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How Does It Help Australia To Have a Monarch?

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(L) Governor Barbara Baker of Tasmania (C) Prince William at 2022 Garter ceremony (R) Malcolm R Hughes, Australian Army soldier in Vietnam(L) Governor Barbara Baker of Tasmania (C) Prince William at 2022 Garter ceremony (R) Malcolm R Hughes, Australian Army soldier in Vietnam

by Mary W Maxwell, LLB

Dear Dee McLachlan,

I am writing this to you in personal-letter form, as I don’t quite think it belongs in article form. I take you to be the most knowledgeable person in Oz journalism. It is always a pleasure to get your quick-witted reactions to things.  A few minutes ago, by phone, I asked you to name three things you would want to see changed. You said, without a moment’s hesitation:

  1. Change the structure of government so we don’t have career politicians.
  2. Have a truly independent media channel, that is not influenceable by “interests.”
  3. Stop polluting the oceans.

No doubt Number 3 belongs higher than Numbers 1 and 2!  But I’m only going to address your Number 1 in this letter — Australia’s governmental structure.

As you know, I am the proudest of proud Americans. Does that mean I don’t see the US’s faults?  I see them like mad, and I think we Seppos are in deep trouble — but I still believe we have the right structure, here in the US. We’ve got the Constitution, buttressed by the legacy of Revolution, à la 1776.

I do not feel that way about Australia, where I resided for the majority of my adult life. I think the structure of government there is ruined by the presence of a foreign king. (I did not always think that, and I voted against making Oz a republic in the 1998 referendum.)

The main thing about the monarchy in Australia is that its power is hidden.  In the Australian Constitution it’s not hidden; the queen’s representative, i.e., the governor general — the G-G — has the veto power over all legislation, and the veto power over removal of a judge — as you, Dee, know only too well — plus other powers.

So what is my beef? It’s that the public goes along with the notion that each G-G is “really, really” appointed by the elected government, and Her Maj gives a perfunctory nod. What a joke! The vice-regal is plainly answerable to the regis/regina in London, not to Canberra, and definitely not to the citizenry.

It’s disgraceful that this is not pointed out in Law School classes in Constitutional Law.  I mean, come on, the Constitution is the law of the land.  What it says, goes. Full stoparoo.

Presumably, law schools would defend their silence by saying that the issue I am pushing here is political. True, I’m not talking law, I’m talking culture. The culture of Aussies treats this constitutional arrangement as harmless, and looks instead to silly playoffs between Labor and Liberal.

Wrong-o.

State Governors

Dee, earlier today I was replying to a comment made by Malcolm Hughes under Gumshoe’s June 16, 2022  article which I entitled “McLachlan — Pathbreaker” (an article that you resisted for weeks, making me get outside tech help to upload it!). Mal said he’s grateful that Gumshoe had encouraged his work to free the innocent-and-everyone-knows-he’s-innocent prisoner, Martin Bryant.

(Oops, and Martin’s Mum is now 83 and if he wants some of that rabbit stew he better hurry up.) Click here for a song.

This led me to look up law professor Kate Warner, who became Tasmania’s governor (vice -regal) and to whom we wrote, as a threesome: Mal Hughes, Dee McLachlan, Mary Maxwell, to request a royal pardon. (I quoted Blackstone, or was it Coke, saying that the monarch has a Court of Equity in her bosom.  Hmm, the seemingly defunct Equity — best stuff I learned at Adelaide Law, the only course that taught the maxims.)

I see that, since 2021, Tassie has had a new governor, the honourable Barbara Baker, who was a federal judge and, as a barrister, was a member of Family Law Practitioners Association. (Dee, try to stay calm; we do not know if Governor Baker has knowledge of what you found in your survey.)

So I guess it’s time for the three of us to send a new “bosom” request to the new governor. I honestly think she is not happy about “Risdon.” And maybe she was a close colleague of Vanessa Godwin, whom I think was “taken out.” I think many people get taken out simply because they are good.

Now consider the fact that each state has its own constitution, and each allows full monarchical control. I say “full” control as there is no apparent Montesquieu-like check on it.

(Ask this question, and I don’t mean to be the least bit impolite to Governor Baker:  How can you get rid of a governor of whom you disapprove?)

How about a revolution. As far as I can see, any of the state’s can change its constitution — without a need for Canberra’s approval. Of course, the state can’t appropriate to itself the right to set up arrangements that conflict with the Australian Constitution — such alterations would be null, but nothing in Australia’s constitution specifies that each state must have a vice-regal.

If memory serves me, Nick Xenophon, MP, once floated the idea of South Australia becoming a republic, without changing its membership in the nation.

Dangerous Allies

Dee, you interviewed former prime minister Malcolm Fraser while he was in good health. That was October 2014; he died in March 2015. (Do you think he got wiped?  I attended his funeral, after which his daughter told the media that she was shocked by his death.)

In your interview, Fraser wanted particularly to discuss the pressure that the US puts on Australia.  But he can’t have been free of pressures from Londinium, can he? (Hmm. You should have asked him what he thought of the Kerr/Whitlam episode.)

Ah, re-reading the funeral, I see that his granddaughter Hester “eulogized him in song.”  She sang:

“May your humanity integrity and wisdom Always serve to remind us that the world can be a better place if good men speak their minds, With fire in their hearts….”

Thank you, Hester, for that wonderful idea. So true.

Access

All right, Dee, this letter to you is entitled “How Does It Help Australia To Have a  Monarch?” When I axed you what your druthers are, you said “Change the structure of government so we don’t have career politicians.”

But now I add to my rant, that we have no access to the vice-regals. The following is printed on the website of the governor of South Australia:

Correspondence which will not receive a response:

In South Australia’s system of parliamentary democracy, matters of policy are determined by the government of the day.

Matters of policing and law enforcement are matters for the South Australian Police, other agencies such as the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), and the courts.

If your correspondence relates to government policy or law enforcement, you will not receive a further response from Government House and may wish to consider writing instead to the relevant minister of the South Australian Government or to your local Member of Parliament with your concerns.

Campaign emails and flyers will be noted but will not receive a response.

If your correspondence is about extensions to the Major Emergency Declaration made pursuant to the Emergency Management Act 2004, please note that it is not constitutionally open to the Governor to refuse to make such extensions when they are recommended by the government.

Similarly, the Governor has no constitutional role to play on the question of vaccine mandates.

Go to Whom?

Aussies, you may recall learning in school that the King of England is a go-to person. I mean, within England. And why not? the father of a family or clan is someone who can be consulted on any topic. But I make the assumption that the vice-regal of Tasmania cannot be moved to help prisoner Bryant, or to help the mothers whose children get stolen by the courts and sent to pedophile-land (Prime Minister Morrison’s official apology notwithstanding).

I guess it is safe to say that NO MATTER WHAT TROUBLES BEFALL AN AUSTRALIAN STATE, people cannot move their state governor to do anything. His/her hands are “tied.”  This is the ironic counterpart of what I said above: all legislators’ hands are tied when a G-G vetoes a Commonwealth Act.

Note: In the US, a president can veto legislation, but a 2/3 majority of each house of Congress can override that.

Dee, please note that when Barbara Baker was appointed governor of Tasmania last year, a journalist came forward to ask what Her Excellency would do with her new prerogatives:

1. “In your time as both lawyer and a judge, you have seen firsthand the devastating impact of family violence on families…. What do you think we can do …and how will you use your role to advocate for change?”

2. “Research confirms that family and domestic violence impacts on children are severe, affecting their health, wellbeing, education, relationships and housing outcomes. [Right on, man!] There is a national recognition of the need for primary prevention of violence against women and children. [Yay!] … early intervention and creating a gender equal society are necessary for addressing violence against them. [I don’t agree with a gender-equal society, I like the Vive la difference thing, but no matter.] …

“Crisis and recovery responses are needed to provide support. Victims/survivors should have access to specialist support services.  Perpetrators should be held to account and supported to change their violent behaviours…. [Senator Heffernan has a list of 28 perps; we could start there.]

“Recently, I gave an address to the Fellows of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and noted their new initiative for Fellows to have training in family violence to more easily identify and support victims.”

[MM: I wonder if it be cricket for a Governor to address the Judges Group and tell them how to behave.  I’d like Governor Baker to read my book Reunion: Judging the Family Court — free download.] There’s also the fact that prosecutors are known as The Crown, something I’ve never understood.

Dee, here’s a suggestion:  Just work on your ocean-pollution problem instead. The structure of the Oz government is hopeless.  I can’t pin down any good reasons for having a monarch in Australia. As admitted on the SA Government House website, quoted above, there’s no there there.

One happy thing.  When I went to find the name of SA’s current governor — it’s Frances Adamson — I found out that she is the daughter of two fine people whom I knew in yesteryear, Jennifer Cashmore, a parliamentarian, and Stewart Cockburn (step-parent), a good journo.  He wrote the very inspiring book Oliphant. Just the thought of those days, when everybody wasn’t flagrantly lying, almost makes me cry. Society was real.

Another surprise.  Their Excellencies — Gov Frances Adamson and Gov Barbara Baker — were, respectively, the captain of rowing at Adelaide Uni, and a champion of indoor hockey in Hobart.

Just sharpen up on your cycling, Dee. You may be next, in Victoria.

Postscript. Here are the first 4 sections of Chapter 1 of the Australian Constitution:

Chapter I. The Parliament

Part I. General

1. Legislative power

The legislative power of the Commonwealth shall be vested in a Federal Parliament, which shall consist of the Queen, a Senate, and a House of Representatives, and which is hereinafter called The Parliament, or The Parliament of the Commonwealth.

2. Governor-General

A Governor-General appointed by the Queen shall be Her Majesty’s representative in the Commonwealth, and shall have and may exercise in the Commonwealth during the Queen’s pleasure, but subject to this Constitution, such powers and functions of the Queen as Her Majesty may be pleased to assign to him.

3. Salary of Governor-General

There shall be payable to the Queen out of the Consolidated Revenue fund of the Commonwealth, for the salary of the Governor-General, an annual sum which, until the Parliament otherwise provides, shall be ten thousand pounds.

The salary of a Governor-General shall not be altered during his continuance in office.

4. Provisions relating to Governor-General

The provisions of this Constitution relating to the Governor-General extend and apply to the Governor-General for the time being, or such person as the Queen may appoint to administer the Government of the Commonwealth; but no such person shall be entitled to receive any salary from the Commonwealth in respect of any other ofce during his administration of the Government of the Commonwealth.

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42 COMMENTS

  1. To your Q: Was Fraser ‘dispatched’. Not sure on this one. I would not think he was dispatched for speaking out like he did. But maybe he held deeper secrets that needed a lid. ????

    • Dee, I think some people get dispatched just because they have a following. I think that’s what happened to John Denver, but I’ve seen it happen to non-famous folk also. (Though I may be wrong,)

        • cakes on the griddle, like a periodic le table(or is that la),

          Can’t take the weight off you Dee, this is your rally point, but I can say I am happy to be here.

          Proxy; how the emperor dictates, US included(really good read M)

          • Yeah, just like Denver, Shirls was unaccompanied:
            “Strachan was killed in a helicopter crash on 29 August 2001. He had been a fixed-wing pilot for many years and had been undergoing training for a helicopter pilot’s licence, with a view to buying a helicopter and taking friends and family on surfing safaris. On a solo flight near Mount Archer, Queensland, in clear weather and inexplicably off the course planned by his instructor, Strachan encountered mountain turbulence which caused the rotor of his Bell 47G to sever the tailboom, crashing the helicopter onto the north-north-eastern slope of Mount Archer.”
            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graeme_Strachan#Death

            “Post-accident investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) showed that the leading cause of the accident was Denver’s inability to switch fuel tanks during flight. The quantity of fuel had been depleted during the plane’s flight to Monterey and in several brief practice takeoffs and landings Denver performed at the airport immediately before the final flight. His newly purchased amateur-built Rutan aircraft had an unusual fuel tank selector valve handle configuration. The handle had originally been intended by the plane’s designer to be between the pilot’s legs. The builder instead put it behind the pilot’s left shoulder. The fuel gauge was also placed behind the pilot’s seat and was not visible to the person at the controls.[50][51] An NTSB interview with the aircraft mechanic servicing Denver’s plane revealed that he and Denver had discussed the inaccessibility of the cockpit fuel selector valve handle and its resistance to being turned.[50][51]

            Before the flight, Denver and the mechanic had attempted to extend the reach of the handle using a pair of Vise-Grip pliers, but this did not solve the problem, and the pilot still could not reach the handle while strapped into his seat. NTSB officials’ post-accident investigation showed that because of the fuel selector valves’ positioning, switching fuel tanks required the pilot to turn his body 90 degrees to reach the valve. This created a natural tendency to extend one’s right foot against the right rudder pedal to support oneself while turning in the seat, which caused the aircraft to yaw (nose right) and pitch up.[50][51]

            The mechanic said that he told Denver that the fuel sight gauges were visible only to the rear cockpit occupant. Denver had asked how much fuel was shown. He told Denver that there was “less than half in the right tank and less than a quarter in the left tank”. He then provided Denver with an inspection mirror so he could look over his shoulder at the fuel gauges. The mirror was later recovered in the wreckage. Denver said that he would use the autopilot in flight to hold the airplane level while he turned the fuel selector valve. He turned down an offer to refuel, saying that he would be flying for about an hour.[50][51]

            The NTSB interviewed 20 witnesses about Denver’s last flight. Six of them had seen the plane crash into the bay near Point Pinos.[50][51] Four said the aircraft was originally heading west. Five said that they saw the plane in a steep bank, with four saying that the bank was to the right (north). Twelve described seeing the aircraft in a steep nose-down descent. Witnesses estimated the plane’s altitude between 350 and 500 feet (110 and 150 m) when heading toward the shoreline. Eight said they heard a “pop” or “backfire” accompanied by a reduction in the engine noise level just before the plane crashed into the sea.

            In addition to Denver’s failing to refuel and his subsequent loss of control while attempting to switch fuel tanks, the NTSB determined other key factors that led to the accident. Foremost among these was his inadequate transition training on this type of aircraft and the builder’s decision to put the fuel selector handle in a hard-to-reach place.[50][51] The board issued recommendations on the requirement and enforcement of mandatory training standards for pilots operating home-built aircraft. It also emphasized the importance of mandatory ease of access to all controls, including fuel selectors and fuel gauges, in all aircraft.”
            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Denver#Death

  2. Well, having a king (queen) hasn’t helped Sweden, as an example. This country has steadily gone downhills since the mid seventies. They built the bridge between Copenhagen (DK) and Malmoe (SE). (A little like the open border between USA and Mexico.) The country is now deemed so violent and dangerous, that people fleeing from Ukraine say “No thank you” to going there.

    I had promised to keep an eye on Mike Adams’ microscope, looking at the hemp coloured clots, detected by US embalmers. (I haven’t seen the interview yet.)

    https://www.brighteon.com/18e43bf1-b64b-4868-b4de-4efdc02feefa

    • The “Hemp” clot.

      Mike Adams talks to Dr Jane Ruby about the new type of clots found in dead, quackzinated people,(45 mins)

      My name for this hitherto never observed clot is the “Hemp clot” and is of stringy, fibrous appearance, and hemp coloured.
      Mike used his ISO labs to see what happened when a strong acid was poured over the clot. It started frothing and smoking and when this reaction was finished a long blackish “string remained in the remnant of the clot mass.

      Mike also said when doing the same experiment on a normal blood clot, nothing much happened.

      In the hemp clot 3 metals were gathered! Next episode to follow soon.

      • Just bizarre, can’t wait to see all this on channel 7 morning show in about a year, pulling radish shaped things out of all the dead people

    • Video unavailable.
      Maybe it’s on bitchute or rumble.
      Meanwhile on US pride, the US constitution has been disabled like a 3 legged dog, as I reminded a few days ago, the 13th amendment was cut out, allowing anyone to be a hireling of a prince or monarch, this was done in Lincoln’s time, and according to some, all your presidents have royal bloodlines.
      http://usavsus.info/usA–Original13thAmend.htm
      It’s not a matter of being wholly separate from the European monarchies, or wholly under their control, it’s not black and white, but it seems the US has been far more controlled than people would like to think.
      Australia is too helpless to be self-reliant at the moment because our defence industries don’t focus on hyper-sonic missiles as the Russians have done, instead they are a type of globalist policing force, which simply supports NATO adventures.
      Speaking of Globalists, Elbow made a significant speech today, being the occasion of the “first day of parliament”, he had to throw in the obligatory Globalist catchphrase which today was “Common Purpose”. These catchphrases I guess are used to help bond our Young Global Leaders who are already inserted into position. “Common Purpose” follows “Build Back Better” and all our other favourites from “They’re All In This Together” to “Lockstep” and many more. I would say if Elbow wants his future job in Geneva or New York he will have to keep popping out these little slogans. After all he is just another glorified autocue reader.
      Now what were you saying about independence.

  4. In 2015 I was party to a joint statement addressed to the W.A.governor which boiled down to:
    “Due to X, Y and Z you’ve relinquished any authority over us you might otherwise have had”
    The response was “Sorry, I can’t do anything about that”:

  5. Statute law is Maritime law or the Law of the Sea, in other words Bankers law. The Kings and queens if they ever had real power had jurisdiction over the Law of the Land.

    See section 15b of the Acts Interpretation Act and section 16.

    • First go to 6.40 to see what he sells. Then go back to the beginning which is amazink. Thank you, Crisscross.

      Do you knowwhere India will fit in the new “currency”?

      • The lying M$M keeps saying Russia is using gas and oil supplies as a weapon but they never mention that EuroUnion froze Russia’s accounts in their Eurobanks using Euro dollars. People would like to use a currency that is functional as i) means of exchange and ii) store of wealth.
        Before all the farmer protests in India, which are reminiscent of the red-shirts in Thailand, the government cancelled a huge amount of currency, which people had under their beds. The US dollar should say “In gold we trust because this scrip is junk”.

    • Fintech Platforms Are Behind the Push in Capital into Henan’s Little-Known Rural Banks
      Li Na | Lv Qian
      DATE: Jun 23 2022
      / SOURCE: Yicai

      https://www.yicaiglobal.com/news/fintech-platforms-are-behind-the-push-in-capital-into-henan-little-known-rural-banks

      (Yicai Global) June 23 – Individuals from across China have been depositing as much as millions of Chinese yuan, equivalent to hundreds of thousands of US dollars, into accounts in central Henan province’s rarely heard-of rural banks. Third-party platforms run by Chinese internet and fintech giants such as Baidu, JD.com and Lufax are playing an important role in guiding the funds to these lenders, which offer an above-average interest rate.

      Yuzhou Xin Minsheng Village Bank, Shangcai Huimin Village Bank, Zhecheng Huanghuai Community Bank, and the New Oriental Country Bank of Kaifeng all came to the public eye recently after a number of depositors were unable to withdraw cash as their Covid-19 health codes inexplicably turned red, preventing them from leaving their homes. This sparked an investigation into an organization called New Wealth Group whose owner has stakes in the four banks. (Read more about New Wealth Group: https://www.yicaiglobal.com/news/henan-police-probe-new-wealth-gang-after-bank-clients-covid-codes-turned-red)

      Funds are being directed to these four banks through over 30 third-party channels, such as Baidu’s DuXiaoman Financial, JD.Com’s JD Digits, Ping An Insurance (Group)’s Koudai Bank, Trip.Com’s Ctrip Finance, smartphone makers’ e-wallets, such as Xiaomi Finance and Oppo Wallet and internet financial platforms Binhai (Tianjin) Financial Assets Exchange and Lufax Holding, according to documents from these banks. And several depositors told Yicai Global, that they are offering rates of around 5 percent a year, much higher than most banks.

      Third-party platforms must have a financial license in order to sell wealth management products, but there is no such requirement for selling deposit products, where they mainly play an introductory role.

      Some platforms, such as JD Digits, charge an introductory fee per client. But most, including DuXiaoman and Lufax, charge a proportion of the deposits, an ex-employee of a third-party platform told Yicai Global.

      Wang Feng and her family had deposited more than CNY600,000 (USD89,781) in the four Henan banks as of December 2020, she told Yicai Global. They bought five-year fixed-term deposits through DuXiaoman at an annual interest rate of 4.8 percent which are protected by a ‘deposit insurance,’ she added. According to Chinese law, deposits of over CNY500,000 in a single account are covered by deposit insurance and can be fully redeemed.

      Wei An deposited CNY100,000 (USD15,000) in Shangcai Huimin Village Bank through a wealth management platform Wacaibao. His savings, though, stopped bearing interest from May 29. “There is no reason to be concerned,” the app’s customer service responded. “Wacaibao has penned cooperation agreements with the bank, and all savings products are protected by the country’s laws and deposit insurance.”

      Dodgy Dealings

      Since 2020,Minsheng Village Bank, Huimin Village Bank, Zhecheng Huanghuai Community Bank, and Anhui province-based Guzhen New River Huai Village and Township Bank connected with Du Xiaoman, JD Digits, Binhai FAE and other internet-based financial platforms through a liaison platform called Junzheng Zhida.

      Yuzhou Xin Minsheng Village Bank, Shangcai Huimin Village Bank, Zhecheng Huanghuai Community Bank and the New Oriental Country Bank of Kaifeng each announced on June 20 that they will ‘start online registration of clients from now on to conform with requirements by financial authorities’ in an effort to offer more transparency.

      Last January, the financial regulator stipulated that lenders must not sell fixed-term deposits on non-self-operated online platforms” and “those products that had already been sold before the new ruling was issued will be discontinued once they are due,” Liu Anbang, partner of DeHeng Law Offices, told Yicai Global. Third-party platforms’ liability, should they be found to have defrauded depositors or participated in the unlawful collection of public funds, will be determined based on the role they played.

      If New Wealth is found guilty of illegally seizing public deposits, the money will be frozen and returned to depositors, although there is a risk that they might not get their money back, Liu said.

      (Names have been changed to protect the person’s identity)

      Editors: Chen Juan, Kim Taylor

        • Australia’s Banks Are Preparing for Bail-Ins of Retail Bank Deposits

          Australia’s Authorised Deposit-taking Institutions (ADIs) are quietly taking action to prepare for a potential bail-in of retail bank deposits if a domestic or global financial crisis were to occur.

          …………..As noted in my recent article, Deposit Insurance Is No Protection Against Bail-in[2], both Labor and Coalition Governments in the post-Global Financial Crisis era have been part of a global effort to implement a bail-in regime within Australia as part of the crisis resolution framework that would enhance the loss absorbing capacity of systemically important financial institutions.

          Moreover as I noted, Martin North from Digital Finance Analytics and I (confirmed by the legal analysis of independent solicitor Robert H. Butler) highlighted that the passage of the Financial Sector Legislation Amendment (Crisis Resolution Powers and Other Measures) Act 2018 has provided APRA and Australian ADIs with a legal pathway to implement a bail-in of retail bank deposits through the amendment of deposit accounts T&Cs that would then incorporate suitable legal ‘conversion or write-off’ clauses……………

          Read on –

          https://www.adamseconomics.com/post/australia-s-banks-are-preparing-for-bail-ins-of-retail-bank-deposits

          • “after a number of depositors were unable to withdraw cash as their Covid-19 health codes inexplicably turned red, preventing them from leaving their homes”
            So the bail-ins currently at $250k will probably come down to deposits of $100k or even $50k, accounts frozen and so forth. Those who hoarded cash under the bed will be inflation victims, their cash reduced to half in a short time.
            As usual communist China leads us forward, and Orwell has shown us the road map. He published “1984” when he was 45 so it’s based on a perspective across the Great Wars part 1 & 2. It suggests we are preparing for another Great War of forced conscription a la Monica Zelenskyy, where ordinary bogans are ordered to kill one another in lieu of an actual conflict whcih would be M.A.D.
            Maybe that’s the stick and the carrot is “The Great Reset”. Anyone who thinks all this has come up recently is mistaken, we have been managed for many centuries, to the extent possible allowed by technology, brainwashing etc.
            The brainwashing started with some tribal priest maybe 5000 or more years ago, the control started with beatings and under Rome moved to fiat currency. Now we have TV and debt, it’s impossible to escape debt.
            In Thailand, foreigners cannot buy land, they are encouraged to buy a strata apartment for a high price, could be called excessive. This is how Thai citizens are protected from unaffordable land, but they can still get car loans, and they do. Cheap accommodation helps keep wages down.
            But here, we buy property with a loan because we could never save enough on our own and if we did regular upgrades, the government stamp duty would kill us. We are culturally locked into usury and our corrupt and fully owned governments will never attempt to get us out, rather they invent more and more schemes such as part-ownership for students etc. The only way to defeat usury is if the citizens own the bank, but unfortunately our crooked Lib/Lab governments sold it off decades ago. They may or may not have known what was coming but the Globalists did and compensated them accordingly.

  13. Mary, little mistake. Photo of Mal Hughes taken while recruit training at Puckapunyal in Victoria. We never took this uniform overseas it would have been too hot. Jungle greens and polyesters in Vietnam.

  14. “A truly independent media channel”?????

    As everyone has political and theological preferences by virtue of being human “independent journalism” is an oxymoron.

    Denying such preferences is, of course, the ultimate form of bigotry

    • But I sure do agree that the “career politician” system is key to the lawlessness of the Age
      Together with the “career judiciary” problem.

      If said offices were regarded as nothing more than a temporary tour of duty( 5 years at the max) and no member was given anything more than a minimum wage, there’d obviously be an entirely different line-up, not to mention radically different outcomes.

      • “They shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.

        Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those in distress. In the past He humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future He will honor the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations:

        The people walking in darknesshave seen a great light;on those living in the land of the shadow of death,a light has dawned.

        You have enlarged the nation and increased its joy.The people rejoice before You as they rejoice at harvest time,as men rejoice in dividing the plunder.

        For as in the day of Midian You have shattered the yoke of their burden,the bar across their shoulders,and the rod of their oppressor.

        For every trampling boot of battle and every garment rolled in blood will be burned as fuel for the fire.

        For unto us a child is born,unto us a son is given,and the government will be upon His shoulders.And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

        Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end.He will reign on the throne of David and over his kingdom,to establish and sustain it with justice and righteousness from that time and forevermore.

        The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.”

        ISAIAH 8 – 9

        • Politicians need to be old so they cannot use politics as a resume stuffer, they should do politics at the end of their career in business or profession. If you want any proof just look at Klaus Swab’s appointees, prime ministers no less of France, Canada and NZ, these are as crooked as you can get, “paying it forward”, God knows what they are capable of, but maturity isn’t one of their attributes. HM QE2 seems delighted with Turdeau’s performances though.

  15. Gentlemen, your article headline seems to suggest that one of the occupied islands of austral asia has some kind of a ‘monarch’. This is misinformation taken to extremes. The ‘constitution’ of the parliament that is known as ‘australia’ (which incidentally was never ratified) stipulates that the term ‘australia’ means ‘parliament’. Although i have tapped loudly on the walls of many rooms in several ‘parliaments’ on these islands, the only hollowness i have ever heard were the words of the politicians whom i was interviewing. In answer to my question as to whether any squatter has ever been seen stalking the corridors with a crown on her head, or seated on a throne, has received a resounding ‘NO’ even from the cleaners. Please reassure your readers, whether gentle or otherwise, that the ‘queen of australia’ is a figment of the squatters’ febrile imagination, along with the term ‘terra nullius’ (LAND THAT DOES NOT EXIST !) Please be reassured that these sacred, sovereign, UNCEDED, islands DO exist – i am sitting RIGHT NOW on one of them ! – roddy emblèm, ‘The Conservancy’.

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