Stuart Hall

Congratulation Kim! All the best for your joint future ... 🥰🎉

They are very cynical and have been for a very long time, but It's worth pointing out that, in the areas where those TCF workers marched, lived and worked, their children and grandchildren now increasingly vote for the Greens.

2/ because they might shift their vote to the right but the 45% had nowhere else to go that made a difference.

I'm reminded of the 1980s when TCF workers were demonstrating against Hawke/Keating trashing their industry and the mantra from Labor was 'Who else are they going to vote for?'. I reckon Albo looked the 55% of his voters who voted No in the Voice referendum and decided to govern with them in mind /2

I can remember how worried my parents were when a 1950s polio epidemic hit our primary school. Soon after the whole school was lined up and given polio vaccinations (this was before the oral vaccine became available) and there were sighs of relief all around.

Yes. Given that the monarch gets regular briefings from their security services, they presumably would have known about his activites and chose to protect him and themselves.

I've been shocked by this since the 1980s. It tells you all you need to know about our polical class; they manage poltics for the current iteration of capitalism and not much else.

And he appears to have no idea about the irony of that ...

I want a cap with 'The Greens were Right about Everything!' on it. Labor is full of hubris and are smugly sitting on their hands. My expectation is they will follow the LNP into irrelevancy within a decade, unless their members step up and that's pretty unlikely.

Seems like Albanese has an eye on retiring before something blows up and is intent on wrecking the place before he goes ... can't work him out at all, except that I've long known that Labor always lets you down, so maybe it just that in spades.

The good, the bad and the ugly shitposts

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Brilliant and spot on. The bad guys are easy to spot, they are the ones imprisoning 10yo children, murdering children, maiming children, abusing children, starving children, taking children from their families and yes, all of that happens in other countries as well, not only Australia.

What struck me, as a Victorian, about the list of postcodes, was that numbers 3 Hoppers Crossing and 6 Werribee are adjacent areas on the outer west side of Melbourne notable for their lack of trees, so rooftop solar is an all day proposition, unlike 3085 where I live. Here it's 11am to 4pm at best.

They've either moved to the right (Albo), joined the Greens or are trying to establish a new Socialist party (see Victorian, NSW and Qld Socialists). The Socialists and the Greens in coalition would approximate old Labor imho.

Me too, but since I don't do DMs so all as usual for me so far ... I am tempted to report my dob as 1/1/1900 as many have already done, but I imagine that loophole wont last long.

Respectful coalitions would work too, as long as they can jointly gather enough support, if not membership, to provide the heft needed to dislodge or at least ginger up the current mob. I just wonder if anything will ever happen in that space, but I have no idea how it might.

2/... a new one. Dealing with the death throes of neoliberalism (ie putting it down) is the precondition to actually effectively dealing with the climate crisis and all the adaption needed to survive it and no one currently in power or near it looks capable of doing that. So mobilise the non stupid!

Build a mass party of the left that fits in the void in the political space between the socialist activists and the Greens. The stupidity in this country is indeed exhausting, so rather than beating our heads against the brick wall of their stupidity, take the game out of their hands and start .../2

Or he might think he can be Australia's Nigel Farage ... actually, that is a scary thought!

2/... or don't have any or enough grip on power to do more than fiddle around the edges ... and the trouble is that, unless enough decent people get more of a grip on power and actually make substantial changes, we are all going down the gurgler together. But how to do that is what baffles me.

I'm freqently baffled as well, but I think that the short answer is that most people with money and power either want to keep things just as they are or change things to give them more money and power. The rest of us are either conned into going along with that, fancy themselves as benefiting .../2

The first fleet rather than Cook, yes. But Phillip's marine commander and lieutenant governor Major Robert Ross was likely the main culprit, along with his subordinate Captain James Campbell. Phillip was brutal enough, but Ross was a nasty piece of work.

Cover of book 'Dust of the Mindye' by Jim Poulter 2016

Jim Poulter went through all the arguments and estabished means, motive, opportunity and past form pointing to smallpox being deliberately released by the British. They got the attempted genocide going very early in the piece. Good to see this becoming more public.

4/... out of the economic rent opportunity provided by government and less about providing quality education or even just childcare, never mind employing well trained professional staff.

.../3 property investors on the one hand, who often invest in childcare facilities built in prominent sites on busy roads that are obviously not ideal for the health of anyone. On the other hand, private managers are more interested in squeezing the most money they can .../4

2/... facilities owners, parents and staff. Ownership was a university for my children and local government for my grandchildren and both emphasized the quality and professionalism of the educators. Contrast this with the mess of childcare farmed out to the private sector;

Agreed, but the way to achieve it is to embed ownership and management of early childhood education into local communities. My children and now grandchildren have benefited from excellent early childhood education in settings where management was/is shared between .../2

A good illustration of the fact that, despite an immense amount of lip service to reconciliation on the part of various governments, colonial oppression of indigenous people in Australia continues apace.

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