#AusPol
Has it occurred to the economics profession that 'hours worked' might not be the best way to measure productivity?
#auspol As the political clock ticks relentlessly, there is little time for substance over optics in parliament | Katharine Murphy - Read more here… https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/dec/06/as-the-political-clock-ticks-relentlessly-there-is-little-time-for-substance-over-optics-in-parliament
Gas projects to require Commonwealth approval after Labor-Greens deal expands water trigger
ABC Australia
By national rural reporter Kath Sullivan
Bruce Lehrmann will collect $150,000 towards his legal costs in an out-of-court settlement with the ABC. The Facebook presentation of Brittany Higgins & Grace Tame at the National Press Club will be deleted and the YouTube version will not return. #auspol https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/dec/06/abc-agrees-to-pay-bruce-lehrmann-150000-to-settle-defamation-claim-court-documents-reveal
There's not a lot of coverage of this. The High Court ruling that the government can't detain people indefinitely has been on the cards for years. Peter Dutton received documents in relation to NZYQ & to M47 in 2018. More going on here than they are telling us. #auspol https://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/expremiers-billionaires-plead-for-tolerance-and-end-to-antisemitism-in-massive-open-letter/news-story/266fb84c4c569317e8a6f090ad9a81d1
![Dutton received detainee documents in 2018, minister claims
Peter Dutton received key documents relating to the detainee high court saga while he was home affairs minister, Labor has claimed.
Immigration Minister Andrew Giles made the claim in a letter tabled to the Senate on Monday afternoon as part of a Coalition request to produce documents prepared in NZYQ case and in the case of Plaintiff M47.
Liberal senator James Paterson had requested “any emails, file notes, briefing materials and other written correspondence” provided to the Home Affairs or Immigration Minister or Attorney-General be tabled to the Senate.
According to Mr Giles, the material was received by Mr Dutton in 2018 when he was home affairs minister.
“Documents falling within the scope of the order include material that was provided to the then-Minister for Home Affairs in 2018 relating to the ‘possibility of the High Court making a decision … that the ongoing detention of [Plaintiff M47] was beyond the legislative power of the Commonwealth,’” he wrote.
Mr Giles said the request for documents had included “material of a similar nature” provided to the government in 2023 in relation to the NZYQ case but he declined to release this material.
“On behalf of the government, I am claiming public interest immunity in relation to the documents sought under this order,” Mr Giles said.](https://assets.toot.cafe/cache/media_attachments/files/111/532/310/134/906/202/small/ab138dbc8d0e3929.png)
After a fourth arrest, the monitoring program of the released detainees appears to be working. #auspol https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-06/fourth-person-arrested-after-detainee-released/103197184
#auspol Albanese strikes $10.5bn deal with states to split cost of non-NDIS disability services in return for GST funding - Read more here… https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/dec/06/albanese-strikes-105bn-deal-with-states-to-split-cost-of-non-ndis-disability-services-in-return-for-gst-funding
I don't know about a "riot" but there will be plenty of analysis & comment in the News Corp publications & on Sky News about the event in the hours, days & weeks to come. #auspol
The next Australian federal election is in 527 days, 16 hours, 10 minutes and 2 seconds, at the latest. LOL. https://nextelection.lol/au/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=au-1701806264008 #auspol
Unconventional gas production, including from the Northern Territory's Beetaloo Basin, will require new approvals from the Commonwealth, after the government brought forward its plans to expand a so-called water trigger. #ntpol #auspol https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-06/fracking-projects-beetaloo-federal-government-water-trigger/103196626
Not only do toilets rotate the wrong direction in Australia, but in this country we also celebrate news our economy is in a per-capita recession. Forget job losses an all that. So long as rates come down, and keep the housing line going up for just a little while longer, she’ll be right m8 🏠📈 #auspol
Sky News Australia and the federal government clash over the High Court decision on detainees, the rule of law and apologies. #auspol https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/that-question-is-absurd-australias-attorney-general-mark-dreyfus-snaps-when-asked-to-apologise-for-the-release-of-sex-offenders-into-the-community/news-story/90c534f11d6da3a9cfd4481528655c33
Something for Labor to take to the next election. Truly universal health care.
"The Medicare rebates will have to be doubled to make general practice sustainable. Universal dental care will cost a lot, but it will be popular."
"... take the stick to private health insurance by removing the rebate."
"The tax penalty for not having private health insurance should also be removed."
"The Medicare rebate should not automatically apply to every specialist procedure. It should be conditional on the specialist charging a reasonable fee. The more a specialist charges above the standard Medicare rebate, the lower the rebate should become, until it disappears."
https://click.mc.austcommunitymedia.com.au/?qs=8c713cda0c66a0c98a52d54e805895d866da48904551e9ae6445890488cec9078bd8dc24c84bb7a25e1c77fd7453b65178f00141d073fbc6
#AusPol #medicare #UniversalHealth
This is creepy, throwing people into jail indefinitely on the basis they might commit a crime someday. That's imprisoning people for thought-crimes.
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Government refuses to say how many released detainees preventative detention laws apply to https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-06/government-refuses-to-say-preventative-number/103194524
#auspol Humble, principled and ready with a hot take: close friends pay tribute to Peta Murphy – video - Read more here… https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/video/2023/dec/06/humble-principled-and-ready-with-a-hot-take-close-friends-pay-tribute-to-peta-murphy-video
Warning: Bernard Keane article quoted / linked.
I do quite like this (attached image) paragraph, at the very least. #AusPol #CultureWars #WarOnWoke #Defamation
https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/12/06/defamation-new-battleground-culture-wars/
As you probably know, there's no end of obsessive genocide denying posters (or bots) here.
They target repeatedly any posters who support Palestinian rights.
Their aim is to spread the big lies on which fascism depends.
For what it's worth, I report them.
#USPol #UKPol #AusPol #CdnPoli #EuroPol #Israel #Palestine #PalestinianRightsNow
What an entertaining and (weeps) accurate article about the current Australian government...
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"Their radical reconfiguration of the ALP did away with the light and the pesky hill altogether, and replaced them with a low-sensory plain of nothingness. Atop that dimly lit plain, a 'small target' can look like a mountain, and the enactment of your opponent’s deeply unpopular tax reforms can look like integrity. "
Zen and the very mindful art of Newspoll maintenance https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/12/05/anthony-albanese-zen-mindful/
Fossil Fuels out of schools.
4C of warming is baked in and your future is pretty bleak, but hey here's a fossil fuel company greenwashing themselves through a #STEM program targeted at schools.
#climate #climatechange #climatecollapse #greenwashing #education #auspol
Very disappointed with abc.net.au its televised and radio news outlets and its faux outrage at the release of illegally detained asylum seekers.
Jumping on the xenophobic and racist tropes coming from the Liberal Party and others.
Completely misrepresenting the risk to the community and ignoring the fact that recidivism of Australian citizens released from gaol is 60%.
I wonder if the attitude of the reactionary new NZ government is a repercussion of the Voice referendum loss here. Has perhaps emboldened those wanting to ignore First Nations people.
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Maori protests: Thousands march in NZ cities against plans to wind back Maori gains
#NZpol #auspol #VoicetoParliament https://www.smh.com.au/world/oceania/thousands-march-against-policies-that-could-wind-back-maori-gains-20231205-p5ep1x.html
#PeterDutton claims a passion for protecting #WomenAndChildren.
But surely many of the women and mothers who were (and remain) part of #PeterDuttonsRefugees would have been exploited in a nasty part of the #SexIndustry - those very vulnerable women.
And Peter went along with demonising the unemployed - who include women and the parents of children.
This demonising was the base of #RoboDebt - doubtless deaths of women and kids' parents resulted.
Women and children? #AusPol #Australia
Meriton Properties Pty Ltd donated $320,500 in 2021-22. That was $80,500 to Labor and $240,000 to the Coalition. {463} #auspol (https://politicalgadgets.com/PoliticalDonations/) #auspol
Federal Parliament is sitting today. There are committees today. {1701806442} (https://politicalgadgets.com/thedates/) #auspol
@biancanogrady Copy that #auspol ?
Peter Dutton’s rhetoric is nothing like his border protection record
He should be condemned. In fact he is arguably in contempt of the High Court and should answer for that.
#auspol #BorderProtection #Dutton
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2023/12/05/peter-dutton-border-protection
In a blow to Sussan Ley & Michaelia Cash, electric vehicle sales are up 185% from 2022. However, the federal government needs to get on with the fuel efficiency standards. #auspol
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/05/australia-ev-sales-elecrtic-cars-vehicle-increase-185-per-cent-since-2022
Peter Dutton last week sneered at Chris Bowen attending #Cop28 for "incurring all those emissions" but his own Coalition of Bridget McKenzie, Paul Fletcher, Andrew Bragg, Maria Kovacic, Dean Smith, Matt Kean, Kellie Sloane, Sam O’Connor & Steve Minnikin are attending as well. #auspol https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/dec/05/coalition-to-have-sizeable-contingent-at-cop28-despite-peter-dutton-jibe-at-climate-change-ministers-attendance
Most Australians would be surprised to learn that while Dutton was Home Affairs Minister, Australia experienced the biggest labour trafficking scam abusing the asylum system in our history. #auspol https://johnmenadue.com/duttons-border-protection-rhetoric-is-nothing-like-his-border-protection-record
"Japan was not bitten by the neoliberal mosquito that infected most other Western countries in the 1990s, because it had a property bubble in the late 1980s, and then a devastating bust in 1990, so that free markets got a bad name in Japan, and economic orthodoxy was defenestrated."
#AusPol
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2023/12/04/alan-kohler-japans-happy-economics
Labor MP Peta Murphy dies years after breast cancer diagnosis https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-04/peta-murphy-dies-after-battle-with-breast-cancer/103185674 via @ABCaustralia #health #auspol
What about the Montreal Protocol (Ozone Crisis)?
What about it.
It’s been written as an ‘lesson’ on how Climate action is possible. It’s not wrong.
But very few in media who write about how it was also a lesson for Fossil Fuel Companies and Spin Doctors on how to lobby politicians, or how it fuelled unjustified optimism leading up to each Climate conference, from Kyoto to Paris.
It helped fuel the ‘She’ll be right’ moment in public and political sentiment, despite no tangible implementation of monitoring progress.
There is no more slack for misplaced optimism.
We burnt through the slack for procrastination over the last three decades.
We only have time for absolute urgency to minimise warming within 1.5°C, which is predicted to be reached by 2027.
#AusPol #ClimateCrisis #ClimateProtest
My advice to Gen Y and Z,
as an older Millenial who has followed Politics, Environmental issues and Climate Change over the past near 20-years.
Don’t be optimistic. Keep up the protest. Keep up the rage.
Our mistake was trusting politicians without accountability, and believing that science alone was enough to turn the tide.
Lobbyists for national and multinationals, only interested in self-protectionism, were louder.
You need to be even louder.
#AusPol #ClimateCrisis #ClimateProtest #AusBiz
Especially not optimistic, considering Bowen’s past positions on Climate Change and climate action over the past 10-years,
… but also more recently, the details he’s not telling is another part that leads to the uneasiness.
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/8-things-chris-bowen-didnt-tell-you-about-australias-climate-failure/
#AusPol #ClimateCrisis
Contrast to this long-read by CarbonBrief
‘implementing some but not all of those ingredients would not be sufficient to get back on track.’
https://www.carbonbrief.org/qa-why-deals-at-cop28-to-triple-renewables-and-double-efficiency-are-crucial-for-1-5c/
#AusPol #ClimateCrisis
Recent media coverage of COP28 agreement on ‘Tripling of Renewable energy’ overly positive, with little to no mention of other part of debate:
Eg. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-02/australia-commits-to-tripling-renewable-energy-capacity-decade/103181500
#AusPol #ClimateCrisis
Why would anyone ever treat the LNP as credible on the issue of affordable housing? Expect more flim-flam schemes that'll keep prices up. #auspol
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Sussan Ley outlines plan for Liberals to win next election by gaining every teal seat https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/every-single-teal-seat-ley-s-three-point-plan-for-liberals-to-win-next-election-20231130-p5eo5n.html
It's certainly a very timid government, and that could be its undoing. Should be making bold changes - and selling them.
"... it believes its reforms so far are large. Which points us to the second potential problem: the possibility that the government is simply wrong about the scale of the changes it is making, deluding itself that they are proportionate to the problems facing Australia."
Labor’s ‘Albanese experiment’ faces its moment of reckoning
#auspol https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/labor-s-albanese-experiment-faces-its-moment-of-reckoning-20231130-p5eo2s.html
Like it or lump it, the only long term organised possible opposition to the neoliberal fascist Duopoly in Australia is The Greens.
You may or may not like it, but if you want to rid Australia of the heinous fascist duopoly supporting, lick spittling, the oligarchs who are oligarchs entirely because the government aided them to steal the wealth that you created with your labour, then there it is. A political solution __has__ to include
the Greens.
Peter Hartcher in Nine Papers
"The #Albanese government has allocated $23 billion to implement a 10-part policy to cushion low- and middle-income people from the rising cost of living. Who can name more than one or two of them"
Not me, but I do know that Labor has allocated $240 billion to Stage 3 tax cuts. #auspol
Greens move to establish Senate inquiry into allegations of price-gouging by Coles and Woolworths https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-03/greens-move-to-establish-senate-inquiry-into-supermarkets/103179656 via @ABCaustralia #competition #agriculture #food #auslaw #auspol
Once Upon a Long Lost Time service providers were there to provide services to their clients.
But that was before the ultimate service providers, our governments, handed the service provision to their mates & masters to make a quid out of us.
May there be a hex upon the Labor & Liberal Duopoly Neoliberal fascists who rule over us & despise us & hand us over as slaves to their masters.
Bruce Lehrmann was a house guest of Paul Haege who owns the $30m mansion where the Liberal Party Wentworth branch Christmas party was held. Lehrmann is not a party member & was not on the guest list. He watched on as Sussan Ley gave a speech. #auspol https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/owner-reveals-why-bruce-lehrmann-was-at-liberal-party-christmas-drinks-in-multimilliondollar-mansion/news-story/103ec8497f247c7e9e61e665fa0ece9f
Dont like or agree with the coining 'Robotax',
but it goes to show the significant reputational damage that 'Robodebt' has caused on the Australian Public Service.
... and none one in then Ministerial positions have taken responsibility. Public Servants set up to fail by the lack of 'separation of power' (between Politicians and Administration).
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/dec/02/not-just-a-strange-glitch-australians-left-to-grapple-with-claim-they-owe-tax-from-2008-and-beyond
#AusPol #AusGov #AusLaw
#Humanity (or the lack thereof)
#Refugees #AusPol #Australia https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/australian-politics/2023/12/01/kylea-tink-indefinite-detention?ahe=ebeddd8f7e2b90295e462557553ae77183d6fe603945ee9a3ebc2a950de31597&utm_medium=email&lr_hash=cb54282d116316794e73cd9c1d38a231&acid=124468&utm_source=Adestra&utm_campaign=Saturday%20News%20-%2020231202
Amen.
@PeterCronau on X:
"Everything neoliberalism stole is broken.
"Every government service, every large government enterprise, every transport system , every privatised road, every tollway interchange, every light rail, every broken ferry, every deregulation, every privatisation, every public school underfunded, every public hospital rundown, every firesale of a public asset…
"Every damn one!
" ‘Australia’s broken employment services system needs public provider, parliamentary review finds’ "
Yes, criminal. All that and more. RA was an innovation/tech centre of immense value, like the hollow shell formerly known as Telecom Australia was, with its massive training and research centres, or like the once magnificent CSIRO, or the car industry for that matter. And the lost-forever Commonwealth Employment Agency, and so on and so on...
All the fucking #LNP has ever done is either to run public monopolies into the ground and flog the smoking ruins to a corporate rent-seeker, or to utterly destroy it to gratify their obsessive, misanthropic #IPA fantasies.
Tobacco bill before the Senate – “a symphony of law reform” - QUT Press Release https://www.qut.edu.au/news?id=191852 #auslaw #auspol #health #publichealth #tobacco #smoking #vaping
Saw on the local news the other day how #SalvationArmy was struggling for donations during the pandemic and all I said was “Good.”
#Reminder this upcoming holiday season to not give any money to the Salvation Army, but don’t harass the collectors because they’re often people who are desperate, receiving help from SA, and their next meal/place to sleep depends on them ringing the damn bells and asking for donations.
Idk about you but I’ll never forgive them for denying homeless trans women shelter in winter, leaving them out in the bitter cold. This is before I knew anything else about them.
#lgbtqia+ #transgender #australia #ausgov #auspol #tasgov #taspol #politas #classwar
Why do protests keep happening at the Australian-US Defence facility Pine Gap near Alice Springs?
I don't know how many facilities there are around the world like Pine Gap, but I'd hazard a guess they were all on the list of pre-emptive strikes for any global power aspirants.
@whereisk the ALLNP flag logo is an image I made years ago for a post on the socials about how since federation the Australian government has basically been passed between these two parties and how they seem so relaxed and blasé when in opposition, with the full assumption that it’s only between them and they’ll be in power next election, or the one after. I’m tired of the two party system (2.5 party system if you count The Nationals), and how both sides do everything they can to maintain the illusion that there’s only two choices. This video rang true with me in that note, which is why I dug up the graphic.
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#auspol
Bruce Lehrmann lied to Minister Linda Reynolds about leaving Canberra for Queensland. He lied to Seven’s Spotlight about lying to Reynolds’ chief of staff, Fiona Brown. He admitted to asking for cocaine on the night of The Project interview. #auspol https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/27/bruce-lehrmann-admits-in-court-asking-for-cocaine-on-evening-brittany-higgins-interview-aired-and-lying-twice-to-boss
The white supremacist Victorian govt puts the weights on teachers, to prevent them ethically objecting to #Israel's apartheid & #GazaGenocide. No more objections allowed to Britain's genocide of Aboriginal people either? https://abc.net.au/news/2023-11-27/victoria-teachers-palestine-solidarity-education-minister/103154342 #ZionismIsWhiteSupremacism #auspol
As well as wasting scarce public funds, stadium rebuilds tie up resources (materials, skilled labour) desperately needed for housing #auspol #gabba https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/queensland/greens-mps-lead-residents-rally-against-gabba-renewal-project-20231125-p5emry.html
Greens MPs lead residents rally against Gabba ‘renewal project’
According to Susssan Ley, Dave Sharma is simultaneously a guy rejected by his electorate in favour of a teal independent and someone who appeals to teal voters.
“As deputy leader of the Liberal party, I have taken a particular involvement in helping our federal team win back seats lost to the independents at the last election,” she said.
“Dave is someone who very much appeals to that cohort of voters which we need to win in 2025, and I am looking forward to working with him to ensure we win back seats in the city, the suburbs and regions.”
An Honest Ad for The Australian Labor Liberal Nationals Party.
Coalition MP claiming thousands in weekly expenses from secretive right-wing firm
Crikey has documents showing Alex Antic claimed $27K from Whitestone Strategic, a consultancy firm closely tied to the No campaign. #auspol
https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/11/24/whitestone-strategic-alex-antic-freedom-of-information/
Apparently there have been 59 arrests so far.
ABC News is reporting at https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-26/dozens-protest-fossil-fuels-in-newcastle-port-blockade-/103152474
#PeoplesBlockade #RisingTideAus #NoNewCoal #MakePollutersPay #AusPol #ClimateCrisis #Newcastle
This just posted on Rising Tide's Facebook page:
"Over 100 people are risking arrest by continuing to blockade the coal port. Police have told protestors that they’re breaching section 15A of the Maritime Safety Act by remaining in the shipping channel."
Source: https://www.facebook.com/risingtide.aus
#PeoplesBlockade #RisingTideAus #NoNewCoal #MakePollutersPay #AusPol #ClimateCrisis #Newcastle
When you read this, remember that around half of Australians are dual citizens, at least as far as the High Court is concerned. Laws like this have been applied to people born in Australia, on the basis of a supposed dual citizenship denied by the country concerned. #auspol
So… NSW Minerals Council CEO Stephen Galilee denounced the protesters as “extremists”.
He's got it wrong. I'd say the extremists are those who insist they be allowed to continue to sell coal, oil and gas so it can be burnt, polluting the atmosphere, destroying earth's life support systems in the process.
#GlobalHeating #auspol #RisingTide
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/state/nsw/2023/11/25/coal-protest-halts-newcastle-ships
Been a busy day at the #PeoplesBlockade with #RisingTide in Newcastle. Also got to jump into some Discobedience with my #XR ACT friends.
#auspol #ClimateChange
I was involved in designing/coordinating this human sign at the #RisingTide port blockade for #ClimateAction in #Moolubinba/#Newcastle. Pretty happy with how it turned out.
The action is still rolling, there will be people on the water all night tonight and all day tomorrow. If you're in town, come down!
Details at https://www.risingtide.org.au/program