Australian Politics
Landlord's surprisingly direct response to a tenant after finding out about their complaints on a rental property
I can heartily endorse this story. I once owned property interstate so relied on agents to look after them. The agents were shockers. On one occasion a storm blew a hole in a garage roof. The agent collected the insurance money to fix it but did nothing to the roof. It was only when I visited months later that I found the hole still there. Agents are lazy !@##$%$%s in my experience
A landlord has given a surprisingly direct response after finding out about their tenants' complaints about a rental property, saying he didn't know about the problems.
The East Melbourne house's multiple defects - the leaks started four days after the tenants moved in - were revealed in a video by tenants' advocate Jordie van den Berg.
But the owner saw the video and replied under the posting that 'Funny enough I'm the landlord that owns this property, before you go blaming me for everything please listen to my side.
'I'm very sorry for everything that has happened but I'm currently rectifying all the issues on the house now, I honestly didn't know about this.'
The infuriated owner later added that he 'Will not be using [the agent] anymore and will be making sure my brothers, family and friends don't use them either for their investments.'
Mr van den Berg said that 'This is what's wrong with the real estate industry. Turns out the landlord didn't know about the issues...
'How is a landlord supposed to rectify issues they don't know about because an agency isn't doing their job?'
The tenants' rights activist, who is also a lawyer, is so passionate about the housing issue that he has set up a website to expose terrible rentals called s***rentals.org.
'It's not the first time that the landlord has become aware of issues at a property due to a video that I've made, the real estate agency hasn't told them,' Mr van den Berg told Daily Mail Australia.
'I suspect it's going to happen a lot more now with the new website, because (of agencies that) don't do their jobs.'
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Teaching in Australia has become a refuge for the least able
Why? Because anybody with options would not want to spend their days in front of an unruly mob
Problems with the Australian school system are a favourite topic for our newspapers, especially around the time of the final examinations for school leavers. The Sydney Morning Herald in particular publishes the notorious leagues tables on which many parents rely in making school choices, but at the same time loves to expose scandals and extravagant spending at big private schools and regularly gives a forum to writers demanding an end to funding for private education.
The problems are real, and it is wrong that parents should have to pay so much for a good education; it would obviously be preferable to have a high-quality public educational network such as the French lycée system in which I spent the first four years of my own schooling. But that is not going to happen in Australia; we are too resentful of excellence. Our education system, meanwhile, is dominated by bureaucrats and pseudo-academics with little idea of the real purpose of education.
Mediocrity starts with the abysmally low entry requirements for teacher training courses; individuals can be admitted with low ATARs. A report from the University of Sydney a few years ago showed that half the student intake into teaching degrees in NSW and the ACT in 2015 had ATARs below 50. Can we be surprised then if the performance of our schools in international rankings has been in steady decline in recent years? Or is it any wonder that the profession of teaching, so vital to a successful society, is no longer held in the high regard it once enjoyed?
But the poor quality of the intake is just part of the problem. Equally to blame is the training students get once they are admitted to teaching courses, which ostensibly emphasises techniques of teaching rather than subject content, and yet seems to leave young teachers unprepared for the realities of classroom management. And all of this is based on a body of academic theory that is in reality an intellectual pyramid scheme, in which each vacuous and jargon-ridden piece of writing cites 10 others of the same kind and quality.
Finally there is the educational bureaucracy. As school standards have declined, these bodies have relentlessly increased the demands they make on teachers, from tabulations of so-called educational “standards” to regular “professional development” and annual “professional reflection” forms – all of which are frustrating and distracting to good teachers and of course incapable of making the bad ones any better than they are. The fact that the increase in bureaucratic demands has coincided with an even more dramatic decline in educational outcomes should tell us something; but the response of the “academics” and the bureaucrats is always to do more of what doesn’t work.
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Greenies silent on planned bulldozing of ‘koala central’ for huge wind farm
Koala habitats will be ripped apart to build wind farms in central Queensland so state and federal Labor governments can chase their fantasy of meeting useless, costly and unobtainable renewable energy targets.
If you need any more evidence that green zealotry has entered the delusional phase, this is it in my opinion.
Federal and state environment ministers Tanya Plibersek and Leanne Linard and previous enviro minister Meaghan Scanlon have, perhaps unwittingly, paved the way for koalas to be sacrificed on the renewable energy altar to appease the green evangelists.
Here I have to say I am on the side of the koalas. And I remind Plibersek and Linard that in 2022 the status of the koala was changed from vulnerable to endangered in Queensland and NSW.
Linard said the Palaszczuk Government was strongly committed to protecting and conserving koalas and their habitat.
Not strong enough, it seems, to dissuade Plibersek from using her ministerial powers to approve Lotus Creek wind farm on the Nebo-Connors Range 175km northwest of Rockhampton.
Earlier this year The Courier-Mail reported the project by the South Korean-owned Ark Energy will have 55 wind turbines able to generate 1.7 million megawatt hours of renewable energy a year – enough to power 305,000 homes.
In approving the project, Plibersek overturned a decision by her Coalition predecessor Sussan Ley, who in 2020 said the wind farm was as “clearly unacceptable” and in breach of federal environment laws, partly because the site was home to koalas and other species afflicted by the previous summer’s catastrophic bushfires.
The Plibersek approval of the Lotus Creek project gave the green light to the bulldozing of old-growth forest containing 341ha of known koala habitat, The Australian reported.
However, The Australian said that figure was likely to be underestimated.
The national daily quoted renowned nature photographer Steven Nowakowski describing the forest as “koala central”.
There are more threats to our beloved koalas. I noticed protesters outside The Courier-Mail’s Bush Summit in Rockhampton waving Save the Koala placards when objecting to state government approval of the Moah Creek wind turbine development on untouched native bushland 30km west of Rockhampton. The project put 380ha of koala habitat at the mercy of the bulldozers, The Courier-Mail reported.
It seems absurd to me that the Labor government refuses to approve dams, coal and gas projects on environmental grounds while approving wind turbines that are clearly a direct threat to an endangered species.
And I haven’t heard a word of protest from animal rights activists, the Queensland Greens, or the Australian Conservation Foundation, the World Wildlife Fund or Friends of the Earth. Why?
More pain may be coming for the endangered koala. Plibersek has now been asked to approve 88 giant turbines in the middle of an upland tropical forest at Chalumbin on the Atherton Tableland, where 844ha of koala habitat were identified in the original plan.
The developer is the same corporation backing Lotus Creek.
The ABC reported the controversial $1 billion wind farm was adjacent to World Heritage-protected rainforests. And that the project was scaled back from the original 200 turbines in an effort to appease conservationists and some traditional owners.
Conservationists opposed to the Chalumbin wind farm, two hours southwest of Cairns, say it would pose a threat to a number of animals including the northern greater glider, the red goshawk, the magnificent brood frog, the masked owl and the spectacled flying fox. I haven’t heard a peep out of Linard or Palaszczuk about this.
Alarm bells are ringing. Documents tabled by federal parliament Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young show the federal Environment Department is assessing 140 proposals with the potential to have a detrimental impact on koalas.
Plibersek is the ultimate decision- maker on developments that affect threatened species.
In state parliament Shane Knuth from Katter’s Australia Party gave a valuable perspective.
“This wind farm will comprise some of the tallest turbines in the Southern Hemisphere which will destroy forest and threaten endangered species,” he told the House.
“To further highlight the renewable fantasy to achieve the government’s 50 per cent renewable target by 2030, this will require an additional 2,200 megawatts of new renewables, which means 540,000 hectares of land has to be cleared for wind farms, excluding transmission lines.
“As long as it is a wind farm, foreign-owned companies can clear whatever they like.
“Governments continue to knock back any new water project proposed while at the same time wind farms are given a free pass to completely destroy natural habitat.’’
Knuth specifically referred to the abandoned Tully-Millstream hydro-electric Scheme that was “a clean, green approved project” that would have powered 100,000 homes.
“It was abandoned in 1988 due to the declaration of the Wet Tropics World Heritage area,” he said.
Knuth is right.
It is clear to me that state and federal Labor environmental ministers are ignoring the serious threats posed by renewable energy projects.
So are the Greens as they continue their long march to gain control of federal, state and local governments.
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Would Australians have consented to vaccinations if they knew the potential risks?
Julie Sladden
The bombshell discovery of DNA contamination in mRNA Covid shots has shocked and alarmed scientists around the globe. They are calling on regulators to urgently stop the injections and conduct a full safety evaluation.
Following Kevin McKernan’s initial discovery earlier in 2023, his findings have been independently verified by several internationally recognised labs around the world including Dr Philip Buckhaults and Dr Sin Lee. These results were again confirmed most recently in Germany when biologist Dr Jurgen Kirchner tested various batches of the Pfizer product (Comirnaty) at his laboratory in Magdeburg and discovered DNA contamination that he claims exceeds regulatory levels by a factor of 200-350. Dr Kirchner followed up with a letter to Health Minister Karl Lauterbach on 20 August 2023, attaching the results of the findings. The official reply from the ministerial office was unimpressive, to say the least:
’(…) the Federal Ministry of Health has no evidence of possible DNA contamination in the Covid-19 vaccine Comirnaty (BioNTech/Pfizer) that has been marketed in Europe and Germany (…) From a local perspective, there is therefore no need for further action.’
This lack of alarm has frustrated members of the scientific community who ask, ‘Under what regulatory system doesn’t this lead to immediate withdrawal from market?’
In the US, testimonies from Dr McKernan to the FDA, Dr Phillip Buckhaults, and Dr Janci Lindsay to the South Carolina Senate seem to raise alarm from all except the therapeutic regulator, the FDA.
You might think ‘well this is all overseas’ and therefore not relevant to Australia. Well, dear reader, you may change your mind when you learn that the Covid mRNA injections are manufactured in just a handful of facilities around the world, and none of them in Australia. This concerns us too.
Many worry that DNA contamination in the mRNA vaccines could bring with it a truckload of serious risks and potential adverse outcomes, including the possibility of genomic integration. That is, the DNA in the injection becomes a part of the DNA of a person’s cells.
The repeated and verified finding of DNA contamination has alarmed scientists from different disciplines and, as McKernan notes, ‘It is important for readers to see where various divergent voices agree.’ Despite being a proponent for the mRNA platform, Buckhaults describes his alarm at the finding, ‘…and the possible consequences of this both in terms of human health and biology.’ In testifying to the Senate he adds, ‘But you should be alarmed at the regulatory process that allowed it to get there.’
World-renowned Professor Wafik El-Deiry, Director of the Cancer Centre at Brown University and known for his work in identifying genes associated with cancer, added his voice to the conversation stating Buckhaults’ testimony was ‘good science raising concerns about contamination of Covid mRNA vaccines with DNA’. He adds:
‘[Buckhaults] explains how pieces of naked DNA allowed in protein vaccines at a certain threshold was not so problematic in a different era but that with encapsulation in liposomes they can now easily get into cells. If they get into cells they can integrate into the genome which is permanent, heritable, and has a theoretical risk of causing cancer depending on where in the genome they integrate. There is a need for more research into what happens in stem cells and I would add germ-line, heart, (and) brain. I am also concerned about prolonged production of spike for months with the pseudouridine in the more stable RNA.’
‘Blood clots, myocarditis, cardiac arrests, and other adverse effects are documented,’ adds El-Deiry. Many believe there’s an urgent need to quantify this problem as DNA is itself prothrombotic and could be the cause of some of the rare but serious side effects like sudden death from cardiac arrest.
Dr Janci Lindsay, a biochemist and molecular biologist, agrees with these concerns and has spent months calling for the shots to be suspended. Alongside the identified risks of genomic integration, autoimmunity, and cancer, Lindsay says other possibilities include gut bacteria (E. coli) taking up DNA plasmids and becoming ‘perpetual spike factories’ or incorporating the antibiotic resistance gene. There is another potential issue Lindsay highlights, ‘If there’s that much (DNA) plasmid in the shots, there’s a very good chance that there’s bacterial endotoxin in the shots… bacterial proteins which can cause anaphylaxis and even death.’
You may wonder, how the DNA and other potential contaminants got into some of these products. Well, it all comes down to the manufacturing process, as discussed in a recent BMJ article. The clinical trials involving around 40,000 people were conducted using injections manufactured via ‘Process 1’ which involved in vitro transcription of synthetic DNA. This is essentially a ‘clean’ process. However, this process is not viable for mass production, so the manufacturers switched to ‘Process 2’ which involves using E. coli bacteria to replicate the plasmids. Getting the plasmids out of the E. coli. can be challenging and may result in residual plasmids, and possibly bacterial endotoxin, in the vaccines. Australian Professor Geoff Pain provides extensive details on these endotoxins.
With the highest rates of adverse events and injuries we’ve ever seen for a ’provisionally approved’ product, you would think any regulator worth their salt would be jumping in to ensure that what has been discovered overseas isn’t so in Australia. But it seems the burden of proof is falling on everyone but the regulator.
From the very start, countless medical and legal professionals have called out the ethical disaster of ‘un-informed’ consent and these experimental injections. Informed consent requires a full discussion of the known and potentially unknown risks of any medication or treatment. This, and the coercion, manipulation, and mandates applied to the Australian people, made informed consent impossible.
How many Australians, I wonder, would have agreed to receive an injection that potentially contained DNA with all the inherent risks described?
None, is my guess.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/10/what-the-shot/
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