I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage.
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage
So sad, each time we think it is safe to be out along they come again with a bashing.
Building sign being replaced with “NACC: No Actual Consequences Commission” Person commenting: “it used to be to be called the National Anti-Corruption Commission, but I guess they wanted to lower our expectations”
The ‘No Actual Consequences Commission’, by @fionakatauskas.bsky.social
Zelensky also offering technical assistance & drones
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Okay Miss, just a little further to Mawson’s Peak. Just past Cricket’s Revenge and along Cape Good, along Pretti Ridge and we will be at your new volca…We mean, Office.
When Australia elected the Albanese Labor Govt, we were hoping for principled, progressive politics. Even as they increased their majority in the 2025 election, Albo's Govt moved even further to the Right, embracing angry, authoritarian rhetoric in their support for #Israel and the #USA. 😔 #auspol
The newly amalgamated Adelaide University brings utter shame upon itself in its first months of operation.
In a statement following this shocking act, it risibly claims it is a place where "exchange of ideas can happen freely".
Not if the ideas include a defence of the remaining Gazans, it seems.
Story on The Australian front page: Israel’s deadliest day: Nine die in public shelter in Beit Shemesh struck by Iranian missile Volunteer medic Ronit Elimelech rushed her elderly mother and three children to the shelter as sirens wailed, instinctively grabbing her vest and the medical equipment she’d used to save countless lives. It wasn’t enough to save her own.
All civilian deaths are tragic, but we're getting a real sense of whose lives are valued more.
If The Australian had run this story for Gaza it would have had to do it more than 8,000 times.
Never mind one for the around 150 children killed in a Tehran school just this week...
David Shoebridge has unleashed on the Labor govt for backing in Trump & Netanyahu’s latest illegal war in Iran
“which has already killed more than a hundred school kids”, with schools & hospitals “blown apart by Israeli missiles”
“That isn’t about the Iranian people.”💥 #auspol
The costs of this Iran war debacle will likely be more than the cost of extending the ACA health insurance subsidies.
If you asked Americans, which do you want: another war in the Middle East or lower health care costs at home, is the margin 90 to 10? 95 to 5?
I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author
I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.
I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.
Sahar Delijani said it best:
We are deeply concerned by the situation in Iran. Our first thoughts are with the people caught up in this conflict - in Iran, in the countries in the wider region, and the New Zealand families worried about loved ones. We recognise the courage of Iranians who have taken to the streets demanding change, at enormous personal risk and we condemn the serious human rights violations that have been perpetrated against them. Military escalation does not produce the stability the region needs. The attacks on Iran and the retaliatory strikes undermine international peace and security and put civilian lives at risk. New Zealand must urge all parties - including close allies - to show restraint, pursue diplomatic solutions and first and foremost, protect the rights and safety of Iranian civilians. New Zealand must use its voice on the world stage to call for de-escalation, for a return to negotiations, and for the right of the Iranian people to determine their own future.
That’s a proper Labour/Labor party statement from Chris Hipkins, leader of New Zealand Labour.
Speaks to values, values of peace, international law, and the values of the people of Aotearoa.
Aotearoa New Zealand is a country with a big heart, this is how I’m used to that place responding.
Goody, looking forward to this.
Long time coming and a long way to go to address the damage - but so grateful to everyone who has ordered a copy of Where It All Went Wrong (including through your library!) I’m still so angry - and I hope it makes you angry too (so we can fix it) x
Is his face made of plastic? it doesn't move like other humans.
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"When banks make big profits media organisations love to cheer them on as though there are no losers from some of the biggest corporations in Australia making ever more money.
But profits don’t come from thin air, they come from customers: they come from you."
thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
how does he feel about australians that leave the country, go to the other side of the world, participate in genocide and brag about shooting Palestinian children in the head and how much they enjoyed it?
no problem at all, doesnt even mention it
bc Australia is an apartheid colony #auspol
Of course. He is now aping Obama
You’re welcome
Angus Taylor caught fabricating immigration numbers in a shocking trainwreck on #abc730 - Taylor’s 500k claim is not only false, but
Ferguson “The 500k figure was put in place by policies that were agreed on by the cabinet that you were part of”💥
Well done Angus🙄 #auspol
people who sells a product says everyone needs the product hes selling
so unbiased
This is a horrible thing that @albomp.bsky.social said, my respect is below rock bottom now #auspol and to think I was horrified with the "made your bed lie in it" sick platitude.
I stand with Grace Tame
Yes, the absolute liberal punchline #auspol #WellDoneAngus
Of course they knew about 7th October.
Disgusting.
