From Israeli soldiers of genocide running through the streets of Sydney to One Nation’s rise, climate catastrophe and AI’s enormous power demands, Labor’s business-as-usual politics no longer works.
It was just a year ago (May 2025) that the The Blatten Glacier Collapse, Switzerland occurred. In that case the area was being monitored and the village was evacuated and no deaths occurred. It is time for the International community to start monitoring mountain glaciers around the world. Oh, and start taking action rather than make rhetorical statements about the need to reduce CO2 and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
The Labor Party is a lost cause. It has been completely compromised by neoliberalism and managerialism. It is no longer the party of Whitlam. Hec, it is not even the party of Hawke/Keating. It continues to try and find private sector solutions instead of public sector ones. For example, Age Care and Child Care should be subsumed into the public sector. The failure to subsume Care and Employment Services Providers into Public Sector. And don’t get me started on the backward steps that the Labor Government has taken on Freedom of Information, Whistleblowing, Privacy and other administrative freedoms initiated back in the Whitlam Era.
Agreed, Mark, although I don't agree with the suggestion that Hawke and Keating were not neoliberals. They were, and we are suffering from some of their decisions that were based on neoclassical economics, as we are suffering today under Chalmers et al.
I too support the renationalisation of public infrastructure and utilities. Sadly, I don't see Labor doing that. Only the Greens have the policies that will bring social, environmental and economic justice and equity to Australians. Sadly, mainstream/legacy media are in the thrall of the elites who want none of that and will not mention this to their readers/watchers/listeners! 🤨
I agree that Hawke and Keating were taken in by Neoliberalism. But they did through the Accord did try to soften the effect on the working class and the underclass
Mark Liebler has long been the voice of Zionism that has influenced Australian politicians in the development of domestic and foreign policies. He has had an "open door" access to Australian politicians for decades although he seems to avoid the investigative attention of main stream media.
It was also surprising (not surprising) to see Mark Liebler on the Voice to Parliament Referendum Council. No one has explained how or why he got there, or why he was needed.
Damn right he has. He's been on first name terms with every PMs and Treasurers as you say for decades. He has access to power and therefore policy that is beyond imagining.
A complete obscenity and an affront to all Australians. Israel is a genocidal rogue state born from Zionist delusion. Their war criminals have no place in Australia, none.
Albanese is failing - on eveything - his policies are failing, and instead of providing innovation and vision, he has decided to be the manager of decline he always was. Albanese has taken the ‘labour’ out of Labor, and in places like Secret Harbour, traditional working class people have decided a racist bigot is the answer. Wow, can it get any worse? Don’t answer that.
That Albanese and Minns eagerly support having Zionist IDF war criminals competing in sporting events in this country is an
obscenity . Those who have taken pleasure in slaughtering Palestinian children are welcomed here as if they are immune from International Law . How far beneath the Zionist Israeli boot are these “ government “ grovellers content to abase themselves , and our nation ?
Democracy is shrivelling away as the public watches . We do not have government MPs . We have sock puppets . How long will
Elizabeth, normal, decent Australians, like us, do not tolerate this, as evidenced by the article above and we commenters comments. The problem is that, to answer James' unanswerable question above, perhaps there are more indecent Australians than we previously reckoned. The result in Secret Harbour may be an indicator of that. 🫤
How many of us feel like we're banging our heads against a brick wall with successive governments? The list of grievances seems to grow every day and politicians seem to become more obtuse with every passing second.
My personal list of gripes:
Australia is a protectorate of the US where we have set ourselves up as number 1 targets in the southern hemisphere. Look at how US bases in the Gulf have been legitimate targets of Iran after attack from USrael. Does anyone think that won't be us if/when war comes to the Pacific? The US administration may change but don't think the next administration will hand back the authoritarian gains made by Trump and co, so there's no point thinking Trump won't be around forever and then things will be normal again.
Weasel words from Penny-less Wong. Wong, Albanese and Marles are complicit in the genocide and ethnic cleansing being committed by their Zionist overlords. A child could explain right from wrong to these servile people. Instead we have silence. I'd love to know how they explain themselves to their children re gangs of thugs throwing rocks at people in their homes and cars in the West Bank. If it's not weasel words it's outright hypocrisy spewing from their mouths.
Treating us like idiots over the climate crisis. I'm old enough to remember the warnings in the 90s about more extreme weather events occurring more frequently if something wasn't done to address global warming. Well, it's here now and we can't pretend otherwise, but who has to carry the cost - the ordinary person, not the companies responsible for polluting the environment. I've been watching old Dr Who episodes starring Jon Pertwee. There are warnings from the Dr about polluting the planet - early 1970s kids' tv warned about pollution! 50 years later and our governments haven't learnt a thing.
My head is getting seriously sore from banging it against hard objects.
Reading your take about Labor's approach to data centres just got me thinking about if only Chalmers and the rest of them would read Gil Duran's Nerd Reich instead of Ezra Klein's Abundance.... 😔
In historical terms, the ALP has moved ideologically from a party of liberal social democracy to a party of modern fascism. It governs SOLELY for the interests of capital now, US capital that is, and has very willingly given away any notion of sovereignty to the interests of US military industrial complex and the israeli international terrorist program.
It is the greatest betrayal of Australian independence and economic progress in the colony’s short history.
The ALP elite had a choice between embracing multipolarity and entering the new economic order with a very good hand of cards, or devolving to absolute vassalage in a rapidly collapsing, parasitic imperial system that is maintained only by massive theft, terrorism on an unprecedented scale and , increasingly, an unhinged barely comprehensible sadism.
The chosen path is simply a reflection of the character of the people in decision -making positions. The class they are drawn from is the most ignorant, incompetent, mis-educated, venal and self-interested cohort in Australian society. Yet it is also the most narcissistic , self regarding. These spluttering fools , think Wong, Albo, Marles, Burke etc. , regard themselves as sensible and pragmatic even as they completely destroy the future of our children and grandchildren. Australia is earmarked by the empire of blood as a quarry and a giant military base. That is all. The 28 million people who live here are totally expendable.
This is the legacy of the modern Australian Labor Party. It began as a workers’ movement to battle the predations of capital. It is now just a faction of the megaparty OF capital.
The article raises legitimate questions about accountability, Australian foreign policy, and the gap between rhetoric and action on Gaza.
However, it frequently weakens its own case by presenting disputed claims as settled facts, relying on guilt-by-association arguments, and substituting emotionally charged language for evidence.
Particularly -
1. Treats disputed legal claims as settled facts - Especially regarding genocide.
a. The International Court of Justice has not ruled that genocide occurred.
b. The International Criminal Court has not convicted anyone of genocide
2. Assumes guilt by association - Regarding specific marathon participants. The article assumes:
a. genocide has been legally proven;
b. those specific soldiers participated;
c. they are individually complicit.
3. Conflates categories - The article frequently moves between:
Some comments:
It was just a year ago (May 2025) that the The Blatten Glacier Collapse, Switzerland occurred. In that case the area was being monitored and the village was evacuated and no deaths occurred. It is time for the International community to start monitoring mountain glaciers around the world. Oh, and start taking action rather than make rhetorical statements about the need to reduce CO2 and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
The Labor Party is a lost cause. It has been completely compromised by neoliberalism and managerialism. It is no longer the party of Whitlam. Hec, it is not even the party of Hawke/Keating. It continues to try and find private sector solutions instead of public sector ones. For example, Age Care and Child Care should be subsumed into the public sector. The failure to subsume Care and Employment Services Providers into Public Sector. And don’t get me started on the backward steps that the Labor Government has taken on Freedom of Information, Whistleblowing, Privacy and other administrative freedoms initiated back in the Whitlam Era.
Agreed, Mark, although I don't agree with the suggestion that Hawke and Keating were not neoliberals. They were, and we are suffering from some of their decisions that were based on neoclassical economics, as we are suffering today under Chalmers et al.
I too support the renationalisation of public infrastructure and utilities. Sadly, I don't see Labor doing that. Only the Greens have the policies that will bring social, environmental and economic justice and equity to Australians. Sadly, mainstream/legacy media are in the thrall of the elites who want none of that and will not mention this to their readers/watchers/listeners! 🤨
I agree that Hawke and Keating were taken in by Neoliberalism. But they did through the Accord did try to soften the effect on the working class and the underclass
Mark Liebler has long been the voice of Zionism that has influenced Australian politicians in the development of domestic and foreign policies. He has had an "open door" access to Australian politicians for decades although he seems to avoid the investigative attention of main stream media.
It was also surprising (not surprising) to see Mark Liebler on the Voice to Parliament Referendum Council. No one has explained how or why he got there, or why he was needed.
Damn right he has. He's been on first name terms with every PMs and Treasurers as you say for decades. He has access to power and therefore policy that is beyond imagining.
Frydenberg is shooting for another gig in the Australian parliament.
I hope the self-interested of Kooyong elect the Rabbis’ David.
The shiny sheeny should be a real character in The Taylor, Hastie, Hanson Coalition Gambit.
A complete obscenity and an affront to all Australians. Israel is a genocidal rogue state born from Zionist delusion. Their war criminals have no place in Australia, none.
Albanese is failing - on eveything - his policies are failing, and instead of providing innovation and vision, he has decided to be the manager of decline he always was. Albanese has taken the ‘labour’ out of Labor, and in places like Secret Harbour, traditional working class people have decided a racist bigot is the answer. Wow, can it get any worse? Don’t answer that.
That Albanese and Minns eagerly support having Zionist IDF war criminals competing in sporting events in this country is an
obscenity . Those who have taken pleasure in slaughtering Palestinian children are welcomed here as if they are immune from International Law . How far beneath the Zionist Israeli boot are these “ government “ grovellers content to abase themselves , and our nation ?
Democracy is shrivelling away as the public watches . We do not have government MPs . We have sock puppets . How long will
normal , decent Australians tolerate this ?
Elizabeth, normal, decent Australians, like us, do not tolerate this, as evidenced by the article above and we commenters comments. The problem is that, to answer James' unanswerable question above, perhaps there are more indecent Australians than we previously reckoned. The result in Secret Harbour may be an indicator of that. 🫤
How many of us feel like we're banging our heads against a brick wall with successive governments? The list of grievances seems to grow every day and politicians seem to become more obtuse with every passing second.
My personal list of gripes:
Australia is a protectorate of the US where we have set ourselves up as number 1 targets in the southern hemisphere. Look at how US bases in the Gulf have been legitimate targets of Iran after attack from USrael. Does anyone think that won't be us if/when war comes to the Pacific? The US administration may change but don't think the next administration will hand back the authoritarian gains made by Trump and co, so there's no point thinking Trump won't be around forever and then things will be normal again.
Weasel words from Penny-less Wong. Wong, Albanese and Marles are complicit in the genocide and ethnic cleansing being committed by their Zionist overlords. A child could explain right from wrong to these servile people. Instead we have silence. I'd love to know how they explain themselves to their children re gangs of thugs throwing rocks at people in their homes and cars in the West Bank. If it's not weasel words it's outright hypocrisy spewing from their mouths.
Treating us like idiots over the climate crisis. I'm old enough to remember the warnings in the 90s about more extreme weather events occurring more frequently if something wasn't done to address global warming. Well, it's here now and we can't pretend otherwise, but who has to carry the cost - the ordinary person, not the companies responsible for polluting the environment. I've been watching old Dr Who episodes starring Jon Pertwee. There are warnings from the Dr about polluting the planet - early 1970s kids' tv warned about pollution! 50 years later and our governments haven't learnt a thing.
My head is getting seriously sore from banging it against hard objects.
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Once again, Gentlemen, I concur 100% with your views expressed in this Weekly Brief. 🤗
Reading your take about Labor's approach to data centres just got me thinking about if only Chalmers and the rest of them would read Gil Duran's Nerd Reich instead of Ezra Klein's Abundance.... 😔
Appreciate your work as always.
Someone in the crowd should have had a sign saying, Like your brother and sister German Nazis, you can run but you cannot hide!”
In historical terms, the ALP has moved ideologically from a party of liberal social democracy to a party of modern fascism. It governs SOLELY for the interests of capital now, US capital that is, and has very willingly given away any notion of sovereignty to the interests of US military industrial complex and the israeli international terrorist program.
It is the greatest betrayal of Australian independence and economic progress in the colony’s short history.
The ALP elite had a choice between embracing multipolarity and entering the new economic order with a very good hand of cards, or devolving to absolute vassalage in a rapidly collapsing, parasitic imperial system that is maintained only by massive theft, terrorism on an unprecedented scale and , increasingly, an unhinged barely comprehensible sadism.
The chosen path is simply a reflection of the character of the people in decision -making positions. The class they are drawn from is the most ignorant, incompetent, mis-educated, venal and self-interested cohort in Australian society. Yet it is also the most narcissistic , self regarding. These spluttering fools , think Wong, Albo, Marles, Burke etc. , regard themselves as sensible and pragmatic even as they completely destroy the future of our children and grandchildren. Australia is earmarked by the empire of blood as a quarry and a giant military base. That is all. The 28 million people who live here are totally expendable.
This is the legacy of the modern Australian Labor Party. It began as a workers’ movement to battle the predations of capital. It is now just a faction of the megaparty OF capital.
The article raises legitimate questions about accountability, Australian foreign policy, and the gap between rhetoric and action on Gaza.
However, it frequently weakens its own case by presenting disputed claims as settled facts, relying on guilt-by-association arguments, and substituting emotionally charged language for evidence.
Particularly -
1. Treats disputed legal claims as settled facts - Especially regarding genocide.
a. The International Court of Justice has not ruled that genocide occurred.
b. The International Criminal Court has not convicted anyone of genocide
2. Assumes guilt by association - Regarding specific marathon participants. The article assumes:
a. genocide has been legally proven;
b. those specific soldiers participated;
c. they are individually complicit.
3. Conflates categories - The article frequently moves between:
a. Israel,
b. Israeli government,
c. IDF personnel,
d. Zionism,
e. pro-Israel organisations.
without clearly distinguishing them.