Tag: Australia
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The Great Barrier Reef Keeps on Living
by John Mikkelsen, ©2025 (Aug. 9, 2025) — It’s a living thing, what a terrible thing to lose…. When the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) recorded their big hit back in the ‘70s they could have been referring to the Great Barrier Reef, although frontman Jeff Lynne insists it was really just about lost love. The…
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Cheryl Lacey to Host The P&E Editor
by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 5, 2025) — Australian educator, columnist and podcaster Cheryl Lacey, DGSJ, will interview Sharon Rondeau on Tuesday evening, New York time, which is Wednesday morning in the Melbourne, Australia region. The new broadcast, “Leading Education with Cheryl Lacey,” can be heard on WYNFM from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Melbourne time/5:00…
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Every Australian should know about the Jewish Anzac Diggers
15 July 2025 Dear Editor, Relative to population, the Jewish people are God’s and/or Mother Nature’s greatest gift to Western society when you look at their great, so-great contributions to ‘social justice’; the arts, music, medicine, technology, democracy, the law, academia, military development and application, civilization, etc., etc. Some 2,000 Jewish Anzacs served in WWI,…
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Trump or Xi?
7 July 2025 Dear Editor, Donald Trump may well not be the sort of bloke to take home for Sunday lunch with Mum…alone with Mum and Nan! However, Trump would be preferable to the likes of Xi, whose Chinese Communist Party’s Red Chinese navy recently circumnavigated Australia, live-cannon-firing off our capital cities, and with the…
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All Five Have Existing, or Burgeoning, “Big M” problems!
12 June 2025 Dear Editor, All five “Five Eyes” intelligence-sharing nations, Australia, the UK, Canada, New Zealand, and the U.S., are facing a growing “Big M” problem. And no, this isn’t about McDonald’s. It’s about mass immigration from cultures fundamentally misaligned with the Judeo-Christian, democratic foundations of Western civilisation. Too many arrivals are openly or…
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Sussan Ley’s Success Story?
16 May 2025 Dear Editor, Hmmpf! Having only now seriously perused Sussan Ley’s hipster/yuppie/ABC-luvvie and PETA drama queen-like CV profile, this very longtime Lib/Nat Coalition bomb-thrower (truly delighted to see a female federal Liberal leader) reckons Ms Ley’s road to her being Australian Liberal PM Sussan Ley will entail her having the courage (and hunting,…
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Parents: You Still Hold The Power
by Cheryl Lacey, DGSJ, Take The Lead On Education™, ©2025 (Apr. 28, 2025) — Parents and families continue to be hamstrung by inefficiencies and lack of accountability in school systems across Australia. Despite billions of dollars of annual spending, on everything from building upgrades, curriculum reviews and the latest whizz bang solution; to teacher wellbeing…
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In Honor of Virginia Giuffre, Release Epstein Files Now
by Jeff Crouere, ©2025 (Apr. 27, 2025) — Almost six years after the suspicious “suicide” of Jeffrey Epstein, notorious billionaire financier and pedophile, his most famous accuser has also died. Virginia Giuffre, who claimed, as a minor, she was forced into sexual acts with both Epstein and Prince Andrew, Duke of York, reportedly died by…
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Labor’s Litany of Lies
by John Mikkelsen, ©2025 (Apr. 26, 2025) — With time running out in the countdown to the May 3 Federal election, Australia’s future may well depend on how many voters believe Labor’s repetitive litany of lies. There’s a long list as revealed in the site https://www.laborlies.com.au/ but for me there are a couple of standouts –…
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The Power Brokers
by Cheryl Lacey, DGSJ, Take The Lead On Education™ (Apr. 22, 2025) — When NSW Education Secretary Murat Dizdar appeared on the ABC’s Australian Story — Class Wars (April 7, 2025), he didn’t misspeak.[i] He revealed exactly what he believes: Catholic and non-government schools should not exist. In a follow-up article published on the ABC’s…
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The Growing Menace of Trees
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2025 (Mar. 29, 2025) — Australia is threatened by dangerous trees. They have infested our cities, menace our power lines, invade our grasslands and fuel our worst bushfires. The meander by Cyclone Alfred through south east Queensland illustrated how bad this danger has become. Big tall trees smashed…
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Has the “Handsome Boy” Bitten Off More than Other Boys (and Girls) Can Chew?
18 March 2025 Dear Editor, Why should Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese want to send our military boys and girls over to antagonize nuclear-armed Vladimir Putin? Doesn’t Albanese understand that Putin has sworn allegiance to Communist Red China’s Xi Jinping, who has already sent its warships on a circuit of Australia, live-firing cannons not far…
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WWII Showed our Diggers Must Stay Close to Home!
16 March 2025 Dear Editor, As much as I cherish my British heritage, Britain’s ability to protect Australia ended with the fall of Singapore to the Japanese in WWII, which prompted then-Labor PM John Curtin to very wisely immediately bring our Diggers home from Europe (Crete) and Africa (Uncle Bill Hutchins was a “Rat of…
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So Now the Pendulum Swings…
12 March 2025 Dear Editor, As a result of POTUS Donald Trump’s smashing every US Western society wartime ally with tariffs, ringing out in every American’s and Australian’s ears should be the so very sage words of Dean William Ralph Inge, “So now the pendulum swings, now violently, now slowly, and ever institution carries within…
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Surviving the Storm
by John Mikkelsen, ©2025 (Mar. 11, 2025) — Everyone is probably fed up to their eye teeth with cyclone talk after Ex Tropical Cyclone Alfred has stopped pirouetting and taken his final bows before exiting stage left and leaving a trail of damage in his wake, but there are some lessons to be learnt. It…
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Rate Cut Won’t Help Albo Much
by John Mikkelsen, ©2025 (Feb. 20, 2025) — The RBA’s decision to cut interest rates by 0.25 Percent this week should have come as no surprise in the current political climate, with an election looming and the Albanese Labor Government desperate to claw back some credibility. But… the Reserve Bank is independent and doesn’t succumb to…
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Xi Harasses Australia; Albanese’s Blunder Could Mean B21 Bombers (but no Nuclear Subs) for Australia?
13 February 2025 Dear Editor, So Red China reckons Anthony Albanese’s Prime Ministership of Australia is tops? A Red China fighter jet has dangerously harassed an Australian Air Force surveillance plane in international airspace, and several Red Chinese naval ships have broken international law by encroaching on Australian waters. Just goes to show Xi’s two-faced…
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Is It OK to Let Muslims Brandish Signs Calling for the Death of Others?
23 January 2025 Dear Editor, Why is it that Muslims in Australia are allowed to chant threats of so very forebodingly, “Where are the Jews?!!” and to let their children brandish signs with words such as “Behead those who oppose the prophet,” but any suggestion Australia should review Muslim migration is howled down… bludgeoned into…
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Green Aluminium? Tell Albo He’s Dreaming
by John Mikkelsen, ©2025 (Jan. 21, 2025) — A famous line in an Australian film almost three decades old is the first thought that came to mind when I heard Labor’s latest renewable energy pipe dream – $2 billion to subsidise “green aluminium” production. “Tell him he’s dreaming” was uttered by Darryl Kerrigan’s main character in The…
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Wildfires – Climate or Criminal?
By Dr Graham Pinn, The Saltbush Club, ©2025 (Jan. 10, 2025) — The year 2024 produced much anguish over fires, with attempts made to blame the regular events on “unprecedented” climate change. The season is just kicking off here but elsewhere, in the Northern winter, things are hotting up early! Just a few days into…