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picketer.bsky.social
Ex union boss. Organising, political economy, labour markets, tax, pensions, climate, China, Spinoza. Proud @UnitedWorkersOz member since 1990.
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On Saturday I go to the market at North Carlton primary school and far too many well-off ****s about to pay $12 for bread and $18 for heirloom toms will say "no thanks" to the voluntary $2 entry donation (cards are preferred BTW) to get in of which half goes to the school P&C.

submitted 2 hours ago • 8 comments

I got up at 6 and put on Chili Colorado with a pork and beef mix and it's hitting it's stride in the very very slow cook.

submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

Love this from my union.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

Post an unusual sign if you feel like it.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

“His writing may be publishable, but that doesn’t entitle him to public rehabilitation”

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

ATO stats day! Reminder that only 5% of us pay even a dollar of the top rate of income tax (that cuts in at $180k.) Median taxable income if $56k.

submitted 20 hours ago • 2 comments

Just a small reminder: a basic social democratic program (doing stuff for schools, health, parks, PT, lived amenity, social services) remains very, very popular when you put it on the ballot and deliver it.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

A social democrat wins a municipal primary and everybody misplaces their shit.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

The jangly opening will never not hit me deeply.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Konstas was dropped twice on the way to compiling this knock........

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Pretty sure I went to a "Tokyo Pig Liver" gig at The Tote back in the day.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

"Both our families made shells for the Nazis but ours worked dammit!"

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Muslim guy: what if a poor person could buy vegetables Reasonable New Yorker: I am moving to a Whites Only compound 1,140 miles away from here as soon as possible. Please invite me onto the television to say this again.

submitted 1 day ago • 80 comments

He's a very, very talented 5 or 6 and that is not a sledge at all. You can't make a Ponting, Chappell or Smith in a lab but we should be looking for one. Won't win too many series relying on Trav, Beau, the keeper and the tail -probably.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Always good to remember how Sydney was before the funstoppers ruined it. www.theage.com.au/national/pub...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments