On 16 December (yesterday), the day after the third hearing of the Senate inquiry into Sterling Income Trust and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), Sterling tenant Freda Stevens became the 19th victim to pass away since Sterling collapsed in 2019. She was one of around 140 vulnerable, elderly people who were left financially ruined by a managed investment scheme (MIS) they didn’t know they had been sucked into.
The British court ruling last week upholding the USA’s appeal on extraditing Julian Assange is the final straw. The US and UK pro-war faction, and their Australian apologists, want to kill the Australian journalist who exposed their war crimes; indeed, Assange has just suffered a stroke from the stress he is enduring—Australians must not stand for it.
A few months out from an election presents a unique opportunity to force real solutions on to the political agenda. In contrast to the divisive policies that the major parties fight over on behalf of their respective vested interests, there are policy solutions that all Australians can recognise would benefit everybody. One of those is a postal “people’s bank”.
In sport, the role of the umpire is sacrosanct; any attempt to corrupt or undermine the umpire incurs heavy penalties for bringing the game into disrepute.
