#auspol2022 — Public Fediverse posts
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Irony reached hitherto unseen levels today when Keneally called out Rudd from being a narcissist.
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CW: Creeping police state
Did you know: there are protesters in Australia who allegedly committed acts that just a few months ago would have been legally considered minor traffic offences, yet who are now facing months or years locked up, and are currently under bail conditions that effectively prevent them from going online at all, from being able to contact many/most of their friends, and who are subject to the complete loss of any right to privacy (being able to have all their devices searched by police at any point, and they must share any passwords)? And all this without yet having been convicted of any crime, while awaiting trial for alleged offences that just nine months ago would have most likely been resolved with a fine of a few hundred dollars.
#CriminalisationOfDissent #auspol #FreeVioletCoco #AusPol2022 #NSWpol
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Today's political prisoner by @firstdogonthemoon.
"You are welcome to argue that Australia's state and federal governments (along with the police) are not simply the armed wing of the #FossilFuelIndustry... Write your explanation on a postcard and mail it to your grandchildren"
#ClimateProtest #auspol #AusPol2022 #FreeVioletCoco #ClimateCriminals #DirtyEnergyDirtyPolitics #DirtyEnergy #CriminalisationOfDissent
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@oliverromain Making interest paid by #landlords on their extra houses tax deductible was done in Australia in the 1990s and it significantly accelerated inequality (esp generational inequality) by pushing up property prices. This might sound great in the short term if you're hoarding houses, but comes back to bite everyone in a thousand different ways. It's a dangerous trap. Rates of home ownership have plummeted as more houses end up in fewer hands.
Adam Smith and Karl Marx agree on this one: landlords are hoarding a necessity and are not a legit business.
Want to save rural towns? Campaign to abolish tax breaks on interest for those selling holiday accommodation. And for the principle that #HousingIsAHumanRight that comes before anyone's right to maximise personal or corporate profit.
#UKpol #Auspol #housing #LandlordsAreCausingInflation #AusPol2022 #LandlordsAreParasites #HousingCrisis -
🇦🇺 just sent my renewal Medicare card, months in advance
To my 🇺🇸 eyes this is still a miracle
Public health care for life, just because I live here
#expatlife has challenges but I ❤️ #Australia so much
#Grateful #AusPol2022 #Auspol #immigrant #immigrants #Aussie #Aussies
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In the wake of much electoral posturing and idiocy, I would like wake up to a shock headline on the 4th June:
"Bandt set to become PM"
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CW: I am deeply troubled by the attitude of Australia (and the bulk of the world) with regards to Covid. I know we're all tired of it. I know we want things to go back to how they were. Covid and politics
Australia has 3 weeks until the election and I find it utterly striking that I've yet to see a single policy on Covid management. It's a matter for public health departments to decide, you think? A class of people is being created who are suffering with long covid or dying prematurely partly because messaging about personal safety is not being relayed. Covid is not solely a respiratory disease; it is known to attack multiple systems.
Australia already fails to take adequate care of its aged and disabled citizens, as well as other vulnerable members of our society, and these faults are political issues. The covid policy failings mean the country is willingly creating a substantial population affected by Post-Covid diseases, if not death. If you can no longer work, how do you pay a mortgage or rent? Jobseeker and DSP certainly aren't enough to live on, especially if you have dependants, and NDIS is broken.
Where are our candidates' and parties' policies on Covid and how it will affect Medicare, housing, the hospital system and Centrelink? What's the plan? Why is noone in media asking the question?
If you want references, please ask. I'm currently studying public health units as part of undergrad, and hope to include it in my post-grad. #auspol #COVID19 #longcovid #auspol2022
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A more workable solution would be to replace the federal government with children.
@chaser #AusPol2022 #auspol