r1nce.bsky.social
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Why should the community put funds into a ‘flood relief fund’ when the corporations causing the floods pay nothing and are afforded billions in subsidies? ‘Polluter pays’ principle must apply. Put a levy on fossil extraction and export! #auspol
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"Backgrounding" as currently employed is just politicians and party apparatchiks inviting journalists to participate in collusion.
The media landscape is dire enough without having to interpret the whispered sweet nothings of nameless, faceless, unattributable sources.
#auspol
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If only we could figure out who is starving and bombing children
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Miss you already! =)
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Rachel, I love you and mourn your leaving Schwartz each day the pale fascimile of The Politics hits my inbox, so I implore you to please stop attributing anything to 'moderate' Liberals.
If members of the Liberals' Moderate faction have anything to say at all, it needs to start with "we're sorry".
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That's very generous of you.
What feels more likely is the negotiation of policies through the Senate with separate conservative blocs, but only after decrying the lack of decorum and good faith from the Greens, whether they've been consulted or not.
It'll be CPRS-quality bills from now on.
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One of the things that makes me happy is knowing that I have friends everywhere.
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Imagine how much money we'd save on ticketing systems, barriers, readers, software and hardware deployment, and "enforcement" if we ceased altogether this foolish notion of privatised public transport.
I bet it'd be a shitload more than $318m.
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Kind of you to assume it had one in the first place.
Unless you mean that it's finally gone full mask-off for enlightened centrism, and even that thin veil was diaphanous to begin with.
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Looking forward to you and your team tabling changes to Medicare that will see every Australian have their teeth, eyes, and brains covered.
You've got the numbers in both houses to make this positive change.
Imagine how good it would be to see all Australians healthy and cared for.
#auspol
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Yup
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Can the group of you please figure out a way to have my brain, eyes, and teeth covered under Medicare?
Wouldn't it be cheaper, for everyone, if all Australians could seek preventative mental, dental, and ocular health?
Like, the profit for having healthy citizens shows up everywhere, right? #auspol
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If anyone knows about a betrayal of what Labor stands for, it's Paul Keating.
That he's a rare foil against the current crop of Labor politicians highlights the paucity of elected political talent and media-approved political commentators we've been forced to endure for decades.