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Developments in Palestine in the Trump era.
Merlynston Community Group was set up to keep Hosken Reserve in Merlynston open to the public for general recreational use.
Peter Khalil is the Federal MP for Wills.
Report of Peter's online town hall meeting of Tuesday 30 June 2020.
The BRN says that they are concerned about traffic, open space and the sustainability of building projects. They basically work by email, sending out an newsletter monthly, or perhaps two months apart, and these newsletters are accumulated on their website. They organise useful meetings around the time of council elections.
The Moreland Leader is a sort of generic local paper owned by News Ltd (Murdoch). Their website hangs of the Herald Sun website and even that part-website is shared amongst a bunch of other papers covering Melbourne's northwest.
There are a few ALP branches in Moreland. The two well-attended ones are based in Brunswick and North Coburg. Until recently the Brunswick branch had its own website (from which this one was cloned) but generally the branches merely provide passive support for the ALP and have little to say to the community on their own account. In recent years the ALP has refrained from interfering in municipal affairs allowing Labor members to stand for election to council on their own terms and at their own initiative. This year however, in supposedly independent decisions but all across Melbourne, the party has decided who may stand as an ALP candidate while they rest may not stand at all if they want to remain in the party.
The local Greens do not have a website but said they might set one up when the election came around. They did not. They are welcome to use this subdomain on our site for free: greens.brunswicknews.net.au
On his website, Tim Read has something to say about Victoria's forests, bike lanes for Sydney Rd, our response to climate change, recycling, i.e. mostly green issues.
The council's news page.
1. by Alison Xamon, MLC WA |24 Apr 2020:
Corporate donations are distorting our democratic process...
2. by Australian Greens:
Right now, our political system is stacked in favour of big corporate donors who buy access and outcomes through political donations and powerful lobbying. The Greens’ plan will clean up politics, end the corrupting influence of corporations and ensure that our representatives are accountable to all of us...
Neither of the above pieces come up to Brunswick News's standard of journalistic advocacy, being short on detail and constructive argument, but the Green's policy can only improve if they are willing to take part in our discussion.
by Peter Khalil | 14 Dec, 2019
... It has been almost two decades since Tampa and the Howard government’s response, which laid down the blueprint for zones of cruel, indefinite offshore detention that persist to this day. Some argue indefinite offshore detention has made us safer and insulated Australia from the broader global crisis. However, it only suspends our engagement with a growing global challenge. ...
by Brunswick News | 30 July, 2020
Are we are turning the corner in Victoria?
Tim Read is not sure either way about that. He does not believe the situation will get out of control as long as people do a good job of observing restrictions, such as distancing, masks, and isolation if symptomatic. Getting the infection rate down is a matter of careful, "curious" epidemiological work. A small sub-population not following health advice for some reason is enough to keep the virus propagating. A non-judgemental curiosity is what is needed to find and plug the leaks...
Hotel quarantine disaster: Coming from the Liberals, are their views on this matter are informed with the benefit of hindsight?
Tim says he does not recall Liberals raising the issue before it blew up...
by John Ferguson, The Australian | 18 July, 2020
The Andrews story is no longer a parochial Victorian tale about a former backroom Labor head kicker’s 10-year leadership and six-year hold on a state. It is now overwhelmingly about the virus death and illness toll, the stalled national economy and how his government has contributed to Lockdown 2.0.
Is it all Dan Andrew's fault? Constructive comments on this opinion piece are welcome in Brunswick News. You can't comment in the The Australian unless you subscribe. Then again, your comment does not need to be constructive in that case.
by Kishore Mahbubani, Project Syndicate | 24 Nov 2020
What advice do you have for the leaders of other territories and countries that are likely to get caught in the crossfire of the Sino-American rivalry?
KM: Don’t make the same mistake as Australia. In Asian cultures, including China’s, saving face is important. When Australia publicly called for an international inquiry into China’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis, it put China on the spot. With so many eyes on the standoff, China cannot blink – or it will risk more confrontations with more countries. So, all Australia will get from its initiative is a slow, painful war of economic attrition ...
by Gregory Rose, Sydney Morning Herald | 26 Jun 2020
The Israeli government is considering applying Israeli civil law jurisdiction and administration to parts of the Jordan Valley and/or certain settlement blocs. This possibility was proposed under the US Trump Administration’s Israeli-Palestinian peace plan and agreed in the broad national coalition agreement between most of Israel’s political parties. The specific areas and timings are under internal negotiation.
There is a lot of controversy in Israel and worldwide about whether this is a wise or even legal step, as is apparent in the incandescent opinion of Ben Saul, writing in the Herald on Thursday about Israel's so-called "annexation" plans...
by Ben Saul, Sydney Morning Herald | 25 Jun 2020
As early as next week, Israel proposes to forcibly annex up to a third of the Palestinian West Bank, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling it "another glorious chapter in the history of Zionism". Israel's incendiary move, paved by US President Donald Trump's "peace" plan, has provoked near-universal condemnation.
by Paul Keating | 18 Nov, 2019
... The key question is about the United States itself: Is the United States capable of fundamental renewal? Can it overcome its debilitating political gridlock; can it regain its sense of magnanimity and mission; can it rebuild its productive base and more equitably divide its wealth? Can it renew the enthusiasm of its middle and working classes for the national story, and can it redress the growth in its budget imbalance and national debt? ...
So where does all this leave Australia?
The answer: in the deep blue sea between two great powers – the US and China. ...
Discussion of Keating's views
by Australian Greens | 13 Nov, 2019
... The current bill forces councils to adopt a single-member ward system, which would ensure that councils are more likely to be controlled by major parties with no representation for independent minority voices. ...
Call Carolyn on 0409 412 824 or email acncmrservices@yahoo.com
... Melbourne is a hot-spot for tatto artists... ...
31 Aug 2020. Report on candidate S. Jackson's Zoom webinar of 27 Aug.
Front yard in Mitchell St Brunswick
by Kevin Rudd and Patrick Suckling, SMH | 18 July, 2020
Too few stimulus packages globally are reaping the double-dividend of both investing in growth and jobs, and in the transition to low emissions, more climate-resilient economies. And in Australia, this means we risk lagging even further behind the rest of the world as a result.
by Michael Brissenden, ABC | 18 May, 2020
Usually they keep their thoughts private, rarely making a foray into public debate, even in retirement. Now, after the devastating "black summer" fire season, the former heads of the Office of Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Department of the Treasury, along with former chief scientists, have decided they can no longer stay silent...
☛ Rudd (discussion)
Watch the Four Corners episode (click here).
by Lisa Cox, The Guardian | Sep 24, 2019
David Attenborough has criticised the Morrison government’s record on climate policy and support for new coalmines. ...
by Erik Larson, Sydney Morning Herald | Nov 1, 2019
... "We knew, we knew it was a real issue," Tillerson said. "We knew it was a serious issue and we knew it was one that's going to be with us now, forevermore, and it's not something that was just suddenly going to disappear off of our concern list because it is going to be with us for certainly well beyond my lifetime." More ...