The banks and other institutions are saying that the Reserve Bank will most likely put up the interest rate in November. The reason they give is that Australians are earning too much money, because unemployment is so low. This means that too much money is chasing too few goods and services and causing inflation. Their solution is a few more unemployed and keeping wages down, ad tools to dampen excessive their clam that there is excessive demand for goods and services. Continue reading Interest rates will go up for reasons that are other than those they tell us→
workers at the major dairy milk processing factories have walked off and supermarket shelves are starting to empty. Cheese, yoghurt, and ice cream could follow. Victorian farmers are getting just $1 a litre of milk, and many of them don’t know how long they can continue to stay in operation. Continue reading Victoria’s dairy workers on strike for decent wages and conditions→
The International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP) has sent the following, which seeks global condemnation condemns the extra judicial execution of a union organizer by the paramilitary Philippine National Police. Such killings of union and other leaders are routinely practiced in the Philippines and are becoming more frequent udert the new Marcos regime.
Acclaimed investigative journalist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Seymour Hersh, wrote the following article (published in Subtack 26 September 20203). It is about who blew up the Baltic Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines from Russia to Germany. In February, his published investigation that pointed the finger at the Biden Administration earned him personal rebuke and led to unsubstantiated alternative explanations. Seymour Hersh has more to say here, and this is based on information received from his contacts. It adds to the already widely know truth that the attack was planned and executed by a team of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Interview with Gabrial Shipton Julian Assange’s brother reveals the movement to free Julian is growing, and this is being helped by the Australia cross-party delegation of members of the federal parliament, which has gone to Washinton to put to their American counterparts, Australia’s call to stop the persecution of the award-winning journalist and publisher. Nine in 10 Australians support Assange, and support is growing in the United States.
Australia’s support is so strong that the prime minister and the leader of the opposition agree that “enough is enough.”
Gabrial suggests that perhaps those in Washington who value the Alliance the United States has with Australia might to consider this. He finishes by paying tribute to his brother’s courage, standing up in difficult situation marked by years of unjust imprisonment.
The United States autoworkers strike is a long way from Australia. It is still important, because it is a sign if what is going wrong in that country, and major developments there will have an impact here. This is how closely Australia is enmeshed into the economic and political power of the United States. Continue reading The American autoworkers strike is important for the United States and Australia→
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