There is a state election in NSW in the next couple of months. I hope voters remember the following points.

1. Both Gladys #Berejiklian and John #Barilaro (former Premier and Deputy Premier for the #Coalition) openly admitted in NSW parliament to pork-barrelling. The former tried to minimise it by saying everyone does it. The latter tried to joke about it ("Call me Porkbarilaro").

2. Both Berejiklian and Barilaro subsequently resigned, facing various accusations of corruption, both continue to be under investigation to this day.

3. NSW's Independent Commission Against Corruption (#ICAC) subsequently confirmed in a public statement that it considers pork-barrelling (a.k.a. the misuse of public funds for partisan ends) a form of #corruption.

4. All the funds allocated under programs accused of pork-barrelling under these two would have had to be signed off by the Treasurer of the day.

5. His name is Dominic #Perrottet.

#NSWpol

A national tragedy. An Australian is now dying of COVID every 25 minutes. Even worse than last week as the numbers are updated after delayed reporting

1,586 deaths reported in the 1st 27 days of 2023. That’s more than in the whole of 2021. That’s 59 reported deaths a day 1/n

The SMH reports today that there’s been an increase in applications for pokies to be able to be played between midnight & 4am. The evidence tells us this is the worst time for problem gamblers.

Councillor Pauline Lockie - Inner West Council and I called for poker machines to be shut down between midnight and 6am in our motion to Inner West Council last month but this and other evidence based reforms were rejected by Labor Councillors.

Chris Minns & NSW Labor should show some strength of character & stand up to Clubs NSW and the RSL & Services Clubs Association. The community wants reform and the Greens have pointed the way here: Cate Faehrman.org/pokies
#PutPokiesInTheirPlace #NoMorePokies #GamblingReform

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Hey @[email protected] , it’s day two of having no bags after flying home. Your man at the baggage desk said: “don’t bother calling because nobody will answer.”

So I guess I’ll just keep asking on here 😊

Any progress?

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/JimmyNeesh/status/1609643766994067457

Here's my #Introduction

I'm a content writer, and in the past I've worked in the public sector managing and creating #onlinecontent for #websites and #intranets in #Victoria (Aus).

I'm into #photography #digitalphotography #digitalart #ScienceFiction #SFF #reading #tv #cinema #music #OnlineCulture #art #technology #politics

...and more hashtaggable things.

I live in #Naarm (aka #Melbourne), Woi Wurrung land.

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