The 28 August report in The Australian, “Government-owned bank created out of Australia Post back on Labor’s agenda”, signals the Albanese government is responding to the campaign for a public post office People’s Bank.
The gang of mercenary executives from Woolworths, McDonalds, and Subway who have hijacked Australia Post are behind today’s vicious Australian Financial Review attack on former Australia Post CEO Christine Holgate and the Licensed Post Office Group, because they are resisting the mercenaries’ plan to close thousands of post offices.
New Zealand’s conservative coalition government under National PM Christopher Luxon is contemplating the unthinkable—privatising Kiwibank, the only bank in NZ that provides any competition to the Big Four Australian-owned banks.
The Australian Citizens Party (ACP) is urging Kiwis to fight any privatisation plans tooth and nail, and learn from Australia which suffers from not having a public competitor for the Big Four banks.
Everyone should be furious that cybersecurity company CrowdStrike’s incompetence crashed digital systems worldwide last Friday, because it exposed that too many companies and governments have made us vulnerable by madly embracing digital technology with no thought to keeping basic manual redundancies in case of disruption.
All Australians should sign the LPO Group’s petition to save post offices from bankruptcy by expanding services (including for a government bank)—see link below.
