Posts Tagged ‘Politics’
Dreamworld Expansion A Nightmare For Koalas
A massive expansion plan for Gold Coast theme park Dreamworld has been approved by the Queensland government, putting at risk the local koala population. The multi-million-dollar masterplan would see Dreamworld and Whitewater World expand into four precincts, including a $200 million high-density hotel complex, a retail and hospitality precinct, and residential housing developments on the…
Read More$20M Fuel Ad Campaign Backfires
Every little bit helps. That’s the latest facile message from the Australian government as they haplessly grapple with the crippling global oil crisis. Amid rising concerns for our national fuel security, the Albanese government has spent $20 million of taxpayer money funding its latest public relations boondoggle. The ‘every little bit helps’ campaign rolled out…
Read MoreAustralia On The Edge
The escalating conflict between US-Israel and Iran is breeding uncertainty about how Australia will be impacted. There are dire concerns for the global fuel supply with Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, a vital passage for oil transport that has been brought to a standstill. Oil tankers and fuel facilities have been set ablaze…
Read MoreThe Cold War Reheated: New START Treaty Expires
There are fears a new global nuclear arms race is imminent as the last remaining treaty limiting US and Russian nuclear stockpiles expired this week. This week marked the end of New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty), a US-Russian pact to limit stockpiles of nuclear arsenal between the superpowers. The bilateral agreement was an extension…
Read MoreDoomsday Clock: 85 Seconds To Midnight
A dire warning for the future of humanity has been issued by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, with the Doomsday Clock reset to 85 seconds to midnight. The Doomsday Clock represents how close humanity is to total annihilation, and it now stands closer than ever to midnight, pushed forward four seconds from 2025. The…
Read MoreAustralia Day 2026
This past week we commemorated the innocent lives lost at the Bondi Beach massacre last year; this weekend, we mark perhaps the most contentious date on our national calendar: Australia Day on 26 January. In light of recent events, this Australia Day should be a day of reflection and reconciliation rather than patriotic revelry. We…
Read MoreWelcome To 2026
Fires, floods, and cyclones; pilfered presidents, revolutions, uprisings, and royal commissions. We’re barely a month into the new year and it’s already been chaos. Welcome to 2026. While one part of Australia battles heatwaves and severe bushfires, another is fighting flood waters and the aftermath of an ex-tropical cyclone. Amid the fallout from the Bondi…
Read MoreBreaking Point: The Bondi Beach Shooting
Will the Bondi Beach massacre be a breaking point for Australia, or a catalyst to remake ourselves as a country? When two terrorist gunmen opened fire on a Hanukkah event on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australians witnessed with horror the country’s worst mass shooting since the Port Arthur massacre in 1996. At least 15 innocent…
Read MoreThe New Red Scare: CCP Influence In Australia
The Albanese government has rolled out the red carpet for a high ranking official of the Chinese Communist Party, considered to be the right-hand man of leader Xi Jinping. Zhao Leji is the current chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress and the third-ranking member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the…
Read MorePolitical Football: The AUS-PNG Defence Delay
Among the many questions lingering about delays to Australia and Papua New Guinea officially signing the Pukpuk Mutual Defence Treaty, is the matter of a multi-million dollar investment for a PNG team to join the NRL. Late last year, the Australian Federal Government, in concert with Australian Rugby League (ARL), signed a deal that would…
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