Queensland redraws electoral map with two seats scrapped ahead of 2028 vote

Queensland abolishes two seats and creates two new ones as part of major electoral redistribution ahead of 2028 state election.

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Inclusion, as informed by critical theory and a historically-grounded #power and #politics lens, is important and yet often missing, in discourses on democracy in 21st century.

📍 Inclusion that is just, should be accompanied by unpacking of structures made invisible by historical and contemporary #hegemony and by #redistribution of power.

#UrsulaLeGuin #GloriaAnzaldua #intersectionality #intertextuality

Image: long form text on #criticaltheory and #inclusion

📍 What might a #queer and truly #democratic future in planetary #health, science, and medicine look like?

Is it not time, at long last, to queer #science, #medicine, #arts, hegemonic #binaries, and #public spaces?

📍 And as informed by critical theory and a #power and #politics lens because inclusion without equity and without #redistribution of power is not just.

#Queer #futures #planetaryhealth #coloniality #systems #structures #criticaltheory

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Can metropolitan authorities drive equitable, climate-aligned housing renovation? Take a look at our new policy article published by Lucía Cerrada Morato & Rosina Vinyes-Ballbe. doi.org/10.1080/1753... #MetropolitanGovernance #HousingRetrofit #UrbanVulnerability #Redistribution #Barcelona

The #healthcare plan already funded by the Public has been scuttled with NO replacement. The tax credits to states - also already paid for by the Public - funding hundreds of the marketplace programs that provide #health & #medical services to tens of thousands of people, were taken and given away by #Congress - largely by donors to the Senate Minority Leader and House Speaker, with a few vague promises to negotiate some scraps back, all now evidently broken. At the end of 2025 the so-called Private #Insurance Industry was greenlighted massive increases to premiums and the associated payments of co-insurance & deductibles. The 2026 budget will scrap virtually all of #Medicaid and most of #Medicare right after this year's midterm #elections. Particularly in rural areas, upward of 40% of hospital revenues come from Medicaid reimbursements which will abruptly cease. HUNDREDS OF HOSPITALS NATIONWIDE are likely to shut down and, in some areas, nearly all will sharply reduce critical services like primary care, emergency rooms, OB/GYN, pharmacy, dialysis, and pediatrics. Many of these particular services will be consolidated to other #hospitals far away with no transportation provided. Thousands will die, tens of thousands will be impoverished, as a direct result. A national #economic failure is more than merely likely. And without good cause; only to crush the Public and to transfer away the remains of its #wealth - our #savings, our #investments - for #redistribution to the untaxed parasites who create nothing, to further ensure that their next six generations will be exempted from the Social Compact.

TrumpRx Denounced as Corrupt Scheme to Line Pockets of Big Pharma—and Don Jr.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trumprx-prescription-drugs

> "Trump has dressed up yet another corporate giveaway as a boon to #patients," said one watchdog. "Real drug price reform doesn’t look like a website."

@DGI I totally agree with the sought result. Yet, perhaps #redistribution is not the most politically appealing concept. Sounds like "taking away money from those who earned it" to most people. If we keep this in mind, why not take the problem at the root: #hyperwealth only concetrates in the hands of the wealthy when they rip of their employees and suppliers. Rather than for redistribution, I would call for just compensation for the creators of wealth (the workers) aka #fairness