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Augustus Brown 🌈 @[email protected] · 2026-09-11 · 22:53 UTC

I completely understand the dream of this couple and I would love to do it myself, but it's wholly unsustainable to allow people to set up home anywhere.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-12/court-rules-couple-need-consent-for-caravan-on-rural-property/107134502

#Sustainability #Planning #NSWPol #AusPol

#sustainability #planning #nswpol #auspol

ǝlqɯnɹ uoɯᴉS @[email protected] · 2026-09-11 · 01:25 UTC

If I hit a cop, I can be killed. If a cop hits me, I can sue. And they get no consequences.

"It is my experience that many illegal drugs that are extensively used on the street result in people becoming extremely unpredictable, irrational and violent" says unpredictable, irrational and violent copper.

Dehumanising much?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-10/cctv-vision-nsw-police-officer-punching-man-in-stretcher/107137368

#nswpol #acab

AJ Sadauskas @[email protected] · 2026-03-20 · 11:36 UTC

People, mostly from working class suburbs, lost a record $9.3 billion on the pokies in the past year.

That's in New South Wales alone!

"Punters lost a record $9.3 billion on NSW poker machines last year – a surge of 8 per cent on the previous 12 months – as a sophisticated lobbying effort by the gambling industry stalls progress on political pledges to reduce harm in suburbs across Sydney.

"Newly released figures reveal $785 million was lost in the Canterbury-Bankstown area alone, as well as $720 million in Fairfield, $535 million in the Cumberland local government area, $420 million in central Sydney and $355 million on the Central Coast.
...
"The losses represent about $179 million each week – or $1.1 million per hour – with most of the damage occurring in some of Sydney’s most disadvantaged suburbs, according to the Liquor and Gaming NSW report.

"The state government’s independent panel on gambling reform produced a series of harm minimisation recommendations in December 2024 which were savaged by the pubs and clubs industry as going too far, and by reform advocates as not doing enough."

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/179m-a-week-or-1-1m-per-hour-the-shocking-numbers-crushing-sydney-20260320-p5qscx.html

#auspol #nswpol #gaming #gambling #pokies #pokermachines

#auspol #nswpol #gaming #gambling #pokies #pokermachines

Matthew Rimmer @[email protected] · 2026-03-20 · 07:41 UTC

'$179m a week or $1.1m per hour: The shocking numbers crushing Sydney'

'Punters lost a record $9.3 billion on NSW poker machines last year – a surge of 8 per cent on the previous 12 months – as a sophisticated lobbying effort by the gambling industry stalls progress on political pledges to reduce harm in suburbs across Sydney.

Newly released figures reveal $785 million was lost in the Canterbury-Bankstown area alone, as well as $720 million in Fairfield, $535 million in the Cumberland local government area, $420 million in central Sydney and $355 million on the Central Coast.'

As The Whitlams song goes, we need to Blow up the Pokies...
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/179m-a-week-or-1-1m-per-hour-the-shocking-numbers-crushing-sydney-20260320-p5qscx.html #gambling #pokies #health #nswpol

#gambling #pokies #health #nswpol

Aby, full of whimsy and rage @[email protected] · 2026-02-10 · 09:14 UTC

Settlers:
*shocked by the violence of NSW Police over the weekend*

Me:
*laughs in Aboriginal*

#NSW #NSWPol #NSWPolice #Australia #AusPol #Herzog #Palestine #FreePalestine #FuckColonisation #DeathToTheIDF #israel #FromTheRiverToTheSea

#nsw #nswpol #nswpolice #australia #auspol #herzog

sabik @[email protected] · 2026-01-14 · 23:18 UTC

@Sidherian
Looks like the link for the NSW Parliament inquiry into indoor air quality got truncated; it's https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/committees/inquiries/Pages/inquiry-details.aspx?pk=3152

#CleanTheAir #CovidIsNotOver #nswpol

#cleantheair #covidisnotover #nswpol

Aby, full of whimsy and rage @[email protected] · 2025-12-29 · 10:15 UTC

Senior police have taken less than a day to deploy anti-protest powers that were rushed into law after the Bondi Beach terror attack.

NSW Police late on Christmas Eve moved to ban protest rallies from key metropolitan areas in Sydney after legislation was passed earlier the same morning to allow the action following declared terrorist incidents.

Meanwhile, Indigenous groups have raised concerns an extension of the police anti-protest designation could render "invasion day" protests on January 26 unlawful.

Mr Minns said the assemblies could take place, although he drew a distinction between static rallies and marches through the city.

#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #AbolishPolice #AusPol #Australia #NSW #NSWPol #NSWPolice #AustraliaHasANaziProblem #AbolishAustraliaDay #InvasionDay