As the 2025 election date nears, both the major parties are doing everything in their power to have a smaller field of candidates. From deliberate removal of signage and destruction of signage, through to the old trying to dig up dirt.

Sadly, the challenges of the running as a candidate and the toll it takes on family life, has led to a number of Democracy First Alliance Candidates withdrawing from the 2025 Federal Election. This coupled with the amount of money being thrown at “independent” candidates from Climate 200 and the emergence of Trumpets of Patriots make the importance of remaining a candidate even more important.

Despite the challenges thrown towards me, I am pleased to confirm that I am on the ballot paper and will be taking my policies to the federal election with the aim of representing EVERY Dunkley voter regardless of the way they vote.

Analysis of "Want to fix the housing crisis? Then listen to dads like Morgan," by Parnell Palme Mc Guinness, The Age, Opinion.

McGuinness is a professional PR manager for commercial and political messages and here's what I think is the killer-propaganda in her opinion piece for the Age: "Of course, it is inexplicable to Morgan that our society should extend compassion to people from other countries while shrugging off his plight. After all, he would also like to build a better life in Australia."

The treatment of immigration here highlights the whole 'little man' thing in all its 19th Century Victorian glory: Yes, little Morgan knows he is suffering.  Yes, the lowly Morgan truly does suffer from resource competition from lowly immigrants. Of course Morgan cannot understand the much higher aims that his betters have in bringing overseas migrants here for a 'better life.'

There is a logical failure to add Morgan's deteriorating life here to 'immigrants' better life here' - in the same country.  Maybe we are supposed to infer that immigrants are coming from such hell-holes that the Australian hell-hole is heaven in comparison. So, who still believes that most immigrants are 'refugees?' (I met someone who still does, yesterday!) To my knowledge Australia's refugee intake has just been increased to 20,000 from about 15,000.  

The second part of the article drops immigration and asserts that the housing problem is really a failure of many other kinds of institutions to efficiently apportion social housing according to number of rooms per number in occupying family.

What, besides improving the allocation and logistics of 'social housing' is canvassed as a possible solution for Morgan's problem?
It seems that the article, whilst purportedly encouraging the voices of those affected by housing and immigration policies, still only envisages a solution of social housing logistics. 

The article goes in circles: 'Socio-economic' problems here still only mean 'housing.' The article makes everything revolve around the provision of social housing except maybe the idea that some other factor that could find another solution might emerge from listening to the 'affected communities.'  But we don't get any example.

If you realise that 'social housing' - meaning public housing and privately provided new 'affordable housing' - in Australia, is almost non-existent, and the Commonwealth Gov is actually reducing public housing to even less, then this excursion into better provision of 'social housing' is absurdly disproportionate as a solution to a problem involving a million more immigrants every two years, at the rate of 4 new immigrants to one new Australian-born, with a doubling time of about 28 years.

Actually, the problem goes much further than that. Australia does not have the biophysical geographic space for dense development and expansion. The population lives in cities on the patchily watered fringes of a continent with 70% rangeland and desert, and the density of economic activity reflects soil and climate fertility conditions. Whether housing goes up or out, it still requires more water and more power, and these things are in short supply. Twenty and 30 years ago, these population arguments also involved the protection of Australia's green spaces and biodiversity, and the welfare of wildlife and wild vegetation, which were important restraints on further housing. These historic Australian values have been absolutely left out of recent mediatised and government 'discussion.' Such considerations are completely ignored in discussions of carbon emissions and climate change, as they have been gradually completely excluded from the vocabulary of official 'environmentalists' and 'planners.' Many now promote the nonsensical idea that building new cities with carbon-intensive concrete towers will solve our problems, when it will likely increase them by an order of magnitude.

As youtuber and housing crisis critic, Bikos Constantinos, wrote: Wow, the gaslighting when it comes to immigration and housing is off the charts. https://x.com/BikoKonstantin1/status/1899070320692330729

I thank my fellow Senators for their participation in a successful debate on my Motion in defence of free speech and peaceful freedom of association. I’m not sure if some understood how the Government’s "Misinformation and Disinformation Bill" (MAD for short) will limit the right to protest. As demonstrated during COVID, posts promoting protests were banned and organisers arrested. This Bill would allow the Government to ban posts that promote protests as a threat to public order, which is why my motion mentioned both free speech and the right to protest. In my speech, I drew attention to the bigger picture – that predatory foreign billionaires have bought Australia, and this Bill prevents us talking about it.

https://x.com/i/status/1835608169646796845

Democracy is deceased in the USA and Australia. Corporate Fascism now rules. Elections are a facade. Human population growth and concomitant rapid increase in capitalist advertising industry consumerism are the biggest threats to our survival as a species. Humans are now at a plague proportion. Global population growth at an insane eco destructive 90 million net per annum with an unsustainable 8 billion humans now on the planet ......is the biggest threat to wildlife, habitat, the Biosphere's fragile endangered bio diversity, complex life support systems. Most techno-fixes are an unnecessary tax payer expense.

Solution is:

1. Don't build roads, houses, anything, in high biodiverse habitat areas

2. End human population growth by encouraging low birth rates to below replacement and end all non humanitarian immigration... close borders

3. End the Capitalist corrupt growth-addicted eco-destructive so-called economy. Close down or nationalise the advertising industry

4. Progress to the Steady State Eco Socialist eco responsible, sustainable economy now. Join CASSE now.

1. Jurisdiction and venue challenges: Writs of habeas corpus typically need to be filed in the jurisdiction where the person is being detained. With Assange's case spanning multiple countries, there may have been challenges in determining the proper venue to file such a writ.
2. Timing and procedural issues: Habeas corpus writs have strict filing deadlines and procedural requirements. Assange's lawyers may have determined that the timing or other procedural factors made a habeas corpus petition less viable or advisable.
3. Strategic considerations: Assange's legal team may have decided that other legal avenues or arguments were more promising or appropriate for his specific circumstances, rather than pursuing a habeas corpus writ.
4. Uncertainty of success: Writs of habeas corpus can be difficult to obtain, especially in high-profile cases involving national security and extradition issues. Assange's lawyers may have evaluated the chances of success and determined other approaches were preferable.
5. Resource constraints: Mounting a robust habeas corpus challenge can be resource-intensive. Assange's legal team may have had to prioritize their efforts and resources across multiple fronts of his defense.

Picked up following article from the web.  It indicates focusing simply on population numbers leads nowhere, and  is /would be a distraction to the real problem for sustainability for national peoples.

 "Britain is being colonised, completely taken-over by wave after wave of mass immigration.  Indigenous British are now an ethnic minority in our largest towns and cities, including London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leicester etc.

Political correctness is strangling political discussion and suppressing our British history, traditions and culture.  We are now treated no better than second-class citizens in our own land.

The government chooses to house hordes of illegal immigrants, while ignoring our own needy - over ten thousand pensioners die every year due to cold, yet we send vast amounts overseas in 'foreign aid'.

Tens of thousands of Islamist extremists wander our streets but nothing is done because of political correctness. British history and culture are demonised as 'racist' yet our children are forced to take part in 'Black History Month' and 'multiculturalism'.

We could go on forever listing the issues and criminality we face as a nation, but countless numbers of our descendants, countless future generations of our children, will be eternally grateful for the sacrifices we now need to make during this evil period in our history.

Sitting on the sidelines makes the situation worse until, eventually, we will reach the point of no return.

Every day that passes features more bad news that make all patriotic British citizens angry, fed up and demoralised.

It's easy to want to give up, to just 'get on with our lives, but this attitude is exactly what the reactionary Left, and the establishment wants. The enemies of our nation want British patriots to give up and surrender.

Things are bad, things are terrible, but it's not in our DNA to surrender and allow our country to be taken from us.

If the resolve of British patriots weakens, our children and grand-children will suffer a horrific future in this country. We cannot allow the enemies of our nation to simply dismantle our nation without any opposition or resistance.

The consequences if we don't 'get our act together' quickly are apocalyptic. A minority in our own country, our culture vanished from the face of the earth, future generations  subjugated and despised, and our country  a huge Third World slum.

We need to build a true nationalist mass movement if the British people are to survive. "
 

The title of this comment was: "Complaining Brits" - Ed. The United States seems to be suffering from a flood of illegal immigration at least as bad as what the UK is being subjected to. See Twitter/X video below from Redacted (@theRedactedInc):

Genocide Joe Biden seeks also to destroy the United States with unlimited immigration

Whilst I am not sure if I agree with all the conclusions which have been drawn by Natali and Clayton Morris in the video embedded above, they must be commended for drawing to our attention an actual invasion of the United States by millions of foreigners, mainly through the Mexico/US border. So while Biden is helping Netanyahu murder babies, children, women and males in Gaza, he is also trying no less to destroy US society. - Ed

The petition below appeared in the Australian Parliament Hansard dated 18 March 2024.

Free-to-Air Broadcasting
The Prominence Framework for Connected Television Devices is a transparent attempt to ensure that the government's
propaganda outlets, the ABC and SBS, will receive speical priority on smart TV devices. The people of Australia have been
propagandised enough over the last four years, during the so-called pandemic and Voice referendum campaign. We don't want
any more. Perhaps the reason "local content" is struggling to find an audience is because people are tired of it; it's not providing
what they want. The very notion is Orwellian in its intrusiveness. I don't want the government having a node in my home.
We therefore ask the House to reject any prominence framework legislation put before it.
from 15 citizens (Petition No. EN5646)