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@msdropbear
Yes, #AlboPM playing *blokey* is offputting, even to me. But the point is that our PM on this *stupid* show made light of a Japanese tradition (see: https://migaku.com/blog/japanese/japanese-gift-giving ) and therefore made light of a very respectful gift from #TakaiichiPM and #Japan as a whole. It was a #ForeignPolicy *Blunder* if there ever was one. And a blunder which our PM, surely having been briefed on the gift and its significance before the Japanese PM’s visit, ought not to have made… which brings into question Albo’s judgement as a leader.That’s my two cents worth, it it’s worth that much at all… :)
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@msdropbear
Yes, #AlboPM playing *blokey* is offputting, even to me. But the point is that our PM on this *stupid* show made light of a Japanese tradition (see: https://migaku.com/blog/japanese/japanese-gift-giving ) and therefore made light of a very respectful gift from #TakaiichiPM and #Japan as a whole. It was a #ForeignPolicy *Blunder* if there ever was one. And a blunder which our PM, surely having been briefed on the gift and its significance before the Japanese PM’s visit, ought not to have made… which brings into question Albo’s judgement as a leader.That’s my two cents worth, it it’s worth that much at all… :)
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A good recap from Natalie Whiting (ABCNews). And while I don’t wish to add to the newsmedia *Beat up* it has so obviously become (as well as a political jab from Tri-Opposition), it does highlight #AlboPM ‘s *faux pas* in a monumental error of PR exercise for which he is paying dearly — as he should. I say this because the #PM would’ve been briefed on the *Cultural* significance of #TakaiichiPM ‘s State gift during her visit to Australia. Hence there is no excuse for *wanting* to pander to a stupid show host’s crass proddings. This is all on Albo (and whomever convinced him to go on these #Nutter shows), even as the Japanese govt wishes (despite its ambasadorial opinion piece), in true face-saving efforts, to sweep it all under the carpet. See, nothing to see here.
#Melons #Omiyage #JapanAustraliaRelations #StupidTVAppearance
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A good recap from Natalie Whiting (ABCNews). And while I don’t wish to add to the newsmedia *Beat up* it has so obviously become (as well as a political jab from Tri-Opposition), it does highlight #AlboPM ‘s *faux pas* in a monumental error of PR exercise for which he is paying dearly — as he should. I say this because the #PM would’ve been briefed on the *Cultural* significance of #TakaiichiPM ‘s State gift during her visit to Australia. Hence there is no excuse for *wanting* to pander to a stupid show host’s crass proddings. This is all on Albo (and whomever convinced him to go on these #Nutter shows), even as the Japanese govt wishes (despite its ambasadorial opinion piece), in true face-saving efforts, to sweep it all under the carpet. See, nothing to see here.
#Melons #Omiyage #JapanAustraliaRelations #StupidTVAppearance
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@johnquiggin
One has to wonder which votes #AlboPM is chasing by appearing in such *inane* shows and *play acting* blokey. Because what other reason could he possibly have for doing that? In any case, whomever advises him on PR stunts (Not Murpharoo, she left his Staff in May last year) ought to be castigated for it — though with Staff revolving doors spinning, it’s likely to be someone out or on the way out of the office. In any case, whether it’s a news (fascist propaganda) beat up or not, the optics are pretty damning. There are more pressing matters for the PM to attend to IMO. -
@johnquiggin
One has to wonder which votes #AlboPM is chasing by appearing in such *inane* shows and *play acting* blokey. Because what other reason could he possibly have for doing that? In any case, whomever advises him on PR stunts (Not Murpharoo, she left his Staff in May last year) ought to be castigated for it — though with Staff revolving doors spinning, it’s likely to be someone out or on the way out of the office. In any case, whether it’s a news (fascist propaganda) beat up or not, the optics are pretty damning. There are more pressing matters for the PM to attend to IMO. -
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In case you’re interested in what #AlboPM said to the Caucus in preparation for the next sitting of Parliament which starts Tuesday, it’s been transcribed in The Point Live :“And here is how the caucus rah-rah sounded - Anthony Albanese:” … as well…as well…as well…as well…as well… as well… as well… as well… as well… as well… Anthony sure likes those two words. I stopped counting when I got to 10. Well :) anyway you can read it here: posted at 15:25
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In case you’re interested in what #AlboPM said to the Caucus in preparation for the next sitting of Parliament which starts Tuesday, it’s been transcribed in The Point Live :“And here is how the caucus rah-rah sounded - Anthony Albanese:” … as well…as well…as well…as well…as well… as well… as well… as well… as well… as well… Anthony sure likes those two words. I stopped counting when I got to 10. Well :) anyway you can read it here: posted at 15:25
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#AmyRemeikis says is all. #Labor polies need a jolt to wake them up and read the room.
“The view from Amy
The main takeaway from the mainstream on the Newspoll is that Labor is at a 10-year low – that it hasn’t been this unpopular (as a government) since Julia Gillard’s government. Which, yes. But also what is happening is that the Coalition is at 18%. It is also at historical lows, it’s vote continues to crater and One Nation is the beneficiary of that.I spent the five week break talking to more politicians than anyone ever needs to and I am unhappy to report, that most of Labor’s backbenchers still believe that Albanese’s incrementalism is what is going to get them over the line. The main view is that the electorate will “see sense” once it gets closer to an actual election. Almost all of them point to this time in the last election cycle when Dutton’s Coalition was ahead and say ‘see, and then we got a historic majority’.
What they are not looking at, is what happened in the US a few years ago, where fear of the status quo, was, as Richard Denniss and Emma Shortis have said multiple times, greater than the fear of Donald Trump.
It’s not even necessarily One Nation that people want – it’s a change. Labor doesn’t seem to have grasped that. The Coalition certainly haven’t. This is unchartered waters and they are trying to apply the old way of doing things. It is not going to work. Whether or not they work that out in time is questionable.”
Source:https://live.thepoint.com.au/ 2 hrs ago#AusPol #AlboPM #PHON #LNP #FederalPolitics #Parliament #ThePoint #FederalElections2028 #LaborIncrementalism
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#AmyRemeikis says is all. #Labor polies need a jolt to wake them up and read the room.
“The view from Amy
The main takeaway from the mainstream on the Newspoll is that Labor is at a 10-year low – that it hasn’t been this unpopular (as a government) since Julia Gillard’s government. Which, yes. But also what is happening is that the Coalition is at 18%. It is also at historical lows, it’s vote continues to crater and One Nation is the beneficiary of that.I spent the five week break talking to more politicians than anyone ever needs to and I am unhappy to report, that most of Labor’s backbenchers still believe that Albanese’s incrementalism is what is going to get them over the line. The main view is that the electorate will “see sense” once it gets closer to an actual election. Almost all of them point to this time in the last election cycle when Dutton’s Coalition was ahead and say ‘see, and then we got a historic majority’.
What they are not looking at, is what happened in the US a few years ago, where fear of the status quo, was, as Richard Denniss and Emma Shortis have said multiple times, greater than the fear of Donald Trump.
It’s not even necessarily One Nation that people want – it’s a change. Labor doesn’t seem to have grasped that. The Coalition certainly haven’t. This is unchartered waters and they are trying to apply the old way of doing things. It is not going to work. Whether or not they work that out in time is questionable.”
Source:https://live.thepoint.com.au/ 2 hrs ago#AusPol #AlboPM #PHON #LNP #FederalPolitics #Parliament #ThePoint #FederalElections2028 #LaborIncrementalism
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What can I say… I like the cut of his jib. All that remains is to see how #Burnham will sail. He is certainly saying all of the right things to society at large and especially to those whose anger and frutrations require outlets, a safety valve to let off some steam, before *Repairs* begin. #AlboPM, *take note* if you value your legacy.
“In his first speech as prime minister on July 17, Burnham promised “good growth in every postcode”, saying his victory in the Makerfield by-election, which returned him to Westminster, was a call “on behalf of forgotten places everywhere up and down this country, for a return of the Labour they once knew”.
“We must recognise that this generation of politicians, myself included, have failed to challenge a political culture and an economic model that simply doesn’t work well enough for ordinary people.”
Burnham charts that failure to “a series of wrong-turns in the 1980s”.
“Four decades of the neoliberalism that began in the 1980s have not been kind to the places that built our party, nor to the communities across the UK in rural and coastal areas,” he said.
“Political power was centralised and economic power was privatised.”
Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-09/burnham-farage-grievance-politics-hanson-uk-prime-minister/107004586#UKPol #AusPol #Economics #NeoLIberalism #StateCapture #PublicInfrastructure #UKLabour. #AusLabor
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What can I say… I like the cut of his jib. All that remains is to see how #Burnham will sail. He is certainly saying all of the right things to society at large and especially to those whose anger and frutrations require outlets, a safety valve to let off some steam, before *Repairs* begin. #AlboPM, *take note* if you value your legacy.
“In his first speech as prime minister on July 17, Burnham promised “good growth in every postcode”, saying his victory in the Makerfield by-election, which returned him to Westminster, was a call “on behalf of forgotten places everywhere up and down this country, for a return of the Labour they once knew”.
“We must recognise that this generation of politicians, myself included, have failed to challenge a political culture and an economic model that simply doesn’t work well enough for ordinary people.”
Burnham charts that failure to “a series of wrong-turns in the 1980s”.
“Four decades of the neoliberalism that began in the 1980s have not been kind to the places that built our party, nor to the communities across the UK in rural and coastal areas,” he said.
“Political power was centralised and economic power was privatised.”
Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-09/burnham-farage-grievance-politics-hanson-uk-prime-minister/107004586#UKPol #AusPol #Economics #NeoLIberalism #StateCapture #PublicInfrastructure #UKLabour. #AusLabor
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#BernardKeane is not one to mince his words and in his latest tirade, aimed at the Department of Defence (#DoD), though uncontroversial, is a tell-tale dig at #AlboPM ‘s govt entrenched #Secrecy and #Opacity bordering on a #Conspiracy to cover up anything that might tarnish the already low esteem we have of it.
“With the Defence budget to grow to more than $60 billion over the next four years, the lack of transparency and accountability around often spectacular procurement and contract management failures means taxpayers have no faith the department can competently administer such large sums effectively, or that it can do so honestly. The determination of a dominant government that has no meaningful opposition to suppress anything inconsistent with its cheery narrative guarantees billions will continue to be wasted.”
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#BernardKeane is not one to mince his words and in his latest tirade, aimed at the Department of Defence (#DoD), though uncontroversial, is a tell-tale dig at #AlboPM ‘s govt entrenched #Secrecy and #Opacity bordering on a #Conspiracy to cover up anything that might tarnish the already low esteem we have of it.
“With the Defence budget to grow to more than $60 billion over the next four years, the lack of transparency and accountability around often spectacular procurement and contract management failures means taxpayers have no faith the department can competently administer such large sums effectively, or that it can do so honestly. The determination of a dominant government that has no meaningful opposition to suppress anything inconsistent with its cheery narrative guarantees billions will continue to be wasted.”
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Well. The writer #DavidArmstrong is correct, that didn’t make any waves in the press here in Australia (not a good thing IMO). So why not? The Kylie thing was big, very big, so much so that #AlboPM apologised for it. Yet:
“When Anthony Albanese confessed in a podcast he would like to spend some very private time with Kylie Minogue, the public and political reaction was a swift, strong negative. Albanese apologised.
But in the same podcast, looking to please his host, comedian Nikki Osborne, Albanese made a joke at the expense of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.
He recalled that when Takaichi visited Australia in May, she had brought melons as a gift. Osborne made a crack about Pamela Anderson and Albanese grinned, cupped his hands in front of his chest, and said: “She brought two. As you do.”
Albanese mocked the first female prime minister in Japanese history and leader of Australia’s closest security partner in Asia. He did not apologise.
The disparity struck Japanese journalist and academic Waka Ikeda. “An Australian pop star’s dignity commanded a national conversation; a Japanese prime minister’s didn’t,” Ikeda said.
Takaichi’s gift, she said in a column in The Japan Times, had been chosen with diplomatic care – Crown Melons from Shizuoka (the Mount Fuji region), the most prized fruit in Japan.
“In Japan, a single Crown Melon can cost more than a fine bottle of wine,” she said. “Its perfection, based on the Japanese artisan spirit of takumi, is what you bring when you wish to honour someone.”
Ikeda said that what happened after the podcast was the real story – because almost nothing happened. Albanese had never spoken about the Takaichi joke; the Minister for Women, Katy Gallagher, had remained silent, and then-Victorian premier Jacinta Allan had brushed it aside as lighthearted.
Ikeda recalled that when Allan had been called a witch, Albanese had said it was “completely unacceptable to demean, objectify, belittle or offend women”.
Japan had also declined to comment. “Japan needs Australia on trade and security,” Ikeda said. “[T]he first female prime minister, fighting Beijing, cannot afford a quarrel over her own chest.
“[Takaichi’s] dignity was weighted against the alliance and found lighter.” (Source: https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/08/instagram-generations-win-japans-security-drive-and-albos-undiplomatic-insult-asian-media-report/ )
Not only is our PM a political lightweight in the eyes of this tooter (for his lack of gumption on progressive legislation), but he is showing himself to be quite disrespectful of women generally. Not the kind of ‘man’ I wish to represent me, not in the least.
R.E.S.P.E.C.T. Please….
##AusPol #Takaichi #Japan #ForeignAffairs #WomensAgenda
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Well. The writer #DavidArmstrong is correct, that didn’t make any waves in the press here in Australia (not a good thing IMO). So why not? The Kylie thing was big, very big, so much so that #AlboPM apologised for it. Yet:
“When Anthony Albanese confessed in a podcast he would like to spend some very private time with Kylie Minogue, the public and political reaction was a swift, strong negative. Albanese apologised.
But in the same podcast, looking to please his host, comedian Nikki Osborne, Albanese made a joke at the expense of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.
He recalled that when Takaichi visited Australia in May, she had brought melons as a gift. Osborne made a crack about Pamela Anderson and Albanese grinned, cupped his hands in front of his chest, and said: “She brought two. As you do.”
Albanese mocked the first female prime minister in Japanese history and leader of Australia’s closest security partner in Asia. He did not apologise.
The disparity struck Japanese journalist and academic Waka Ikeda. “An Australian pop star’s dignity commanded a national conversation; a Japanese prime minister’s didn’t,” Ikeda said.
Takaichi’s gift, she said in a column in The Japan Times, had been chosen with diplomatic care – Crown Melons from Shizuoka (the Mount Fuji region), the most prized fruit in Japan.
“In Japan, a single Crown Melon can cost more than a fine bottle of wine,” she said. “Its perfection, based on the Japanese artisan spirit of takumi, is what you bring when you wish to honour someone.”
Ikeda said that what happened after the podcast was the real story – because almost nothing happened. Albanese had never spoken about the Takaichi joke; the Minister for Women, Katy Gallagher, had remained silent, and then-Victorian premier Jacinta Allan had brushed it aside as lighthearted.
Ikeda recalled that when Allan had been called a witch, Albanese had said it was “completely unacceptable to demean, objectify, belittle or offend women”.
Japan had also declined to comment. “Japan needs Australia on trade and security,” Ikeda said. “[T]he first female prime minister, fighting Beijing, cannot afford a quarrel over her own chest.
“[Takaichi’s] dignity was weighted against the alliance and found lighter.” (Source: https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/08/instagram-generations-win-japans-security-drive-and-albos-undiplomatic-insult-asian-media-report/ )
Not only is our PM a political lightweight in the eyes of this tooter (for his lack of gumption on progressive legislation), but he is showing himself to be quite disrespectful of women generally. Not the kind of ‘man’ I wish to represent me, not in the least.
R.E.S.P.E.C.T. Please….
##AusPol #Takaichi #Japan #ForeignAffairs #WomensAgenda
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I can’t say I wasn’t aware of the greenwashing that’s going on on the back of the fuel tax credit (FTC) scheme, but it doesn’t hurt keeping up to date with the rorts purpetrated by our mining and extracting industry giants. This tax-payer funded rort, just keeps getting better and better despite the revelations in independent media. Not that our #Labor govt is inclined to stamp it out apparently. Seems like we can do both, meet our paultry emission targets AND pay big poluters to, well… polute some more. How inane is that. This is govt taking the rest of us for #numpties. This BS can’t be allowed to go on. We need #AlboPM to end the FTC schemes at least for big business if he’s not gutsy enough to cut the #Farmers out as well.
“The analysis by Naru Research found the top 18 FTC scheme recipients, mostly multinational iron ore mining and coal companies, collectively received $3.3 billion in credits but only faced an estimated $150 million in compliance costs under the Safeguard Mechanism.
“Australia’s biggest industrial greenhouse gas emitters are being paid to pollute,” stated researcher Tim Baxter.”
#SafeguardMechanism #ClimateAction #EmissionTargets #GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis #FTC #ExtractiveIndustries #FossilFuels #CarbonReductionFramework #AusPol #EnvironmentUnderThreat #NetZero
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I can’t say I wasn’t aware of the greenwashing that’s going on on the back of the fuel tax credit (FTC) scheme, but it doesn’t hurt keeping up to date with the rorts purpetrated by our mining and extracting industry giants. This tax-payer funded rort, just keeps getting better and better despite the revelations in independent media. Not that our #Labor govt is inclined to stamp it out apparently. Seems like we can do both, meet our paultry emission targets AND pay big poluters to, well… polute some more. How inane is that. This is govt taking the rest of us for #numpties. This BS can’t be allowed to go on. We need #AlboPM to end the FTC schemes at least for big business if he’s not gutsy enough to cut the #Farmers out as well.
“The analysis by Naru Research found the top 18 FTC scheme recipients, mostly multinational iron ore mining and coal companies, collectively received $3.3 billion in credits but only faced an estimated $150 million in compliance costs under the Safeguard Mechanism.
“Australia’s biggest industrial greenhouse gas emitters are being paid to pollute,” stated researcher Tim Baxter.”
#SafeguardMechanism #ClimateAction #EmissionTargets #GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis #FTC #ExtractiveIndustries #FossilFuels #CarbonReductionFramework #AusPol #EnvironmentUnderThreat #NetZero
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Aside from drawing a line in the sand on the #Corruption issue (a good thing), the new #Labor premier of Victoria has made the same lazy declarations that are made by #Clueless govts all over Australia:
“Carroll is also pledging to be more pro-business and tougher on crime.”
Business support and Tough on Crime, we’ve only been spared the BS on Immigration… and this is supposed to be a #Labor govt? So the rot has spread from #AlboPM ‘s federal #NeoLiberalism to #Victoria (It’s been ensconced in #NSW for years; alive and blundering along in #QLD).
Goodness me folks, are we going to re-elect these dimwits to govt? Or are we really going to take the fight up to the major parties by voting anyone else but #labor and #LNP ? Nor, if I need to mention it, #PHON — we’re not THAT desperate.
Who’s with me on this?
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Aside from drawing a line in the sand on the #Corruption issue (a good thing), the new #Labor premier of Victoria has made the same lazy declarations that are made by #Clueless govts all over Australia:
“Carroll is also pledging to be more pro-business and tougher on crime.”
Business support and Tough on Crime, we’ve only been spared the BS on Immigration… and this is supposed to be a #Labor govt? So the rot has spread from #AlboPM ‘s federal #NeoLiberalism to #Victoria (It’s been ensconced in #NSW for years; alive and blundering along in #QLD).
Goodness me folks, are we going to re-elect these dimwits to govt? Or are we really going to take the fight up to the major parties by voting anyone else but #labor and #LNP ? Nor, if I need to mention it, #PHON — we’re not THAT desperate.
Who’s with me on this?
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It doesn’t look like the Victorian Parliamentary Labor Causus was opposed to Allen’s legislative agenda as much as it was unconvinced Labor could win the coming election under her leadership. It might mean that Allen has burned through too much political trust with the electorates of Victoria and that the Party needs a new ‘face’ with an agenda that addresses Allen’s electoral shortcomings… Accountabilty, Transparency and action on corruption allegations.
IMO there is are lessons here for #AlboPM and #2028Elections
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It doesn’t look like the Victorian Parliamentary Labor Causus was opposed to Allen’s legislative agenda as much as it was unconvinced Labor could win the coming election under her leadership. It might mean that Allen has burned through too much political trust with the electorates of Victoria and that the Party needs a new ‘face’ with an agenda that addresses Allen’s electoral shortcomings… Accountabilty, Transparency and action on corruption allegations.
IMO there is are lessons here for #AlboPM and #2028Elections
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@eddyjokovich
We do indeed need some drastic political changes because the majors are so tied up in anti-social #NeoLiberalEconomics interests that our circumstances are only getting worse as time goes by — whatever time we have left. Albanese’s ill-considered side stepping of the issues around #AssistedDying is just another example of a government out-of-touch (I know not if this is an unresolved personal issue for him, which he ought to keep to himself anyway). I had hoped that the failure of The Voice referendum due to another of his side-steps might have taught him to be ‘brave’. Obviously, #AlboPM needs more lessons before he learns from his failures.I do have a bone to pick with you though Eddy. Because you write: “…try telling that to the terminally ill cancer patient in rural and regional Australia who can no longer tolerate the pain, even after endless supplies of morphine – making a mockery of his belief that “people have a right to die with dignity”.
I have been there with both of my parents. I have sat at their bedside, holding their hands and frankly going to pieces as they slowly died. Thank God for the endless supplies of morphine is my only worthwhile comment. When a cancer patient is deemed ‘terminal’ (how ghastly and uncaring that sounds…) they are transfered to a hospice as my father was or sent home with a nurse visiting for the first few injections (as my mother wished). In either cases they are put on a regime of morphine and, as you say, as much as is required to dull the unbearable pain of failing organs. From that moment on, there is no pain as such, only dream-filled induced sleep punctuated by barely conscious moments when another dose is required; in ever shortening cycles. They do not eat and eventually stop drinking despite their thirst when momentarily awake, they have no life at all. They are ‘assisted in dying’ and there’s not much ‘dignity’ to speak of in that. Whatever dignity means and the pain that goes with that is with the family of careers who assist a loved one slip away from their lives, never to be replaced, nor forgotten. Dying , is dying. One can add qualifyers, but there’s nothing that can be said about dying other than to describe its morbidity. None of this can be aided by ‘telehealth’ my friend. What’s needed is more visiting nurses and doctors willing to make house calls in the first instance — especially where there is no family to assume the last watch in regional areas.
Well maybe, I don’t have a bone to pick with you. This was just an excuse for me to get things of my chest… yet again… 18 years on and it’s not getting any easier.
I apologise for using your column to dump some of my sorrow on you Eddy. And also to those who read this comments. For those who suffer the loss of loved one, stay strong and live well, you owe them that much.
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@eddyjokovich
We do indeed need some drastic political changes because the majors are so tied up in anti-social #NeoLiberalEconomics interests that our circumstances are only getting worse as time goes by — whatever time we have left. Albanese’s ill-considered side stepping of the issues around #AssistedDying is just another example of a government out-of-touch (I know not if this is an unresolved personal issue for him, which he ought to keep to himself anyway). I had hoped that the failure of The Voice referendum due to another of his side-steps might have taught him to be ‘brave’. Obviously, #AlboPM needs more lessons before he learns from his failures.I do have a bone to pick with you though Eddy. Because you write: “…try telling that to the terminally ill cancer patient in rural and regional Australia who can no longer tolerate the pain, even after endless supplies of morphine – making a mockery of his belief that “people have a right to die with dignity”.
I have been there with both of my parents. I have sat at their bedside, holding their hands and frankly going to pieces as they slowly died. Thank God for the endless supplies of morphine is my only worthwhile comment. When a cancer patient is deemed ‘terminal’ (how ghastly and uncaring that sounds…) they are transfered to a hospice as my father was or sent home with a nurse visiting for the first few injections (as my mother wished). In either cases they are put on a regime of morphine and, as you say, as much as is required to dull the unbearable pain of failing organs. From that moment on, there is no pain as such, only dream-filled induced sleep punctuated by barely conscious moments when another dose is required; in ever shortening cycles. They do not eat and eventually stop drinking despite their thirst when momentarily awake, they have no life at all. They are ‘assisted in dying’ and there’s not much ‘dignity’ to speak of in that. Whatever dignity means and the pain that goes with that is with the family of careers who assist a loved one slip away from their lives, never to be replaced, nor forgotten. Dying , is dying. One can add qualifyers, but there’s nothing that can be said about dying other than to describe its morbidity. None of this can be aided by ‘telehealth’ my friend. What’s needed is more visiting nurses and doctors willing to make house calls in the first instance — especially where there is no family to assume the last watch in regional areas.
Well maybe, I don’t have a bone to pick with you. This was just an excuse for me to get things of my chest… yet again… 18 years on and it’s not getting any easier.
I apologise for using your column to dump some of my sorrow on you Eddy. And also to those who read this comments. For those who suffer the loss of loved one, stay strong and live well, you owe them that much.
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CW: Auspol, VAD and telehealth
@HardBeingGreen
Not far removed from opposition to body autonomy, a basic human right. #AlboPM is so wrong on this one. -
CW: Auspol, VAD and telehealth
@HardBeingGreen
Not far removed from opposition to body autonomy, a basic human right. #AlboPM is so wrong on this one. -
@johnquiggin
I sympathise with your frustration John (not just about gun laws) and agree that while #Labor has moved its legisaltive agenda through parliament, there is little in it to establish any kind of ‘legacy’ for the #AlboPM govt. Not least of which is in Firearms legislation. Apart from knee-jerk useless quick-fixes around the edges, especially from States and Territories.From my perspective, any Federal ‘umbrella’ legislation to tighten up gun laws in Australia will run afoul of States and Territories govts. Case in point: though agreed by all jurisdictions, the Federal Gun Register proposed by the Howard govt is still to be delivered (and from an IT perspective, this is a no brainer). How then can any PM even think national gun laws are possible? Imagine the shit fight that would ensue were legislation to be tabled in Canberra to licence and control all 3D printers.
On the contrary, meaningful gun control law reforms must be undertaken by the States and Territories with the Feds providing guidance and funding — because funding is the elephant in the room, for all enforcement services. Not just those policing legal gun ownership, but border control, criminal intelligence, and gang taskforces, and then some. To put it into perspective, how long has our society been waiting to get gambling adds banned?
Any changes to gun laws/processes/regulations require cooperation and coordination at all levels of government together with sustained budgets adequate to the tasks. In our dreams…
I believe the idea that terrorist massacres, DV and Gang murders, can be prevented just by reducing the number of guns that can be legally owned is laughable. Our gun laws may be in need of reform to keep them relevant in changing circumstances like any other law, but if you cannot effectively police them no legislation is going to make any impact at all. Just as no amount of policing is going to prevent illegal speeding on our roads or drunk driving — the later a loaded gun. In the end, society as a whole (not a tyranny of the majority) must want more policing and more effective gun controls if not an outright ban. NSW is, from memory, the State with most (legal) firearms and most por-gun voters. So, NSW is where it must start. But while Minns is in control you can forget it because he is out of his depth on this one IMO.
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@johnquiggin
I sympathise with your frustration John (not just about gun laws) and agree that while #Labor has moved its legisaltive agenda through parliament, there is little in it to establish any kind of ‘legacy’ for the #AlboPM govt. Not least of which is in Firearms legislation. Apart from knee-jerk useless quick-fixes around the edges, especially from States and Territories.From my perspective, any Federal ‘umbrella’ legislation to tighten up gun laws in Australia will run afoul of States and Territories govts. Case in point: though agreed by all jurisdictions, the Federal Gun Register proposed by the Howard govt is still to be delivered (and from an IT perspective, this is a no brainer). How then can any PM even think national gun laws are possible? Imagine the shit fight that would ensue were legislation to be tabled in Canberra to licence and control all 3D printers.
On the contrary, meaningful gun control law reforms must be undertaken by the States and Territories with the Feds providing guidance and funding — because funding is the elephant in the room, for all enforcement services. Not just those policing legal gun ownership, but border control, criminal intelligence, and gang taskforces, and then some. To put it into perspective, how long has our society been waiting to get gambling adds banned?
Any changes to gun laws/processes/regulations require cooperation and coordination at all levels of government together with sustained budgets adequate to the tasks. In our dreams…
I believe the idea that terrorist massacres, DV and Gang murders, can be prevented just by reducing the number of guns that can be legally owned is laughable. Our gun laws may be in need of reform to keep them relevant in changing circumstances like any other law, but if you cannot effectively police them no legislation is going to make any impact at all. Just as no amount of policing is going to prevent illegal speeding on our roads or drunk driving — the later a loaded gun. In the end, society as a whole (not a tyranny of the majority) must want more policing and more effective gun controls if not an outright ban. NSW is, from memory, the State with most (legal) firearms and most por-gun voters. So, NSW is where it must start. But while Minns is in control you can forget it because he is out of his depth on this one IMO.
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@26pglt
Political differentiation is what’s needed in a political system where all parties (even the #Greens afaik) are content to work with the current #Economic system which is stuck in a 40 year old dogma; that markets know best (aka #NeoClassical or #NeoLiberal economic hogwash clearly debunked twice since the #Thatcher and #Reagan anathema on #WealthEquity , #SocialLicence and #SocialDemocracy).Otherwise the electorate would wake up to the con job the polies perpetrate.
And 100% on #FirstNations and #TorresStraightIslanders, all players in the political arena have #Abandonned them as a result of #TheVoice debacle (thank you #Anthony for doing fuck all to make sure the referendum passed, it clearly showed whose side you’re on #AlboPM )
I’m fucking sick of all polies and their lies, redirections, misdirections and disinformation. I can see no way out of this except 1) a mother of all global financial crash, or 2) people’s revolutions worldwide, or 3) both. We’ve been taken for a ride for far too long IMO.
#AMyRemeikis rocks.
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@26pglt
Political differentiation is what’s needed in a political system where all parties (even the #Greens afaik) are content to work with the current #Economic system which is stuck in a 40 year old dogma; that markets know best (aka #NeoClassical or #NeoLiberal economic hogwash clearly debunked twice since the #Thatcher and #Reagan anathema on #WealthEquity , #SocialLicence and #SocialDemocracy).Otherwise the electorate would wake up to the con job the polies perpetrate.
And 100% on #FirstNations and #TorresStraightIslanders, all players in the political arena have #Abandonned them as a result of #TheVoice debacle (thank you #Anthony for doing fuck all to make sure the referendum passed, it clearly showed whose side you’re on #AlboPM )
I’m fucking sick of all polies and their lies, redirections, misdirections and disinformation. I can see no way out of this except 1) a mother of all global financial crash, or 2) people’s revolutions worldwide, or 3) both. We’ve been taken for a ride for far too long IMO.
#AMyRemeikis rocks.
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@isol @cathywilcox
Yes, #AlboPM ‘s mother references are getting very tired and politically ineffective. It’s the PM’s mindset which seems very ‘set’. -
@isol @cathywilcox
Yes, #AlboPM ‘s mother references are getting very tired and politically ineffective. It’s the PM’s mindset which seems very ‘set’. -
@ketanjoshi.co
Firming is #GasFed #PeakGenerators right? The old #Labor : ‘we need gas to transition’ tagline to provide energy when the sun don’t shine and the wind don’t blow, etc….With #GenAISlop #TechBros #Datacentres favouring #GasTurbines generators, that’s leaving the door wide open for #environmental disasters and sets us up to fail in meeting our #emissions #targets (as pitiful as they are already).
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@ketanjoshi.co
Firming is #GasFed #PeakGenerators right? The old #Labor : ‘we need gas to transition’ tagline to provide energy when the sun don’t shine and the wind don’t blow, etc….With #GenAISlop #TechBros #Datacentres favouring #GasTurbines generators, that’s leaving the door wide open for #environmental disasters and sets us up to fail in meeting our #emissions #targets (as pitiful as they are already).
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A real world example of responsible government… for #AlboPM
“ALBANY, New York — Gov. Kathy Hochul is enacting the nation’s first state-level moratorium on large-scale data center construction amid concerns over the impact of the facilities meant to support artificial intelligence.
The move, being implemented through an executive order Hochul will sign Tuesday, pauses construction permits for up to one year so that state officials can create a regulatory plan addressing energy and environmental issues.” -
A real world example of responsible government… for #AlboPM
“ALBANY, New York — Gov. Kathy Hochul is enacting the nation’s first state-level moratorium on large-scale data center construction amid concerns over the impact of the facilities meant to support artificial intelligence.
The move, being implemented through an executive order Hochul will sign Tuesday, pauses construction permits for up to one year so that state officials can create a regulatory plan addressing energy and environmental issues.” -
Here it is. Not a bad effort but we’ll have to wait until the #Legislation is before Parliament to know the detail. So far… so good… I think…
“Here are the main takeaways from the PM's AI speech
Joshua Boscaini profile image
By Joshua BoscainiPrime Minister Anthony Albanese has just concluded his speech on the government's approach to artificial intelligence.
Here are the key takeaways and announcements from his speech to the University of Sydney:
The prime minister has announced the federal government will legislate national standards for artificial intelligence.
The standards, which the PM hopes will pass parliament early next year, will create a "legal obligation" for the next generation of data centres.
Under the standards, data centres will be forced to minimise water usage and underwrite or supply their own power.
AI companies will be barred from using Australian books, music, art or news to build or train AI without the consent and control of the author.
Premiers and chief ministers will be consulted on the standards at the national cabinet meeting next month, according to the PM.
Albanese has also confirmed the creation of an Office of AI within the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
The office will coordinate the design of Australia's new national AI standards and bring together work across government.” (Source:ABCNews live)#AI #DataCentres #Copyrights #WaterUsage #EnergyUsage #Renewables #ClimateAction #EnvirnomentalImpact #GenAISlop #TextRegurgitatingMachines #AusPol #AlboPM #AIPolicyInitiative
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Here it is. Not a bad effort but we’ll have to wait until the #Legislation is before Parliament to know the detail. So far… so good… I think…
“Here are the main takeaways from the PM's AI speech
Joshua Boscaini profile image
By Joshua BoscainiPrime Minister Anthony Albanese has just concluded his speech on the government's approach to artificial intelligence.
Here are the key takeaways and announcements from his speech to the University of Sydney:
The prime minister has announced the federal government will legislate national standards for artificial intelligence.
The standards, which the PM hopes will pass parliament early next year, will create a "legal obligation" for the next generation of data centres.
Under the standards, data centres will be forced to minimise water usage and underwrite or supply their own power.
AI companies will be barred from using Australian books, music, art or news to build or train AI without the consent and control of the author.
Premiers and chief ministers will be consulted on the standards at the national cabinet meeting next month, according to the PM.
Albanese has also confirmed the creation of an Office of AI within the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
The office will coordinate the design of Australia's new national AI standards and bring together work across government.” (Source:ABCNews live)#AI #DataCentres #Copyrights #WaterUsage #EnergyUsage #Renewables #ClimateAction #EnvirnomentalImpact #GenAISlop #TextRegurgitatingMachines #AusPol #AlboPM #AIPolicyInitiative
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@drrimmer @treleanor
But it shouldn’t be about #Views at all, it should be based on #Facts, #VerifiableInformation and the latest #Research.Above all, Distinctions ought to be made about what kind of #AI we’re talking about because not all forms of AI technology are similar. Even the #Terminolgy needs to be formalised so that informed debate, discussion, assessment can lead to better policy decisions. We’ll need to wait for the annoucement and the details of the policy to judge it’s potential impact, but I fear that the #TechBro #Marketeerring has the upper hand because nothing coming out of #AlboPM gives me reason to hope for good outcomes.
#AusPol #GenAISlop #ChatBotIA #OutsourcingTheMind #StateCapture #ClimateCrisis #Antifa #TaxTheRich #NoMoreBillionaires #AIKoolAid
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@drrimmer @treleanor
But it shouldn’t be about #Views at all, it should be based on #Facts, #VerifiableInformation and the latest #Research.Above all, Distinctions ought to be made about what kind of #AI we’re talking about because not all forms of AI technology are similar. Even the #Terminolgy needs to be formalised so that informed debate, discussion, assessment can lead to better policy decisions. We’ll need to wait for the annoucement and the details of the policy to judge it’s potential impact, but I fear that the #TechBro #Marketeerring has the upper hand because nothing coming out of #AlboPM gives me reason to hope for good outcomes.
#AusPol #GenAISlop #ChatBotIA #OutsourcingTheMind #StateCapture #ClimateCrisis #Antifa #TaxTheRich #NoMoreBillionaires #AIKoolAid
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@Ex_spurt
Look for a monumental failure of judgement… from a lackluster #AlboPM.I will expect a full throated retort from the #Left and those who know better than the #Clueless and #BoughtOff #PrimeMinister.
#Enshitification #ClimateCrisis #WaterResources #EnergyPolicy #AusPol
I’m fevently hoping to be wrong about this (the official launch of the policy will tell), but I’ve got this feeling I can’t shake off…
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@Ex_spurt
Look for a monumental failure of judgement… from a lackluster #AlboPM.I will expect a full throated retort from the #Left and those who know better than the #Clueless and #BoughtOff #PrimeMinister.
#Enshitification #ClimateCrisis #WaterResources #EnergyPolicy #AusPol
I’m fevently hoping to be wrong about this (the official launch of the policy will tell), but I’ve got this feeling I can’t shake off…
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@jhaue
Indeed, why is anyone allowed to profit from critical social services? Especially in health care sector. #NeoLiberal claptrap, that’s why.
#AusPol
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@jhaue
Indeed, why is anyone allowed to profit from critical social services? Especially in health care sector. #NeoLiberal claptrap, that’s why.
#AusPol
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“The true hypocrisy over university fees. Would Anthony Albanese's cabinet have gone to university if they had to pay the same fees as the students of today?”
THE HARE REPORT‘Nough said….
#AlboPM #TertiaryEducation #CourseFees #StudentDebt #FreeDegrees #AusPol
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“The true hypocrisy over university fees. Would Anthony Albanese's cabinet have gone to university if they had to pay the same fees as the students of today?”
THE HARE REPORT‘Nough said….
#AlboPM #TertiaryEducation #CourseFees #StudentDebt #FreeDegrees #AusPol
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@drrimmer
if the approach to #GenAISlop is anything like the Social Media Safety policies, #AlboPM may as well not bother. That would be in keeping with his timid progressive strategy and would give himself time to go on more shows where he can platform his blatant inability to #ReadTheRoom -
@drrimmer
if the approach to #GenAISlop is anything like the Social Media Safety policies, #AlboPM may as well not bother. That would be in keeping with his timid progressive strategy and would give himself time to go on more shows where he can platform his blatant inability to #ReadTheRoom -
#RachelWithers as sharp as ever: “There’s another lesson in this for the PM, who remains so very concerned about what News Corp says. You can’t appease the top end of town. And you can’t convince conservatives that the Labor Party is not “anti-wealth” — not if you want to engage in serious structural reform that will help regular Australians “get ahead” in an era of increasingly “entrenched privilege”.
Read more:
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#RachelWithers as sharp as ever: “There’s another lesson in this for the PM, who remains so very concerned about what News Corp says. You can’t appease the top end of town. And you can’t convince conservatives that the Labor Party is not “anti-wealth” — not if you want to engage in serious structural reform that will help regular Australians “get ahead” in an era of increasingly “entrenched privilege”.
Read more:
https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/07/06/labor-party-anthony-albanese-anti-wealth-tax-reform/ -
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RE: https://rssfeed.media/@guardianfeeds/116869850951059852
If #AlboPM concentrated on all the #Progressive policies he and his govt ought to be working on pronto, he would be too busy ‘on air’ and in media taking about them to fuck around with comedy show appearances FFS.
Where’s the #Labor #Strategist and #PoliticalAdvisor ‘s head at anyway? “Time for Labor To Change”.
#OvertonWindowLeftNow
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RE: https://rssfeed.media/@guardianfeeds/116869850951059852
If #AlboPM concentrated on all the #Progressive policies he and his govt ought to be working on pronto, he would be too busy ‘on air’ and in media taking about them to fuck around with comedy show appearances FFS.
Where’s the #Labor #Strategist and #PoliticalAdvisor ‘s head at anyway? “Time for Labor To Change”.
#OvertonWindowLeftNow
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“There were eight recommendations specific to the LGBTQIA+ community, which included:
-Removing the exemptions that allow religious schools to legally discriminate against LGBTQIA+ students and staff
- Eliminating legal exemptions that allow discrimination against trans, gender-diverse and intersex people
- Delivering public education campaigns to reduce stigma and discrimination against the queer community
- Introducing a national ban on conversion practices
- Banning unnecessary surgeries on intersex children
- Improving systems to allow trans and gender-diverse people to legally change their gender without intrusive requirements”The #AlboPM govt has failed to act on all of the above. WTF? What bloody century is this? Vested interests, inane religious nonsense and bigotery on full display here. A straight out denial of #HumanRights by #Labor.
#AUsPol #LGBTQIAplus #UNHumanRightsReview #Patriarchy #DIversity #Equality #ReligiousDisease #Manosphere #Bigotry #Discrimination #BinaryBias
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“There were eight recommendations specific to the LGBTQIA+ community, which included:
-Removing the exemptions that allow religious schools to legally discriminate against LGBTQIA+ students and staff
- Eliminating legal exemptions that allow discrimination against trans, gender-diverse and intersex people
- Delivering public education campaigns to reduce stigma and discrimination against the queer community
- Introducing a national ban on conversion practices
- Banning unnecessary surgeries on intersex children
- Improving systems to allow trans and gender-diverse people to legally change their gender without intrusive requirements”The #AlboPM govt has failed to act on all of the above. WTF? What bloody century is this? Vested interests, inane religious nonsense and bigotery on full display here. A straight out denial of #HumanRights by #Labor.
#AUsPol #LGBTQIAplus #UNHumanRightsReview #Patriarchy #DIversity #Equality #ReligiousDisease #Manosphere #Bigotry #Discrimination #BinaryBias
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My question is: *Is the Govt reading this?*. They should, because the window on legislating bountyful #GasTaxes on the #SuperProfits currently enjoyed by the #GasIndustries is rapidly closing. If #AlboPM keeps going at his #SlugSpeed on this overwhelmingly supported #Tax there will be little to celebrate and Consolidated Revenue will not see its full potential (if Gas Peak hasn’t already gone past us).
The other important question is: *WTF is Labor even considering new #FossilFuel and especially #GasField exploration and #Exploitation licences* (in the NW)? What in blazes is he blind to? Is this a obvious case of #StateCapture by preferential and idiotic treatment? How can the *whole* of govt, the pollies, the public service, the NGOs all be going along with this #Circus ? No detractors to be seen in the halls of power? Could #AlboPM really be pulilng *ALL* the strings? Is everyone with one ounce of *decision-making* authority hell bent on maintaining the current economic *joke* ? If not, then why aren’t we seeing a backbench and crossbench revolt in Partliament. Why aren’t we seeing public information flooding the news medium? Why aren’t we seeing GOvt taken. To Court on their failure of *Duty of Care* ? Class actions filling the Courts’ agenda. The #Greens flooding us with outrage at the inaction we observe and which makes us angry?
I have a lot of questions… and so far, no answers! There has been no better time to see that doing the same thing and expecting better results is either a conspiracy (lead by the #RentierClass and its minions) or wholesale brainwashing of the power elites. WTF will it take for the electorate to demand much *Better* from our representataives?
/end_of_rant/
#ClimateCrisis #Renewables #Electrification #StopBurningFossilFuels #NoMoreFossilFuelExtraction #TaxTheRich #WriteToYourMP #Revolt #Resist #ThinkBeforeYouVote #InUnity #JoinYourUnionNow #Protest #Litigate #Accountability #Transparency #GovtForThePeople #SocialDemocracy
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My question is: *Is the Govt reading this?*. They should, because the window on legislating bountyful #GasTaxes on the #SuperProfits currently enjoyed by the #GasIndustries is rapidly closing. If #AlboPM keeps going at his #SlugSpeed on this overwhelmingly supported #Tax there will be little to celebrate and Consolidated Revenue will not see its full potential (if Gas Peak hasn’t already gone past us).
The other important question is: *WTF is Labor even considering new #FossilFuel and especially #GasField exploration and #Exploitation licences* (in the NW)? What in blazes is he blind to? Is this a obvious case of #StateCapture by preferential and idiotic treatment? How can the *whole* of govt, the pollies, the public service, the NGOs all be going along with this #Circus ? No detractors to be seen in the halls of power? Could #AlboPM really be pulilng *ALL* the strings? Is everyone with one ounce of *decision-making* authority hell bent on maintaining the current economic *joke* ? If not, then why aren’t we seeing a backbench and crossbench revolt in Partliament. Why aren’t we seeing public information flooding the news medium? Why aren’t we seeing GOvt taken. To Court on their failure of *Duty of Care* ? Class actions filling the Courts’ agenda. The #Greens flooding us with outrage at the inaction we observe and which makes us angry?
I have a lot of questions… and so far, no answers! There has been no better time to see that doing the same thing and expecting better results is either a conspiracy (lead by the #RentierClass and its minions) or wholesale brainwashing of the power elites. WTF will it take for the electorate to demand much *Better* from our representataives?
/end_of_rant/
#ClimateCrisis #Renewables #Electrification #StopBurningFossilFuels #NoMoreFossilFuelExtraction #TaxTheRich #WriteToYourMP #Revolt #Resist #ThinkBeforeYouVote #InUnity #JoinYourUnionNow #Protest #Litigate #Accountability #Transparency #GovtForThePeople #SocialDemocracy