2026 June 19 « Antinuclear

In praise of Pauline Hanson and One Nation

19 June 2026 Noel Wauchope, https://theaimn.net/in-praise-of-pauline-hanson-and-one-nation/

You can laugh. You can sneer. But we will show you!

BUT… the time needs action, not just words.

FIRST ACTION. We must get rid of compulsory voting. That is the Nanny State in operation. That is the Elites infringing on our civil liberties. People should have every right not to participate in the bureaucratic mumbo jumbo of the electoral mess. With voluntary voting, citizens would have true freedom to choose their own government. What happens at present, is that every uninformed person is forced to vote, and so tends to just follow the tired old established parties. A mindless vote. That disadvantages our really visionary party, One Nation, which deservedly gets the votes of real thinkers.

SECOND ACTION – but perhaps for later on – get rid of the rorting of the voting system, as that uppity lot of inner-city over-educated middle class women take advantage of preferential voting to get themselves into Parliament, and distract progress with their wayout and ultra-feminist agendas. Preferential voting does have its uses, I admit, but only in the short term, in this period of our negotiations with the sad sick Liberal and Labor parties.

NOW – once the very unfortunate Australian electoral system is corrected – we’ll be off and away in our noble quest to correct Australia itself. Fortunately, we have some wise and well-informed people to support us. People like Gina Rinehart, people who understand the realities of this resource-rich land, and of the skills and values of those who’ve colonised and improved this land, over 200 years. And let’s face it, that’s basically the white people.

And who are we counting on to bring One Nation to power? Well, there are people like myself – country dwellers who don’t want to be pushed around, patronised or ignored by the privileged pampered inner-city dwellers with their university degrees, and their latte-sipping, theatre-snobby culture. They prioritise the causes of various minority groups – foreigners who don’t speak English, and people with every kind of sexual deviance, rather than the needs of the real true-blue Australians.

Then there are the hard-working people in the outer suburbs, struggling with the increasing cost of living. They will know that One Nation is dedicated to improving their lot – we will cut the red and green tape that stifle business, and so we’ll help businesses to grow and prosper, thus creating more and better jobs as the increased profits trickle down to the workers.

We are sick and tired of all the pontificating about that non-existent climate change, and about the non-sustainable folly of renewable energy, propped up as it is by the incompetent Labor government. We intend of course, to take care of indigenous people, but not to allow the remnants of their backwards culture to be used by troublemakers whose aim is to impede progress in developing industry.

Pauline Hanson has spoken a lot about immigration, but it’s not that she’s against immigration. Of course we want some migrants, but a limited number, and they should be carefully restricted to people that have adopted our English language and share our values.

You have to admire Pauline. She courageously speaks her mind, and challenges those biased lefties, especially in the media. Our taxes should not be going to the ABC and to the SBS – institutions with such a dangerously left-wing attitude. One Nation will deal with those nefarious influences.

Which brings me back to publications like The Australian Independent Media Network, Independent Australia, Crikey, and the positively dangerous Urban Wronski Writes. Something will have to be done about those. It is my hope to correct Australian Independent Media, for example, perhaps to bring it back to respectable, reliable journalism that will aid the Murdoch media in showing Australians the news in the correct way.

So, in conclusion – to all you Australians who feel aggrieved and hardly done by, we at One Nation offer you what you need: Change, and the promise of a better life.

Signed,

Noel Wauchope, proud rural dweller.

June 19, 2026 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews | Leave a comment

Where’s the money? Government and Israel lobby coy on big grants

by Stephanie Tran | Jun 16, 2026 ,https://michaelwest.com.au/wheres-the-money-government-and-israel-lobby-coy-on-big-grants/

Australia’s Jewish community received 49 times more funding per capita for security than Muslim Australians but where does the money go?

Where’s the money? The latest $176m in government grants awarded to peak Zionist body and Israel lobby group the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, that is? It was allocated for ‘community security’ but what is community security? Questions were put to Home Affairs and ECAJ.

Home Affairs did not address specific questions. ECAJ did not respond.

“Are any funds received under the Enhancing Security for Jewish Communities Program being used, either directly or indirectly, to support ECAJ’s lobbying, advocacy, legal, media or public communications activities? If so, please provide details.”

Questions and responses are published below. The public interest question at stake is whether government grant money is being spent by the Israel lobby – or its associates – suing Australian citizens such as Mary Kostakidis, Nick Reimer and John Keane in antisemitism cases.

An obscure associate

An MWM investigation previously revealed that more than $176m in Commonwealth security grants awarded to the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) were paid to an obscure association incorporated in the ACT – rather than a charity registered with the ACNC regulator or ASIC.

A further security grant of $22 million to ECAJ has been “committed but not yet awarded” by the government, bringing the total security grants awarded to ECAJ to $198 million.

The arrangement has prompted questions about transparency because ACT incorporated associations are not required to publicly lodge audited financial statements, unlike registered charities, which are required to report to the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC).

The issue was raised during Senate Estimates, where Greens senator David Shoebridge questioned why the Department of Home Affairs had chosen to award the funding to ECAJ’s ACT incorporated association rather than one of its charity entities.

“In terms of the community getting transparency on where the funding is going, there’s vastly less transparency given by ACT incorporated associations, which aren’t required to lodge audited financial statements and aren’t regulated by the ACNC registered charity.

“Why did Home Affairs provide it to an ACT-registered association rather than the ACNC-registered charity?” Shoebridge asked.

An obscure government response

Department official Amy Dyde replied that the incorporated association was the appropriate recipient because “that is the corporate entity that represents ECAJ as the peak body, and so that is the organisation that was eligible for funding”.

“It’s not charitable funding; it’s not tax-deductible funding; it’s operational security funding. So they were the appropriate entity to receive that funding to distribute it as the peak body,” Dyde said.

However, publicly available grant records indicate that the $27.5m Security Uplifts for Muslim Communities program was awarded to Australian National Imams Council Limited, which is an ACNC-registered charity that publicly discloses government grant income in its annual financial reports.

By contrast, ECAJ’s ACNC-registered charity, The Trustee for ECAJ Harm Prevention Fund, has reported receiving no government grant revenue in its ACNC filings over the past decade, despite the more than $176m in Commonwealth security funding being awarded to the ECAJ.

Funding disparity

Since October 2023, Muslim community organisations have received $27.5 million in Commonwealth security funding through the Security Uplifts for Muslim Communities program.

According to the 2021 Census, 813,392 Australians identified as Muslim. Based on those figures, the funding equates to approximately $33.80 per person.

By comparison, Commonwealth grants awarded to Jewish community organisations since October 2023 total approximately $198 million.

The 2021 Census recorded 99,956 Australians identifying Judaism as their religion. However, ECAJ co-chief executive Peter Wertheim estimated the Australian Jewish population is closer to 120,000 when accounting for those who did not identify their religion in the census.

Using Wertheim’s estimate, the funding allocated to Jewish community organisations equates to approximately $1,650 per person. On a per-capita basis, this represents

“around 49 times more security funding than that allocated to Muslim community organisations.“

The disparity was raised during Senate Estimates by Shoebridge, who noted that Muslim, Palestinian and Arab communities had also reported threats, harassment and attacks on community facilities since October 7.

“Of course, the Jewish community – recognising that the threats and security issues are real in that community – are not the only community that’s facing quite distinct threats,” Shoebridge said.

“I speak regularly with members of the Muslim community, the Palestinian community and the broader Arab community, and they are experiencing attacks on mosques, overt hostility on the street and attacks at their community gatherings.

?They have asked where the funding is for their security.”

Shoebridge questioned whether Home Affairs was undertaking a broader assessment to ensure security funding was being distributed proportionately across communities facing heightened threats.

Department secretary Stephanie Foster responded that Home Affairs was engaging with communities across Australia and said requests from Jewish organisations had been focused heavily on security measures, while requests from Muslim communities had been “more broadly based”.

“We are engaging with community groups, very consistently, to understand their needs and priorities,” Foster said.

“The focus from the Jewish community and Jewish community groups, for some time, has been very heavily focused on specific security-related funding. The requests from the Muslim community in particular have been more broadly based.”

The funding disparity comes amid reports of a sharp increase in anti-Islamic incidents since October 2023. According to the Islamophobia Register Australia, reports of Islamophobia increased by 636% in the period following 7 October 2023, with the organisation reporting an average of 18 incidents per week.

Funding on request

Shoebridge questioned Department of Home Affairs officials about how the government arrived at the figure of $124m announced in the federal budget.

“What was the assessment that landed with the figure?” Shoebridge asked. “Or is the answer, ‘That’s what was requested’?”

Department official Andrew Warnes replied, “That’s correct. That’s what was requested and identified, as required for security funding, by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry.”

The exchange prompted further questioning from Shoebridge, who asked whether any independent needs assessment, infrastructure review or analysis had been undertaken to justify the amount.

Department officials did not identify

“any specific assessment that produced the funding figure.“

nstead, Warnes said ECAJ had submitted a request for $102m in funding after earlier funding arrangements were due to expire.

In response to questions by MWM, the Department of Home Affairs told us it had “no additional information to provide beyond statements made during estimates”.

The Department also did not provide a copy of the grant guidelines as requested.

We put detailed questions to the Department of Home Affairs and ECAJ regarding whether any grant funds could be used for lobbying, advocacy, legal or public communications activities.

They declined to comment.

June 19, 2026 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Roxby Bill rides roughshod over environmental and Indigenous concerns

17 June 26 https://www.conservationsa.org.au/protect_mound_springs

Conservation Council SA expresses deep concern at the proposed Roxby Downs (Indenture Ratification) (Amendment of Indenture) Amendment Bill 2026 (‘Roxby Bill’) currently before the South Australian Parliament. If passed, the Bill has a potential to irreversibly damage or destroy the Mound Springs of the Great Artesian Basin (GAB). These unique springs are in the far north of our state and are a South Australia environmental and cultural treasure.

Conservation SA has long called for the Mound Springs of the GAB to be permanently protected for the local Indigenous and South Australian communities.

As noted by The Nature Conservancy:

“Up to three kilometres deep and lying beneath 23% of the Australian continent, the Great Artesian Basin is the largest and deepest artesian basin in the world. The water it contains is under high pressure and in places like Arabana Country, South Australia this forces water to rise to the surface as freshwater springs. Along with the rising warm water comes sediment which can pile up several metres high hence the name – mound springs.

In the hot dry landscape, the springs create an oasis for local wildlife and migratory birds. They’ve also been extremely important to Indigenous people for many thousands of years.”

In December 2025, Conservation Council SA CEO Kirsty Bevan wrote to the South Australian Premier seeking the long-term protection of the Mound Springs (extract below):

Protect the Mound Springs and End Unsustainable Water Extraction from the Great Artesian Basin

Mound Springs are globally significant cultural, ecological and geological features, and are a listed EPBC Act “Endangered Ecological Community”. These unique and fragile little gems support rare species, deep cultural heritage and landscapes central to the identity of Traditional Owners. Community concern has escalated regarding BHP’s use of Great Artesian Basin water for mining and the cumulative impact on Springs.

 We call for:

1. Recognition of the Mound Springs of the GAB as a high-value ecosystem requiring elevated protection.
2. Closure as soon as possible of BHP Wellfield A water extraction operations that have directlyimpactedthe Springs.
3. Transition of industrial scale BHP Wellfield B water extraction operations toward alternative water sources, such as desalination or recycled water, to protect the Basin.
4. Transparenttimelyreporting of extraction volumes, groundwater pressures and spring health and monitoring information.
5. Co-governance with Traditional Owners, with investment in cultural heritage protection and Indigenous Rangers on country.

 Outcome Sought:

Long-term water security for communities, ecosystems of Great Artesian Basin—and a clear safeguard against irreversible damage.

The Bill is deeply problematic for several reasons. Firstly, given the complexity of the legislation and the lack of notice provided about the Bill has meant that interested parties have not been provided with a realistic opportunity to respond and raise the full suite of their concerns. Further, there are concerns that this rapid process may have been the deliberate intention of Government.

As noted by longtime campaigner Mr David Noonan in his submission to the Select Committee inquiry into the Bill, the key concern is that:

“…[the] Roxby Bill and new Indenture place an onus on the State to provide “commercial water” to BHP. If the State doesn’t deliver that water, the Roxby Bill and new Indenture provide for BHP Olympic Dam Wellfield / Borefield B to expand and extend operations for decades at an unacceptable environmental cost to the integrity of GAB water flows and the survival of the unique and fragile Mound Springs, little gems of our natural heritage and of ongoing fundamental cultural and spiritual importance to the Arabana People, the Native Title holders over the area. This is entirely unacceptable.”

The problems the Roxby Bill will create are further detailed in submissions to the short Select Committee into the legislation; attached below are the submissions to that Committee from Friends of Mound Springs and longtime campaigner, Mr David Noonan:

June 19, 2026 Posted by Christina Macpherson | environment, South Australia | Leave a comment