by Leonie Saunders | Sep 24, 2020 | Politics
A little over two weeks have passed since I listened intently to the presenter of the ABC’s Statewide Drive program Nicole Chvastek interview the owner of a popular Kyneton restaurant to get his opinion of the COVID-19 Roadmap aimed at taking Victoria out of lockdown...
by Leonie Saunders | Aug 26, 2020 | Politics
Human beings are a social species. We are hard wired to social interaction, cooperation and reciprocity. It is elemental to maintaining our mental health and our survival as a species. As a Victorian, enduring the isolation of lockdown has so many challenges...
by Leonie Saunders | Apr 11, 2020 | Politics
The reaction to the outbreak has revealed the unreconstructed despotism of the Chinese state Ma Jian, the author of a piece published in The Guardian Feb 27 2020 not only shines a light on the surreptitious nature of China’s authoritarian government. His credentials...
by Leonie Saunders | Feb 20, 2020 | Politics
According to the Guardian’s Christopher Knaus, analysis of donation disclosures suggests about 114 companies and lobby groups may have purchased business forum memberships worth $4.7m. Evidently, Santos, Nine Entertainment and big banks paid tens of thousands to...
by Leonie Saunders | Feb 13, 2020 | Politics
In a recent interview on a U.S news talk program called Face the Nation, the Chinese Ambassador to the U.S.A, Cui Tiankai was entirely justified in his criticism of Republican Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) for race bating when he implied the Coronavirus could have been...
by Leonie Saunders | Jan 1, 2020 | Climate Change, Politics
Natural environments are ablaze Not to put to finer a point on it, I fear what we are witnessing is the desertification of what is left of Australia’s fertile land. With both Federal and State Governments in the thrall of big business being unwilling to put their...
by Leonie Saunders | Jan 1, 2020 | Politics
✊🏼 2020 is a very good year for the revolution to begin! Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Like this:Like...
by Leonie Saunders | Dec 31, 2019 | Politics
We can not trust our politicians to take the URGENT ACTION that is required to save us from extinction! I call on the United Nations to impose sanctions on ALL nation states – developed and developing who do not immediately begin cutting their greenhouse gas...
by Leonie Saunders | Dec 30, 2019 | Politics
If you seek to be better informed on the politics threatening our most precious resource… Watch the linked documentary PUMPED DRY: The Global Crisis of Vanishing Groundwater https://youtu.be/RjsThobgq7Q Then click on the link and read the article originally...
by Leonie Saunders | Dec 12, 2019 | Climate Change, Politics
With advances in technology enabling the compression of time and space. We now find ourselves awash with information. Unfortunately, internet algorithms are open to implementable instructions by unscrupulously self interested capitalist elites who put a lot of time...
