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Do I detect hope? Is there a wind of change blowing over the #AusElection25 ? I sure hope so…
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‘Bile of racism’ and anti-migrant rhetoric spilling into political debate, race discrimination commissioner warns.
Comment: Targetting migrants is a classic fascists tactic.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/30/bile-of-racism-and-anti-migrant-rhetoric-spilling-into-political-debate-race-discrimination-commissioner-warns
#AusPol #AusElection25
The Guardian · ‘Bile of racism’ and anti-migrant rhetoric spilling into political debate, race discrimination commissioner warns
The #UnitedStates did not listen to #Trump on the electoral trail and they are paying for it in spades. Hear what #Dutton says here:
“We will end the reckless $20bn rewiring the nation fund. We will stop the $10bn housing Australia future fund, which has not built a single additional home.
We will scrap Labor’s $16bn of production tax credits over the next decade for critical minerals and green hydrogen.
We will reverse Labor’s increase of 41,000 Canberra-based public servants – saving $7bn a year.”
and also here:
“We will accelerate new investment in gas projects by reinstating a $300m strategic basin plan and include gas in the capacity investment scheme.
We will invest $1bn in a critical gas infrastructure fund to increase gas pipeline and storage capacity.
We will put in place ‘use it or lose it’ stipulations for gas drilling companies – so offshore gas fields are not locked up for years.”
And BE WARNED Australia, put the #LNP first o #AusElection25 and it will come about and then some…. Think before you cast your vote!
https://rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds/114233003601141821
Ring the ALARM Bells…. #Privatisation of public transport infrastructure ensures a decline in services and early retirement of infrastructure assets due to cuts made in order to produce profit for investors. Private enterprise strip the assets bare and then put their greedy little hands out for govt #subsidies to get them out of presumed financial trouble (no one is looking at their deep pockets full of stolen $$ here). It has always been so, it will always be so… what’s so hard to understand here? It plain old #StateTheft. Your tax money going straight into private pockets.
After, God I don’t know, one hundred years, govt still make the stupidest decisions and hand over public assets for ‘stripping’ by grifter mates…
Come on Aussies. Don’t vote those fuckers in again… Jezzzz…
RSSFeed MediaABC Feeds (@abcfeeds@rssfeed.media)Minister 'happy to consider' privatised rail and bus to Sunshine Coast
By Josh Dye and Robert Burgin
Queensland's transport minister says he is open to "investment from any party" to get the Sunshine Coast's multi-billion-dollar public transport system built before the 2032 Olympics.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-27/sunshine-coast-rail-bus-network-privatisation-fears/105101438
#Infrastructure #PublicTransport #TransportIndustry #OlympicGames #StateandTerritoryGovernment #FederalStateIssues #RoadTransportIndustry #RailTransportIndustry #JoshDye #RobertBurgin
Speaking as a European, Id like to be reassured that EU+UK are going to dump USA in future given the blatant unerring hostility of JD Vance towards us.
And speaking as a Brit-Aussie dual national, Id like to be reassured that the Aus govt does NOT kowtow to US govt and allow them to bleed us dry of minerals, money and land to build their frigging bases against China.
Its us who would get ripped off and bombed.
Think about that.
https://www.newsweek.com/jd-vance-europe-signal-texts-2050428
From Alan Kohler’s column ( https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-24/democracy-climate-change-ai-robotics-war/105085846 ):
“This is a time when clear political vision and decisive leadership is called for, when the stakes for tomorrow's federal budget and the coming election couldn't be higher. Not that you would know it from the grubby squabbles that pass for national debate these days.”
Kohler identifies climate action, the retreat of America from democracy and world order, and China’s lead in robotics as the global trends about to change the world as we know it.
While the ‘grubby’ side of #AusPol in an #AusElection25 year is dull, I think that the #CostOfLivingCrisis cannot be left out as the number 1 issue with the electorate. Every other domestic issue stems from that single focus and the election will be won or lost on that hill IMO.
The one thing I do not completely agree with Alan Kohler is his prognosis for a massive loss of jobs due to #AI and #Robotics . IA is a big marketing campaign and will ultimately fail (though niche markets will continue to benefit from advances in GAI and maybe future AGI developments - but the latter is a big if). As for robotics, we’ve had them for decades (EG. Toyota Factory automation). They are both expensive and not ‘clever’. Moreover, automation of tasks has meant a transfer of human effort to other (new) jobs. In short, the rise in robot use is an indication of society in transition - wherever that leads to..
Lastly, Clear and Decisive leadership is a perennial requirement for good govt no matter the environment in which they must perforce operate. I normally enjoy reading Alan’s columns but not this one so much…
ABC News · We're at a turning point in world history but our leaders are distracted
@curiously @joannejacobs
#Dutton ‘s agenda with regards to climate action and renewables is well known and documented. What I was alluding to in my toot is #PotatoHead ‘s dishonnesty. He doesn’t even bother disguising it… which says a lot for the mob who vote #LNP - More to the point, #CorporateMedia #Stokes and #Murdoch never point out the fact that the uber-hypocritical #Noaliation lies its arse off day in day out. The sooner the #LNP breaks apart into #Liberal (#IND) and #RWNJs (the rest) camps the better for Austrailan politics.
Australians need to watch this vid too.
The same fundamental issues face Aussie men too as for men in America.
https://substack.com/@ohhthatsrich/note/c-102336670?r=4up5ys
SubstackOhh that’s RICH on SubstackMasculinity in the United States is in a state of crisis. A new poll from NBC confirms the impact of this crisis is deeper than I ever could’ve imagined.
The overwhelming support for Trump, MAGA, and DOGE among white men without a college education is at a level that would terrify the American men I considered to be heroes as a child.
Men who fought and defeated the worst of us. Men who believed in working hard and protecting their community. Men like my grandfathers.
We must reclaim our identity. For everyone’s sake.
Auspol, The Sunday Shot
@HardBeingGreen
Inequity and lob-sided distribution of wealth via skewed tax system, deregulated markets and neoliberal economic policies That’s a lot of changes required.
It can be done of course, and my hope is that as Boomers are finally being shuffled off into minority (not to say morbidity ‘cause I’m a boomer too), our younger Z and Millennials will turn this insane situation around. Is that too much to hope for? That in the #AusElection25 the next generation finally gets a fair go at deciding what kind of life they wish for? I don’t think so. In any case, we’ll know in a month or so. (Fingers and legs all crossed up)
‘Ahead of next week’s federal budget, it is time to remind you of my budget commandment: “Everything is affordable if the government chooses to care about it.” There has never been a true priority of a government, or an emergency, or urgent expense which has not been paid for because the government could not afford it, because it had to “live within its means”.
I point this out because we are going to hear a lot about budget decisions and deficits and I want you all to realise that every single thing done and not done in the budget is because of a choice made by the government. Nothing happens “just because”.’
Greg Jericho repeats his mantra. TBF, he is 100% correct.
March 25th is going to be interesting. I’m betting #Dutton ‘s reply speech will not disappoint all the RWNJs who support the policy-less #Noalition
The Guardian · Expect a lot of talk about Australia’s deficit, but remember the golden rule: budgets are always about choices
Dutts is nuts Spuds a dud Get the Dick out of Dickson #auspol #Australia #politics #AusVotes #AusElection25
Dutton’s not announcing real policies because he knows we won’t like them #auspol #Australua #Politics #AusVotes25 #AusElection25
@jhaue
Gutless govts need to step up and effectively ban all gambling adverts in all media and everywhere in Australia and its territories. Backed up by tougher regulations on #gambling operations and fund rehab programs for problem gamblers for a start.
There is a direct link between gambling and family violence, not to mention criminality.
Hopefully, the Greens will be in a position to push this agenda with the next Govt.
This is a very very very useful website. Aussies ! Check your MPs track record. What they voted consistently for and consistently against (scroll down)
Oh... And please don't vote LNP OR Trumpets - just my opinion 
Please boost so Aussies can inform themselves 
https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/representatives/dickson/peter_dutton
They Vote For YouFind out how Peter Dutton votes on issues that matter to youDiscover how Liberal Party Representative for Dickson Peter Dutton votes in the Australian Parliament
Don't vote LNP
Dutton doesn't know WTF he's doing.
https://substack.com/@arationalfear/note/p-158267721?r=4up5ys
Gone are the days when a ‘good job’ gets you a house – and now we have the data to prove it https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2025/mar/12/gone-are-the-days-when-a-good-job-gets-you-a-house-and-now-we-have-the-data-to-prove-it?
Every economic modeling shows that it is now impossible to save enough to purchase a house. Clearly something needs to be done to address the broken housing system. And although we are months away from a federal election, neither of the major parties have announced anything remotely effective to address the issue of #Housingaffordability
#GregJericho does an effective job at showing the impossibility of saving enough for a deposit. Seems like the only peeps who can afford to purchase a house these days are poliies, real estate investors (a very successful one being #Dutton also a pollie) and the top 10% of Australian society. Clearly should be an election issue but from our pollies… crickets….
The Guardian · Gone are the days when a ‘good job’ gets you a house – and now we have the data to prove it
@craige
My eye is definately on the ball mate.
I read the fine print and where the damage is done is the allowance for each candidate. It’s the same for everyone, except that the 2 majors usually field one candidate per seat, so that is a candidate allowance for each seat and that’s some serious dosh for the party to spend as it sees fit. Usually, they’ll pour money in marginal seats and #IND can’t match that kind of advertising with their ‘single’ allowance. That’s where the gaming is in full view - keeping the big 2 in control (unless they totally fuck up their campaign spending).
See, my eye is on the ball mate. Though nothing I’ve said here contradicts what I tooted before.
#AusElection25
Have a good one.