#auspol — Public Fediverse posts

We really screwed ourselves by privatising so many government services.

How could privatising the job placement part of welfare not lead to the gaming of the system for profit?

#auspol

https://youtu.be/WycF_7KRcIg

Crossposted with @openvibe

Australia - political cycle

A change of government rarely brings fundamental change in power and political agendas. The main change is that supporters become critics and vice versa. The chants remain the same but with different voices.

#auspol #democracy #freespeech #ukpol #uspol #eupol

## Dismissive of Real World Pain and Progressive Social Policies: Our Parliamentarians.

What is it about #Politics that it attracts the most bigoted, avid and hypocritical people — because that’s what is on show. Even when an idealist, elected for their idealism, joins the fray they are sure to be bullied into the required behavioural mould.

Living the life in *Cloud LaLaLand*, their feet rarely touch the ground. Our Janus-faced polies wind and wound their way around political issues without batting an eyelid while walking the fence between the #Oligarchy and the #Electorate. That is… more aptly, they tread the path on the ##Monied and #Rentier side of the fence and occasionally will throw some crumbs over to those on the other side. Those whom they ought to represent in Parliament, those whom they are *duty-bound* to prioritize in their decision-making.

There are no exceptions here, only a matter of *degree*. The question is: how do we recall those ethically inept politicians back to their sworn democratic duty? We can vote them out, but whom do we replace them with? **More of the same**? The *two party duopoly* needs to be broken up by as many cliques and groups (not to say Party again) that can fit in the *House*, let them bargain and accommodate to form a govt. The democratic process will be the richer for it and Parliament likely have more care for the better good of our society. A more diverse Parliament in terms of representation would merely reflect the diverstiy found in our society. Now to *inform* and *educate* the electorate…

https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/australian-politics/2026/10/14/double-standards-angie-bell

#AusPol #Parliamentarians #TwoPartyPolitics #Politicians #HypocracyReigns #BigoteryAbounds #ProgressivePolitics #EconomicShackles #NeoLiberalism #TaxReform #SecularParliamentNow #BanPoliticalDonations #TruthInPoliticalAdvertising #Transparency #Accountability #DutyOfCare #Democracy #TheAgora

I'm wondering about these things...
- Businesses are expected to absorb credit card fees now
- while there are cost of living crises and no one can afford to go to local businesses anyway
- all while people are losing their jobs to AI
- or, as I've experienced first-hand, having their entire industry turned on its head due to AI

No one can pay for anything, and jobs are going down. What is the ultimate point for the government, big business, etc?

#auspol #ai #noai #costofliving

JFC, Jordan Steele-John on leave after inappropriate behaviour allegations?! 👀 #AusPol

Albanese government offers nine per cent pay rise to public servants, which unions say ‘not good enough’

The Albanese government has proposed a nine per cent pay rise for federal public servants in a “fair…
#Australia #AU #auspol #australianpolitics #AustralianPublicService #Austrlia #bargaining #payrise #unions
https://www.europesays.com/australia/121256/

#TrumpDictatorship #Musk #Ukraine #StarLink #RussianInvasion #PutinsPuppets #USPol #auspol

Never trust #Trump

https://youtu.be/pCnfbrSe3A8?si=uSsF-tFtRoEXsrXx

An extremely clear example of why the #Greens @[email protected] are so critical in the Senate & can become so much more #AusPol

Australia - government standards

Maybe if we elect a President. A position that includes oversight of parliament. With the power of veto when parliament presents legislation that is in breach of trust with the people.

#auspol #democracy #freespeech

Oils aint Oils SOL
soils aint soils ...

and 88% of humanity lives outside the west.
If you didn't realise that, you need to know you were sold another lie by a dying (once hegemonic) power

#climate #ecocide #auspol
youtu.be/tdNuaYTK_dY

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dlsswsojmwbwsidpbcblzoiv/post/3mxszqlhzjk2a

Castrol GTX2 Oils ain't Oils S...

Education research body urges schools to use AI 'sparingly' over risks to long-term learning.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-14/ai-in-schools-warning-affecting-long-term-learning/107263444

#AI #Education #auspol

I am worried about Palantir in Australia. And I think you should be too.

#photography #BlackAndWhite #monochrome #australia #tech #auspol #ai

https://shojiwax.com/2026/10/14/ignorance-may-be-bliss-but-not-for-long/

If Australian governments truly wanted to improve housing access and affordability they would build homes.

#auspol #HousingCrisis

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rkg74jmyetjhfmsrjtucbcbr/post/3mxnxslepos2f

Fawcett Hall Bridge replacement
#ausnews #auspol #bridge #bushfires #fawcett #funding #infrastructure #murrindindi #replacement #springst #vicnews

https://www.victoriannews.com.au/local-council-news/murrindindi-shire-news/fawcett-hall-bridge-replacement/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

retirement is now a subscription service thanks to the ALP.
#auspol #agedcare
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-14/aged-care-residents-face-bills-for-tv-under-new-fees/107262118

More on the film NAZA from its makers, as #Israel tries to stifle and pervert its narrative.

“As an Israeli who cares deeply about Israelis and about Palestinians, when my country’s government is clearly violating international law, I expect friends of Israelis and of Palestinians to take action, including sanctions and arm embargoes until the government respects international law,” he said.''

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/filmmakers-behind-controversial-gaza-doco-defiant-despite-death-threats-and-protests/ar-AA2e7tnc #BDS #IsraelFascism #Gaza #auspol

Australia

The opportunity costs of supporting wars of choice include: housing. health. education. roads. rail.

We have no talent where it is needed.

#auspol #democracy #freespeech

I am appalled by the way the Albanese Labor government is treating the aged and vulnerable.

Enabling capitalists to profit from aged care is a mistake, incentivising capitalism to further gouge older citizens is unconscionable.

#auspol #agedcare

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-14/aged-care-residents-face-bills-for-tv-under-new-fees/107262118?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

No consent: Sacked professor loses case after women’s cells used in mice experiment https://www.smh.com.au/national/no-consent-sacked-professor-loses-case-after-women-s-cells-used-in-mice-experiment-20261013-p6150h.html #bioethics #healthlaw #auspol #auslaw

"OMG! Boat people ... " (Moir, 30/8/19)
#ausnews #auspol #boatpeople #cartoon #colonisation #firstfleet #firstnations #hanson #immigration #moir #onenation #phon #racism #vicnews

https://www.victoriannews.com.au/opinion/alan-moir/moirs-view-1626/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

https://www.europesays.com/3307179/ Public executions, AUKUS and the right of Australian communities to say no #aukus #auspol #australia #AustralianSovereignty #CarlGopalkrishnan #CommunityConsent #CommunityOrganisations #HumanRights #MilitaryEngagement #MilitaryPublicRelations #NidalMalikHasan #PeteHegseth #PublicExecutions #USMilitary #WesternAustralia

Boorloo, Perth, Western Australia

The Cook government, nominally Labor the party of Whitlam, currently fossil fuel corporate-captured and weapons manufacturer wanna-be, is going all in on AUKUS.

Seems the planned container port is going to have to wait until the AUKUS development has stopped soaking up all the construction resources.

(But fear not, the death grip on a huge share of Australia's GST revenue will not be loosened a nanometre - WA first!)
#Aukus #AusPol #Entitlement

Ted O'Brien on Arvo Briefing stating several times that Labor's climate change policies (sigh) are making everyday Australians poorer. PK didn't even ask how be justifies that, just takes it as a given and carries on. #fail #AusPol

This explains why social media posts on all platforms supporting Pauline Hanson's One Nation have plumetted over the last 48 hours.

Unless it's a coincidence, I suppose 🤔😂

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/russia-was-not-ready-for-the-data-center-war-it-started-with-ukraine/

#AusPol #PHON

The Yemeni cartoonist Kamal Sharraf uses his art to depict the double standards applied globally between Yemen and Saudi Arabia.

This one is for absolute hypocrites in ALP LNP & ON
FK #AUKUS #Auspol
@[email protected] #art

THE ISSUES CREATED BY AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM ON FULL DISPLAY ... like it has been for the last 80 f*cking years is reason to distance ourselves from the US Empire.

VOTE 1 💚 #Auspol FK #AUKUS

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3mxpzg2wwcc2f

"A recent poll published in elDiario.es showed 73 percent support for a general strike, 58 percent support for the main encampment in Madrid, and that 40 percent of people would be prepared to engage in a rent strike."

The Spanish are having a general strike in November to demand a 50% reduction in rents, a ban on evictions, and the expropriation of empty properties.

Anywhere else you can think of that might need to do that?

#auspol #housingCrisis

https://redflag.org.au/article/housing-protests-lead-to-general-strike-in-spain/

@JapanProf
The US is looking less like a democracy and more like a plutocracy, where billionaires buy political influence and ordinary people get sidelined.
We have our own Musk wannabes in Gina Rinehart, Twiggy Forrest and their ilk. Wealth shouldn’t buy political power. We cannot let Australia’s democracy become another playground for oligarchs.
Don’t be fooled by One Nation’s promises. Look at who funds them and who stands to benefit. The promises may never eventuate, but the policies can still serve the mega wealthy.

#auspol #democracy #inequality #onenation #oligarchs

@jhaue
I have to ask… wouldn’t a press boycott of #PHON do more harm than good by making those #RWNJs look like the *underdog* in the political contest? One has to agree that anything which might add to the support they allegedly have is counter-productive.

In fact, I reckon more press coverage (not a parroting of PHON’s insane rantings) would be better, letting them trip over their own words so to speak…

#AusPol #VictorianElections

So for decades we've been hearing about the oncoming tsunami of ageing boomers, necessitating appropriate hospital and aged care facilities. Yet here we are with a completely preventable crisis.
Meanwhile, successive govts continue to throw billions of $ at AUKUS, refuse to properly tax big corporations, and throw our sovereign wealth away.
Old people eh? Just chuck 'em on the scrap heap and carry on. Priorities!
#AusPol #AgedCare

https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/35153/ Labor’s new migration rhetoric doesn’t equal sensible policymaking #auspol #FederalPolicy #immigration #JulianHill #migrants #Policy #Politics #Refugees #TemporaryVisa #TonyBurke