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Heat, terror and resistance: Henry Reynolds’ bold, new book takes a top-end view of Australian history Australian history has often been written from a southern perspective. But a history of the tropical North sheds light on ‘truth telling’ and questions of race.

Love Henry Reynolds' works. I must asap avail myself of his latest book theconversation.com/heat-terror-...

This widely used chart makes the clean energy switch seem much harder than it actually is The main way we show energy use is through “primary energy”. But this metric conceals the truly enormous waste of the energy in fossil fuels.

Great & informative article. with important embedded URLs & graphs etc. Try explaining this to the antediluvian lay rocket engineers (cum leaders) of the LNP as they try to con the electorate away from renewables & NetZero targets. theconversation.com/this-widely-...

Sudan cannot be an invisible tragedy The end of violence must be a first step in the Sudan Civil War. And Australia has a key role to play.

Oz settling Sudanese/Sth Sudanese refugees is excellent. But once here govt lets them down by scant help to address their embedded trauma, particularly in the young who are being re-traumatized by the influence of organized crime. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

Richo’s grave should be extra deep Graham Richardson was a very successful operator of the Labor Party from the late 1970s who was distinctly short on redeeming virtues.

The biggest risk to continuing Labor government is itself, it will be from inertia, complacency, corruption or incompetence. And by public impressions government is not listening to ordinary voters, but is paying attention to insiders, mates, & high-paid lobbyists johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

Gaza winter catastrophe repeating in tents that resist neither wind nor rain The seasons change, but for those fighting for survival through wet winters and baking summers in Gaza's tents, the suffering remains.

The hateful warmongering political arseholes of the USA & Netanyahu's Israel are totally to blame. And the politics of the 'west' is gutless & lame, all whilst profiting on the death & misery of Palestine's entrapment in a planned agonizing genocide. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

By delaying a decision on using Russia’s frozen assets for Ukraine, Europe is quietly hedging its bets The EU is not abandoning Ukraine, but it is recalibrating its risk exposure. There is growing doubt that Ukraine can win – even if EU leaders won’t say so aloud.

The base of deals by the 'West', moral vs financial bankruptcy. As usual TACO Trump ultimately soils his pants. Western European EU members shitting bricks. Their devious arrogance since 2014 against Putin's reasoned appeals since 2000 & warnings now reality theconversation.com/by-delaying-...

Banning nuclear weapons will require love to triumph over fear Australia joining the majority of nations and signing the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons would build trust with our Asia-Pacific neighbours and strengthen the country's cr...

Oz ought asap sign & ratify treaty (TPNW). Trouble lies in (5-eyes) & US installations at Tindal, Pine Gap, NW Cape, Geraldton, Darwin, Townsville, Canberra, Riverina, Albury-Wodonga, & Adelaide & soon to be Perth (Stirling) & others - hypocrisy wouldn't rest easy johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

Forecasting the impact of Sino-Indian relations on changing world order Geopolitics is in shock. Agile strategic thinking must acknowledge and respond to qualitative changes to the world order. A new “New World Order” is emerging.

India & China have chosen to reject Trumpian brutal stupidities. Whilst no-one including India & China want to see America come crashing down on Americans (and the rest of the world), both China & India now together are promoting global benevolent multilateralism. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

Mines over water: Melbourne’s largest and most important water supply catchment at risk On 21 October 2025, the Victorian Government announced plans to protect Melbourne’s water supply catchments – the systems that deliver clean water to over five million people. It was welcome news for ...

An absurdity & crime. Enviro-treasure. Mining logistics & transport nightmare. Best Vic gold (eg Fosterville) untouched are alluvial zones from block Heathcote - Echuca - Swan Hill - Stawell, easier to mine process transport remediate & less wildlife / enviro risk. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

'A national humiliation': Australia at bottom of new renewables ranking As the Coalition abandons net zero, Andrew Forrest has quietly moved on not just to net zero, but to real zero.

When is Albo's Labor going to get the moccasins off & get the boots on? A tough call after the abject mess Oz politics created over past 30 years - the cringe leaves it trying to catch up with technology after the international advisors and neo-liberals took the $$ johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

Environment: Paris 2015 generated hope, but not enough climate action Ten years on from the Paris Agreement, staying within the 1.5oC guardrail seems increasingly unlikely, even though there’s plenty of money to do it. Really, it’s legal to chop bits off the Great Barri...

But how long will the current 'gas rush' in USA & Oz last? It's all precarious and changing so quickly. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

Trump’s ploy at the UN is American imperialism masquerading as a peace process The Trump administration is pushing an Israeli-crafted resolution at the UN Security Council aimed at eliminating the possibility of a State of Palestine.

It's Time! Hang on, it's way beyond time! johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

The ‘othered’ genocide: Sudan’s suffering and the world’s indifference Sudan is enduring the largest humanitarian crisis on earth, with more than 25 million people needing urgent assistance and nearly nine million displaced as entire cities are reduced to rubble.

Righteous 'West' dazzled by conflicts in Israel / Palestine & Russia / Ukraine, that preoccupation is an act of juggling rhetoric with commerce - BS covering huge profits. But Sudan/Sth Sudan, other parts of Africa, Sth Asia & Myanmar conflict ignored for huge $$ johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

What is a conservative? With all the positioning and repositioning of political parties and movements in recent years, two key questions have emerged. What is a conservative? And how do we build an electable conservative mov...

Headline ought be 'What was a conservative?' Oz is fully immersed in neo-liberal / neo-conservative collapsing to mindless populism. Many desperately trying to move away from it as it lurches toward Trumpian authoritarianism approaching fascism (again) www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/2025/11/15/w...

Life as a Home Affairs whistleblower: ‘I’m just falling over’ Four years ago, Home Affairs assistant secretary Derek Elias attempted to report corruption in offshore contracts – the department’s response has left him mentally unwell and in financial turmoil.

If a govt / govt dept has things to hide. It closes ranks & will know no bounds to undermine & discredit those that want to repair probity / legality issues. Using a top-down critical mass of fear, bullying & weasel words to ensure the ranks are closed www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...

Stealing the breath of life When you suffocate or drown, every fibre of your being cries out for the breath of life, oxygen. It is the body’s ungovernable response to the extinguishing of your flame.

And the National & Liberal parties of Oz ditched the NetZero benchmarks. FFS! Yet said they'd stay in Paris Agrt, but it says 'no back-peddling'. As usual sabotaging climate change abatement & investment in it. They opt for poisoning children & future generations johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

ASIO's Mike Burgess and a lust for the limelight In succumbing to a lust for the limelight, the ASIO director, Mike Burgess, is not making it easier for the government and citizens to retain confidence in him and the organisation he’s trying to run.

Burgess, ten-pound poms' son, seems at birth inoculated with 'western' imperialism. His clown-shows rant about 'social cohesion' threats, which he then makes via evidence-free propaganda as 'resident conjuror' in Oz, aka 'pommy pest'. Oz is a multicultural success. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

Another RSL dope wants to draw us into a major war It beggars belief that the outgoing head of the RSL, Greg Melick, has abused the quiet solemnity of Remembrance Day to lecture and berate the Albanese government on its defence policy.

Yet another head of RSL dope. A moron seeking to lecture the govt with militarist BS. A wretched old croney abusing the memorial day of lives lost in war. Wars that in the main were the result of greed, supremacism & diplomatic failure of the imperialist 'west'. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

US-China power shift: a G2 world – Asian Media Report In Asian media this week: Trump hints at changing great-power relationship. Plus: Beijing wresting control of the global narrative; Myanmar’s scam centre raids dismissed as a smokescreen; Prabowo cons...

Recent rounds of summits in East Asia have resulted in the platforming of serious changes to political & strategic alliances & militarization. But it's early days, and who could trust the world whilst Trump and his MAGAts & America First is on the loose. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

Australia’s fragile multicultural consensus under threat Anti-immigration rallies around Australia in late August and mid-October exposed public divides over migration, social cohesion and national identity.

Seems its "under threat" because of MSM laziness & its destabilizing sensationalist rhetoric, principally by NewsCorpse & Seven West Media. Its sensationalism gives media presence & notoriety to extreme RW minorities in Oz & those minorities represent less than 5%. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

The new political economy of innovation: Why Australian policymakers need better tools When the Commonwealth Government reorganised its innovation responsibilities for the fourth time in a decade, public servants made jokes about updating their email signatures again.

Article - urgent call. Oz not enhancing all society with well guided technology transition. Via old politics it wrecked institutions that together could guide well for better policies. Labor MUST act, but is too slow. Notions of AI & other tech remain problematic johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

The press and the Dismissal – Part III Television had come to the fore in elections during the Whitlam campaign of 1972 when increased funds were spent on advertising with slogans (It’s time was backed by a catchy jingle) and mainly short ...

Still today, Oz shrugs its shoulders while the MSM corrupts itself further & further. It's so predictably neo-liberal / neo-conservative anodyne. Its cynical grumpy old men dwelling in an arcane world view. The voting generations from Gen Z & younger ignore it. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

When in doubt, blame China (every News Corp headline needs a villain) If you only skimmed the headlines from News Corp, you’d be forgiven for thinking China was launching a krill-powered naval strike from Antarctica, staging an electric vehicle blitzkrieg across the out...

What to expect from sooky NewsCorpse trash, zilch socially, economically, technically or culturally innovative. Just the same old grumpy-man sooky handbrake à la Trump. Uncle Sam & the 'west' going down the gurgler by suicide, China bending over to prop em up johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

'We don't do that in this country': judge slams DPP An appeal by ACT director of Public Prosecutions, Victoria Engel, SC, has been dismissed by a Full Bench of the ACT Court of Appeal after only three minutes of deliberation.

DPPs Oz-wide appear to be in thrall of American puritanical excesses in prosecutional pile-ons. We don't do that in Oz. We don't indulge in fantasies bringing arcane hell's fire into our courts. DDP fantasies in ACT have been slapped down by the Court of Appeal johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

OFFICIAL – Israel’s proposed death-penalty law is a war crime Not satisfied it seems with the continued genocide of Palestinians, Israel is now looking to execute Palestinian prisoners by introducing a death penalty law.

Netanyahu's Israel is indeed a 'rogue state'. New mandatory death sentence for 'terrorists convicted of murder' surely directed at Palestinians the likes of Marwan Barghouti et al, who have been convicted in a closed 'kangaroo court' without transparency of evidence johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

Leaked report confirms WA gas is derailing the clean energy transition in Asia Greenpeace Australia Pacific Media Release A Deloitte report leaked to the media, commissioned by the government of Western Australia, confirms WA’s gas exports are fuelling the climate crisis by dela...

In the face of the onrush of new green hi-tech, the Oz 'blather' of fossil fuel 'transition' to renewables seems only so that we can foist our LNG to East Asia. theaimn.net/leaked-repor...

Weaponising media. National Press Club and its arms industry sponsors - Michael West More than a quarter of the National Press Club’s sponsors are part of the global arms industry or working on its behalf.

National Press Club brought live to Oz by ABC. So Oz public can be brought unhindered transparency for their edification. There's no 'conflicts of interest' - not allowed by either the NPC or ABC. Ha ha haar, hilarious - websites & policies written by satirists! michaelwest.com.au/weaponising-...

Subs base enigma. NSW Government doesn't know what to hide or why - Michael West Getting access to documents on NSW nuclear subs base has become an FOI riddle wrapped in a submarine mystery inside a nuclear enigma.

Defensive jitters in the sandpit - it's an AUKUS mess. Don't worry about Blind Freddy nor the international warrior-class, they know about our deterrence before we do. But whatever you do, don't let the Oz voting public know! michaelwest.com.au/nuclear-subs...

Spring racing fever. EPIC Cup unbackable favourite revealed - Michael West Spring racing fever is in the air, and nowhere is the excitement more electrifying than at the starting gates of the 2025 EPIC Cup.

The oldest elect-trick in the book. Do govt costings based on chaff fed by stable-hands. Gain commitments before the barriers, draft rolling contracts, get blown out by the hungry progeny. Another example the Inland Rail project, but that's called railroading michaelwest.com.au/spring-racin...

Interest rates stay. The Reserve Bank penguins are back. - Michael West While most of the nation was concentrating on a horse race, the Reserve Bank trotted out a surprise by not surprising and kept rates steady.

Albo, what is RBA gonna do when we win the resource / energy wars, the FIRB flakes & foreign investment burgeons, all 'Future Funds' start dishing out & immigration to build houses & defense infrastructure bulges? Introduce a body-slam nightmare to the dreams? michaelwest.com.au/interest-rat...