Mojo ♻️Mar 1

The Liberals are burying their 2025 election review like it's state secrets. Dutton's bloodbath loss promised transparency—Ley swore it'd be public—but Angus crew now says nah, moving on.
Authors slam it as betrayal and cover-up. Classic Libs: lose big, hide the lessons, then wonder why voters ghost them. More of the same coming...
If they can't own the wipeout, how do they fix it? Transparency for voters, not themselves eh? 😂
#AusPol #LNPFail #Election2025 #LiberalCoverUp #DuttonDisaster

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/podcast-episode/liberals-slam-decision-not-to-release-2025-election-review-evening-news-bulletin-28-february-2026/ll5azcl8k

Liberals slam decision not to release 2025 election review | Evening News Bulletin 28 February 2026

The Liberals decline to release the report into their disastrous 2025 federal election campaign; At least 15 people killed in a Bolivia military plane crash; Both New Zealand and France out of the Sydney leg of Sail GP this weekend.

SBS News
Mojo ♻️Feb 16

Angus Taylor's latest: crank up security vetting & crack down on immigration because some migrants supposedly don't 'share our values'. Cites Bondi terror attack & IS brides repatriation as scare examples. Classic right-wing playbook—Number 1: whip up fear to unsettle the masses & justify hardline controls. Same tactics we're seeing from every populist conservative gov around the world. Australia deserves better than this fearmongering.

#AusPol #Immigration #lnpfail

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/podcast-episode/angus-taylor-flags-stronger-security-vetting-in-immigration-crackdown-midday-news-bulletin-15-february-2026/cqqbeo5fv

Angus Taylor flags stronger security vetting in immigration crackdown | Midday News Bulletin 15 February 2026

Angus Taylor flags stronger security vetting in immigration crackdown; Volodymyr Zelenskyy says US demands much more from Ukraine than Russia; and in cricket, India braced for high-pressure World Cup clash with Pakistan.

SBS News
Mojo ♻️Feb 8

Once again, we see the same playbook: when "fiscal responsibility" is needed, it's always education, healthcare, and social services on the chopping block. Never corporate subsidies. Never tax loopholes for the wealthy. Never the billions in concessions to mining companies.
Liberals talk about "tough choices" while protecting the comfortable and squeezing the vulnerable. The pattern is crystal clear—austerity for the many, prosperity for the few.

#Auspol #Austerity #ClassWarfare #EatTheRich #LnpFail

https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/pressure-chalmers-over-inflation-193631907.html

Key rates question Libs can’t answer

The Liberals have launched fiery attacks on Labor’s public spending following the RBA’s rate hike but have failed to answer one big question.

Yahoo
Mojo ♻️Jan 29

The Coalition has collapsed for the second time in eight months and Sussan Ley’s leadership could follow at any moment. So who should lead the opposition through this tumultuous time? While former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has been there, he himself is not sure who is best placed to take on the challenge, adding ‘the pool of talent is not enormous at the moment’. Turnbull talks about what went wrong between the Liberals and Nationals and what he thinks it will take to resuscitate his party.

#auspol #rightwing #lnpfail

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q7gARReVWA

‘The opposition is in La-La land’: Malcolm Turnbull on the Coalition split – Full Story podcast

YouTube
Show threadMojo ♻️Nov 20

@NickSchwanck @luciedigitalni @Old_IT_geek

It is worth remembering how fiercely the Murdoch press lined up against Whitlam in the lead up to the dismissal and how reliably it has backed the fossil fuel aligned lnp ever since. The coverage was never neutral and it has shaped decades of public opinion.
The small consolation is that Murdochs outlets now speak mainly to the older crowd. Younger Australians are tuning out entirely, choosing independent and digital sources instead. They are the one bright sign that a better future is still possible here.

#australianpolitics #whitlam #australia #media #lnp #lnpfail #msm #auspol

Mojo ♻️Nov 12

The deliberate theft of free education by successive governments is one of the greatest acts of intergenerational theft in our history. I know, because I was one of the lucky ones who benefited from Whitlam's vision. We must restore it.

#FreeEducation #Whitlam #AusPol #LNPFail #EducationForAll #dumbingdown

https://theconversation.com/how-did-australian-universities-go-from-free-education-to-50-000-arts-degrees-in-50-years-268782

How did Australian universities go from free education to $50,000 arts degrees in 50 years?

Thanks to the Job Ready Graduates scheme, an arts degree today will cost over $50,000. How have five decades of government policy taken us from free education to this?

The Conversation
Show threadMojo ♻️Nov 1

@rood That's a brutal but accurate example of the logic at work. When healthcare is treated as a commodity, not a right, the math becomes coldly utilitarian.
You're right, the system starts to see people as having a "used by date." A complex, expensive dental procedure to save a tooth isn't "cost-effective" for a low-income person—so the cheaper extraction is the only "choice." This is the same logic that sees a retired person or a chronically ill individual as a "burden" rather than a person.
The previous government's decade long medicare rebate freeze was a policy that deliberately starved bulk billing. The goal was to make public healthcare unviable and push people towards private, for-profit systems. They absolutely would not have a problem with workers collapsing; in that worldview, you're only valuable as a unit of production. When you can't produce, you're a cost to be managed.

This intervention is a small but vital attempt to push back against that exact ideology, to say that health is a public good, not a private luxury.

#AusPol #Health #Capitalism #LNPfail #medicare #freehealthcare

Canvases By PeterOct 28

Coalition MPs weighing up whether to abandon net zero have been briefed on research that argued “heat deaths aren’t a thing”, played down the prospect of substantial sea level rises and claimed “no one has ever made low-cost energy” from wind and solar.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/29/coalition-mps-net-zero-doubts-climate-science

#LNPFail #AUSPol #News #ClimateChange #Environment #HumanRights

‘Heat deaths aren’t a thing’: Coalition MPs weighing net zero given sceptical briefing on climate science

Exclusive: Briefing by conservative thinktank Centre for Independent Studies was arranged by a Coalition backbench committee

The Guardian
Show threadMojo ♻️Aug 25, 2025

How John Howard boosted migration and embraced foreign students, in five charts
#auspol #johnhoward #lnpfail

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-20/migration-figures-under-prime-minister-john-howard/9465114?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

How John Howard boosted migration and embraced foreign students, in five charts

Five charts show how John Howard boosted migration and embraced foreign students and those moving to Australia on temporary business visas.

ABC News
Mojo ♻️Jul 26, 2025

Once upon a time you could buy a Mini, Merc or Citroën made in Australia.
Not just sold here — actually assembled in local factories.
It didn’t last, but it happened. And it says a lot about what we once thought was possible.

#carhistory #australia #manufacturing #mini #mercedesbenz #citroen #madeinaustralia #auspol #lnpfail #MurdochRoyalCommission

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-26/mercedes-benz-mini-citroen-australian-car-manufacturing-history/105542446