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Feel worried. Shane Jones and a couple of his Cabinet colleagues are about to be
granted the power to override any and all objections to projects like dams, mines,
roads etc even if: said projects will harm biodiversity, increase global warming ...
Platforms such as Meta and X engage in their own forms of censorship and information
curation, their agenda algorithmically driven towards noise, shock and indignation.
All the time, they continue to indulge in surveillance capitalism.
Public service cuts are being enacted without the coalition government having a clue
(or visible concern) about what the impact will be. The prior promise to go through
this stuff “ line by line” has gone out the window.
It is time for NATO to re-examine its 75-year-old legacy, and be courageous enough
to change directions altogether - instead of opting for a state of non-peace, actually
seeking real peace.
Helen Clark, oh how we miss you. The former New Zealand Prime Minister – the safest
pair of hands this country has had in living memory – gave a masterclass on the
importance of maintaining an independent foreign policy when she spoke at an AUKUS ...
Not only will Australians be paying a bill up to and above A$368 billion for nuclear
powered submarines it does not need; it will also be throwing A$100 billion into
the coffers of the military industrial complex over the next decade to combat a needlessly ...