This list is not politically centric; rather, it outlines what I would like to see from present and future Australian Governments.

1. Declare that Australia no longer supports the Net Zero 2050 narrative.
2. Announce the intention to repeal the ban on nuclear energy for power generation.
3. Pledge to implement further migration controls and policies incentivizing domestic births. Prioritise countries of origin for immigrants to enhance assimilation.
4. Avow to discontinue the practice of welcoming Australians to their own country.
5. Commence an audit of the Aboriginal Industry to ensure funds are directed where they can do the best for the most vulnerable.
6. Abolish the Assistant Minister for the Republic portfolio.
7. Launch a Royal Commission into ideological abuses prevalent in tertiary and general education.
8. Revoke the Misinformation and Disinformation Bill. The Government should not be exempt, as dissent with policy should not be automatically labelled as misinformation or disinformation.
9. Initiate a probe into Services Australia, especially Centrelink, to address the growing welfare state. Propose tripling unemployment benefits for the first three months, halving them thereafter, and discontinuing benefits after six months. For those who are infirm and unable to work, transition them to disability pension. Eliminate lifetime unemployment benefits.
10. Agree to better measure foreign aid funding against our domestic economic circumstances.
11. Begin aggressive efforts to revitalize Australia’s sovereign capabilities, including the production of long-range missile deterrents and prioritizing naval shipbuilding, which has been problematic for the past two decades.
12. Affirm that a woman, and nothing else, is a biological female.
13. Withdraw from the United Nations and all associated treaties—a bureaucratic and financial sink that is as useless as those things on bulls.

 

In response to a recent attack on a merchant ship, India has announced plans to deploy three guided-missile destroyer ships in the Arabian Sea. The United States has accused Iran of carrying out the attack, a claim that Tehran has denied.

The targeted vessel, the Liberian-flagged and Japanese-owned MV Chem Pluto, which suffered an attack off the Indian coast, docked in Mumbai on Monday. Initial reports suggested a drone attack, prompting the Indian Navy to initiate an investigation. The crew, consisting of 21 Indians and one Vietnamese citizen, is safe.

As part of efforts to enhance security and deter further incidents, India has deployed the guided-missile destroyers INS Mormugao, INS Kochi, and INS Kolkata in various areas of the Arabian Sea. Additionally, New Delhi is reinforcing its anti-piracy measures in the Gulf of Aden, responding to the recent hijacking of the MV Ruen by Somali pirates.

The navy emphasized the need for further forensic and technical analysis to determine the specifics of the attack, including the type and amount of explosive used. A joint investigation involving various departments is set to take place.

Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh affirmed the country’s commitment to ensuring maritime trade security in the region, asserting India’s role as a net security provider in the entire Indian Ocean region.

While the U.S. has attributed the attack on MV Chem Pluto to Iran, the Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson dismissed the accusation as baseless. Meanwhile, Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels have carried out drone and missile attacks in the Red Sea in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, responding to Israeli actions against Hamas militants.

Soldiers from 13th Engineer Regiment trial new technology Ground Uncrewed System (GUS) during Exercise Talisman Sabre at RAAF Base Curtin, Western Australia. Photo: CPL Janet Pan.

The Australian Defence Force has further tested new ground uncrewed systems (GUS) as advancements in international unmanned technology show promising results. Soldiers from the 13th Engineer Regiment of the Australian Army evaluated these unmanned systems at RAAF Base Curtin near Derby, Western Australia.

In the realm of unmanned land-based robotics, the Australian Army had previously showcased fire and manoeuvre demonstrations featuring two autonomous Australian Army M113 AS4 armoured vehicles at Majura Training Area in late 2019, in front of senior leadership from the Department of Defence. It’s known that in-service R400 EOS remote weapon stations have been integrated onto M113 armoured personnel carriers to function as optionally crewed combat vehicles. The Army plans to conduct weapon system test firing in early 2024.

On the global stage, fully electric autonomous unmanned ground vehicles recently underwent trials, organized by the Estonian Military Academy and the Estonian Defence Forces in Estonia. These trials included obstacle avoidance, speed, and maneuverability challenges, with eleven companies participating over two days. The trials showcased the advancements in autonomous technology, impressing participants from over 20 countries.

Reflecting this progress, a participant in the trials stated, “These trials have shown just how far autonomous technology has come in recent years. We were proud to put our system to the test alongside some of the world’s most skilled developers. We are really pleased with our performance and look forward to seeing how our technology will evolve over the coming years.”

In the United States, recent contracts announced on July 31 focus on the design and prototyping of the XM30 Mechanized Infantry Combat Vehicle, intended to replace the M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle. The XM30 is the US Army’s inaugural ground combat vehicle crafted using modern digital engineering tools and techniques. Ed Zoiss, President of L3Harris Space and Airborne Systems, expressed enthusiasm about working with partners to produce advanced and secure vehicles, incorporating innovative technologies for superior protection, firepower, and mobility. The vehicle features L3Harris third-generation sights to enhance threat identification capabilities.

 

Photo: L3Harris Product Gallery.

The VAMPIRE multipurpose weapon system, developed by American defence technology contractor L3Harris, is already proving to be highly effective in Ukraine. This Vehicle-Agnostic Modular Palletised ISR Rocket Equipment is empowering Ukrainian ground forces by enabling them to pinpoint and eliminate enemy drones while safeguarding against ground threats from adversaries.

According to a public statement released by L3Harris on December 11, the VAMPIRE system boasts advanced reconnaissance and precision strike capabilities, crucial for protecting Ukrainian civilian infrastructure from potential enemy attacks. The system seamlessly integrates a WESCAM MX-10 RSTA targeting sensor with the Advanced Precision Kill Weapons System rocket munitions, ensuring rapid and accurate engagement of targets. Additionally, it incorporates a proximity fuse to enhance lethality against aerial threats.

Earlier this year, L3Harris secured a $40 million agreement with the US Department of Defence for 14 tailored VAMPIRE multipurpose weapon systems. This strategic collaboration aims to assist the Ukrainian military in targeting and neutralizing Russian drones, along with defending against ground threats. The contract allows the prime contractor to install VAMPIRE kits on US-provided vehicles, transforming them into portable missile launchers for battlefield combat support and critical infrastructure defence.

EOS Defence Systems USA, a subsidiary of Australian defence technology firm Electro Optic Systems, played a vital role in the process. Engaged under the US Department of Defence contract, EOS supplied positioning components for the VAMPIRE through an EOS AS-65 gimbal. This technology ensures precise aiming and firing of rockets, missiles, and other payloads, supporting ground-to-ground and ground-to-air delivery when integrated into the VAMPIRE system. The AS-65 is capable of tracking targets and firing a 70-millimeter guided rocket from a four-pack launcher.

 

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“ASIO director-General Mike Burgess advised Labor MP Michelle Ananda Rajah that Australia’s pro-Palestine rallies served as an important “pressure release” given a “real risk of a terror attack”, a letter from the back bencher to a local voter has revealed”.

The MP, Michelle Ananda Rajah, further pointed out that social cohesion was “our most valuable national asset” whilst maintaining a completely straight face.

Given the spirit of Christmas and the season of giving, I’m going to donate a little of my time to Mike “ASIO” Burgess and write a more complete briefing for him to share with all Australian MPs in both the Federal and State Parliaments. If you are reading this Mike, feel free to cut and paste without attribution.

Dear Australian MPs,

As you are probably aware, the pro-Palestinian rallies which are currently going ahead around the country are terrifying the Jewish community and alarming traditional Australians.

British descended Aussies still seem to naively believe that migrants will leave behind grievances from the old country which have been festering for millennia.

If we disallowed the rallies, these Palestinian supporters might have more time on their hands as well as more bottled-up anger and hatred.

In my opinion, I think this would be likely to result in terror attacks in Australia.

Almost all of these people were brought into this country by you, our political class, often with enthusiastic support from the organised Jewish community.

I think now might be a good time to ask yourselves, “what the hell were we thinking.”

It’s not as if you weren’t warned. The terror attack at the Munich Olympics happened shortly before you began welcoming in huge numbers of Muslims against the advice of your departments.

But you still just had to go ahead anyway, didn’t you? Even though you knew the voters were dead set against it.

So much for democracy heh? Just spit all over those who voted for you as if you know better. Clearly, you didn’t.

One of, if not the most important function of Government, is to protect your citizens from foreign threats.

The migrants you choose are given Australian citizenship and passports which are extremely difficult to revoke.

Citizenship is then conferred to their descendants and allows full rights of passage in and out of the country (when you aren’t locking us down like prison inmates) and gives political power to each and every newly minted citizen in the form of a vote.

They also give access to our incredibly generous welfare system which is paid for by current taxpayers.

In view of these facts, it is hard to think of a more solemn decision than whether to award citizenship to a foreigner or not.

Get it wrong, and the citizens who vote for you and pay your generous salaries and superannuation are lumbered with the consequences pretty much forever.

I’ve tried to rack my brains to think of the most undesirable migrant it would be possible to find, but try as I might, I can’t think of anyone who could be less desirable that someone who turns out, not only to be a terrorist, but manages to raise children who also want to commit terror attacks on this country.

I’d like to be kind to you people, I really would. But I just can’t find it in myself to believe that any of you could be that fricking stupid.

For example, how low would your IQ have to be to bring in someone from a different religion and culture, without bothering to check out the beliefs involved in that religion and culture?

Didn’t it occur to you to open up the Koran and have a read?

With the resources of one of the most prosperous nations in the world at your disposal, you couldn’t find anyone to look into the background of Islamic culture before handing out passports to these people like smarties?

Would it have made any difference if you had researched the Islamic religion, I ask myself?

All the information has been out there for a while now. Your departments have been telling you forever what a bad idea it is and yet you still you have your heads shoved where the sun doesn’t shine.

The Islamic religion tells its followers that they can’t go to heaven until the whole world is conquered by Islam.

Until then, they remain buried alive, so to speak, until the day of judgement when the Muslims will kill the last of the Jews and the trees and rocks will grow mouths and call out to the Muslims “Come over here and kill this Jew who is hiding behind me”.

Does that sound like a group of compatible migrants to you? Isn’t it obvious that they will be at least somewhat motivated to engage in violent Jihad when that is the only short cut to the highest level of heaven (the one with all the virgins and young boys “handsome as pearls”).

Even after all of this, you are now importing Palestinians from Gaza without proper vetting. When Denmark let a bunch of Palestinians into their country, almost two thirds of them wound up with a criminal record for God’s sake.

Again, I ask, what the hell are you thinking?

After all, these people have been insisting for the last 70 odd years that they can’t possibly live anywhere else except the parts of Israel that they aren’t in now.

They can’t wander over the border into Egypt which they were part of prior to the 1967 war and they can’t travel the short distance to Jordan which is also an Arab country that is almost indistinguishable in language, religion and culture (and note that both of those countries have refused point blank to take them).

Yet all of a sudden, they can up and fly halfway around the globe to a nation which has a different language, customs, religion and laws and accept citizenship here. They have already told us that we should change because our customs and religion offend them.

Clearly, the whole thing was a sham to justify the war against Israel and the killing and rape of Jews. Obviously, these people have been lying all along to justify genocidal violence encapsulated in the chant “From the River to the Sea”.

I think it is time for you to come clean to the Australian people and own up to why you have committed this crime against your nation.

What was your motivation?

Were you offered incentives like Hawke who got rich after leaving office, quite likely by working for China. Could his lucrative contracts have been a payoff for letting in bulk Chinese nationals?

Or was it juicy blackmail that motivated you? Are there photos of you in compromising positions.

In today’s permissive society, those would have to be pretty bad.

Don’t tell me you were good friends with Jeffrey Epstein?

Whatever the reason, you need to stop importing people who hate our nation enough to commit terror attacks which they have been doing for over 100 years.

Bear in mind that if you don’t stop, then eventually Muslims will be a majority and will be voting you out of office all over the country and not just in Western Sydney and parts of Melbourne.

If that happens, then I’ll be out of a job too and my replacement will not just be on board with the rallies, he’ll be cheering on the terror attacks too.

Yours in sincerely stunned amazement

Mike Burgess

ASIO Director-General

 

Government was right not to send warship.

OLD soldiers never die, they just fade away.

US General Douglas MacArthur repeated this familiar refrain in his 1951 farewell address to Congress, after he had been sacked by President Truman for presumed insubordination, promising he would just fade away.

Republican MacArthur and Democrat Truman, briefly a WWI artillery captain,

were always destined for a tumultuous relationship.

There is an inevitable moment in the life some old soldiers, but not all, when they lose relevance, though few will admit so.

Lost in a world of fuzzy-wuzzies, cold steel and grenades, the fictional Dad’s Army lance-corporal Jack Jones’ far-fetched military suggestions often caused Captain Mainwaring to respond curtly, “I think you’re wandering into the realms of fantasy, Jones.”

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‘TWAS Saturday before Xmas and all through the Fort,

Mischief was stirring, who would have thought?

For there was movement in the barracks

As the word had passed around that

The subbies were up to something big,

And all the lads had gathered for the fray.

There was one among them even wilder than the rest,

A captain known by one and all as Mad Carew,

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Australia’s defence force veterans who have served as firefighters are set to receive dedicated support through the re-establishment of a sub-branch by the RSL, marking the first initiative of its kind in four decades. The renewed NSW Fire Brigades sub-branch aims to provide enhanced assistance to over 400 current and former service personnel employed by Fire and Rescue NSW.

Originally established in the 1920s to aid in repatriation and medical support post-World War I, the sub-branch was disbanded in the 1980s due to insufficient membership. The current initiative recognizes the 405 defence force members, including FRNSW Commissioner Jeremy Fewtrell, who have served in both the military and firefighting roles. Commissioner Fewtrell, an Army Reserve veteran, emphasized the significance of the sub-branch’s support, including access to essential wellbeing services.

Acknowledging the evolving needs of younger veterans from recent military deployments, Mr. Fewtrell stressed the importance of tailored support within a familiar environment. The re-establishment of the sub-branch reflects the commitment of RSL, Australia’s oldest veterans’ charity, to grassroots support and fostering community connections, as stated by RSL NSW President Mick Bainbridge.

Expressing his enthusiasm for the revival of camaraderie and support within Fire and Rescue NSW, Mr. Bainbridge emphasized the shared responsibility among veterans transitioning into careers as first responders. Highlighting the ongoing dedication of these veterans who continue to risk their lives in firefighting roles across the state, he underscored the importance of supporting each other through such transitions.

The announcement follows the RSL’s call for the government to establish an independent body focused on veteran health and wellbeing, a response to the royal commission into veteran suicides. The move signals a renewed commitment to addressing the unique challenges faced by veterans and underscores the importance of comprehensive support as they navigate different career paths.