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 up swanning around the WAYSIDE CHAPEL street one, by the last year that 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 around 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 around the corner– 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 pushing out bulk-billing).

 THEN, SUDDENLY PREMIER PEROTWAT TURNS UP WITH FAKE-MEDIA CAMERAS

In a time-honoured compulsory-voting tactic – the Dominator Premier appears, going 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 plains-clothed Security wally stuck to him like glue. Perhaps he's shadowing not-just-one-termer "Labor" PM Elbo now. The Big Fake-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 about homelessness increasing, 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 as Premier, 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 counter 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 WAS 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" idea - of 26 January. Do we now face that travesty of 24 May (?) now becoming a fake King’s Birthday holiday long-weekend, or can it be the new Australia Day – instead of an 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 ironically that was later taken over by the Australian patriotism of the Anzac myth after WW1.

Anzac Day then, instead, became the defacto “national day” – which then swept away both allegiance to the British empire (& monarchy ?) and more deliberately, 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 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 for theft), being not heard.

“Invasion Day” on 26 January, ironically CAN still, perhaps - 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 farm/tenancies by the British invaders. The War of Independence, in Brit-Empire American colonies, stopped those "convicts" being sent there -as white slaves for squatter farmers. Therefore, could present Australia Day (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 be forced labour 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 fake "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 an "official" currency and overthrew the Empire’s Govt (after imprisoning its new Governer Bligh!

Was the Uluru “Voice” proposal really about trying 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 

AUDIO INTRO LINK - a short interpretation of a famous story, with language updated to suit a  modern audience               CLICK LINK        -     https://youtu.be/SIZTOtEx0mM 

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. 

LINK TO OUR OWN TV STATION   https//:televisionunderground.blogspot.com   

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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.

MORE TO COME ON THIS

  

"R.U. FREEZING 2NITE" - HOMELESS EMERGENCY ISSUE - One Year Later !!

CALL FOR UN TO RUN REFUGEE CAMPS IN "LUCKY COUNTRY" !

AWARDED JOBLESS SOCIAL JUSTICE NGO CAMPAIGNS FOR EMERGENCY HOUSING TOWNS

NOTE: This was the headlines of our June 2019 poster issue that is only now being distributed via paper postering. It went on to say:

The Unemployed Peoples Embassy in Australia is urging the UNITED NATIONS to declare its major cities - such as Sydney and Melbourbe , unliveable for jobless. Even pensioners on higher payments -are struggling .. "

More of this year old article later - but we now have to start updating it in the light of the Covid19 Pandemic, which has actually doubled the rate of the Dole. Meanwhile NO money is being up into building more "social housing" from the billions of Jobkeeper and Jobmaker funding and the SloMo Govt is pumping out to try and keep the economy from even deeper Recession.

(MORE OF THIS ARTICLE TO COME)  

EMBASSY REPORT : WHERE UPE CAME FROM AND WHERE ITS GOING NOW

Though we have put out various background pieces on websites and blogs about how the physical site of the UPE happened and about its projects operating since – the reason for setting up that organisation hasn’t really been published in much detail. The basis for deciding to create it was partly motivated by a move at a meeting at the Sydney Uni old “Tin Sheds” to form an Unemployed Workers Union (UWU).

The soon to be President of the UPE had organised a project called the Odd Job Co-op – initially operating from about 1978 in the vacated attic of 41 Phillip St Sydney, where he had been renting from the Head Tenant there since 1975 for an alternative media project. The Tin Sheds meeting was of the Campaign Against Poverty and Unemployment – which we liked as a political movement, because it didn’t pretend to be run by only jobless, but allowed other interested groups to be involved.

Some of our initial group went along – probably even in our Odd Job Co-op light blue T shirts but we horrified to see that other various activist organisations would be sidelined by calling it the UWU. Sure that might get it some money donated by (actual) Unions – but it was sure to go all politically straightjacketed , especially given the well known antipathy of the wider union movement to casual workers and a general exclusion of non-jobless activists.

We had been particularly campaigning to have the amount the jobless could earn - raised from $3 a week (under 21 ?) and $6 if you were older than that. We could already see that having a casual work collective in a welfare rights campaign was the real basis for being able to talk about unemployment with some credibility. The dole back then wasn’t so hard to live on – thanks to it being raised by the Labor Federal Govt under PM Gough Whitlam (1972-5) and also given that there was quite a lot of fairly cheap housing (at least in inner-city areas).

Therefore, we decided to just set up the UPE – starting in 41 Phillip St, which was now emptied of other non- residential tenants. This was for a Sydney City Council road-widening of Phillip St by demolishing the 5 historic terraces to the corner of Bridge St – where the 1788 site of the First Govt House was a car park. Ironically, the union movement itself had its reputation revived by the Builders Laborers Federation (BLF) under Jack Mundey and that other guy – because of their Green Bans, which saved the Rocks and other historic precincts from demolition for gross high-rise overdevelopment.

The “union” model for a jobless rights organisation has never been effective since, unless there is mass unemployment – the actual Unions aren’t actually scared of losing their working members to much of a degree. Only when jobless officially cracked 10% by about 1981 – was their any serious demonstration of the union movement against unemployment (eg in Belmore Park – next to Central station in Sydney). Afterall – unemployment was mostly only affecting school leavers – not the better paid older workers, whose membership dues were bankrolling the union movement.

Interestingly, the usual age of new members of the UPE were 19 year-olds plus they were usually from the outer Western suburbs – theoretically the key demographic of not only the Unions – but the ALP itself. Still, neither the short lived Sydney UWU ever approached us – even after we were put on SEPARATE Channel 9 Midday Shows on an unemployment top around 1980 (we have video of it) and even the big religious Charities – never directly assisted us – though some half-hearted offer of use of some farm land was later made to us, after we got a “lease” of some from Dept  Housing NSW for our Arts Farm project  (in outer Western Sydney). 

MORE RECENTLY:      our    TELEVISION UNDERGROUND    (TVU) project

Gets its own Blog:  TVUnderground

Read about its attempts to get local MOVIES shown -  at:

https://www.timestreamproductions.blogger.com

"THINGS THEY DO SEEM AWFUL COLD" - so therefore ...(you fill in the rest)

BOOMERS BASHED AGAIN – NOW BY YOUNG GEN

In a SMH article (27/6/19) on the Aged Care Royal Commission, writer Julie Power – can’t get past the second paragraph without running the usual type of cliché about the supposed self-indulgent Baby Boomers. She says they think they’ll “never get old” – but they’ll soon “flood” aged care. However, is it actually right that Boomers will require such high level care at the traditional plus 50 “aging” time of life. Is 70 the new 60 and can many people expect to live longer than 80 in good health ?

The lyric quoted above is from The Who’s “My Generation” 1960's hit song (by Peter Townsend)– where the line after that is constantly taken out of its context. So when that line goes “I hope I dei before get old” its really saying that the parents/elders of his (War Baby) generation were really nasty to him as a teenager – so he doesn’t want to become like them. Teenagers then were a minority - like older people also usually were. That all changed when the Baby Boomers hit their 20's in the 1970's and were the MAJORITY. 

Those same, now older Boomers are now suffering from a World they changed to emphasis the rights of young people. Now we need to campion older peoples rights - since we are now making THAT a majority of the population. It is a reasonable ambition to stay thinking quite young and maintaining strong mental and physical functioning ? The parents of the Boomers seem to have problems with the idea that the next generation would likely live as long as they have been doing. On the other hand, those parents of Boomers (born before WW) were living often decades longer than their own parents.

Politicians have been quick to point out that the 60 year Age Pension level was based on people usually not living long past that age. Boomer grandparents didn’t usually make it into their 70’s. Therefore, the Age Pension was raised to 65 - only decades ago and now it’s up to 67. 


The newly re-elected Coalition government had balked at raising the Age Pension to 70 – perhaps fearing that could lose it the 2019 Federal Election, using the excuse that up-skilling of the Boomer generation for further employment - was not yet being catered for in the obsessively youth-oriented Education system. 

We have documenting that brutal age discrimination against mature-age students for a number of years in our own journal – with specific examples. Not all countries are writing off its population’s contributions – once they became even just 50 years old. The Boomers aren’t so unfamiliar with deiing though, apart from often losing their grandparents in their 60’s – there was also the Vietnam war draft in Oz and the US.  Young guys, still in their teens – were sent to Asia against their will by a much hated Draft.  Many didn’t come back or where scarred for life  - including mentally. 

The younger generation can be more blasé about it – because they’re usually never had to face their mortality so personally. Boomers were the last generation from the 20^th Century that still felt another World war could happen once again – and they could end up in it. That could have been a Nuke one too. Boomers mostly already understand that they can dei – yet they’re now being unfairly branded by younger generations as being unaware of mortality. In fact, the Boomer fuelled huge anti-war movement that stopped not only the Vietnam War but another conventional World War happening.

This has now changed how politics operates in the world -especially since the rise of the internet.  People now want more say in how things are run now – but the commercial forces that profit from things not improving, are still hard for true democratic decision-making to counter Big Money. A 1960's movie with Peter Cook and other Brit satirists called "The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer" predicted how participatory democracy would finally rise one day. Sadly that wonderful movie seems impossible to buy these days. 

Like with the true history of the alternative culture in Australia - circa late 1960's and 1970's organisations like our are struggling to preserve and circulate shorter movies and docos we've made about it, Where's the funding and support for that ? NOTE: We hope readers will excuse our deliberately misspelling of the key word in this article - otherwise known as the Big Chille. Older people are understandably more sensitive about such words - as Boomers were when they faced losing their lives because of the then Coalition Govt wanting to go All The Way with the USA. 

We now ask younger generations to THINK about what they saying to their elders on "age care" issues - and remember, we still have most of the votes (just think Trump and Brexit). Baby Boomers still have the electoral power to help protect them from cruel ageist policies that are now circulating. Excluding older people from the workplace - is one major barrier to them that WILL CHANGE. 

RECENT "DOLE NEWS" REPORTS PULLED OFF GOOGLE SEARCH

We are puzzled by the sudden disappearance of this thread of Dole News from the various other posts made  by others, about its publisher - the Unemployed Peoples Embassy and its activities in the community. Luckily, earlier Reports on other Dole News blogspot addresses - can still be found, but not by simply googling "unemployedpeoplesembassy".  This now removes ALL Dole News editions from such a mainstream search. As usual the HRC awarded Dole News title - is never brought up by just googling it - though there is a curious notice there about "Dole News", saying something about it not being there. That at least shows a fairly new hand at work - to suggest this publication no longer exists.

Maybe we'll have to continue this long-time social justice publication, now mostly online - by using another thread with a slightly different address that is now more readily located online.  In any case, this thread could be found by us typing in its particular address into that more easily accessible thread of Dole News. Either way - the heavy hand of censorship seems at play - likely from Australia, which we obviously criticise the most. This particular thread address may be relegated to being our underground edition. Perhaps this country is emulating China policies of unrestrained Capitalism in more politically direct ways,

Certainly personal and social justice emails and websites seem no longer safe - given recent Mousy Govt legislation. In terms of our recent articles posted here - our article on the radical matriarchal takeover of major Govt designated institutions, may be the reason for this really major removal of easy public access to Dole News. On the other hand  - Google itself  seems to own blogger.com, so external interference related to out content, seems to be a likely culprit.  As history tells us - when the Govt cracks down on Freedom of Media political comment WATCH OUT. Already mainstream Media is increasingly trivialising  NEWS reports with Bleed to Leads formula and lack of local issues

LABOR LOST THE PLOT AND UNLOSABLE ELECTION: ASK US HOW !

Were the cheap "policies" - like Teach Kids Computer Coding and lately Make Half Cars Electric within a decade or so, not clues enough ? The ALP model of being a Mass Party where great ideas percolate up from its huge membership - is simply just a fantasy, like restoring mass Union memberships ? New "leader" Elbo (the Engineer) can only publicly urge more people to "join" the Party. Have YOU tried to "join" the ALP - its like trying to send the ABC some ideas by email, very bureaucratic. It seems you have to be a union member just to get to fill out their application form

We pointed out ages ago the folly of rolling out middle class benefit cuts before the election - like cutting back Negative Gearing and "retirement" superannuation rorts, used for their kids estate planning. A great use of taxpayers money huh, as political guru Johnny Coward actually spruiked during the election campaign. So what sort of lies did the Coalition and their backers use to fight these reasonable cutback's effecting only thousands of people  - why "exposing" a supposed ALP "plan" to reintroduce Def taxes. This sort of crap was all over WeChat and various internet sewer pipes. Certainly a lot of Australian Chinese were sucked in by this non-media propaganda.

On the other hand, the NSW Gladdy Govt shucked off its non-delivery of its really stupid rail'n'road privatised "infrastructure" to cream in its re-election. Better to delay and cost overrun really unsuitable rail projects - then bring them on after the election, with four years to the next election for people to "get used to them". A tram that destroys the long term main street shopping precincts and rare tree lined Café strips of Sydney city and Parramatta plus yet another gauge of rail for the driverless trams to takeover the heavy rail two storey carriage network - will be regretted fordecades to come.

Meanwhile, middle-class commuter transport of gold plated tollway express roads and more International Airports are rolled out - though Very Fast Rail land purchases are only promised by Elbo just a week before the 2019 Federal Election. We urged the ALP to make VFR their key promise - but they only whipped it out at the last moment when the fake Opinion "Polls" had convinced them they were going to win the election, big time. In other words, the ALP can no longer rely on its shrinking membership and the increasingly boutique (and feminised) Unions as a brain- trust.

 Its National Conferences should open up wider to innovative thinking in the community - such as from Universities and Think Tanks (and dare we say it community based organisations like ours), to refine its policy ideas. Certainly the Greens and Get-up are just as limited in their thinking as the Union movement. For instance, who was the genius in the ALP who thought a Welfare Inquiry, without flagging a decent dole and Austudy rise - was a good idea. Surely a wider Inquiry including Middle Class Welfare is needed.

Certainly the ALP Right is now pushing the idea of Wealth Creation (ie the growth mantra) over handouts to everybody - but surely there would be more support for cutting back on Capital Gains/investment house portfolio Gearing/super rorts, if people saw those savings going to welfare and job creation for the long term jobless. The ALP however has a least come up with some policy ideas that it can try and repackage - once the Mousy Govt gets really nasty with harder economics and gets kicked out. The Coalition still bluster about the Drudd Govt flawed but effective stimulus package spending. Any mass unemployment returning with a predicted Recession - will have Mousy Govt pushing the jobless off to Gilligan's Island or worse

Certainly the ALP needs to look at its supposed its Identity Socialism madness - where the likes of Tanny, ex ALP Deputy, was taking about "toxic men". Let's hope we won't see anymore the DV TV ad with the guy standing over wife - suddenly turning into a little boy. A lot that sick toxic Ad must be doing to the booming 13 pubescent male suicyid rate. Looks like the ALP has already kicked the Revenge Feminist 50%  leadership into the Senate loony bin - usually mainly a retirement home for ex union officials and other "representatives" of no-one in particular. Maybe we'll hear less rubbish about how ALL "survivors" must be believe, since If that's the case - the Courts will truly be operating a reverse Inquisition.

The recent Caitin case showed how a woman lied about being sexually assaulted by a Good Samaritan middle-age guy who came to her rescue to fix her car. CCTV footage exposed her lies. The guy had been put in jail, lost his wife and suffered greatly. He wants to sue her for One Million dollars. We know your pain mate -  false sexual claims are routinely made against human rights activists, such as Martin Luther King and some rather sub judice cases that will be fully reported some day.

"MIGRANT DAY" FOR 26 JANUARY OR MOVE "OZ DAY" TO 25 APRIL

We have been suggesting for some time that "Australia Day" move to 25 April - partly to keep some kind of Anzac March going from the Dawn Service and through the morning. Therefore the Citizenship ceremonies could happen after the usual lunch BBQ's (and 2 up?)

However, the immigration rate is so huge - that it not only currently overshadows even the biggest Invasion Day marches, but fans of the Diggers marching on a new "Australia Day" on 25 April - may wonder why so many boys died overseas early to mid last century.

Were the Germans really thinking of invading our country - when the Swedes did a much better job with IKEA stores? The Japanese only got as far as New Guinea and Timor after bringing in a work-till-you-drop Light Rail project through Asia for our Boys. Why do we now have the world's highest rate of immigration - without the Very Fast Rail infrastructure to decentralise our main cities ?

Then again the Japanese have NO immigration into their now very peaceful country - where they did very well economically from LOSING the War. In other words - what is "Australia Day" and "Anzac Day" about, in terms of our History and our Future plans? Why have we now got PERMANENT very high migration - mainly congesting Sydney and Melbourne. Anything to do with the greedy multi -- national high rise flat Developers - who fund our major political parties ?

Its up to us citizens to decide whether we finally grow up and become a Republic - where we can elect our OUR Head of State, and start to find ways to make our own decisions on where our country is going. Certainly our Compulsory Elections " democracy, isn't producing ANY politicians who think ahead - beyond the next time they FORCE you to vote for them.  

We're just saying this to try and get people to THINK about where this country is going. We need to demand a real say in decisions about our Future - or else we won't have much of a future, just a mess.

 Lots of fish dying in outback rivers, failure to recycle and not waste our precious water supplies and stupid transport "infrastructure" decisions (like inner city underground tollways, tramways destroying historic shopping precincts like George St and Devonshire St and in Parramatta soon, International airport in the middle of Sydney with no curfew) show that the political system and the Media - or no longer democratic and fit for use.

POLLIE PARTIES LOSE THE PLOT BY HIDING POLICIES

The Abbort/Turnbum/Mousey Coalition Govt got a big scare when it seemed to lose the unlosable Wentworth seat election of 20 October 2018. For the first time in its over one hundred year existence in Sydney’s affluent eastern suburbs – it initially seemed to go in a huge swing to an independent candidate - a female GP who was apparently fed up with being in SCC Mayor’s so-called “independent” team. The swing against the Govt seemed so severe that ABC TV called their loss almost within minutes of the first figures appearing.

The current OZ PM – SloMo, apparently coined the brilliant Tourism slogan “where the bloody hell are you”, in his former job in advertising (Tourism) . This seems to have failed to revive a “boom” in tourism to Australia. Similar propaganda genius by our latest rent-a-PM, had him rushing through head-spinningly stupid captain calls like moving the Aust embassy to Jerusalem – at the behest of their candidate who had just returned from being Ambassador

Despite being the only major candidate who actually lives in Wentworth electorate, Labor’s one called Tim,  could only pip the usual 10% that the Greens could manage. The Greens hippie looking guy at least had some kind of Policy to shout about – stopping an Indian run coal mine  setting up in Queensland. Tim only seemed to have exporting his Party's ex-boat people from Gilligan’s Island to NZ, to go on about. 
The next big election is for the State of NSW itself – where we caught up with the ALP leader Luke Foley on the day of the Wentworth rout by an Independent. Their very own lesbian, previous Newtown seat candidate was there too, lurking with him outside Redfern Town Hall – where some meeting was apparently occurring. Ever hopeful, I asked Luke about decentralisation.

To be precise – whether his NSW Labor Govt due within six month, would build an underground Very Fast Rail section from the City to Parramatta for a proper VFTrain to go to Canberra and then, say north to Gosford. Extended to Melbourne and Brisbane – this could allow the 24/7 Badgery’s Creek airport construction to be cancelled. Instead, a curfew free International airport could operate with VFR link from no curfew Canberra airport, as proposed by former premier Barry (Grange) O’Farrell. 

Presently ALP “policy” is for a very fast single storey driverless, almost seatless Parra Metro – to replace the Gladdy Govt fantasy of a Very Frequent Metro to Bankstown (ripping up present heavy rail track). This ALP favoured westie Metro, being entirely underground – is even more hare-brain an idea as the very-fast driverless BUS proposed for a CDB (residential) hi-rise remake of Liverpool (located near Badgerys Int Airport).

Naturally we didn’t get to say all of this – as he, the former candidate and some union-heavy looking guy, suddenly claimed they had to go to the meeting (except that they just moved away a little). They didn’t disagree with me that Australia was a backward country like the USA – with no real train network, while there are Very Fast Trains all over Europe, China and soon in Africa (plus in India - thanks to China).

THIS WAS WRITTEN ONLY ABOUT A WEEK BEFORE LUCKLESS LUKE WAS TIPPED OUT OF BEING LONGTIME ALP OPPOSITION LEADER BY A CLAIM FROM AN ABC TV REPORTER THAT HE'D TOUCHED HER ACTUAL BUM. HER CLAIMED OF A I WAS TOO PISSED TO REMEMBER, APOLOGY -  DIDN'T STOP HIM BEING THROWN UNDER A BUS. THE DEPUTY LEADER HAS NOW TAKEN OVER AND SWORN OFF BOOZE - WITH THE NEW DEPUTY, THE AFOREMENTIONED ALP EX-CANDIDATE FOR NEWTOWN MP.

Chillingly, the new ALP Opposition leader is mouthing the  radical Feminist mantra, that he Believes the ABC reporter's account - which she apparently only disclosed to the Media after a Gladdy Govt Minister, under Parliamentary privilege accused Foley of "harassment". Pressure mounted for Foley to quit politics sooner rather than later - though he quickly resigned his Opposition leader position, citing his need to sue the ABC for Defamation (denying the allegation the ABC Reporter said she didn't want to make publicly). Oddly, he had just come up with an actual Policy on rail (driverless Metro to south from Sydenham Station, instead of a Toll road M6). 

DOLE NEWS IS BACK IN 2018

NEW CONTENT IS COMING TO THIS PUBLICATION STARTED IN 1976

Our computer resources have now been restored - so it is now easier to get more content on-line here. It has been several years of fairly difficult times, which are not over yet - but things are starting to clear for our organisation. Several community initiatives have been developed over the last few years that we will be talking about.

The situation for the jobless (and disabled partners and collaborators) in Australia continues to change as Govt policies makes the dole less and less a "newstart" proposition (ie unliveably low an amount). The Age Pension is already going up to 67 for eligibility - with a 70 age increase previously threatened by the conservation Coalition federal Govt - (until the new "PM" Scotty decided he'd like to try and win the next Federal election in 2019). For the disabled, the NDIS has become, predictably very bureaucratic and counter to "choice" for disability aid plans.

So we have plenty to talk about - including the diabolical urban environment vandalism by the NSW Gladdy BAAAD Govt, such as turning Alfred Park into a playground for a 14 storey high-rise school. Then there's Sydney City Council "Mono Itch" sculpture $11m fantasy gateway to the George St tram debacle - defacing the heritage QVB, located right next to Sydney Town Hall.. Our website has a Save Our Sydney (SOS) section - but it is still only the paltry old one we now can't update, it seems, at www.unemployedembassy.magix.net - with Flash needed to read it properly.

Also the Email address given on that website is not accessible to us - so we will have to work on the feedback mode to use. Our postal address is in the Sydney YELLOW Directory - whose "website" for the Embassy we hope to figure out soon (ie this year). Meanwhile we are very busy with diabolical problems related to the Police State sort of "nation" we live in - as used against social activists.

Our content has always been like our Embassy projects - designed to keep the jobless and disabled engaged with the "society" (ie The Economy) which is marginalising us from not only enough income to live on - but also full humanity, such as casualised relationships. Coming articles here will look at the Ecology of Charities we have to interact with - for their traditional role of food access. plus also their newer wider "services " that are being Govt funded to do things TO us (not with us) This includes the new National Disability Insurance Scheme.

An interesting comment about the recent supposed cancelling of the increase of Age Pension
(AP) to 70, was supposedly because access of the Mature Aged to employment needed to be fixed before the AP could be raised beyond 67. This is something we've raised in relation to savage anti-mature aged male discrimination by educational institutions like TAFE, preventing Baby Boomers from updating their work skills.

Now there is the growing Revenge Feminist crusade against Middle Age White Males - recently called out by anti YouToo French Women on ABC TV's Foreign Correspondents program , as being a new reverse INQUISITION. Then there's the ABC itself needing serious reform - before its totally replaced by the SBS adverts- funding model (the ALDI of broadcasting). Lots to talk about indeed. Then there are EBooks and Podcasts too - once we can figure out how to make and market/launch them

VIETNAM CONSCRIPTION 50 YEARS ON: BUT ANTI WAR VOICES STILL STRUGGLE TO BE HEARD

“Everyone wants to put in their Two Cent’s worth” scowled Jeff Lee, organiser of the Anti-Conscription get-together and Concert night in October at the big hall at Addison Rd community centre in Annandale in Sydney.

The get-together was in the afternoon, supposedly for anti Vietnam war anti conscription activists to tell their stories – but instead only a high profile draft dodger, Michael Matherson talked (plus another whose emotional account I could barely follow).

This wasn’t helped by the fact that Jeff had put the featured speakers on the floor of the hall – while the microphones where only on the stage.

He had made out earlier that I could also join in, given I’d written some major anti-war poems at the time one long one that was published in the Wayside Chapels DELOS magazine in about 1970 (which I likely read out publically there). I was also showing the “organisers” an article in the Sydney Telegraph newspaper in 1971 – about how I’d made a film about the Sydney anti-war Moratorium.

Putting a knife in my front, Jeff dismissed my participation in the poorly attended (less than 20) get-together – with his Two Cents remark at the end, to the audience. Next there was the memorial Columns to launch at the entrance – after Jeff admitted he’d let the Agent Orange guy ramble on too long. The later Concert afterall, was advertised to be a fund-raiser for the victims of that deadly defoliant used in Nam to get rid of the trees so the “gooks” would be more easily killed. Some connected to the Agent Orange issue were clearly actually in favour of the Vietnam War - just against being poisoned for generation as Oz soldiers there, by Agent Orange.

I later asked Jeff if I could just read my shorter poem at the Concert – which his sub-organiser wanted to happen, but Jeff just groaned (very loudly and quite publicly). That powerful poem of mine, questioning religion was most likely read out at Wayside Chapel question time - nearly 50 years ago.

However, earlier he was suddenly interested in how I videoed the talk by Michael from my tripod in the audience – sadly without mic amplification being supplied, so it won’t be usable without volume increase in post-prod. I also videoed Aquarius organiser Mathew Dunstan, who had a great loud voice – with both of them approving my videoing afterwards (offering them a video copy). Mathew said some very interesting things about the then counterculture movement - that helped stop conscription.

Jeff had quickly approached me, offering to pay “expenses” for my video coverage – given I was the only person videoing those two key speakers. However later, after his big Groan against me asking to just read my short great anti Vietnam war poem at the Concert (that he didn’t bother to even look at) I just pissed off before the concert. Jeff had been publically nasty at me at a Politics in Pub years before, so I really couldn't believe his “expenses” offer for making videos - and getting copyright permission to cover songs at the Concert would be just too hard.

AtTAPGalleryevent days before the Concert – Jeff was hugely late and hadn’t replied to my email weeks before about how I had my Morayorium based  film to play. A woman had already complained to me there that Jeff had been very rude to her recently to which I replied that he spread it around. Given that he seemed only to have USA film DVDs to play when he did arrive, I took off before he could recognise me (I hoped) - and orobably give me a hard time again. 

At the Addisson St event days later, he kept introducing me to people as the guy who USED to produce (ie edit for UPE) Dole News plus other completely wrong claims, again ignoring the UPE – (that I was forced to keep correcting). Not much fun for me, but the female Co-ordinator of the Addison St complex just loves him it seems, as he “gets things going”.

What he really got going that will remain, perhaps, was her memorial Columns at the centre’s entrance – which was launched (before the Agent Orange Concert) with a full smoking-ceremony. However she had a mic and little amp to let the speakers compete with the passing traffic – so I videod some of that. The smoking ceremony Aboriginal guy told some women not to video him (just photograph).

There are mostly nonmilitary plaques, though the place is full of old Nissan huts – as it was originally an army base for receiving 1960’s conscripts. Luckily I got out of that long enough for Whitlam to just stop it. I'm not sure anti war activists will be featured much on tiny $70 plaques on the memorial Columns - since those who "served" are priority. Yet another War Memorial it seems

CLOVER'S COLONY COUNCIL BLOCKS POOR READING THIS AWARDED SOCIAL JUSTICE SITE

Australia's oldest "democratic" government body, Sydney City Council - is now blocking internet computer access to this and other Unemployed Peoples Embassy websites - at it public computers (in its public libraries and community centres). This draconian anti-democratic action was taken in November 2014, with no notice to our longtime registered non profit human rights organisation - let alone with any "reason" offered for doing it.

The chilling part of this is that our awarded publication, Dole News - published first in 1976, is now virtually unavailable to the jobless and other disadvantaged people in the inner Sydney area. Dole News, which received a grant from the Human Rights Commissionthrough its publisher, Unemployed Peoples Embassy in 1984 - now rarely is able to produce issues through printing/photocopying, as it had no further public funding to do it (let alone public donations).

DOLE NEWS has constantly exposed government corruption, such as fake "work tests" by the Commonwealth Employment Service in the 1970's and 80's - used to unfairly cut jobless off the dole (see our book "WORK TEST"). More recently it has exposed the dirty tricks of the Job Network and Sydney TAFE to exlude middle aged males and males with diasabilities. Oddly, there has been little change in content for Dole News since the 2014 Federal Budget - excepr updating some of the TAFE material - that mysteriously went missing.

Google had some log-in block to a couple of our Dole News based blogs - which we hope is temporary. By the way, the UPE grant from Human Tights Commission for Dole News was awarded in 1984. Big Brother is certainly watching 30 years later !!

JOBLESSRADIO

Unemployed Peoples Embassy is currently webcasting from http://undergroundradio.redfernccradio.com

Also there are recordings of the Ultimo TAFE bullying of a middle aged male student with physical disability to be webcast. More of younger student bullying emails are now being released on: http://unemployedpeoplesembassy-masks.blogspot.com

ABBORT GOVT CRUEL REACTIONARY BUDGET 2014

The small-target Abbort opposition leader, with his three word slogans - has now been revealed as a great deceiver with his first Budget in government. Breaking the few promises he made before the last election (regarding Medicare, pensions and Gonski funding etc) - his Budget falsely claims to Share The Pain by giving the super rich a light haircut - while cutting off the poor at the knees.The $7 GO tax will supposedly go to a medical research bank (future fund) to discover disease cures that only the rich will get benefit from.

Conession card holders will have to pay $7 for their first ten visits to a GP each year - plus $5 extra for every prescription at the chemist. Jobless under 25 will only be able to get the Youth Allowance, which is quite a lot less even than the dole. Meanwhile people losing a job under 30 will have to wait six months before they can get any jobless allowance AT ALL. No govt funded full time job creation is being proposed - though youth unemployment is at least twice that of over 25's unemployment. People under 35 on Disability Support Presion will be "reassessed" for it by Govt paid "experts" every 3 months or so. They will not be assisted into employment by the $10,000 grant over two years going to employers who take them on (like the jobless over 50 are going to get).

The Unemployed Peoples Embassy (UPE) continues to seek support and funding to revive its successful Odd Job Centre (OJC) project - first established in 1978. It had young jobless and disabled people as members, who volunteered to run its office at 41 Phillip St Sydney and do paid casual work for clients externally. It operated later in two successive site in Kings St Newtown/ St Peters. Its last site received a one off grant of $500 for the UPE from Marrickville Council for the later. Contact us on odd_job_centre@hotmail.com - for more details or support. The OJC included the Creatoive Media Workshop with music and songwriting performing projects - and now is adding more website and video production.
The phone number of the UPE is in the Sydney WHITE pages. POSTED 15 MAY 2014

This blog network is now more difficult to update. The publishing dates shown by Google are now incorrect. Though there does seem to be some limit way around adding new text - a new website is now being sought for UPE background information - which is now unreadable on the MAGIX websites (which have lost their formating).

"HIPPIE DOLE" LAW BITES BACK

MINING, FARMING, TOURISM CAN'T GET LOCAL WORKERS!

Due to lack of political foresight by the major political parties, Australia is now having to import temporary workers to fill regional and remote jobs. It was the Keating "Labor"govt that brought in the insane "hippi dole" law to stop the jobless from escaping high rents and homelessness in the city. The law cut the jobless off the dole for a number of months for moving to a regional area deemed to be of "lesser employment opportunities". The even crazier Howard govt, doubled the cut off period to about a year. This meant that jobless were discouraged from trying to find cheaper rents and casual farming/tourism work in country centres. Even moving from Sydney to the Blue Mountains could have you lose the dole. If you move to Katoomba to get three months seasonal work in a cafe there - will you be allowed to get back on the dole when that work runs out?

On top of that, the dole allows the jobless to earn less than half the amount that pensioners and tertiary students are allowed to earn, before Centrelink starts to reduce it. The Gillard govt, in other words, expects the jobless to work for the dole with income from arduous casual work.  The Minister  Shorten (ex union boss) constantly backs Gillard's ravings about how the jobless won't take full time work if they can keep earnings from casual and part time work. Instead Centrelink's highly paid Brisbane based hit squad, is being funded to come after jobless who don't fully declare their casual work earnings (and pesky middle aged males trying to retrain at TAFE for employment as well). They just can't afford to live in the city, but can't ESCAPE TO THE COUNTRY.

The jobless are usually better off living outside Australian cities, (which are the most unaffordable in the world to live in). They can still apply for city jobs and even give a city relative's address as their "residential" address. They can easily travel to the city if they are ever offered a job interview. However, the "job network" won't like that, as they like living in the city. A lot of regional workers -like farmers, teachers, chefs have taken off to earn heaps driving trucks for the multinational mining companies. City based jobless could take over those vacated roles, while still living only four hours or so from major cities. Of course fast rail would make the travel distance to regional centres shorter, but Sydney hasn't even got a serious international airport yet - so what chance is there of real decentralisation happening.

Australia has the least decentralised population in the world. We also have the highest migration rate in the world, with most of the mostly NESB migrants moving to our main already overcrowded and dysfunctional major cities. Of course modern politicians don't like the idea of the jobless living in regional areas and maybe having a backyard to grow some food in. They want us all to be crowded into city blocks of flats (like a feedlot, as Tony Windsor puts it). The business interests who back them, want concentrated populations - that  are easier to sell their stuff to (ie market density). The govt would rather import temporary workers for outback jobs, as well as import mass culture - rather than properly fund arts in this country. Whose country is this anyway?