As federal parliament returns, what's on the table for the ACT?
By Patrick Bell
With the newly elected federal government set to return to parliament next week, what can ACT residents expect from it over the next three years?
#auspol #UnitedNations #LightOnTheFuckingHill
@Snoro certainly the #ALP in Australia don’t show any sign to limit #FossilFuel growth but if we now have a UK example then maybe… The underlying issue is that the political class sees Australia as a #PetroState and that our economy is dependent upon fossil fuels. It’s the line pushed heavily disguised by the fossil barons.
#auspol
I started reading this article in The Guardian and a few paragraphs in, I read something that literally floored me;
“…a disincentive for social housing providers to accommodate someone on youth allowance, because they receive less money.’
I’m sorry, what? I had to read it again a couple of times to make sure I wasn’t hallucinating or making things up as I read along. But no. That’s what I read in this article.
WTF is a ‘Social Housing Provider’ ? It sounds like a monstrous chimera from the neoliberal hellpark we call our political economic menagerie. “Social’ folks… that word says it all. Public housing is what social housing ought to be by definition. Read my words #ALP #AlboPM, Public/social services Are Not For Profit services! I’m so pissed off right now… can’t read further.
#SocialHousing #StateTheft #Privatisation #Neoliberalism
#AusPol
These things happen all the time to people struggling – nobody cares
First Dog on the Moon
Despite my deep detestation of party politics...
I am deeply relieved that the ALP are in government in this time of geo-political instability and war.
Seriously, can anyone imagine how bad it would be if Dutton and the #LNPClownCar were running the show right now.
And worse... imagine if Ssssussssan Ley was negotiating with the Orange Turd if she were PM...
The #ALP aren't great but at least they're stable...
This chart shows real wages are way behind because: sub-poverty increases in the pandemic and inflation. 3.5% doesn't fix the gap. #ACTU, #ALP, #SDA officers any who earn far higher than minimum wage tell us the increase is 'great' - really ? #FightBackWithRAFFWU
We disagree with the editorial of the Australia Institute that the increase is “appropriate.” It is not. It keeps millions of workers in poverty.
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/minimum-wage-rise-appropriate-reward-for-low-paid-workers/
<Kate claims the doctor shook his head and told her: "You've got yourself into a predicament. This is your miracle baby; it would be so much easier if you just have this baby.">
of course, there are anti-abortion campaigners who believe women are reckless and indifferent to pregnancy and *expect* doctors to give them an abortion at the last minute because its convenient. they are wrong, and that is not what happened in kate’s case.
i don’t know kate, but here’s what i imagine:
*it’s never easy or convenient to take time off work to go to a doctor, or to be unwell for any period of time
*it’s never easy or convenient to be pregnant — morning sickness is real, and hyper-emesis can kill. it’s not always convenient for bosses if women are in early stages of pregnancy
*kate missed a blood test appointment — for work reasons
*it’s never easy or convenient to be heavily pregnant
*it’s never easy or convenient to give birth or care for a new born
how many of the f****s in the ALP (or politics generally) who approved the internal review line
<"The party would be wise to reconnect with people of faith on social justice issues>
think social justice is forcing women back to work or workplace training /onto the unliveable jobstart when their children are young?
<<A decision announced by Gillard on the day of her now famous misogyny speech in 2012 cut back the amount of assistance paid to single parents, forcing them onto lower benefits when their children reached the age of eight instead of the previous cut-off age of 16.>> (SMH talking about raising of the age again, in 2023) — (to be fair, gillard was only accelerating a policy introduced by john howard)
WOMEN DO NOT HAVE BABIES SO THEY CAN BLUDGE ON WELFARE
WELFARE SUCKS for everyone, poverty sucks for everyone
we should stop treating children like pawns. children are people. children flourish if they are wanted, if their parents are well, and if they are not living in poverty
if you think women should be baby farms for the convenience of oligarchs or to appease your imaginary friend, you can 
right off.
we might not have returned to the grisly days of backyard abortions, but it seems the current system of legal abortions is still paternalistic, and religious right factions are influencing policy
this is the story of one woman’s journey…
‘It’s just maths’: uninsurable, disaster-hit pockets of Australia pose existential questions requiring radical answers
> As Taree and NSW’s mid-north coast reel from flooding, questions are moving beyond immediate recovery to how crises could be handled in the future
>Whatever’s changing our climate – they can argue about what it is until the cows come home –** but the fact is it’s changing and we’re going to have to do things differently.”**
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They vote #Nationals who literally scoff at the science of #ClimateChange, they don't vote #Greens The rest of the country vote predominantly #ALP or Liberal and ignore it all. I can only have limited empathy when they express the opinion that "something needs to change" and they don't. As adults in a democracy at some stage we have to take responsibility for our own actions and live with the consequences of those choices.
We've left it so long there are now no good choices, there are only less bad choices and even then we ignore reality. There will soon be no choices left.
This week, the freshly re-elected #Albanese Labor government scandalously approved a forty-year extension on the operational life of the gas hub, a move that not only threatens the priceless petroglyphs, but represents permission for #Woodside (the massive gas company that basically runs the state of Western Australia) to profit off a #CarbonBomb that will, once extracted and burned, add somewhere between four and six billion tonnes of climate-wrecking ocean-acidifying carbon dioxide to the active carbon cycle. The cumulative climate pollution from the life of this one project will thus considerably exceed the sum of Australia's projected national domestic emissions for the next decade or more.
Of all the legacies of this Labor government, this decision (alongside giving the green light to dozens more coal and gas projects) will ultimately be the most impactful. The carbon released for the short-term profits of a wealthy few will contribute to massively disrupting and degrading the habitability of the planet for everyone, continuing to shape life on Earth for at least the next forty thousand years.
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#Auspol #FossilFuelIndustry #DirtyEnergy #DirtyEnergyDirtyPolitics #FossilGas #Murujuga #BurrupHub #NorthWestShelf #Woodside #ALP 2/2
important "australian" politics - ecocide, bordlerline government corruption
Glencore Australia's Ulan Coal Mine expansion near Mudgee approved
> Assessment reports for the approved NSW mine expansion state that the project will put threatened species at risk and see hundreds of hectares of land gradually sink.
>Glencore Australia will be required to prepare a Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Plan,
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Well that's easy, don't mine coal.
Thanks #ALP voters, could have voted #Greens but decided civilisations collpase was better :(
So tired of the soap-opera of #auspol There's nothing to fear from the #coalition except more double-dealing BS. The next drama will come from the #ALP when it over-reaches its 'mandate.' With a further erosion of trust and patience in the guv, they way will be open for a new #independent democracy Australia can teach the rest of the world a much-needed lesson, that politics can be done differently and not lead us all into a handbasket to you-know-where.
Murray Watt on #RadioNational
The EPA laws were "Delayed/prevented by the Coalition and the Greens".
Bullshit.
Tanya Plibersek had the Greens squared-away. The Coalition was irrelevant. The EPA was shot in the head by Albanese to keep WA seats safe. End of.
And now? When they could lay waste to WA seats, and *still* easily win the next election? Now, when the full range of nation-changing levers are just begging to be pulled? Now, what is the most important item on the agenda?
Send Murray Watt to WA to kiss the gas ring of Santos and Woodside, and deliver the message that an EPA will never be able to reject based on climate.
The ALP is clearly saying #GetFucked to the #Greens (and to the #climate). We need gas, coal and oil more than we need you.
The remaining question:
#Tanya, really, are you seriously going to sit there taking this shit?
#ALP how fucking meek will you be? You have two terms to change the nation. Is "meh" all you fuckers have got written on your wishlists?
I previously said that the #ALP can't claim a mandate for anything because they didn't actually introduce any new, big policy initiatives. That said... we continue to need a boring, stable government after two decades of circus politics and that's good.
However, Albo's biggest mistake to date was dumping Dreyfus and Husic. You don't change a winning team because of an unexpected landslide.
The factions have ignited the inevitable implosion...
Troubled by unseasonal extremes of weather?
This is our new normal. Until it gets worse.
The longer we delay serious action on #ClimateChange the worse it will get.
