This… says it all.😞

🤢🤢🤢

Terrifying…

"Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies"

What's Title VI?

"prohibits discrimination against or otherwise excluding individuals on the basis of race, color, or national origin"

Crushing the Australian (and Elinor’s) dream - The Australia Institute A number of the housing policy proposals on offer in this election will make affordability worse.

Several policies on offer at this election will likely make housing affordability worse.

On this Dollars & Sense, @grogsgamut.bsky.social & @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social discuss housing & the 🐘🐘 in the policy debate: negative gearing & the capital gains tax discount. #auspol

theaus.in/42G4hOq

Climate activists were hacked. There was a link between the victims and an alleged attacker Prosecutors say the operation was aimed at gathering information to foil lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry over damage communities have faced from climate change.

Prosecutors say the operation was aimed at gathering information to foil lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry over damage communities have faced from climate change.

Dutton: "People have seen food prices go up by 30%."

That's a lie (they went up by 12%) #leadersdebate

Ice deports Venezuelan teen despite reportedly knowing he was not a target Merwil Gutiérrez sent from New York to El Salvador prison although family says he has no criminal history or gang ties

no criminal record
no gang ties
no tattoos

active pending asylum case

**19 years old**

sent by trump to prison (forever?) in el salvador

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Dutton lying about a statement from the Indonesian govt is too stupid for words.

Haven’t seen the Dunning–Kruger effect so perfectly displayed for many a year.

This “genius” genuinely believes that healthcare budget analysts can simply be reassigned to making toasters.

The stock portfolios of more than two dozen members of Congress outperformed the market in 2024.

This isn't due to luck or skill.

Lawmakers can use privileged information to trade stocks while they’re supposed to be working for you.

Make no mistake, it’s legalized corruption.

Statistics show inflation has routinely been lower in Australia than in several advanced economies, including some G7 members, since Labor was elected in May 2022. #Auspol www.aap.com.au/factcheck/li...

How the science of learning became a battleground The science of learning has become embroiled in an ideological argument that has little to do with the reality of what it can and cannot do for teaching, argues Jared Cooney Horvath

Does the science of learning truly matter or is it just academic fluff? Jared Cooney Horvath explains that while drawing on educational research is worthwhile, pedagogical decisions must always be left to the experts in pedagogy: teachers

If the federal political/media bubble was remotely connected to the real world, it would agree not to do the ridiculous campaign roadshow that nobody cares about anymore, and rethink how to actually communicate with voters in a meaningful way. It does not, however, possess a brain.

I just keep thinking of the heartlessness of going to an election promising to sack 41,000 people just because they’ve chosen public service. The LNP talks of small business owners going out of business as a tragedy. How is sending thousands of people into unemployment not?

Yep. Media, do your fricken job

Cyclone Alfred and the real cost of Dutton’s public service cuts The involvement of the public service in the aftermath of ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred underscores the reality of the Coalition’s promise to cut 36,000 people from government departments.

The 'no cuts to frontline services' shibboleth is such a furphy. When Dutton says he wants to cut (or let wither) 36,000 jobs from the public service, everything is affected. The response post ex-cyclone Alfred proves how vital the work of the APS is www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environ...

Vote on his actions not his words; what in his record suggests he has the slightest interest in anyone's human rights?

As Cyclone Alfred approaches his electorate, Dutton quietly attends a Sydney political fundraiser The leaders of the major parties are acutely aware that a misstep when responding to a natural disaster can have major political consequences.

“I don’t pick up sand bags, mate”. #Cyclone #auspol

What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why.

What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?

Pass it on.
#StandWithUkraine

In the doldrums: Dutton’s anti-offshore wind agenda halts project Offshore wind farm developer BlueFloat has paused its offshore wind project, as Opposition Leader Peter Dutton pledges to bar the industry in most locations.

This is not good. You know what will really destroy coastlines, whales, fish stocks and views? Rampant global warming. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Definitely was sound - and came out in my first year of teaching! Time flies…😵‍💫

Forget more gas supply, expert argues. Stop exporting so much Among the many crises facing the nation in recent years, the east coast gas shortage has been among the most divisive from a political, economic and social perspective.

Very key point made here. Any "shortage" is due solely to exports. We don't need more gas, we need to send less to Japan which has so much it exports our gas to other countries!

(also worth charging the companies to mine our gas and also to tax them properly)

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

Hugely concerning for immune compromised and small children. Disgraceful.

This is heartbreakingly true. 😞

Agreed - definitely still figuring it out! Great to see you here though, another kind and familiar face!☺️