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  1. Can everyone reporting on the #NDIS just amend when they say the new legislation gives "the minister" power to arbitrarily cut funding for supports, to say that the new legislation also gives "an LNP or One Nation minister" the power to cut supports.

    Whatever discretionary powers the #ALP give themselves, the only certainty is they are going to be out of power eventually, and someone worse than them is going to have said powers. #AusPol

  2. Can everyone reporting on the #NDIS just amend when they say the new legislation gives "the minister" power to arbitrarily cut funding for supports, to say that the new legislation also gives "an LNP or One Nation minister" the power to cut supports.

    Whatever discretionary powers the #ALP give themselves, the only certainty is they are going to be out of power eventually, and someone worse than them is going to have said powers. #AusPol

  3. Can everyone reporting on the #NDIS just amend when they say the new legislation gives "the minister" power to arbitrarily cut funding for supports, to say that the new legislation also gives "an LNP or One Nation minister" the power to cut supports.

    Whatever discretionary powers the #ALP give themselves, the only certainty is they are going to be out of power eventually, and someone worse than them is going to have said powers. #AusPol

  4. Can everyone reporting on the #NDIS just amend when they say the new legislation gives "the minister" power to arbitrarily cut funding for supports, to say that the new legislation also gives "an LNP or One Nation minister" the power to cut supports.

    Whatever discretionary powers the #ALP give themselves, the only certainty is they are going to be out of power eventually, and someone worse than them is going to have said powers. #AusPol

  5. @Sheep_Overboard And the #ALP seems to believe that they can pander top NewsCorp and get favourable treatment.

    The #ALP 3D-chess masters are snorting the wrong powders.

    Why be afraid of NewsCorp when they control only people who remember Thatcher and Menzies? Their demographic is dead.

    Jim: tax these fuckers until they squeal. Fight them in the High Court, tax them some more. Make it hurt, you only have this parliament before you lose your majority to Gina's One Nation.

  6. Maybe the reason #AlboPM and the #ALP have so little interest in pursuing rightwing hate group #AdvanceAustralia, funded as it is by the partner of the antisemitism commissioner, is because their advertising campaign targeting the #AustralianGreens is the only reason the ALP retained, or reclaimed inner-city electorates?

    #AusPol

    thepoint.com.au/opinions/26051

  7. Hey Roger Cook dont want $100 want you to actually take climate change seriously you ghoul.
    #auspol #alp #climatechange

  8. @ARC_Tracker I'd love to be an assessor, get my #Mum (she's getting on a bit, has some strong ideas about quilting, the #ALP and #grevilleas, but none about #research) to do the writing.

    It'd make the job SO much easier.

    No need to cite her - she has no idea really, just writes well. Perfect.

    [I did not use MyMum.ai, nor any other LLM in construction of this content, and take resposibollity for typos, rantiness and the purple stripey HighHorse™ I am sitting on.]

    [Did I mention the wee froth sitch? Oh I did. Rightio]

  9. The #NDIS narritive was perpetuated by murdoch media. Then, instead of fixing the issues that were there, you punished those that needed care instead. Then on top of it, you dont take royalties from an industry that is literally ripping of an entire nation. The only social license i see has been revoked and thats between the people and the #ALP .
    #auspol
    abc.net.au/news/2026-04-26/ndi

  10. Labor getting pilloried by the courts these days. Two states, in two days found to be enacting unconstitutional laws. #AusPol #NSWPol #VicPol

    It's almost like the #ALP aren't fit to govern.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-04-16/chi

  11. @maudenificent

    Iran would be naive idiots to negotiate with turdmp regime. Twice now , in the midst if negotiations, Iran was attacked by the US.
    Its perfidy AND stupidity rolled into one.

    I'm so, so deeply disappointed in #pennywong an Asian, Lesbian in a gay marriage being a right of centre politician. She sold her soul to be the perfect party apparatchik.

    And once again, #Albo is a wet lettuce "leader"
    He was the first leader to lend aid to USRAEL invasion and hides behind a woman because he has no balls to say #ALP supports turds invasion of #iran

    #auspol

  12. @sister_ratched I suspect this has something to do with it. My goodness, you can buy the #ALP for cheap. Actually, this may even be BOGOF territory, if the silence of the LNP is any indication.

  13. Albanese on banning Gambling Advertising. Such a weak set of answers. Really useless. Faces behind him know the topic is never going away, and that the #ALP has been bought. Depressing.

  14. CW: AusPol USpol

    #RichardMarles, #PennyWong, #AnthonyAlbanese, #ALP When Trump goes to war against Iran, we are on his side. (the new world disorder, we have to choose a side) - got it.

    So ... when Trump declares war on #Greenland / #Denmark, whose side then? When Trump declares war on #Cuba, whose side then?
    What about
    #Canada?
    #Antarctica (fuck them penguins, amirite?)
    #Ukraine?
    #UK?

    What _exactly_ will it take before you want to leave the #AmericaFuckYeah team?

    Call me a sceptic, but it does look to me like you _enjoy_ sitting at a table with ten Fascists.
    #auspol

  15. CW: #auspol #ALP #war #UnitedNations

    @craigharvey 'quietly' and 'privately'.

    #JFC

    So, we haven't turned off the Light On The Hill, we've just put blackout blinds around it - so that only a chosen few get a glimpse.

    Hi friends in the #ALP, you know as well as I do that NOTHING ever gets changed by quiet polite discussion.

    You are on the same side as the ones that murder school children, the ones that attack 'without rules of engagement', the ones that attack in direct contradiction of the UN Charter.

    The time for 'quietly' and 'privately' is over.

  16. CW: ISIS-brides + double standards #auspol #racism #Islamophobia #xenophobia

    Before #Iran knocked most other news off the front page, Australian political discourse was dominated last week by finger-pointing, point-scoring and posturing over the so-called #ISISbrides: 11 Australian women who travelled to Syria or Iraq over a decade ago with their husbands allegedly in order to join Islamic State/ISIS. The husbands were all killed or captured by Kurdish/FSA forces, with their wives and children also captured and detained separately. This cohort of 11 women and 23 children has been held in a detention camp for the last 6+ years. The camp has recently changed hands and is in the process of being shut down.

    So these women and children are now reportedly trying to return to Australia, The federal government has largely ignored them for years, even though it has a legal obligation to accept their entry as citizens.

    The #ALP government, #Coalition (putative) opposition and surging far-right #OneNation have each been engaged in an #Islamophobic race-to-the-bottom, seeking to outdo one another in denunciation & performative cruelty (including towards 23 children—whatever people may think about the terrible decision by their parent(s) a decade ago).

    What has been missing from this entire discussion?
    1/4

  17. CW: ISIS-brides + double standards #auspol #racism #Islamophobia #xenophobia

    Before #Iran knocked most other news off the front page, Australian political discourse was dominated last week by finger-pointing, point-scoring and posturing over the so-called #ISISbrides: 11 Australian women who travelled to Syria or Iraq over a decade ago with their husbands allegedly in order to join Islamic State/ISIS. The husbands were all killed or captured by Kurdish/FSA forces, with their wives and children also captured and detained separately. This cohort of 11 women and 23 children has been held in a detention camp for the last 6+ years. The camp has recently changed hands and is in the process of being shut down.

    So these women and children are now reportedly trying to return to Australia, The federal government has largely ignored them for years, even though it has a legal obligation to accept their entry as citizens.

    The #ALP government, #Coalition (putative) opposition and surging far-right #OneNation have each been engaged in an #Islamophobic race-to-the-bottom, seeking to outdo one another in denunciation & performative cruelty (including towards 23 children—whatever people may think about the terrible decision by their parent(s) a decade ago).

    What has been missing from this entire discussion?
    1/4

  18. CW: ISIS-brides + double standards #auspol #racism #Islamophobia #xenophobia

    Before #Iran knocked most other news off the front page, Australian political discourse was dominated last week by finger-pointing, point-scoring and posturing over the so-called #ISISbrides: 11 Australian women who travelled to Syria or Iraq over a decade ago with their husbands allegedly in order to join Islamic State/ISIS. The husbands were all killed or captured by Kurdish/FSA forces, with their wives and children also captured and detained separately. This cohort of 11 women and 23 children has been held in a detention camp for the last 6+ years. The camp has recently changed hands and is in the process of being shut down.

    So these women and children are now reportedly trying to return to Australia, The federal government has largely ignored them for years, even though it has a legal obligation to accept their entry as citizens.

    The #ALP government, #Coalition (putative) opposition and surging far-right #OneNation have each been engaged in an #Islamophobic race-to-the-bottom, seeking to outdo one another in denunciation & performative cruelty (including towards 23 children—whatever people may think about the terrible decision by their parent(s) a decade ago).

    What has been missing from this entire discussion?
    1/4

  19. CW: ISIS-brides + double standards #auspol #racism #Islamophobia #xenophobia

    Before #Iran knocked most other news off the front page, Australian political discourse was dominated last week by finger-pointing, point-scoring and posturing over the so-called #ISISbrides: 11 Australian women who travelled to Syria or Iraq over a decade ago with their husbands allegedly in order to join Islamic State/ISIS. The husbands were all killed or captured by Kurdish/FSA forces, with their wives and children also captured and detained separately. This cohort of 11 women and 23 children has been held in a detention camp for the last 6+ years. The camp has recently changed hands and is in the process of being shut down.

    So these women and children are now reportedly trying to return to Australia, The federal government has largely ignored them for years, even though it has a legal obligation to accept their entry as citizens.

    The #ALP government, #Coalition (putative) opposition and surging far-right #OneNation have each been engaged in an #Islamophobic race-to-the-bottom, seeking to outdo one another in denunciation & performative cruelty (including towards 23 children—whatever people may think about the terrible decision by their parent(s) a decade ago).

    What has been missing from this entire discussion?
    1/4

  20. CW: ISIS-brides + double standards #auspol #racism #Islamophobia #xenophobia

    Before #Iran knocked most other news off the front page, Australian political discourse was dominated last week by finger-pointing, point-scoring and posturing over the so-called #ISISbrides: 11 Australian women who travelled to Syria or Iraq over a decade ago with their husbands allegedly in order to join Islamic State/ISIS. The husbands were all killed or captured by Kurdish/FSA forces, with their wives and children also captured and detained separately. This cohort of 11 women and 23 children has been held in a detention camp for the last 6+ years. The camp has recently changed hands and is in the process of being shut down.

    So these women and children are now reportedly trying to return to Australia, The federal government has largely ignored them for years, even though it has a legal obligation to accept their entry as citizens.

    The #ALP government, #Coalition (putative) opposition and surging far-right #OneNation have each been engaged in an #Islamophobic race-to-the-bottom, seeking to outdo one another in denunciation & performative cruelty (including towards 23 children—whatever people may think about the terrible decision by their parent(s) a decade ago).

    What has been missing from this entire discussion?
    1/4

  21. In choosing to adopt the controversial & widely discredited #IHRA definition (doing so against the advice of many experts, including the author of the definition, who warns against its use for purposes linked to government regulative activity), the Royal Commission set up by the #Albanese #ALP federal government after the #BondiMassacre has now become the Royal Commission into Criticism of Israel, rather than what it claims to be, a Royal Commission into Antisemitism.

    It is not antisemitic to uphold #HumanRights, #InternationalLaw and oppose a #genocide. It *is* antisemitic to conflate legitimate criticism of Israel with hatred of all Jewish people as such.

    By making this move, the Commissioner has shifted the focus of investigation away from some of the very factors most responsible for the recent rise in *actual* hatred towards Jewish people as such. This will seriously impede the ability of the Commission to reach useful insights. Instead, it will likely result in shifting blame (implicitly or explicitly) onto those standing up for the lives and dignity of Israel's victims, including onto survivors, as well as relatives and friends of victims of genocide, torture, forced displacement and starvation.

    #Auspol #antisemitism #RoyalCommission #definition #racism #hatred #SocialCohesion

  22. CW: #AusPol ugly

    #APH #QT Question Time. The ALP taking childish delight in the woes of the Liberal party. I wonder if some not-numpty in the #ALP will tell the front bench that there's nothing uglier than punching down. And if there is something worse, it is punching down when you opponent is on the floor.

    It is a dumb strategy.

    I don't want the ALP to win, or want them to lose - but I can spot a rhetorical disaster when I hear one. This is a disaster.

    [Indeed ... Cops outside Town Hall a few days ago, frinstance.]

    [woops forgot AusPol content warning. Really sorry about that]

  23. On what measure is #Albo a better prime minister than #Morrison?

    Really.

    On what measure is the current #ALP a better government than the last #LNP government.

    Materially, what are they doing better, not the feels, not the less-cringe. What. Is. Better.

    #AusPol

  24. (continued)

    Even during the dying days of the 2009 Turnbull era, #Coalition #ClimatePolicy extended as far as tepid support for the deeply flawed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme introduced by #KevinRudd and his #ALP government.

    Rudd's #CPRS had a 2050 emissions target of a measly 60% reduction from 2005 levels, had no mechanism for increasing ambition, grandfathered in a generous gift of pollution certificates to the worst polluters, and did nothing about Australia's massive and rapidly growing #DirtyEnergy exports (Australia's worst climate crime, dwarfing domestic emissions—a grand atrocity yet to be addressed in earnest by either side of the duopoly).

    But the CPRS was nonetheless a climate policy with mechanisms that might have actually reduced Australia's domestic emissions over time, something the Coalition have never embraced in the almost-sixteen years since then.

    Dropping the #NetZero2050 fig leaf is on brand.

    (NB Once Abbott rolled Turnbull, PM Rudd could have easily passed his signature legislation if he had been at all willing to negotiate with the Greens under #BobBrown, who would have voted for the CPRS as literally better-than-nothing, with just one or two small tweaks—tweaks later conceded by #JuliaGillard in minority government. But Rudd wouldn't even talk to Brown.)

  25. (continued)

    Even during the dying days of the 2009 Turnbull era, #Coalition #ClimatePolicy extended as far as tepid support for the deeply flawed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme introduced by #KevinRudd and his #ALP government.

    Rudd's #CPRS had a 2050 emissions target of a measly 60% reduction from 2005 levels, had no mechanism for increasing ambition, grandfathered in a generous gift of pollution certificates to the worst polluters, and did nothing about Australia's massive and rapidly growing #DirtyEnergy exports (Australia's worst climate crime, dwarfing domestic emissions—a grand atrocity yet to be addressed in earnest by either side of the duopoly).

    But the CPRS was nonetheless a climate policy with mechanisms that might have actually reduced Australia's domestic emissions over time, something the Coalition have never embraced in the almost-sixteen years since then.

    Dropping the #NetZero2050 fig leaf is on brand.

    (NB Once Abbott rolled Turnbull, PM Rudd could have easily passed his signature legislation if he had been at all willing to negotiate with the Greens under #BobBrown, who would have voted for the CPRS as literally better-than-nothing, with just one or two small tweaks—tweaks later conceded by #JuliaGillard in minority government. But Rudd wouldn't even talk to Brown.)

  26. (continued)

    Even during the dying days of the 2009 Turnbull era, #Coalition #ClimatePolicy extended as far as tepid support for the deeply flawed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme introduced by #KevinRudd and his #ALP government.

    Rudd's #CPRS had a 2050 emissions target of a measly 60% reduction from 2005 levels, had no mechanism for increasing ambition, grandfathered in a generous gift of pollution certificates to the worst polluters, and did nothing about Australia's massive and rapidly growing #DirtyEnergy exports (Australia's worst climate crime, dwarfing domestic emissions—a grand atrocity yet to be addressed in earnest by either side of the duopoly).

    But the CPRS was nonetheless a climate policy with mechanisms that might have actually reduced Australia's domestic emissions over time, something the Coalition have never embraced in the almost-sixteen years since then.

    Dropping the #NetZero2050 fig leaf is on brand.

    (NB Once Abbott rolled Turnbull, PM Rudd could have easily passed his signature legislation if he had been at all willing to negotiate with the Greens under #BobBrown, who would have voted for the CPRS as literally better-than-nothing, with just one or two small tweaks—tweaks later conceded by #JuliaGillard in minority government. But Rudd wouldn't even talk to Brown.)

  27. (continued)

    Even during the dying days of the 2009 Turnbull era, #Coalition #ClimatePolicy extended as far as tepid support for the deeply flawed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme introduced by #KevinRudd and his #ALP government.

    Rudd's #CPRS had a 2050 emissions target of a measly 60% reduction from 2005 levels, had no mechanism for increasing ambition, grandfathered in a generous gift of pollution certificates to the worst polluters, and did nothing about Australia's massive and rapidly growing #DirtyEnergy exports (Australia's worst climate crime, dwarfing domestic emissions—a grand atrocity yet to be addressed in earnest by either side of the duopoly).

    But the CPRS was nonetheless a climate policy with mechanisms that might have actually reduced Australia's domestic emissions over time, something the Coalition have never embraced in the almost-sixteen years since then.

    Dropping the #NetZero2050 fig leaf is on brand.

    (NB Once Abbott rolled Turnbull, PM Rudd could have easily passed his signature legislation if he had been at all willing to negotiate with the Greens under #BobBrown, who would have voted for the CPRS as literally better-than-nothing, with just one or two small tweaks—tweaks later conceded by #JuliaGillard in minority government. But Rudd wouldn't even talk to Brown.)

  28. (continued)

    Even during the dying days of the 2009 Turnbull era, #Coalition #ClimatePolicy extended as far as tepid support for the deeply flawed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme introduced by #KevinRudd and his #ALP government.

    Rudd's #CPRS had a 2050 emissions target of a measly 60% reduction from 2005 levels, had no mechanism for increasing ambition, grandfathered in a generous gift of pollution certificates to the worst polluters, and did nothing about Australia's massive and rapidly growing #DirtyEnergy exports (Australia's worst climate crime, dwarfing domestic emissions—a grand atrocity yet to be addressed in earnest by either side of the duopoly).

    But the CPRS was nonetheless a climate policy with mechanisms that might have actually reduced Australia's domestic emissions over time, something the Coalition have never embraced in the almost-sixteen years since then.

    Dropping the #NetZero2050 fig leaf is on brand.

    (NB Once Abbott rolled Turnbull, PM Rudd could have easily passed his signature legislation if he had been at all willing to negotiate with the Greens under #BobBrown, who would have voted for the CPRS as literally better-than-nothing, with just one or two small tweaks—tweaks later conceded by #JuliaGillard in minority government. But Rudd wouldn't even talk to Brown.)

  29. On 26th Oct 2021, Australian PM Scott "don't-be-scared-of-coal" Morrison announced the Coalition's #NetZero2050 #ClimateTarget.

    That same day, I read the document containing Morrison's 'plan'. It contained nothing to get Australia anywhere near the (already compromised idea of) #NetZero.

    There was no plan, no modelling, no change in actual policies. The #ScottMorrison 'commitment' to net zero was still completely consistent with decades of #Coalhugger #Coalition policies. The target was toothless, an exercise in getting a headline to quiet the conscience of the news-skimming voter whose grandkids keep telling them climate is bad but who really wants to vote for hurting marginalised people and/or retaining their current tax loopholes (and who hasn't realised how much the #ALP embraces both anyway).

    So with this week's news that #SussanLey has dropped that pretence, at least now there is one iota less dishonesty in Australian politics (albeit one with its own new lies and contradictions).

    The last time the Coalition's #ClimatePolicy slightly departed from utter loyalty to the #DirtyEnergy industry was the morning of the 1st Dec 2009 in the hours before #MalcolmTurnbull was deposed as leader of her Majesty's Opposition and replaced by #TonyAbbott by a single vote.

    #Auspol #ClimateWars #LNP

  30. 𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

    ✧ 1975 Australian constitutional crisis ✧

    The 1975 Australian constitutional crisis culminated on 11 November when Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismissed Gough Whitlam of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) as prime minister and appointed Malcolm Fraser, the opposition leader, as caretaker. The Whitlam government had been rocked by scandal...

    #AustralianLaborParty #Kerr #Whitlam #ALP #Wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Aus

  31. The _Bottom Line_ of the

    *Great Australian Suckers *

    ongoing groping gas con

    urbanwronski.com/2025/11/06/th

    The final paragraph by Urban Wronski may serve duty as a TLDR; or Executives Summary.
    (dark growling irony Frellin Total-ly intended)

    """ The great gas con continues. Santos keeps drilling. Woodside keeps expanding. Origin keeps claiming climate credentials. Government keeps nodding along. And we keep pretending this adds up to a credible climate policy."""

    """It doesn’t. It never did. And every year we waste pretending otherwise is another year of liveable climate we’re not getting back."""

    """But at least the corporate reports look impressive. Very glossy. Lovely charts. Shame about the planet."""

    Yeah *bloody shame* that.

    #Gas #CorporateTheft #CorporateCorruption #SANTOS #Australia #FLIBS #ALP #AGL #EnergyPrices

  32. This chart shows real wages are way behind because: sub-poverty increases in the pandemic and inflation. 3.5% doesn't fix the gap. #ACTU, #ALP, #SDA officers any who earn far higher than minimum wage tell us the increase is 'great' - really ? #FightBackWithRAFFWU
    We disagree with the editorial of the Australia Institute that the increase is “appropriate.” It is not. It keeps millions of workers in poverty.
    australiainstitute.org.au/post

    #minimumwage #workingpoor

  33. Albtraum: Du gehst nichtsahnend vor dich hin, da kommt dir ein Stück Scheiße entgegen. Schweißgebadet und mit heftigem Herzklopf wachst du auf und wechselst mitten in der Nacht das schweißnasse Bettzeug
    #nazi #nazis #scheisse #alb #alp #alptraum #afd #rechts #rechtsextrem

  34. Hmm do I vote for
    the right wing party or
    the ultra right whinge party?

    The Liberal Party or the
    Alternative Liberal Party?

    Tory or
    Toy-Tory 2?

    Mr DooLittle or
    Mr CareLittle?

    Mate or
    Tater?

    I no longer maintain the rage, I will vote #Green

    #Woke is a badge of honour not an insult wear it with pride!

    #auspol
    #auspolitics
    #australia
    #Vote
    #AusVotes
    #Election
    #Aus
    #pol
    #Politics
    #political
    #ALP
    #Tas
    #AusGreens
    #WokeAF
    #Election2025
    #Election25
    #AusElection
    #Greens

  35. Hmm do I vote for
    the right wing party or
    the ultra right whinge party?

    The Liberal Party or the
    Alternative Liberal Party?

    Tory or
    Toy-Tory 2?

    Mr DooLittle or
    Mr CareLittle?

    Mate or
    Tater?

    I no longer maintain the rage, I will vote #Green

    #Woke is a badge of honour not an insult wear it with pride!

    #auspol
    #auspolitics
    #australia
    #Vote
    #AusVotes
    #Election
    #Aus
    #pol
    #Politics
    #political
    #ALP
    #Tas
    #AusGreens
    #WokeAF
    #Election2025
    #Election25
    #AusElection
    #Greens