News update: Tuesday, 19 December 2023
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Westpac freezing more and more Aussie bank accounts
Australian bank Westpac is reportedly closing holders' bank accounts and freezing them. The bank has been running after Australians who have been highlighting the millions of COVID-19 vaccine deaths or injuries on social media.
Australia could lose 1/3 of its productive agricultural land to solar and wind farms
https://richardsonpost.com/cliff-reece/34089/saving-us-from-the-saving-the-planet-mob/
If the Albanese government continues to ramp up its net-zero transition targets, Australia could lose one-third of its productive agricultural land to solar and wind farms, the Institute of Public Affairs reported. The think tank added that farmers are already paying a significant price as a result of the Albanese government's problematic net zero obsession.
New 'misinformation' bill means the government can lie but citizens cannot
https://caldronpool.com/were-back-in-the-ussr/
Giving the government communications agency the power to decide if something is true or false under the proposed misinformation bill means governments can lie, but citizens cannot, according to Australian analyst Prof John Gideon Hartnett. He adds: "We are experiencing now this era of lies and propaganda. Once laws prohibited the government from propagandising the public. But now all-out propaganda and censorship is the norm."
Here is an internal departmental/ministerial document on the bill secured under FOI laws: https://www.unitedaustraliaparty.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/FOI24-144-document-Rowland-Cabinet-Submissions-of-01-June-2023.pdf
Government’s sneaky Digital ID Bill move
https://expose-news.com/2023/12/17/australian-government-digital-id-bill
According to Expose News: “Stephen Andrew, Member of Parliament for Mirani, Queensland, Australia, has alerted the public to sneaky tactics being employed by the Australian Government to push through digital ID laws over the Christmas period.”
Canavan: Working poor on the rise
WW3 WATCH: More US troops to be based in Australia
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-18/aukus-americans-western-australia-radioactive-storage-facility/103239924
The ABC reports: "Defence expects more than 700 American personnel could live in Western Australia to support up to four US nuclear submarines being stationed at HMAS Stirling, where a "low-level radioactive waste management" facility is also being planned."
Martin North: The banks are ripping you off
Analyst Martin North states: "If you have savings with a bank in Australia, it is highly likely you are being ripped off. After all, Australian Consumers depend on retail deposit products to conduct their everyday banking, to safely store over $1.4 trillion of their savings and, importantly, to earn a decent return on these funds."
Australia to shut down coal-fired power stations by 2038
All Australian coal-fired power plants will be closed down in 15 years in favour of the country's ambiguous net-zero targets, according to the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO). AEMO added that 90 percent of the coal-fired power plants in the National Electricity Market, which covers most Australian states and territories except Western Australia and the Northern Territory, would retire before 2035.
Report: Immigration not a substitute for economic growth
Think tank Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) said Australia's "over-reliance" on immigration is costing Aussies a whopping $80,038 (US$53,771). The IPA warned that Australia has "become addicted to migration-driven economic growth", and this has "severe consequences for a nation struggling with unprecedented housing and cost-of-living challenges."
Blue collar voters desert Albo gov't
A new poll found that Labor's traditional working class vote is deserting the Albanese gov't over failure to address the cost-of-living crisis in the country. According to the poll, voters with vocational and TAFE educations are not defecting to progressive parties but directly to the Coalition.
Senator Rennick: RBA needs to be in touch with the real world
Liberal National Party senator Gerard Rennick said the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) needs to be "in touch with the real world and get people back on the tools and get them building, not just housing, but in other areas of the economy." Addressing the cost-of-living crisis in the country, he added: "Governments have been brainwashed into thinking that the only way that they can issue new capital in the system is by issuing bonds."
Albo govt finishes 2023 in 'credibly poor position'
The Albanese government has ended the year in a "credibly poor position," according to Nationals Senate Leader Bridget McKenzie, adding that the Labor Party is "conflicted internally" and is putting forward a "confused proposition" to the Australian people. McKenzie added: "Australians don't know what they stand for: on Israel, on women, on climate, on Indigenous affairs, you name it. They are all over the shop."
Australia being dragged into 'international fallout' in the Middle East
The United States' request for Australia to send a warship in the Red Sea is a trap for Canberra to play a dangerous game in the Middle East, defence journalist Jamie Seidel said. He added: "Unlike the largely contained fighting in Gaza, the Red Sea attacks are posing an immediate threat of an uncontrolled regional spillover. There's a clear and present danger."
Update: Australia will send more troops to the hotspot but not a warship.
Cashed up Higgins leaves Australia
Brittany Higgins is leaving Australia to start a new life in France. Higgins, a former Liberal Party staffer, had alleged she was raped by another Liberal Party staffer Bruce Lehrmann, however, it was an allegation that a jury did not find him guilty of committing. Despite this, Higgins was awarded $2.3 million in taxpayer funds by the Albanese Labor Government, in an uncontested compensation deal. Since 2021, Higgins engaged in widely-publicised criticism of the former Liberal National Government.
Cory Bernardi departs Sky News
Flint: Albanese' sending Australians backwards'
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has sent Australians "backwards" this year and "wasted taxpayers' money," according to Former Liberal MP Nicolle Flint. Under his tenure, Flint said mortgage prices are going through the roof, rental prices are going through the roof, there is a rental crisis, power bills are going through the roof."
Revival of border dispute between Venezuela, Guyana seen to boost AUKUS defence vs. China
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/would-us-intervene-defend-guyanas-oil
The revival of the border dispute between Venezuela and Guyana is seen to boost the trilateral pact between the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, especially in countering the gains made by China and Russia. Beijing has, for the past few years, worked consistently to keep AUKUS forces locked into the Euro-Atlantic and has benefited from the Russia-Ukraine war.
Iron ore billionaire Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest is biggest renewable energy player in Australia
https://richardsonpost.com/cliff-reece/34058/twiggy-forrest-wants-our-superannuation-for-renewables/
Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest, best known as the former CEO of Fortescue Metals Group, has become the biggest renewable energy player in Australia and is looking to tap into the billions of dollars in ordinary Australians' funds to fund his planned giant pipeline of wind and solar projects throughout the country. During the COP28 in Dubai, Forrest described political and business leaders who opposed a phase out of fossil fuels as "selfish beyond belief" and said heads of oil and gas players should be "put up on spikes."
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