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Free thinking, atheist, lefty! Studied Anthropology/Sociology! Irish/Australian, self-funded retiree, still CPSU union member! Looking for #Auspol to be informed and promote a better Australia. On Kaurna land No DMs!
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The attempt to change super tax concessions has worried the extremely wealthy that people will realise just how rigged the system is in their favour. And they worry it might finally be the start of attempts to address the growing wealth inequality in this country www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

Aussies, I could do with your help (please and thank you) My novel Gunnawah is due for release in the United States in early Sept and my publishers Hachette and I are compiling a glossary Could you kindly read through and add anything? Or if you've read Gunnawah - any words/phrases I've missed?

submitted 10 days ago • 90 comments

This is Ruby Rodgers, my brilliant granddaughter speaking and singing from her heart at her TEDx talk last month. I am so moved and immensely proud. Please have a listen to her whole speech: youtu.be/0rDc49KUMYE

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

The latest Business Indicators are out today, so here's the update of the wages and profits graph

submitted 15 days ago • 9 comments

Tasmanian Aboriginal resistance warriors battled against overwhelming power, but have no recognition Tasmania was the scene of the most organised and violent attempt to destroy Aboriginal culture, but there is no recognition of those who resisted the overwhelming colonial power. #auspol

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

I hope police investigate the same way they’d investigate a church being destroyed. The only explanation for this is racism. #racism #AusPol

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

12yo asked how much tax we pay. “Woah, you’re losing a lot of money.” “Er, no. I’m not losing it. You know how we pay a subscription to Disney+? Well my taxes are my subscription to society.” “It’s still a lot of money.” “Yeah, but I get a lot back: hospitals, roads, Medicare, a justice system.”

submitted 18 days ago • 6 comments

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submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

It's on the tip of my tongue, but it still eludes me... Who was the great economic thinker who argued that decisions about what individual companies should produce, in which factory, and where, were choices best made by the government as part of their central plan?

submitted 26 days ago • 44 comments

Here is the official Harvard University website! www.harvard.edu Here is their # if you'd like to speak to someone there!! +1 617-495-1000 The link to the Free Government courses is ... pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

submitted 24 days ago • 257 comments

The difference in the prices are outrageous. It’s nearly double.

submitted 29 days ago • 28 comments

If the Nats leave the coalition, and the LNP of Qld join with them that makes 25 seats & the Libs with 18. Does that mean that the Nats & LNPQ become the opposition & Littleproud the Opposition leader??? Are the Nats bailing out because there is a female leader? Interesting!!!!! #auspol #Auspol

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

Will Labor distance Australia from a USA descending into fascism? Nope. #auspol www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXR9...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

"Only 2 doses of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine are required to achieve 99 per cent effectiveness to prevent infection from the virus for life." www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/health/...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Geezuz QLD LNP axing 75% of staff at Service Delivery in QLD Dept of Housing. Reducing pay of remaining permanents. This is what the LNP do. They CUT services, cut health, cut education - to benefit themselves & their donors. Campbell Newman 2.0 with a Joh gerrymander if they can get away with it

submitted 38 days ago • 16 comments

“Australia stands at a crossroads. As momentum builds for a republic, the question isn’t just about replacing the monarchy – it’s about redesigning democracy itself.” theaimn.net/reimagining-...

submitted 39 days ago • 5 comments

#Auspaul does anyone else thing that if Canavan was elected as leader of the Nats, that this would be a sign that the LNP is not serious in having a through review of how most people think that are crap and not relevant to Australia!!!!! Same with Taylor or Ley with the LNP??

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

In casting himself as supreme leader and pope, Donald Trump inadvertently invoked the Christian understanding of the Antichrist.

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

The idea that Angus Taylor could be the next leader of the Liberals is absurd. His colleagues call him a lazy policy lightweight & there remain serious questions about his integrity. Jonathan Biggins of the Wharf Revue encapsulates "Angus Taylor Swift" perfectly 👇. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAiT...

submitted 44 days ago • 32 comments