As if small businesses weren’t already doing it tough. Look at retail food supermarkets with the Coles-Woolies duopoly, price bullying small independent supermarkets out of viability, especially in regional areas. Now Australia’s regional independent cinemas are being bullied by the film industry…
The Sydney Metropolitan Region Water Plan has it that the farmers’ use of water from the Hawkesbury River will be cut to about 16% of current usage. In theory, the water plan has been set in motion to save the Hawkesbury River.…
The following report appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald on August 7, 2010: ‘A crazy 1930’s plan for a Jewish State in the Kimberleys has been revived – but this time as another Multifunction Polis idea. This traitor class representative, Paul Howes,…
A supposed anarchist based in Melbourne has used a website to suggest that there will be a disruption on polling day – something directed against Australia First members. It was said that a character who calls himself “Kitler” would appear, as he…
The arrogance of the Liberals and Labor across the Blue Mountains is palpable. Blue Mountains City Council is run by a cartel of LibLabs. The Liberal Mayor, Daniel Myles, told Blackheathens back in May 2012, “we are selling the Blackheath Airstrip along…
Why is it that Australia’s unemployed in March 2010 just gone number 611,000, while thousands of unskilled jobs are being filled by new immigrants? Read: http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/6202.0 Walk around the centres of Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney and get into a taxi and find…
So when is Australia’s society to be blessed with moral wealth? The promise of ‘economic growth’ is like Lasseter’s gold? Who benefits from ‘getting ahead’? Are we experiencing the undoing of the recently aspired goal of the Triple Bottom Line to a…
Today Federal Treasurer, Wayne Swan, has tried to justify another rise in interest rates by claiming in true polly-speak that such an impost is a sign of stronger Australian economy. Swan sees progress only through economic glasses. Swan’s growth fettish belies the…
If only Blue Mountains folk realised the cushy salaries enjoyed by government staff at Blue Mountains City Council. Recent decisions by councillors have approved a 4% pay rise to council staff on top of them earning already above average wages. Only…
Article sourced from Perth Now, by Stephen McMahon, January 31, 2012 “AUSTRALIA’s two-speed economy is about to become further polarised as the investment boom above the “Brisbane Line” moves into overdrive, according to new research. The latest Deloitte Investment Monitor reveals…