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garethmills.bsky.social
Union member, public servant, live in regional Australia on Dja Dja Warrung country. Posts are my views, not theirs.
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firing for "too much DEI" is plainly firing a woman and a Black man on the presumption only white men can be qualified. this is disgusting biogtry.

submitted 21 hours ago • 249 comments

In addition, GP clinics will be incentivised to bulk bill every patient they see: those that do will get an additional 12.5% loading on their Medicare rebates. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

What Labor has done in bringing inflation under control, creating more jobs, raising wages, creating space for rate cuts, record SME growth & increasing investments in pensions, health & education shouldn’t, according to neoliberalism, be possible Labor did it NO ONE ELSE ANYWHERE ELSE HAS #auspol

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

More media controlling the narrative—The Washington Post refused to run an ad that said, “Fire Elon Musk.”

submitted 4 days ago • 176 comments

The resistance will bring down Musk and Trump. Congress, wake up before your power is gone. The GOP begging Trump to release money to their states is pathetic—stand up to this tyranny. Congress controls the purse strings.

submitted 3 days ago • 241 comments

Appearing today in The Week:

submitted 2 days ago • 170 comments

For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13. For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26. Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency. It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.

submitted 2 days ago • 247 comments

In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

submitted 1 day ago • 1244 comments

President Zelenskyy has been one of the greatest leaders of our time, guiding Ukraine through the darkest period of its recent history, rising up to Russia’s unwarranted aggression, being an inspiration to the Ukrainian people and ensuring that Ukraine’s voice is heard on the world stage.

submitted 2 days ago • 2872 comments

coup d’état US will not go quietly.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

For anyone pretending Labor's first term has been a do-nothing government here's the proof you're wrong and you're probably far too reliant on Murodch and other RW media johnmenadue.com/the-governme...

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

Am I wrong?

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 7 days ago • 410 comments

The leopards are eating faces, and people who were only told by everyone alive on Earth that that would happen are steamed about it They were railroaded! Yes—everyone on Earth told them this would happen—but what about all the people on Mars, Venus and Proxima Centuri! Why did they hide the truth!

submitted 8 days ago • 1307 comments