NSW state election is this Saturday. The current (outgoing?) Coalition government has:
- approved many new/expanded #CoalMines with catastrophic #ClimateImpacts. Their record on biodiversity is even worse: record land clearing, #koalakiller, brumbies, mass fish kills. Not to mention #WaterMismanagement (& #corruption).
- undermined #CivilLiberties to an alarming extent. Compare anti-protest laws and #NSWpolice powers now vs a decade ago.
- corruption scandals aplenty, going right to the top: all four premiers subject to credible accusations of serious misconduct. Two premiers & a deputy premier have resigned as the direct result of #ICAC investigations. Some of them have openly defended #pork-barrelling, which ICAC labels corrupt behaviour.
- privatised the electricity grid & large chunks of public transport. Overseen the creeping #privatisation of health + education, putting crucial infrastructure + services in the hands of #plutocracy, subject to the pernicious effects of the profit motive. All these areas have seen significant erosion of public well-being + satisfaction, with widespread industrial action one symptom of many.
- close ties—philosophically, personally + practically—to the federal #Coalition who finally got the boot last year.
Maybe you don't follow niche political content of the twists and turns of a drama unfolding over many months in a single state of a minor nation (0.3% of global population) on the far aide of the world, where a shit-posting 20-something YT stand-up comedian eventually brought down both top executive officeholders (premier and deputy premier) in a jurisdiction of 8 million people that all started by making some low-effort meme videos about their destructive environmental policies and snowballed until it encompassed dodgy anti-terrorism police, multiple court cases, organised crime, everyday corruption, the world's most powerful gambling lobby, #google getting sued, too many cheesy #nintendo references, and the firebombing of the comedian's house. If you don't, but want to, and now don't know where to start, here's an outsider-friendly summary of the whole wild rollercoaster to this point.
https://youtu.be/PF1-1CNggQA
#NSWpol, #corruption #FriendlyJordies #KoalaKiller #bruz #auspol
"We're going to sit back and fight"
What does that even mean? What a joke.
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