For all intents and purposes, if you want to vote for a political party that is centre to left, The Greens are now the only option available.
All others range from right of centre to far right and, are perpetuating Neoliberal ideology.
#AusPol
What is this #WhiteMaleSupremacy i talk of...?
#auspol
Let me inform you
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Oh hey, looks like the ABC has learnt that "the trans agenda" isn't real.
Or maybe they sneakily changed it in the 4 hours since the article was published (again 🙄)
"Roughly 1 in 87 Americans—or 1.2% of the population—is actively infectious on any given day." Those numbers mean that there are more Americans walking around w/ active Covid infections than there are transgender Americans. And only one group is dangerous.
Bigotry makes you fear the wrong things.
Not sure if drinking alone is an achievement, but at least I'm not doing it at home.
Subsidies to mining companies growing faster than the NDIS, child care, aged care.
Australian gov fossil fuel subsidies now at $30,000 every minute of every day.
Great piece on @australiainstitute.org.au latest research
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A screenshot of a headline from ABC News reading: More views of SA Liberal candidate emerge saying Islam (quote) 'poisonous, wrong' (end quote), trans agenda (quote) 'insanity' (end quote)
A screenshot of the same headline taken at 11:46pm which now reads: More views of SA Liberal candidate emerge saying Islam (quote) 'poisonous, wrong' (end quote), (quote) 'trans agenda is insanity' (end quote)
The longer headline on the article page has been changed in a similar manner.
The initial headline contradicts the ABC's own editorial guidance on hate speech - "Is there sufficient context to ensure that the ABC isn’t seen to condone or endorse the statements?"
A screenshot of a headline on ABC News reading "More views of SA Liberal candidate emerge against Islam and trans agenda"
A later screenshot taken at 11:12pm showing the same headline, except quote marks have been added around the phrase "trans agenda".
Spot the difference in the news headline on ABC website at 6pm vs 11pm.
It's concerning that the ABC would use a transphobic phrase the same way as a neutral term. Implies it is as real and legitimate as a major religion, instead of something right wingers made up to prosecute a minority.
Calling out the genocide our country is enabling? "Hate" speech, go to prison now.
Actively harming a minority group while chanting slurs? "Nothing to see here, go on with it".
These new "hate" speech laws enable far-right hate, silence dissent, and protect only the power. Not any of us. #AusPol
A screenshot of a headline from ABC News reading: More views of SA Liberal candidate emerge saying Islam (quote) 'poisonous, wrong' (end quote), trans agenda (quote) 'insanity' (end quote)
A screenshot of the same headline taken at 11:46pm which now reads: More views of SA Liberal candidate emerge saying Islam (quote) 'poisonous, wrong' (end quote), (quote) 'trans agenda is insanity' (end quote)
The longer headline on the article page has been changed in a similar manner.
The initial headline contradicts the ABC's own editorial guidance on hate speech - "Is there sufficient context to ensure that the ABC isn’t seen to condone or endorse the statements?"
A screenshot of a headline on ABC News reading "More views of SA Liberal candidate emerge against Islam and trans agenda"
A later screenshot taken at 11:12pm showing the same headline, except quote marks have been added around the phrase "trans agenda".
Spot the difference in the news headline on ABC website at 6pm vs 11pm.
It's concerning that the ABC would use a transphobic phrase the same way as a neutral term. Implies it is as real and legitimate as a major religion, instead of something right wingers made up to prosecute a minority.
A screenshot of a headline on the ABC reading "More views of SA Liberal candidate emerge against Islam and trans agenda"
A later screenshot taken at 11:12pm showing the same headline, except quote marks have been added around the phrase "trans agenda".
People arrested immediately in QLD for using a pro-Palestinian banned phrase at a protest www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
While a man in VIC who assaulted and abused Muslims at a community dinner was simply told to "move on" by police
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
accuracy of advice provided to the Cabinet under their names. Those were and are requirements of the principle of Cabinet solidarity. But that does not mean that the presenting and portfolio ministers were (or presumably are) expected to examine or interrogate each proposal they brought to Cabinet with the time, skill and insight of the departmental experts whose role it was to ensure that the NPP complied in all respects with Cabinet requirements. If the department failed to ensure that an NPP was compliant, the presenting minister and to a greater or lesser extent the portfolio minister were ultimately responsible; but not necessarily, if at all, because of any personal failing on the part of those ministers to do what was to be expected of a competent minister in the presenting or portfolio minister’s position. Neither presenting ministers nor portfolio ministers had or presumably have the time, or in most cases ability, to reinterpret or re-examine matters covered in the checklist; especially the question of whether legislation is required. Ministers were, and presumably still are, expected to and did rely on the warranty of the secretaries of the departments who had signed off on their Cabinet submissions.
NACC lets Morrison off the hook, believing Ministers shouldn't be expected to "examine or interrogate" new proposals like Robodebt. They say Ministers also don't have the time or ability (??) to ensure programs are compliant with the law.
What...do they think we're paying these people to do?
NACC report on its investigation into the 6 persons
referred by the Royal Commission into
the Robodebt Scheme is here: www.nacc.gov.au/investigatio...
Found Mark Withnell (DHS) and Serena Wilson (DSS) engaged in serious corrupt conduct. Other 4 were found not to have engaged in corrupt conduct.
Secondly, if Mr Morrison had suspected the NPP was misleading, I think it probable that the last thing he would have done was refrain from speaking up in the hope of OCI being adopted without further delay or investigation. For, as a member of parliament and minister of many years standing, he would almost certainly have foreseen that, were he to do so, there would be a high chance of the deception soon being discovered and of his and his government’s subjection to the inevitably adverse political consequences that would follow. Rather than being a reason to suspect a dishonest failure to inquire, the fact that Mr Morrison did not make further inquiries appears more probably consistent with him not having perceived there was a need to do so.
"We don't believe Morrison would act dishonestly, because he was a member of parliament for many years" is a very funny argument. I'll give them that
Hoping your dad is ok and found somewhere to charge his phone. The community is kind and supportive during floods & recovery so I'm sure people will help him.
(I live on a floodplain and know the worry and fear well. Please look after yourself as well.)
Thank Big Ben you for sounding the time and providing an hourly "line break" on my Blue Sky feed.
You are a good clock.
I’ll be doing a storytime reading and book signing of All the Colours of the Rainbow at Family Pride on 21 March at Victoria Point! For more info and free tickets, head to www.rainbowfamilies.com.au/qld_family_p...
Printed directions never snitch.
I bet facial age estimation has a much higher error rate for disabled people too. They're also less likely to have a driver's licence.
Another population that risks being cut off from an age gated internet. That's discrimination.
Conservative efforts to invalidate trans ID documents, coupled with age-verification laws, could block trans people large parts of the internet.
Platforms from Discord to Bluesky to adult sites are increasingly reliant on valid IDs for age-verification — and thus access.
So far the war on Iran has cost $9.4 billion.
That's $1 billion per day.
$41,666,667 per hour.
$11,574 per second.
Thousands of lives lost.
People don't want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.
When Massachusetts passed a "millionaires tax" in 2023, conservatives claimed the rich would flee.
But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education.
A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.
I want the dollars I give to federal governments spent on housing for dispossessed Aboriginal people and asylum for people escaping genocide in Gaza and public schools in Blacktown and health care for all. Shame there is nobody in a party of government to vote for very basic public policy.
The week begins whether you're ready or not. The map is.
4 frame comic. each frame shows a scene of destruction in Iran, with pillars of smoke rising up in the sky. text reads : joseph weizenbaum was an a.I pioneer and the creator of the 1966 early chatbot "eliza". in his 1976 book "computer power and human reason", he warned against the dangers of artificial intelligence. weizenbaum asserted that a.I. should never be used for decision-making, because it will always lack moral judgement. people in power, executing their will through a.I., would absolve themselves of moral responsibility. weizenbaum would have known about that. his jewish parents fled nazi germany. from 1933, the nazis spent considerable resources studying how to desen- sitize their agents to commit mass murders. the solution was automation and the removal of agents from decision-making.* (note : The Nazi Mind, Laurence Rees, 2025) I wonder what Weizenbaum would have thought about the rise of AI warfare.
AI and decision-making.
“They committed suicide because they were depressed. It’s a shame they didn’t call our mental health line.”
They were depressed because they were about to be evicted. A toll free number wasn’t going to fix that. But resources would.
My hottest mental health take:
A lot of depression and anxiety is situational, and warranted, because people live in shit circumstances. They’re poor, without resources, etc. and the reason it’s become popular to blame “mental health” is because it’s a way of evading responsibility.
Always ask what is being measured and how:
"the metric will typically show prices are falling when customers are struggling so much that they switch to cheap alternatives.
This reframes a decline in living standards as a saving, masking the fact that grocery prices are actually rising."
