#albopm — Public Fediverse posts
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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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@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. -
@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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@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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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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@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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@jhaue
Indeed, why is anyone allowed to profit from critical social services? Especially in health care sector. #NeoLiberal claptrap, that’s why.
#AusPol
And piss weak polies! Yes, looking at you #AlboPM and #Labor govt. -
“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 -
#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/ -
CW: Sweary toot
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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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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“A new report says anti-Jewish hate increased online both after October 7, 2023 and the Bondi Beach terror attack in December.
The research from the Tackling Hate Lab mapped online anti-Jewish hate in Australia between October 2021 and March 2026.
The research hub's director told the royal commission that real-world violent incidents targeting Jews have reinforced a "spiral of hate" online.” (Source: ABC News)And this is precisely what you’d expect from the successful conflation of #AntiSemitism and #AntiIsrael sponsored by the #NetanyahuGovernment. The long-standing and continuing efforts of the #Genocidal and #Apartheid government of Israel though its #Proxy #Loobies in Australia and elsewhere are winning the information warfare and maintaining their control over the narative. Australians are now confusing the #Jewish people with the State of #Israel and its government. Well done #AlboPM and Co. for dropping the ball on this since #Labor gained power.
The report comes out of Deakin University’s *Takling Hate Lab*
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@amyremeikis.bsky.social
[edited for typos]Australian anti-discrimination laws do an adequate job and may be changed to include any arising issues on hatred, racism, and other form of discriminations against *Others* not already covered in the legislation. I do not see why special ‘guidelines’, ‘definitions’, and other bespoke rules and regs need to exist and be used solely concerning the Jewish people. The Muslim people do not attract such consideration, nor do Buddhists or Taoists, ect.
All of this aweful *noise* and *divisive* agitation serves to identify the #Israeli govt’s hand in the deliberate conflation of legitimate opposition to the #Genocide and #Apartheid policies of the #Netanyahu govt and the unlawful (according to current legislation) cases of #AntiSemitism.
This complete mess is a direct consequence of the #AlboPM govt lack of leadership and complete surrender to powerful pro-Israel Lobbies. The good PM should take a leaf out of the JCA’s book and stand by his personal convictions (which I am certain are not anti semitic in nature).
LameDuck Albo
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@26pglt
Of course, as with all electoral agenda, the proof will be in the pudding. But I agree with you that #AlboPM needs to change strategies and open up the party and its alliances in Parliament for the better good of society. The #Grifters and the #CorporateHyenas can look after themselves without subsidies. Markets will adapt (they always have) to socially responsible economic changes.After all what is the worst that can happen? We’ll all need to work? Profits might be reasonable? Everyone will pay their fair share of taxes? Wealth equity? Equal opportunities? Effective public discourse? Informed voting? Stronger democratic institutions? Transparent and accountable institutions? The list is quite long and I’d be prepared to go go through some ‘rough’ times to get any number of them done.
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With yet another smelter in dire financial straights is facing closure. One wonders what #AlboPM ‘s re-indiustrialisation dreams really amount to. This being one of three smelters in trouble.
No doubt the #Gupta parent company stripped all the profits out of this one before it was put into ?voluntary? Administration.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-12/tas-liberty-bell-bay-consortium-falls-over/106790624
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@Old_IT_geek
Sure, #AlboPM is the best of three evils (#Labor, #LNP and #PHON) but there are alternatives if voters bother to think about it longer than a couple of minutes. And, I get your point about #SkyNews but would also point out it’s free to air everywhere. Here again, if voters were to think for more than a couple of minutes, the #Murdocracy wouldn’t have such a hold on their lazy brains.Sorry if I sound harsh, but choosing a lesser evil rather than working to get better representatives into #Parliament is just apathetic #democracy and there is an enormous price to pay for such #complacency.
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This is an interesting article with many vaild points made about the Budget, its delivery and its promotion before legislation is tabled in parliament. It is another comment (apart from #AmyRemeikis and a few others) on #AlboPM ‘s rather ascerbic and dismissive style of communication. To me, it is just another nail in the coffin of his career. I reckon Albo will lead Labor for another term but unless there is a substantial behavioural change (which I wager is unlikely), he will face a leadership challenge before the end of it.
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Good gracious, #AmyRemiekis really knows our #AlboPM. In this article she presents her assessement of the #Labor leader and for my money, I think she nailed it:
“Albanese’s stumbles – from calling Grace Tame difficult and David Pocock a populist, to pushing back against a royal commission following Bondi (for much the same reasons as here), to dragging his feet on gambling reform and doing only the bare minimum when absolutely pushed, to feeling miffed securing fuel supplies and announcing a domestic gas reservation haven’t quelled demands for a gas export tax, to not pushing back hard enough against the misinformation and disinformation surrounding the Indigenous Voice – all of it comes back to the root cause that he gets uncomfortable, and defensive, when he’s asked for a bigger, and braver agenda.”
Read Amy’s piece here:
https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/260521-pms-softly-softly-just-wont-cut-it-any-more-this-latest-slip-is-proof-of-that“There is a running theme among Anthony Albanese’s missteps. His latest […] to dismiss calls for a royal commission into femicide and violence against women follows the pattern – the Prime Minister gets frustrated when the public’s agenda is broader than his own.”
#AusPol #TaxReform #FossilFuel #GasExportTax #Femicide #RoyalCommissions #TimidAnthony