Chris Minns, NSW Premier: "for the sake of Social Cohesion™, we're inviting a wanted war criminal from a rogue state to visit, granting police extraordinary emergency powers to forcefully suppress the expression of non-approved messages in non-approved locations, and installing extra Social Cohesion™ fences and barriers in the middle of the city. In order to ensure maximum Social Cohesion™ please don't come into the city, and if you do, then disobeying the instructions of one of the 3,000 Social Cohesion™ officers will result in a $5,000 fine. This is for your own good. You will cohere, or else."

#NSWpol #CivilLiberties #CriminalisationOfDissent #IsaacHerzog #Herzog #ChrisMinns #NSWLabor #Gadi #Sydney #SydneyNews #NSWPolice #protest #ProtestIsNotACrime

#GuardianAustralia, typically the best of a terrible lot amongst mainstream #AustralianMedia when it comes to reporting on issues of #justice & planetary crises, is still fundamentally a pro-capitalist organisation.

Today's snapshots:
- https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jul/27/nsw-considering-all-options-to-keep-power-bills-down-as-coal-cap-end-date-looms
An article on how #NSWLabor government under #ChrisMinns is considering expanding #coal subsidies that doesn't mention the fact that these are direct subsidies to the coal industry at a time of soaring profits due to Putin's war in Ukraine. Unmentioned: the "cap" on prices is accompanied by the government stepping in to pay coal companies for the gap between sky-high international coal prices & the cap on what local consumers pay for electricity. The article quotes the head of the coal lobby (former chief of staff to #MikeBaird btw) but no voices critical of the policy.
#nswpol

- https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jul/26/house-prices-australia-sydney-rebound-growth
An article reporting on the worsening of the #HousingAffordability crisis framed exclusively in positive language (growth, rebound, recovery, clawed back lost value, recouping, revival, best (=highest)). Senior figure in property market quoted extensively. #auspol

“NSW government accused of bowing to gambling lobby as cashless gaming trial delayed”

The worst possible outcome for #NSWLabor is to allow themselves to be branded #LNPlite. Being beholden to the same lobby groups - gambling industry, fossil fuel miners, water thieves and private schools - makes this inevitable.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jun/22/nsw-government-accused-of-bowing-to-gambling-lobby-as-cashless-gaming-trial-delayed?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other