Cross-disciplinary researcher with interests in food security, crop science, population growth and sustainability; activist in Sustainable Population Australia.
Brisbane Queensland
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John Menadue exposes the hypocrisy in Australian foreign affairs:
Australia should keep out of Ukraine Russian affairs pearlsandirritations.com/pos…
Everyone should understand this about the Ukraine war. The primary aggressor was the US-installed Ukraine govt against its own Russian-speaking people.
So here we have this former Russian ambassador explaining how the Donbass war began.
There was a coup d’état in Kyiv in 2014, financed by the US.
The new installed regime banned the Russian language, and the population of Crimea voted in a referendum for their independence against the ban on their native language.
Kyiv then intervened militarily in Donbass in 2014, which triggered the war.
The Minsk agreements then followed. Russia finally intervened in 2022 because there was no other solution to protect its compatriots in Donbass, who had been attacked for 8 years.
AUKUS is not merely self-harm to our sovereignty, it makes us culpable for USA's military atrocities - and we pay for the privilege!
My article on AUKUS.
AUKUS is about madness, militarism and money. Turning Australia into a US military base, sacrificing our sovereignty, and enriching retired politicians, military and public servants while battlers struggle to put food on the table
pearlsandirritations.com/pos…
Jane O'Sullivan retweeted
There is a common narrative that job X or Y is low paid, and needs to be paid better.
Well okay.
Why isnt it being paid better?
In anything approaching a free market economy on a long enough time horizon, wages will rise to a level that ensures demand will be met or productivity will rise so more can be accomplished with less labour.
But when you have a massive artificial expansion of the labour force in an age demographic, say 20-30 years of age, its unsurprising that there is now more supply than demand for these roles, suppressing wages growth.
Throw in that at the average temporary visa holders are exploited and underpaid according to some studies, why would an unscrupulous business owner pay more
When there is a large supply of additional labour, that is heavily exploitable.
Its basic supply and demand level economics, and if the current economic strategy worked as advertised, we wouldnt have had near 0% growth in the private sector economy in per capita terms foe the last 14 years.
Some acquaintances of mine will not hear a bad word said about Israel. Is selective deafness culpable?
In the film NAZA, Israeli soldiers and intellegence personnel tell how killing civilians in Gaza became routine. pearlsandirritations.com/pos…
Sign now to demand the government reviews and walks away from the dangerous $368 billion AUKUS military pact. act.getup.org.au/s/6dgKjuf5
Jane O'Sullivan retweeted
Australia's immigration agenda is doing exactly what it's meant to.
Deliver business a vast sector of disempowered, low wage workers.
Well done to LNP, ALP, Greens & Independents- big business thanks you.
Hunger: the Second Horseman cuts loose:
@JulianCribb provides a chilling round-up of the imminent threats to food security. Spiraling climate change meets despotic geopolitics in a perfect storm.
cribb.substack.com/p/hunger-…
Petition State and Federal governments to provide enough funding to eradicate fire ants, before they become too widespread and cost us a lot more.
invasives.org.au/how-to-help…
Are there any more ways Israel is yet to emulate the Holocaust? Israel was founded to ensure "Never Again." Israel can no longer hide behind the mask of victimhood.
I don’t know who will care about what I’m saying, but something very serious has been happening in Gaza for the past few days, and it is happening repeatedly in a deeply frightening way.
Late at night, while families are asleep, special forces enter areas where displaced people are gathered and arrest men from among their families, in front of their wives and children, before taking them to unknown locations.
This happened yesterday, it happened today, and it has happened in the days before as well. And one question keeps haunting all of us: Why is this happening? Where are they taking these men? What will happen to them? And why are they entering areas where displaced people are staying in the middle of the night and taking men away from their families?
No one tells us anything. We don’t know who will be next, whether those detained will ever return to their families, or even what awaits them after they are taken away.
This is no longer a single incident that can simply be ignored. It is something happening repeatedly right in front of us, and it seems to be happening more and more. We are living with unanswered questions and a very real fear that one of us could be next, without knowing why or where they will take us.
Jane O'Sullivan retweeted
“India surpassed China in 2023 to become the world’s most populous nation. The announcement was met with chest-thumping.
It should have been met with a national emergency declaration.
China has three times India’s landmass and nearly six times its GDP. “ medium.com/the-geopolitical-…
Jane O'Sullivan retweeted
"Prometí aprobar una ley de pena de muerte para los palestinos y lo hice, ahora estoy construyendo una instalación para ejecutarlos, pondré cámaras y se podrá ver cómo mueren en directo".
Itamar Ben Gvir, ministro genocida de "Israel", está construyendo campos de exterminio para palestinos, donde pondrá cámaras para ver como los ejecutan en directo y permitirá visitas para presenciar sus muertes.
Este criminal es la reencarnación de Hitler, un psicópata histórico que quiere convertir la muerte de los palestinos en un show público sádico.
India: A Nation Drowning in Itself
"The denominator never stops growing, and India keeps wondering why the numerator feels so small."
Excellent essay by Shirley Kher:
medium.com/the-geopolitical-…
Jane O'Sullivan retweeted
Bird flu could expose just how little we spend on conservation in Australia and how unprepared we are.
We spend 6c out of every $100 in the budget to protect and manage the incredible habitats and species we share this continent with.
When will we start making decisions like we love this continent and plan to be here for a long time?
smh.com.au/environment/conse…
Jane O'Sullivan retweeted
BREAKING: Israel is burning the forests of Wadi al-Slouqi and Houla in South Lebanon.
Not military targets.
Forests, valleys, hills and entire ecosystems.
This is not only an environmental crime. It is the deliberate erasure of a piece of Lebanon’s natural heritage.
Organised crime funded by NDIS powers economic growth:
"The level of fraud is estimated to be costing the taxpayer $3.7 billion per year."
“There was not sufficient judiciary (capacity) to process the cases we have in the pipeline in the country.”
macrobusiness.com.au/2026/08…
Labor finally responding to public concerns about too-high immigration, fixing some rorts but still shying away from reducing permanent visas.
Tony Burke delays National Press Club speech expected to reveal migration cuts abc.net.au/news/2026-08-04/t… via @ABCaustralia
The gas industry is using Albanese as a doormat. Tax the gas!
@GrogsGamut: "In 2025-26, Australia exported $52.6bn more LNG than 25 years earlier (a lazy 1,968% increase), but the government raised $979m less PRRT (a 41% drop)."
theguardian.com/business/gro…
Jane O'Sullivan retweeted
Scientists say we need to HALVE Earth's population to just 4 billion to save the planet trib.al/YMCtvhT
