No doubt many sectors and programs need to be re-structured for better efficiency and service for the end user - but cutting the NDIS under the backdrop of increasing defence spending by multiple of billions of dollars to placate the US - is shameful #npc #auspol

How they treat fraud.

$3,000,000,000 - 40 months
$100 - 180 months

Crime is only crime for the poor, can't be sending the rich to jail.

Or they might end up there themselves

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

Travis Lovett is walking from Melbourne to Canberra for one reason: Truth.
This is a call on the government to fulfil its promise to implement a National Truth-Telling process.

Let’s show our support for Travis and the National Walk for Truth.
#WalkForTruth #auspol

Or as @richarddenniss.bsky.social put it in Dead Right:

"Neoliberalism has trained us to thank our sponsors, not our fellow citizens, for what we have collectively achieved."

Seems like if several ubiquitous health care interventions cause autism, we should really be studying those freaks who ended up neurotypical.

First climate risk assessment finds 1.5m Australians at risk from sea level rise by 2050 One and a half million Australians are at risk from sea levels rising by 2050 unless climate change can be limited, Australia’s first national climate risk assessment warns.

*Labor: approves biggest gas project in southern hemisphere out to 2070*

Millions of Australians at risk from rising sea levels and heat deaths to soar, national climate risk assessment report warns Climate risk assessment find heat-related deaths would surge 450% in Sydney if global heating surpasses 3C

Successive Australian Govt’s haven’t been telling the truth about the huge costs of not acting on climate.

Good to see the Albanese govt has finally released the National Climate Risk Assessment.

They need to back it up with a 2035 target of at least 75%.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Australia news live: Greens say climate report a ‘wake-up call’ for Labor ahead of 2035 target decision Follow live

Larissa Waters: If Labor fails to set a science-based climate target then it’s crystal clear: they have utterly prioritised coal and gas profits at the expense of community safety and nature.”

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The North West Shelf project has caused WA gas and electricity prices to TRIPLE since it started exporting domestic gas reserves in 2020.

Now the Federal Government has approved extending the project to 2070, and it will only get worse.

#auspol @markogge.bsky.social

“Approving new fossil fuel exports is destroying the future. It isn’t just a betrayal of our Pacific neighbors, it is a betrayal of all Australians, putting the profits of foreign-owned fossil fuel corporations ahead of our wellbeing, security & prosperity,” said @richarddenniss.bsky.social. #auspol

Millions of Australians at risk from rising sea levels and heat deaths to soar, national climate risk assessment report warns Climate risk assessment find heat-related deaths would surge 450% in Sydney if global heating surpasses 3C

Had a read of the climate risk report... oddly didn't see anywhere it saying "and therefore approving a 50 year extension to the North West Shelf is all good"
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I was there! It was an amazing turnout!

The next time anyone argues "taxpayers should fund private schools" remember hundreds of thousands of dollars at Riverview College produced Barnaby Joyce.

But there can’t be a transparent Voice to Parliament because it would bring down democracy (or some other ill-informed reason)

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 #DoIt

That’s not Newy!

Be good if media disclosed Scomo as a weapons and AUKUS lobbyist.

(maybe even 'former PM and simultaneously Minister for Health, Industry, Home Affairs, Finance & Treasurer')

“Australia is continuing to collect more revenue from HECS fees than it gets from the PRRT."
- Richard Denniss, Executive Director

In 2023-24 Australian HECS/HELP revenue rose to $5.1bn while PRRT fell to less than a quarter that amount to just $1.1bn. @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

LinkedIn post from Woodside Energy It reads: Woodside is proud of the progress made in our 2024 Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) Report. Since last year, we've seen advancements across our four key pillars: O Respect for Culture and Heritage O Capability and Capacity O Economic Participation O Stronger Communities. Thank you to all employees and partners who contribute to our ongoing reconciliation journey. Read the full report on our website: https://bit.ly/4kJrsOW

Woodside Energy takes gaslighting psych ops to a whole other level

How do they "reconcile" their Murujuga rock art cultural heritage-destroying North West Shelf Extension carbon bomb to 2070, with ‘Respect for Culture and Heritage’❓

Remember all that fulminating in the billionaire press about "free speech" (ie their freedom to abuse Muslims, trans people etc with impunity)? Now that people are being arrested for speaking about an issue of the utmost gravity, the self-appointed guardians of liberty have fallen strangely silent.

Mass arrests at Gaza protests across UK supporting proscribed ‘terrorist’ group An 81-year-old former magistrate was among 100 arrested in rallies supporting the now-banned Palestine Action group, according to protest organisers.

"one of those arrested was Deborah Hinton, an 81-year-old former magistrate. Video showed police carrying an elderly man away from the Truro demonstration as he shouted, 'I oppose genocide'.”

This is the police state future for Australia in #JillianSegal 's 'plan'.
www.smh.com.au/world/europe...

None of this passes the pub test - The Shot Jillian Segal’s report, the entire double-spaced, decorative and glossy 16 pages of it, is largely insulting dross.

Here's @ronnisalt.bsky.social. 'None of this passes the pub test'

Article in the Canberra Times on the folly of Jillian Segal

Well said @jennaprice.bsky.social
#Antisemitism #auspol

Look at this sh*t

A “stand up to hate” campaign organised by the media

“This has been authorised by a consortium of Australia’s leading media executives”

The media r literally RESPONSIBLE for enablement of racism, hate, division, culture wars, antisemitism, Islamophobia, etc

They’ve got a nerve

Fuck

“A “groundswell” of Labor rank-and-file members urging govt to reject key recommendations from fed antisemitism envoy Segal according to an internal lobby group, urging a focus on anti-racism education rather than more contentious ideas such as stripping funding from universities and arts bodies.”

Australia’s multiculturalism lives mostly on the surface. Inclusion without voice is tokenism | Shadi Khan Saif Migrants want more than just celebration of their cultures; they want to be part of decision-making

Australia’s multiculturalism lives mostly on the surface. Inclusion without voice is tokenism |
Shadi Khan Saif www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

It's easy to forget Australia has a Labor government when some of Albo's decisions have a strong Morrison smell about them. The envoy appointed to placate perpetually outraged Zionists is a huge misstep. #auspol

Why any strategy to combat antisemitism must also address Islamophobia Australia’s newly released Plan to Combat Antisemitism has sparked strong debate and rightly so.

Anti-racism doesn’t play favourites. Australia has an opportunity to lead by example, to build anti-racism strategies that unite us, not divide us and ensure no one is left standing alone. #auspol #racism