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Friday, 14 July

00:15

THE ROBODEBT SCHEME: a tale of rampant ambition, abuse of power, systemic cruelty, venality, incompetence and cowardice North Coast Voices


In September 2013, the Liberal-National Coalition, led by the then Liberal MP for Warringah & Prime Minister Tony Abbott, won government on the back of an election campaign predominately focussed on removal of the so-called carbon tax, fiscal responsibility and the size of the national budget deficit.


By 2014-15 the concept of a fully automated system of data-matched debt creation was posited to reduce the federal budget deficit - which at that time stood at est. an underlying cash deficit of $37.9 billion.


It was expected that this data matching program would come online sometime in the 2015-16 financial year and generate over $1.7 billion in recoverable debt over 5 years.


The sole target of this debt creation was to be those Australians who received or had ever received federal government cash transfers as pensions, benefits or allowances (with the exception of those receiving veteran or aged pensions) during a period extending back to in theory to 2005.


In February 2015 the then Liberal MP for Cook & Minister for Social Services, Scott Morrison, approved this new policy proposal and what was eventually to become colloquially known as th...

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Thursday, 13 July

17:28

Dumping Doubts: Releasing Fukushimas Waste Water The AIM Network

Nothing said from the nuclear industry can or should be taken for face value. Be it in terms of safety, or correcting defects or righting mistakes; be it in terms of construction integrity, there is something chilling about reassurances that have been shown, time and again, to be hollow.  The 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power

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17:02

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16:06

Climate Change: Overturned No Right Turn

Last December, Labour made the first in a series of terrible climate decisions, over-ruling Climate Change Minister James Shaw and the Climate Change Commission to sabotage the ETS by setting excessively high volumes and low prices. The result was immediate: the carbon price crashed from ~$85/ton and began a long-term decline (which has only worsened as Labour has done more to undermine it). But today, thanks to Lawyers for Climate Action, that decision has been overturned:

Today the High Court gave judgment in favour of Lawyers for Climate Action NZ Inc in a judicial review of the Regulations which set the number of additional Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) units available over the next five years and imposed various price restrictions. The Regulations are referred to as the Climate Change (Auctions, Limits, and Price Controls for Units) Amendment Regulations 2022 and were made in December 2022.

The judgment means that the Minister of Climate Change must now reconsider the unit limit and price control settings for 2023 to 2027 by 30 September 2023.

The decision was by consent - Shaw accepted that his decision-making process was flawed, and that he did not have reasonable grounds to conclude that Labour's preferred settings were lawful and in accordance with our emissions budgets or Paris NDC. Which means they will have to be re-made. The government is currently considering settings for 2024 - 2028, and this decision will neatly allow them to bypass the statutory requirements for changing the settings for the next two years (since those requirements were met or irrelevant for 2024 and 2025 respectively).

This is a significant victory for the climate, and a significant defeat for chickenshit, sabotaging Labour. And hopefully it'll help set a convention in future of always following the Climate Commission, rather than trying to over-rule it. We all owe Lawyers for Climate Action a debt of gratitude. And if you'd like to support them in their work, you can make a donation here.

16:00

Media bias even from the ABC on full display at Fadden By-election Independent Australia

Media bias even from the ABC on full display at Fadden By-election

Amounting to election interference, the mainstream media including the ABC have swanned in and out of the Fadden by-election pre-poll, ignoring all candidates except LNP and Labor. Independent Australia discusses the undemocratic details with some of the candidates in our exclusive pre-poll coverage.

Caused by the resignation of scandal-ridden LNP Member and Morrison confidante, Stuart Robert, the Fadden By-election should be newsworthy. Obvious biases aside, its expected that the Fourth Estate would nonetheless make a show of treating all 13 candidates equally. Certainly, the public broadcaster whose charter is to provide comprehensive coverage in the public interest should at least attempt to fulfil its duty.

But of course, we live in a country where media concentration is so blatant and the public broadcaster is so in step with the media moguls, no one even bothers to pretend otherwise.

When the media crew arrived at the pre-polling, a Legalise Cannabis Queensland booth volunteer asked whether they would be interviewing all the candidates:

 I approached the Channel 9 female reporter and asked if they were interviewing all the parties present. The reporter replied, No were only paid to interview the Labor and Liberal party. Weve been told not to interview anyone else. My other team member approached ABC and was told something similar Only the major parties today.

When questioned on this matter, Australian Citizens Party campaign manager Ian Oliver told IA:

It made me very angry because we are supposed to be a nation of equality where everyone gets a fair go, where everyone in politics gets to state their message and let the voters decide.

Independent candidate...

15:05

Panti Bliss and the war on drag and trans existence The AIM Network

One of the highlights of recent travel was seeing the Queen of Ireland, Panti Bliss, perform at the Soho Theatre. This esteemed drag performer was pushed to the fore of Irelands 2015 marriage equality campaign and came to lead it to its successful vote.  Rory ONeill, her creator, describes her as a giant cartoon woman,

The post Panti Bliss and the war on drag and trans existence appeared first on The AIM Network.

12:00

NATO's talk of further Asian engagement should be feared by Australia Independent Australia

NATO's talk of further Asian engagement should be feared by Australia

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization has undermined its mission to foster stability, becoming a vessel of U.S. power. Where NATO goes, war is most likely Australia should take note, writes Dr Binoy Kampmark.

SINCE THE end of the Cold War, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has distinctly strayed from its original purpose. It has become, almost shamelessly, the vessel and handmaiden of U.S. 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 the authorisation of the United Nations Security Council, in a 78-day bombing campaign of Yugoslavia at least what was left of it ostensibly to protect the lives of Kosovar Albanians. Far from dampening the tinderbox, the Kosovo affair continues to be an explosion in the making.

Members of the Alliance also expended material, money and personnel in Afghanistan over the course of two decades, propping up a deeply unpopular, corrupt regime in Kabul while failing to stifle the Taliban. As with previous imperial projects, the venture proved to be a catastrophic failure.

In 2011, NATO was again found wanting in its attack on the regime of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. While it was intended to be an exemplar of the Responsibility to Protect doctri...

11:51

Dont you worry about that The AIM Network

Former Queensland Premier Johannes Bjelke-Petersen frequently used the expression dont you worry about that when he either didnt want to answer the question, or knew the the question would suggest additional requests for information. Bjelke-Petersens National Party oversaw a gradual erosion of civi rights and equality in Queensland. Bjelke-Petersen was portrayed as a strong leader

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11:28

Labour won't tax the banks either No Right Turn

Buried under yesterday's chickenshit announcement by Chris Hipkins that Labour won't support a wealth tax so long as he is leader is another example of Labour chickenshittery: they won't tax the banks either, despite them making "supernormal" profits:

The big four Australian-owned banks avoided a windfall tax on their Covid-era profits partly because Treasury could find no clear evidence their supernormal profits at the time were out of line with their standard supernormal profits.

Budget documents released on Wednesday showed the Government considered, the decided against, levying a windfall profits tax on banks to help pay for the rebuild in Hawkes Bay following devastation in February from Cyclone Gabrielle.

They also show Treasury officials told the Government that while big bank profits had increased in the Covid era: We have not identified clear evidence for windfall profits, on top of the sectors usual elevated level of profitability.

...which seems to be a strong argument for a perpetual windfall tax on bank profits, to tame these rapacious parasites. But instead, Labour decided to do nothing, as usual. So, they won't tax the rich, they won't tax the banks, but they'll cry "poverty" when anyone voices basic expectations about a functioning state or public services. But they're not "poor" - just too stupid, weak, and craven to govern effectively.

11:18

Jacobin on how to perfect the architecture of control Antony Loewenstein

My interview in US outlet, Jacobin, about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory. The conversation, conducted by Mattha Busby, covered a wide range of areas from Israeli spying to the role of the Zionist lobby:

Wars and occupations have long been testing grounds for technology, science, and surveillance. In a domain mostly controlled by the oppressor, subject populations are sure to find ingenious ways to rise up but their captors also find new ways to subjugate them. This is the reality in the occupied Palestinian territories, where Israel has maintained the longest occupation in modern times fifty-six years and counting.

The Israeli state and its closely aligned military-industrial complex writes its own rule book. Its soldiers watch as extremist Jewish settlers launch pogroms against Palestinians in the West Bank. Over one thousand Palestinians are held in indefinite detention without charge in Israeli jails.

Palestinian access to water is used as a potent state-controlled weaponfor the settler movement. Meanwhile, Israeli arms companies promote their weapons with real footage in which Palestinian children are left injured.

But in the court of international opinion, the tide is turning against Israel. In May, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories denounced the apartheid system over which colonial power Israel rules Palestinians. Tens of millions of dollars are sent from the United States by registered charities to bankroll illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, but the New York State Assembly will soon consider a bill that would prevent the tax-deductible practice.

As journalist, author, and filmmaker Antony Loewenstein writes in...

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08:50

Silence & Stillness. freef'all852

Silence & Stillness.

Be still..

What merit in rushing about,

Like scalded cat, all fuss and shout,

When chance and the wild world,

Intrudes with its multitude of variables,

So never can we be certain of a correct choice.

So be still..

And with a matadors flourish,

With a sweep of the cape, we make,

A veronica turn and avoid grave mistake!

The clamour and shout of public opinion,

No more than a roar of bluff and delusion.

Be still..

My friends, be still..wait till passing rage,

Exhausts itself in futile passage,

How many empires in an eon of age,

Destroyed themselves in self-flattery?

Leaving only scant remnant of golden days.

So be still..

With purity of thought we climb,

To heights only dreamed of in many minds,

All intention fixed on ascending away,

From base existence and mob affray,

Until we breathe air with the Gods company.

Be still..

We of an age have served our time,

Apprenticed to family, work, demands, grime,

Until now, at this age, we claim for our own pleasure,

To meditate at our own private leisure,

Those moments treasured in memory sublime.

So be still..

Be patient, reduce work to simple actions,

Show compassion to our fellow travellers,

In this way we build on our courage,

To hold at bay, lifes intruding emptiness,

Forever together we can live in quiet...

07:28

In which the pond must talk of sundry matters because it seems the reptiles are in a quiet downward spiral ... loon pond

 


The pond once harboured fantasies that it might help, in however small and humble way, kill the tree killer business of Chairman Rupert and his minions ... but the pond reckoned without the seemingly infinite capacity of the reptiles to do self-harm, balanced by the ABC's relentless insistence that News Corp publications remain the source of all the news that matters ...

Meanwhile, speaking of self-harm, the pond is suffering. What on earth to do with this lot?




The pond realises that a few cultists will clap hands with glee at the sight of Dame Groan improving her productivity, as an example to us all, but where's petulant Peta, if only so the pond could ignore her? Is a serve of dismal Dimitri, and Monkish disapproval, and a loose serve of despair from gloomy Loosley the best the reptiles have got?

The tree killer edition looked no more promising ... 




Fears over Orwellian truth bill 'are valid'? Nah, not really.  Not even that putting of quote marks around the 'are valid' bit could tempt the pond.

The pond has spent way too much time brooding about the way that stubborn socialist remains top of the reptile word pantheon. Not even Uncle Elon's use of "cuck", which sent the pond in search of an ancient New Statesman story about the word, The evolution of cuck shows that dif...

07:00

Robodebt crimes: Who should pay and how? Independent Australia

Robodebt crimes: Who should pay and how?

Even when we consider Robodebt as dispassionate onlookers that is, people who did not have a loved one take their own life, or otherwise have their lives irreparably marred by this vicious campaign it is not possible to see it as anything but a crime against humanity.

And it was not a benign mistake.

And it was not a one-off thing.

We knew this back in 2017 when the first reports of the unfairness of the scheme emerged but were ignored.

We knew this when the Federal Court pronounced it unlawful a full two years later, in 2019.

And we knew it when the Morrison Government forged ahead, anyway, seemingly unperturbed by its illegality, let alone its devastating effects, even when these were detailed by legal professionals and publicly called out by the Australian Council of Social Services.

Approximately 443,000 people received these threatening notices demanding payment known as "robodebts". Victims were not even able to speak to anyone about their alleged debt and should someone actually manage to get a phone call through to the right department, all the relevant public servants were ordered to refer them back to the website. Never mind that they may not be able to navigate this process, or that their questions would likely still be ignored.

So the threats continued. And lets not beat around the bush, here. These were threats. Meant to be taken seriously. Designed to be menacing.

The harassment...

01:15

President of Lithuania: NATO Summit is Best Gift for 700th Anniversary of Vilnius "IndyWatch Feed Politics.us"


https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/216570.htm

Statement and Speech by President Gitanas Nausda of Lithuania, host of the NATO summit:

The President: NATO Summit is the best gift for the 700th anniversary of Vilnius July 11, 2023
President Gitanas Nausda and his spouse invited the leaders of NATO member states to a social dinner at the Presidential Palace. The dinner was also attended by the guests of the NATO Summit the leaders of Ukraine, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, and EU institutions.

In his toast remarks, Gitanas Nausda highligh...

00:48

Dutton wants Australia to join the nuclear renaissance John Quiggin

but this dream has failed before. My latest in The Conversation over the fold

Last week, opposition leader Peter Dutton called for Australia to join what he dubbed the international nuclear energy renaissance.

The same phrase was used 20 years ago to describe plans for a massive expansion of nuclear. New Generation III plants would be safer and more efficient than the Generation II plants built in the 1970s and 1980s. But the supposed renaissance delivered only a trickle of new reactors   barely enough to replace retiring plants.

If there was ever going to be a nuclear renaissance, it was then. Back then, solar and wind were still expensive and batteries able to power cars or store power for the grid were in their infancy.

Even if these new smaller, modular reactors can overcome the massive cost blowouts which inevitably dog large plants, its too late for nuclear in Australia. As a new report points out, nuclear would be wildly uncompetitive, costing far more per megawatt hour (MWh) than it does to take energy from sun or wind.

The nuclear renaissance that wasnt

Early in the 21st century, the outlook for nuclear energy seemed more promising than it had in years. As evidence on the dangers of global heating mounted, it became clear that the expansion of coal-fired power in the 1990s  especially in Asia  had been a mistake.

And despite the prevalence of slogans such as Solar not Nuclear, the cost of solar and wind energy was then too high to make fully renewable systems a reality.

The rise of Generation III and III+ designs promised to eliminate or at least greatly reduce the risk of accidents like those at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.

The time seemed right for a nuclear renaissance  especially in the United States. Between 2007 and 2009, 13 companies applied for construction and operating licenses to build 31 new nucle...

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Wednesday, 12 July

21:31

The recent Jenin operation looks different when considering Palestine as a weapons laboratory Antony Loewenstein

A strong review of my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, by writer Syndication Bureau (focusing solely on the Middle East).

An extract:

The occupation of Palestine is the most funded and resourced state project in Israels history. On the surface, the occupation has been sold as a temporary defensive measure necessary for Israels survival. However, it satisfies many other needs. Given the biblical connection to the West Bank, the occupation provides a religious veneer to the project of secular Zionism. Control over holy cities with deep meaning in Jewish religious history rallies Jews worldwide to support Israel and its government.

More importantly, Israels military control over an entire population has facilitated the creation of a lucrative weapons industry. In his new book, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World, Australian journalist Antony Loewenstein has documented the intricate connection between the occupation of Palestine and the development of the modern weapons industry. Controlling millions of people requires more than a strong military. Israel has dominated virtually all aspects of Palestinian life with remarkable efficiency through a matrix of checkpoints, physical barriers, and advanced surveillance technologies.

Read the whole thing: What Drives Israels Lucrative Weapons Industry | by Joseph Dana | Jul, 2023 | Medium

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17:27

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16:08

Hipkins surrenders No Right Turn

Last month, the Greens kicked off their election campaign, proposing a wealth tax on the ultra-rich. Its a good, sensible policy: the New Zealand state is decrepit and run-down, with everything falling apart and failing after decades of austerity. A wealth tax would give it the money it needs to be able to do the things we want it to do: schools, hospitals, a welfare system that ends poverty and ensures human dignity.

So, you'd expect Labour, the party of ordinary kiwis who rely on those public services, to support this, right? Of course not:

Labour will not propose a wealth tax or a capital gains tax at the election, Labour leader Chris Hipkins said overnight on Wednesday.

Im confirming today that under a Government I lead there will be no wealth or capital gains tax after the election. End of story.

He said now is simply not the time for a big shake-up of our tax system.

And so Labour, "the party of the workers", has sided with the ultra-rich to fuck over normal people, as usual. But then, should we really expect anything different from a man paid $471,049 a year, who owns three houses? Bluntly, he's not one of us - he's one of them. Of course he stands for their interests rather than ours.

Obviously, we have MMP, so this is really a question of the balance of power between Labour and the Greens and Te Pti Mori after the election. But Hipkins' announcement today means that that might not be an issue. He's basicly told voters to fuck off, he's not going to offer us anything - just the awful, unequal, rusting status quo. There's no hope for a better future under Labour. So why bother voting for them?

The clear message from this announcement is that if you want change, you need to vote for the Greens or Te Pati Mori. As for Labour, a party which offers its voters literally nothing deserves to lose.

16:00

Tassie's Tall Trees under threat Independent Australia

Tassie's Tall Trees under threat

Logging and bushfires have decimated giant gum trees in Tasmania. Unless we seriously tackle climate change, Australia stands to lose these biological treasures, writes Henry Johnston.

I PASS A milestone this year. A pointer to a life fulfilled. A time of reckoning.

Somewhere it is written, humans are allotted threescore and ten years. As I think back on this gift, I recall the joys of my life on this planet as it spins in silence through the Milky Way.

Other non-human companions, whose life force makes my sweet time appear inconsequential, remind me of the fragility of existence.

I gazed upon them yesterday in Tasmania's Hartz Mountains down by Geeveston Town. But today, I learnt of a threat to companion trees, silent and majestic, in the far-off Mount Field National Park via Maydena, west of Hobart and towards the south from New Norfolk.

Both locales  the Hartz Mountains, bifurcated by the dark flowing Huon River and the Styx Tall Trees Conservation Area, watered by the gurgling Tyenna   bear the scars of two recent misfortunes.

The first threat, the ever-present menace of logging, elicits passionate arguments for and against, but recent disastrous fires seem forgotten, probably because of a convenient trick we humans employ to bypass certain certainties. If it is out of sight, so, it is out of mind. And I am told our home, the blue planet, experienced its hottest day since records began.

As I write, it is difficult to dismiss the vision of thousands of matchstick-like trees in the Hartz M...

14:39

Yeah Nah Pasaran! #169 w Ashley Mattheis on Atomwaffen, The Allen, Texas, Attack & More : July 13, 2023 slackbastard

Above: Tim Wilms (The Unhinged) and Jarrad Searby (Proud Boys/National Socialist Network/Finks/Melbourne Magistrates Court) pose for the camera. Wilms is wearing RWDS merch popularised by the Proud Boys and, more recently, mass murderer Mauricio Garcia. This week on Yeah Nah Continue reading

09:46

Discussing Lachlan Murdoch with Paddy Manning Antony Loewenstein

Journalist Paddy Manning has written a fascinating book on Lachlan Murdoch, the heir apparent of the global media empire, called The Successor.

I interviewed him about the book and his methods behind it at this years Newcastle Writers Festival:

 

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09:11

Robodebt Morrisons latest disaster The AIM Network

In August 2022 Peter Dutton was interviewed in Adelaide. In a wide ranging interview he stated, many times, that if a Royal Commission was set up to look into Robodebt, then Bill Shorten should be the first minister to appear. Asked several times about Scott Morrisons responsibility for the scheme he repeated his charge that

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09:10

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08:00

Blockchain could revolutionise the power industry Independent Australia

Blockchain could revolutionise the power industry

Blockchain technology has the potential to provide solutions to several challenges facing the power industry today, writes Paul Budde.

AS WE ALL KNOW, because of the rising costs of energy, the power industry is one of the most important sectors of the economy. It is responsible for providing electricity to homes, businesses and other critical infrastructure. However, the power industry is also facing a number of challenges, including rising demand, ageing infrastructure and climate change.

Blockchain technology has the potential to address many of these challenges and revolutionise the power industry. Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology that can record transactions in a secure and transparent way.

This makes it ideal for applications in the power industry, such as:

  • Energy trading: Blockchain can be used to create a secure and transparent marketplace for energy trading. This would allow buyers and sellers to trade energy directly with each other, without the need for a third party.
  • Distributed energy resources: Blockchain can be used to manage distributed energy resources (DERs), such as solar panels and batteries. This would allow DERs to participate in the energy market and provide valuable services to the grid.
  • Smart grids: Blockchain can be used to create smart grids, which are more efficient and reliable. Smart grids use sensors and other technology to collect data about the grid, which can then be used to optimise operations.
  • Fraud prevention: Blockchain can be used to prevent fraud in the power industry. For example, blockchain can be used to track the movement of energy, which can help to identify and prevent theft.

We also discussed blockchain in this article and discussed at a higher level its benefits and its problems.

In addition to these specific applications, blockchain can a...

07:26

In which the pond offers a headlines survey before settling down to a bipartisan stew ... loon pond

 

The pond decided to take it easy this day and do a survey of the headlines of the lizard Oz. By now the pond expects devoted herpetology students to be able to write a column in the style and manner of any reptile columnist and without the help of AI, still end up with passing fair sense of verisimilitude ...

First up the pond caught a fleeting glimpse of a despairing cry from the Catholic Boys' (and occasional girl) Daily at the thought of having been done down yet again by that rogue liberal Marxist climate science affirming chemist from South America ...




Remember to splash a few tears onto the paper so that the ink might run, and cry forlornly at the sky, "where are the Pellists of yesteryear"?

Moving right along, there's much digital ink to be spilled about Jimbo ...


 


If talk of "hard-head Jim"...

06:00

How Australia can partner more effectively with France in the Pacific "IndyWatch Feed Politics.pg"

As geopolitics brings increasing engagement by external actors with the Pacific, there is a need to coordinate more effectively including Australia and France. At the same time, better coordination must be done in a consultative and respectful manner in partnership with Pacific nations, particularly in light of Australias commitment to a new era with the region.

In a new report by the Asia-Pacific Development, Diplomacy and Defence Dialogue (AP4D), we identify how Australia can work with France to contribute to addressing some of the Pacifics challenges. To help inform our conclusions, we conducted discussions with Pacific Islanders in Vanuatu, Fiji and Tonga who have experience working with Australia and France.

Development coordination is crucial for maximising the impact of scarce resources and ensuring that the often-limited bandwidth of Pacific governments is not overwhelmed and that local sovereignty and perspectives are prioritised. Playing to the strengths of different actors, drawing on collective expertise, and avoiding duplicating or undermining respective efforts are also crucial. Donor coordination forums and conferences, greater visibility and mapping of respective contributions, alignment on diligence and compliance requirements, and dedicated resources for coordination are all ideas to explore.

Australia and France can work together to improve coordination, alongside other actors including the US, New Zealand, Japan, European institutions, and multilateral development banks. While yet to demonstrate its practical value fully, the Partners in the Blue Pacific initiative promises to perform such a function though France and the EU are only observers, and it has received a mixed reception in the Pacific. Australia should ensure that the grouping remains open to, and engaged with, France as much as possible. The first substantial focus area for Partners in the Blue Pacific is...

00:15

Telstra-Space X agreement is not welcome news in every corner of Australia North Coast Voices

 

Moon, Four Planets, and Emu
an Aboriginal Astronomical constellation that's outlined by dark areas of the Australian night sky. NASA Science, 8 February 2019


Nominally Australian telecommunications corporation Telstra Group and Elon Musks Space Exploration Technologies Corp aka SpaceX have one thing in common they both frequently charge too much for the often below par telecommunicatio...

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