Only Australian Online Shopping
At a time when it seems no one is supporting Australian manufacturers, Only Australian Groceries launches its first walk in store. “OnlyOz” stocks Australian made products from Australian owned companies.
Only Australian Groceries is a one-of-a-kind Australian store that offers everything from toilet paper to t-shirts, cards to crockery, sauces, cereal, skin care and socks.
With more than 2000 products on offer, the AAAA rating makes it easy to support Australian manufacturing. “We take the hard work out of buying Australian, because that’s all we sell!”
There’s a rating next to the name of each product. For example: AAAA = Australian owned, Australian made from Australian materials or ingredients.
“The majority of the products we stock aren’t available at the large grocery stores anymore.” A staff member reported.
Most Australian manufacturers have links to www.OnlyOz.com.au on their websites.
The walk in store makes Aussie shopping easy for customers who have not ventured to on-line purchasing, although Australia wide and world wide delivery is still available.
Aussies can just use the website as a guide so they know what to buy when they shop at their local store. Many people use the OnlyOz website so you they know what is Australian made and owned.
We appreciate your attention at this time because business is tough.
At Only Australian Groceries, we have tried to make a difference and support Australian grocery manufacturers.
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Whistleblower lawyer exposes legal and judicial corruption
LAWYERS WITH THEIR NOSES IN THE TROUGH HAVE BEEN EXPOSED! You will discover how they formulate their usually exorbitant accounts! Hopefully Queensland corruption is next!
http://lawyerocracyontrial.wordpress.com/2012/05/05/lawyerocracy-on-trial
This courageous lawyer – James Johnson – needs our support while he takes on the corruption within the legal fraternity & judicial system ..
On 21 May 2012 the Victorian Government is conducting an inquiry into the absence of professional standards in the Australian (legal) profession, and at the broad intersection of the legal profession with the upper benches of all three branches of State and Federal government (benches that these days look like little more than an exclusive lawyers club)
This unprecedented and history making trial starts at 10.00 am on Monday 21 May 2012 & will be held at 55 King Street, Melbourne.
This hearing (sub-named Michael McGarvie Legal Services Commissioner v Harold James Johnson) will be the biggest Australian whistleblowing, corruption exposing, media event of 2012.
48 yo Melbourne-born journalist, whistleblower, political activist & human rights lawyer http://jamesjohnsonchr.wordpress.com will lead a Victorian Government Tribunal (and an A-List Roll Call of some of the very good, many of the very bad, and lots of the very ugly of Australias ruling legal elite) through a thorough investigation into the absence of professional standards in the Australian legal profession. The investigations will include the broad intersection of the legal profession with the upper benches of all three branches of State and Federal Government in Australia.
A whos-who of many of Australias most powerful lawyers, including current and past State and Federal parliamentarians, ministers, judges, bureaucrats and barristers have been summoned to attend for questioning by the Tribunal. [ details to be published here, shortly.]
ALP asks Aussies to take in boat people
Government asks Aussie residents to take in refugees
- by: By Simon Benson
- From: The Daily Telegraph <http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au>
THE Federal Government will pay families up to $300 a week to temporarily house asylum seekers in their homes to help deal with the increasing flood of arrivals.
With the Immigration Department now facing a potential shortage of community housing to accommodate detainees who are being released into the community, the Government has turned to householders for help.
Under a plan slated to start next month, the Government will seek to access the 5000 homes registered under the privately run Australian Homestay Network (AHN) to host asylum seekers released from detention on bridging visas.
AHN was originally established to provide short-term private home accommodation and board for international students.
The organisation, which first approached the Federal Government with the plan last year, began writing to its national client base three weeks ago seeking applications from home owners to house asylum seekers.
The Immigration Department confirmed it would pay for security vetting and training for families which want to take up the offer.
It will also pay a weekly stipend of between $220 and $300 to families to cover food and board for detainees.
Almost 1000 detainees have been released into the community over the past two months, since the Government’s change of policy last year to ease pressure on detention centres.
The high cost of the Community Placement Network plan is expected to be allocated from the existing detention centre funding, which will be revealed in next week’s Budget.
The AHN, which was set up to accommodate international students for short periods in family homes, claimed the initial period of housing for asylum seekers would be for six weeks, but could be extended.
“The Community Placement Network is an initiative designed to provide short-term accommodation (for) eligible asylum seekers while they independently source longer term sustainable accommodation in the community,” AHN executive chairman David Bycroft said.
“The CPN is for people interested in assisting asylum seekers to live in the community on a bridging visa while awaiting the resolution of their immigration status. It is not for people interested in international student hosting.”
The Refugee Council of Australia has backed the plan, claiming it would allow more people to be released from detention and live in the community while their applications were processed.
“Mandatory detention makes people mentally ill and is expensive,” the council’s CEO Paul Power said.
Opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison slammed the plan, claiming it confirmed the Government had reached the point of desperation: “Labor’s decision to house adult male asylum seekers released on bridging visas in the spare rooms of Australian families is a desperate, reckless policy from a government that has lost control.
“When Australians expressed concern about rising costs of living, this was not an invitation for Julia Gillard to supplement household incomes by offering to pay the rent on your spare room or granny flat for asylum seekers.
“The fact Australian families are now being asked to house asylum seekers who have arrived illegally by boat, including those whose claims have been rejected, shows just how desperate Labor have become over their failed border protection policies which have seen almost 17,000 people now arrive on 301 boats.”
A spokesman for Immigration Minister Chris Bowen, said: “This is yet another cheap shot from the Coalition, who like to demonise asylum seeker issues.”
China officially asks to colonise a part of Western Australia-for money of course
April has been a month of policy disasters for Australian agriculture defining its now bleak future
Delivering a mortal blow to the dairy industry, our disingenuous ALP government, aided and abetted by traitorous so-called primary producer organizations such as the National Farmers Federation has not said boo about the largest ever shipment of Australian dairy cows and heifers shipped to China in the past eight months.
To top off this farmer coup-de-grace, former Prime Minister Bob Hawke is acting as gigolo for a Chinese conglomerate offering to buy 15,000 hectares of prime farming country east of Kunnunurra in Western Australia.
The Shanghai Zhongfu group wants to grow its own irrigated sugar cane in the $311m second-stage expansion of the Ord irrigation project.
Another 13 companies and individual farmers are competing against the Chinese after submitting final expressions of interest to the West Australian government to farm all or part of the new area.
Should the Chinese offer be accepted this massive expansion of the sugar industry in Northern Australia will spell disaster for Queensland cane growers.
Zhongfu, trading as Kimberley Agricultural Investments, is also in discussion with the WA, NT and federal governments and traditional owners the Miriuwung Gajerrong Corporation to develop a further 15,000 ha of prime black soil downs country on the NT side of the Kimberley border.
A sweetener in Hawkes bid is to build is to build a $100m sugar mill in the Ord region.
Hawkes company also proposes to establish a super, 500,000 head a year abattoir in the east Kimberley to supply the beef export market to China.
This venture could also wipe out a proposal to build a large abattoir in the Cloncurry district of Noerth West Queensland.
This venture will also spell disaster for Australias largest pastoralist, the Australian Agriculture Company which has plans to start building an abattoir at Katherine.
KAI says it needs 30-40,000 ha of sugar crops to support a financially viable sugar mill and biofuel production.
In return for such a large investment the company is demanding all environmental and native title approvals be handed to it on a plate within two years.
Cairnsnews has copies of the WA Governments generic farm purchase contracts which are tailored towards a significant indigenous partnership arrangement for any purchaser in the Kimberley region.
It will be of interest to individual farmers bidding for land if these arrangements are included in any Chinese deal.
WA Farmers Federation president Dale Park said his organization was unlikely to oppose the Chinese bid.
EXODUS OF WORLD-BEST DAIRY BREEDING STOCK TO CHINA
In 2008 nearly 50,000 dairy cattle were exported overseas from Australian producers, but in the first eight months of this financial year 36,450 cows worth a staggering $44m have gone to China.
By the end of June exports will top 55,000 a rather dubious record which is unsustainable for the future of the dairy industry.
The export heifers, mostly from Victoria, are fetching up to $1600 per head, about 30 per cent more than the domestic market can afford.
The milk war between Coles and Woolworths has had a detrimental effect on the industry and coupled with de-regulation it has forced many farmers to the wall.
Australia, New Zealand and Uruguay are the only three countries licensed to export dairy cattle to China.
Australian courts out of control
AUSTRALIAN COURTS OUT OF CONTROL- HIGH COURT NO LONGER RELEVANT
This letter to Juliar Gillard is from a legal advocate calling on the Federal Government to fix our corrupt judicial system
Dear Julia Gillard,
Not only in Africa but here in Australia we have a Charles Taylor situation. We do not have people chopping off the hands and feet of victims, and no widespread and systematic rape, but we do have a widespread and systematic attack on the civilian population of Australia by our own governments, largely by the neglect of the Commonwealth and it failure to enforce the laws it makes.
We have a totally dysfunctional Federal Supreme Court calling itself the High Court, peopled by superannuated fools, who have abolished the Queen from all process issued out of there. We have Stefan Nystrom a Swedish national but a human being nevertheless, deported by a heartless and un- compassionate Immigration Minister, in 2006, and a current Minister who is failing to allow him to return. The Federal Court of Australia is also totally dysfunctional. We have an Indian National, one Harpreet Singh who has spent around 90 days incarcerated by the State of Queensland and refused bail. We have Ian Henke imprisoned arbitrarily in a Queensland jail. We have James Peter Rech similarly imprisoned in Victoria. Two of these prisoners were refused a writ of habeas corpus, by State Judges. They can do right but choose to do wrong. At least the Supreme Court Registry in Victoria and Queensland will file process. The Federal Court of Australia is pure evil and will not file an application.
We have arbitrary and totally dependant Judges who must rely on their various State Paymasters, who are Judges and Magistrates throughout the Commonwealth, paid by either the Commonwealth or their respective State. It is imperative that you act. Restore participatory democracy to our Commonwealth. Have your Australian Federal Police actively enforce S 268:10, 268:11, 268:12, 268:20 and 268:23 Criminal Code Act 1995 even against your Minister for Immigration. He is being an arbitrary and dependant Judge, and so is Nicola Roxon, your Attorney General who is refusing to pay the claims arising from sixty years of maladministration in the Registry of the High Court.
Judge Justice Chief Justice de Jersey in Queensland and Judge Justice Emerton in Victoria are both primary offenders. They may be unwilling to accept that as members of the legal profession, they are part of the widespread and systematic attack on the civilian population of the Commonwealth by its own governments. However when not if they are hauled before the International Criminal Court which could probably sit safely in Australia they will have no defence whatsoever and should face seventeen years imprisonment because that is what the Parliament of the Commonwealth says is the punishment. It is not the Democrats( now defunct after attempting to abolish prayers in the Parliament of the Commonwealth) who should be “keeping the bastards honest” but the presence of fully functional “courts” as a court of Judicature not Courts of Judiciary with (arbitrary and dependant) Judges and Magistrates. The Irish hated this system with a passion. We Irish and Scottish in Australia agreed to the Constitution, but we have been robbed of its benefits.
The Liberals are just as dangerous as some of your people. They favor benevolent dictatorship, just as your group does. Fix it and leave a legacy, even if the light you see at the end of the tunnel, is an oncoming Liberal Train smash heading your way. Call in the Commissioner Australian Federal Police and tell him to put a man or woman in every Court to comply with your obligations under S 51 Placitum (vi) Constitution and execute and maintain the presently ineffective laws of the Parliament of the Commonwealth.
Peter Alexander Gargan
Victoria
PETER SPENCER IN BATTLE FOR ACCESS TO ALLEGED PRIVILEGED CABINET
No less than eight lawyers sat on the Commonwealth’s side of the Federal Court on Friday 20th April in Sydney to assist Mr Howard SC for the Commonwealth argue that the documents that Peter Spencer is asking discovery of were under Cabinet privilege, and disclosure to the court would be against all laws and principles with regards to the security and the protection of MP’s commentary and decision making in Cabinet.
Counsel for the Commonwealth argued that the disclosure of these documents to the Court could threaten International agreements and security.
The documents requested by Spencer to further substantiate his claim against the Commonwealth were highlighted in a High Court decision in September 2010 where the High Court ordered that Spencer’s case return to the Federal Court for the discovery of Commonwealth and New South Wales State Government documents in relation to Spencer’s case.
The Cabinet documents that the Commonwealth are claiming privilege are over are almost two decades old and surround Government policy and negotiations in line with the December 1997 Kyoto Protocol International Treaties in which Australia was a major player in the formulation of the Protocol and its rules.
At that time, there was extensive and rigorous research, debate and commentary by senior bureaucrats, scientists and government as to how Australia could negotiate rules into the Kyoto Protocol so that Australia’s participation would not affect Australia’s projected economic growth in the future.
The current frantic attempt by the Commonwealth to have the court order that Spencer be denied these documents that make up part of 4500 documents should send shivers down the spines of all fair minded Australians. One must ask the question, “What do they have to hide?” On hearing the Commonwealth’s no compromise attitude in regards to the 100 privileged documents referred, Justice Emmett J asked “If this was the response by the Commonwealth to any request for a cabinet document then how would Mr Spencer get justice?”
This argument will continue on the 7th June 2012 in the Federal Court Sydney were Justice Emmett has asked the Commonwealth to present final submissions over the four categories of documents over which the Commonwealth is claiming privilege with final instructions from the Commonwealth, and on that date Justice Emmett will make his decision on the matter.
For the history and detaile account of who Peter Spencer is and his David -vs- Goliath court cases taking the government on for stealing all Australians land and assetts without compensation. Visit SOS-NEWS hosting audio interviews, video, statements and press releases at – http://sosnews.org/index.php?page=Peter-Spencer
LNP-NO DE-AMALGAMATION OF MAREEBA SHIRE
A Tablelands Regional Council election candidate claimed last week the de-amalgamation of the former Mareeba Shire will not occur under a LNP Government.
The high profile candidate said the bombshell came from the then LNP candidate now Member for Cook, David Kempton.
“About two weeks before the election I was talking to Mr Kempton in Mareeba and he told me there would be no de-amalgamation of the Mareeba Shire,” the candidate said.
In the run up to the election on March 24, the LNP ran advertisements quoting Mr Kemptons support for a referendum and de-amalgamation.
Kempton also stated he supported de-amalgamation at a 500-strong meeting of Mareeba residents called by former Mayor Mick Borzi several weeks before the election.
Katters Australia Party candidate for Cook Lachlan Bensted garnered 50 per cent of the primary vote in Mareeba and outlying districts, based on the back of huge community support for the break up of the TRC.
“Here we have a classic example of the LNP and Mr Kempton telling one group of people one thing then telling another story to someone else,” Mr Bensted said yesterday.
“If this statement from Mr Kempton is true and I have no doubt the council candidate is repeating accurate comments from Mr Kempton, then action should be taken against him by the electorate.
“He has campaigned on a falsehood and deceived the good people of Mareeba Shire who are desperate to break away from this huge, unmanageable and costly council.
“I said for months before the election we cannot trust the LNP to deliver on promises because Mr Kempton kept saying there is no money to do anything.
“Then he announced there will be another bureaucratic monster set up with a commissioner and staff deciding if there was support to de-amalgamate and then even if there was majority support, the commission would decide if it was cost effective and if it will ever happen.
“It seems Mr Borzi has backed the wrong horse on this one.”
Dodgy modelling on Murray – Darling plan means consultation falls short
Senator Barnaby Joyce –
Shadow Minister for Regional Development, Local Government and Water Leader of the Nationals in the Senate
New economic modelling on the Murray-Darling Basin plan shows that the government has failed to consider the economic and social impacts of its draft basin plan. The government must immediately commission new economic research which covers the entire Murray-Darling Basin.
The modelling by Chris Murphy, of Independent Economics, shows that the draft basin plan could lead to the loss of 2100 jobs and a 9 per cent reduction in economic activity in just five towns around Griffith.*
Chris Murphy is one of Australias leading economic modellers. His work shows that the economic impact of the draft could be up to 10 times worse than what the government has admitted to date said Senator Joyce today.
The governments economic modelling of the Basin Plan is a complete farce. It assumes that no irrigator will leave the region after water is bought back from a community. The reality is that Bilbo Baggins gets his cheque and retires to the Gold Coast. I raised this issue with the government almost two years ago in Senate estimates and they have completely ignored it.**
Chris Murphys model allows people to move away from irrigation and he shows convincingly that this reason alone makes the difference between his results and the governments.
With work this dodgy its no wonder Tony Burke has yet to get the support of one State Government for the Draft Basin Plan.
The government cant reject the findings of this modelling because it has been partly funded by the government through its Strengthening Basin Communities program and Regional Development Australia funding. Unfortunately the funding has only been able to pay for modelling in one of the 21 catchments in the Basin.
The government must immediately fund more economic modelling for the entirety of the Basin. Without it there can be no guarantee that we will deliver a triple-bottom line outcome.
* http://www.independenteconomics.com.au/Latest.aspx <http://barnabyjoyce.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ff2ebaedf0d3569f441cfef14&id=052bb70a90&e=7419ef9b23>
** Senator JOYCEIf it is a general equilibrium model, my understanding would be, for example: say I buy a place in Leetona town that you did not visitand the money just goes to everybody in the town, not to the person you actually bought the licence from.
Mr GoodayYou are getting at the way in which we distributed the proceeds of the sale of the licences back into the regional economies. The way we modelled it is what you described. For a region that sold, say, $10 million worth of water entitlements, the modelling was done by putting $10 million back into the region by spreading it across each industry. We recognise in the report that that is probably not the ideal way to do it, but the general equilibrium model does not distinguish between farm households and irrigation households. So we were not able to do it the other way.
Senator JOYCEIt is not even vaguely close to what happens. What happens with the general equilibrium model is: Bilbo Baggins gets $5 million for his water licence and he goes and retires on the coast. He does not go back into town and buy battered savs off the local servo.
Mr GoodayYes. And we understand that. I think the real point here is the level at which the general equilibrium model is constructed. It really does not matter how we give the money back. It does not make any great difference to the results, because the regions are rather large, and each of these seven regions contains
… Senator JOYCEThis really brings us to the issue. Given the limitations of this study which we have just spelt outand that has been in 10 or 15 minutesin your view, does the study’s conclusion support the minister’s view that the report, and I quote:
confirms that the Rudd Government’s long-term Water for the Future plan is supporting the future viability of our Basin communities and returning the rivers to health
Senator NASH That is hilarious.
Mr Gooday The report says what the report says.
http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate_Committees?url=@Hansard/S13017.pdf
16 April 2012
FLUORIDATION – Fails to Reduce Cavities in USA
Information Source: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/new-studies-fluoridation-fails-to-reduce-cavities-in-new-york-city-and-nationally-2012-04-11
Market Watch The Wall Street Journal
NEW YORK, April 11, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — New research shows that fluoride chemicals added to U.S. public water supplies are not reducing tooth decay as promoted and promised by government agencies, reports the New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc. (NYSCOF).
Using federal statistics, the West Virginia University Rural Health Research Center reports that urban U.S. children, with more exposure to fluoridated water and dental care, have just as many cavities as less fluoridation-exposed rural children. (1)
The researchers write: “For children’s dental health measures, it was found that fluoridation rates were not significantly related to the measures of either caries or overall condition of the teeth for urban or rural areas.”
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says fluoridation reduces tooth decay. But, this study and others shows it hasn’t. Tooth decay crises are occurring in all fluoridated cities, states and countries. And, the CDC reports the incidence and severity of children’s primary tooth decay recently increased.
“Fortunes are wasted on fluoridation schemes that fail to prevent cavities while unnecessarily exposing children to fluoride’s adverse drug effects,” says attorney Paul Beeber, NYSCOF President.
New York City spends millions of dollars annually on fluoridation. Yet another study proves fluoridation fails in NYC also.
NYC’s Chinese-American 2-to-11-year-olds, living in the low-income area of Manhattan’s Chinatown have much more primary tooth decay when compared to white and other minority groups nationally (NYS Dental Journal June/July 2011).
Most of NYC’s Chinese-American children are U.S. born – 63% have primary tooth decay compared to only 38% of children in a national study.
The authors write, “This high prevalence of caries in the primary dentition is also similar to a national survey of children in mainland China, where three out of four children were found to be affected by caries in primary teeth,” averaging about 5 decayed teeth. More evidence that fluoridation fails New York is here
Legislation (Int 0463-2011) is pending to stop fluoridation in New York City. Council Member Peter F. Vallone, Jr, the chief sponsor, says “There is a growing body of evidence that fluoride does more harm than good.”
“Fluoride is neither a nutrient nor required for healthy teeth. Fluoridation must end,” says Beeber.
Contact: Paul Beeber, JD, 516-433-8882 http://www.fluoridation.webs.com
http://www.FluorideAction.Net SOURCE NYS Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc. Copyright (C) 2012 PR Newswire. All rights reserved
WVU study shows fluoride in water supply does not reduce tooth decay
Posted: Apr 12, 2012 4:13 AM Updated: Apr 12, 2012 4:13 AM
A new study conducted by researchers at West Virginia University shows that fluoride added to the U.S. public water supplies have not reduced tooth decay.
The WVU Rural Health Research Center used federal statistics to conduct the study, according to a news release. The research concludes that children in urban areas who are more exposed to fluoridated water and dental care have as many cavities as children in rural areas who have less exposure to fluoridated water.
“For children’s dental health measures, it was found that fluoridation rates were not significantly related to the measures of either caries or overall condition of the teeth for urban or rural areas,” the researchers write in the report.
