The future of the Channel Country is on the line. While the Queensland Government delays protecting the rivers and floodplains, oil and gas giants are on the march.
It’s time to protect the Channel Country rivers and floodplains once and for all. Continue reading Video: The Cooper floodplains are threatened by coal seam gas
Everyone will agree that the invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces is a terrible development. People have already died and more will do so. There will be political and economic damage that will last well past the present conflict. It would have been much better if this hadn’t happened. But the reality is that this is not the way it has gone. Continue reading Roots of Ukrainian crisis must be addressed to find the peace
By Joe Montero
Scott Morrison and his team haven’t yet lost May’s federal election but it’s not going too well for them. Their fall isn’t yet written in stone. Still, it doesn’t look good for them.
The results of the weekend’s four by-elections in New South Wales made it obvious that the Liberal Party is in trouble. These may have been state by-elections but this doesn’t mean that there are no federal causes and consequences. Continue reading Liberal’s loss in NSW result of rising unpopularity and changing national political landscape
I thought I’d write down a few thoughts on the coming federal election. This one is more important than usual. Australia faces a combination of deep-seated signs of economic crisis and the impact of the pandemic. Neither can be separated from the beginnings of a political crisis. Continue reading A federal election is coming and how should we deal with it
You can tell we are entering election season. Corporate donations are rolling into the political parties. The fossil fuel companies are there and have officially handed over are $1 million. The comes from analysis by environment campaign group 350.org of Australian Electoral Commission data. Top of the list though is he world of finance. Continue reading The corruption of corporate political donations is still here
The crisis over Ukraine is still at boiling point. The world has not been in such a dangerous place since the Cuba missile crisis of 1962. The threat of world war is real, and we all have a duty to do whatever we can to pull together and out a stop to it. Continue reading Ukraine crisis drift toward war must be stopped
Continue reading Julian Assange takes step towards challenging extradition at Supreme Court
By Joe Montero
The United States, United Kingdom and Germany are itching for a war over Ukraine. There has been a deluge of war preparation propaganda. It goes this way. Russia’s bad President Vladimir Putin wants to invade and the freedom loving nations want to stop him. Continue reading There is far more going on in Ukraine then we are being told
Everything is not as it seems in Myanmar. The story we get through the media and politicians, is of a country where one side is fighting for democracy and the other is a dictatorship. It is not this simple.
The United States has been backing and often leading armed militants and fake “human rights” groups in Myanmar for decades.
This video explores the British colonial roots of Myanmar’s current ethnic armed groups, the futility of their struggle, how it serves the same divide and rule methodology used by the British generations ago.
We’re coming out of the Christmas period, and it won’t be long before the denigration of people on social security payments gets into full swing again. A budget and election coming up. Don’t expect any big changes. Continue reading People on social security need enough to live on and the end of abuse
