on July 7. They make for grim reading.
While it will take time to wade through a report running over 1,000 pages, it is fitting to single out a few of the rogues who played starring roles of lasting infamy in the robodebt drama. Who better to start with than the former Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, whose relationship with the truth continues to be strained and estranged.
In December 2014, Morrison was appointed Minister for Social Services. He immediately wanted to impress with his promised scalping of alleged welfare cheats and scroungers. Wishing to make an impression he, unusually, held direct meetings with the secretary of the DHS, Kathryn Campbell, to tease out what would become the robodebt proposal. Concern from legal officers and senior staff within the Department of Social Services (DSS) about the legal compliance of the program were ignored or dismissed.
The Commission duly rejected as untrue Mr Morrison...
13:03
Solomon Islands: PMs unease over LGBTQIA+ issues "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
In his annual Independence Day address yesterday, Solomon Islands prime minister Manasseh Sogavare spoke of his unease about LGBTQIA+ issues. Gay sex is illegal in Australias near neighbour, punishable by up to 14 years imprisonment, though the law is not enforced. The prime minister said he didnt want to see LGBTQIA+ issues used as a ...
The post Solomon Islands: PMs unease over LGBTQIA+ issues appeared first on QNews.
13:00
Senior awards nominations open "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
A past Victorian Senior of the Year Awards category winner from Geelong encourages the community to acknowledge seniors making a difference in their area.
The 2023 award now accepts nominations until Friday, July 28, to people across the state aged 60 or above and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 50 and above.
Ross Synot won the Council on the Ageing (COTA) Victoria Senior Achiever Award last year for his work in the community. He said it was important to recognise the contributions of seniors.
It is exceptionally important for the person still contributing to the community and it also shows others that even when you reach a certain age, you dont stop, he said.
There are still opportunities to go out there and help others, and I think the more of us that can do that, the better society will be.
Mr Synot said last years award helped him continue making a difference and feel valued.
It does show that youre still needed, he said.
Even though sometimes you feel that well, youre getting on a bit and there are others, your experience does count.
I would encourage others to think of deserving people to be nominated. I think it is a very nice way for people to be recognised and it is an encouragement to keep helping in the community.
Awards are presented to seniors across the six categories; Premiers Victorian Senior of the Year, Promotion of Multiculturalism, Healthy and Active Living, Veteran Community, Ageing Well, and COTA.
Recipients of the 2023 Victorian Senior Awards will be honoured at a Victorian Seniors Festival ceremony in October, and nominations can be made online at seniorsonline.vic.gov.au/awards.
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12:39
Pc cafe? "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Hey, in cairns for a week, and was wondering if there are any active pc cafe style places? Have found some online mention of older ones, but nothing recent.
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12:11
Implementation of aromatherapy, a nonpharmacological intervention, to reduce anxiety during the preoperative period. "IndyWatch Feed Allstate"
PMID: J Perianesth Nurs. 2023 Apr ;38(2):206-212. Epub 2023 Feb 1. PMID: 36732122 Abstract Title: Implementation of Aromatherapy, a Nonpharmacological Intervention, to Reduce Anxiety During the Preoperative Period. Abstract: PURPOSE: The purpose of the project was to answer the following question: Does the implementation of aromatherapy before surgery reduce preoperative anxiety in adult surgical patients undergoing elective surgery?DESIGN: This evidence-based project was a quality improvement initiative that used pre- and poststate anxiety evaluations to determine the effect of aromatherapy on preoperative anxiety among adults undergoing elective surgery.METHODS: The project team conducted a literature review to evaluate the appropriateness of using aromatherapy to decrease preoperative anxiety. The team delivered pre- and postaromatherapy State Trait Anxiety Inventory for Adults (STAIAD) Short form Y-1 questionnaire and administered an aromatherapy diffuser clip comprised of three evidence-based scented oils to determine the effect of aromatherapy on preoperative anxiety among adults undergoing elective surgery.FINDINGS: Pre- and postaromatherapy (STAIAD) Short Form Y-1 questionnaires indicated that exposure to aromatherapy significantly reduced preoperative anxiety. There was a statistically and clinically significant difference in state anxiety score after aromatherapy exposure, with a mean state change of 17.42 points (P
11:15
Fairy Meadows new ambulance station a step closer "IndyWatch Feed Allstate"
FAIRY Meadow is a step closer to having a new state-of-the-art ambulance station.
The station, located within the University of Wollongongs Innovation Campus, will feature internal parking for up to five emergency ambulance vehicles and a wash bay, administration and office areas, staff rest facilities, logistics and storage spaces. The Station will be fitted with a solar energy system, which enables battery storage and an emergency power source for essential building services such as lighting and roller doors.
NSW Heath Minister Ryan Park was joined b...
11:07
Canadian Court Rules That a Thumbs Up Emoji Can Validate a Contract "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Its hard not to love the emoji its a cute, quick and easy way to communicate. And tech providers are coming up with new ideas all the time to keep us amused as we stay in touch with each...
The post Canadian Court Rules That a Thumbs Up Emoji Can Validate a Contract appeared first on Sydney Criminal Lawyers.
11:00
Diary of Death: 8 14 July "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
SATURDAY 8 JULY
~ Inner West Noise Fest 2: Browning Mummery, Chrysalis, Ebola Disco, Milat, Contaminated Hands Ft. Bespoke Decay, The End Project Ft. Tone Generator, Rod Cooper, Blunt Force Head Trauma, Cold Gods, Urethra Stockade, Dysterhet, John Bunting MoshPit 1PM
~ Shady Nasty, Scan, Bbianca Crowbar
~ Lastlings, Forest Claudette Metro
~ Selasie, Franco Faris Golden Age 10PM FREE
~ Jack Shit Dean and Nancy on 22 9PM til 12.30AM FREE
~ Golden Fang, Jo Meares Silver Bullets Link & Pin, Woy Woy 6PM
~ Katy Steele Heritage Hotel, Bulli
SUNDAY 9 JULY
~ Mark Moldre, The Finalists Link and Pin, Woy Woy 2 til 4PM. All ages FREE
~ Kode9 (UK), Jungist, G Spot Civic Underground
~ Nestter Donuts (ESP), Dirtbag, Robbie Thunder The Duke of Enmore FREE
WEDNESDAY 12 JULY
~ Swingin at the Speakeasy: The Faculties; DJs Pia Andersen, Jack Shit Palmer & Co. Three sets of live music between 7 and 10PM with Pia on the decks between then Jack spinning til 2AM FREE
~ Hekka, Russ W Trio; DJs Jerom V, Jake Walker La La Las, Wollongong
THURSDAY 13 JULY
~...
11:00
Geelong job market booming "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Geelong saw the highest employment growth of all large Australian regional cities in 2022, according to new data released this week.
An extra 12,100 jobs were created in Greater Geelong throughout 2022, taking the total number of jobs to 135,562 at a growth rate of 9.8 per cent more than double the state average (3.8 per cent) and triple the national figure (3.2 per cent).
And while regional Victoria is outstripping other states with a jobs growth rate of 5.3 per cent, without Geelong figures included that number falls to 4.4 per cent less than half that of Victorias second biggest city.
Geelongs three biggest industries added the most jobs, with healthcare and social assistance adding 3931 jobs, construction 1603 and professional, scientific and technical services adding 1423.
The highest employment growth rate areas were rental, hiring and real estate (+38.8&percnt), information media and telecommunications (+37&percnt) and agriculture, forestry and fishing (+35.9&percnt).
Geelongs gross regional product (GRP) also showed the impressive growth over the same period, increasing from $15.9 billion to $17.58 billion at a rate of 10.3 per cent the second fastest rate in the country only behind the mining area of Karratha, according to the City of Greater Geelong.
Mayor Trent Sullivan said the citys strong jobs market was continuing to draw more people to the region.
The diversification of our local economy, significant private and public investment, a growing number of major organisations calling Geelong home and population growth have increased the type and amount of employment opportunities available, he said.
More people are realising that not only does Greater Geelong have an enviable lifestyle and stunning natural environment, but there are competitive employment options in a range of fields.
Committee for Geelong chief executive Michael Johnston welcomed confirmation Geelong was booming but said growth came with its own challenges, particularly around housing and transport.
We are already seeing a shortage in housing and a desperate need for investment in transport infrastructure, he said.
Without action, Geelongs comparative advantage will disappear. We need to reimagine how we move around Geelong, and public and active transport must be at the centre of this.
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10:51
In What Circumstances Can a Judge Direct a Jury to Acquit the Defendant? "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
A judge who was presiding over the jury trial of a Victorian police officer this week has taken the decision regarding guilt or innocence away from the jurors, directing them to return an acquittal on all assault charges and thereby...
The post In What Circumstances Can a Judge Direct a Jury to Acquit the Defendant? appeared first on Sydney Criminal Lawyers.
10:36
Review: CAKE at Bondi Festival "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Bondi Pavilion Seagull Cabaret Hall, Friday 7 July 2023
Reviewed by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday)
CAKE Bondi Festival (photo by Lucy Parakhina)
Of all the post-COVID entertainment vying for our attention, the genre of circus-cabaret seems to be striking a persistent trashy chord in the zeitgeist. (See our recent review of Blanc de Blanc).
CAKE Bondi Festival (photo Paul Neeson)
CAKE is a messy, funny, sexy romp that had the Bondi Festival crowd in stitches. The cast may not have been the best dancers, or singers or pretty much anything, but the audience were almost jumping out of their seats to join in the hilarity (or avoid being spattered by flying projectiles).
Yes there were circus tricks, some very talented, others ..well..but it didnt matter in the scheme of things. And yes there was nudity (de rigue...
10:31
Prepare for strong winds this weekend "IndyWatch Feed Allstate"
The Bureau of Meteorology is warning that strong winds could peak at 70kmh in the Illawarra today (Saturday July 8 2023). The winds are expected to persist until late on Sunday.
The State Emergency Service advises that people should:
- Move vehicles under cover or away from trees.
- Secure or put away loose items around your house, yard and balcony.
- Keep at least 8 metres away from fallen power lines or objects that may be energised, such as fences.
- Trees that have been damaged by fire are likely to be more unstable and more likely to fall.
- Report fallen power lines to either Ausgrid (131 388), Endeavour Energy (131 003), Essential Energy (132 080) or Evoenergy (131 093) as shown on your power bill.
- Stay vigilant and monitor conditions. Note that the landscape may have changed following bushfires.
- For emergency help in floods and storms, call your local SES Unit on 132 500.
Meanwhile Wollongong City Council is reminding workers on construction sites to tie down waffle pods so that they dont become a problem. Residents who spot waffle pods that arent where they are meant to be are encouraged to report the issue to Council. Waffle p...
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Welcome to the Global Financial Crisis of 2023 (Part Six) "IndyWatch Feed Allstate"
Silvergate Bank Announced its bankruptcy on 8 March 2023
Silicon Valley Bank Taken over by the FDIC on 10 March 2023
Signature Bank Taken over by the FDIC on 12 March 2023
First Republic Bank US$30 billion liquidity rescue by 11 banks on
16 March 2023
Credit Suisse Swiss Government shotgun wedding with UBS on 19 March
2023
Thats five bank failures or rescues in 11 days, including Credit Suisse, one of the largest banks in the world and the second largest in Switzerland.
Combined losses of stockholders and creditors of these institutions exceed US$200 billion. Market losses in the banking sector are much greater.
Walter Wriston, the greatest banker of the 20th century after Pierpont Morgan, personally tutored me on this topic 40 years ago.
In a bank run, you can pull your money out of banks and invest in gold, silver, land, or anything else. But you give the money to the seller, and she puts it back in the bank.
The point is the money always ends up in the bank. The system is a closed circuit.
Of course, it could go to a different bank, but all banks can borrow from each other through the fed funds market and the Eurodollar market. Again, the money always ends up in the bank.
Putting cash in a coffee can (or mattress) is one exception, but if you try to withdraw more than US$10,000, your bank will file a Currency Transaction Report (CTR) with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), and youll end up in a file next to Osama bin Laden. And the IRS gets a heads-up.
So, thats not a practical solution.
These failures and rescues were accompanied by extraordinary regulatory actions.
These actions have thrown the US banking system and bank depositors into utter confusion. Are all bank deposits now insured or just the ones Janet Yellen decides are systemically important? Whats the basis for that decision?
The most important question is: Is the crisis over? Has the Fed done enough to reassure depositors that the system is sound? Has the panic subsided?
The answer is no.
The panic is just getting started
We base that answer on the history of the two acute financial crises in recent decades 1998 and 2008.
The 1998 crisis reached the acute stage on 28 September 1998, just before the rescue of LTCM. We were hours away from the sequential shutdown of every stock and bond exchange in the world.
But that crisis began in June 1997 with the devaluation of the Thai baht and massive capital flight from Asia and then Russia. It took 15 months to go from a serious crisis to an existential threat.
Likewise, the 2008 crisis reached the acute stage on 15 September 2008 with the bankruptcy filing of Lehman Brothers.
But that crisis began in the spring of 2007 when HSBC surprised markets with an announcement that mortgage losses h...
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Its Time to Get a Second Opinion on Inflation and Use Some Home Remedies to Escape it "IndyWatch Feed Enviro.au"
What would you do if you knew your doctor has made an incorrect diagnosis before prescribing you some medicine? Would you just sit there and take it?
Because right now, PhD bearing central bankers are completely misunderstanding the source of inflation. And so, their response has been dangerously misguided. But investors dont seem to be acting in response to the threat.
Today, we explore whats really going on, and what you can do about it
As the modern macroeconomists who run our monetary policy see things, inflation is caused by aggregate demand shifts. If people buy more stuff, it raises prices. If theyre buying less, prices fall.
Closely tied to this is employment, which has an impact on the amount people can buy. But its a secondary factor.
A central bankers job is to manage the economy so that demand is growing moderately. If it grows too fast and prices start rising, higher interest rates are used to slow it down. If the economy is struggling and prices dont go up, or even fall, the economy needs stimulus with lower interest rates.
The fact that this doesnt really consider the supply side of things is the first big flaw in the theory. Especially in the wake of a pandemic that disrupted the supply sector of the economy badly.
What weve seen over the past two years is a spike in producer costs. Resources and energy prices surged first, well before consumer prices. Yes, this eventually led to a shift in consumer prices too. But the causation is obvious because of the temporal relationship producer prices moved and then consumer prices followed.
In 2020 and 2021, I tracked this through producer price indices (PPIs) and purchasing manager indices (PMIs). These are also known as factory gate prices, meaning the prices that factories pay for their inputs. They surged rapidly long before consumer prices did, allowing me to predict the consumer price inflation weve seen since.
The misdiagnosis on the part of central bankers confusing the inflationary spike for a demand-based issue rather than a supply issue is the source of what happens next in financial markets.
You see, interest rates are not just important to demand, but to supply too. Raising interest rates doesnt just slow demand. It also raises costs for producers, including those that supply energy and resources, the lack of which caused the PPI spike in the first place.
In other words, central bankers have made producer price spikes worse by adding costs to struggling factories, energy producers, miners, and other producers. Theyve added to the cause of inflation.
Worse still, they have created a demand slowdown where they didnt need to. This is because excess demand was never the source of the inflationary problem. It was one of supply.
Before we unpack the implications for investors, a quick tangent for those of you who are thinking that inflation is everywhere and always a mo...
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09:27
Coburg Music Studio Opening "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Hi, Everyone,
My name is Natasha and I am opening a branch of the Melbourne Performing Arts Academy.
Lessons will be available held on our baby grand piano on Murray St.
More information can be found here: ...
09:26
Wanted "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Hi, Im looking for a regular dog walker/dog
sitter.
Must love sausage dogs
Email: natasha.close@hotmail.com
09:25
Needed "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Seeking tutor for Year 12 General Maths
We're looking for an experienced tutor for a Year 12
student studying general maths. Must be kind, encouraging, and
able to boost confidence!
09:24
Wild Daisy Nature Playgroup "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
CALLING NATURE-LOVING PARENTS WITH LITTLE ONES
Do you want to connect with your child, community, and nature
in a relaxed playgroup?
09:23
Garage Sale "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
GREAT FOR SETTING UP YOUR NEW HOME
48 Ballard Avenue Coburg North
Moving sale, 15th 16th July. Will provide gazebo cover...
09:18
For Sale "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
2016 Corolla Hybrid for sale.
Price - $20,000.
A more than reasonable price says a friend who is loaning it.
Has been regularly serviced.
Km - 115023.
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Free "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
FREE - Ikea loft single adult bed and grey ikea desk (not
shown)
Disassembled and ready for pick up in
Coburg. If interested text James on 0422 076 414.
Thanks.
09:10
For Sale "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
After looking after my elderly Dad at home I have the
following items to sell.
Some things bought new, some were secondhand.
There are so many.
Please text me your email address if would like me to
send a more detailed photo or come and view.
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09:00
Garfish crank it up a gear "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
The garfish in the inner harbour have gone up a gear with reports becoming more consistent and some big ones are cruising about, too.
Most of Corio Bays land based structures are all fishing pretty well, but these often frustrating fish can be at one spot one day then somewhere completely different the next.
Plenty of burley in the water certainly helps when trying to catch these critters. Anglers are also finding pinky snapper, salmon and trevally.
The outer harbour has, unfortunately, slowed up a bit for the whiting fishing with boats still getting out chasing them and only a few managing to hit the nail on the head. Apart from that the calamari are slowly starting to improve with numbers with boats finding it easier to locate the packs of them and get onto a few in relatively quick time.
Bright coloured jigs this past week or so have seemed to be most popular for the resident squid at the moment.
The biggest fishing news this week would easily be the barrel tuna that have arrived out the front of the heads.
Barrels have rocked up and are holding in large numbers straight south of Barwon Heads in 70m of water. There is certainly plenty of life out there making it a bit easier to find the fish (whales, birds, dolphins, seals and bait fish showering) and once you find this life it could be MENTAL.
Reports of fish to over 140kg with lots of fish falling victim to a skirted lure behind a spreader bar.
The freshwater fishing remains to be quite the reliable option this week with Lake Purrumbete remaining a reliable location to find a variety of species. Chinook salmon have been the most caught fish with anglers finding lots of fish out deep whilst bait fishing.
As we have said many times before, burley hard with pilchard fillets five winds off the bottom and you should be into the action. Browns, rainbows, tigers and reddies have all been cruising the weed edges and those casting shallow jerkbaits or bent minnows have been doing very well.
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09:00
Free "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
Hi Good Newlands folk - in my efforts to get off gas I
purchased this induction cooktop but have decided to keep using my
portable ikea ones. So have this one to give away - it works
& is in perfect condition but I've lost the receipt (from
Aldi).
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If you are interested in it please text me on 0468 963
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08:22
UTAS : The road ahead "IndyWatch Feed Allstate"
The financial overview in UTASs recently released annual report for the calendar year 2022, although much more extensive than in past years, did little to explain UTASs current financial position.
Detailing what went up and what went down is a mind-numbing exercise, which does little to explain the financial challenges or how we will approach the years ahead as we enter ever more variations of the new normal, as UTAS noted in its report.
At a guess thats PR speak for Were not sure where were going, but well give it a go.
Blessed with gifted land, funded by capital grants for buildings and endowed with bequests and other amounts for education and research purposes, UTAS has gradually built its net assets position.
Apart from capital grants and investment income, UTAS makes losses every year, losses from the core activities of teaching and research, and losses caused by a relentless pattern of what is described as restructuring costs. We arent told what th...
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Rotten Robodebt legacy lingers as Liberals attempt re-election in Fadden "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
The Federal seat of Fadden is currently up for grabs after the exit of former MP Stuart Robert, whose numerous scandals may affect the Liberal Party's chances of re-election, writes Belinda Jones.
THE STARTER'S gun has fired in the 2023 Fadden Federal By-election. Early voting has begun in the Gold Coast seat and so too have the games in relentless pursuit of so-called democracy.
Australians like to pride ourselves on our democracy a free society where anyone can throw their hat into the ring at election time. Thirteen candidates have thrown their hats into the Fadden ring. An eclectic composition of political hopefuls all vying to be the Federal Member for Fadden, myself included.
The Federal seat of Fadden is currently up for grabs after the retirement of former member Stuart Robert.
Stuart Robert served 16 scandal-ridden years as a Liberal National Party of Queensland (LNP) member, achieving very little for the people he claimed to serve. One of the architects of the illegal Robodebt scheme and the fact he was tied to a litany of other transgressions eventually prompted Robert's retirement from Parliament.
Robert claimed his retirement was to focus on family less than a year after winning the seat in the 2022 Federal Election, forcing the costly By-election: over 100,000 Queenslanders have to make the trek back to their local polling places because he decided to pull up stumps one year into his three-year t...
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1) Indonesia's Presidents visits PNG amid growing concerns over West Papua "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
2) Jokowi: Susi Air Pilot's Release Negotiations
Ongoing
3) Jokowi ensures government's unwavering efforts
to free Susi Air pilot
4) Interim Nduga regent to negotiate with Papuan
rebels for release of NZ pilot
5) President monitors prices, distributes aid at
Papua's Pharaa Market
6) President Jokowi edifies
Papua students about capital relocation
7) Jayapura High Court finds
Viktor Yeimo guilty of treason
8) Jokowis Papua approach must
do more than scratch an itch
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1982: Premier Joh sours on Flowers "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
In 1982, autocratic Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen and his loyal police henchmen huffed and puffed over a visiting production of Lindsay Kemps acclaimed Flowers. Based on Jean Genets Our Lady of the Flowers, the mime and music extravaganza starred Lindsay Kemp as Divine, a drag queen from the Parisien demi-monde. Flowers was unapologetically decadent, gay ...
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06:55
International Student "IndyWatch Feed Alllocal"
I've just arrived in Townsville last week and I am struggling with finding housing. At this point my partner and I are quite desperate and any recommendations for short or long term housing would be much appreciated!
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Scott Morrison adds perjurer to his resume after findings of the Robedebt Royal Commission "IndyWatch Feed National"
Former Prime Minister was found to have given untrue
evidence under oath at the Royal Commission into the Robodebt
Scheme which means he can now add perjurer to his long list of
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