This is Victoria, Australia’s Premier Dictator Dan.
Australia
The call for diversity is really a show of one’s bigotry. For example ‘FamilyVoice Australia is calling on Grand Slam tennis star Andy Murray to apologise for disrespecting tennis legend Margaret Court and seeking to rename the arena that honours her championship achievements.
According to a report in news.com.au Andy Murray wants the Margaret Court Arena to be renamed before January’s Open tournament.
He further said, “I think as a sport you just have to be as inclusive as possible …”.
But his view of diversity doesn’t seem to include Margaret Court – who defends biblical truth and upholds the biological difference between men and women.’https://familyvoice.org.au/campaigns/margaret-court-attacked-again
The following article is from the Leftist Loony Marxist Lovie The Conversation. This article is supposed to tell us about real scientists supporting ‘where am I’ Joe Biden because President Trump doesn’t believe in ‘real’ science. Oh, before reading the article these are the same real scientists that believe in macro-evolution, climate change, communism/Marxism and fairies.
‘In an unprecedented step, prestigious science publication Scientific American has launched a scathing attack on President Donald Trump and endorsed his opponent, Democratic candidate Joe Biden, in the upcoming US election. It’s the first presidential endorsement in the magazine’s 175-year history.
To this, we say: about bloody time! As we’ve noted before:
Science is political. The science we do is inherently shaped by the funding landscape of government and the problems and issues of society. This means that to have any influence on how science is organised and funded in Australia (or the US or any other country), we as scientists and science communicators must act in ways that matter in the arena of politics.
It’s now more critical than ever, as the editors at Scientific American clearly lay out, that the people who are actually knowledgeable about the world’s crises speak out and represent that knowledge (or “collective wisdom”) in public, out loud and with their names attached.
Under Trump, science isn’t just ignored. It is lampooned and directly attacked, especially on issues such as climate change and the coronavirus pandemic. This actively threatens the lives (and livelihoods) of not just millions of Americans, but countless others around the world.’ If you wish to read more of this moronic Leftist Loony trash you may at https://theconversation.com/science-is-political-scientific-american-has-endorsed-joe-biden-over-trump-for-president-australia-should-take-note-146394?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20September%2018%202020%20-%201734816775&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20September%2018%202020%20-%201734816775+CID_c9dc693f625461c59b2990e0c47ab6cb&utm_source=campaign_monitor&utm_term=Science%20is%20political%20Scientific%20American%20has%20endorsed%20Joe%20Biden%20over%20Trump%20for%20president%20Australia%20should%20take%20note
When the sun shines and the wind blows all just might go well for those who believe these two ‘renewables’ will provide the energy the nation needs to survive. However, the sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always blow. So when that occurs what then?
Well, government knows best so what do they do?
‘The Australian Government today announced new long term funding and an expanded focus for the Australian Renewable Energy Agency that will secure its future beyond 2022.
The Prime Minister and Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction today announced a total funding package of $1.62 billion for ARENA including guaranteed baseline funding of $1.43 billion over the next ten years.’https://arena.gov.au/news/arena-welcomes-new-funding/
More tax dollars thrown down the Climate Scam Hole!
Genesis 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
I came into this world in 1945 as a male and have been a male now for seventy five years. Now, you may think I have lost a few marbles in those years for even saying such but that is the state of things in todays society. Some are ‘demanding’ that a sex or gender not be assigned to a baby when born but the choice be made when the child is old enough to choose for themselves. What idiocy. Anyway, the article today discusses the America of 1950 to the America of 2020. Personally, in my own opinion, in so many ways it was better in the 1950s BUT that’s me.
‘If you could go back to 1950, would you do it? There would be no Internet, no cellphones and you would only be able to watch television in black and white. But even though they lacked many of our modern conveniences, people genuinely seemed to be much happier back then.
Families actually ate dinner together, neighbors knew and cared about one another, and being an “American” truly meant something.
Today, we like to think that we are so much more “advanced” than they were back then, but the truth is that our society is in the process of falling apart all around us. Could it be possible that we could learn some important lessons by looking back at how Americans lived 70 years ago?
Of course there has never been any era in our history when everything has been perfect. But without a doubt, things are vastly different today than they were back in 1950…
In 1950, Texaco Star Theatre, The Lone Ranger and Hopalong Cassidy were some of the most popular shows that Americans watched on television.
In 2020, a Netflix film entitled “Cuties” is so trashy and so disgusting that four states have sent a letter to Netflix asking for it to be removed because it is “fodder for those with criminal imaginations, serving to normalize the view that children are sexual beings.”
In 1950, television networks would not even show husbands and wives in bed together.
In 2020, “adult websites” get more traffic than Netflix, Amazon and Twitter combined.
In 1950, people would greet one another as they walked down the street.
In 2020, Americans are too enamored with their cellphones to be bothered with actual human contact.
In 1950, gum chewing and talking in class were some of the major disciplinary problems in our schools.
In 2020, kids are literally gunning down police officers in the streets.
In 1950, people would make an effort to dress up and look nice when they would go out in public.
In 2020, most of the population has become utter slobs and “People of Walmart” has become one of our most popular memes.
In 1950, the typical woman got married for the first time at age 20 and the typical man got married for the first time at age 22.
In 2020, the typical woman gets married for the first time at age 27 and the typical man gets married for the first time at age 29.
In 1950, a lot of people would leave their homes and their vehicles unlocked because crime rates were so low.
In 2020, many that live in urban areas are deathly afraid of all the civil unrest that has erupted, and gun sales have soared to all-time record highs.
In 1950, Americans actually attempted to parent their children.
In 2020, we pump our kids full of mind-altering drugs and we let our televisions and our video games raise our children.
In 1950, Baltimore was one of the most beautiful and most prosperous cities on the entire planet.
In 2020, Baltimore regularly makes headlines because of all the murders that are constantly occurring. Of course the exact same thing could be said about many of our other major cities.
In 1950, 78 percent of all households in America contained a married couple.
In 2020, that figure has fallen below 50 percent.
In 1950, about 5 percent of all babies in the United States were born to unmarried parents.
In 2020, about 40 percent of all babies in the United States will be born to unmarried parents.
In 1950, new churches were regularly being opened all over the United States.
In 2020, it is being projected that 1 out of every 5 churches in the U.S. “could be forced to shut their doors in the next 18 months”, and the mayor of Lubbock, Texas just said that opening a new Planned Parenthood clinic is like starting a church.
In 1950, we actually had high standards for our elected officials, and people actually did research on the candidates before they cast their votes.
In 2020, more than 4,000 people in one county in New Hampshire voted for a “transsexual Satanic anarchist” in the Republican primary, and she is now the Republican nominee for sheriff in Cheshire County.
In 1950, children would go outside and play when they got home from school.
In 2020, our parks and our playgrounds are virtually empty and we have the highest childhood obesity rate in the industrialized world.
In 1950, front porches were community gathering areas, and people would regularly have their neighbors over for dinner.
In 2020, many of us don’t know our neighbors at all, and the average American watches more than five hours of television a day.
In 1950, Americans used words such as “knucklehead”, “moxie” and “jalopy”.
In 2020, new terms such as “nomophobia”, “peoplekind” and “social distancing” have been introduced into the English language.
In 1950, the very first credit card was issued in the United States.
In 2020, Americans owe more than 930 billion dollars on their credit cards.
In 1950, one income could support an entire middle class household.
In 2020, tens of millions of Americans have lost their jobs and filed for unemployment, and more than half of all households in some of our largest cities are currently facing “serious financial problems”.
In 1950, the American people believed that the free market should govern the economy.
In 2020, most Americans seem to believe that the government in Washington and the Federal Reserve must endlessly “manage” the economy.
In 1950, “socialists” and “communists” were considered to be our greatest national enemies.
In 2020, most of our politicians in Washington have eagerly embraced socialist and communist policy goals.
In 1950, the U.S. Constitution was deeply loved and highly revered.
In 2020, anyone that actually admits to being a “constitutionalist” is considered to be a potential domestic terrorist.
In 1950, the United States loaned more money to the rest of the world than anybody else.
In 2020, the United States owes more money to the rest of the world than anybody else.
In 1950, the total U.S. national debt reached the 257 billion dollar mark for the first time in our history.
In 2020, we added 864 billion dollars to the national debt in the month of June alone. In other words, we added over three times more to the national debt in that one month than the total amount of debt that had been accumulated from the founding of our nation all the way to 1950.
In 1950, most Americans were generally happy with their lives.
In 2020, the suicide rate is at an all-time record high, and it has been rising every single year since 2007.’https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=4290
Things have changed and most are not for the good. One answer to the problem may be 2Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Saturday, 17 October, those living in the Australian Capital Territory will be voting for their next government. Family Voice Australia is distributing the following leaflet showing the major differences between the two major parties. Personally, neither party is what a real conservative would desire but the difference between Labor and Liberal is enough to lead a conservative to vote for the Liberal Party. Share this if you know someone who lives in the ACT.
The Victorian state government is an ally of the CCP so it seems. ‘On Wednesday I said on the IPA’s Looking Forward Podcast that in Victoria the key democratic institutions are being destroyed by the State’s Premier, Daniel Andrews, in his myopic pursuit of virus eradication. On the podcast we outlined the punitive and counter-productive measures in the “Stage 4” lockdown enforced under a State of Emergency and virtual martial law. I said:
“The institutions that have served us so well, one by one have been cast aside: Parliament’s been cast aside, Cabinet Government’s being cast aside, free speech has been cast aside (and also) civil liberties. All the institutions that were patiently built up over centuries have just been thrown away. And it’s…not only is that galling in its own right - I mean, we should maintain all of those institutions, even if they were the most inefficient and stupid way to manage on the earth because they have legitimacy as elements of liberal democracy – but we’ve cast all them aside.
“And what we actually have is not better decision making it’s dysfunctional decision making. This is exactly what we saw in Soviet Russia and China. The more you centralise power, the harder it is for actual information about what’s actually going on to reach the top.”
While I have over the past few months considered various (non-exclusive) explanations for the Premier’s behaviour (socialist, statist, centralising, Jacobin, Machiavellian, cognitively limited), I realised today its single best fit is with the model of “Ethical Collapse” originally outlined by Marianne M. Jennings in her 2006 book.
Her concern was corporations such as Enron, but the model fits governments just as well.
Her seven signs that ethical collapse is imminent can be summarised as:
- Pressure to maintain numbers
- Fear and silence
- Young ‘uns around a bigger-than-life CEO
- A weak board
- Conflicts of interest
- Innovation like no other; and
- Goodness in some areas atoning for evil in others.
In Victoria there is evidence of deep concerns relating to all seven of these dimensions.
The numbers the Premier recounts in his daily interminable and point press conferences are those of ‘cases’ and deaths. His key aim is for zero cases over a 14 day period in November, something not achieved anywhere in the world.
“Fear and silence” is maintained by ruthless overlordship of his own party, policing of social media by an army of DanBots and the organised #IStandWithDan campaign, and a complicit media which has benefited from the propaganda campaign by dint of being (for the first time in decades) the principal conduit of information to the public (the Premier has addressed a captive Parliamentary Press Gallery in a windowless room for more than 60 days in a row, working very hard to not answer any undesired questions). The opposition is silenced by not having access to the public and televised forum of Parliament – particularly the lower house (closed for ‘health reasons’) - and people are being pre-emptively arrested for the crime not just of protesting the measures but of organising and promoting said protests on Facebook.
As Chip Le Grand at The Age has described, the Pandemic has just exacerbated Andrews’ tendency to centralise power into his own hands, bypassing the norms of Cabinet Government and destroying accountability. He relies on (apparently) more than 100 of his own staff, who we can presume to mostly ‘young’ and suitably subservient. There is no feasible sanction from the public, which doesn’t get to vote again until November 2022.
While the impacts of punitive lockdowns are felt almost entirely in the private sector, the Premier’s electoral power base is in the public sector and those reliant upon it. In the June Quarter in Victoria wages paid to private workers fell by $1.91 billion, while those paid to the public sector increased by $88 million. If you want evidence of a conflict of interest, it is that 2% pay rise for public servants went ahead as scheduled, in the middle of the biggest recession we’ve ever had. As one of my IPA colleagues has said, decision-makers “have not incurred any of the costs of their reckless lockdown measures, yet they decide when and how the private sector workforce can go back to work.”
There is great pressure to innovate as Victoria has followed the lead of so many countries by attempting – for the time in human history – to defeat a virus through lockdowns. Failures in Hotel Quarantine and contact tracing indicate the State’s capacity has not kept pace with the leader’s desire to innovate.
Finally, there is the moral dimension: “goodness in some areas atoning for evil in others.” Clearly the Premier is convinced that all measures taken (and maybe some more under consideration) can be justified for the good of preventing the deaths otherwise recounted in his grim daily toll (see point 1, above) The most charitable explanation I have read is that he is personally devastated by the deaths of the Aged in nursing homes – the tally of which he reads out daily – and he is determined that it end.
This, however, blinds him to the moral and ethical problems with the measures he’s ordered, and even to other deaths that will pile up but which are counted in ledgers outside his narrow system (suicides, poverty-related conditions, deferment of health-care etc). Needless to say speculation about comorbidities and related issues regarding the deceased are verboten.
The point is that while all of my original criticisms (socialist, statist, centralising, Jacobin, Machiavellian, cognitively limited) could well be valid, I accept they may be less persuasive to those who do not share my ideological lens. It is true I am pre-disposed to freedom, the private sector, and Parliamentary democracy, and this influences my perceptions, but I understand others may put a greater premium on other institutions and values.
“And when rules get replaced, what you’re being asked to place your faith in is the ruler.
But once you understand that we are approaching Ethical Collapse, I hope even those who don’t share my starting point see what’s at stake. It is not just that the path taken is wrong-headed (though it is), it is that end of the process the State will be hollowed out of its most important institutions and values, and there will be nothing in their place. In place of the institutions being destroyed all we have is the Leader, the Great Helmsman, who makes all the decisions and in whom all are called upon to provide absolute faith. As my colleague, Andrew Bushnell, said on the Podcast:
I would say that generally all rules have an element of faith in them… you abide by a rule because you have faith that the longer term consequences of you and everyone else abiding by this rule will work out for the better – that’s generally what we tell ourselves.
And when rules get replaced, what you’re being asked to place your faith in is the ruler. And that is a very precarious situation. It’s much less stable over time than people having faith in rules, because when the performance of the ruler starts to diminish and people’s confidence in him starts to diminish, then you end up you’re on the verge of disorder. And I would say, that’s what we are on the verge of here in Victoria.
We should be concerned not just at the economic wasteland being created in Victoria, but also its flattened moral and ethical landscape.’https://ipa.org.au/publications-ipa/the-ethical-collapse-of-victorias-government
‘World scientists are working feverishly to develop a vaccine for the Chinese coronavirus, and they are suggesting that it might be available before the end of this year. I don’t mean to be critical, but they haven’t found a vaccine for AIDS after throwing billions of dollars at it for more than 30 years.
And there is no vaccine even for the common cold that’s been around for millennia.
If and when a vaccine is available, there are definite indications that everyone will be required to get it. Virginia has already made that decision. And that is the problem before us. After we live through the pandemic and the arguments about masks and lockdowns, now we face the most dangerous part of the battle—telling the do-gooders what they can do with the vaccine.
Mr. Trump will make the biggest mistake of his presidency if he tries to force every American to accept the jab. Trump declared, “Our military is now being mobilized so at the end of the year we’re going to be able to give it to a lot of people very, very rapidly.” Well, Mr. Trump, to quote Samuel Goldwyn, “include me out.” Forced vaccination for the Chinese coronavirus will be divisive, dangerous, and deadly!
And dumb.
I heard Trump say that the vaccination would not be required, but I don’t trust his health advisors at the federal health agencies. Those agencies are snake pits of corruption run by political hacks with medical degrees. None have ever looked a COVID-19 patient in the eye, and few have ever looked a patient in the eyes.
I wonder if Mr. Trump will assure Americans that we will not experience the following for not getting vaccinated: will we be safe from losing a job; losing our insurance or Medicare; have our children taken from us; or be required to have some identification to permit us to buy or sell?
The World Health Organization (WHO) has an Immunization Agenda 2030, in which they’re planning to vaccinate everyone for everything across the globe: “IA 2030 envisions a world where everyone, everywhere, at every age, fully benefits from vaccines to improve health and well-being.”
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the biggest funder of the WHO, and Gates intends to vaccinate the global population against COVID-19.
Many federal health officials’ eyes glaze over when they think and speak of financial benefits for COVID-19 research and treatment. Hospitals have been making huge profits from Medicare patients, as revealed by Senator Scott Jensen, Republican from Minnesota, on Fox News. He reported that hospitals are paid more if Medicare patients are listed as having the Chinese coronavirus and three times the normal price if they are put on a ventilator. This is what prompted the minor scandal recently when so many hospitals were listing suicide, heart deaths, etc., as COVID-19 deaths. One man died in an auto accident, another died of a heart attack, another died of gunshot wounds, yet all three were listed as having COVID-19.
Follow the money; after all, it’s yours.
However, it is not only local hospitals reaping the profits of death but federal health officials who are embedded with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the National Institutes for Health (NIH), and the World Health Organization (WHO). The CDC is the federal agency responsible for directing, developing, and deciding on safety and efficacy. In simple terms: does it work, is it safe, and is it really necessary?
And, in a jaded moment, I will suggest that another prerequisite is that it must be expensive. The history of vaccines and drugs has revealed that safety and effectiveness are sometime disregarded, but they are always expensive.
It is a fact known by all informed people that all drugs and vaccines are not safe for everyone. Many people have died or been harmed for life because of a bad reaction to drugs or vaccines. No health expert on earth will guarantee you that you will be safe by getting a vaccination. Drug and vaccine manufacturing companies are protected by law from being held legally accountable for any harmful reactions. Wonder why that is true if they are safe. A firm that needs such protection does not overwhelm me with confidence.
Moderna has been developing a COVID-19 vaccine with hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of help from the federal government. Moderna received a $483 million award from U.S. taxpayers in April, and the award could eventually be “worth about a billion.”
There is already a safe and effective treatment for the Chinese coronavirus, specifically, Hydroxychloroquine known as HCQ combined with azithromycin and zinc. To be effective, the patients must be in the early stage of the disease. Many physicians have treated hundreds of patients, many of them with additional health problems, with outstanding success. One Texas doctor has treated almost 400 patients with HCQ and has not lost a patient! Another physician has treated more than 700 patients and only lost one patient. The drug is sold over the counter in some nations and has been used safely for more than 65 years.
So, why isn’t every physician prescribing HCQ to COVID-19 patients? Dr. Fauci says that it has not had supervised clinical trials. Wait a minute. Many doctors who deal with dying patients are using it successfully. Well, yes, but the CDC doesn’t have a patent on the drug. Could that be the motive for Dr. Fauci to ridicule it at every opportunity? Moreover, Dr. Fauci and other critics have never treated a Chinese coronavirus patient.
Fauci has recommended the very expensive remdesivir drug owned by Gilead Sciences. It is declared that Fauci and the CDC have no financial interests in that company, and that may be true. However, could Fauci and the CDC downplay other drugs because they have put everything on the expected vaccine? And will any federal health agency or person have any financial benefit from its sale? Wow, that could be billions of dollars; and maybe as important, a Nobel Prize for Dr. Fauci.
The global vaccine market is showing some escalating growth, and it is expected that it will reach total revenues of nearly 60 billion U.S. dollars this year. Some of that will reach the hands of federal health officials who sit in judgment as to whether it is safe and effective! In 2016, the CDC made 137.8 million from royalty income. In total, 56 individual patents were found to be owned or shared by one or more members of the committees within the CDC. I believe that is called a conflict of interest.
If force is used to vaccinated everyone, it will make criminals out of Trump’s best supporters and may put some of us in jail. One of my readers said if Trump’s federal troops try to force him to be injected with mercury, he will inject the injecter with lead. Both mercury and lead are lethal. Forced vaccinations mean many will be shot, really shot!
Since I believe the vaccine may be worse than the disease, I will refuse to be vaccinated, although I’m convinced Trump’s advisors will recommend draconian measures to force me (in a free society) to capitulate. I would not even consider getting vaccinated if I were given the right answers to these questions: does the vaccine contain mercury, formaldehyde, or any human cells? What evidence is available that it will work? What proof is there to know it is safe? What are the full results of the tests? If you have a negative reaction such as being paralyzed, who pays, and how much? Why can’t we have religious objections since they are available in other matters?
I hope Mr. Trump will promise not to force free citizens to have a chip implanted or number tattooed on the hand or forehead.’http://donboys.cstnews.com/mr-trump-forcing-covid-19-vaccinations-on-everyone-will-be-divisive-dangerous-and-deadly
Two Australian journalists recently fled China due to the possibility of being jailed. ‘The prospect that the Australian Financial Review’s Mike Smith and the ABC’s Bill Birtles were going to spend months in China’s notorious black jails, being interrogated and having no access to lawyers, drove them to seek Australian diplomatic protection and a negotiated exit from China. As Smith put it, ‘I feared being disappeared.’ That was a very real prospect given the arrest of another Australian journalist, Cheng Lei, on 14 August, apparently for ‘endangering national security’.
We’re wrong if we think these incidents are primarily about the Australia–China relationship, although reactions from various commentators have largely taken the approach of centring things on ‘the relationship’ and it ‘hitting rock bottom’, with figures like former foreign minister Bob Carr blaming the deterioration on the lack of nuance in diplomatic messaging by Australia. It’s partly about the bilateral relationship, but it’s more about the direction in which Xi Jinping is taking China domestically and internationally—and the collisions this is causing with other nations and their citizens.
If it’s true that Australian government officials searched the homes of Xinhua journalists in June, no doubt Beijing will tell us this explains its treatment of Birtles and Smith. That’s a false equivalence, though: any Xinhua staff were at zero risk of detention in a black site in Australia where they would be interrogated daily for months without access to a lawyer or consular support. But that was a likely prospect for Birtles and Smith. That stark difference was captured in Birtles’s simple words on landing in Australia: ‘It’s a relief to be back in a country with a genuine rule of law.’
Xi is closing China to external voices. The Great Firewall that stops the broad flow of information into and out of China is not new, but the level of intimidation of foreign journalists and the restrictions on their travel and access to officials are greater than before. Similar, tighter restrictions are in place for foreign embassy officials.
China is also intimidating and expelling foreigners whose governments act against Beijing’s interests—14 journalists (including two Australians) from the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal were expelled earlier this year. Two Canadians have been in detention in China now for some 20 months and both were charged in July with the improbable offence of ‘spying on national secrets’.
Xi is simultaneously intimidating and arresting his own people because he fears dissenting voices. This year, at least five Chinese activists and citizen journalists have been forcibly disappeared ‘for reporting independently on the pandemic’, joining some 48 Chinese journalists arrested by the regime in 2019.
Xi has also just begun an internal purge of the very people who knocked on the doors of Birtles and Smith—his internal security apparatus in the form of the Ministry of Public Security and the People’s Armed Police. His reason is that ‘two-faced people’ (those who pretend to obey but secretly resist) and those who are ‘straddling the fence without showing the flag’ need to be ‘thoroughly removed’. Even China’s internal security agencies and staff are at risk of detention, arrest and jail if they do anything other than implement Xi’s will.
So, there’s a pattern here about the tighter, more ruthless control that the Chinese Communist Party under Xi is exercising over anyone who lives in its jurisdiction—citizen or foreigner—particularly those who report on the regime or who say anything that’s not supportive of it. All are facing greater risk of detention and arrest on broad, opaque grounds. Australia and Australians are part of this pattern, and likely higher priority targets because of our successful influencing of international debates on issues like 5G, foreign interference and an inquiry into the Covid-19 pandemic that are important to the government in Beijing.
What do we do from here?
First, we must stop pretending it’s primarily about how our government is ‘managing the relationship’ and how much nuance and sophistication we can bring to sneakily marketing decisions that we must make in our national interests.
Our policy and action from here must be to work in partnership with other governments and societies that are also profoundly challenged by the direction China is taking and are facing the same risks. As a start, that’s a broad set of partners from Tokyo to Delhi and Washington, and from Brussels to Taipei, Paris and Berlin. We’ve also got to consider whether continuing to give Chinese state media free access to our own societies so that they can spread propaganda makes sense given China is closing itself to our own reporters.
Even more immediately, every business and organisation with Australian employees living and working in China must reassess their need to do so in light of the high and growing risk to their personal safety. Beyond the immediate safety risk, fundamental business strategies about access to the Chinese market must be reassessed, because the assumptions they were based on just a year ago have now fundamentally changed.
We have to live with the China we see under Xi Jinping, not the China we wanted as recently as 2014 when Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Xi shook hands over a free trade agreement. The only good news now is that Australia is not alone.’https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australian-journalists-escape-from-china-a-warning-for-the-rest-of-the-world/
The Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) is ‘…an independent, non-profit public policy think tank, dedicated to preserving and strengthening the foundations of economic and political freedom.’https://ipa.org.au/about-us
In the following ‘The IPA’s Gideon Rozner explains to Americans why Melbourne is allowing itself to be ruined by an unhinged Premier, his thoroughly politicised police force and the general population’s supine acceptance of mandated insanity:
…The fact that Melbourne has allowed itself to be decimated in the name of the coronavirus is as predictable as it is heartbreaking. It’s a city a bit like San Francisco or Seattle—a beautiful, vibrant, dynamic metropolis that until now had among the best food, culture and nightlife in the world. But like America’s coastal cities, left-wing politics is a package deal—street art in aid of one asinine cause or another almost becomes part of the scenery.
Daniel Andrews knows this, and exploits it. Somewhere along the way, he picked up the playbook of Democrats who preside over dysfunction, poverty, crime and thinly-veiled corruption, and make up for it all by wheeling out some woke gimmick every so often—almost always involving vast sums of public money. The coronavirus has given him the best talking point of all: ‘The economy versus human life.’
It’s the recurring theme in Andrews’ interminable press conferences—daily sermons that are so theatrical and dishonest they would make Andrew Cuomo blush. Behind him always, a purple banner with the state government’s Orwellian coronavirus slogan, which can also be found plastered on billboards all over the city: Staying Apart Keeps Us Together.
The media response is—with a few exceptions—fawning and uncritical, but it’s the only real check or balance we have: The state parliament has barely sat since March, and coronavirus restrictions have been made by executive fiat under dubious ’emergency powers.’
All that said, Andrews’ hitherto insurmountable hold on power is slipping. The lockdown has wrought enough joblessness, business closures and outright despair that people are starting to take notice. Even in the People’s Republic of Victoria, the mood is turning against the man now widely derided as ‘Chairman Dan’….‘https://quadrant.org.au/
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