Melbourne protestors: Parliamentary sitting, which commences Friday, must discuss Julian Assange
At a protest for Julian Assange, which commenced outside the Victorian State Library at 12:00pm on Sunday 28 September, protestors demanded that the Australian government use the power vested in it as a sovereign national government to make British Prime Minister Liz Truss end the illegal imprisonment and torture of Julian Assange.
The Defence Strategic Review – We are becoming a proxy or is it a patsy for the US in a possible conflict with China - article by John Menadue
This article elaborates 8 reasons why Australia should not hitch its wagon to the US war-machine. The author, John Menadue, has a multi-author website called Pearls and Irritations, which contains many excellent articles on public policy. Menadue has a long political history and was private secretary to Whitlam.
The Defence Strategic Review must warn Minister Marles about the dangerous path he is committing Australia to. Does he understand the risks?
NSW Electrician licences cancelled for false certification of work
Seven electricians had their contractor licences revoked by NSW Fair Trading after investigations found they signed and submitted compliance certificates (CCEWs) for solar panel installations despite not having carried out, supervised, or inspected the installations themselves. Six of the electricians were either overseas or interstate on the dates listed on the certificates. The seventh contractor was in Sydney instead of at the job sites in regional New South Wales.
Make your Prime Minister act to free Julian Assange: Protest Victorian State Library, 12pm Sunday 18 September
You can help build the protest by printing and distributing the A5 leaflet from which this article was adapted (front page PDF, back page PDF, instructions a
Exposed: The vast pro-Ukrainian 'bot army' designed to influence Western policy makers - by Slobodan Kolomoets
This article is about a groundbreaking investigation from the Dept of Mathematics, University of Australia, into the activity of bots in driving social attitudes to the Ukrainian war. It finds that pro-Ukraine bots dominate social media.
COVID-19: China’s death toll puts US to shame but the western centric media tell a different story - by John V. Walsh
The public health measures that have worked so well in China should not be lightly dismissed.
In May and June of 2022 two milestones were passed in the world’s battle with Covid and were widely noted in the press, one in the U.S. and one in China. They invite a comparison between the two countries and their approach to combatting Covid-19.
Melbourne: Reporting on Planning Democracy’s Urban Tree-Canopy forum 10 Sept 2022
The meeting showed huge community concern over our deteriorating living conditions and what the future holds. There are many community groups with detailed knowledge of the mechanisms and laws around what is happening in their various specific trouble spots. These people are community-minded, dedicated, and well informed.
Westerners should know what Putin said at the Eastern Economic Forum Plenary Session
Putin: "Europe is about to throw its achievements in building up its manufacturing capability, the quality of life of its people and socioeconomic stability into the sanctions furnace, depleting its potential, as directed by Washington for the sake of the infamous Euro-Atlantic unity.
One in 25 Australian homes may be uninsurable by 2030 but the housing market will survive
“About one in 25 Australian homes are at high risk of becoming effectively uninsurable by 2030, according to a new Climate Council report based on analysis by a climate risk assessment group (ABC, 2022).” (Dr Peng Yew Wong, RMIT School of Property.)
Suicide Prevention Australia: Cost of living & debt causes elevated distress amongst 40% of Aussies
Cost-of-living putting Australians at risk: A new survey shows 40% of Australians report cost-of-living and personal debt is causing them elevated distress compared with this time last year – while frontline services rank it the biggest risk to suicide rates - as the country awaits news of another interest rate increase later today (Tuesday 6/9/22).
Marion has a little lamb! A poem for spring
Marion has a little lamb
His fleece is white as snow
And everywhere that Marion goes
That lamb is sure to go
This lamb whose name is Scruffy
Is really very lucky
He lost his mum before he was one
In fact before he got fluffy
Alone he cried whilst by her side
His Mum had now departed.
But he was found, now safe and sound
All wrapped up and sleeping.
Why Nils Melzer describes Australian government's treatment of Assange as 'shameful.'
Nils Melzer’s book about the persecution of Julian Assange – Nils Melzer, The Trial of Julian Assange, A story of persecution,[1] must be heeded, due to Melzer’s extraordinary position and status as an independent international investigator and legal expert in complaints of torture and ill-treatment, [2] which has given him access to details and documents not previously available. That is probably why it is hard to get the book in Australia.
Melbourne Protest for Julian Assange, State Library, UN International Peace Day
Update 10 September: OfficeWorks no longer prints on the back side of an A4 sheet!? In just over a fortnight from today, at 12:00pm on Sunday 18 September, outside the Victorian State Library, 328 Swanston Street Melbourne, ther
‘Enough is enough’: Fed Uni sparks staff, student and community protest
The Federation University Branch of the NTEU has called a lunchtime protest this Thursday 1 Sept, 2022, to begin a campaign highlighting damage wrought by endless restructures, job cuts, and course cuts. Speakers will address the core issues of job security and mismanagement, protesting irrational and incoherent decisions, poor governance, poor student outcomes, and the undermining of regional communities.
Next week's sitting of the Australian Parliament must debate Julian Assange's illegal imprisonment
Australian Parliament, which sits next week from Monday 6 September, must be made, finally, to debate Julian Assange's fate. At the weekly vigil for Julian Assange outside Melbourne's Flinders Street Station in the evening of last Friday 26 August, James Sinnamon explained how, if Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to end its imprisonment of Julian Assange, he would almost certainly comply without delay, and Julian Assange would
What sort of Parliament refuses to discuss the plight of this most famous Australian?
The article below is an adaptation of a double-sided A4 leaflet (PDF attached below) which I handed out last night at a community meeting in Frankston, Victoria. The meeting was organised by Peta Murphy, the Federal Labor member for the local seat of Dunkley.
Pitch Black war exercise: pitching Australia closer to war and environmental catastrophe
- Military Exercises further entrench us with the US and pitch us closer to war
- Northern Australia developing into a US military colony
The Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN) Media Release - For Immediate Release date - 20 August
Putin’s Syrian peace plan with Erdogan
Russian President Vladmir Putin and Turkish President Recep Erdogan held a four-hour meeting on August 5 in Sochi which may change the course of the Middle East, and end the US occupation of Syria.
"The persecution of Assange is unfettered corruption." (Tony Wakeham)
Inside is an interesting and lively video of the 141st week of protest at Sydney Town Hall in the name of justice for Julian Assange. As well as defending Assange, people use this as a platform about matters they feel are being suppressed. You may not agree with every assertion, but it gives us a good insight into what a lot of people are thinking.
US war veteran questions US role in Syria and Ukraine on Syriana Analysis
Topic:
Nils Melzer, The Trial of Julian Assange, a story of persecution
Her Majesty the Queen is sitting on top of an explosive pile of stinking manure. Nils Melzer's book is like a bomb about to go off. How long can crooked judges and governments hide? How long can the mainstream press pretend that nothing's happening?
The Status of U.S. Oil Production
Why has the U.S. mainstream media stopped cheerleading the fracking boom? Looks like production is no longer booming.
Video: The Abduction of Assange & the Assault on Press Freedom
As a result of western crimes against Iraq, a person continues to serve time in prison. "Strangely enough, that person is not any of those who initiated the offensive on Iraq. Instead, he's the man behind exposing American crimes in places like Iraq and Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay: A whistleblower called Julian Assange." Marzieh Hashemi, journalist and presenter of Secret Files.
12:30pm today at Victoria's State Library: Demand your government act to end the illegal imprisonment of Julian Assange
From 12:30pm today at the Hiroshima Day protest in front of the Victorian State Library in Flinders Street in the Melbourne CBD, John Shipton, Julian Assange's father, will be speaking.
Build them tall AND urban sprawl: a blueprint for Melbourne "going forward"
Liberal or Labor
It's urban sprawl
Labor or Liberal
Its build up tall
Whoever you vote for
in this state election,
Liberal or Labor
There' ll be no correction
It's grow til we die
It's build them up high
It's fill up the country
And to hell with the sky
Build them tall and urban sprawl: the growth-lobby's blueprint for Melbourne or any other city in Australia
Does democracy have a future in Australia?
Discussion about the plight of the most famous and most revered Australian forbidden in your Parliament!? In 2020, the shadowy Parliamentary Selection Committee, which is controlled by the Labor Party and the Liberal/National coalition, refused to allow Tasmanian independent Andrew Wilkie MP to raise, for discussion, the plight of that most famous and revered Australian Julian Assange.
Video: Andrew Wilkie speaks in front of Parliament at Converge on Canberra Assange protest
Filmed by James Sinnamon on 28 July 2022 at the Converge on Canberra Protest for Julian Assange.
PM Albanese hides in parliament during Julian Assange protest outside
No sign of Anthony Albanese at this brilliant event, although we know he was in parliament.
By printing this leaflet, help me to build the protest for Julian Assange this Thursday at Parliament
Update, Tue 26 July: A new larger PDF file which includes a duplicate of the first double-sided A5 page has been uploaded. Without this addition, the second page will be blank. I am about to find out if the problem is fixed. My apologies.
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