BBBruce @Didaho@qoto.org

Brotherhood of St Laurence charity refuses to take further work-for-the-dole 'volunteers' saying it, 'Pushes people into even greater hardship.'

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/brotherhood-of-st-laurence-cuts-ties-with-work-for-the-dole-program/yrniey6h0

#Centrelink #AusPol #GeneralNews

If ABC (Australia) staff don’t go on strike they’re just accepting more of the same from management.

The staff need to lead. It’s time.

#auspol

In which planet has Albanese been living?

Which 'political solution' can Australia achieve against Israel's determination to erase Palestinians????

He's a joke.
Dutton is even worse.

"Anthony Albanese has suggested court cases will not help achieve peace between Israel and Palestine, declaring that the Australian government won’t participate in International court of justice (ICJ) proceedings initiated by South Africa."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/15/albanese-australia-un-icj-genocide-trial-israel-south-africa-wont-participate

#Gaza #WarCrimes #FreePalestine #ICJ #auspol

A bunch of #unaustralian losers seeking to divide our nation for their own personal gains. Let’s hear it for the #conservatives
#AusPol
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/17/conservative-politicians-stoking-australia-day-debate-online-with-paid-ads-analysis-finds

Surrender.

My @smh @theage cartoon.

21:30 - "Genocides are never declared in advance, but this Court has the benefit of the past 13 weeks of evidence that shows incontrovertibly a pattern of conduct and related intention that justifies a plausible claim of genocidal acts."

- Adila Hassim SC

https://youtu.be/MJzf_52xBJk?si=pdCmEUgRK06aKxLg #Israel #ICJ4Israel

#MeganHerbert @meganjherbert New glasses old tricks. 🥔👓 #auspol
#alttext

#TheCathyWilcox @cathywilcox Accommodation. My @smh @theage #cartoon. #auspol
#alttext

46,000 homeless people in Qld is an utter disgrace. Stop encouraging rampant consumption & population growth - small is beautiful, while white supremacist, patriarchal capitalism creates environmental destruction & suffering. https://abc.net.au/news/2023-03-20/queensland-homelessness-up-22-per-cent/102113366 #auspol

For the second time in five years, millions of fish suffocated in the Darling River. This was not a natural disaster – it’s our doing.

Here are the factors that led to mass fish death and why the Darling is in trouble:

#Water #Sustainability #Climate #Nature #Conservation #policy #Australia #Auspol #fish

https://theconversation.com/how-did-millions-of-fish-die-gasping-in-the-darling-after-three-years-of-rain-202125?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1679283673-1

First, they came for the journalists, and I didn’t speak out, for I was not a journalist.

We don’t know what happened next. Nobody was reporting it.

#FriendlyJordies #Auspol

DeSantis is punishing the Hyatt Regency Miami for hosting a Drag Christmas ball back in December. He’s actually taken away its liquor license.

DeSantis is out of control, obsessed with oppressing freedom and gender identity expression and willing to abuse state power to do it.

"Make no mistake. Modern submarines, especially nuclear-powered ones, are one of the most potent and effective weapon systems in today’s world. That is, until they aren’t.

"Our analysis shows they might soon be so easily detected they could become billion-dollar coffins."

#AUKUS #AusPol #BillionDollarCoffins

https://theconversation.com/progress-in-detection-tech-could-render-submarines-useless-by-the-2050s-what-does-it-mean-for-the-aukus-pact-201187

Latest dodgy shot from our local potato. A “Newspaper” delivered to our mailbox which on closer inspection shows it is in fact political propaganda from Dutton.

#auspol #dodgy

Paul #Keating on the #NPC is absolutely correct that we have become subservient to the US and the UK. Aligning with #Europe would have been strategically smarter and the new (even #nuclear) submarines from France would have been far superior. We have been dudded. #AusPol
#Morrison locked us into a pretty rotten deal, $368B for 8 #Submarines, and, more importantly the #US and the #UK can use #Australia as a "Garage" (their word). We should have maintained a better relationship with #Europe, and especially #France.

Just to put things into context, for the same price as these waste of money submarines, we could buy:

- 200 Canberra-class LHDs
or
-100 Hobart-class AWDs
or
- 1000 Arafura-class OCVs
or
- pay for healthcare, social security above the poverty line, free education for all, and upgrade the NBN to 93% FTTP like the original plan

I suppose dick shaped ships are the order of the day. I'm sure it was Albo who said "let them eat cake", wasn't it?

#auspol

The banks didn't fail because of wokeism- they failed because of Trumpism. Trump and GOP repealed regulations that would have 100% prevented the bank collapse. Once again Dems cleaning up the GOP's mess

Australia's National Reconstruction Fund Corporation Bill 2022 passed House of Representatives today incorporating amendements from the Greens and Independent Zoe Daniel. Further amendments from the crossbench did not pass. It needs to have Greens and crossbench support to pass in the Senate.

This is a $15 billion fund targeting local manufacturing as part of the #EnergyTransition, similar in many ways to the Inflation Reduction Act in the USA.

#Auspol #climatePolicy
https://reneweconomy.com.au/greens-deal-blocks-coal-and-gas-from-reconstruction-fund-but-stalemate-sticks-on-safeguard/

Transparency International Australia’s chief executive, Clancy Moore, said there was a clear conflict of interest if ministers are regularly accepting gifts from industries within their portfolios. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/09/gambling-industrys-dozens-of-free-event-tickets-to-federal-mps-raise-fears-of-potential-conflicts-of-interest #auslaw #auspol #lobbying #interference

“The billionaire’s comments continue a pattern of Musk expressing more concern about the ‘free speech’ of people who make racist or antisemitic comments than about the comments themselves.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/26/elon-musk-scott-adams-dilbert-racist/