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submitted 3 days ago • 198 comments

Early voting for the Federal Election starts today! Your vote is powerful & will help shape whether we have a kinder or crueller Australia. Vote for candidates that bring us together not ones who punch down on the marginalised. Vote for compassion, freedom & safety for refugees.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

The Australia Institute, The Centre for Public Integrity, the Australian Democracy Network & Transparency International Australia have come together to identify 6 reforms to redress the unfairness created by the Commonwealth's new political finance laws & combat the influence of vested interests.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Never forget #Lnp #robodebt #falsedebts #jobkeeper #Billionairekeeper was falsely claimed by big businesses including churches

submitted 20 days ago • 13 comments

Peter Dutton of $30m in property sales, $300m childcare centre, insider trading and in bed with Gina Rinehart and other billionaires, says Albo is out of touch. Begging your finest fucking pardon. #auspol #australiavotes www.sbs.com.au/news/live-bl... #

submitted 29 days ago • 5 comments

Canada is strong when we recognize indigenous peoples

submitted 40 days ago • 45 comments

What makes a man in times like these? POEM: The Measure of a Man ~ Roger Chao

submitted 43 days ago • 2 comments

"Officials confirmed reports that when the government went to repay individuals, it found 10 had died." The 'mutual obligation' system of welfare compliance is cruel, ineffective, possibly illegal, and deadly. It's obscene that it continues. #poverty #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

submitted 54 days ago • 7 comments

Next time you hear someone ask how will the govt pay for <insert new spending on services> just remember right now the richest 10% get $27.5bn in tax breaks on just super, and negative gearing and the capital gains discount on housing www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

submitted 60 days ago • 24 comments

Private providers have rorted the employment services system while job seekers have faced poverty & homelessness. The Greens will bring back the CES, abolish mutual obligations & hire more Centrelink staff to bring phone wait times to under 5 mins - putting people first.

submitted 62 days ago • 32 comments

🚮Bin mutual obligations 🗑️Abolish for-profit providers 📉Lower Centrelink wait times ✅Restore the CES Let's unf#ck employment services.

submitted 62 days ago • 6 comments

Giddy 'up.....

submitted 64 days ago • 2 comments

Wonderful Wilcox again.

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

Koala and baby Joey #wildlife #koala #Australia

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Here we go... Today's launch episode of #SundayShot is now available in replay on Youtube - also on FB and on The Shot's podcast accounts. Here it is on Youtube #auspol > youtu.be/_OWA3a411_k?...

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

Say what this is: a coup. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/say-what-it-is-a-coup

submitted 72 days ago • 57 comments

‘The latest reported cost blow-out for the UK’s proposed Sizewell C nuclear plant further underlines that the Coalition’s proposal to bring #nuclear power to Australia is unrealistic.’ Well that’s inconvenient, Mr Dutton. #auspol #AusVotes25 #DontRiskDutton ieefa.org/resources/ne...

submitted 77 days ago • 8 comments

This is a very good leading article about class and inequality. I would just add that we need not be bound by our backgrounds. My parents were upper-middle class (quite posh). But I want a far more equal society, where the rich have less and the poor have more. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 81 days ago • 50 comments

“Parliamentarians, including many members of the crossbench, have joined community sector leaders in calling on the parliament to raise the rate of income support.” theaimn.net/crossbench-a...