"All children living in the Gaza Strip have lost their childhood. They are traumatized and will forever live with a permanent impact on their mental health."
- Ann Skelton, Chair of the UN Child Rights Committee
#CRC
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Talking about first preference and not acknowledging how ALP voters in very safe Lib seats chose to vote independent purely because they finally had a chance to vote out the Libs is weird
The reason we know “stupid white bastard” is not racist, is we all just wrote “stupid white bastard” and not one person was worried they might be thought to be racist.
Let’s not overthink this.
There will be a lot of talk in the coming days about the referendum campaigns, but we should not forget that the No campaign lied totally.
It lied, everyone associated with it lied, everyone associated with it operated in bad faith.
This will be the model for every election.
The biggest problem journalism has faced over the past 6 years since Trump came along is how to deal with politicians who have no shame about lying.
It's now endemic
The kids driving forklifts brain fart really highlights how poorly we think of what is "skilled labour"
Just because they didn't go to uni does not mean what they do is not highly skilled
Greens Leader Adam Bandt has rebuked a journalist's 'gotcha' question on a wage statistic by bluntly telling him: "Google it, mate".
Bandt, speaking at the
#NPC
, was asked whether he knew the current Wage Price Index in an apparent attempt to throw him off.
#ausvotes
#auspol
Today, Grace Tame met with the Prime Minister at the Lodge, with now-viral photos appearing online. We discuss the day and the differing opinions with
@AmyRemeikis
.
#TheProjectTV
Remember the fight over franking credit? Remember being told by the LNP and media orgs that it was about poor retirees?
The latest figures form Treasury say...
Yeah, they lied.
“To get a super balance of $3m, you’d need to earn $200,000 from ages 21 to 67, with 12% employer contributions and an extra $30,000 a year of voluntary contributions.”
In July 2021 the ALP made the commitment to keep Stage 3 as is.
At that time the cash rate was 0.1% and the RBA was saying it would *not* raise interest rates *until* 2024.
When the world changes, you adjust to the changes. It's what good governments to do.
Morrison: "Free speech is not being allowed to cowardly hide in your basement and sledge and a slow and harass people anonymously and seek to destroy their lives."
Here's the thing: how many houses in Australia have a basement?
It's such an Americanism
The following thread is horrific reading.
My contempt for everyone associated with the operation of Robodebt is total - from the PMs down to MPs who defended it and to those in the APS who showed a disgusting lack of care
Mr Djokovic’s visa has been cancelled. Rules are rules, especially when it comes to our borders. No one is above these rules. Our strong border policies have been critical to Australia having one of the lowest death rates in the world from COVID, we are continuing to be vigilant.
Morrions tries to show off how much he knows the act, and then the Commissioner uses his smugness to ask, given you seem to know the act so well, why didn't you investigate if it was legal.
ScoMo says he is “blessed” to have two non disabled children. Every child is a blessing. The NDIS is there to help people with disability live their lives to the fullest. The Morrison Gov has slashed NDIS plans for 1000s of children around Australia. Labor will fix the NDIS.
End the scam. The privatised employment services model needs to be burned to the ground and salt spread on its ashes.
Job providers receiving millions of dollars for positions found by jobseekers themselves | Australia news | The Guardian
Two useless, incompetent hasbeens suffering massive relevance deprivation syndrome head to Israel believing that this might be the one occasion in which they could not make things worse.
This is some of the most disgusting crud I've seen pushed by a senior politician in this country.
Time for some MPs to retire and spend some time with their investment properties
47% - like what Labor have done
19% - give even less to those earning over $200k
13% - dump Stage 3 completely
22% - agree with Dutton, keep Stage 3 unchanged.
Absolutely brutal poll for the LNP
Francesca Albanese: "Israel has the sacrosanct right and duty to protect itself, its territory, its citizens. Although it tends to confuse a lot its own territory with the territory that it is trying to annex under occupation"...
Just a reminder, these were the front pages of the news.corp papers the day after the 2014 Budget in which Abbott and Hockey broke every promise they made on cuts to services.
Let's stop the fib they give one damn about "integrity"
Commissioner Holmes: “I want to acknowledge that the Twitter coverage of these hearings has performed a remarkably useful & important public service in giving people access to the evidence.”
Wow.
#RoboDebtRC
Never forget how disgraceful the Morrison govt was. No one who held a ministry in it should ever be trusted with power again
Morrison government failed to give Howard-era national security cabinet papers to national archives | Cabinet papers
"I went dancing with my friends. I still don't think that was something terrible that I did." - Finland’s Prime Minister
@MarinSanna
.
#abc730
@FergusonNews
If anyone from the ALP would like to explain this, that would be nice. If they could discover a level of shame about it, that would be better. If they could realise how bad this is and reverse the decision, that would be best.
Andrew
@WilkieMP
just lost a House motion to debate stopping the prosecutions of whistleblowers
@Richard_D_Boyle
and David McBride.
@AustralianLabor
and
@LiberalAus
both opposed a debate. Every day these prosecutions continue is another day no-one will blow the whistle.
#auspol
Very much thinking today of the many asylum seekers and victims of Robodebt whose lives were destroyed by anxiety and depression and whose pain was ignored.
Just a reminder, no one is suggesting you can’t put more than $3m in a retirement fund; you just wouldn’t get the tax breaks for monies over that amount.
Superb exchange
SUSSAN LEY “... I'm in Lismore, I'm talking to real people.
JASON CLARE:
You're in Sydney, you can see the Sydney CBD behind you right now.
SUSSAN LEY:
I was in Lismore yesterday and I'm out in the southwest of Sydney today...
This is what happened when Four Corners asked Woolworths CEO Brad Banducci about the lack of competition in the Australian grocery market.
Watch the
#4Corners
documentary tonight:
Ted O'Brien: "So our view is we should not be closing our coal-fired power stations prematurely."
#ABC730
There you go. That's all the nuke "policy is about". It's coal for longer.
The rest is just onanistic faffing about pretending to be a policy
Albanese: "my integrity is not looking at lower middle income earners and saying sorry, I'm just Prime Minister I am not in a position to help you when I know I am in a position to help you"
A very good line. Also should drive him from here on
Always striking to see journalists writing about how the govt might get criticised if it changes Stage 3 without any acknowledgment that the journalists themselves will be the ones driving the broken promise as a bigger issue than whether or not Stage 3 is bad policy.
I mean ALP vote in Kooyong was just 6% - clearly if you were an ALP voter there the chance to kick out Frydenberg by voting for Ryan doesn’t mean they didn’t want the ALP to win
Advisor: Just don't do anything to remind people about your Hawaii trip
Morrison: No worries
Advisor: Wait, is that a ukulele?
Morrison: Uummm.... no...
Thing about Keating… shouldn’t there at least be one ALP backbencher out there saying much the same things? Ditto on climate. Why is there no one who seems willing (or able) to push the party to the left?