Australia Superior Private Social Security System

August 12, 2025 by Dan Mitchell @ International Liberty

I wrote last December to share the results of a study Robert O’Quinn and I wrote for Canada’s Fraser Institute on pension systems in OECD nations.

Our main goal was to show that personal retirement accounts are now surprisingly common, even in supposedly socialist Europe.

Denmark, Sweden, Estonia, Greece, Switzerland, Iceland, Latvia, and the Netherlands all have successful systems based wholly or partly on private savings.

Today, however, I want to focus on Australia’s private system. Known as superannuation, workers set aside 12 percent of their income into private retirement accounts (similar in magnitude to the 12.4 payroll tax imposed on American workers).

Sadly (for Americans), Australians may pay about the same as Americans, but they get a much better system.

Here’s a chart from the Fraser study showing the projected burden of government pension spending in OECD nations. Notice that Australia (highlighted in red) easily is in much stronger shape than the United States.

Heck, the Aussies are in a stronger position than every other OECD member state.

There is some good news for the United States. The burden of Social Security spending is below the average of all OECD nations.

But, 30 years from now, we still will have about three times as much government pension spending as the Australians.

So, from a taxpayer perspective, Australians definitely win. But what about retirees?

I decided to write this column because of an article I saw in the U.K.-based Telegraph by Rob White. It compared Australian retirees and British retirees.

You can probably guess who is doing better.

 

…the average inheritance is more than AUD $700,000 (£341,000), compared to less than £50,000 in Britain. …thanks to more sophisticated private pension schemes, Australians…become richer in retirement. …Australia started automatically enrolling people into pensions 30 years ago. A decade later, employers were required to contribute 9pc to their workers’ pensions – known there as “superannuations” – and this has now hit 12pc. …Australia pension funds are well known for pooling, which allows them to make bigger investments, cut costs and improve returns for members. …In Australia, a pension follows the worker when they change jobs. This helps them keep track of it, and ultimately enhance their returns.

By the way, Australia has another advantage.

No death tax.

Australia abolished inheritance and estate taxes at federal level in 1979, with all six states following suit by 1982. …According to Martin Willis, of Barnett Waddingham, …“In Australia, the focus can be on building those assets without constantly looking over their shoulder. People in the UK might think they’re making the right decision, only to have the rug pulled out from under them.” …Britain remains firmly behind Australia’s curve.

So the Australians are way ahead of the Brits.

But what about Australia vs. the U.S.?

Back in 2012, I compared the two nations and noted that the U.S. system had a big unfunded liability while the Australian system was generating a big pile of savings.

This next visual shows what has happened over the past 13 years.

The bottom line is that we keep going further into debt while the Australians continue to get richer.

No wonder I’m a big fan of Australia’s system (as are others).

 

The Energy Transition Ain't Happening: Hydrogen In Australia

July 20, 2024 Francis Menton @ Manhattan Contrarian

These days, there is lots and lots of news about how the supposed “energy transition” is not happening. There’s so much news on this subject that I could devote this entire blog to that subject alone and have plenty to occupy my time. Expect multiple posts about this topic over the next several weeks.

To whet your appetite, I will take you today to Australia, where we find the latest news on the inevitable collapse of impossible dream of “green” hydrogen as the means to make electricity from wind and sun work.

But before getting to the latest news, kindly let me remind you of my post of February 14, 2024 titled “When You Crunch The Numbers, Green Hydrogen Is A Non-Starter.” “Green” hydrogen is the type of hydrogen produced by electrolysis of water using electricity generated only by wind and sun. The idea is that you run your electrolyzer to make the “green” hydrogen on sunny and windy days when the wind turbines and solar panels produce a surplus; and then you burn the hydrogen to cover the gaps in wind/solar production on overcast days and calm nights. If it all works out, you end up with electricity that matches demand 24/7/365, and there is no carbon in the process from beginning to end. In other words, energy utopia.

But has anybody crunched the numbers to see if this can be done economically? By “economically,” I mean: producing electricity costing at or about the same as our current cost of electricity.

My February 14 post discussed a Biden Administration initiative to allocate $7 billion in government funding to “catalyze” $40 billion in private investment to jump-start production of “low-cost, clean hydrogen.” How “low-cost”? The government of course didn’t quantify it, but my post cited a guy named Jonathan Lesser who had done a work-up that concluded that they could get to “green” hydrogen in a price range of $2.74 - $5.35 per kg of hydrogen provided they could buy the wind/solar-generated electricity for $40 per MWh. Anyway, that’s the goal.

Does $2.74 - $5.35 per kg of hydrogen sound cheap? I love the way they quote prices for hydrogen in different units from the normal units used for natural gas, in order to make it so no one can easily make the comparison. Natural gas prices are generally quoted in $ per MMBtu. What you need to know is that it takes 8 kg of hydrogen to produce 1 MMBtu of energy. 

So $2.74 - $5.35 per kg of green hydrogen translates to $21.92 to $42.80 per MMBtu. In the past 5 years, U.S. natural gas prices have been under $4/MMBtu for most of the time, and have never reached as high as $10/MMBtu. And to achieve the green hydrogen prices of $20 - 40/MMBtu requires a cost of wind/solar electricity of $40/MWh. Recent contracts for wind and solar generators have been requiring guaranteed prices of $150/MWh and up. So adjust the $20 - 40/MMBtu accordingly. The green hydrogen is going to cost you at least 10 times the cost of natural gas, and perhaps as much as 20 times.

On to the latest news from Australia. Australian energy blogger Joanne Nova reports yesterday (July 19) that a large green hydrogen project in that country has just “collapsed” with the loss of 700 jobs. I assume that by “collapse” Ms. Nova is referring to some sort of bankruptcy or equivalent. Ms. Nova’s headline is “The Hydrogen Titanic just collapsed in Australia because renewable electricity costs too much.”

The project in question is the baby of Australian industrialist Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest and his company Fortescue. According to Ms. Nova, Mr. Forrest has “burned off $2 billion dollars (AU) on setting up his Green Dream Hydrogen energy plan.” Forrest’s project had been the “centerpiece of [the Australian Labor government’s] $2 billion Hydrogen Headstart program.”

Ms. Nova quotes liberally from the big Australian newspaper called The Australian, which unfortunately is behind a pay wall. I will just use Ms. Nova’s excerpts. Here is the key one:

For more than two years, Fortescue has been full throttle trying to turn Forrest’s promise of converting green hydrogen into a commercial reality within years.  Instead, as the economics around surging electricity costs needed to produce green hydrogen sunk in, deadlines were pushed back and back. The mission changed, then there was a revolving door of executives.

The problem is very simply the cost of producing the “green” hydrogen, which is not remotely competitive with natural gas. Nor can anything be done to make the cost anything close to competitive. This quote is from another Australian source called Financial Review, also behind pay wall:

Matthew Rennie, a former EY partner who is now an independent adviser, said his firm’s analysis indicated that prices for power and electrolysers – which use renewable power to split water into hydrogen and oxygen – would need to be much cheaper to produce green hydrogen in Australia even at under $[AU]3 a kilogram. He said power prices would need to be less than $[AU]40 a megawatt-hour and electrolyser costs would need to more than halve to produce hydrogen at that level – still 50 per cent more expensive than the government’s ${AU]2 target for the gas to be competitive.

The $[AU]3/kg target is the equivalent of $[AU]24/MMBtu [thus about $US16] — 5 [or so] times the typical natural gas price in the U.S. of $3-4/MMBtu. And they’re saying that to achieve even that, they would need wind/solar-generated electricity prices of $[AU]40/MWh [thus about $US27/MWh] and electrolyzer prices to halve. Ms. Nova reports that the two Australian states that produce the most electricity from wind and solar are South Australia and Tasmania, and they have wholesale electricity prices of $[AU]199/MWh and $214[AU]/MWh respectively [thus about $US133 and $US138 respectively]. So in the real world the cost of this green hydrogen is going to be more like [ten to] 20 or more times the cost of natural gas, instead of the paltry 5 [or so] times higher that they were hoping for.

Meanwhile, I keep reading many things saying that green hydrogen is the wave of the future. But I can’t find anything about major production facilities for the stuff coming online. Maybe none ever will.

UPDATE, July 21: Commenter littleoil (who I believe is Australian) asks for clarification as to which monetary figures in this post are in $AU versus $US. An Australian dollar is worth about 2/3 of a US dollar. I have added some clarification in the post.

The Daily Chart: German Net-Zero Schadenfreude

November 27, 2023 — Steven Hayward

 

 

Turns out Germany’s great “energy transition” is hitting the wall so hard that the coalition government might go “splat.” The Wall Street Journal reported over the weekend how Germany’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the Scholz government can’t take unspent Covid funds and pour them down the net-zero rathole, but the full dimensions of the cost of Germany’s energy madness was revealed by Bloomberg, who noted that spending for green energy in special off-budget funds nearly exceeds the total budget for the entire rest of the German government:..........Consider this a preview of coming attractions in the United States, which under Joe Biden is trying to catch up with Germany’s green energy madness. So don’t put on your schadenfreude party hat just yet.............To Read More.

 

Green Ideology as Class Warfare I generally think of green dogma as something that the gentry class imposes on the rest of us–you peons have to live more poorly, never mind my yacht and private jet. But there is another side to it, as well, as we see in the Guardian: environmentalism as a manifestation of class envy. The article describes green angst in the advertising industry: There is increasing agreement that although individual behaviour...........

Australian government throws giant pile of money at renewables — so big, the cost is a secret - By Joanne Nova - The Australian Government is building magical weather machines with large amounts of our children’s money, and they won’t even tell us what it will cost. Dear Sir, we’re here to fix the car you didn’t know was broken, give us your wallet. We’ll just help ourselves to your cash and won’t tell you what this costs, OK? (It must cost a fortune because if it were cheap, we’d tell you). The Labor government promised impossible Net Zero things, and 18 months, later everyone knows it is impossible. Renewable investment has ground to a halt, people are not buying EVs, farmers don’t want the transmission lines, coastal towns don’t want the wind towers, project costs are doubling and tripling, and Florence the borer is still stuck in a very short hole that is meant to be a long one...........

Say NO! to so-called “smart” meters By CFACT -  CFACT grassroots coordinator Tom Deweese presented testimony on “smart” electric meters in Virginia.  Smart electric meters enable governments and utilities to throttle down or shut off your power.  Shutting off your power is one tactic utilities are developing to keep the grid running when intermittent wind and solar stop producing electricity.  My name is Tom DeWeese, president of the American Policy Center and National Grassroots Coordinator of CFACT – the Committer for a Constructive Tomorrow. My purpose today is to speak against Dominion Energy’s application concerning the use of Smart Meters. More specifically, I speak against the very use of Smart Meters on private homes.............

World leaders ignore growing “Green Energy” safety issues -  By Steve Goreham - The nations of the world pursue an unprecedented energy transition. Efforts are underway to force a shift from coal, oil, and natural gas to renewable energy sources by 2050. But, key elements of the proposed transition suffer from major safety issues. These are batteries for electric vehicles and electricity storage, and hydrogen fuels for industry. Most energy sources involve safety risks. Gasoline cars can explode or burn, especially after collisions. Natural gas pipelines and processing facilities have been known to explode or combust. Nuclear power plants have suffered famous disasters such as Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima when cooling systems have failed. But green energy is bringing a new dimension of safety problems to society............

Climate “journalism” perpetuates fraud -  By Peter Murphy -  The biggest purveyors of “misinformation” and “disinformation” in America today are those who profess to be journalists, especially when it comes to “reporting” on climate issues. It would be understandable to counter this by saying, rather, that it is politicians and their appointees who are the ones conveying falsehoods on climate. Indeed, so many politicians, by nature practice false witness by speaking half-truths, omitting known facts, or flat-out lying. The euphemism for such behavior is called “spin.” Nonetheless, the degree to which politicians can lie or “spin” so pervasively is enabled by a mostly pliant media or worse, a cheerleading media that parrots and advances falsehoods uncritically and readily accepts politicians’ claims of a “climate emergency” and all that goes with such................

Climate agenda blinding people to the forecast November 28th, 2023 By Joe Bastardi @ CFACT - My father used to say a weather event not only means something for now but very often, it is telegraphing the atmosphere making a change. I forecast for a major De-Icing company in Europe that has a CEO who is a weather fanatic.  So it makes it a bit easier since we speak the same language.  Quite frankly, it is how I work best.  I BLOCK FOR THE PEOPLE THAT NEED TO CARRY THE BALL.  It’s not about being right for me; it is about being right for the client and the company, and if I am right, people skeptical of my methods have to wonder why I am such a Neanderthal denier............ I challenge not to wear any clothing that was made with the aid of petroleum products or use anything to try to get herself through the coming cold in Europe:...............

Australia should vote 'no' on indigenous special rights referendum

October 3, 2023 By Viv Forbes

Here in Australia, our politicians are promoting a divisive and racist change to our constitution by referendum - the creation of an indigenous "voice" with undefined powers. Voting is underway now. According to Reuters:

SYDNEY, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Support for a proposal to amend Australia's constitution to enshrine recognition of Indigenous people has edged higher, according to a poll published on Tuesday, although most voters intend to reject the change in a referendum now underway. Early voting on whether to recognise Indigenous Australians in the constitution and create a "Voice to Parliament" to give them an avenue to advise the government on matters affecting First Nations Australians began on Monday.

"Indigenous" means "born here,"so most of us are indigenous. And for all of us, our earliest Australian ancestors came from somewhere else. But these politicians are referring to the Australian aboriginal minority, who like all Australians, had ancestors from somewhere else, but are the oldest inhabitants on the continent. To divide indigenous Australians on the basis of skin color or length of ancestry is more about politics than about justice. We are all Australians and constitutional changes that promote apartheid policies should be rejected...........To Read More...

Could Australia Vote to Abolish Itself?

Gregory Hood, American Renaissance, July 21, 2023 

The Australian people will vote on a referendum before the end of the year. The text is simple enough: “A Proposed Law: to alter the Constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. Do you approve this proposed alteration?”

The “Voice” would be an Aboriginal government body that could make “representations to the Parliament and the Executive Government of the Commonwealth on matters relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.” Would it have power? No. Could it force through legislation? No. Could it even challenge Parliament? Not really.

It’s the proponents of the referendum who assure us that it will be powerless, and that Parliament will retain the ability to make laws. The Guardian says that “a majority of leading constitutional lawyers have all either spoken strongly in favour of the voice or rebuffed concerns about the legal effect of its representations.”  Nonetheless, what’s at stake is nothing less than Australia itself..............To Read More...

Australia Wants to Fine ‘Big Tech’ for Posting Disinformation

How will a government that imposed tyrannical COVID mandates moderate news content responsibly?

 

By: Dave Patterson June 29, 2023 - 6:46 amArticles, Opinion, Privacy & Tech @ Liberty Nation News 

 

Australia is in the forefront of taking on Big Tech in the disinformation wars. A couple of years ago, social media behemoth Facebook, apparently in a moment of lunacy, decided to bar “publishers and people in Australia from sharing or viewing Australian and international news content,” as Liberty Nation reported. After an exchange of barbs between the Australian government and Facebook’s managing director for Australia and New Zealand, cooler heads prevailed, and hurt feelings were salved. BFFs again, right? Well, maybe not. Recently the Australian government made it clear it was passing laws allowing stiff fines against tech giants for failing to remove content that is not true – or, more likely,  stuff it doesn’t like.

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“Communications Minister Michelle Rowland will on Sunday (June 25) release draft legislation to give the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) powers to hold digital platforms to account for spreading harmful fake news,” Anthony Galloway wrote in The Sydney Morning Herald. No one is claiming the ACMA is exacting retribution for Facebook’s lapse in sanity over unfriending Australia; more likely, the government of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, a left-leaning politician, is exercising his socialist bliss.

Australia Wants Big Penalties

From what the ACMA proposes, penalties will not be just slaps on the wrists with a promise not to sin again. “Under proposed draft laws, the Australian Communications and Media Authority will have the power to impose potentially multi-billion-dollar fines on tech companies who repeatedly fail to stop and take down undesirable content,” Australia’s television station 9News’ staff explained. For Australia, the penalizing media posts it determines to be disinformation is in keeping with the country’s general propensity toward exercising firm control over its citizenry.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Aussie mandates were some of the most draconian and lamebrained. “Dr. Kerry Chant, the Chief Health Officer in New South Wales, Australia, told citizens to avoid talking to each other, even if they are masked and vaccinated, because talking could spread COVID-19,” the medical “expert” claimed at a July 19, 2021, news conference, according to American Military News. What’s frightening is that these same government bureaucrats will be the ones determining what is disinformation and misinformation, which is not comforting.

Europe Going After Big Tech More Subtly

The enthusiasm for applying government power against free speech and thought in the guise of tamping down fake news seems to be all the rage globally. In an open letter with the salutation, “Dear CEOs of Big Tech,” the prime ministers of Moldova, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Lithuania, and Ukraine wrote:

“Foreign information manipulation and interference, including disinformation is being deployed to destabilize our countries, weaken our democracies, to derail Moldova’s and Ukraine’s accession to the European Union and to weaken our support to Ukraine amid Russia’s war of aggression. Social media has become a potent channel for spreading false and manipulative narratives. Paid ads and artificial amplification on Meta’s platforms, including Facebook, are often used to call for violent social unrest, bring violence to the streets and destabilize governments.”

(Photo Illustration by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

The problem the prime ministers face is that Ukraine is engaged in the same information operations focused on Russia. Nowadays news sources seem eager to push propaganda instead of truth, so the lines are getting blurred. The prime ministers are requesting Big Tech to rein itself in, but when will self-policing result in hefty, punitive fines or worse? When a government gets into the business of regulating speech, it’s a slippery slope from defending citizens from being pummeled with news that will cause harm to information a government bureaucrat finds uncomfortable or offensive.

The best example is the US government’s collusion with social media companies to regulate what is allowed to be seen by the public. “Both Facebook and Twitter created online portals where government agents submitted, and perhaps still submit, censorship directives for official corporate action,” the Heritage Foundation concluded in the commentary When Government Colludes With Big Tech to Censor Americans. “These relationships reflect a coordinated campaign to promote a certain definition of truth and solidify the power of the Biden administration, and Big Tech’s participation undermines its claim to offer neutral platforms,” explained Will Thibeau and Erin Dwinnell.

It’s tricky to manipulate the thoughts and commentary of people in societies advertised as free and open. When attempting to police free expression, the pervasive pitfall is that one person’s fake news is another’s truth. Let the marketplace of ideas make that call.

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Distilling Truth and Discernment Down Under

by Dr. Peter McCullough | Feb 18, 2023 | Global, Health, Politics

Australia has been among the world’s most extreme in terms of lockdowns, isolation, societal restrictions, therapeutic nihilism, and mandated vaccination. It should come as no surprise that when the waves of SARS-CoV-2 finally hit this continent, COVID-19 outcomes were severe in terms of hospitalization and death.

The population essentially was kept susceptible, and with multiple injections, the immune system was made weaker and more vulnerable to infection and its consequences. Doctors were delisted and unable to practice if they attempted to help a patient with early treatment using hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin. The TGA or FDA equivalent in the US posted guidelines instructing doctors line by line what not to administer to a sick patient without suggesting a suitable multidrug protocol.

Most of Australia’s cases of COVID-19 were among the fully vaccinated, and in some reports, far in excess of 95% of the hospitalized cases and deaths occurred in the context of breakthrough infection. The government effectively ran a “no jab, no job” policy, and the citizens were forced into mass vaccination. Now vaccination policy has been thrust on employers to manage.…...To Read More....

In the British Commonwealth, the Stasi urge is growing

January 2, 2023 By Eric Utter

Last month, six people — including two police officers — were shot at a remote property in Australia's northern Queensland state.  Three suspects were identified by senior police sources as the (alleged) killers, and in the press, they were identified as "far-right" fanatics. In response to the heinous crime, Queensland police decided to go full Stasi and enhance their powers on other matters by urging people to turn in fellow citizens who might not fully believe and support everything their government says and does, or its mandates. Queensland is considered the home of Australia's version of "rednecks," who are known as "bogans."  Which is worse, a manic killer, or a person praying in front of an abortion clinic.

Sure, let's draw a line between serial murderers and those who have the temerity to question the efficacy of COVID-1984 vaccines.  If you know of anyone who questions the government, "experts," or "settled science," turn him in let those in power know about it right away, won't you?  The same goes for those trafficking in "misinformation" and/or "disinformation."...........By the way, what are you thinking?  

Do you have racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic/fat-shaming/ableist thoughts parading through your mind?  Perhaps you are even questioning your rulers in some way?  Or, worse yet, thinking about Jesus?  Who knows what you are thinking?!  What a sicko!  Someone should alert the proper authorities so you can be arrested and brought to justice!  Only in this way can we defend diversity, inclusion, and equity.  Right............To Read More......

Treason Must Be Recognized and Prosecuted!

By Rich Kozlovich

Yesterday, October 19, 2022 Steve Watson published this piece, The Australian Government Is Offering To Pay For Funerals Of Those Who DIE From COVID Vaccines, and the government "describes its new policy as “fantastic”'.

Well, one thing is now absolutely clear, this is a tacit acknowledgement by the Australian government these are not true vaccines, they don't work, they don't prevent infection, they don't prevent transmission and and they are killing people!!!!

The article goes on to point out:

The Australian government implemented "the most draconian restrictions in the world during the pandemic........In some cases, unvaccinated parents in Western Australia were not allowed to visit their own sick children in hospital, with news anchors celebrating the rule as an excellent way of forcing the unvaxxed to ‘change their philosophy’." 

Australia’s chief pharmacist Trent Twomey announced that the public “just need to accept” they will have to take regular vaccine booster shots every six months and continue wearing masks for “many years” to come.  In some areas of the country, citizens were mandated to provide geo-trackable selfies to police to prove they were staying at home during lockdowns.  The country also built COVID quarantine camps for “ongoing operations,” that saw those inside confined to mobile homes and watched 24/7 by guards. 

• Inside an Australian COVID Internment Camp, a Dystopian Hell Awaits
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• Australian Senator Malcolm Roberts: “If The Government Can Decide Who is Free and Who is Not, There is No Freedom Only Tyranny”

Adam Creighton calls this for what it was:  Suppression Plans Straight From CCP Play Book!  And all this was to protect the Australians from a virus that has a 99.7% recovery rate.

These are supposedly highly educated people yet it appears they've never read a history book.  During the Spanish Influenza pandemic, which was a real pandemic, there were three waves, the first two missing Australia due to the nation being isolated and locked down internationally.  But there's bound to be leaks, and there was during the third wave, and Australia was devastated, just as was the rest of the world.  

Lockdowns don't work, masks don't work, social distancing doesn't work.  Vaccinations and herd immunity are the only things that work, and in this case, these treatments aren't true vaccinations since they don't prevent infection or transmission.  They're not working and yet they're still demanding boosters shots.....forever! 

It's been claimed natural immunity is 700 times more effective (I have no idea how they come up with these numbers, but natural immunity is clearly vastly more effective), and at some point those of humanity that don't have natural immunity already, will eventually be exposed and develop immunity creating herd immunity.  This virus is with us forever now, just as seasonal flu and the rest of the viruses we've faced in the last 120 years.  And every year there will be cases of this virus and every year there will be those who will be sickened, and every year some will die. 

That's the reality the world has always faced, and that's not going to change.  What's sad is the alternative treatments shown to be much more effective were no only banned, those who prescribed those treatments were persecuted, censored and lost their jobs.  I wonder how many lives would have been saved except for these insane and corrupt mandates?

So now after "forcing" people to get these gene altering chemical compounds the Australian government is now acknowledging it's was the Australian government mandates that "forced" the deaths of untold numbers of their own citizens.  I don't think it's unreasonable to call these "mandated" deaths murder.  Murder by their absolutely dictatorial demands on their population.  In my mind there's only one question that needs answering.

Will these misfits be charged with murder, and if not, why not?

Here's what it comes down to.  If a retired bug man sitting in his office following this whole mess from his computer knew this was happening, and wrote about it extensively, how could these politicians, medical experts and scientists not know? If they knew, and since they were at the center of the information world on this issue that means they had had to have known the truth, and they had to have ignored that information for political reasons.  How can that not be criminal?   How can this not be considered a crime against humanity or at the very least, depraved indifference?  

And now they're telling Australians they have this wonderful plan to help pay to bury the people they murdered.  Imagine that.

Charges Dropped Against Pregnant Mother Arrested Over Anti-Lockdown Facebook Post

 To Premier Daniel Andrews she said: “I hope one day you’ll have your day in court.” 

 Bill Muehlenberg August 30, 2022

Editor's Note:  This Appeared Here, and I've not been given permission to publish this in full, so if the author or the web site object, I will merely link it, but I think this is the kind of piece that needs as broad as distribution as possible.  How can this kind of thing be construed as anything except big government tyranny that's anything different than the tyranny imposed on despotic socialistic societies?  RK

 Finally some justice for one brave mother.  Times of crisis can bring out the best and the worst in people. History always tells us this, and very recent history has certainly made this perfectly clear. The two years of Rona hysteria and lockdown madness really did bring out both quite distinctly. Some folks responded so very well, while others – perhaps most – simply went along with the Statist overkill.

 Far too many folks were quite happy to be led like sheep to their own slaughter, or at least to their own house arrest. And of course here in Victoria, some of the worst and longest lockdown lunacy on the planet took place. Do you remember all the insanity? Insanity such as:

• Only being allowed out of your home for just one hour a day!
• Only being allowed to travel no more than 5kms!
• Pubs and brothels staying open while churches and other essential services were forced to close!
• People prevented from having or attending weddings, going to funerals, or being with loved ones who were dying in hospital!

The list of atrocities is endless. Yet so many sheeple were more than happy to go along with all this. So many were quite willing to simply worship at the feet of leaders such as Premier Dan Andrews and do every single idiotic thing he told them to do. The paranoia and fear and hysteria were off the charts.

Many of these folks were even fully willing to snitch on their own neighbours or family members. This was straight out of the Communist playbook of course. Living in such fear and terror that you are willing to hate on your own former friends and neighbours is what a full-tilt dictatorship is all about.

But of course, there were others – those who bravely, courageously and resolutely would NOT submit to this diabolical Big Brother health fascism. They stood their ground and would not cave to the relentless pressure to fully conform – or else. And they often paid a very big price for standing up for human rights and basic civil liberties.

How many were arrested, fined and even jailed for saying no to the overreach of power-hungry thugs like Andrews? So many paid a very steep price indeed to stand for freedom. One of the superstars in this regard was a Ballarat mother. You all would recall her story – it was absolutely shocking. She was arrested by the police while at home in her pyjamas! As I wrote almost exactly two years ago about this case:

OK, this is where we are now at in the Victorian Police State. If armed police will come into a home and cuff and arrest a pregnant mother in her pyjamas (due to go to her ultrasound appointment) in front of her children, they will arrest anyone. You have been warned. This is serious. 

It seems we will all need to have our phones with the video cameras ready to go at a moment’s notice if we hear a knock at the door. With more and more ordinary Australians being arrested by the police in Dictator Dan’s dystopia – including pregnant mothers – we may well need to record everything.

There were so many utterly vile incidents that happened over those two years, but her story really did represent the complete breakdown of freedom and democracy in Victoria and so much of the world. In the name of “keeping us safe,” some of the most heavy-handed and tyrannical actions ever undertaken in peacetime took place. It was an utter nightmare.

But thankfully many of these champion freedom fighters eventually found a bit of justice. Many had the charges against them quietly dropped. Of course, the coercive State and its leaders never apologised to anyone. Dictators never do. But just today we learned of a very good outcome for this poor Ballarat mother. Here is the full story:

Police have dropped a charge against a Ballarat mum accused of breaching public health orders during Victoria’s Covid lockdown. Zoe Buhler, 30, was accused of using social media to organise a protest against state government lockdown rules between August 31 and September 2 in 2020. Her arrest while pregnant and wearing pyjamas was captured on video.

In Ballarat Magistrates Court on Tuesday, police withdrew a single charge of incitement to contravene public health directions. An application for costs by Ms Buhler was to be worked out between the parties. Outside court, Ms Buhler thanked her supporters and said she was “relieved that it’s all finished”. “Glad that it’s all over,” she said.

“Obviously the charges have been withdrawn. Bit ridiculous on the police side of things that they dragged it out for so long. I’ll be considering my options going forward especially in regards to being handcuffed while pregnant.” Ms Buhler said her stance against the state’s lockdown had not changed since her arrest. “I think the strong message I have is that I definitely have no regrets,” she said.

“I’m glad I stood up for people’s human rights and freedoms, and I guess the message maybe going into the future is … I hope I can be an inspiration that more of us should stand up for what is right.” She added the following for Premier Daniel Andrews: “I hope one day you’ll have your day in court”. And to the police: “Get the bad guys, not the innocent guys”. 

This certainly is terrific news – and long overdue. This terrible act of injustice never should have occurred in the first place. Nor should tens of thousands of other acts of injustice during this period. Thankfully some brave souls were willing to stand up and say ‘NO’ to tyranny and statist overkill.

Well done Zoe. You are a champion. You really did go through hell for such a long time. Finally a bit of justice. Finally a bit of good news. But as I say, will we hear one word of apology from Dictator Dan and his thugs about this? Not on your life.

Lithuania Calls on Allies to ‘Counter-Disrupt’ Beijing, Moscow

By Daniel Y. TengFebruary 9, 2022  

Lithuania’s foreign minister has called on democratic allies to band together against the “disruptors” of the global rules-based order—Russia and China. Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis is currently on a three-day visit to Australia to strengthen trade ties and help establish the Baltic nation’s embassy in the country.  Australia and Lithuania have both been on the receiving end of extensive trade sanctions from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) against perceived slights towards Beijing.

Landsbergis revealed to the Australian Financial Review earlier that he had met with Australia’s Foreign Minister Marise Payne at the United Nations’ General Assembly in New York in September 2021, where they “immediately understood” the need for more dialogue around Beijing’s actions, and the decision for an official visit was struck..........To Read More....

 

Australian Politician Imposes Lockdown on Unvaccinated Residents: 'Work Is Not a Reason to Leave the Home'

Madeline Leesman  @madelineleesman Posted: Jan 08, 2022 

Australia's Northern Territory Chief Minister Michael Gunner announced Wednesday that residents unvaccinated against the Wuhan coronavirus may not leave their homes to go to work or to exercise.  Gunner issued remarks on Wednesday where he said unvaccinated individuals may only leave their homes for three reasons; to undergo medical treatment or get a COVID-19 vaccine, to get groceries, and to care for a disabled loved one.   "The fully vaccinated can continue as they were," Gunner said in his remarks. "For people who are not vaccinated, lockdown rules will apply to everyone 16 and above." 

He noted that "work is not a reason to leave the home for the unvaccinated." ..........To Read More....

Widespread Manhunt Underway For Three Men, Possibly Aborigines, Who Escaped Australian Involuntary Quarantine Camp – Video

November 30, 2021 | Sundance | 225 Comments

The events here are priceless, and weird, and just, well, nuts.  Last week people were stunned to discover the Chief Premier of Australia’s Northern Territory, Michael Gunner, had triggered an operation using the military to round up Aboriginal tribes and place them into a COVID quarantine facility called Howard Springs.

Premier Gunner became furious at people who questioned his decision and said the native Australians wanted to be in the camp. {Go Deep}  Well, early this morning three men scaled the wall in the Howard Springs quarantine camp and escaped.  Police are right now conducting a widespread manhunt for the escapees, all of whom tested negative for the virus.

The Darwin police are using helicopters, roadblocks and are conducting vehicle searches in order to recapture the men who Michael Gunner said “wanted to be in” the detainment and quarantine facility.  Something ain’t adding up.....Watch

 

Dystopia Down Under: Thousands of Australians With Unpaid Fines for Breaking Covid Rules Have Bank Accounts Raided and Property Siezed As Tyrannical Government Chases Millions in Fees

By Julian Conradson November 6, 2021

As if the dystopian hell Australians are dealing with wasn’t bad enough already, residents of the country’s 2nd largest state are now at risk of losing the money in their bank accounts, their homes or other property, and even their driving privileges, if they do not pay their fines from breaking any of the tyrannical government’s draconian Covid rules in a timely manner.  

Since at least September, Queensland Health has employed the services of the State’s Penalties Enforcement Register (SPER) to collect a total of 3046 unpaid fines totaling around $5.2 million, which includes 2755 separate individuals and businesses who were issued citations for not following the public health dictatorship’s unjustifiable orders during Covid lockdowns..........Keep in mind, throughout the lengthy lockdowns, a huge number of citizens were not permitted to work or make a living in any way. Residents of Queensland could not even leave the house without being harassed by police or military officials, and if they dared stray too far from their house they were issued a ticket and a fine...............To Read More....

My Take - This is absolute insanity.  I've known some Aussies over the course of my life and they're not a passive lot by any stretch of the imagination, so I'm stunned this is actually happening there and not generating a rebellion. 

WEIRD: Western Australia Reportedly Has No COVID, Vaccinations Continue, But Hospitals Are Overwhelmed

By Joe Hoft November 5, 2021 

Noted by Alex Berenson, something very weird is happening in the state of Western Australia (WA) home to a population of almost 3 million people.  The WA state has been locked down and isolated from the COVID-19 impacts in the eastern states.   There are very few COVID cases in locked down Western Australia, which has allowed them time to prepare for the potential arrival of the virus which includes a massive vaccination effort.  The state has modeled an anticipated arrival of the COVID virus in early 2022, early next year.  However, as the vaccination rates increase, the hospitals are being overwhelmed with new patients and the Premier cannot explain why............To Read More....

 

Australia’s Nuclear Submarine Move Changes Strategic Layout of Indo-Pacific Region

Cheng Xiaonong October 7, 2021

Recently, Australia signed with the United States and the United Kingdom a trilateral security pact called AUKUS, symbolizing that Australia has been strengthening its national defense after realizing the military threat from China.

One: Exposure of Beijing’s ‘Advancing Eastward and Southward’ Strategy

In the first half of 2020, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) waged a China-U.S. Cold War through a series of military threats. Prior to this, the CCP had already launched a series of military deployments in the South Pacific, which gradually exposed its military intention of “advancing eastward and southward” and heightened the alertness of Australia...........

Two: CCP’s Foreign Military Ambitions Are Aimed at Australia

Australia may not see clearly the reason why the CCP has been building bases in island countries in the southern hemisphere, such as Samoa, Kiribati, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu, which are geographically not too close to Australia.  By the time the CCP reaches the gateway to it, however, Australia realizes the true intention of this communist regime............. control the vast waters of the South Pacific; to isolate Australia; and to threaten the United States.

Three: Reason Behind CCP’s ‘Southward’ Military Expansion

One of the targets of the CCP’s “southward” military expansion is Australia. Over the past 20 years, the CCP military has spent a lot of manpower to translate the many memoirs of South Pacific warfare during the Pacific War.  By doing so, the Chinese military will not only be familiar with the geographic characteristics of the islands, but also accumulate the war experience and battlefield tactics, as well as various problems in logistics, transportation, sanitation, and epidemic prevention, of the countries that have fought in the South Pacific. For the CCP, the island countries in the South Pacific do not have many strategic resources worthy of war, except for iron ore, which is particularly needed for military expansion and war preparations during the China-U.S. Cold War...............The only two sources of China’s large-scale imports of high-quality iron ore are, for the time being, Australia and Brazil. Iron ore, like oil, is a strategic material necessary for the arms race of major powers.....................

Four: Ulterior Motive of CCP’s Trade Sanctions on Australia

Since the second half of 2020, the CCP has imposed unilateral economic sanctions on Australia.  With the exception of iron ore, gold, and aluminum ore, other agricultural and mineral products of Australia, which were meant to be exported to China, have been banned or blocked in disguised form by the CCP...........“But the Australian people—business leaders and exporters included—understood that accepting China’s ultimatum would mean submitting to a dangerous new order. Australian businesses absorbed the losses, weathered the embargo, and found new markets.”

Five: Australia’s Nuclear Submarine Strategy

The long-distance military confrontation of modern countries is mainly confrontation between naval vessels. Australia has long been preparing to strengthen its submarine fleet based on the CCP’s maritime threat.

Originally planning to purchase the conventional type of powered attack submarines from France, Australia decided to switch to U.S. nuclear-powered attack submarines recently.

A few years ago, the United States had not formulated its own Indo-Pacific strategy and would not provide Australia with nuclear-powered attack submarines.

Since the release of then President Donald Trump’s Indo-Pacific strategy at the end of 2019, President Joe Biden has now agreed to strengthen the submarine fleet of the Australian Navy.

Compared with the conventional type of powered attack submarines used by France, American nuclear-powered attack submarines are much more advantageous in ways that not only are they larger in tonnage, their equipment, and nuclear submarine technology are also based on a mature and reliable foundation of 60 years..........By doing so, the CCP navy’s planned invasion of the South Pacific can be effectively prevented.............

Six: Influence of Australia’s New Strategy of National Defense

The reason why the CCP has been forcibly building artificial islands in the open waters of the South China Sea is to blockade the international waters in this area.  The strategic intention of these artificial islands, which serve as the “deep sea fortress” of the CCP’s strategic nuclear submarines, have been introduced publicly and specifically by the regime. Setting off from the “deep sea fortress,” these strategic nuclear submarines can pose a nuclear threat to the United States at any time once they submerge into the vast Central Pacific............This deployment has to a certain extent broken the CCP’s three-sided encirclement of Australia and has also dispersed the CCP’s naval forces..........To Read More....

Inside an Australian COVID Internment Camp, a Dystopian Hell Await

By Bonchie | Sep 06, 2021

COVID has revealed a lot over the last year and a half, but no country has been exposed more for its underlying culture of tyranny than Australia. Formerly a beacon of freedom, community, and beautiful landscapes, the land down under has morphed into a dystopian hellscape where the government blesses its residents with an hour of free time a day. The former prison colony has reverted to its roots.

Nowhere is that more apparent than in the COVID internment camps now operating in Australia. Travelers, both foreign and domestic are forced into one of the various metal buildings to serve out their 14-day sentence. There, they remain "quarantined", only to be delivered food by faceless operatives in full protective gear.

This per The New York Times.

HOWARD SPRINGS, Australia - On Day 8 of my two-week stay at Australia'

s only remote, dedicated facility for Covid quarantine, I called my 11-year-old daughter at home in Sydney to ask how her day at school had gone. All I heard was a long pause.

"Dad", she said. "It''s Saturday."

I looked out the window as if my confusion could be cleared by the brown all around me,  the single-story metal lodging, the pathways, the bags of food that had just been dropped off by workers in face shields. It was not yet 5 p.m. and they were delivering dinner?

Such is life in a former mining camp near the northern tip of the country, in a place called Howard Springs, a temporary home for hundreds of domestic and international travelers being forced to wait around long enough to prove they're Covid-free.

Australia has given these camps the Orwellian name of  "centers for national resilience," a turn of phrase that would be more at home in North Korea or China. And more are being built to pursue the goal of so-called "COVID zero," though, the government has recently begun to admit that may not be possible.

The supposed collective good is the excuse used to justify such drastic violations of individual rights. Yet, the lack of science behind the idea is palpable. Given the efficacy of current tests and the known incubation period of the virus, what is the basis for needing to keep someone locked away by force for 14 straight days? The Australian government, and perhaps many of the people who live there, take a "better safe than sorry" approach, though.

The question is how long do they expect to keep this up? The internment camp strategy appears to be long-term, but are they just postponing the inevitable? It's also worth noting that the strategy doesn't appear to be working..............To Read More....

No Liberty? No Problem

Australians shrug at their government’s draconian pandemic response. 

Arthur Chrenkoff August 30, 2021 @ City Journal

Riot police firing rubber bullets into lockdown protesters. Rescue dogs being shot to prevent volunteers travelling to collect them. Nighttime curfews and one hour of exercise per day. Five-kilometer travel limits. Soldiers patrolling suburbs to enforce lockdowns. Health bureaucrats advising the citizenry not to stop and talk to their neighbors while walking their dog.

What the hell is happening Down Under? “Totalitarianism,” says Tucker Carlson. “Australia has lost its collective mind,” according to Ben Shapiro. “If we invade Australia we will be greeted as liberators,” argues Jack Posobiec. Has Covid-19 really turned one of the world’s oldest democracies into a dystopian health dictatorship? As my Polish grandmother used to say, things are rarely as good or as bad as they appear.

First, some background to the current crisis. Australia has been the victim of both its success and its failure in tackling Covid. At just under 1,000 deaths, Australia has had the second-lowest mortality among the OECD countries (after New Zealand). It stands at just over 36 people per million of population, versus 1,853 for the United States. It helps, of course, to be an island nation that had closed its international borders at the start of the pandemic. The border remains closed today, with permits required to come to Australia (issued in limited numbers and limited circumstances) and to leave it. The few arrivals are subject to a 14-day quarantine. 

In addition, state governments have from the outset reacted with hard lockdowns and closures of their own borders. Flattening the curve was so successful that it prompted the transition to the elimination, or “zero Covid,” strategy. Hence, nowadays a mere handful of new cases is enough to send a state capital city with a multimillion population, or even an entire state, into lockdown in an attempt to contain and suppress an outbreak.

Success in keeping the infection numbers and deaths down has bred complacency, which in turn has led to failure. Starting late and slowly, the vaccination program has been plagued by problems, such as the locally produced AstraZeneca vaccine, on which the federal government made its big—and sole—bet, generating serious side effects. Such problems are extremely rare, to be sure, but in an overall climate of public health hysteria, these issues proved catastrophic for public confidence. Still, the rollout has sped up significantly, and the population is approaching an 80 percent vaccination-rate target, lured in part by the carrots of eased restrictions in the future.

To those half-jokingly tweeting about invading and liberating Australia, I have some bad news: Australia does not want to be liberated. Strong majorities support the harsh measures. Several state elections over this time have seen incumbents comfortably reelected on platforms of acting tough against Covid, amid messaging that those advocating a lighter touch want to kill your grandma. In Victoria, where the left-wing Labor government has been by far the harshest and most trigger-happy—Melbourne has been under “hard” lockdown for more than 200 days so far—polling suggests only a small dip in support, not nearly enough to unseat the administration. The consensus can be distilled into the following: Look at the rest of the world! Our government has kept us safe so far. We can’t allow what has happened in the United States or Europe to happen here.

American readers might be surprised at such a supine public attitude in the face of some of the hardest and longest-lasting Covid restrictions in the developed world. To the extent that Americans think of Australia, they might think of a staunch ally in wartime, or perhaps a relaxed but tough and rough-around-the-edges country that has produced Crocodile Dundee and a long procession of Hollywood’s leading action men. All that might be accurate, but the truth is that Australia simply does not (and never did) possess as strong a libertarian streak as America. For all the jokes about theirs being a “nation of convicts,” Australians have always been far more statist and beholden to authority than Americans.

A powerful coalition of those with the most to lose and those who have not lost anything is driving the official “zero Covid” fantasy. The media has piled on, helping the government to terrify the population. The Fauci Syndrome is strong in Australia, too: health experts and bureaucrats have tasted unprecedented fame, power, and influence, and continue to be among the main drivers of the most ridiculous restrictions. The ever-growing section of society directly or indirectly dependent on taxpayers for its livelihood has been well care for during Covid-related upheavals. Those most at risk of death or serious complications remain strongly supportive of government “protecting” them from the virus. And the so-called laptop class also hasn’t had a bad pandemic, with many enjoying being able to work from home.

This leaves a minority of Australians driven to despair by isolation, lockdowns, travel restrictions, and the disappearance of their livelihoods. Service industries, particularly hospitality, have been hardest hit by forced closures and other restrictions. The economy continues to chug along, as the money printer in Canberra churns out tens of billions in handouts. The open federal money tap has allowed state governments, mostly in the hands of the opposition center-Left, to go to extremes; in any case, the center-Right small-business constituency is suffering the most. This is not a sustainable strategy, even if the governing center-Right has largely given up on fiscal responsibility.

The success in suppressing Covid comes with other price tags. The single-minded obsession that no one get sick and die from Covid is being paid for by a slowly unfolding mental-health crisis. Social isolation and dislocation are taking their toll in terms of rising suicide, depression, substance abuse, and domestic violence. Physical health suffers, too, as treatable conditions don’t get treated in the health system that now seems to have only one goal.

How long can this last? If it was up to the drunk-on-power politicians and bureaucrats who have found a winning electoral formula, health experts who have found relevance, and the deathly scared who have found a sense of safety (and, for some at least, the frisson of being a part of something big and important), the answer is “forever.” Which is why the federal government—belatedly trying to orchestrate a return to some normalcy once certain vaccination levels are reached—finds its efforts contradicted by state governments and health experts arguing that the vaccination target actually needs to be (the unreachable and unrealistic) 90 percent or 95 percent, that lockdowns should continue even with a highly vaccinated population, and that international borders should stay closed indefinitely. That this is not great marketing—get vaccinated, but you still won’t be able to do anything!—needs no genius to recognize. Sadly, little evidence has materialized of any major shift in public sentiment. The powers that be still find it easy to taint the opposition to their “zero Covid” policies as callous, anti-science, anti-vax, right-wing extremists.

Will people finally start getting restless as the rest of the developed world slowly returns to normal? Here’s wishing. For now, Australia remains a salutary lesson—an example of what can happen when an easily isolated population is subjected to a relentless scare campaign that plays to existing prejudices and exploits popular innumeracy and lack of critical thinking. The land Down Under is now a Galapagos archipelago of fear, on its own evolutionary path to a utopia where no one ever dies (but terms and conditions apply). Like the Galapagos tortoise, too, the solution is to withdraw inside its shell—but let’s hope it’s not for 150 years.

Arthur Chrenkoff is an Australian blogger at The Daily Chrenk.

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Breaking: Australia Has Fallen to Tyranny

Daniel @ UAF Report

It’s hard to believe sometimes that there are other countries, major countries that are top tier nations that have fallen to even greater tyranny than what we’re experiencing here in the United States.

It’s expected in other countries that maybe aren’t so much known for their freedom like China or Russia, but when it happens to a big English speaking country like Australia, it really catches you off guard.

The Australian parliament just recently succeeded in a major power grab that will give them so much power over the citizens of Australia it’s ridiculous.

They will have full control of citizens’ social media accounts and place that power in the hands of the government. Nothing will be sacred on social media. The Australian government will be effectively spying on its own citizens.

The government can now access email accounts without consent. The government can now add and delete information they deem to need attention. The power to edit, remove, add, delete information, without citizen consent, is the feeling of a true authoritarian government making a strong move.

The bill allows the government to perform three types of data disruption. AU authorities will have unprecedented access to all accounts. Access is one thing and that is bad enough, but now the government can literally invade citizens’ privacy with zero recourse.

The Guardian reported,

“It is alarming that, instead of accepting the committee’s recommendations and allowing time for scrutiny of subsequent amendments, the Morrison government rushed these laws through parliament in less than 24 hours,” Pender said.

“While the safeguards for journalists and whistleblowers are welcome, they highlight the lack of wider entrenched safeguards for press freedom and free speech in Australia.”

The ability for federal agents to delete, copy, and modify citizens’ online accounts is now within the “legal” realm.

The government can impersonate its citizens, while using online accounts, to achieve tasks they deem worthy. This is a true infringement upon every AU citizen and it feels an awful lot like the movie 1984 coming to real life.

Totalitarian madness comes to Australia’s New South Wales

August 12, 2021 By Andrea Widburg

Perhaps because of its incredibly brave troops in WWI and WWII, not to mention the Crocodile Dundee films, Australia shared with America a reputation for being a wild and free place. That’s not so anymore. New South Wales, home to Sydney, the largest city in Australia, has gone so overboard with COVID hysteria that the state is under martial law, and people are not only being told not to talk to each other anymore, they’re also being urged to spy and report on scofflaw neighbors. North Korea couldn’t have done it better. And all this is happening in a state with 5.3 million people solely because of 12,588 cases and 91 deaths since last February.

The Daily Mail summarized where New South Wales stood vis-à-vis COVID as of August 11:

New South Wales has recorded 345 new cases of Covid-19 and two deaths of men in their 90s - as more suburbs are slapped with harsher restrictions in Sydney’s west. One of the men had a single dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine while the other had two doses of Pfizer.  Both vaccines are around 90 per cent effective at stopping death after two doses. One died at Liverpool Hospital after catching the disease as part of the hospital’s outbreak which has now killed seven.  The other died at Royal North Shore Hospital and was a resident at Wyoming Residential Aged Care Facility in Summer Hill, in Sydney’s inner west.

Here, you can see it in graphic form:..........To Read More....