Month: June 2024

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Peter Dutton & The Going Nuclear Debate

23 June 2024 2 yrs

Australia is moving toward a renewable energy future – it is happening and is underway. Yes, there are challenges ahead in this major transformation, which has been inspired by the world’s need to respond to global warming. No serious energy expert or scientist has suggested […]

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by Clio

6 May 2026 1 week

Weak Leaders Follow The Power Elite

PM Anthony Albanese was never going to stand up to the gas industry downunder. Weak leaders follow the power elite. They are content to see inequity and inequality flourish in this time of zombie neoliberalism. Nero fiddled whilst Rome burned or so the story goes. Governments do little these days but talk and let the markets run the show to the detriment of the working poor. We have a severe housing crisis and it is not getting any better. What is the government doing about it? Talking about it, but talk is cheap. They are not actually getting their hands dirty and getting into the game by building houses themselves. No, they are ineffectually encouraging private interests to do something about the housing crisis. The figures do not stack up in terms of meeting the challenge of new housing stock being built at the required rate.

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by Clio

25 April 2026 3 weeks

So, What Does It Mean To Be Australian?

I thought that it could be useful, in light of the apparent rise in the populist politics of grievance, to ask, so, what does it mean to be Australian? Anti-immigration is the flag waving vanguard theme of One Nation and the remnants of the Liberal party. Blame it on the immigrant appears number one on the political grievance charts downunder. Therefore, it provokes the question – what does it mean to be Australian? If it is not out-and-out racism, as those on the Right deny it to be, who, then, qualifies to be considered an acceptable Australian?

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by Clio

13 April 2026 1 mth

Free Childcare Downunder

We have seen a spate of one-size-fits-all welfare payments and subsidies. You know, instead of governments helping the most needy they make stuff free for all. This is done for political purposes in attracting votes at elections. All this does is increase wealth inequality. Well off property owners should not be receiving government assistance in maintaining their lifestyles. This brings us to the Alan Kohler call for free childcare downunder. While I support the general idea, I question why wealthy Australians should qualify for these types of assistance. How about a carve out for those over a certain income and capital asset threshold? We need to reverse the widening wealth divide after decades of American style neoliberalism funnelling riches to a select few in Australia.

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Episode 26: Why Copying America Is Bad - Robert Sudha Hamilton's Podcast

Robert Sudha HamiltonWhat can we learn from the current political situation in America? Further to that, what ramifications does that potentially have for Australians? There is no denying that Australia tends to follow the United States in terms of business trends and culturally to some extent. Pauline Hanson Loves TrumpAustralia likes to copy the US and especially those on the Right. Former PM Tony Abbott, who sold the Port of Darwin to the Chinese, is a big fan of One Nation.American multinationals like Uber and McDonalds avoid paying their fair share of corporate tax in Australia by shifting their profits to tax havens via dubious IP charges to associated entities. You can see a pattern here, where American companies don’t want to pay taxes and pay their workers and subcontractors as little as possible. This is the America they are exporting to Australia and which Pauline Hanson is so enamoured of. Pauline Hanson loves Trump.The fast food sector is economically predicated upon young adults not being paid proper wages for their work. The gig economy, likewise, has delivery drivers and riders, often, not earning the minimum hourly rate, whilst risking their own vehicles at their own expense. These sectors are exploiting workers for the benefit of share holders and consumers. America promotes dog eat dog, zero sum games for the benefit of the wealthy.

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11 May

One Nation Is Aussie MAGA!

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6 May

PM Anthony Albanese was never going to stand up to the gas industry downunder. Weak leaders follow the power elite...

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27 Apr

The Chair of Shell Australia fronted the senate inquiry into the gas industry. Incredibly, this leader of this corporation could not answer the question – how much revenue did your company make in the last financial year and how much LNG did you export?