When the Robert Menzies government legislated the Reserve Bank Act 1959, ALP politicians fought tooth and nail to defend the remaining powers of the Commonwealth Bank in its identity as a national bank for Australia.
Australians are suffering mortgage and rental stress in record numbers, for the sake of “fighting inflation”—a bogus target, which prioritises private bankers’ balance sheets over people’s well-being. What you need to know, to get free of this brutal policy, is in “The genesis of austerity”, a nine-part series by Australian Alert Service editor Elisa Barwick. Published in the Australian Almanac over the course of 2023, this ugly story of how “austerity” became economic and political dogma is now available as a pamphlet!
Click here to get more details on the Genesis for Austerity publication and access to PDF.
This dossier collects research and warnings made 24 years ago, that high-level British establishment figures were inciting a religious war between Israel and the Palestinians. The focus is the Temple Mount (al-Haram ash-Sharif) in Jerusalem, the site of Islamic holy sites where Jewish radicals and literalist Christians want to rebuild King Solomon’s Temple. That “Temple Mount Plot” has now born terrible fruit: the role of provocations on the Temple Mount in triggering the Israel-Hamas war and the Israeli military’s current slaughter of civilians in Gaza is no secret. The dossier, however, lays bare the deeper springs of this war, and the danger of its exploding into World War III—an eschatological, or “End Times”, ideology on the part of both the would-be Third Temple builders, and of their higher-up patrons and instigators.
When the Robert Menzies government legislated the Reserve Bank Act 1959, ALP politicians fought tooth and nail to defend the remaining powers of the Commonwealth Bank in its identity as a national bank for Australia.
Progress has been marked in the effort of BRICS nations to function independently of the US dollar, and, ultimately, to fashion a new, fair financial architecture desperately needed by the entire world.
With an increasing number of branch closures across the United Kingdom, particularly since 2015, a February 2020 independent “Access to Cash” review, warned that the British cash system was already at a “tipping point” and would collapse without…
By Robert Barwick
Confronting a complex challenge can “serve to organise and measure the best of our energies and skills”, as JFK said when he announced America would put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.