Tasmanian Labor fails to secure Greens support for no-confidence motion

Labor and Dean Winter’s bid for Tasmania’s government appears to have failed, with the Greens announcing they will…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AU #Australia #crossbench #deanwinter #Election #greens #greyhound #house #jeremyrockliff #leader #leadership #no-confidence #Parliament #racing #salmon #speaker #tas #tasmania #woodruff
https://www.newsbeep.com/67432/

#Victorian #Greens slam ‘backroom’ deal on #ethicscommittee appointments: ‘Like letting the fox guard the henhouse’

#EllenSandell says:

“This so-called ethics committee will be the only joint committee in the entire parliament with no #crossbench representatives, controlled by the two parties with the longest track record of rorts.

It’s a calculated move so #Labor & #Liberal MPs can keep writing their own rules around MP behaviour, & avoid any #scrutiny. “ #auspol

Greens withhold support for Labor’s bid for Tasmanian government ‘at this stage’

Greens leader Rosalie Woodruff says her party cannot support Labor leader Dean Winter’s bid to become premier “at…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AU #Australia #crossbench #deanwinter #Forestry #greyhoundracing #hobartstadium #macquariepointstadium #minoritygovernment #petergeorge #rockliff #rosaliewoodruff #tasmaniangreens
https://www.newsbeep.com/54977/

Whenever I've needed direction in life, I ask myself, what would the big guy upstairs do?
Then I'm off out the door to break some hearts❤️
#crossbench #ShutAYDC #mentalhealth #tasvotes #taspol #politas #auspol #funnybandstories

Maybe #Straya need to regime change the #USA and install a real democracy?

#PreferentialVoting aka #RankedChoiceBallots

#Voting on a Saturday, with a polling place within walking distance for most people, easy to #vote in advance, and not too tricky to vote by post

and an independent federal body to draw electorate (district) boundaries, run polling places, and run the counting - like our #AEC https://www.aec.gov.au/

The Yanks can skip the #CompulsoryVoting if they insist. But it is good for calming politics no need for the "bring out the vote" intensity with "or the opposition will eat your kids" madness. And it makes some fraud even harder to do - like voter impersonation or dead people voting - if everybody votes in every election.

#Australian #democracy is not perfect, but i think we're probably close to the "least-broken"?

Our worst problem is #mining company influence, to parties and the public
🎶you're gonna get whacked, by the mining tax🎶

The expanding #Green and #Teal #CrossBench is providing some push back on the #mining lobby's environmental bullshit.

But we're still getting ripped off, if the government says we "can't afford" something, they're lying. We have an entire continent full of almost every mineral the world wants to buy, we just need to #tax it properly or nationalise it, not let a few individuals hoard all the profits.

But if we went full محمد مصدق or #Gough #Whitlam … then our friends the USA might decide we'd picked the wrong government and change it for us?

I don't necessarily want to change their government, I want to change how they elect it.

a #TwoPartyState is not really any better than a #OnePartyState

cc other mes @kirt @kirt @kirt

#AUKUS #Teals #GoughWhitlam #ClivePalmer #GinaReinheart #GinaRinehart #GautamAdani
#محمدمصدق

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Fantastic news out of Canberra with a crossbencher setting up the Industrial Relations Bill set to pass! We have spent decades giving god like power to employers. About time the workers gain some rights back! https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/nov/27/david-pocock-to-give-crucial-support-to-ir-bill-after-deal-on-jobseeker-and-welfare #AusPol #IndustrialRelationsBill #Unions #PeopleBeforeProfit #CrossBench #WorkersUnite
David Pocock to give crucial support to IR bill after deal on jobseeker and welfare

Agreement struck with key independent boosts safeguards for small and medium businesses

The Guardian