Australian housing approvals drop to 11-year low
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/housing-approvals-drop-to-11-year-low-in-australia-5621548
Australia's housing approvals dropped to an 11-year low, adding pressure to the housing market and deepening the housing crisis at home. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), housing approvals fell 1.9 percent in February 2024, following a one percent slip in January and a 9.5 percent drop in December 2023.
OpenAI quietly drops ban on working with the military amid global fears
https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-04-04-openai-drops-ban-working-with-military-pentagon.html
OpenAI, a leading artificial intelligence research company, has dropped its ban on using its AI-enhanced tools for military purposes. Despite global controversy about tech companies developing technology for military use, OpenAI flipped its policies and now claims "national security use cases that align with our mission."
Self-proclaimed experts warn bird flu pandemic 'right around the corner'
https://www.newsmax.com/health/health-news/covid-bird-flu-h5n1/2024/04/04/id/1159814/
Self-proclaimed health experts have warned that a bird flu pandemic may be right around the corner—and it has the potential to be 100 times worse than COVID-19. Reports have surfaced that while it is rare that the H5N1 avian flu virus affects humans, it has recently been found not only in wild birds and poultry but also in mammals. This means widespread human transmission may be "on the horizon" if the virus continues to mutate.
Aussies express alarm over 'massive drug problem' that no one seems to care about
Australia is suffering from a massive drug problem, "and no one seems to care," stressed columnist Caleb Bond. His remarks came after the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission analysed wastewater between August 2022 and 2023, released last month, and found 16.5 tonnes of meth, cocaine, MDMA and heroin had been consumed – a 17 per cent increase on the previous year – at a street value of nearly $12.5 billion.
Aussies flock to banks as part of major protest against cashless society
https://cairnsnews.org/2024/04/01/cash-tuesday-withdraw-your-cash-from-banks-tuesday/
Australian organisations have flooded banks nationwide as part of a major protest against the country's move towards a cashless society. The movement, led by the Cash is King group, aims to show banks and retailers there is still a demand for cash amid warnings the country will be "functionally cashless" by 2025.
Canavan: PM has no answers for cost of living crisis
Nationals Senator Matt Canavan took a jab at Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, saying he does not "fully understand" the struggle of average Australians experiencing a cost of living crisis. Canavan said: "His priorities in his time in government have been to try to deliver this Voice ... there seems to be very little focus on tackling these issues."
WW3 WATCH: Canberra secures $1B defence deal with Berlin
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/australia-seals-1-billion-defence-deal-with-germany-5619816
Australia has secured a $1 billion defence deal with Germany after Berlin approved an order for 100 armoured vehicles to be built in Queensland. The weapon carrier vehicles will be manufactured at Rheinmetall Defence Australia after Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy agreed to terms with his German counterpart.
Aussies warned of 'getting caught up in rising insolvency figures'
Australian Financial Security Authority chief Tim Beresford expressed alarm over the rising number of personal insolvencies affecting vulnerable Australians as small business owners struggle to make ends meet due to debts. According to Beresford, personal insolvency rates have climbed, with rates increasing from about 10,000 last year to 12,500 this year and 15,000 next year.
Australia urged not to vote illegally for WHO medical mandates
Senator Malcolm Roberts has urged Australia "not to participate in an illegal vote" as the globalist World Health Organization decides on amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR). Canberra supported Washington's proposal for 80 pages of changes that would turn the WHO into the world health police, giving the agency "egregious powers" across governments around the world.
Failed Aussie rideshare app accuses Uber of illegally operating service
Taxi Apps, a failed Australian taxi-industry disruptor, accused Uber of illegally operating service a decade ago to gain unfair advantage and serious misconduct, including corporate espionage and hacking of competitors' systems. Taxi Apps has filed a 196-page statement of claim in the Victoria State Supreme Court in which it accuses Uber of knowingly launching UberX illegally in Australia in 2014.
Queensland Labor pushes for flu shot anew amid 'horror flu season'
https://www.triplem.com.au/story/queensland-flu-death-toll-hits-25-peak-still-to-come-137619
Queensland Labor has urged Australians to take the flu shot again after more than 700 Queenslanders have been hospitalised because of "influenza" and 25 have died, according to the state's Chief Medical Officer, John Gerrard. Queensland officials add that the statistics indicate a "horror flu season" ahead and that people must protect themselves.
New study finds link between COVID vax and inflammatory neurologic condition
A new study found a link between COVID-19 vaccines and Parsonage-Turner syndrome (PTS), an inflammatory condition of the brachial plexus. In the study, the researchers have noted the development of PTS following mRNA and viral vector vaccines. PTS is an uncommon neurological disorder characterised by rapid onset of severe pain in the shoulder and arm.
UN adopts Australia-sponsored resolution on human rights for intersex people
The United Nations has adopted a Canberra-backed resolution that seeks to protect the human rights of people born intersex. The UN describes an intersex as somebody "born with sex characteristics — such as sexual anatomy, reproductive organs, hormonal patterns and/or chromosomal patterns — that do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies."
Australia's cattle-tracking measure seen to limit beef supply
Autralians have expressed fears that the government could use the controversial measure to include $15 million for the electronic tracking of livestock, which passed Congress, to limit beef consumption. Cattle rancher Shad Sullivan said the electronic tags could be the end of the small rancher and that the government might use them as a "taxing mechanism to eventually control the livestock."
Doctors say it's a 'bleak time for freedom of expression' in Australia's medical sector
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/04/04/the-medical-profession-betrayed-us/
Doctors have raised concerns that the Misinformation Bill, which gives massive powers to the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), signifies a "bleak time for freedom of expression" in Australia's medical sector. James Allan, the Garrick Professor of Law at Queensland University, described the bill as "truly woeful, the one that uses the bogus notions of misinformation and disinformation to try to set up a privileged set of people who will tell us what is and is not true."
Shocking report reveals band-aids contains dangerous levels of forever chemicals
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13268155/Forever-chemicals-bandages-period-underwear.html
A shock report revealed that bandages from some of the most well-reputed brands, including Band-Aid and Curad, contain dangerous levels of forever chemicals. Testing found the chemical fluorine in over two dozen different bandages found in millions of medicine cabinets.
Oncologist warns pregnant women more susceptible to 'turbo cancer' following COVID jab
Dr William Makis, a nuclear medicine radiologist and oncologist, has warned that pregnant women are more prone to getting a so-called "turbo cancer" after receiving mRNA shots. With turbo cancer, the tumours seem to grow very aggressively and are reportedly very resistant to treatment, hence the name "turbo."
'Billboard Chris' mounts legal appeal vs. Australian gov't directive to remove post about trans activist
https://dissenter.com/feed/646d0e80a82cfd631b187ef8/item/660ec4334212bd867aee4584
Chris Elston, known as "Billboard Chris," has mounted a legal move against the Australian government's decision to remove his post about Teddy Cook, a trans-identifying activist in Australia. Cook, who identifies as a man despite being biologically female, has faced controversy for posting online some content that includes public nudity, bondage parties, and bestiality, yet was appointed to an expert panel of the globalist World Health Organization.
Trans-Pacific Partnership gets full backing of Australia
https://asiatimes.com/2024/04/us-would-be-insane-to-go-it-alone-on-trade-and-industry/
Canberra said it remains fully committed to backing the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a free trade deal between the US and many Asian countries intended to create a regional trade bloc as a counterweight to China. However, Taiwan, currently swept in a conflict with Beijing, earlier called on Australia to support its bid to join the TPP during a meeting with a group of visiting Australian lawmakers.
Analysts worried over Australia's falling birth rate
Analyst and economics journalist Shane Wright expressed worry over the "falling birth rate and climbing death rate" in Australia, which he said are more pressing issues than Australia's migration intake. He said: "Immigration is having a big social and economic impact on this country right now. But changes in our natural population growth are just as important in the discussion, and could well be far more significant to us all in the long run."
Digital ID seen to create 'a live data file of Aussies' movements, purchases'
Harry Richardson, the editor-in-chief of the Richardson Post and author of The Story of Mohammed Islam Unveiled, warned Australians that the Digital ID will "create a live data file of your movements, purchases, accounts and associates containing reference to every piece of data being held in the private and government sector as a first step in a wider agenda." He said: "Those huge data files that contain every website you visited, every post you made on their social media, everything you have ever bought online. Keywords scanned from conversations overheard by Siri and Alexa in your home are now unmasked."
WW3 WATCH: Australia joins Japan, Philippines in naval exercises to combat CPP aggression
Australia has joined the Philippines and Japan in joint naval exercises as Manila and Bejing escalate their dispute over the South China Sea. The move, which is seen to counter the aggression of the Communist Party of China, comes after Beijing attempted to disrupt supply missions to Filipino soldiers stationed on a grounded warship within its claimed territorial waters.
WW3 WATCH: Confidential report reveals submarines built in Australia to be used in Taiwan conflict
United States Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell has revealed that the nuclear-powered submarines built in Australia as part of the AUKUS trilateral pact would be used against the Communist Party of China in its conflict with Taiwan. Campbell described the AUKUS as an "audacious plan" that required "heavy lifting" from Australia, the United Kingdom and the US.