Supporting ‘illegal aggression’ against Iran ‘the worst thing’ Australia could do, international law experts say

Ben Saul says ‘rolling over’ after Israel and US attack is counterproductive for middle powers because it undermines rules-based order

The Guardian

Reflecting on an #Australian #roadtrip from top to bottom, I feel duty bound to report that the health of country(*) and level of its care can be ranked from good to abysmal as follows:
1. Aboriginal protected areas
2. Cattle rangelands
3. State forest reserves
4. National parks
5. Broadacre farming

* Not rigourous science, just observations of things like native vegetation, weeds, hot bushfire damage, clarity of water in creeks, etc.

cc #AustralianLabor
#environment #landmanagement

#australianlabor please approach climate & environmental breakdown with the understanding we are in the fight of our lives. With calm, purpose, direction, authority, and urgency.
“With an intense kind of crisis management”….
thinking “10 steps ahead of everyone else“
#auspol #politics #climatechange #environment
(Gift link)
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/20718/2R0QHAUY
The quiet force behind Labor’s landslide

Every morning during the campaign, Paul Erickson rose about 4am. By 6.15am, he was on the phone with the prime minister. By 8am, every major campaign message for the day was locked down.

The Saturday Paper

Id recommend Australians listen to this podcast. It reveals how deeply,  disturbingly and frighteningly we are enmeshed with USA
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7clLu0ghMJgTM1oKqs8SDC?si=uF9zmYKRTiKYa5HNo6ALDA
(Episode 3 is also interesting about AUKUS)

Its from Malcolm Turnbull (who is probably the only Lib politician I would considering listening to). Our defence programme is dangerously flawed bc we are totally beholden to USA.

#auspol #AusPolitics #auselection #DuttonIsAMonster #DuttonLies #australianelection2025 #australianlabor

Episode 1: Is Trump all froth and bubble?

Defending Democracy with Malcolm Turnbull · Episode

Spotify

The #canberraliberals can fuck right off.

In the unlikely event I lodge a postal vote, I'll send it straight to the AEC thankyou very much, not to the LIBERAL PARTY so they can harvest data, and may or may not forward my vote on.

What happens when the Lib party staff member or volunteer notices that a postal vote is not going their way? Any guarantee there are not a few votes accidentally falling off the table in to the bin?

[Edit: this process harvests information about the voter, not their vote itself. This spam is only offering to 'help' us request a postal vote from the AEC.]

I cannot believe this practice is legal. But of course it is, because #australianlabor agrees with the Libs they should be exempt from #privacy laws.

#auspol #AustralianElection #Canberra #australiaVotes

The government has spent $2.4 million in tax payer money on prosecuting their legal officer #DavidMcBride for revealing unlawful conduct going all the way up the ranks of our military.

#Budget2025 #auspol #whistleblower

#defenceaust #AustralianLabor @smaurizi

Would love to see it happen and prove it can be done for the betterment of the country but, Bandt has to deal with the Labor Warlords, who would rather be in opposition than share power. It’s a game to them.
#auspol #ubi #AusGreens #AustralianLabor

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jan/16/bandt-says-labor-greens-power-share-would-bring-golden-era-and-confirms-goal-is-to-stop-dutton

Bandt says Labor-Greens power share would bring ‘golden era’ and confirms goal is to stop Dutton

Exclusive: Greens leader also says two parties have a chance to stop a US-style shift to the political right in Australia

The Guardian

#media #socialmedia frame vested interests targets negatively
#politics #democracy #australianlabor #government
people succumb to the drip drip drip of its poison.
#propaganda #australia #politics #society
I refuse to amplify the news.com article by reposting
but here is one attempt at providing context, background and (dare we say?) facts #auspol

🙏 to this comment writer. Please boost.

Dutton's Delcons (18 hours ago)

“Albo done nothing? Are you sure about that?

👇

- Wage increases for millions of the lowest paid
- wage increases for aged care workers
- introduced and legislated an integrity commission
- $12.6billion investment in TAFE & skills training with 300,000 more free TAFE places.
- sent a loving family home from detention,
- free dental for kids from low wage families
- thawed relations with China
- tariffs on Australian barley, wine, and timber lifted
- clawed back $billions in trade that was bumbled by the Coalition
- increased child care subsidies for 70,000 Australian families,
- generous Paid Parental Leave
- power rebates
- cheaper medicines
- restoring dignity in aged care
- $1,300 increase to pensions
- rent relief for many
- New car purchase at record levels
- unemployment at 3.9% the best in 50 years
- free home internet for students
- Medicare bulk billing incentives worth $billions to help 11 million Australians.
- Complete overhaul of the immigration system that was long overdue and a better focus on skilled workers.
- Spending on consultants now at the lowest level in 10 years cutting waste & rebuilding the public service.
- Additional wage increases for the lowest paid, and further pay increases for day care workers,
- pension increases for 5 million people.
- Introduced a social media ban for kids following too many tragic situations,
- reducing student debt
- 2nd surplus, first time in 15 years, and some of the debt paid down.”

Labor reveals plans for election funding overhaul with caps on donations and campaign spending

The Albanese government is pushing for the biggest shake-up of funding and disclosure laws in more than a decade.

ABC News

Cheap nasty point scoring from #Dutton at #7th Oct memorials ystdy.

Remember hes pro white supremacy (and white supremacists are so very often anti-Jew anti-Papist as well).

Both Dutton and #Albanese would do well to remember that #Judaism is not #Zionism.

The latter was a political philosophy dating back to Herzl in 1896 and spoke of a Jewish homeland in Palestine where Arabs would be at best a minority and at worst entirely removed from the land of Zion.

#Netanyahu and his #Zionist donors and supporters don't want a peaceful two states solution.

We should be very wary of our politicians attending events held by any group in #Australia claiming to be Zionist.

Their voice should support Judaism and peace for Jews and Palestinians equally.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/oct/07/melbourne-sydney-australian-vigils-7-october-ntwnfb

#auspol #australianpolitics #australianlabor #DuttonIsARacist

Jeers for Albanese and cheers for Dutton as leaders join Jewish communities to mark 7 October atrocities

The prime minister did not speak at Melbourne event but in Sydney opposition leader claimed ‘moral fog’ has descended on Australia

The Guardian