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  1. @MsDropbear42
    Best line: “Alabama on the Yarra” (with that ‘fun in the sun feel) 😎 as in: “Victorian Liberals spent the best part of a quarter-century tearing themselves apart, with much of the past decade given over to Christian fundamentalist entryists trying to seize control and turn the state into Alabama on the Yarra.” ✝️

    Thanks for sharing (even tho’ deeply depressing). 🙂🙏🏻

    #AusPol #VicPol #NSWPol #ICAC #ChristianFundamentalists #AlabamaOnTheYarra #VicLibs #LiberalParty #DeeplyDepressing

  2. The problem is, it isn't just the government. Online, I have seen countless comments from individuals that are supporting this. They are supporting the police that "pumped a cunt". They are supporting authoritarian.

    I feel this speaks to an article recently in The New Daily that was talking about the shift to the right and the rise in One Nation.

    thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/202

    #auspol #nswpol #authoritarism

  3. I don't know how you could argue that trust has not been seriously eroded in NSW Police. I feel nationally, NSW has been presented in the media as a "Police state". Between the "pumping of cunts", an innocent man being knelt on the head by officers, and legislation taking away your privacy when it comes to your mobile, it is hard to look at NSW and see it anything other than fascist state.

    #nswpol #nswpolice #minnsgovernment

  4. ‘I didn’t go looking for trouble’: Protester sues NSW after allegedly being punched by police at Herzog rally

    Shadid had requested officers to stop advancing as people were on the ground praying.

    "Const Daniel Stewart then allegedly dragged Shadid, who had travelled from Parramatta, to the ground and punched him in the face and twisted his wrist. Another officer kneeled on his head"

    theguardian.com/australia-news

    #nswpol #nswpolice #policebrutality #israel #sydney #herzog

  5. ‘I didn’t go looking for trouble’: Protester sues NSW after allegedly being punched by police at Herzog rally

    Shadid had requested officers to stop advancing as people were on the ground praying.

    "Const Daniel Stewart then allegedly dragged Shadid, who had travelled from Parramatta, to the ground and punched him in the face and twisted his wrist. Another officer kneeled on his head"

    theguardian.com/australia-news

    #nswpol #nswpolice #policebrutality #israel #sydney #herzog

  6. ‘I didn’t go looking for trouble’: Protester sues NSW after allegedly being punched by police at Herzog rally

    Shadid had requested officers to stop advancing as people were on the ground praying.

    "Const Daniel Stewart then allegedly dragged Shadid, who had travelled from Parramatta, to the ground and punched him in the face and twisted his wrist. Another officer kneeled on his head"

    theguardian.com/australia-news

    #nswpol #nswpolice #policebrutality #israel #sydney #herzog

  7. ‘I didn’t go looking for trouble’: Protester sues NSW after allegedly being punched by police at Herzog rally

    Shadid had requested officers to stop advancing as people were on the ground praying.

    "Const Daniel Stewart then allegedly dragged Shadid, who had travelled from Parramatta, to the ground and punched him in the face and twisted his wrist. Another officer kneeled on his head"

    theguardian.com/australia-news

    #nswpol #nswpolice #policebrutality #israel #sydney #herzog

  8. ‘I didn’t go looking for trouble’: Protester sues NSW after allegedly being punched by police at Herzog rally

    Shadid had requested officers to stop advancing as people were on the ground praying.

    "Const Daniel Stewart then allegedly dragged Shadid, who had travelled from Parramatta, to the ground and punched him in the face and twisted his wrist. Another officer kneeled on his head"

    theguardian.com/australia-news

    #nswpol #nswpolice #policebrutality #israel #sydney #herzog

  9. RE: aus.social/@thomaswhitton/1172

    This seems to be a conundrum worth considering carefully, in the interests of native forests and habitat for multiple endangered species.
    #Environment #Koala #Greens #AusPol #NSWPol

  10. RE: aus.social/@thomaswhitton/1172

    This seems to be a conundrum worth considering carefully, in the interests of native forests and habitat for multiple endangered species.
    #Environment #Koala #Greens #AusPol #NSWPol

  11. RE: aus.social/@thomaswhitton/1172

    This seems to be a conundrum worth considering carefully, in the interests of native forests and habitat for multiple endangered species.
    #Environment #Koala #Greens #AusPol #NSWPol

  12. RE: aus.social/@thomaswhitton/1172

    This seems to be a conundrum worth considering carefully, in the interests of native forests and habitat for multiple endangered species.
    #Environment #Koala #Greens #AusPol #NSWPol

  13. @gnoll110 @vandenberglegs @ajsadauskas More shenanigans at ICAC (the New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption).

    This time, it called up Anita Perrottet, who's the wife of Charles Perrottet, and the sister-in-law of former NSW State Premier Dominic Perrottet. (For anyone reading this outside Australia, a premier is our equivalent of an American state governor.)

    Charles was allegedly one of the recipients of $2 million in bribes from failed property developer Jean Nassif.

    Again, at this stage, I think Dominic should be called to explain what he knew abd when ge knew it.

    From the Sydney Morning Herald:

    "[Anita Perrottet's] evidence was so thoroughly unconvincing, and the corruption watchdog’s case against her so comprehensive, that it was tempting for a brief moment to feel sorry for the mother of two.

    "However, the sheer volume of implausible claims uttered while twisting and contorting her way through a two-day appearance ultimately made it difficult to have much sympathy.
    ...
    "She was paid $660,999 between July 2020 and December 2022 – a figure almost exactly one-third of the $2 million bribe that Nassif is alleged to have agreed to pay her husband and two other Liberal Party operatives.

    "There is no written record of any work Anita did to warrant the payments. She repeatedly insisted that she was paid such a huge amount to be a “sounding board”.
    ...
    "Anita Perrottet is no fool. She has a degree in marketing and communications from the University of Canberra. She has worked at global asset management company Fidelity International, the so-called “millionaire’s factory” Macquarie Bank, investment firm Magellan Financial Group, and funds giant Australian Unity. Perrottet agreed with Dwyer’s assessment this week that she was a “pretty astute businesswoman”.
    ...
    "If her version of events is to be believed, Perrottet’s marketing knowledge is so good that she earned hundreds of thousands of dollars for nothing other than giving verbal advice to Jeremy Greenwood, a close friend of her family and the owner of two lobbying firms named Beckington and JPG Advisory.

    "Greenwood, Charles Perrottet and Liberal operative Christian Ellis are the three men the ICAC alleges were to be the recipients of the $2 million Nassif bribe.
    ...
    "It is not disputed that Beckington and JPG Advisory paid Perrottet the $660,999 in various invoices over 2½ years. She also concedes there is not one scrap of written evidence that she actually did any work.

    "Pressed on what sort of advice she gave, Perrottet said that Greenwood at one point sought her counsel on behalf of a vaping client. Who was the client? She didn’t know. Did she do any research? No, but she did read news articles that had popped up on her social media feeds.

    "What strategic advice did she provide in relation to the black market for vaping? “That there needed to be better regulation.” What did that advice include? “Like, you know, minors shouldn’t be able to be buying vapes, essentially.” For good measure, she also apparently advised Greenwood that kids would vape less if fun flavours were banned."
    ...
    "But the problems with her evidence didn’t end there. On Friday, she said she knew tax deductions listed by her business could only be made for legitimate business purposes. She said she would have only claimed travel for meetings she had held in Sydney with Greenwood.

    "But she was soon presented with evidence that her husband had actually undertaken the regular travel to Sydney while she stayed at home in Melbourne. During the travel, Charles met with Nassif. Whoops, that must have been an error, Anita explained."

    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/stop-stop-she-s-already-dead-how-the-icac-nailed-anita-perrottet-s-absurd-excuses-20260828-p60sj7.html

    #auspol #nswpol #politics #news #capitalism #Sydney #Parramatta #NSW #Australia

  14. Probably not ideal to have the boss of a new museum stand down 72 days before it opens, due to an investigation into "governance and procurement practices":

    "The opening of the billion-dollar Powerhouse Parramatta has been plunged into controversy after its chief executive stepped down 72 days before the opening of the state’s biggest cultural infrastructure investment since the Sydney Opera House.

    "In a shock development, staff were alerted on Thursday afternoon that Lisa Havilah had stood aside from her role of seven years pending completion of a departmental investigation into “governance and procurement practices”. Only five days earlier, the museum had announced its first five exhibitions for the November 7 opening to much fanfare."

    https://www.smh.com.au/culture/art-and-design/powerhouse-parramatta-chief-lisa-havilah-departs-just-weeks-from-opening-20260827-p60s1t.html

    #parramatta #NSW #Australia #Powerhouse #auspol #nswpol

  15. I remember a time decades ago when NSW was considered a police state where crooked cops was a systemic problem. It doesn’t look like it has changed much. Worse, the police now tramples on common law rights…

    “The October 2022-enacted digital evidence access order regime provides that police can obtain a DEAO when executing search and crime scene warrants, and if the subject of the order refuses this, then it’s an offence carrying up to 5 years prison time. And as the section containing this criminal offence notes, this measure overrides the common law right against self-incrimination.

    However, once NSW police officers have obtained access to a suspect’s phone, they don’t simply scroll through the owner’s latest social media posts, as rather, they employ a device and software developed by Israeli digital forensics company Cellebrite that once connected to a civilian’s phone downloads its entire content, including all deleted messages and images.”

    How good are ‘panick buttons’, those that wipe a mobile clean as the push of a button? Not that I’d necessarliy consider it on my mobile, but you never know, right? I can’t see Police powers being roled back anytime soon, quite the contrary, expansion of those powers seems inevitable while #Minns is in charge.
    (Source: sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/b )

    #Privacy #CommonLawRights #DEAO #DigitalEvidenceAccessOrder #MobilePrivacy #LegislativeAgenda #NSWPol #PoliceState

  16. CW: A note to non-Australians about Australia Day, 26 January

    @futzle Every year, the 26th January sees Invasion Day protest marches and other events mourning genocide and dispossession, celebrating the survival of many of the oldest continuous cultures in the world, and expressing ongoing resistance led by local Indigenous peoples across the continent.

    In Gadi (Sydney), most years see tens of thousands of people march from the city to the Yabun festival in Vic Park.

    This year will be especially important, given the NSW government's efforts to suppress protest in the name of 'social cohesion' (because denying people a voice has always turned out really well for long-term cohesion, right?). Organisers are planning to march, even if the government extends the anti-protest laws for another two weeks. The more people show up, the less likely it is that the authorities decide to cause trouble.

    #InvasionDay #26thJan #jan26 #Auspol #Indigenous #protest #ProtestIsNotACrime #SocialCohesion #NSWpol #SuppressionOfDissent #CriminalisationOfDissent

  17. CW: A note to non-Australians about Australia Day, 26 January

    @futzle Every year, the 26th January sees Invasion Day protest marches and other events mourning genocide and dispossession, celebrating the survival of many of the oldest continuous cultures in the world, and expressing ongoing resistance led by local Indigenous peoples across the continent.

    In Gadi (Sydney), most years see tens of thousands of people march from the city to the Yabun festival in Vic Park.

    This year will be especially important, given the NSW government's efforts to suppress protest in the name of 'social cohesion' (because denying people a voice has always turned out really well for long-term cohesion, right?). Organisers are planning to march, even if the government extends the anti-protest laws for another two weeks. The more people show up, the less likely it is that the authorities decide to cause trouble.

    #InvasionDay #26thJan #jan26 #Auspol #Indigenous #protest #ProtestIsNotACrime #SocialCohesion #NSWpol #SuppressionOfDissent #CriminalisationOfDissent

  18. CW: A note to non-Australians about Australia Day, 26 January

    @futzle Every year, the 26th January sees Invasion Day protest marches and other events mourning genocide and dispossession, celebrating the survival of many of the oldest continuous cultures in the world, and expressing ongoing resistance led by local Indigenous peoples across the continent.

    In Gadi (Sydney), most years see tens of thousands of people march from the city to the Yabun festival in Vic Park.

    This year will be especially important, given the NSW government's efforts to suppress protest in the name of 'social cohesion' (because denying people a voice has always turned out really well for long-term cohesion, right?). Organisers are planning to march, even if the government extends the anti-protest laws for another two weeks. The more people show up, the less likely it is that the authorities decide to cause trouble.

    #InvasionDay #26thJan #jan26 #Auspol #Indigenous #protest #ProtestIsNotACrime #SocialCohesion #NSWpol #SuppressionOfDissent #CriminalisationOfDissent

  19. CW: A note to non-Australians about Australia Day, 26 January

    @futzle Every year, the 26th January sees Invasion Day protest marches and other events mourning genocide and dispossession, celebrating the survival of many of the oldest continuous cultures in the world, and expressing ongoing resistance led by local Indigenous peoples across the continent.

    In Gadi (Sydney), most years see tens of thousands of people march from the city to the Yabun festival in Vic Park.

    This year will be especially important, given the NSW government's efforts to suppress protest in the name of 'social cohesion' (because denying people a voice has always turned out really well for long-term cohesion, right?). Organisers are planning to march, even if the government extends the anti-protest laws for another two weeks. The more people show up, the less likely it is that the authorities decide to cause trouble.

    #InvasionDay #26thJan #jan26 #Auspol #Indigenous #protest #ProtestIsNotACrime #SocialCohesion #NSWpol #SuppressionOfDissent #CriminalisationOfDissent

  20. CW: A note to non-Australians about Australia Day, 26 January

    @futzle Every year, the 26th January sees Invasion Day protest marches and other events mourning genocide and dispossession, celebrating the survival of many of the oldest continuous cultures in the world, and expressing ongoing resistance led by local Indigenous peoples across the continent.

    In Gadi (Sydney), most years see tens of thousands of people march from the city to the Yabun festival in Vic Park.

    This year will be especially important, given the NSW government's efforts to suppress protest in the name of 'social cohesion' (because denying people a voice has always turned out really well for long-term cohesion, right?). Organisers are planning to march, even if the government extends the anti-protest laws for another two weeks. The more people show up, the less likely it is that the authorities decide to cause trouble.

    #InvasionDay #26thJan #jan26 #Auspol #Indigenous #protest #ProtestIsNotACrime #SocialCohesion #NSWpol #SuppressionOfDissent #CriminalisationOfDissent

  21. The #Clown Show: #grifting, #lies & #AI after the #Bondi massacre

    Everyone wants a piece of the Bondi massacre, it seems. I took a look at some of those factions and the things they've done in the wake of the tragedy. After the clown show, I have a chat about the conclusions I've come to. --- thank you  #tomtanuki   @tomtanuki

    youtu.be/3nF3j3bK35M

    #video #youtube #australia #ausgov #auspol #tasgov #taspol #politas #classwar #nswpol #nswgov #newsouthwales #nsw

  22. 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

    sbs.com.au/nitv/article/indige

  23. A #Nazi rally took place over the weekend in #NSW, approved to take place by NSW #Police, and on this side of it everyone's going "well, *I* didn't know about it, this was clearly a breakdown in communication, we have no idea how this happened" when the easiest answer of "because #cops are #racist" really could just. Be the reason.

    #australia #nswgov #nswpol #classwar #neonazis #rightwing #farright #bigots #hypocrites #fascism #rightwingextremism #extremism #acab #AllCopsAreBastards

  24. @cooopsspace @ghost_shit this would never even be considered by the #PropertyCouncil sponsored #nsw government. Not to mention realestate.com.au owner #newscorpse , which seems sway #nswpol but SFA influence with the #vicpol ! #vacancytax

  25. CW: Vaucluse urban planning forum

    #Vaucluse locals:

    In case you would like to go along and express your views, independent candidate for the #NSW State seat of Vaucluse, Karen Freyer, is hosting a forum on urban planning/development approvals in the #EasternSuburbs. eg:
    - the need for adequate infrastructure to service increased population
    - heritage rules
    - build quality

    Tues 7 Feb, 6pm at Diamond Bay Bowling Club. Details on Faceplace:
    facebook.com/events/s/public-f

    #auspol #NSWpol #planning