Many are attributing the bushfires to climate change allowing those directly responsible to get ‘off the hook’. Fires and droughts have always been part of the Australian landscape. After 56 inquires, we know how to reduce catastrophic destruction from inevitable…
An ounce of prevention is worth a ton of cure, yet we seem to be unprepared for catastrophic fires. If we invested funds into early prevention, far less would be required to repair the damage to lives and property afterwards. Australia…
Executive Summary: Aboriginals have, for tens of thousands of years, followed by settlers and farmers, burnt the bush to reduce fuel loads, understanding bushfires are an integral part of the Australian landscape. Over the past few decades, however, governments have…
January 2020 Discussion Paper. The causes of the current bushfires are as much about political negligence as they are about human activity (arson and carelessness), extreme weather conditions and mismanagement of excessive fuel-loads. All governments federal, state and territory, are…
Facebook, the social media giant that crosses borders, nations and governments. Is FACEBOOK really that powerful? The Rite-ON! Facebook experience The Rite-ON! Facebook page, along with many other conservative political pages, has been de-boosted, de-platformed and effectively silenced by Facebook…
Facebook, the social media giant that crosses borders, nations and governments. Is FACEBOOK really that powerful? Rite-ON!’ s own experience of being a conservative page on Facebook, prompted this campaign. Part 1 of the series will detail Facebook’s history, significant…
To stay or to leave? While China burns coal - we burn money. Executive Summary The history of Kyoto Protocol and Paris Agreements examined and compared The obligations of developed and developing nations within the Paris Agreement Australia’s emissions, targets,…
Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Aspergers sufferer from Sweden – the new ‘Climate Messiah’ - suddenly came to prominence on August 20th, 2018 when she wagged school to conduct a lone protest outside her country’s Parliament building for government action against…
Who are these new-age ‘moralists’ attacking free speech and destroying businesses? There is a new phenomenon on social media where faceless moral activists target and threaten businesses who advertise on conservative media outlets with whose political views they disagree. Sleeping…
This past week we had the story of Radio 2SM Talk-back show host Dean Mackin getting sacked for TALKING! One would imagine that talking is the criteria for a talk-back radio host, but the Program Managers at the Newcastle radio…