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  1. CW: invective

    @earthmothering9

    The corruption and viciousness in #Australia's government continues to seep out.

    What poison to community and health successive #Labor and #LNP governments and the #AustralianPublicService have been.

    When did the #TargetedComplianceFramework kick in?
    #JohnHoward?
    #KevinRudd?
    #JuliaGillard?
    #TobyAbbott?
    #MalcomTurnbul?
    #ScottMorrison?
    #AnthonyAlbanese?

    Who has let it continue?
    Filthy grubs.
    So expert at punching down.

    #AusPol #RoboDebt #CuttingOffBenefits

  2. CW: invective

    @earthmothering9

    The corruption and viciousness in #Australia's government continues to seep out.

    What poison to community and health successive #Labor and #LNP governments and the #AustralianPublicService have been.

    When did the #TargetedComplianceFramework kick in?
    #JohnHoward?
    #KevinRudd?
    #JuliaGillard?
    #TobyAbbott?
    #MalcomTurnbul?
    #ScottMorrison?
    #AnthonyAlbanese?

    Who has let it continue?
    Filthy grubs.
    So expert at punching down.

    #AusPol #RoboDebt #CuttingOffBenefits

  3. Two questions for those with some knowledge of Australian law:

    Is it a crime under Australian law (whether federal or state) to incite the commission of #WarCrimes and/or #CrimesAgainstHumanity?

    Would enthusiastic public advocacy for the Commonwealth government to (openly)* join the wildly illegal #WarOfAggression launched by #Israel + #US forces against #Iran (including celebrating the deliberate targeting of civilians)** be prima facie evidence of such a crime?

    Since Australia has still not arrested #JohnHoward for his crimes in helping to launch an earlier disastrous war of aggression 22 years ago, I'm not holding my breath here, but I would like to know whether/which laws are being ignored when (for instance) a high-profile weapons lobbyist urges the federal government to commit illegal acts by joining this latest war of aggression (completely unauthorised by the UN Security Council).

    *See: #PineGap.
    **The 10+ scientists assassinated (often along with their families and neighbours) by Israel's initial strikes were civilians. Israel has openly admitted, even boasted, that these individuals (non-combatants under #InternationalLaw) were specifically targeted with overwhelmingly lethal force.

    #Auspol #AusLaw #WarCrimes #ScottMorrison

  4. #Auspol #OneNation #Election2025
    the slippery slope of policies deciding some lives are more important than others… which we are now seeing bear fruit in USA 🤔

    ——-
    on immigration <This remains part of the party's policy platform, which includes "deporting 75,000 illegal migrants" and "cutting immigration by over 570,000 people" from current levels by capping visas at 130,000 per year.

    In 2001, then Liberal prime minister #JohnHoward demanded One Nation be placed last on the party's how-to-vote cards.

    He later defended the WA Liberal's 2017 preference deal with One Nation, saying "everyone changes in 16 years".>
    ——
    and
    <<Now, it is disaffected Liberal voters generally, just as a lot of Greens voters are disaffected Labor voters, rather than voters who are desperately concerned about immigration.

    "On paper, both major parties are addressing that anyway.">>

    From preferences to polling: Could One Nation gain more power this election?
    sbs.com.au/news/article/could-

  5. @tonycart
    Yes the possibility is becoming apparent with Dutton having a major party sounding like the fringe nationalist One Nation party from decades ago.

    And the arc from John Howard to Tony Abbott to Morrison to Dutton is looking more and more like a direction that will be continued.

    The article' places the roots in "failures of neoliberalism and globalism".

    I doubt this is an very helpful explanation.

    #GraeberAndWengrowe
    #TheDawnOfEverything
    #Capitalism
    #JohnHoward
    #OneNation
    #Dutton

  6. CW: Passing reference to Australian politics

    @artwiculate
    New title in the ever-popular #MrMen series of children’s books: #MrMendacious
    Image created with #Craiyon AI image generation software using the prompts: #Mendacious #MrMen #KidsBook and #JohnHoward

  7. This week's Sunday night Movie-
    Agatha Christie - The Man in the Brown Suit (1989)
    .
    A tourist visiting Cairo witnesses a murder & after that sees a man in a brown suit fleeing the scene. She boards a ship & assumes that one of her fellow passengers is the criminal & that they also plan to steal a cache of diamonds. However, all appear to be potential suspects.
    .
    Starring: #RueMcClanahan #TonyRandall #EdwardWoodward #StephanieZimbalist #KenHoward
    .
    Free here - youtube.com/watch?v=9_mlryYPGb

  8. This week's Sunday night Movie-
    Agatha Christie - The Man in the Brown Suit (1989)
    .
    A tourist visiting Cairo witnesses a murder & after that sees a man in a brown suit fleeing the scene. She boards a ship & assumes that one of her fellow passengers is the criminal & that they also plan to steal a cache of diamonds. However, all appear to be potential suspects.
    .
    Starring: #RueMcClanahan #TonyRandall #EdwardWoodward #StephanieZimbalist #KenHoward
    .
    Free here - youtube.com/watch?v=9_mlryYPGb

  9. This week's Sunday night Movie-
    Agatha Christie - The Man in the Brown Suit (1989)
    .
    A tourist visiting Cairo witnesses a murder & after that sees a man in a brown suit fleeing the scene. She boards a ship & assumes that one of her fellow passengers is the criminal & that they also plan to steal a cache of diamonds. However, all appear to be potential suspects.
    .
    Starring: #RueMcClanahan #TonyRandall #EdwardWoodward #StephanieZimbalist #KenHoward
    .
    Free here - youtube.com/watch?v=9_mlryYPGb

  10. This week's Sunday night Movie-
    Agatha Christie - The Man in the Brown Suit (1989)
    .
    A tourist visiting Cairo witnesses a murder & after that sees a man in a brown suit fleeing the scene. She boards a ship & assumes that one of her fellow passengers is the criminal & that they also plan to steal a cache of diamonds. However, all appear to be potential suspects.
    .
    Starring: #RueMcClanahan #TonyRandall #EdwardWoodward #StephanieZimbalist #KenHoward
    .
    Free here - youtube.com/watch?v=9_mlryYPGb

  11. "It was a battle….CBS said to us, early on, ‘We want you to stay away from issues like sex, crime, and drugs.’ We said, ‘That’s the whole show.’”

    #KenHoward (1944-2016) would have been 79 today.

    #TheWhiteShadow #ClassicTV #1970sTV #1970s #Nostalgia

  12. "It was a battle….CBS said to us, early on, ‘We want you to stay away from issues like sex, crime, and drugs.’ We said, ‘That’s the whole show.’”

    #KenHoward (1944-2016) would have been 79 today.

    #TheWhiteShadow #ClassicTV #1970sTV #1970s #Nostalgia

  13. "It was a battle….CBS said to us, early on, ‘We want you to stay away from issues like sex, crime, and drugs.’ We said, ‘That’s the whole show.’”

    #KenHoward (1944-2016) would have been 79 today.

    #TheWhiteShadow #ClassicTV #1970sTV #1970s #Nostalgia

  14. 1901 – Post Office, Westport, Co. Mayo
    Architect: J. Howard Pentland, Board of Public Works

    Domestically scaled post office - the large semi-circular windows of the public office and the rock faced limestone are particularly attractive aspects of the design.
    archiseek.com/1901-post-office
    #ArchitectureOfMayo #1901 #BoardOfPublicWorksOfficeOfPublicWorks #CoMayo #JHowardPentland #PostOffices #Westport

  15. Mainstream media in Australia might finally be starting to wake-up and call-out Trump and his cronies.

    Years ago, the Sun-Herald used to be Sydney's broadsheet newspaper, but it has long since lost its sense of balance and political teeth after being bought-out by a succession of increasingly right-wing media moguls. It's quite remarkable that they're printing a headline like this now.

    The headline is a reference to a sledge aimed at cowardly, right-wing, yes-men for their support for the invasion of Iraq, "There they are a conga line of suckholes on the conservative side of politics." It was delivered by former ALP Leader of the Opposition and aspiring PM, Mark Latham (when he still sounded sane; long before he got RWNJ brainworms). I've always wondered about that particular line, and mused that his speechwriters were tapping into a vein of former Prime Minster, Paul Keating. He once said John Howard was "Like a shiver waiting for a spine to crawl up."

    Amusingly, the subeditor misnamed Jeff Bezos as "Geoff Bezos" in the caption.

    This picture was originally posted by someone else on Mastodon without Alt-text, so I have liberated it and added Alt-text.

    #Trump #DonaldTrump #Zelensky #Zelenskyy #Ukraine #USPol #AusPol #MarkLatham #PaulKeating #JohnHoward #AltText #UseAltText #JeffBezos #ElonMusk

  16. @101101000
    Indeed, step one needs to start with stopping the #coups and #regimeChange operations that set countries back decades, and prevent them having more #equitable, and socially and environmentally progressive policies.

    Almost all #immigrationAbuse is based on #pushFactors, instigated by US policy. Look back no further than #post911 abuse by #BushCrimeFamily, #TonyBlair and their underling #JohnHoward, but many examples exist.

    #warCrimes @kaip @koherecoWatchdog @NatCor @rs1linuxtools

  17. Australia's #housingcrisis is a complex issue . Several factors and policies over decades have contributed to the current state of the housing market, including:

    1. Supply and Demand: A growing population, increased immigration numbers, particularly in major cities, has driven up demand for housing. Limited supply, due to zoning laws and other regulations, has exacerbated the issue.

    2. Negative Gearing and Capital Gains Tax Concessions: Policies that allow property investors to deduct losses on rental properties from their taxable income (negative gearing) and concessions on #capitalgains tax have been criticized for inflating property prices. These policies have been in place for many years and have been supported by both major political parties at different times.

    3. #ForeignInvestment: Increased foreign investment in Australian property, particularly from Chinese buyers, has also been cited as a factor driving up prices. Policies regulating foreign investment have evolved over time but have often been seen as insufficient.

    4. Monetary Policy: Low interest rates set by the Reserve Bank of Australia (#RBA ) have made borrowing cheaper, contributing to higher property prices.

    5. Government Incentives: Various government incentives, such as first-home buyer grants and other subsidies, while intended to help buyers enter the market, can also contribute to price inflation by increasing demand.

    6. Urban Planning: Inefficient urban planning and infrastructure development have limited the availability of affordable housing, particularly in well-connected areas.

    If one were to identify a turning point, some analysts point to the late 1990s and early 2000s, during the tenure of Prime Minister #JohnHoward, when policies like the relaxation of capital gains tax in 1999 and the support for #negativegearing were solidified. These policies are often cited as significant contributors to the property investment boom.

    However, it is important to recognise that both major political parties in Australia (Liberal and Labor) have had opportunities to address these issues over the years and have made various policy decisions that have contributed to the current situation.
    #rentalcrisis #auseconomy

  18. « Go your way
    I'll take the long way 'round
    I'll find my own way down
    As I should »

    Ben Howard, Oats in the water (toujours la B.O. The Walking Dead)

    youtube.com/watch?v=GOhLY4OmW-

    #music #musique #pouetradio #BenHoward