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- Comment on A minority Labor government could be truly progressive – and the conservatives know it | Lenore Taylor 3 days ago:
I didn’t like Greens’
- support of the Digital Identity Bill
- support for Hamas
- Larissa Waters: “I believe women”
But they will probably get my #1 in the lower house and probably preference flows in the upper.
I won’t let perfect be the enemy of good.
- Comment on Friday essay: ‘War has made me a pacifist’. Why are we so reluctant to acknowledge Australia’s anti-war veterans? 3 days ago:
Yes we can isolate it.
Israel isn’t going anywhere despite the Hamas “From the river to the sea…” delusion.
Palestinians aren’t going anywhere either but now we have extreme right wingers in Israel adopting a similar catchphrase.
- Comment on Friday essay: ‘War has made me a pacifist’. Why are we so reluctant to acknowledge Australia’s anti-war veterans? 4 days ago:
A pacifist will always supoort self defence, like the Palestinians in Gaza
October 7 was not self defense.
- Comment on Council votes again to dump public EV fast charging station after TV news report 5 days ago:
Am always surprised by how little it costs to bribe Australian politicians.
- Comment on Council votes again to dump public EV fast charging station after TV news report 5 days ago:
mayor Adam Belot was basing his about-face on the heavily-debunked Channel 7 News report on nickel manufacturing in Indonesia,
- Comment on ‘No quick wins’: China has the world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor 1 week ago:
Bear in mind that this is from the nuclear energy industry with a bias such as claiming nuclear is necessary for net zero carbon emissions by 2049 (ignoring pumped hydro storage of renewable energy).
- Comment on Solar Panel Waste is Tiny—Coal & Gas Emit Hundreds Of Times Mass Per MWh - CleanTechnica 1 week ago:
What astounds me is the number of useful idiots propagating the lies who don’t even own shares.
It is inexplicable why they want to see renewables fail so I put it down to mental illness (despising/distrusting educated stances, lumping renewables with the “woke” conspiracy).
- Comment on From $30 parmigianas to $15 pints, can Australia still afford the pub? 1 week ago:
patrioticmillionaires.uk has none of that. The sister group. The committee at the top of the list, Gary Stevenson has a #1 best seller in the UK, gets 1.2m YouTube views per week, and has excellent credentials.
- Comment on Australia’s biggest industrial polluter receives millions in carbon credits despite rising emissions 1 week ago:
Carbon tax is harder to evade. Unfortunately the fossil fuel billionaires convinced Australians to vote against it and against their own interests.
- Comment on From $30 parmigianas to $15 pints, can Australia still afford the pub? 1 week ago:
It’s a problem in the global west not just Australia: the wealth gap keeps increasing even under Labor here or Labour in UK. Tax wealth not work.
- Comment on How Differential Privacy Works 2 weeks ago:
Isn’t that just peppering (or is it salting) the data?
- Comment on Australian comedian ditches US trip due to concern she could be denied entry over Trump jokes 2 weeks ago:
Price Ticket from Australia and another 24 hours in flight are a big deal too. Not to mention contractual obligations to perform.
- Comment on Australian comedian ditches US trip due to concern she could be denied entry over Trump jokes 2 weeks ago:
Officials may ask to inspect your electronic devices, emails, text messages or social media accounts. If you refuse, they can deny your entry
Let’s remember that this has been the case for years for anyone entering Australia too.
- Comment on Close to 500k Australians could have missed out on savings at the pharmacy [from the PBS Safety Net] 2 weeks ago:
Prescriptions are only a small part of our health record.
- Comment on Where will my vote go? 3 weeks ago:
I understand.
- Comment on Where will my vote go? 3 weeks ago:
Bad example. Nationals don’t actually represent the interests they claim to. They only continue to be a power because of generational inertia.
- Comment on Victoria to ban state school logos on shorts, pants, skirts and socks from next year 3 weeks ago:
so I can could walk around the city after school without being treated like a piece of shit.
For being a school student? I don’t get it.
- Comment on Sovereign citizen who kidnapped her child sentenced to two years' jail 4 weeks ago:
Substance abuse is disproportionately associated with conspiracy theorists.
- Comment on Sovereign citizen who kidnapped her child sentenced to two years' jail 4 weeks ago:
Why was the kid taken from her custody in the first place?
- Comment on Sovereign citizen who kidnapped her child sentenced to two years' jail 4 weeks ago:
Including the not-so-fringe idea that voting for a minor party is a wasted vote.
- Comment on Sovereign citizen who kidnapped her child sentenced to two years' jail 4 weeks ago:
Suspended on the underside of the flat earth.
- Comment on Close to 500k Australians could have missed out on savings at the pharmacy [from the PBS Safety Net] 5 weeks ago:
Thanks. I opted out of MyHealthRecord before it kicked in. This vindicates me: the justification for them is to streamline services but, from what you told me, they are not even doing that (in this instance).
- Comment on Close to 500k Australians could have missed out on savings at the pharmacy [from the PBS Safety Net] 5 weeks ago:
What sticker?
- Comment on Australia's healthcare system has let my parents down — and made me want to leave 5 weeks ago:
Could be worse: having The Public Trustee or Public Guardian/Advocate take over her parents’ lives.
- Comment on Facebook searches for Cyclone Alfred were blocked for containing content breaching 'community standards' 1 month ago:
Are you sure about Biggs?
A news reader was disciplined at first for playing a snippet but authorities backed down.
That article is wrong in that “Express Youself” was played on repeat in protest well beyond 4:30pm to complete a full 24 hours.
- Comment on Facebook searches for Cyclone Alfred were blocked for containing content breaching 'community standards' 1 month ago:
You misunderstood me. We are on the same page. However I am old enough to remember the JJJ transition to national youth station.
I never met Frollows but his ambient show on Sunday nights was my favorite. Definitely not youth music. Did it get axed too at that time?
- Comment on [Satire] Star Casino crushed by woke regulators who won’t let them wash cash for organised crime anymore 1 month ago:
Unless your laundering interferes with Trump’s laundering.
- Comment on Facebook searches for Cyclone Alfred were blocked for containing content breaching 'community standards' 1 month ago:
Why trust anything other than BOM or ABC for something like this?
- Comment on Star Entertainment close to collapse with casino group set to run out of cash before the weekend 1 month ago:
Trump playbook.
- Comment on 'Cooker, anti-vaxxer, sheep': The people Australia's COVID-19 response forgot 5 months ago:
Oh and Centrelink themselves via #robodebt.