Australia

Before 1975 Australia used its own oil reserves & manufactured most goods & machinery in Australia, however after 1975 trade was opened up to the Middle east & Asia & Australia begun to use middle eastern oil reserves & imported alot of goods from Asia. The Australian manufacturing sector was flushed down the toilet & Australia relied heavily on dwindling coal exports, renewable energy took a back seat after the abolition of the carbon tax.

On Saturday January 24, while hundreds of people were protesting the Newman state government in the streets of Brisbane, the Liberal National Party of Queensland were engineering a bikie-related scandal using stolen video.  The LNP mud-slinging attempt purports to expose criminal motorcycle gangs as supporters of the Electrical Trades Union, and that the ETU are giving the proceeds of crime to the Queensland Labor Party.  This desperate and cynical attempt to distract from the state and federal Liberal National governments' performance is likely to alienate further an already disgruntled el

It's Australia Day Awards time again. The secret process has been happening for the past few months. The public has no idea of who is being considered or what investigations are taking place into their possibly dark past. The citizens of Australia, some of whom may have been abused by senior public servants, have no input. Public servants: can they be trusted? This is an old article but still relevant in 2015. 

Newsletter date: 24 January 2015