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The case for a blatantly discriminatory Australian voting system
By Bernard KeaneOlder Australians are overrepresented in every sphere of life, from politics to the economy and media … and they’re living longer. It’s time we stack the deck in favour of young people. Here’s how
#Australianpolitics #Inequality #Youngpeople #Australianews #Climatecrisis #Environment #TheGuardian #BernardKeane
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The case for a blatantly discriminatory Australian voting system
By Bernard KeaneOlder Australians are overrepresented in every sphere of life, from politics to the economy and media … and they’re living longer. It’s time we stack the deck in favour of young people. Here’s how
#Australianpolitics #Inequality #Youngpeople #Australianews #Climatecrisis #Environment #TheGuardian #BernardKeane
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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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I recommend this article by #BernardKeane on the #EnhancedBorderSecurityPartnership (#EBSP) in #Australia.
NOTE: #EUCommission is secretly negotiating #EBPS to hand over our #Data to #USImmigrationsAndCustomsEnforcement: the brutal #ICE and its #DHS
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I recommend this article by #BernardKeane on the #EnhancedBorderSecurityPartnership (#EBSP) in #Australia.
NOTE: #EUCommission is secretly negotiating #EBPS to hand over our #Data to #USImmigrationsAndCustomsEnforcement: the brutal #ICE and its #DHS
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Corrosively brilliant article.
Like hot concentrated acid poured onto (don't try anything like this a home kids) magnesium powder.
Haven't finished reading yet.
Rooting (well kinda) for PWC to win.#PWC #PriceWaterhouseCoopers #AusPol #Australia #CorporateCitizenship #BernardKeane #Crikey
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Corrosively brilliant article.
Like hot concentrated acid poured onto (don't try anything like this a home kids) magnesium powder.
Haven't finished reading yet.
Rooting (well kinda) for PWC to win.#PWC #PriceWaterhouseCoopers #AusPol #Australia #CorporateCitizenship #BernardKeane #Crikey
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#auspol #Labor is unable "to think clearly about the problem of being a fossil fuel-addicted US protectorate in a world of US imperial decline and a global heating crisis."
#BernardKeane at #Crikey speaking clearly about the woeful leadership #Australia is stuck with.
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#auspol #Labor is unable "to think clearly about the problem of being a fossil fuel-addicted US protectorate in a world of US imperial decline and a global heating crisis."
#BernardKeane at #Crikey speaking clearly about the woeful leadership #Australia is stuck with.
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https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/02/28/donald-trump-maga-world-australia/
Good summary from #BernardKeane of what's at stake and how urgent it is for our politicians to understand this is not "business as usual".
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https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/02/28/donald-trump-maga-world-australia/
Good summary from #BernardKeane of what's at stake and how urgent it is for our politicians to understand this is not "business as usual".
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#fossilfuel #trump #sovereignty #defence #pbs #crikey #BernardKeane
It’s likely to lead to a series of vexing questions: does Australia back the appeasement of Russia? Will it back US colonisation projects if they occur? Will it back the US turning its back on European allies? Whither the Five Eyes when Canada and the UK are targets for US aggression? And what happens if Australia becomes, like Canada, the next ally to feel Trump’s wrath, to have the vice president backing One Nation, demanding the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme be dumped and US fossil fuel companies given special tax treatment?
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"This isn’t a government; it’s a corporate concierge service."
That is #BernardKeane 's conclusion after enumerating the failures of the Minns govt in #NSW and crucifying the transport Minister Jo Haylen for her flippant disregard of public funds expenditure on her 'boozy trip' to Newcastle.
Apparently #Haylen is a a full member of the royal family of politician lifers. She never had another job that was not related to politics inside the #Labor party. Hence, completely out of touch.
And one wonders how it is that Labor (State and Federal) have lost touch with its foundational values. We are left to wonder why 'our Labor' is no longer concerned with our plight and why it is that there is so much cozying up to the big end of town.
Signaling our common disappointment Keane writes: "NSW Labor, in its three terms in opposition after the spectacular scandals, blatant corruption and in-fighting of its post-Carr years in government, learnt nothing about the importance of integrity in public office and its role in good government. It learnt only how to be electable again. It’s still a party that treats public resources as a private treasure chest, that gleefully politicises the public service, that sees only a seamless union of the private interests of MPs, the interests of NSW Labor and its union backers and the extended Labor family, and the public sector."
Bugger... where does that leave me at the next State election? What kind of choice am I really going to be given when all I want is #tranparency, #accountability and real #representation?
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@tonycart This is an excellent article by #BernardKeane !! 🥂
I will experience sheer joy watching the #bacteria negotiate his way through this challenge! Caravan & Antic are unfortunately nutters from #qld (for our sins) & he has to deal with them directly. #WomensRights #womenshealth #prochoice -
@tonycart This is an excellent article by #BernardKeane !! 🥂
I will experience sheer joy watching the #bacteria negotiate his way through this challenge! Caravan & Antic are unfortunately nutters from #qld (for our sins) & he has to deal with them directly. #WomensRights #womenshealth #prochoice -
@tonycart This is an excellent article by #BernardKeane !! 🥂
I will experience sheer joy watching the #bacteria negotiate his way through this challenge! Caravan & Antic are unfortunately nutters from #qld (for our sins) & he has to deal with them directly. #WomensRights #womenshealth #prochoice -
@tonycart This is an excellent article by #BernardKeane !! 🥂
I will experience sheer joy watching the #bacteria negotiate his way through this challenge! Caravan & Antic are unfortunately nutters from #qld (for our sins) & he has to deal with them directly. #WomensRights #womenshealth #prochoice -
oh joy oh bliss. #bernardkeane in #crikey called it. Are the federal #lnp in for a ride.
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CW: Payman triggers a racist upwelling from deep in the political media psyche. Why has Fatima Payman elicited such a ferocious reaction from our mainly white media and political class? The reason points to the lie behind 'social cohesion'.
That's an excellent summary from #BernardKeane. The constant othering of Muslims (and fearmongering over China) is so sad, puerile and destructive to us all.
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CW: Payman triggers a racist upwelling from deep in the political media psyche. Why has Fatima Payman elicited such a ferocious reaction from our mainly white media and political class? The reason points to the lie behind 'social cohesion'.
That's an excellent summary from #BernardKeane. The constant othering of Muslims (and fearmongering over China) is so sad, puerile and destructive to us all.
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Labor would prefer silence on Gaza amid confected outrage at the Greens
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While I was ranting about politicians and media giving Morrison a pass I should have known #BernardKeane would be getting as annoyed as me. #crikey
#paywalled
——-https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/02/27/scott-morrison-maintains-god-delusion-parliament-retirement/