Victorian Socialists
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A socialist voice in elections. Electoral content authorised by C. Oakley, Victorian Socialists, 83 Sydney Rd, Brunswick 3056.
Joined January 2018
Solidarity to the Palestinian resistance. ✊🇵🇸.
What is happening in occupied Palestine is a response to weeks and months and years of daily Israeli military invasions into Palestinian towns, killings of Palestinians, and the very fact that millions of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are besieged under Israeli blockade.
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Now outside Flinders St Station. People as far as the eye can see and thousands more still arriving up Swanston St. 'In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinians!' ✊🇵🇸🇱🇧
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Victorian Socialists is proud to announce that bane of landlords and real estate agents everywhere Jordan van den Lamb aka. @purplepingers will be the party's lead senate candidate for the next federal election.
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In Australia it's perfectly legal for someone to go to Israel and participate in its genocide against the Palestinians. But if you're a student who participated in non-violent civil-disobedience to oppose it, you'll likely face the full force of the law.
Another student's house raided & arrested for protesting genocide at the #disruptlandforces weapons expo in Naarm / Melbourne. Over 110 now arrested in wave of state repression aimed squarely at Palestine solidarity & right to protest.@s4palestine_vic .
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A loss for the people of Melbourne. A win for the forces in our society working tirelessly to prevent any significant challenge to the status quo. VS extends its solidarity to Adam, his staff, and all Greens members and supporters. Whether in parliament or not, keep up the fight!.
#BREAKING 🚨 6 News projects Greens leader Adam Bandt will be defeated by Labor candidate Sarah Witty in Melbourne. Labor, currently sitting on 52.7% of the two-candidate-preferred vote, reclaims the seat won by Bandt in 2010
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Shout out to comrade Josh Lees - a socialist and leading member of the Palestine Action Group in Sydney - featured in an attempted hit piece published today in the Daily Telegraph. As Josh aptly put it, "I'd rather be a serial protester than a serial killer.
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The US is on the verge of a 2nd Trump presidency. If Labor had a shred of left-wing principle remaining they would take the chance, now, to cancel AUKUS and break the US Alliance. 🧵.
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We’re not sure what supporting Palestinians’ right to resist their violent oppression by the Israeli state has to do with anti-semitism. Perhaps Peterson has special insight on that though from discussions with his many far-right and neo-Nazi followers.
You.Murderous.Anti-Semitic.Rats.
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This crowd is MASSIVE. 10,000+ and building fast outside the State Library for Palestine and Lebanon. ✊🇵🇸🇱🇧
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Australia should ditch AUKUS (let's spend that money on desperately needed public housing instead), scrap the US alliance - which only functions to harness us to their increasingly unhinged drive to global war - and close all US bases and surveillance infrastructure.
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Swanston St now. Tens of thousands out again for Palestine in Naarm/Melbourne. ‘Gaza, Gaza, don’t you cry. Palestine will never die!’ ✊🇵🇸
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HUGE turnout for Palestine in Naarm/Melbourne today! There is hope for the future when so many, here and around the world, are standing up against our political leaders who've made themselves complicit in Israel's genocide.
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A 23 year old Tamil asylum-seeker has died this morning after self-immolating. Mano had, for the past 2 weeks, been a regular attendee at the refugee-led protest camp outside the Department of Home Affairs in Docklands. Another victim of this country's cruel anti-refugee regime.
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The Victorian government spent millions to bring Land Forces to Melbourne, then spent $15 million on policing to ensure Israeli companies had a 'safe space' to spruik the kind of 'cutting-edge capabilities' that have killed more than 16k children in Gaza. Absolutely sickening.
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Mass starvation, good or bad? 'Complex', says Penny Wong.
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The view from Trades Hall right now. A wonderful sight - tens of thousands of construction workers out to defend their hard won union rights! ✊
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Massive and rapidly growing crowd gathered at Parliament now for Invasion Day. ✊🖤💛♥️
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Swanston St, Naarm/Melbourne now. Tens of thousands marching for Palestine and Lebanon. 'Israel, USA - how many kids did you kill today?' ✊🇵🇸🇱🇧
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Swanston Street now. Tens of thousands marching for Palestine. ✊🇵🇸
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1000s marching now against the Land Forces weapons expo at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre in Southbank. Nothing like a bit of mass protest in the morning! ✊
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Oh no they found out socialists are anti-fascist.
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Maybe the people ‘ruining Christmas’ aren’t the handful of peace activists briefly disrupting Carols by Candlelight but those who are carpet bombing refugee camps and carrying out deadly military raids in the birthplace of Jesus. Just a thought.
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The profiteering corporation version of 'f*ck around and find out'. Victory to the warehouse workers! ✊
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Not even 9am on polling day in Dunkley and already one of our volunteers has been asked by the AEC booth manager to take off their keffiyeh ‘for the comfort of all voters’ after a complaint. We will NOT be complying with this request.
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Swanston St now. More than one year on, thousands are still marching every Sunday for Palestine. ✊🇵🇸
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The line for a rental inspection in Melbourne this morning. An experience completely alien to major party politicians - most of whom belong to the investor class and benefit from the current system.
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Vic Socialists' member @van_nishing finished this terrific mural on Paisley Street in Footscray last night. Labor won't raise the rate or fix our schools, hospitals and public housing – but even in a cost of living crisis there's billions of dollars for nuclear subs 🙃
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Is anyone surprised? Privatisation makes things worse. Every. Single. Time.
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Tens of thousands out again for Palestine! ✊🇵🇸
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Solidarity ✊🙌.
The moment Grill’d workers made history and started the first fast food strike ever in Australia. As an ex-grill’d employee I’m so proud of these legends ✊
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HUGE numbers out in Naarm/Melbourne for Invasion Day. Check out the size of this crowd!
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Not a 'wild call' from Lambie at all. Pine Gap is a key part of the US's global infrastructure for surveilling, waging war on and generally terrorising people around the world. It's a physical and moral scar that should never have been established in the first place.
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Thanks to the supporter who sent this in. Perhaps the most appropriate spot we've seen so far to display one of these signs: only visible because of the absence of this apartment's balcony that the landlord removed completely instead of fixing.
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HUGE and growing crowd out in Naarm/Melbourne for Palestine again today. ✊🇵🇸
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The VS Executive has voted unanimously to adopt a new set of rules for those seeking preselection as party candidates. These rules disqualify landlords who collect ongoing rent payments on investment properties apart from their primary residence from seeking preselection. 🧵
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We've noticed a few people seem offended by our use of the word 'scab'. It's pretty simple though: if you don't want to be called a scab, don't scab. The working class moves forward through collective action. Undermining that by strike-breaking is an act only worthy of contempt.
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Following RMIT on Tuesday, students at the University of Melbourne have just held a mass meeting which voted in favour of a motion to call on the university to cut all ties with the state of Israel, Israeli corporations and Israeli academic institutions. Amazing work 🙌✊🇵🇸
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It's a rare occurrence, but now and then you find an absolute gem in the comments section of a conservative rage-bait article in the Daily Mail. Amazing work Tommy!
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'Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses'.
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Make the bosses afraid again.
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Nope. Were @purplepingers to be elected to parliament he would, in accordance with Victorian Socialists policy (, accept only an average full-time worker's wage and donate the rest to community campaigns.
@vic_socialists So this flog wants to crowd fund himself into a high paying public service job 😂😂😂 You really couldn’t make this shit up….
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Thousands rallying for Palestine at the State Library now. ✊♥️🇵🇸
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Naarm/Melbourne turns out for Palestine for the 10th Sunday in a row. ✊🇵🇸🙌
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We're against war, against corporate environmental vandalism and the trashing of the climate, against exploitation, racism and division. We're for collective organisation, solidarity, and struggle. We don't care if you think that's 'extreme', and we won't stop until we win.
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Oh no there goes the cop vote.
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A few pics from the Woolies warehouse workers' picket in Dandenong South this morning. We're proud to have stood side by side with these staunch unionists fighting for fair pay, conditions and safety at work against one of Australia's corporate giants. Power to the workers! ✊
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We're very sorry for the terrible behaviour of a small number of our volunteers. Suffice to say these kind of antics DO NOT reflect the values of our party.
Atrocious behaviour from the Victorian Socialists. A particularly aggressive campaigner insisted he had ‘got my nose’ and refused to return it.
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8.7% swing to Victorian Socialists candidate Kath Larkin from the Westgarth booth in Cooper. ❤️
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Melbourne is a union town! Tens of thousands marching to defend union democracy this morning. ✊
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If workers in these sectors all went on strike at once you can bet that despite the housing crisis being supposedly too complex to solve overnight the politicians and the capitalist class would give it a red hot go. If only we had the kind of union movement that would do that.
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If workers withdraw their labour - even for a few hours - they can face massive fines or even jail. Yet if property developers and investors withhold essential housing - sometimes for years - to artificially prop up prices, governments bend over backwards to support them.
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The door of a cafe in Coburg. You love to see it! ❤️🇵🇸. (Via Tony Dewberry)
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The same people who've cheered on Israel's murder of tens of thousands of Palestinians are now expressing outrage at the supposed 'violence' of a few protesters outside the absolute turducken of state sponsored destruction that is the Land Forces expo. The hypocrisy is astounding.
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*Can't sell at the rate of profit they've come to expect. Oh, and love the admission here that developers are withholding thousands of empty apartments from the market in order to keep prices high. 🧵
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Up bright and early taking a stand against war outside the Land Forces expo at the Exhibition Centre. ✊🇵🇸
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Swanston St now. March headed towards Flinders. ‘Ceasefire now!’
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In the eyes of the right, expressing basic solidarity to a people resisting oppression is seen as a crime. The world they want is one where those in power, whether in Israel, Australia, or anywhere else, can carry out their crimes with complete impunity.
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Congratulations to VS candidate Owen Cosgriff who has been elected to the Greater Bendigo City Council as the representative for Whipstick Ward. Owen received a first preference vote of 40.7% in a field of three and got up with 52.7% after preferences. 🙌
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Nice shot of @purplepingers (CREDIT: @MattH093) speaking to tens of thousands of construction workers at today's rally to defend union democracy. "Construction workers earning decent wages are not the cause of our housing crisis.
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Victorian Socialists candidate for Fraser Jasmine Duff - currently on 7.9% with a +4.1% swing on our last result in 2022 - speaks at the VS election night party in Thornbury. ❤️✊
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Our newly elected City of Bendigo councillor Owen Cosgriff on the cover of today's Bendigo Advertiser. Most people probably wouldn't have picked Bendigo as a new centre of socialist politics in Victoria but there you go. 🙌✊
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There's talk of public service cuts from both Labor (in Victoria) and Liberals right now. The thing that should actually be cut is spending on consultants - a form of privatisation by stealth that has been costing, at a federal level, up to $1.2 billion annually in recent years.
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The most powerful political figure in Australia - punching down on @purplepingers, an activist who has for years been devoting basically all his free time to fighting for a better deal for renters, and people suffering homelessness and housing insecurity: not a good look at all.
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Sorry Labor, but you can’t claim your budget is ‘responsible’ while you’re planning to spend $368B on submarines and $254B on tax cuts for the rich while leaving welfare recipients in abject poverty and millions of people struggling to even keep a roof over their heads. 1/2.
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VICTORIAN SOCIALISTS STATEMENT ON PALESTINE. We encourage Victorian Socialists members and supporters to attend upcoming rallies organised by @FPMelbourne in solidarity with the Palestinians and against Israel’s ongoing bombardment of Gaza…
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Credit to the Greens for taking a principled stand against Israel's genocide in Gaza and provoking a bipartisan political tantrum by people in politics and the media who think the biggest atrocity viz-a-viz Palestine is the fact that people keep protesting about it.
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As a worker in Australia you can be fined tens of thousands of dollars for withholding your labour (i.e. striking) even just for a few hours, but if you're a property investor or developer you can withhold essential housing stock for years or even decades without punishment.
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The welfare state was among the main advances won by the socialist movement in the 20th century. Today's neoliberal governments (including Labor) are dismantling it and we're regressing to a situation where those in need are dependent on (often religious) charities to survive.
Charities are just a vehicle for governments to outsource and privatise core government functions.
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Neo-Nazis rallying outside Parliament in support of British transphobe Kellie-Jay Keen (aka Posie Parker). Their rally has been facilitated by the police – who, as usual, are focused on holding back anti-fascist protesters who are there to stand up for trans rights
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School strike for Palestine round 2 today and they're not pulling their punches: 'Albanese you can't hide, you're supporting genocide!'.
Crowd size has increased by hundreds within the last 15 minutes. (Can’t get a Birds Eye view of the crowd as the access points to the upper levels of Melbourne Central have been fenced off for some reason).
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"Social media agitator and rental advocate Jordan van den Lamb, aka Purplepingers, has been slammed for plastering empty Melbourne homes with stickers identifying them as vacant." .When you're being 'slammed' by the real estate industry, you're doing something right.
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In 1974 Australian workers (aka. the people who create all the wealth) received 55.9% of GDP in wages. Today it's 47.9%. If that share increased back to 1974 levels it would mean workers would, collectively, be $220 billion better off (more than $15,000 per employee, per year).🧵.
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Occupying Melbourne Central following today’s rally for Palestine. Thousands strong for peace and justice! ✊🇵🇸. PHOTO CREDIT: @forevertoremain
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Name a more iconic duo. We're excited to announce that one-time favourite bête noire of the Murdoch press, Safe Schools co-founder Roz Ward, has come on board as manager of the 'pingers4parliament' Jordan van den Lamb for Senate campaign. Get involved!
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Sincerest apologies to this person for having to deal with the (hypothetical?) problem of explaining to their kids what 'shit rentals' and 'pingers' are (although with what's going on in Gaza you might think there are some more challenging things to explain to kids rn than that?)
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Let's do this. VOTE 1 Victorian Socialists and lets get purplepingers into parliament at the next federal election:
I'm running for parliament because we need change. Labor’s red doesn’t represent social-democratic values. It represents the blood of Palestinians killed in Gaza while Labor signs deals with weapons companies that are arming Israel. It represents those who will die because of
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Thanks to whoever made this.
Sincerest apologies to this person for having to deal with the (hypothetical?) problem of explaining to their kids what 'shit rentals' and 'pingers' are (although with what's going on in Gaza you might think there are some more challenging things to explain to kids rn than that?)
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We made the surprising discovery today that it appears to be @electionsvic policy that council candidates cannot mention Israel's genocide in Gaza because it may 'cause offence'. See email below to our candidate for Darebin (West Ward) Cat Rose. 🧵
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The abandonment of Assange by our govt and the mainstream media is a disgrace. His life is being destroyed, not because he has committed any crime, but for doing what all good journalists should: bringing to light atrocities committed by the US empire and its allies. #FreeAssange
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Another massive turnout for Palestine in Naarm/Melbourne today. Numbers building fast.
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If the gov won't stop homes being left empty during a housing crisis then why not publish the addresses? VS policy is to bring properties vacant for 2+ years without a legitimate reason into public ownership. But if there's other means to disincentivise it, let's use those too!.
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Shout out to the people of Footscray where across the main four polling places Victorian Socialists candidate Jasmine Duff averaged a first preference vote of 17% while the Liberals averaged 7.9%.
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They're honestly just laughing in our faces at this point. People like this are definitely not going to fix the housing crisis.
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Today's rally by construction workers to defend their union rights is HUGE! Tens of thousands of workers marching through the CBD right now. Union power - a wonderful sight! ✊. PHOTO CREDIT: Sean Stebbings
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Victorian Socialists encourages its members and supporters to vote ‘yes’ in the 14 October referendum on establishing an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. Read our full statement here:
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Great turnout for student strike for Palestine, happening now at the State Library. ✊🇵🇸
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Congratulations and thank you to the approx. 2,000 volunteers who were part of our 2025 federal election campaign. Another step forward in rebuilding socialism as a genuine force which can transform politics in this country. Join VS and get involved! ❤️
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Clive Palmer is a walking, talking argument for taking billionaires' money away. Every text and every billboard the Trumpet of F*ckwits are forcing on us is making Australia that little bit stupider and uglier.
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Yep sure let's just keep selling what remains of our publicly-owned cultural assets in Victoria for a short-term funding boost until there's nothing left and our entire cultural life is handed over to the profit-driven private sector. Great plan Nick.
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Congratulations to students at RMIT who this afternoon held a mass Student General Meeting at which the around 500 attendees voted unanimously to call on their university to cut all ties with weapons manufacturers and with companies working with the Israeli government. 🙌✊🇵🇸
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Good to see VS Senate candidate @purplepingers get to ask Anthony Albanese a question about Labor's completely inadequate response to the housing crisis on Q&A tonight. Pity he didn't get a follow up!
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Huge, and still building crowd at the State Library right now to stand with Palestine! Not too late to join us.
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Greta Thunberg continuing to be based - getting arrested protesting Israel's participation in Eurovision. If more people joined the dots like her, the world would be a better place. ♥️✊🇵🇸
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Under capitalism, resources are distributed efficiently in accordance with the laws of supply and demand. 🤡
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Thank you to the more than 67,000 people who voted 1 for a VS candidate in this year's Victorian council elections. Across the 80 or so council wards we stood a candidate in, we achieved an average vote of 10.8 percent - a decent outcome for a still relatively new party.
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