News Update: Saturday, 6 April 2024
Eureka Free Press: Your pro-freedom Australian news source.
RIDICULOUS: Study claims Australia’s soil ‘becoming a net carbon emitter’
A Nature Portfolio Journal claims that Australia’s soil is “becoming a net carbon emitter and threatens to ruin the country’s net zero goals.” The report mentioned that over the next 80 years, Australian soil “will release up to 100 megatons of CO2 into the atmosphere.”
X takes legal action against Australia’s eSafety commission
X will file a court challenge against a takedown notice issued by Australia’s eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant to “protect its user’s right to free speech.” This comes after a pseudonym “Billboard Chris,” published a post criticising the World Health Organisation’s selection of Australian trans activist Teddy Cook to a new panel drafting global health rules.
Meta takes news reports out in online news feeds in Australia
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/concerns-over-metas-plan-to-take-news-out-of-news-feed-5618353
Meta shuts down its Facebook News Tab in Australia next week as part of a global plan to “withdraw" its investments in news. The move comes after the tech giant abandoned about US$45 million in deals with local media outlets.
NSW study suggests lab leak for COVID likely
Researchers from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, confirmed that there is a possibility of a laboratory origin of the SaRS-COV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Apart from medical analyses, the study also included other factors, such as traditional virology and epidemiology, to make the study stronger.
Support for Albo plummets in Western Australia
The latest Newspoll report revealed that support for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has slipped among Western Australians and younger Australians. Since the last quarterly results were last published in December, the government’s 66-34 lead dropped five points to 61-39.
New data shows Australia’s biggest corporations spent millions on the Voice
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13261569/Woolworths-NAB-ANZ-Voice.html
New figures reveal that Australia's biggest corporations spent millions to back the campaigning for the Indigenous Voice to Parliament. All four major banks, big miners including Rio Tinto, BHP and Woodside, and retail giants Wesfarmers and Woolworths, poured in more than $ 1 million each into the push to get the Voice enshrined into the Constitution by last year's referendum.
Australian town placed under ‘youth curfew’ in wake of violence outbreak
https://rumble.com/v4lu24c-australian-town-under-curfew-following-rise-in-youth-mob-viole.html
In the wake of a sudden spike in mob violence, the Australian town of Alice Springs has been put under a youth curfew. For the next two weeks, under-18s must remain at home between 6 pm and 6 am, while additional police will be deployed to Alice Springs to help maintain order.
Assange’s wife says Biden should ‘drop this shameful case, which should never have been brought’
The wife of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange urged the Joe Biden administration to drop “this shameful case, which should never have been brought." After a British court ruled that Assange would not be extradited to the US on espionage charges unless the U.S. authorities guaranteed that he wouldn't receive the death penalty, the wife of the Aussie journalist said the WikiLeaks founder is "being persecuted because he exposed the true cost of war in human lives.”
Poll: 20% of Americans want to move to Australia because of politics
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/abroad-political-climate-trump/2024/03/29/id/1159152/
About 20% of Americans state they would consider moving to 5 countries, including Australia, if Donald Trump wins the election. According to the Greenback Expat Tax Services, the top issues impacting those surveyed are abortion and reproductive rights, healthcare, economy and employment, gun control, income equality and poverty.
Therapy culture, NDIS seen to ‘cripple’ young Aussies
David Hilton, an Australian teacher and analyst, warned that Aussie private schools now are opening up “secondary campuses” to cater to the ‘neurodivergent’, enabled and empowered by the “billions and billions of taxpayer dollars being funnelled into providers’ pockets by schemes like the NDIS.” He warned that teachers are being required to “individually tailor their instruction for all these idiosyncratic snowflakes or else be accused of negligence. Mothers, in particular, can be shockingly militant when it comes to forcing teachers to accommodate their charges’ diagnosed disorders.”
Aussies living in caravans face new restrictions
Despite warning of exacerbating the housing crisis, the New South Wales government is looking at implementing restrictions for Australians living in caravans. Under the planned changes, people living in caravans on private property will need to gain council approval if their vehicle exceeds 20 sqm or if it is connected to electricity and water for more than six months.
Aussie research reveals heart-scarring over one year after COVID vaccination
Australian researchers have found that heart scarring was present more than one year after COVID-19 vaccination in some people who suffered myocarditis following receipt of a shot. According to the study, a third of 60 patients with follow-up cardiac imaging done more than 12 months after their myocarditis diagnosis had persistent late gadolinium enhancement (LGE), which is, in the majority of cases, reflective of heart scarring.
Virologist predicts ‘tsunami of death’ among COVID-jabbed individuals
https://vigilantnews.com/post/virologist-predicts-imminent-tsunami-of-death-among-covid-vaccinated/
Geert Vanden Bossche, a world-renowned Belgian virologist, said he sees an imminent “massive tsunami” of COVID diseases and deaths among those vaccinated – an event that would fuel the collapse of hospitals and cause financial, economic and social “chaos.” In a podcast, he said: “You will see what will happen, for example, in the next coming weeks…is more and more cases of more serious long Covid…They will start to replace the surge of the cancers…now we have a more chronic phase. It will end with a hyper-acute phase, a huge, huge wave…I’ve been studying this now for four years. I know what I’m talking about.”
Backlash erupts over Albanese's new governor-general
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13266403/Sam-Mosty-backlash-governor-general.html
Criticism erupted as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced the appointment of new female Governor-General Sam Mostyn, with Andrew Bolt describing her as an “affirmative action” hire. Mostyn, who has spent her career in the corporate world championing gender equality, green energy and Indigenous causes, was also referred to by Bolt as “a former Labor adviser of the harbourside Left whose big shtick has been to insist on more jobs for women like her.”
Australia’s population seen to double by early 2070s
Despite a projected slowdown in the annual growth rate, Australia’s population is seen to double over the next five decades, according to Social Researcher and McCrindle Advisory Director Ashley Fell. She says New South Wales is set to remain the nation’s largest state, followed closely by Victoria, which is projected to reach a population of around 8 million people.
7 ex-NZ Defence force personnel found training CPP military
A spy agency has confirmed that seven former New Zealand Defence Force personnel helped train the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) military. New Zealand Security Intelligence Service Director-General Andrew Hampton told Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee the seven had been hired over the past 18 months by the Test Flying Academy in South Africa, supporting military and aviation training.
Shadow Minister blasts Labor’s ‘blatant hypocrisy’ on nuclear
Shadow Climate Change & Energy Minister Ted O’Brien lambasted the Labor government for its “disunited” view on nuclear energy, which is “sending our Allies a bad image of Australia.” He said: “We had the Defence Minister saying that nuclear reactors are safe. The Energy Minister is saying the nuclear reactors are unsafe. Not only is there a split in views between very senior ministers, but these both sit on the national security committee, our peak decision-making body on national security issues.
Queensland's Anti-Discrimination Bill threatens to criminalise speech considered ‘reasonably likely to incite hatred’
Queensland’s Anti-Discrimination Bill is proposing criminalising ‘vilification’ of transgenderism. It is being criticised for further eroding religious freedoms, for its questionable definition of when incitement is “reasonably likely” to exist, and for allowing a victimisation charge to be applied even if the claim is withdrawn.
AUKUS presenting nuclear waste risk to Australia
https://dissenter.com/feed/622a914103f2255b96d3a0b0/item/660c3ca94212bd867a9fa0d8
https://www.rt.com/news/595295-australia-aukus-nuclear-waste/
A new report warned that Canberra is in danger of becoming a “poison portal” for radioactive waste under the three-way pact between Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. According to the report, the laws to establish a safety framework for Australia’s planned nuclear-powered submarines could also allow Washington and London to send waste there.
Senators raise alarm over lack of transparency in environmental laws
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/whether-environment-laws-can-stop-extinction-examined-5618351
Australian senators have expressed concerns over the lack of transparency in the country’s environmental laws, pointing out that consultations have been "secretive and stakeholders gagged as well as lacking in ambition.” According to Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, the Albanese government went to the election promising to fix Australia’s broken environment laws, "but almost two years in, we are yet to see any progress.”
McDonald: ‘Why are government emissions okay and emissions that create jobs are not?’
Shadow Resources Minister Susan McDonald said Australians are starting to wake up to how disconnected the Albanese government is from reality after the Prime Minister and Energy Minister reportedly took two separate jets to the Hunter Valley. McDonald posed the question: “Government emissions are okay but emissions that create jobs and provide prosperity to this country aren’t? It’s a double-edged sword for this government.”
Hood: Labor ‘ignoring the pleas of South Australians'
https://www.news.com.au/national/south-australia-labor-government-ignoring-the-pleas-of-
south-australians/video/b0e9b3b871791038ef015541b5fd7a20
Liberal MLC Ben Hood took a swipe at the Labor government in South Australia for “ignoring the pleas of everyday South Australians” and failing to “focus on the cost of living.” He said: “They’re not focused on dealing with the energy crisis. They’re not focused on small business and backing the family but chasing down every ideological rabbit hole with their pet causes.”