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If you have ever been to the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DWELP) and asked questions, you would be well-aware that the native-animal department has almost no staff, that DWELP does not use the law to protect native animals, but prevents others from using it, due to legal lack of standing.  At the same time, the Agriculture arm of DWELP enthusiastically issues permits to kill kangaroos and other native animals with almost no restriction or inspection, and quasi-imaginary

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Dear friends of IPAN
We congratulate the people of Australia for voting in a new government comprised of Labor, Greens and Independents demonstrating a real community led demand for quality change in so many areas.

On May 17, 2022, President Putin had a video-conference meeting on oil industry development with state officers and commercial representatives from the industry.  The following is the English translation of the transcript of the meeting, which is sourced from: here.

The UK Home Secretary Priti Patel can now sign off on Julian Assange’s extradition to the US at any moment. Extradition will mean that Julian faces the potential of 175 years in prison for exposing US war crimes and corruption.

If he is imprisoned, it will be by the very state whose crimes he exposed. These are the same revelations that Julian and Wikileaks received Journalism accolades around the world for, including Australia’s most prestigious prize, The Walkley Award.

Only the British Home Secretary can stop his extradition now.

Amazed that Le Monde has come through with this thoroughly documented evidence of torture of Russian soldiers by the Ukrainian Nationalists, led by Andriy Yangolenko! The evidence is compellingly clear even without translation, but the French narration is very effective and comprehensive.

"Sweden has failed to integrate the vast numbers of immigrants it has taken in over the past two decades, leading to parallel societies and gang violence, Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said on Thursday, as she launched a series of initiatives to combat organised crime." Australia, however, often claims that it is a multicultural success story.

The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) has called on Latin American and Caribbean Nations to Boycott the Summit of the Americas. May 12, 2022, the arbitrary decision by the government of the United States to exclude Nicaragua, Cuba, and Venezuela from participation in the regional Summit of the Americas - scheduled to take place in Los Angeles, June 6th to 10th - represents another example of imperial hubris and delusion, according to the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP). 

Australian Koala Foundation (AKF) is making a final plea to voters to realise that their political leaders and an incoming Government needs to support the Koala Protection Act, before it’s too late, as the Government’s recently released Koala Recovery Plan does not go far enough!

Yes, we’re still alive and kicking at https://eastgippsland.net.au/. We’ve been very preoccupied preparing another legal battle, but the good news is … our Supreme Court case which is arguing for effective Glider detection and protection, will begin this Monday (9th May). It’s scheduled to go for between 6-9 days and will be heard before the Honourable Justice Richards.

This was a presentation of videoed interviews, by multiple journalists, of Ukrainian complaints about war-crimes committed by Ukrainian Nationalist soldiers.  Unfortunately, but predictably, some US-NATO allies did not react to the actual material presented, but used the forum to promote, yet again, the same positions that saturate the mainstream media, and to accuse the Russian Federation of promoting disinformation.

Tucker Carlson argues that the Ukraine war follows on from the Russia-gate conspiracy that Hillary Clinton began after losing the 2016 US election.

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The following article is my response to Russian propaganda is everywhere (30/4/22) by Robert Cherminko, a copy of which is included below as an Appendix. Update, 3 May 2022: The code for the two Twitter posts, embedded in this article, has been fixed - James.

Robert Chernenko wrote:

The Cold War shaped our history from the close of the Second World War. It was a power struggle between the United States and the USSR, which at one time engulfed the whole globe, in what may be termed ‘bi-polarity’ (i.e. a country has to either belong to one camp or the other.) Ever present was the threat of nuclear destruction and, for this reason, the Cold War never took on the proportions of open war.

Or should we look at the causes of fatty liver?

In 2005, British journalist, Patrick Lancaster, documented the breaking of the Minsk Agreements from a trench, while Ukraine forces opened fire on the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) positions with artillery, sniper fire, and small arms. He writes, "We were in the LPR trenches when intense battle erupted.

British journalist, Graham Philipp's counter-propaganda channel on youtube, has been covering the Ukrainian civil war for years and continues to cover current conflict. We introduce his work with his 2021 film about how the BBC went from slanted reporting on the region in 2014 to total propaganda.

Australia and the United States are trying to put pressure on the Solomon Islands, which signed an agreement with China that allows for the possibility of creating a Chinese military base there. Although China has officially stated that there are no plans to build a military base in the Solomon Islands, Australia says this is a "red line" and that the US and Australia will not tolerate a Chinese military base near Australia. Not so long ago, when Russia said the same thing about NATO bases in Ukraine, Washington said that it does not accept such "red lines"and argued about the right of coun

"What should happen is every newspaper and journalistic entity should pull out of the United States and you should have a massive sanctioning of the United States. No American should be welcome in any sporting event, much as they're trying to do to other nationalities, including Russian. The only way to stop this devouring of the world is to stop the devourer of the world, and to sanction it, and to withdraw from it. And ignore it and turn away from it.

Australia's decision to add weapons [1] to the Ukraine pyre shows our government is unable to critically formulate foreign policy.