XMAS PRESENT TO NSW GOVT: HOUSING FAILURE

 BACK AT THE LAST XMAS DAY LUNCH OF THE COALITION GOVT

It’s not easy dodging the Pollies at Xmas day charity lunches in Sydney – but we thought at least ex-PM Malcolm Turnball would have finally given swanning around the WAYSIDE CHAPEL street one, by the last year it turned out NSW Premier Domino Perotwat would still be running the ultra-Rightwing Coalition NSW Govt. It was bad enough to have a pink shirted Turnball help serve up microwaved frozen prawns to homeless at long tables in the street – followed by middle-aged ladies shamelessly getting selfies taken with him.

Maybe if we turned up late enough – the pinkie prig Turnball would have shuffled off already and let the local Santa (announced as being a local GP) to get some of the limelight. Noone seemed to want a picture with him in his Santa shed – despite constant pleadings that he’d have to go soon, (back to his 3  minute appointments perhaps). However, at least he had something so say – pleading for more “KINDNESS”, that was perhaps by now costing an extra surcharge (thanks to Turnball’s PM successor - Slow -Mo).

 SUDDENLYPREMIER PEROTWAT TURNS UP WITH FAKE MEDIA CAMERAS

In a time-honoured compulsory-voting tactic – the Dominator Premier went around the prawn entre tables shaking hands with helpless elderly ladies, while grinning (assured that none would be game to ask him anything – which as “who are you?”).  A great big plainsclothed Security wally stuck to him like glue. Perhaps he's shadowing one-term "Labor" PM Elbo now. The Big Media cameras were behind us munching pawns and confected pressed turkey slices – as I dared to ask him about a few things. Meanwhile an older lady seated near us cautioned me NOT to be political – by repeatedly declaring “ITS CHRISMAS!” Therefore I went all Xmas like – pointing out that Santa couldn’t afford to live in this area anymore (it being Potts Point).

“He has to live at the North Pole – but we can’t move to the North Pole”. Apparently, this wasn’t Xmassy enough - according to the IT’S XMAS lady, so I said, “what do you think Jesus would say about this ?” No-one answered - so I suggested that he’d say something like - DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. I’d already pointed out to Domino Peratwat that he hadn’t being building Social Housing and he would no longer be Premier next year (after the election). In any case, he resigned after losing the NSW election –only later showing his true colours by eventually becoming a Spokesthing for the Property Council or whatever. So, by being a big failure at providing housing for all in NSW – he now gets paid to tell everyone to just go off and BUY a house somewhere.

Recently some big Developer type guy at a City Council office called me a "clown" - after he tried to push in front of me in a queue (of one). We've been advocating for many years that Sydney be Decentralised with VERY FAST RAIL - as local Labor Federal Member TANYA PLIBERSEK acknowledges. Will her PM Elbo commitment to building the Sydney to Newcastle section if relected in 2025 - or are the homeless stuck in an unaffordable Emerald City of high-rise apartments ? Over to you Toto. 

WERE BRITISH EMPIRE'S LANDLESS/JOBLESS WHITE SLAVES, DUMPED HERE ON 26 JAN 1788 OR THEIR SMALLPOX - THE REAL "INVADER"?

OUR "QUICK QUIZ" ON WHAT OZ DAY REALLY MEANS    (MODIFIED AFTER BLOCKING)

·       WHO STARTED “AUSTRALIA DAY” & WHEN ?

In 1908 Catholic cardinal Moran proposed a Catholic run “Australia Day” – to counter the conservative Protestants’ new “Empire Day”. This Irish republican type national day became Catholic policy in 1911 – after a vote at their first Educational Conference in St Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney. They made it as 24 May, just for kids in Catholic Schools – as Empire Day was already “discredited” in public schools, where THAT was run, said the Cardinal.

·       HOW WAS IT THAT ANZACS THEN GOT RID OF “EMPIRE DAY” (AND CRACKER NIGHT)

“Empire Day” was brought to Australia (from Britain) by the militant Protestant - British Empire League, teaching children to love England instead of Australia! Empire Day wasn’t a public holiday in NSW, (except in 1915) and was mostly aimed at schools. It finally became Commonwealth Day by the 1960’s -as Empire was by then, no longer respected as a reason for an Australian day for celebration. It was children who then just made it just “Cracker Night” – but ironically, kids were later banned from lighting fireworks for it!

Later in the 1960’s – after Commonwealth Day had come “cracker night” – 24 May was moved to being instead, just a fake “Queen’s Birthday” and the national day idea finally moved to the foundation day of 26 Janurary. Do we now face that travesty of 24 May now becoming a fake King’s Birthday holiday weekend, or can it be the new Australia Day – instead of on April 26, with a holiday weekend? The idea of conservative Protestants originally running an Empire Day on 24 May -was actually a tactic to counter nationalist republicanism, but that was later taken over by the Australian patriotism of the Anzac myth after WW1.

Anzac Day then became the defacto “national day” – which then swept away both allegiance to the British empire - monarchy and to local calls for a Republic. Australian blood spilt on foreign shores – such as during the disastrous Gallipoli invasion of Turkey, (up a steep beach hill)- was pushed by Rupert Murdock’s journalist dad- as some kind of antipodean birth-of-a-nation.

 ·       NEW “AUSTRALIA DAY”- ON A KING’S, FAKE BIRTHDAY WEEKEND OR ANZAC DAY  

We have advocated for years in our Media Releases – that 25 April, marking the Gallipoli beach invasion as Anzac Day, could be made the new Australia Day. It would include a morning Veteran’s march – that already includes school marching bands. One such band in recent years – played “We Are Australian”, which was quite stirring, especially without the over- sung words (not being heard with it)! Likewise, Waltzing Matilda, works as a patriotic song – if its C19th tale of a Depression-era sheep-thief drowning himself, to avoid capture (and hanging),  being not heard.

“Invasion Day” on 26 January, ironically can be seen as a fitting date for an “Australia Day” – as initiated by the Catholic Church in Sydney. After-all, 26 Jan is  really about the landless-poor being dumped on the other side of the earth from Ireland, where most of those “convicts” were brutally pushed off their family farms by the British invaders. The War of Independence, in its American colonies, stopped them being sent there -as white slaves for the squatter farmers. Therefore, should the present Australia Day on 26 January-  one day become Australia’s Independence Day ?   

·       SHOULD 26 JANUARY MARK RESTORATION OF ABORIGINAL NATIONS SOVREIGHTY ?

Should the First Fleet officers and army be blamed for the British empire “invasion”, but their prisoners exempted – as they came not of their free will (as landless slaves to build the infrastructure for the invasion’s colonisation). Certainly Capt/Gov Phillip made no attempt to negotiate with the local “natives”,  by using the usual trinkets  and promises of a Treaty. Instead,  the British used army tactics of kidnapping and torture- to coerce some young natives to become  “informants”. Bennelong and the other young captive – were later unfairly branded as collaborators, while kidnapper, Gov Phillip was finally given grudging respect! Army rebels later set up Rum as a currency and overthrew the Empires\’s Govt!

Is the Uluru “Voice” statement being used to finally entrench some kind of Aboriginal representative body – into the Constitution? That could make it easier to incorporate such a notion, in a Republican Constitution – that our lazy political Parties will not want to be changing much from the present one. The real test of how badly Britain treated Aboriginal people here – should be how they treated American and New Zealand indigenous people, who had some equivalent means (modern weapons, military tactics) to resist invasion of their lands.

That, at least - got then got them some Treaties and Reservations – not just Native Title, that depends too much on continuous land occupation and ongoing cultural connections. True reconciliation seems the only way forward for ongoing recognition of First Nations people here – but not just for notions of separate development. They already show leadership on natural environment matters – why not acknowledge more on their discoveries on medical and technology, having being using natural  penicillin and the flying airwing design (boomerang) for tens and thousands of years (plus star navigation -that us many of our "modern" trunk roads)

Written by "Robert Bull" (c) Janurary2023 unemployedpeoplesembassy Australia

REFERENCE:     Australian Popular Culture - edited by peter Spearritt and David Walker
first published 1979 - by George Allen & Unwin Australia Pty Ltd- North Sydney

NOTE: Saturday Paper claimed it would look at this article - but email blocked. The Australian and SMH didn't acknowledge receipt of this. 

"Australian is the only country in the world where Democracy is enforced with a Fine" for not voting. DONALD HORNE - author The Lucky Country

TELEVISIONUNDERGROUND: UPE PROJECT STARTS TO OPERATE

 TVU CHANNEL ALLOWS CONTENT FOR TVU BLOG

During 2022 some effort (and expense) was made to start putting archival material of the Unemployed Peoples Embassy into video file formats that can be edited into short Trailer length mp4 files - to put on our https://televisionunderground.blogspot.com Online Publication (or blog). More detail on these video projects will appear on our new blog https://unemployedpeoplesembassyaustralia.blogspot.com. 

Links to other key UPE blogs and websites will appear there too - such as https://oocities.unemployedembassy, which is our first website and has a lot of archival material. such a key Dole News issue. We hope to digitise other paper Dole News issues as we locate them. Access to spaces and expertise to do more multimedia archiving would be appreciated. Digitising our colour/direct sound super 8 and analogue video tapes - is especially needed.

The initial content being linked to out TVunderground blog is our 2022 Save Our Sydney (SOS) 10 min docu on parks & theatres under threat - with stories "PLANES THAT ATE SYDENHAM" and "PHANTOM THEATRE OF CATHEDRAL ST". The first "doco" though is just over 2 min - we call AndesMusic - as part of a wider doco being dubbed PERU "UNDERCOOKED". A 5 minute extended version of AndesMusic is being developed sometime, as well. The short version came from a media course shoot which our Media Manager attended from mid-2022, (as a senior-age student). Given the political current chaos in Peru & changes in Brazil - further content will be sought for the Doco.

AndesMusic is about two brothers, raised in Sydney - who started their interest with playing music with Hendrix, then discovered an interest in the cultural heritage of their family - from Peru. Other short video productions, are video trailers for a branch series from Save Our Sydney - looking at transport crossroads areas in inner Sydney - that we want to try and save from current high-rise apartment overdevelopment. One is already edited and only runs for a minute or so.

OUTSIDE CONTENT: A set of guidelines is being developed to encourage inclusion of video content from other production providers - via vimeo/youtube links. The UPE contact phone number is in the Sydney White pages Directory and we have a PO Box address as well. 

 TRAILER FOR "PERU: UNDERCOOKED" -

-featuring AndesMusic interview   CLICK LINK    - https://youtu.be/ikygoA-t608

tVu - TELEVISION UNDERGROUND commentary and video Trailers on

 https://timestreamproductions.blogspot.com 

IS "CHINA" VIRUS MORE A U.S. PORKIE

 With loose sabre-rattling talk in the "Mother's Day weekend" issue of the Australian about China considering "weaponising" SARS back in 2014 - perhaps some sort of Reality Check is needed. Its now taken about a year for the bureaucratic glacia of the World Health Organisatin to finally admit about the long known airbourne ("aerosol") transmission of Covid 19 - from breathing it out, not just by sneezing droplets. Professor Raina Macintyre of UNSW Kirby Institute - now suggests in the SMH of 7 May, '21 - that Australia now needs to revise its own long outdated medical guidlines on this front. 

Hundreds of scientists worldwide have been pleading by Petitions for about a year now - to the soft soaping WHO to recognise "aerosol" transmission by Covid 19- but its taken millions of deaths from it around the world, for them to take a virus view of Covid (rather to keep parroting old Hospital flu hygene protocols - as ABC's Norman Swann has long pointed out). In this article we now want to quote from a  Scientific American (SA) magazine from TEN YEARS AGO - which precisely predicted that the  SARS 1 epidemic occurring in 2002 (?) -  though defeated back then, may reoccur as a pandemic and "we may not be so lucky next time".

The main point of this old SA article, seems to be that SARS is transmitted from human's domesticated food aminals - namely pigs and chickens, as swine and avarian "flu" ?) after they have picked up the SARS viruses from "exotic" wild animals. According to a video interview with gorilla-whisperer famed environmentalist JANE GOODALL - the razing of jungles to grow food crops and also for our food animals, cheaply FOR YOU AND ME , thus putting jungle animals (like bats) in contact with pigs etc, is what caused SARS 1 to escape into the human population. The Wet Markets bat-burger idea certainly isn't seen as how SARS 1 started - or as JANE GOODALL said about SARS 2 (Covid 19) "we did it to ourselves". Another article in the same weekend Australian also questions exotic anumal virus transfer to humans - given that people have eaten them from Wet Markets etc for some time now.

There is more to say from the SA magazine article - but we are concious that we only recently became aware that our most recent main WEBSITES have been completely razzed, though we PAID for them (ie unemployedembassy.magix.net etc). We are trying to contact German MAGIX company about it - but can anyone else help us ? Also our Founder has just gone though a fabricated "sentence" of two years for something that didn't happen, supposedly ON THIS PRESENT WEEKEND dedicated to women - though evidence shows he clearly WASN'T THERE. This was the third go by Australian govt agents had to frame him for his social justice capaigning through this organisation. We now plead for access/funding of STORAGE SPACE for our audio visual and other ARCHIVES - in case he is finally falsely JAILED in the next trumped up prosecution.

We are prepared to write a LONGER more detailed article on the SARS 1 & 2 possible pork transmission - for a Media organisation, provided they PAY the Unemployed Peoples Embassy for it. Briefly, the SA article from 2011 says that scientists were PLEADING for pork farmers to let them test the blood of their pigs (for viruses) that they were slaughtering for meat. Shockingly it was many AMERICAN farmers who were resisting giving access to blood tests of pigs - for reasons we can outline in our exanded article (which are hinted at  in the SA article). Interestingly it was the CHINESE farmers who were MORE co-operative in allowing swine bllod testing - but not enough tests were done. On this basis scientists in the SA article in 2011 warned that a new SARS may not be detected in time.

STOP PRESS: ABCTV News 8 May - Australian buiding standards authorities are REFUSING to change airflow design in new buildings. We made video of this mainstrean News item - plus copied an article off the MSN feed (9 May) about the WHO failure to heed warnings by many scientists for a year that AIRFLOW was a bigger risk than only Hand Hygene. We said it first though.  EXPECT A LONGER REIGN OF COVID 19 

TVUnderground - VIDEO PROGRAM OUTLET FOR ARCHIVE HISTORY

 The Embassy keeps looking for ways to show its own video programs to the public - while trying to preserve its copyright and that of other non-mainstream Producers  and writers involved. Its own print based Archives are partly already online in Blogs like this - but is finding its designed websites can be lost, content removed or become hard to find. Its first website was saved by someone as oocities.org/unemployedembassy - however, a more recent one it actually paid for is now gone somewhere (ie "under construction"). It is unemployedembassy.magix.net plus an extra one like that too. Other wordpress websites have also become inaccessible for updating. as passwords were lost. Some assistance on research its retreiving these shorter website's access could be helpful. 

Another may not be able to be added to yet - but it can be located and is almost a Book by itself - on the horrors of middle age retraining/upgrading for guys at TAFE - called COLLEGE DIARY at mask-college.blogspot.com.au (linked to unemployedpeoplesembassy-masks.blogspot.com). Also see its sequel - ULTIMO TAFE SECURITY THUGS post on unemployedpeolesembassy.blogspot.com. All this could be linked together into a Book - with extra material referred to in those College Diary blogs. Even our TVUnderground blog now can't be updated - it now seems, but its initial webpage can be found at timestreamproductions.blogspot.com. We will be now copying off all of our blog/websites onto Word documents - in case they they start disappearing too. 

Only this Blog now is still updateable - as far as we know at the moment. There are also our paper-only books - like our WORK TEST, ie one that soon needs to be put into Word document publication formats. A Podcast could be made of a spoken word version and even a Play made from it. All copyright to its author. Extract audios could appear with text and video interviews on a multimedia website - if we could get help to set it up. Then there is our short "book" on the Block architect's hi-rise rental luxury flats for Sydney Uni students called PEMULWAY PARK at ipcn.nsw.gov.au website - where the name of the submission against it (being allowed by the NSW Govt) written by the Unemployed Peoples Embassy are REDACTED. Google however headlines it though as: Unemployed Peoples Embassy 21 Nov 2018 - therefore un-redacting it for the public to read. Even our actual public Submission to the NSW Govt so-called Independant Planing Commision against the gross Pemulway project has popped up again - and googling Unemployed Peoples Embassy will find it (recently at least).

There is also a Portfolio of half hour plays, by the same auther, to be put together. In terms of getting our video programs shown in public - there is more to it than just putting the 30 minutes ones up on Vimeo or that dreaded UTube. Many of these shows also need extra commentary and new interviews to explain the background to them. This is required to respect people who appeared in them.There are some Film Festival outlets and funding options that may be helpful. A new one is the Dare To Struggle Film Festival, due in November this year - which is canvasing donations via pozible crowd funding. They screened a doco on Jack Mundey and the famous Green Bans movement he led. We seek to talk to Lee Riannom against to follow up getting out video programs in it. The Underground Film Festival in Marrickville area, in Sydney - has been quiet in recent years but the Ritz Cinema In Randwick may allow less mainstream style short movies to be shown. !5 minutes is their limit so far on big screen

The Ritz did have a Cinema Reborn (CR) season - mainly on Saturday 1 May, (a Day to celebrate the Workers' union struggles) featuring a rarely seen, 3 Shorts in "Three In One" The 1956 classic, made in Australia (directed by Cecil Holmes) featured Frank Hardy and Henry Lawson's work. We hope to get support for our own new productions from CR's australianculturalfund.org.au/projects/cinema-reborn-2021.The Unemployed Peoples Embassy has its own Commonwealth Bank society savings account - that people can donate to, with receipts issued. Our postal address and mobile number is in Sydney Directory. Our brief TVU blog outlines how at Lental As Anything vegan non-profit restaurant in Newtown Sydney - premiered the intro sequence of a half our production of ours. However the young folk running it didn't quite support us having a Q&A about it at their now discontinued Movie Nite. 

That was after just 5 or so minutes of one of our 30 minute local video Dramas called "Morgan", about a fictional private detective in 1950's Sydney - originally a serial on community radio in the Embassy's FREEK OUT show. It joined Timestream Productions' long history of public screenings. Another by the same local playwright, is called "Holmes Romance" - a tribute to Conan Doyles' famous fictional private detective. Our WITAR blog with photos from the live performance, (videoed at Glebe Town Hall in the Embassy's annual Alternative Festival of Arts) - is at theatrexperimental.blogspot.com. A list of these and some our other half hour video programs, going back to the 1970's -  will follow here. Not all have had public screenings so far including even our documentary about  anti Third Runway  noise protects - "The Planes That Ate Sydenham". An early half hour Timestream Production called Pink Floyd Trip To The Moon was premiered at UNSW Engineering Theatrette in 1971 - including Pink F.

Our "Wayside Reunion" reality-doco was premiered at a Test Broadcast of communityTV - in sunny Lismore. No interest from the modern day Wayside Chapel community centre in Potts Point, so far - to finally let it be shown there. Against, this Timestream Production from 1980's - needs added interviews and explanation to respect the people shown. Only extracts can be put up on Vimeo as a Trailer. 

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"NOMAD WORKERS UNION" PROPOSED BY UNEMPLOYED EMBASSY

 The Unemployed Peoples Embassy is proposing the formation of a Union for jobess being forced to leave the main cities and try and live on sporatic casual work in agriculture and regional tourism. There is said to be some casual "hospitality" work in the cities - but the Dole is now back under the Poverty Live - with the Covid subsidy (Job Search allowance) now cancelled.

"The main cities in Australia are now just unliveable for the jobless - since residential rents are so high. Even regional city rents are too high for the Dole - plus lack of rental as people flee the major cities to get away from Covid." says he Embassy's CEO. The NOMAD WORKERS UNION (NWU) idea is inspired by the Academy winning movie Nomadland - where the mainly middle aged and older jobless in America roaming the mid-West chasing temporary jobs from the new Forist corporations like Amazon.

With wider Union backing, the homeless unemployed could force agricultural and tourism businesses to start paying proper rates for casual workers. These jobless could be the new Swag Men (and women) living out of their cars and vans. Donations of second hand vans could help such life on the road easier - with better sleeping accomodation. and cooking facIlities. Of course - such marginal workers would have their Dole concelled for supposedy moving to areas in the regions - deemed to be of lesser employment prospects, under the insane 'Hippie Dole Law", first brought in by (you guessed it). The LABOR PARTY.

The UPE can be contacted by means shown in its Sydney Directory entries. We are looking for new premises for our Projects - maybe outside Sydney, 

 

COVID COVER USED TO BRING BACK FAKE JOB "TESTS"

 EMBASSY BOOK "WORK TEST" FROM 1981 RECESSION (OVER 10% JOBLESS) EXPLAINS

The SlowMo Govt is bringing back the powers of Big Employers to falsely have the jobless cut off the dole - just as the Covid "Jobless Seeker" supplement is being withdrawn. Forty years after the WORK TEST book reported on how the Embassy's  CEO was physically assaulted by the Govt's CES - after the Fraser Govt had him called in for more fake "job" offers, the right wing SloMo Govt is at it again. 

The Employers will now be able to, now in 2021, false report that job applicants refused to accept a FALSE job offer from them.

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