Bathla: Sydney-Indian Property Developer Collapsed (3)

(Staff article from The DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA on 25 August 2026.)

A Sydney property developer whose company has left up to 25,000 homes in limbo after being placed into voluntary administration is building a luxury compound complete with an eight-car underground garage, tennis court and pool.

Bhart Bhushan, who co-owns the Bathla Group alongside his brother Rajinder Mohan, announced the property group would enter voluntary administration on Tuesday, citing a 'perfect storm' of softening sales, tax change impacts, and higher construction costs. The business is believed to owe an estimated total of $3.6billion to private credit firms and other creditors.

Administrators from Teneo have been appointed to undertake an 'immediate assessment' of the company's finances in an effort to stabilise operations. Urgent discussions are now taking place with lenders, and 500 jobs are now at risk.

Mr Bhushan founded the business in 1997 after originally starting out as a taxi driver. Bathla develops budget-friendly housing estates, townhouses and apartments across Sydney, including growing suburbs Schofields, Marsden Park and Tallawong in the city's north-west.

One Nation secures historic victory in WA by-election!

(Keane Bourke’s article from THE ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA on 30 August 2026.)

One Nation secures historic victory in Secret Harbour by-election, taking first WA lower house seat; One Nation has scored a historic win in Western Australia, securing its first lower house seat in the state.

The ABC's chief elections and data analyst Casey Briggs called the outer suburban seat of Secret Harbour for One Nation's Luke Herdegen a little over four hours after votes began to be counted. One Nation's WA leader Rod Caddies claimed victory at 9.30pm local time, although Labor had yet to concede.

Labor's candidate was political staffer-turned-Woodside lobbyist Georgia Tree. The area was traditionally safe Labor territory, having been held in different shapes and under different names since 1989, including most recently by Paul Papalia on an 11.5 per cent margin. 'Fight of our lives'; WA Labor Premier Roger Cook had repeatedly described the by-election as a "fight for our lives", given the threat posed by One Nation.

Bathla: Sydney-Indian Property Developer Collapsed (2)

(Ben Graham’s article from The NEWS.COM.AU on 26 August 2026.)

Contagion fears in troubled $2.5 trillion industry after shocking collapse of Bathla Group: A contagion infecting a $2.5 trillion industry has hit Australia and a domino effect of panic has set in after a major builder collapse.

A contagion infecting a $2.5 trillion industry has officially hit Australia, with billions of dollars now trapped as a domino effect threatens to ripple through the property sector following a major builder collapse.

In a dramatic escalation of a global crisis that has been bubbling away all year, MA Financial — one of the country’s largest private credit investment managers — has slapped severe limits on how much cash investors can pull out of its $2.3 billion secured property loan fund.

The move comes during a concerning week for the $200 billion Australian private credit industry, triggered by the spectacular collapse of major western Sydney-based home builder Bathla Group, which has plunged into voluntary administration, straining under a staggering $3.2 billion in debts.

Bathla: Sydney-Indian Property Developer Collapsed (1)

(Heath Parkes-Hupton’s article from The NEWS.COM.AU on 25 August 2026.)

Home builder Bathla Group collapses into voluntary administration: The major developer has announced it has been placed into voluntary administration as it creaked under $3b in debt. The major western Sydney-based home builder has collapsed into voluntary administration as it strained under more than $3 billion in debts.

Bathla Group’s managing director Bhart Bhushan announced on Tuesday he had placed the firm into voluntary administration, per a statement on its website. “Our first thoughts are with our employees and the customers who have put their faith in us to deliver their dream of home ownership,” he said.

“It is my sincere hope this process can allow that to happen by working collaboratively with the administrators, our suppliers, contractors and lending partners.” Bathla currently has about 15,000 properties under construction across Sydney’s west but had racked up more than $3 billion in debt, largely to private creditors.

US debt hits $40 trillion: Who does Washington owe?

 (Shola Lawal’s article from THE AL JAZEERA on 21 August 2026.)

US debt hits $40 trillion: Who does Washington owe and why does it matter? Heavy borrowing, increased spending and tax cuts by Democratic and Republican administrations have long raised concerns.

Total United States debt has surpassed $40 trillion for the first time  in history, according to a Department of the Treasury update on Wednesday. Ballooning debt, especially during President Donald Trump’s second term, which began in January last year, has raised concerns about a looming fiscal crisis for some time, with economists fearing a toxic combination of heavy borrowing, increased spending and lower taxes could land the world’s biggest economy in crisis.

The rising US debt comes despite Trump’s championing of cost-cutting and efficiency as a hallmark of his second term, with his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative slashing between 250,000 and 350,000 federal jobs and cutting global aid since the start of last year. In May 2023, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) predicted that the US would reach the $40 trillion mark in 2028.

Rise and Fall of MDY-PDF (Mandalay PDF) Gen-Z Army!

(Basing on staff posts from The JUSTICE FOR TRUTH on 15 July 2026.)

What exactly happened to the famous MDY-PDF, the Mandalay-PDF, which together with the mighty Palaung ARMY (TNLA) basically kicked the collective arse of Myanmar Generals and their raping-robbing-murdering-burning army during the 1027 operations in late-2023. And then in early 2024 as the following SHAN-MAN Operations, they liberated major regions of Mandalay Administrative Division and nearly captured Mandalay City itself?

But then they had suddenly lost all their captured territories in mid-2025 and utterly disappeared! I was horribly wondering what happened to the MDY-PDF and trying to find out the reasons for their sudden collapse. And finally, I did manage to connect the hidden dots and dashes and then figure out the following dramatic story.

Apparently, there was a violent internal coup by two medical doctors-turned-revolutionary- politicians (Dr Tayza-Soe and Dr So-Thura-Zaw) to take over the rich organization from the two main military leaders (Bo Mone-Dai and Bo Naing-Gyi) responsible for the earlier success that brought along military power and enormous wealth in the form of gold and precious gemstones from the naturally-rich Shan-Man region.

'mini-Mamdanis' reignites anti-communist Red Scare!

(Don Sheil’s post from the ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA on 01 August 2026.)

Wave of 'mini-Mamdanis' reignites anti-communist Red Scare playbook from Trump ahead of midterm elections: President Trump has reignited anti-communist rhetoric after a series of democratic socialist victories in Democrat primary races.  

US President Donald Trump and Republicans have been raising the alarm with voters about what they say is an impending political apocalypse for over a month. Their dramatic warnings speak of a "dark road of death" and "a philosophical war to save" the United States itself.

The threat, according to them: communism. Their argument goes like this: If Democrats regain control of both houses of congress in the November midterm elections, they will intentionally dismantle the country from the inside-out.

Indians hiring Only Indians in Aussie Govt Agencies

(Staff post from THE NOTICER on 01 August 2026.)

Aussie reveals Indians only hiring each other at federal agency: ‘Not very diverse’. An Australian public servant has revealed that Indian managers at a federal agency are only hiring other Indians, sparking a flood of similar complaints. The Public Service worker said in a post on Reddit this week that they were pro-diversity, but that Indians dominating hiring was having the opposite effect.

“I really don’t want to sound racist but I’m currently working for a federal agency,” the post read. “Over the last year our team of analysts got broken into silos and every manager of those silos is now Indian. Since then, the only new hires have been Indian from every single silo.

“I really have nothing against people that are not of my ethnicity, but previously we had complete diversity in the new hires in our team, from all over the world. East Asian, European (as in someone born in Europe, not white Australian), central Asian and South American. I know this sounds like crackpot One Nation nonsense, and I’m a big believer in diversity but this is really not feeling very diverse.”

Burma’s Fault Lines: Ethnic Federalism and Peace (2014)

 (Charmaine Benson Craig’s post from the DISSENT MAGAZINE in Fall 2014.)

Burma’s Fault Lines: Ethnic Federalism and the Road to Peace. As gross human rights violations against the country’s ethnic groups continue, can peace and democracy really take hold?

After more than half a century of war and broken ceasefire agreements, Burma is currently in the midst of landmark peace talks between its government and a coalition of ethnic resistance groups.

In July, the Nationwide Ceasefire Coordination Team (NCCT)—representing sixteen ethnic nationalities including the Karen, the Kachin, the Mon, the Arakanese, and the Shan—met in Kachin-held Laiza to discuss the terms of a proposed national ceasefire, under negotiation with the government since last November.

The ethnic nationalities, of which all but the Kachin and the Ta’ang have already struck bilateral ceasefire agreements with the government, are calling for greater administrative autonomy within a new federal Union of Burma, control over natural resources in their territories, and a guarantee that political dialogue with the government will take place within months of a national ceasefire accord.