@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
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
@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
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
How John Howard boosted migration and embraced foreign students, in five charts
#auspol #johnhoward #lnpfail
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
@Lats
You probably won’t read this in the Murdoch-controlled Aussie media…
So here’s a British tabloid doing the job: exposing the LNP’s staggering hypocrisy on immigration.
They scream “stop the boats” for votes — then quietly push for a surge in migration to prop up their donors.
The Liberal and National parties have agreed to give the relationship another go but at a worrying cost. Disunity is now a significant challenge for the new Coalition, both within each party and between them, compounded by the recent allocation of portfolios. David Littleproud’s leadership is under serious threat due to the way he ignored his Nationals party room in precipitating the temporary divorce, and judging by the grumbling of those excluded from the ministry, such as former leaders Michael McCormack and Barnaby Joyce.
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