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🧵 Dutton says he'll seek an FTA with Israel if he wins the election. A reminder that the International Court of Justice last year found all countries were “under an obligation not to render aid or assistance in maintaining the situation created by Israel’s illegal presence” in occupied territory.

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The Newcastle Herald apologised to readers for publishing a front page ad from Palmer’s Trumpet of Patriots party which says “there are only two genders” and removed the ad from digital edition. Age journalists are “furious” the paper has accepted the same ad for publication. www.theguardian.com/...

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

Mardi Gras is a celebration, but Pride began as a protest. Now, resistance + solidarity matter more than ever. Many want to demonise and erase us, but queer people have always existed and always will. To my rainbow family – celebrate, resist, take up space. Stay safe + have a joyous Mardi Gras🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

My latest on the media’s confected 'both sides-ing' of the govt’s Medicare announcement: 'the largest ever financial commitment to Medicare was reduced to a false equivalence between Labor’s detailed, costed, policy, and the Coalition’s cheap 5-word knock-off' #auspol www.echo.net.au/2025/02/medi...

submitted 25 days ago • 12 comments

The Liberal Party got caught lying—again. Why? Because our laws let them. Truth in political advertising should be non-negotiable. theklaxon.com.au/uh-ooh-ad-gi...

submitted 26 days ago • 23 comments

And hence, you will never see his party make policies to resolve the housing crisis, as they'd cut into his profits. It's impossible to regulate the housing market while so many politicians are investors. #auspol

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The LNP say they’ll cut the ‘public service’ to fund election promises, but don’t say how they’ll pay for the ‘profit service’ of big four consulting firms who’ll ultimately move in. They won’t rob Peter to pay Paul. They’ll rob Peter to pay PwC. #auspol

submitted 27 days ago • 9 comments

The LNP’s nuclear policy will directly affect the life chances of our children & grandchildren, do not vote for them. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

submitted 28 days ago • 18 comments

Duopoly.....fuck off....

submitted 43 days ago • 5 comments

Excellent piece: ‘Trump made it profitable for leaders to smear or sneer at experts, including scientists, electoral commissioners, intelligence chiefs, economists, the courts or political reporters. Dutton followed his lead,’ writes Niki Savva #auspol #AusVotes25 www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

submitted 46 days ago • 7 comments

We’re not going to back down in the face of malicious bullying by the Murdoch press and pro-Israel lobby, and we’re not going to stop criticising Peter Dutton for fueling racism! Some emails you can send which would make a big difference ⬇️

submitted 57 days ago • 6 comments

This is by far the best article I have read about how to resist Trump. It is also useful for those of us outside the US to help us resist our own homegrown oligarchs & their political surrogates newly emboldened by Trumpism. Please read. It’s both great & doable.

submitted 57 days ago • 16 comments

Tip from @snowjob.bsky.social If you have a whitehouse.gov link you want to access and it is down, try replacing "www.whitehouse.gov" with "bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov" The national archives is still doing its job for now.

submitted 60 days ago • 97 comments

SCOTUS announces it will hear whether or not LGBTQ inclusive education is unconstitutional. Not great for LGBTQ people, and could be disastrous to teaching that we have a history and have existed alongside everyone else for centuries.

submitted 66 days ago • 204 comments

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01... With Katharine Murphy no longer working as a journalist (I miss her every day), it falls to Laura Tingle and sadly only a few others to write OpEds that don’t underplay or “both sides” an issue.

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He died as he lived, clicking “Forgot password,” then checking his inbox for a code, then putting in that code, then setting up two-step verification, and then waiting for the text message that doesn’t come, and then calling the 800 number, and then downloading an authenticator app, and dying.

submitted 96 days ago • 250 comments

AGL fined $25 million over Centrepay scandal One of Australia's biggest power companies has been slapped with a $25 million fine, over a scandal that saw AGL overcharge disconnected welfare recipients without their knowledge.

submitted 95 days ago • 2 comments

If this is not the best guide on how to fight bans on #books and censorship for 2024, I know nothing. Amazing piece

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Dutton and his mates are treating Australians like fools. Why? For Gina Rinehart of course! Australians won’t fall for it.

submitted 100 days ago • 13 comments

I hope it was worth it for Frontier Economics. They have absolutely wrecked what was left of their professional reputation over this. lol www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

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"Democracy has fallen well behind technology and its use in the labour process." "A whole new approach is required — including rights for workers to be involved in decisions about the use of technology in the workplace," writes Stephen Long in @thepoliticsau. #auspol

submitted 103 days ago • 2 comments

If you write sex on the page (no matter the genre), make sure you've joined Authors Against Book Bans so we can all better mobilize as a group in 2025 and beyond. It's FREE to join! www.authorsagainstbookbans.com

submitted 104 days ago • 3 comments

Word of this morning is ‘procaffeinate’: to put everything on hold until you’ve had sufficient amounts of coffee.

submitted 126 days ago • 790 comments

Time again for the NYT’s Best Romances of 2024, as chosen by me: A single fallible human reader, admittedly widely read, but with a finite amount of time and energy after the events of this horrible year. In sum: lotta romances about grief in here. #Romancelandia 💙📚 #RomanceColumn

submitted 109 days ago • 13 comments

You undermine our democracy by aiding & abetting this #JasonClare We should not be isolated from the challenges of our fellow citizens. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

submitted 110 days ago • 17 comments

Senator Lidia Thorpe has apologised to Senator Pauline Hanson for calling her a “convicted racist”

submitted 112 days ago • 17 comments

Good analysis on NDIS eligibility reassessments from Sara Gingold at DSC teamdsc.com.au/resources/nd...

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

Fantastic piece. Worth it just for the section on pay and conditions in the industry. alisonrosereed.substack.com/p/im-a-strip...

submitted 112 days ago • 5 comments

QLD Attorney General on the Adult Crime, Adult Time laws: "I acknowledge that the amendments in the bill ... are incompatible with human rights." nit.com.au/29-11-2024/1...

submitted 113 days ago • 7 comments

What could possibly go wrong? #auspol

submitted 116 days ago • 10 comments