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Post by NFA on Oct 9, 2023 8:47:54 GMT 8
Re: the uneven political playing field at Raintrees
The Editor
The Cairns Post
When eventually we have an inquiry into perceptions of political bias by the Australian Electoral Commission, the example of Raintrees Shopping Centre in 2023 must be considered.
The AEC seems to have taken a lease on a shop within that centre which failed to provide for equality of access to the AEC lease area by both Yes and No campaigners.
Backed as they are by the big end of town, the Yes camp can afford $250/day for a site inside the centre adjacent to the AEC lease area.
The No camp is a grassroots movement which has no wealthy backers and therefore cannot afford to pay anything for access.
As a corporate entity, Raintrees management is entitled to its political bias and is having its security evict No campaigners from both the interior of their building and their carpark.
This corporate decision is depriving voters of the right to hear both sides' last-minute arguments, which is something the AEC should reasonably have foreseen.
The AEC’s lease arrangement with the corporation should have included equality of access for both Yes and No campaigners to the area just outside six metres from the entrance to their facility.
When the AEC fails to ensure such equal access is available, it is effectively outsourcing control of last-minute messaging to a biased corporate entity.
In effect, the AEC has facilitated undue biased corporate influence, which seems outside both the spirit and intent of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918.
As to Raintrees, patriotic Australians who believe in a fair go for everyone regardless of the wealth of their sponsors should vote with their feet.
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Peter Campion
Tolga
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Post by NFA on Oct 9, 2023 8:56:09 GMT 8
To comment on “Please ... Think for a moment before you vote”, 09/10
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Interestingly, media figures who support the Yes campaign are starting to apologise for the name-calling coming from their fellow travellers, (Please ... Think for a moment before you vote, 09/10). For many of us, that’s far too little, far too late. What has not been apologised for is the mis-, dis-, and mal-information coming from the Yes camp, which the media commenter referred to here goes on to engage in.
The Voice may not be “ignored” because it can resort to unlimited taxpayer-funded lawfare against our elected representatives. It seems unlikely that the Voice “would involve people who live at the frontiers of Indigenous life in remote and regional Australia instead of the usual urban elites” when the whole process has been driven by those “usual urban elites” who have consciously excluded “people who live at the frontiers”.
The Voice isn’t for indigenous Aussies on remote communities – it’s something the big end of town wants, and they’re not saying why.
Jennifer Short
Edge Hill
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Post by NFA on Oct 9, 2023 8:58:58 GMT 8
AS on Hillary's "MAGA extremists"
A letter for the Editor
Editor,
To me it is disappointing that we are not seeing reported the words of failed Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in our media in Australia. She has called supporters of President Trump ‘MAGA extremists’ and said ‘there needs to be a formal deprogramming of the cult members.’
Newsweek is reporting that the 80 million supporters of the 45th President are to be targeted by the FBI as ‘domestic violent extremists.’ Its story entitled ‘Donald Trump Followers Targeted by FBI as 2024 Election Nears’ quotes the FBI extensively and reveals it has been weaponized against the political opponents of the Democrats.
I left the Americas two years ago as I sensed the collapse into tyranny of the North American countries will further encourage the despots in the South. I urge Australians to fight back against the same thing happening here, because it has already begun as COVID-19, censorship and government spying on citizens.
Alejandro Serranogarcia
Biboohra
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Post by NFA on Oct 9, 2023 9:02:33 GMT 8
Re: assistance for Israel
The Editor
The Townsville Bulletin
Anthony Albanese has said that Israel hasn’t requested assistance from Australia, which is just as well as we’ve nothing to send after our absurdly generous contributions to Ukraine.
Exactly why is every “democratic” government pitchforking money to every special-interest group, manufactured crisis, and phony money-laundering war they can find?
Are they all on the Cloward-Piven Plan to bankrupt the world and extinguish free-market capitalist democracy and the freedom and prosperity it brings to introduce their control-matrix version of communism?
Where has economic growth gone? Where has our wealth gone? Why are we regressing socially? Why aren’t we seeing technological advances?
There’s nothing natural about the stalling and stagnation of progress over the last fifty years, so isn’t it time we all started asking our elected leaders why?
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Peter Campion
Tolga
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Post by NFA on Oct 9, 2023 9:17:33 GMT 8
To comment on “‘We can be a clean energy superpower’”, 09/10
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Speaking as a physicist and climate and energy realist, I disagree completely with the Clean Energy Council’s claims that a transition to renewable generation is either desirable or technologically possible. Nor would such a transition be affordable, environmentally “clean”, or economically beneficial. In forty years there have been no meaningful advances whatsoever in harvesting or storing wind or sunlight, converting them to electricity, or storing them. The current technology is so unfit for purpose that it cannot even return the energy that goes into the mining, processing, manufacturing, transporting, installing, and eventually disposing of its components.
The continuing enormous increases in electricity bills, supported by the ill-judged Voice campaign, are causing the wider population to question the narratives promoted by the corporate-government alliance. “Clean energy”, “climate change”, “transgenderism”, and the re-emergence of fascism through bodies like the World Economic Forum all deserve more time under the microscope.
Jennifer Short
Edge Hill
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Post by NFA on Oct 9, 2023 9:41:09 GMT 8
To comment on “The big dry is back and we’re not ready”, 09/10
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Given the complete absence of cheap, reliable electricity from wind and sunlight, as evidenced by electricity bills that continue to skyrocket, isn’t it time we abandoned the silly “renewable energy” fantasy and diverted that money to building water storage dams, (“The big dry is back and we’re not ready”, 09/10)? Renewables have had plenty of opportunity to prove themselves and they have been an abject failure. Dams have proved themselves repeatedly throughout human history. Even beavers know how to build dams to improve their lives. Water is far more vital to all life than electricity is.
At this point, every politician who prioritises renewables over dams must be assumed to be either too ignorant and blind to reality to hold office or to be an enemy of the Australian people.
Jennifer Short
Edge Hill
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