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Functionally it's a great long weekend end to Australia's summer madness but also a fuck off evil reason to celebrate.
A bunch of British Imperial arseholes with ships full of indentured slaves landed on a beach and proceeded to disposes and slaughter everyone already there.
It's a horrid day. Like celebrating the Holocaust. It demeans and shames us all.
#auspol
When does the stealing stop?
https://kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2025/01/26/how-liberal-partys-joe-hockey-steals-from-the-368-billion-aukus-fraud-scam-from-cradle-to-grave/
How Liberal Party’s Joe Hockey steals from the $368 billion AUKUS fraud scam from cradle to grave - Kangaroo Court of Australia
Former federal treasurer Joe Hockey is stealing $millions from Australian taxpayers via the $368 billion AUKUS fraud scam and he is trying to control AUKUS from cradle to grave via Liberal Party […]Shane Dowling (Kangaroo Court of Australia)
#auspol
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jan/25/peter-dutton-reveals-new-coalition-frontbench-before-2025-federal-election
Has anyone observed the overlap between those enthusiastically supporting the start of the colonial period in Australia, and those who enthusiastically support Israeli conduct in the OPT?
I have not yet met any exceptions to this. The pro-genocide and ethnic cleansing people stick together, as do (usually) those opposed. Even across time and contexts.
Suspect there is a similar correlation with 'No' voters in the Voice referendum.
#gaza #genocide #israel #australia #invasionday #auspol
Total legend #auspol
Grace Tame, former Australian of the Year, meets Anthony Albanese in anti-Murdoch shirt
The former Australian of the Year has called out the Murdoch media empire, wearing a T-shirt with the slogan "F*** Murdoch" during a morning tea with Anthony Albanese.Evelyn Manfield (ABC News)
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BabaKiueria
https://youtu.be/gYtz4hH2z7A
#auspol
It is this tradition, which we still enthusiastically follow, that we celebrate for some unfathomable reason on the 26th.
#auspol
#australiaday2025
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-26/abbott-defends-knighthood-for-prince-philip/6046380
#auspol
Tony Abbott under fire from Cabinet colleagues over decision to grant knighthood to Prince Philip
Some of Prime Minister Tony Abbott's most senior colleagues are bewildered, angered and dismayed by his decision to award an Australian knighthood to Prince Philip.Chris Uhlmann (ABC News)
#Yabun #InvasionDay #Gaza #auspol
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#auspol #babekiueria #australia
https://youtu.be/gYtz4hH2z7A
#AustraliaDay #Australia #colonialism #imperialism #BritishEmpire #auspol https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topic/2025/01/25/duttons-deliberate-australia-day-cruelty#mtr
Peter Dutton’s deliberate Australia Day cruelty
It’s January in Australia and so the annual Australia Day political circus has rolled into town. It started much earlier this year, with Peter Dutton and Jacinta Nampijinpa Price working to grab some headlines before the upcoming election.Marcia Langton (The Saturday Paper)
Building #NuclearPower plants in Australia, #TrickleDownEconomics, #Musk’s mission to Mars, the tooth fairy.
Definitely from the shallow end of the #GenePool the lot of them #auspol
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-26/liberal-sussan-ley-first-fleet-elon-musk-australia-day/104860982
Sussan Ley compares First Fleet to Elon Musk's Mars mission in Australia Day speech
Sussan Ley says Australia Day is a day of celebration, likening the arrival of the British First Fleet to Elon Musk's efforts to build a colony on Mars.Jake Evans (ABC News)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-26/liberal-sussan-ley-first-fleet-elon-musk-australia-day/104860982
Susssan Ley is spreading her toxic bullshit again to get noticed by the mainstream media. This time, Sussssan Ley simultaneously called the invasion and colonisation of this continent by England a "daring experiment" and sucked-up to notorious white-supremacist Elon Musk. Susssssan Ley is a crumb maiden of the patriarchy, so it comes naturally for her to echo Peter Dutton's racist garbage on command.
#AusPol #SussanLey #PeterDutton #AustraliaDay #ElonMusk #CrumbMaiden #CrumbMaidenOfThePatriarchy
Sussan Ley compares First Fleet to Elon Musk's Mars mission in Australia Day speech
Sussan Ley says Australia Day is a day of celebration, likening the arrival of the British First Fleet to Elon Musk's efforts to build a colony on Mars.Jake Evans (ABC News)
"my vote ends up with a major party anyway, why bother with anyone else?"
But does it? Does it really?
https://kevinbonham.blogspot.com/2025/01/going-distance-federal-seats-that-do.html
#AusPol
This would have caused a small hiccough in Albanese's heart, followed by a hearty snikker. Grace has the know of it 🤣👍🇦🇺
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jan/25/grace-tame-wears-anti-murdoch-shirt-to-prime-minister-anthony-albanese-australian-of-the-year-morning-tea-ntwnfb
#AusPol #Australia
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s taxpayer-funded business lunches to cost less than $250m
Labor accuses the Coalition of using taxpayer money to ‘shout your boss steak tartare’, but the opposition says its policy will help the hospitality sector.Michael Read (Australian Financial Review)
#tasmania #lutruwita #logging #australia #auspol #climatecrisis #climatechange
https://pulsetasmania.com.au/news/protesters-rally-outside-abetzs-office-against-destructive-forestry-practices/
Protesters rally outside Abetz’s office against ‘destructive’ forestry practices
The protesters argued Tasmania’s logging industry is harmful and should be shut down…Pulse Tasmania
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We can get civil society off X, but it's not going to happen without a lot of noise. Keep making noise.
https://www.openpetition.org/au/petition/online/truly-social-media-at-australian-universities
#auspol
Unfinished business for Australia's corruption watchdog - The Australia Institute
The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) is the independent body that detects, investigates and reports on serious or systemic corruption in the Australian Government.Gemma Killen (The Australia Institute)
It doesn't only apply to the wealthy, obviously the poor, the homeless and the unemployed will be able to make deductions also when they take their business associates out to lunch.
#auspol
#businesslunch
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If you wish to know the true weaknesses of the Labor government have a look at that which they are trying to hide.
Hint:
They are spending thousands and thousands of dollars to stop us knowing where they will poison the earth for hundreds of years with nuclear waste.
This is just a start.
#auspol
#nucleardeal
Feeling undesirably placid today?
Wanna get some justifiable climate rage into you instead?
Here ya go.
https://omny.fm/shows/7am/burnt-mansions-why-the-next-election-is-a-fork-in
Burnt mansions: Why the next election is a fork in the road#podcast #AusPol #WhyIsLabor #ClimateCrisis #NonLinear #TippingPoints #PositiveFeedbackLoops #FossilFools #RenewableEnergy #ChangeTheSystem #StateCapture #RightToProtest #Biodiversity #WeAreTotallyFscked #Misanthropy #Karma #NativeForests #StopLoggingNativeForests #FsckCapitalism #CognitiveDissonance
7am Saturday Paper
Fri Jan 24 2025
As wildfires tore through some of LA’s most affluent neighbourhoods, burning down mansions owned by celebrities, some wondered if it might be a turning point in how seriously we take the climate crisis.
But climate scientist Joëlle Gergis wasn’t sharing that hope.
Instead, Gergis was angered by our heartache for wealthy communities while the impact of climate change disproportionately affects the poor.
And to make matters even worse, a climate denier has entered the White House.
Now, Gergis is turning her attention to the upcoming election here in Australia, where she says we have a choice to make about how comfortable we are being complicit on climate.
Today, climate scientist and contributor to The Saturday Paper, Joëlle Gergis, on why the next election is a fork in the road for our climate.
Guest: Climate scientist and contributor to The Saturday Paper, Joëlle Gergis
https://atmos.earth/advice-from-climate-experts-as-trump-is-sworn-in/
#politics #climate #climatechange #environment #climateaction
“State & local action is where meaningful change will blossom. Pressure progressive state politicians to take action on ending fossil fuel projects & making polluters pay… take on corporate energy utilities”
#government #auspol #uspol
raise “the collective appetite for change in people’s everyday lives and livelihoods… the messaging has to get better, get good at organizing our message”
#justice
build visible, relatable campaigns of sustained nonviolent civil disobedience (think Rising Tide #australia)
Advice From Climate Experts as Trump Is Sworn In - Atmos
President Donald Trump is threatening environmental deregulation and rollback, but the climate movement is prepared to give him the fight of his life.Atmos
By-election unlikely for Hinkler seat after Keith Pitt officially resigns
Veteran federal MP Keith Pitt has resigned from his Queensland seat, but with a federal poll looming it has been deemed "pointless" to hold a by-election.Nikki Sorbello (ABC News)
#australia is
9th richest OECD country
5th highest rate (23%) retirees in poverty
2nd lowest level aged care pension
#poverty #inequality
#auspol
#laborgovernmentaustralia is trying to change tax so earnings related to superannuation balances (solely) ABOVE $3m would be taxed at 30% – still well below the top tax rate of 45%… this met by fear campaigns from vested interest groups & conservative #media #neoliberalism
“almost the smallest change that could be done – affecting less than 1% – and yet it is unlikely to pass.”
#taxtherich
#taxtherich
#taxtherich
https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2025/jan/23/misleading-fear-campaigns-may-kill-labors-superannuation-changes-but-here-are-the-real-numbers-ntwnfb?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
For most of us, #superannuation is about saving for retirement. For people who are already wealthy it’s an effective tax minimisation system allowing them to pass on more wealth to their kids. Tax concessions to this latter group cost taxpayers - all of us - a motsa, while a quarter of age pensioners live in poverty.
This is so obvious! Yet even the most modest reduction of these tax breaks is greeted with a media scare campaign. And as always, #Labor puts perceived political risk ahead of responsible governance.
#SelfFunded retirees* with huge super balances? #YeahRight We see you. #AusPol 🎪
* This is a diverse group, as I have been reminded in the comments below. Not all are retiring in luxury or passing on millions to their kids.
Misleading fear campaigns may kill Labor’s superannuation changes. But here are the real numbers https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2025/jan/23/misleading-fear-campaigns-may-kill-labors-superannuation-changes-but-here-are-the-real-numbers-ntwnfb?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
"Australia’s ambassador to the US, Kevin Rudd, has been asked to convey to Canberra Jewish concerns about the impact of the weekly pro-Palestinian demonstrations in central Melbourne.
"At a meeting in Washington last week with Rabbi Abraham Cooper, an expert on online hate and terrorism with the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, the former prime minister agreed to make representations to the Australian government on whether the protests could be shifted away from the CBD streets."
#Melbourne #auspol https://www.smh.com.au/national/rabbi-pleads-with-rudd-in-washington-to-help-end-melbourne-s-pro-palestinian-cbd-protests-20250121-p5l63m.html
Rabbi pleads with Rudd in Washington to help end Melbourne’s pro-Palestinian CBD protests
At a meeting in the US with Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the former PM agreed to make representations to Canberra on whether the rallies could be shifted away from the CBD streets.Chip Le Grand (The Sydney Morning Herald)
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