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  1. @DjityDjity
    You’re absolutely right on that John. It should be $$$ for Equity (and when large sums are involved a seat on the board as well)

    We should wipe out #StateCapture from our economy.

  2. @DjityDjity
    You’re absolutely right on that John. It should be $$$ for Equity (and when large sums are involved a seat on the board as well)

    We should wipe out #StateCapture from our economy.

  3. @DjityDjity
    You’re absolutely right on that John. It should be $$$ for Equity (and when large sums are involved a seat on the board as well)

    We should wipe out #StateCapture from our economy.

  4. @DjityDjity
    You’re absolutely right on that John. It should be $$$ for Equity (and when large sums are involved a seat on the board as well)

    We should wipe out #StateCapture from our economy.

  5. @DjityDjity
    You’re absolutely right on that John. It should be $$$ for Equity (and when large sums are involved a seat on the board as well)

    We should wipe out #StateCapture from our economy.

  6. Don’t let #Grifters and those they’ve *bought* tell you that nationalisation is a *communist* threat. Of course they would say that, they have a lot at stake in #StateCapture. And the now more than 40yo #NeoLiberal (neo-classical) economy is predicated on deregulated markets (especially financial markets) and globalisation.

    But *everything* in a *Social Democracy* is **Publicly owned** until it is bought or acquired by a private individual or a corporation. Hence, every private enterprise operates on the basis of an assumed social licence. That license can be revoked at any time.

    Govt (public wealth) subsidies and bailouts ought to be offset by assets transfers to public ownership, anything else is weatlh transfers to the #Rich and #Wealthy of the #RentierClass exacerbating the #WealthEquity gap in society. How else can this gap be breached if not by #TaxingTheRIch or #Nationalisation of failing enterprises, especially where public infrastructure is concerned.

    deepcutnews.com/p/neoliberalis

    #AusPol #Economics #PrivateOwnership #PublicOwnership #Deregulation #WealthTransfer #TheGreaterSocialGood

  7. Don’t let #Grifters and those they’ve *bought* tell you that nationalisation is a *communist* threat. Of course they would say that, they have a lot at stake in #StateCapture. And the now more than 40yo #NeoLiberal (neo-classical) economy is predicated on deregulated markets (especially financial markets) and globalisation.

    But *everything* in a *Social Democracy* is **Publicly owned** until it is bought or acquired by a private individual or a corporation. Hence, every private enterprise operates on the basis of an assumed social licence. That license can be revoked at any time.

    Govt (public wealth) subsidies and bailouts ought to be offset by assets transfers to public ownership, anything else is weatlh transfers to the #Rich and #Wealthy of the #RentierClass exacerbating the #WealthEquity gap in society. How else can this gap be breached if not by #TaxingTheRIch or #Nationalisation of failing enterprises, especially where public infrastructure is concerned.

    deepcutnews.com/p/neoliberalis

    #AusPol #Economics #PrivateOwnership #PublicOwnership #Deregulation #WealthTransfer #TheGreaterSocialGood

  8. Don’t let #Grifters and those they’ve *bought* tell you that nationalisation is a *communist* threat. Of course they would say that, they have a lot at stake in #StateCapture. And the now more than 40yo #NeoLiberal (neo-classical) economy is predicated on deregulated markets (especially financial markets) and globalisation.

    But *everything* in a *Social Democracy* is **Publicly owned** until it is bought or acquired by a private individual or a corporation. Hence, every private enterprise operates on the basis of an assumed social licence. That license can be revoked at any time.

    Govt (public wealth) subsidies and bailouts ought to be offset by assets transfers to public ownership, anything else is weatlh transfers to the #Rich and #Wealthy of the #RentierClass exacerbating the #WealthEquity gap in society. How else can this gap be breached if not by #TaxingTheRIch or #Nationalisation of failing enterprises, especially where public infrastructure is concerned.

    deepcutnews.com/p/neoliberalis

    #AusPol #Economics #PrivateOwnership #PublicOwnership #Deregulation #WealthTransfer #TheGreaterSocialGood

  9. Don’t let #Grifters and those they’ve *bought* tell you that nationalisation is a *communist* threat. Of course they would say that, they have a lot at stake in #StateCapture. And the now more than 40yo #NeoLiberal (neo-classical) economy is predicated on deregulated markets (especially financial markets) and globalisation.

    But *everything* in a *Social Democracy* is **Publicly owned** until it is bought or acquired by a private individual or a corporation. Hence, every private enterprise operates on the basis of an assumed social licence. That license can be revoked at any time.

    Govt (public wealth) subsidies and bailouts ought to be offset by assets transfers to public ownership, anything else is weatlh transfers to the #Rich and #Wealthy of the #RentierClass exacerbating the #WealthEquity gap in society. How else can this gap be breached if not by #TaxingTheRIch or #Nationalisation of failing enterprises, especially where public infrastructure is concerned.

    deepcutnews.com/p/neoliberalis

    #AusPol #Economics #PrivateOwnership #PublicOwnership #Deregulation #WealthTransfer #TheGreaterSocialGood

  10. Don’t let #Grifters and those they’ve *bought* tell you that nationalisation is a *communist* threat. Of course they would say that, they have a lot at stake in #StateCapture. And the now more than 40yo #NeoLiberal (neo-classical) economy is predicated on deregulated markets (especially financial markets) and globalisation.

    But *everything* in a *Social Democracy* is **Publicly owned** until it is bought or acquired by a private individual or a corporation. Hence, every private enterprise operates on the basis of an assumed social licence. That license can be revoked at any time.

    Govt (public wealth) subsidies and bailouts ought to be offset by assets transfers to public ownership, anything else is weatlh transfers to the #Rich and #Wealthy of the #RentierClass exacerbating the #WealthEquity gap in society. How else can this gap be breached if not by #TaxingTheRIch or #Nationalisation of failing enterprises, especially where public infrastructure is concerned.

    deepcutnews.com/p/neoliberalis

    #AusPol #Economics #PrivateOwnership #PublicOwnership #Deregulation #WealthTransfer #TheGreaterSocialGood

  11. What can I say… I like the cut of his jib. All that remains is to see how #Burnham will sail. He is certainly saying all of the right things to society at large and especially to those whose anger and frutrations require outlets, a safety valve to let off some steam, before *Repairs* begin. #AlboPM, *take note* if you value your legacy.

    “In his first speech as prime minister on July 17, Burnham promised “good growth in every postcode”, saying his victory in the Makerfield by-election, which returned him to Westminster, was a call “on behalf of forgotten places everywhere up and down this country, for a return of the Labour they once knew”.

    “We must recognise that this generation of politicians, myself included, have failed to challenge a political culture and an economic model that simply doesn’t work well enough for ordinary people.”

    Burnham charts that failure to “a series of wrong-turns in the 1980s”.

    “Four decades of the neoliberalism that began in the 1980s have not been kind to the places that built our party, nor to the communities across the UK in rural and coastal areas,” he said.

    “Political power was centralised and economic power was privatised.”
    Source: abc.net.au/news/2026-08-09/bur

    #UKPol #AusPol #Economics #NeoLIberalism #StateCapture #PublicInfrastructure #UKLabour. #AusLabor

  12. What can I say… I like the cut of his jib. All that remains is to see how #Burnham will sail. He is certainly saying all of the right things to society at large and especially to those whose anger and frutrations require outlets, a safety valve to let off some steam, before *Repairs* begin. #AlboPM, *take note* if you value your legacy.

    “In his first speech as prime minister on July 17, Burnham promised “good growth in every postcode”, saying his victory in the Makerfield by-election, which returned him to Westminster, was a call “on behalf of forgotten places everywhere up and down this country, for a return of the Labour they once knew”.

    “We must recognise that this generation of politicians, myself included, have failed to challenge a political culture and an economic model that simply doesn’t work well enough for ordinary people.”

    Burnham charts that failure to “a series of wrong-turns in the 1980s”.

    “Four decades of the neoliberalism that began in the 1980s have not been kind to the places that built our party, nor to the communities across the UK in rural and coastal areas,” he said.

    “Political power was centralised and economic power was privatised.”
    Source: abc.net.au/news/2026-08-09/bur

    #UKPol #AusPol #Economics #NeoLIberalism #StateCapture #PublicInfrastructure #UKLabour. #AusLabor

  13. What can I say… I like the cut of his jib. All that remains is to see how #Burnham will sail. He is certainly saying all of the right things to society at large and especially to those whose anger and frutrations require outlets, a safety valve to let off some steam, before *Repairs* begin. #AlboPM, *take note* if you value your legacy.

    “In his first speech as prime minister on July 17, Burnham promised “good growth in every postcode”, saying his victory in the Makerfield by-election, which returned him to Westminster, was a call “on behalf of forgotten places everywhere up and down this country, for a return of the Labour they once knew”.

    “We must recognise that this generation of politicians, myself included, have failed to challenge a political culture and an economic model that simply doesn’t work well enough for ordinary people.”

    Burnham charts that failure to “a series of wrong-turns in the 1980s”.

    “Four decades of the neoliberalism that began in the 1980s have not been kind to the places that built our party, nor to the communities across the UK in rural and coastal areas,” he said.

    “Political power was centralised and economic power was privatised.”
    Source: abc.net.au/news/2026-08-09/bur

    #UKPol #AusPol #Economics #NeoLIberalism #StateCapture #PublicInfrastructure #UKLabour. #AusLabor

  14. What can I say… I like the cut of his jib. All that remains is to see how #Burnham will sail. He is certainly saying all of the right things to society at large and especially to those whose anger and frutrations require outlets, a safety valve to let off some steam, before *Repairs* begin. #AlboPM, *take note* if you value your legacy.

    “In his first speech as prime minister on July 17, Burnham promised “good growth in every postcode”, saying his victory in the Makerfield by-election, which returned him to Westminster, was a call “on behalf of forgotten places everywhere up and down this country, for a return of the Labour they once knew”.

    “We must recognise that this generation of politicians, myself included, have failed to challenge a political culture and an economic model that simply doesn’t work well enough for ordinary people.”

    Burnham charts that failure to “a series of wrong-turns in the 1980s”.

    “Four decades of the neoliberalism that began in the 1980s have not been kind to the places that built our party, nor to the communities across the UK in rural and coastal areas,” he said.

    “Political power was centralised and economic power was privatised.”
    Source: abc.net.au/news/2026-08-09/bur

    #UKPol #AusPol #Economics #NeoLIberalism #StateCapture #PublicInfrastructure #UKLabour. #AusLabor

  15. What can I say… I like the cut of his jib. All that remains is to see how #Burnham will sail. He is certainly saying all of the right things to society at large and especially to those whose anger and frutrations require outlets, a safety valve to let off some steam, before *Repairs* begin. #AlboPM, *take note* if you value your legacy.

    “In his first speech as prime minister on July 17, Burnham promised “good growth in every postcode”, saying his victory in the Makerfield by-election, which returned him to Westminster, was a call “on behalf of forgotten places everywhere up and down this country, for a return of the Labour they once knew”.

    “We must recognise that this generation of politicians, myself included, have failed to challenge a political culture and an economic model that simply doesn’t work well enough for ordinary people.”

    Burnham charts that failure to “a series of wrong-turns in the 1980s”.

    “Four decades of the neoliberalism that began in the 1980s have not been kind to the places that built our party, nor to the communities across the UK in rural and coastal areas,” he said.

    “Political power was centralised and economic power was privatised.”
    Source: abc.net.au/news/2026-08-09/bur

    #UKPol #AusPol #Economics #NeoLIberalism #StateCapture #PublicInfrastructure #UKLabour. #AusLabor

  16. @kyp92

    While the Premier’s message is absolutely *on song* and it’s refreshing to finally have the head of a govt acknowledge that not only does #StateCapture exists but that it is not in the interest of our society. #Privatization is the mechanism by which the worst of #NeoLiberalism is implemented.

    It should be written into the constitution that no public infrastructure should be help in private hands. Period.

    Let’s have a referendum on this #ChrisMinns, let’s put that in the NSW Constitution. Or are you just *dog whistling* ?

    #NSWPol #AusPol

  17. @kyp92

    While the Premier’s message is absolutely *on song* and it’s refreshing to finally have the head of a govt acknowledge that not only does #StateCapture exists but that it is not in the interest of our society. #Privatization is the mechanism by which the worst of #NeoLiberalism is implemented.

    It should be written into the constitution that no public infrastructure should be help in private hands. Period.

    Let’s have a referendum on this #ChrisMinns, let’s put that in the NSW Constitution. Or are you just *dog whistling* ?

    #NSWPol #AusPol

  18. @kyp92

    While the Premier’s message is absolutely *on song* and it’s refreshing to finally have the head of a govt acknowledge that not only does #StateCapture exists but that it is not in the interest of our society. #Privatization is the mechanism by which the worst of #NeoLiberalism is implemented.

    It should be written into the constitution that no public infrastructure should be help in private hands. Period.

    Let’s have a referendum on this #ChrisMinns, let’s put that in the NSW Constitution. Or are you just *dog whistling* ?

    #NSWPol #AusPol

  19. @kyp92

    While the Premier’s message is absolutely *on song* and it’s refreshing to finally have the head of a govt acknowledge that not only does #StateCapture exists but that it is not in the interest of our society. #Privatization is the mechanism by which the worst of #NeoLiberalism is implemented.

    It should be written into the constitution that no public infrastructure should be help in private hands. Period.

    Let’s have a referendum on this #ChrisMinns, let’s put that in the NSW Constitution. Or are you just *dog whistling* ?

    #NSWPol #AusPol

  20. @kyp92

    While the Premier’s message is absolutely *on song* and it’s refreshing to finally have the head of a govt acknowledge that not only does #StateCapture exists but that it is not in the interest of our society. #Privatization is the mechanism by which the worst of #NeoLiberalism is implemented.

    It should be written into the constitution that no public infrastructure should be help in private hands. Period.

    Let’s have a referendum on this #ChrisMinns, let’s put that in the NSW Constitution. Or are you just *dog whistling* ?

    #NSWPol #AusPol

  21. RE: aus.social/@Blacksmithoz/11701

    How can we allow this kind of rort to go on…? How *responsible* is it for govts, meant to *represent* our wishes and act on them, to ignore the magnitude of #StateCapture?

    Wake up people, the representatives we have elected so far in our democratic history ARE NOT your friends, they do not “Represent” YOU.

    Get active, get political, make your vote count wherever you live before that voting power is taken away from you for ever.

    #Antifa #TaxTheRich #NoMoreBillionaires #LimitMillionaires #NoMoreSupperProfits #JoinYourUnion #InUnity

  22. RE: aus.social/@Blacksmithoz/11701

    How can we allow this kind of rort to go on…? How *responsible* is it for govts, meant to *represent* our wishes and act on them, to ignore the magnitude of #StateCapture?

    Wake up people, the representatives we have elected so far in our democratic history ARE NOT your friends, they do not “Represent” YOU.

    Get active, get political, make your vote count wherever you live before that voting power is taken away from you for ever.

    #Antifa #TaxTheRich #NoMoreBillionaires #LimitMillionaires #NoMoreSupperProfits #JoinYourUnion #InUnity

  23. RE: aus.social/@Blacksmithoz/11701

    How can we allow this kind of rort to go on…? How *responsible* is it for govts, meant to *represent* our wishes and act on them, to ignore the magnitude of #StateCapture?

    Wake up people, the representatives we have elected so far in our democratic history ARE NOT your friends, they do not “Represent” YOU.

    Get active, get political, make your vote count wherever you live before that voting power is taken away from you for ever.

    #Antifa #TaxTheRich #NoMoreBillionaires #LimitMillionaires #NoMoreSupperProfits #JoinYourUnion #InUnity

  24. RE: aus.social/@Blacksmithoz/11701

    How can we allow this kind of rort to go on…? How *responsible* is it for govts, meant to *represent* our wishes and act on them, to ignore the magnitude of #StateCapture?

    Wake up people, the representatives we have elected so far in our democratic history ARE NOT your friends, they do not “Represent” YOU.

    Get active, get political, make your vote count wherever you live before that voting power is taken away from you for ever.

    #Antifa #TaxTheRich #NoMoreBillionaires #LimitMillionaires #NoMoreSupperProfits #JoinYourUnion #InUnity

  25. RE: aus.social/@Blacksmithoz/11701

    How can we allow this kind of rort to go on…? How *responsible* is it for govts, meant to *represent* our wishes and act on them, to ignore the magnitude of #StateCapture?

    Wake up people, the representatives we have elected so far in our democratic history ARE NOT your friends, they do not “Represent” YOU.

    Get active, get political, make your vote count wherever you live before that voting power is taken away from you for ever.

    #Antifa #TaxTheRich #NoMoreBillionaires #LimitMillionaires #NoMoreSupperProfits #JoinYourUnion #InUnity

  26. @drrimmer @treleanor
    But it shouldn’t be about #Views at all, it should be based on #Facts, #VerifiableInformation and the latest #Research.

    Above all, Distinctions ought to be made about what kind of #AI we’re talking about because not all forms of AI technology are similar. Even the #Terminolgy needs to be formalised so that informed debate, discussion, assessment can lead to better policy decisions. We’ll need to wait for the annoucement and the details of the policy to judge it’s potential impact, but I fear that the #TechBro #Marketeerring has the upper hand because nothing coming out of #AlboPM gives me reason to hope for good outcomes.

    #AusPol #GenAISlop #ChatBotIA #OutsourcingTheMind #StateCapture #ClimateCrisis #Antifa #TaxTheRich #NoMoreBillionaires #AIKoolAid

  27. @drrimmer @treleanor
    But it shouldn’t be about #Views at all, it should be based on #Facts, #VerifiableInformation and the latest #Research.

    Above all, Distinctions ought to be made about what kind of #AI we’re talking about because not all forms of AI technology are similar. Even the #Terminolgy needs to be formalised so that informed debate, discussion, assessment can lead to better policy decisions. We’ll need to wait for the annoucement and the details of the policy to judge it’s potential impact, but I fear that the #TechBro #Marketeerring has the upper hand because nothing coming out of #AlboPM gives me reason to hope for good outcomes.

    #AusPol #GenAISlop #ChatBotIA #OutsourcingTheMind #StateCapture #ClimateCrisis #Antifa #TaxTheRich #NoMoreBillionaires #AIKoolAid

  28. @drrimmer @treleanor
    But it shouldn’t be about #Views at all, it should be based on #Facts, #VerifiableInformation and the latest #Research.

    Above all, Distinctions ought to be made about what kind of #AI we’re talking about because not all forms of AI technology are similar. Even the #Terminolgy needs to be formalised so that informed debate, discussion, assessment can lead to better policy decisions. We’ll need to wait for the annoucement and the details of the policy to judge it’s potential impact, but I fear that the #TechBro #Marketeerring has the upper hand because nothing coming out of #AlboPM gives me reason to hope for good outcomes.

    #AusPol #GenAISlop #ChatBotIA #OutsourcingTheMind #StateCapture #ClimateCrisis #Antifa #TaxTheRich #NoMoreBillionaires #AIKoolAid

  29. @drrimmer @treleanor
    But it shouldn’t be about #Views at all, it should be based on #Facts, #VerifiableInformation and the latest #Research.

    Above all, Distinctions ought to be made about what kind of #AI we’re talking about because not all forms of AI technology are similar. Even the #Terminolgy needs to be formalised so that informed debate, discussion, assessment can lead to better policy decisions. We’ll need to wait for the annoucement and the details of the policy to judge it’s potential impact, but I fear that the #TechBro #Marketeerring has the upper hand because nothing coming out of #AlboPM gives me reason to hope for good outcomes.

    #AusPol #GenAISlop #ChatBotIA #OutsourcingTheMind #StateCapture #ClimateCrisis #Antifa #TaxTheRich #NoMoreBillionaires #AIKoolAid

  30. @drrimmer @treleanor
    But it shouldn’t be about #Views at all, it should be based on #Facts, #VerifiableInformation and the latest #Research.

    Above all, Distinctions ought to be made about what kind of #AI we’re talking about because not all forms of AI technology are similar. Even the #Terminolgy needs to be formalised so that informed debate, discussion, assessment can lead to better policy decisions. We’ll need to wait for the annoucement and the details of the policy to judge it’s potential impact, but I fear that the #TechBro #Marketeerring has the upper hand because nothing coming out of #AlboPM gives me reason to hope for good outcomes.

    #AusPol #GenAISlop #ChatBotIA #OutsourcingTheMind #StateCapture #ClimateCrisis #Antifa #TaxTheRich #NoMoreBillionaires #AIKoolAid

  31. This is so bloody obvious to anyone spending a little time thinking about critical social services. Which begs the question: ‘if the polies also know this, why has this been allowed to continue?’ And the usual govt response is:’It’s comlicated.’ Well, not it’s not. #StateCapture does not work for the whole of society and only serves to increase wealth transfer to the top end of town while lowering the quality of services until they’re no longer effective. The only complications are the self-interests of #Grifters hell bent on increasing their wealth at the cost of everyonw else. It’s high time this #Theft is stopped.

    “The world is gradually recovering from the mania for privatisation and pseudo-competitive markets that dominated the neoliberal area. But we need a more coherent response than “fix on failure”. It’s time to accept that essential infrastructure is too important to be left to private monopolies and duopolies, regulated or otherwise.”

    Read more:
    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    @johnquiggin #StateTheft #CriticalInfrastructure #NeoLiberalism #FInancialMarkets #Deregulations #Privatisation #AusPol #TrippleZero #EmergencyWarning
    #ReNationalization #NationalizeEssentialServices

  32. This is so bloody obvious to anyone spending a little time thinking about critical social services. Which begs the question: ‘if the polies also know this, why has this been allowed to continue?’ And the usual govt response is:’It’s comlicated.’ Well, not it’s not. #StateCapture does not work for the whole of society and only serves to increase wealth transfer to the top end of town while lowering the quality of services until they’re no longer effective. The only complications are the self-interests of #Grifters hell bent on increasing their wealth at the cost of everyonw else. It’s high time this #Theft is stopped.

    “The world is gradually recovering from the mania for privatisation and pseudo-competitive markets that dominated the neoliberal area. But we need a more coherent response than “fix on failure”. It’s time to accept that essential infrastructure is too important to be left to private monopolies and duopolies, regulated or otherwise.”

    Read more:
    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    @johnquiggin #StateTheft #CriticalInfrastructure #NeoLiberalism #FInancialMarkets #Deregulations #Privatisation #AusPol #TrippleZero #EmergencyWarning
    #ReNationalization #NationalizeEssentialServices

  33. This is so bloody obvious to anyone spending a little time thinking about critical social services. Which begs the question: ‘if the polies also know this, why has this been allowed to continue?’ And the usual govt response is:’It’s comlicated.’ Well, not it’s not. #StateCapture does not work for the whole of society and only serves to increase wealth transfer to the top end of town while lowering the quality of services until they’re no longer effective. The only complications are the self-interests of #Grifters hell bent on increasing their wealth at the cost of everyonw else. It’s high time this #Theft is stopped.

    “The world is gradually recovering from the mania for privatisation and pseudo-competitive markets that dominated the neoliberal area. But we need a more coherent response than “fix on failure”. It’s time to accept that essential infrastructure is too important to be left to private monopolies and duopolies, regulated or otherwise.”

    Read more:
    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    @johnquiggin #StateTheft #CriticalInfrastructure #NeoLiberalism #FInancialMarkets #Deregulations #Privatisation #AusPol #TrippleZero #EmergencyWarning
    #ReNationalization #NationalizeEssentialServices

  34. This is so bloody obvious to anyone spending a little time thinking about critical social services. Which begs the question: ‘if the polies also know this, why has this been allowed to continue?’ And the usual govt response is:’It’s comlicated.’ Well, not it’s not. #StateCapture does not work for the whole of society and only serves to increase wealth transfer to the top end of town while lowering the quality of services until they’re no longer effective. The only complications are the self-interests of #Grifters hell bent on increasing their wealth at the cost of everyonw else. It’s high time this #Theft is stopped.

    “The world is gradually recovering from the mania for privatisation and pseudo-competitive markets that dominated the neoliberal area. But we need a more coherent response than “fix on failure”. It’s time to accept that essential infrastructure is too important to be left to private monopolies and duopolies, regulated or otherwise.”

    Read more:
    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    @johnquiggin #StateTheft #CriticalInfrastructure #NeoLiberalism #FInancialMarkets #Deregulations #Privatisation #AusPol #TrippleZero #EmergencyWarning
    #ReNationalization #NationalizeEssentialServices

  35. [edited to correct Eddy’s surname]

    Eddy Jokovich just about captures the reasons that I parted ways from #NSWLabor and highlights some of the things that need to change before I reconsider my decision, if at all.

    “The conference also exposed Labor’s increasingly difficult balancing act, where many delegates demanded stronger action on gambling reform, improvements in civil liberties, and housing reforms, while the leaders continued to highlight caution, discipline and incremental change. Truly inspirational stuff. Government has become an exercise in managing vested interests without disturbing the traditional centres of economic and political power, and conferences like this show that there’s unlikely to be any change in this position.”

    Read more:
    newpolitics.com.au/p/labors-co

    #AusPol #NSWLabor #NSWLaborConference #Labor #MoreOfTheSame is not progressive!
    #VestedInterests #StateCapture #GriftAndCorrruption

  36. [edited to correct Eddy’s surname]

    Eddy Jokovich just about captures the reasons that I parted ways from #NSWLabor and highlights some of the things that need to change before I reconsider my decision, if at all.

    “The conference also exposed Labor’s increasingly difficult balancing act, where many delegates demanded stronger action on gambling reform, improvements in civil liberties, and housing reforms, while the leaders continued to highlight caution, discipline and incremental change. Truly inspirational stuff. Government has become an exercise in managing vested interests without disturbing the traditional centres of economic and political power, and conferences like this show that there’s unlikely to be any change in this position.”

    Read more:
    newpolitics.com.au/p/labors-co

    #AusPol #NSWLabor #NSWLaborConference #Labor #MoreOfTheSame is not progressive!
    #VestedInterests #StateCapture #GriftAndCorrruption

  37. [edited to correct Eddy’s surname]

    Eddy Jokovich just about captures the reasons that I parted ways from #NSWLabor and highlights some of the things that need to change before I reconsider my decision, if at all.

    “The conference also exposed Labor’s increasingly difficult balancing act, where many delegates demanded stronger action on gambling reform, improvements in civil liberties, and housing reforms, while the leaders continued to highlight caution, discipline and incremental change. Truly inspirational stuff. Government has become an exercise in managing vested interests without disturbing the traditional centres of economic and political power, and conferences like this show that there’s unlikely to be any change in this position.”

    Read more:
    newpolitics.com.au/p/labors-co

    #AusPol #NSWLabor #NSWLaborConference #Labor #MoreOfTheSame is not progressive!
    #VestedInterests #StateCapture #GriftAndCorrruption

  38. [edited to correct Eddy’s surname]

    Eddy Jokovich just about captures the reasons that I parted ways from #NSWLabor and highlights some of the things that need to change before I reconsider my decision, if at all.

    “The conference also exposed Labor’s increasingly difficult balancing act, where many delegates demanded stronger action on gambling reform, improvements in civil liberties, and housing reforms, while the leaders continued to highlight caution, discipline and incremental change. Truly inspirational stuff. Government has become an exercise in managing vested interests without disturbing the traditional centres of economic and political power, and conferences like this show that there’s unlikely to be any change in this position.”

    Read more:
    newpolitics.com.au/p/labors-co

    #AusPol #NSWLabor #NSWLaborConference #Labor #MoreOfTheSame is not progressive!
    #VestedInterests #StateCapture #GriftAndCorrruption

  39. [edited to correct Eddy’s surname]

    Eddy Jokovich just about captures the reasons that I parted ways from #NSWLabor and highlights some of the things that need to change before I reconsider my decision, if at all.

    “The conference also exposed Labor’s increasingly difficult balancing act, where many delegates demanded stronger action on gambling reform, improvements in civil liberties, and housing reforms, while the leaders continued to highlight caution, discipline and incremental change. Truly inspirational stuff. Government has become an exercise in managing vested interests without disturbing the traditional centres of economic and political power, and conferences like this show that there’s unlikely to be any change in this position.”

    Read more:
    newpolitics.com.au/p/labors-co

    #AusPol #NSWLabor #NSWLaborConference #Labor #MoreOfTheSame is not progressive!
    #VestedInterests #StateCapture #GriftAndCorrruption

  40. My question is: *Is the Govt reading this?*. They should, because the window on legislating bountyful #GasTaxes on the #SuperProfits currently enjoyed by the #GasIndustries is rapidly closing. If #AlboPM keeps going at his #SlugSpeed on this overwhelmingly supported #Tax there will be little to celebrate and Consolidated Revenue will not see its full potential (if Gas Peak hasn’t already gone past us).

    The other important question is: *WTF is Labor even considering new #FossilFuel and especially #GasField exploration and #Exploitation licences* (in the NW)? What in blazes is he blind to? Is this a obvious case of #StateCapture by preferential and idiotic treatment? How can the *whole* of govt, the pollies, the public service, the NGOs all be going along with this #Circus ? No detractors to be seen in the halls of power? Could #AlboPM really be pulilng *ALL* the strings? Is everyone with one ounce of *decision-making* authority hell bent on maintaining the current economic *joke* ? If not, then why aren’t we seeing a backbench and crossbench revolt in Partliament. Why aren’t we seeing public information flooding the news medium? Why aren’t we seeing GOvt taken. To Court on their failure of *Duty of Care* ? Class actions filling the Courts’ agenda. The #Greens flooding us with outrage at the inaction we observe and which makes us angry?

    I have a lot of questions… and so far, no answers! There has been no better time to see that doing the same thing and expecting better results is either a conspiracy (lead by the #RentierClass and its minions) or wholesale brainwashing of the power elites. WTF will it take for the electorate to demand much *Better* from our representataives?

    /end_of_rant/

    theguardian.com/environment/20

    #ClimateCrisis #Renewables #Electrification #StopBurningFossilFuels #NoMoreFossilFuelExtraction #TaxTheRich #WriteToYourMP #Revolt #Resist #ThinkBeforeYouVote #InUnity #JoinYourUnionNow #Protest #Litigate #Accountability #Transparency #GovtForThePeople #SocialDemocracy

  41. My question is: *Is the Govt reading this?*. They should, because the window on legislating bountyful #GasTaxes on the #SuperProfits currently enjoyed by the #GasIndustries is rapidly closing. If #AlboPM keeps going at his #SlugSpeed on this overwhelmingly supported #Tax there will be little to celebrate and Consolidated Revenue will not see its full potential (if Gas Peak hasn’t already gone past us).

    The other important question is: *WTF is Labor even considering new #FossilFuel and especially #GasField exploration and #Exploitation licences* (in the NW)? What in blazes is he blind to? Is this a obvious case of #StateCapture by preferential and idiotic treatment? How can the *whole* of govt, the pollies, the public service, the NGOs all be going along with this #Circus ? No detractors to be seen in the halls of power? Could #AlboPM really be pulilng *ALL* the strings? Is everyone with one ounce of *decision-making* authority hell bent on maintaining the current economic *joke* ? If not, then why aren’t we seeing a backbench and crossbench revolt in Partliament. Why aren’t we seeing public information flooding the news medium? Why aren’t we seeing GOvt taken. To Court on their failure of *Duty of Care* ? Class actions filling the Courts’ agenda. The #Greens flooding us with outrage at the inaction we observe and which makes us angry?

    I have a lot of questions… and so far, no answers! There has been no better time to see that doing the same thing and expecting better results is either a conspiracy (lead by the #RentierClass and its minions) or wholesale brainwashing of the power elites. WTF will it take for the electorate to demand much *Better* from our representataives?

    /end_of_rant/

    theguardian.com/environment/20

    #ClimateCrisis #Renewables #Electrification #StopBurningFossilFuels #NoMoreFossilFuelExtraction #TaxTheRich #WriteToYourMP #Revolt #Resist #ThinkBeforeYouVote #InUnity #JoinYourUnionNow #Protest #Litigate #Accountability #Transparency #GovtForThePeople #SocialDemocracy

  42. My question is: *Is the Govt reading this?*. They should, because the window on legislating bountyful #GasTaxes on the #SuperProfits currently enjoyed by the #GasIndustries is rapidly closing. If #AlboPM keeps going at his #SlugSpeed on this overwhelmingly supported #Tax there will be little to celebrate and Consolidated Revenue will not see its full potential (if Gas Peak hasn’t already gone past us).

    The other important question is: *WTF is Labor even considering new #FossilFuel and especially #GasField exploration and #Exploitation licences* (in the NW)? What in blazes is he blind to? Is this a obvious case of #StateCapture by preferential and idiotic treatment? How can the *whole* of govt, the pollies, the public service, the NGOs all be going along with this #Circus ? No detractors to be seen in the halls of power? Could #AlboPM really be pulilng *ALL* the strings? Is everyone with one ounce of *decision-making* authority hell bent on maintaining the current economic *joke* ? If not, then why aren’t we seeing a backbench and crossbench revolt in Partliament. Why aren’t we seeing public information flooding the news medium? Why aren’t we seeing GOvt taken. To Court on their failure of *Duty of Care* ? Class actions filling the Courts’ agenda. The #Greens flooding us with outrage at the inaction we observe and which makes us angry?

    I have a lot of questions… and so far, no answers! There has been no better time to see that doing the same thing and expecting better results is either a conspiracy (lead by the #RentierClass and its minions) or wholesale brainwashing of the power elites. WTF will it take for the electorate to demand much *Better* from our representataives?

    /end_of_rant/

    theguardian.com/environment/20

    #ClimateCrisis #Renewables #Electrification #StopBurningFossilFuels #NoMoreFossilFuelExtraction #TaxTheRich #WriteToYourMP #Revolt #Resist #ThinkBeforeYouVote #InUnity #JoinYourUnionNow #Protest #Litigate #Accountability #Transparency #GovtForThePeople #SocialDemocracy

  43. My question is: *Is the Govt reading this?*. They should, because the window on legislating bountyful #GasTaxes on the #SuperProfits currently enjoyed by the #GasIndustries is rapidly closing. If #AlboPM keeps going at his #SlugSpeed on this overwhelmingly supported #Tax there will be little to celebrate and Consolidated Revenue will not see its full potential (if Gas Peak hasn’t already gone past us).

    The other important question is: *WTF is Labor even considering new #FossilFuel and especially #GasField exploration and #Exploitation licences* (in the NW)? What in blazes is he blind to? Is this a obvious case of #StateCapture by preferential and idiotic treatment? How can the *whole* of govt, the pollies, the public service, the NGOs all be going along with this #Circus ? No detractors to be seen in the halls of power? Could #AlboPM really be pulilng *ALL* the strings? Is everyone with one ounce of *decision-making* authority hell bent on maintaining the current economic *joke* ? If not, then why aren’t we seeing a backbench and crossbench revolt in Partliament. Why aren’t we seeing public information flooding the news medium? Why aren’t we seeing GOvt taken. To Court on their failure of *Duty of Care* ? Class actions filling the Courts’ agenda. The #Greens flooding us with outrage at the inaction we observe and which makes us angry?

    I have a lot of questions… and so far, no answers! There has been no better time to see that doing the same thing and expecting better results is either a conspiracy (lead by the #RentierClass and its minions) or wholesale brainwashing of the power elites. WTF will it take for the electorate to demand much *Better* from our representataives?

    /end_of_rant/

    theguardian.com/environment/20

    #ClimateCrisis #Renewables #Electrification #StopBurningFossilFuels #NoMoreFossilFuelExtraction #TaxTheRich #WriteToYourMP #Revolt #Resist #ThinkBeforeYouVote #InUnity #JoinYourUnionNow #Protest #Litigate #Accountability #Transparency #GovtForThePeople #SocialDemocracy

  44. My question is: *Is the Govt reading this?*. They should, because the window on legislating bountyful #GasTaxes on the #SuperProfits currently enjoyed by the #GasIndustries is rapidly closing. If #AlboPM keeps going at his #SlugSpeed on this overwhelmingly supported #Tax there will be little to celebrate and Consolidated Revenue will not see its full potential (if Gas Peak hasn’t already gone past us).

    The other important question is: *WTF is Labor even considering new #FossilFuel and especially #GasField exploration and #Exploitation licences* (in the NW)? What in blazes is he blind to? Is this a obvious case of #StateCapture by preferential and idiotic treatment? How can the *whole* of govt, the pollies, the public service, the NGOs all be going along with this #Circus ? No detractors to be seen in the halls of power? Could #AlboPM really be pulilng *ALL* the strings? Is everyone with one ounce of *decision-making* authority hell bent on maintaining the current economic *joke* ? If not, then why aren’t we seeing a backbench and crossbench revolt in Partliament. Why aren’t we seeing public information flooding the news medium? Why aren’t we seeing GOvt taken. To Court on their failure of *Duty of Care* ? Class actions filling the Courts’ agenda. The #Greens flooding us with outrage at the inaction we observe and which makes us angry?

    I have a lot of questions… and so far, no answers! There has been no better time to see that doing the same thing and expecting better results is either a conspiracy (lead by the #RentierClass and its minions) or wholesale brainwashing of the power elites. WTF will it take for the electorate to demand much *Better* from our representataives?

    /end_of_rant/

    theguardian.com/environment/20

    #ClimateCrisis #Renewables #Electrification #StopBurningFossilFuels #NoMoreFossilFuelExtraction #TaxTheRich #WriteToYourMP #Revolt #Resist #ThinkBeforeYouVote #InUnity #JoinYourUnionNow #Protest #Litigate #Accountability #Transparency #GovtForThePeople #SocialDemocracy

  45. Talking about #Privatisation for a moment, here is a stark reality check about the whole #StateCapture fraud:

    “In Australia, detention centres are run by private companies and the cost to house someone in immigration detention averages $505,176 annually. This is extraordinary, given the cost of housing a prisoner in prison is approximately $160,600 annually.” (Source: The Conversation)

    This citation is from an article debunking 5 common misconception about Australian #Immigration. Read more:
    theconversation.com/how-does-a

    #LNP and #PHON voters please take not of these facts before repeating right-wing nonsense.

    #DetentionCentres #AusPol

  46. Talking about #Privatisation for a moment, here is a stark reality check about the whole #StateCapture fraud:

    “In Australia, detention centres are run by private companies and the cost to house someone in immigration detention averages $505,176 annually. This is extraordinary, given the cost of housing a prisoner in prison is approximately $160,600 annually.” (Source: The Conversation)

    This citation is from an article debunking 5 common misconception about Australian #Immigration. Read more:
    theconversation.com/how-does-a

    #LNP and #PHON voters please take not of these facts before repeating right-wing nonsense.

    #DetentionCentres #AusPol

  47. Talking about #Privatisation for a moment, here is a stark reality check about the whole #StateCapture fraud:

    “In Australia, detention centres are run by private companies and the cost to house someone in immigration detention averages $505,176 annually. This is extraordinary, given the cost of housing a prisoner in prison is approximately $160,600 annually.” (Source: The Conversation)

    This citation is from an article debunking 5 common misconception about Australian #Immigration. Read more:
    theconversation.com/how-does-a

    #LNP and #PHON voters please take not of these facts before repeating right-wing nonsense.

    #DetentionCentres #AusPol

  48. Talking about #Privatisation for a moment, here is a stark reality check about the whole #StateCapture fraud:

    “In Australia, detention centres are run by private companies and the cost to house someone in immigration detention averages $505,176 annually. This is extraordinary, given the cost of housing a prisoner in prison is approximately $160,600 annually.” (Source: The Conversation)

    This citation is from an article debunking 5 common misconception about Australian #Immigration. Read more:
    theconversation.com/how-does-a

    #LNP and #PHON voters please take not of these facts before repeating right-wing nonsense.

    #DetentionCentres #AusPol

  49. @ChrisMayLA6
    Yes, private sector #greed and need for #profits. The good people on #Mastodon know full well the piftfalls of handing over basic social services to the private sector (A #NeoLiberal modus operandi ) and its characterisation as #StateCapture or #StateTheft . If not, they should get out more…

  50. @ChrisMayLA6
    Yes, private sector #greed and need for #profits. The good people on #Mastodon know full well the piftfalls of handing over basic social services to the private sector (A #NeoLiberal modus operandi ) and its characterisation as #StateCapture or #StateTheft . If not, they should get out more…

  51. @ChrisMayLA6
    Yes, private sector #greed and need for #profits. The good people on #Mastodon know full well the piftfalls of handing over basic social services to the private sector (A #NeoLiberal modus operandi ) and its characterisation as #StateCapture or #StateTheft . If not, they should get out more…

  52. @ChrisMayLA6
    Yes, private sector #greed and need for #profits. The good people on #Mastodon know full well the piftfalls of handing over basic social services to the private sector (A #NeoLiberal modus operandi ) and its characterisation as #StateCapture or #StateTheft . If not, they should get out more…