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Can somebody explain why a children’s hospital requires an annual charity appeal instead of simply receiving adequate government funding from taxation?
Excitement is building at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre ahead of tomorrow's
@GoodFriAppeal
, raising vital funds for the
@RCHMelbourne
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#7NEWS
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$1.2m for these, 45km from the CBD. It cannot be overstated what a disaster this is, even if we stopped doing this tomorrow it will take decades to fix
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It’s so funny that this woman calls herself a self-funded retiree. She is a tenant-funded retiree!
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Middle-upper class Australians aspire to go from house fortress to locked car to car park to secure ticketed event, and maintain this bubble at all costs.
That's why it's so triggering for them to see a protestor, or any poor person that isn't acting in the capacity of a servant
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You were not “doxxed”, you absolute narcissist. You were in a 600 member WhatsApp group for which there is absolutely no right to, or expectation of, privacy.
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Oh, word?
The International Court of Justice is key to upholding the rules-based order.
Australia supports Judge Hilary Charlesworth for re-election to the ICJ.
A vote for Judge Charlesworth is a vote to uphold a representative, robust and fair international legal system.
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Happy to explain this one: People walk into the shops and pay for goods and services.
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People like this have never had a thought for anybody but themselves their entire life
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A very common boomer belief is that housing wealth "doesn't count", even though it's biggest form of wealth and the key determinant of qual-of-life in retirement.
The people of so-called "modest means" here will be some of the wealthiest people in the country on housing alone!
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Brand new, nearly finished development in Brunswick. Instead of planting trees into the road, they’ve been put in the footpath, leaving barely enough space for wheelchairs and prams, or for parents to walk next to their kids. How is this legal/acceptable?
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One of Australia's big problems is that a sizeable chunk of people have genuinely never met a poor person, and can't imagine people being worse off than themselves, even though they are, percentile-wise, extremely well off.
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In their latest podcast Van Badham and Ben Davison say that they left North Melbourne because they saw a poster that said “stand up for cyclists” and that was a sign the neighbourhood was getting too much of the wrong demographic (greens).
Genuinely deranged stuff.
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No more obvious example of how poor public transport leads to poor land use than Melbourne Airport’s enormous car park.
No train+bus that’s way too expensive means that just driving to the airport and paying for parking is the cheapest option for many.
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Toorak is such a pathetic “fancy” suburb.
It’s obvious why waterfront Sydney Harbour is expensive, but Toorak is next to a freeway and boring river and not walkable or vibrant or near anything else exciting.
Literally the only appeal is “other big houses nearby”.
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God it annoys me when they do this. If free PT is good for these few days, why isn’t it good all other days too?
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Imagine if there was one weird trick to improve the coverage of Melbourne’s train network by this much.
Happily, there is! It’s called “safe bike paths to the station” which would extend catchments from ~1km radius (“short walk”) to 2.5km radius (“short bike ride”).
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Just arrived Sydney. Found a train station at the airport, tapped on flawlessly with phone, jumped on. Nice to be in a real city for once.
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Check out this street view photo from the same area. Literally no footpaths whatsoever. How is this legal?
$1.2m for these, 45km from the CBD. It cannot be overstated what a disaster this is, even if we stopped doing this tomorrow it will take decades to fix
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The Venn diagram of Australians who go to Europe every winter to enjoy the ambience of car-free streets, but who would fly into a rage if their local council proposed the same thing here in their own local streets, must be almost a perfect circle.
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Welcome to Australia, the nation of laid back easy-going larrikins! Now make sure you’ve filled out your protest authorisation permit application and remembered your compulsory bicycle helmet
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Philanthropy really is a joke.
This woman with a net worth of $407m is organizing "a walk in Tuscany" to raise just $200k.
If she just wrote the cheque herself directly it would be the equivalent of somebody with a net worth of $1m donating less than $500.
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“Happy 40 years of Medicare!!! Here’s to universal healthcare, a core Labor value!”
“What about teeth tho?”
“Fuck off, hippy”
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Imagine if, instead of singing another mean song about one of her ex boyfriends, Taylor Swift had taken a moment to each night to teach her audience of 96000 impressionable children about the benefits of phasing out stamp duty for a broad based land tax.
Opportunity squandered.
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Just because this works in a small town like London doesn’t mean it’ll work in a big city like Melbourne
After years of concrete measures to improve cycling—and discourage driving—cyclists now outnumber motorists on London’s streets.
Since 1999, cycling has spiked 386% and driving fallen 64%; with cyclists representing 40% of surface traffic—including pedestrians—during peak hours.
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Retired teacher ✅
Life ALP member ✅
Owns >5 million of property ✅
Thinks young people should move to Bathurst to find work ✅
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These people bought houses 100m from the CBD of a city of 5 million people, and expect it to be a gated community of well-adjusted well-to-do folks only. Bizarre.
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Melbourne is truly one of the stupidest cities in the world. Imagine explaining this daft system to somebody who didn’t already have brain poisoning from living here
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If your answer to fixing homelessness is "supply" you have the mind of a child.
How much supply do you think needs to be added before a homeless person on $0 per year can afford to rent a decent place in the middle of Sydney?
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Preventing a bike lane to protect the rights of people to drive to the gym to use an exercise bike. My head is going to explode.
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I recently visited Sydney, and while exploring, came across this dilapidated concert hall from the 70s. Poor acoustics, ugly, and built for a type of show that doesn’t exist any more (“opera”), it’s wasting prime land that could be used to build housing for essential workers.
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Katharine Murphy is one of those journalists that sees her job less as "speaking truth to power" and more as "explaining power to the peasantry"
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Every teal voter drinks an entire bottle of red most weeknights but is horrified by the idea of their teens seeing an alcoholic beverage with a similar name to a non-alcoholic beverage
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What the hell is this??? And why is there a priest up front???
The Australian Army has shown off its military strength in Adelaide’s CBD. Soldiers from the 1st Armoured Regiment accompanied by two Abrams battle tanks marched along King William Road from the Torrens Parade Ground to St Peters Cathedral. 7NEWS Adelaide at 6pm.
#7NEWS
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To understand what a nation of racist assholes Australia is, just check out the replies to this post.
Welcome to Gadigal Railway Station - coming 2024.
We're proud to announce that Sydney's newest metro station will be named after the traditional custodians of the land – the Gadigal People.
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It’s this kind of intersection layout that makes Melbourne the world’s most liveable city
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This part of Footscray looks like the quintessential Melbourne "density done badly". Lots more people, but no corresponding amenity improvements, no walkability, speeding cars.
In this case, more density = more people and cars crammed in around dangerous roads.
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@GrayConnolly
Australia is one of the most urbanised countries in the world. Most journeys are very short ones within cities, not cross-continent voyages.
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Roughly 40% of journeys to the train station in the Netherlands happen by bike, while in Australia it’s more like 1%.
Why aren’t we talking more about this? And fixing it? Rather than building more park-and-ride for $175k per parking space?
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HEARTWARMING: This woman stayed silent on Palestine and saw her arts career blossom!
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My teenage daughter Stacey is refusing to speak to me after I insisted she spend the money she had saved for a Taylor Swift ticket on a concessional superannuation contribution instead. Even after I explained that it would allow her to buy many more such tickets in retirement.
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"Superannuation doesn't come out of my pay. It's an employer contribution"
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If this scene took place in NSW, Australia it would be considered criminal activity by police, and result in $2064 worth of fines.
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The Australian mind cannot comprehend a walkable, car-free public space unless it's inside a shopping centre.
Australians love malls like Chadstone - but propose making a local shopping strip car-free (or even just remove some parking) and retailers will be convinced it'll fail.
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One look at one picture of Rozelle Interchange congestion is enough to identify both the problem and solution: Too many people in single occupancy cars who should be on bikes or public transport.
You have to be blinded by a lot of car ideology to not see this immediately.
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Rare bike criticism from me, because obviously it’s minor compared to cars, but:
I see a lot of bike riders who seem determined to replicate the worst of car culture on shared paths, instead of being chill, slowing down when needed, and allowing for children/prams/dogs/etc.
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Two terms of record political capital, wasted on tepid reforms that get wound back in weeks.
How do ALP true believers imagine it will end any differently over here?
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“Israel’s right to defend itself” is, every time, simply diplomat speak for “we’re fine with Israel doing war crimes in response”.
It’s egging on war crimes. They’re encouraged by permissive statements like this.
They escalate the conflict and make more people die and suffer.
Australia unequivocally condemns the attacks on Israel by Hamas including indiscriminate rocket fire on cities & civilians.
We call for these attacks to stop & recognise Israel’s right to defend itself.
Australia urges the exercise of restraint & protection of civilian lives.
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Saying "what should Melbourne do to fix it?" implies Melbourne wants to fix it.
It's very easy. Melbourne has a car problem because it prioritizes cars. It can fix it by not prioritizing cars.
But nobody with any kind of power has any interest in doing that.
Australia's biggest city has a car problem. What should Melbourne do to fix it?
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Regular reminder that about 40% of all homes in Australia have *2 or more* spare bedrooms, there are huge financial incentives against downsizing (particularly the age pension asset test ppor exemption, and stamp duty) and barely anybody ever talks about fixing this situation!
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In Australia a scene like this would be called a “crime spree” and would result in $1000s of helmet fines in most states
If you can replicate a scene like this, your neighborhood is winning.
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Interesting results from the Herald Sun's commuting time trial, during the buses-replace-trains carnage out west.
Bikes crush it, as expected. A quality, unbroken network of bike paths and e-bike subsidies would solve Melbourne's transport problems so easily.
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What an absolute disaster
The sprawl of Melbourne within 19 years. (Craigieburn)
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Australia’s planning obsession with setbacks is so stupid.
- Reduces much needed shade in summer
- On cold days the light is usually diffuse so shadowing matters less
- Reduces “passive surveillance” and occupant connection to the street
- Reduces amount of housing
- Looks silly
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It’s annoying that we keep talking about a housing “crisis” when the hard thing about fixing it is that it’s actually the opposite of a crisis for a lot of people.
It’s a vested interests problem, talking about it like it’s thing everybody wants to fix is unhelpful.
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“Superannuation means less burden on working age people than the pension”
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Superannuation is bad and if it were proposed by a liberal government today the union movement would be organising rallies against it instead of supporting it
"the baby bonus was good"
what's a welfare position that will have you like this?
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Another year, another train ticket price rise in line with inflation, meanwhile the parking fee at Melbourne Zoo remains at $2, same price since the 80s.
And thus the car park looks like this today, while the train station is deserted.
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Why da fuq is the housing fund making sprawl worse by building suburban mcmansions in Jordan Springs, instead of infill in inner suburbs?
“We’ve got 3000 more just like this ready to build - we’re just waiting for the Housing Australia Future Fund.”
Charles, the CEO of BlueCHP told me this today while giving me a tour of their new affordable homes in Jordan Springs.
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Thinking about how NZ Labour is at the end of two terms (and won the last election by a record margin), played it safe, promised not to do anything economically radical, and is now staring down the barrel of a crushing loss.
Wonder if there's any lessons here for the ALP?
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A $1500 fine for seriously injuring and traumatizing a bike rider and failing to stop.
For comparison, you can get fined around half of that for simply forgetting your helmet and lights.
What an absolute joke.
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Another piece in The Age today about "what's wrong with Docklands?".
There are a number of factors but a big one is right here.
This is the central intersection of the whole place - it should be a vibrant pedestrian plaza but it's this hugely oversized car intersection instead.
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Being an Aussie state governor has got to be the best bullshit job in the game. ~$500k salary, free lavish house, zero practical responsibility, even lower stakes than the GovGen.
(I wonder if you get free Qantas Chairman’s Lounge access too)
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What an absolute disgrace for a police commissioner to say "nobody's going to obey" safer speed limits.
It's the police commissioner's job to make them obey it!
This kind of talk literally kills people.
The Chief Commissioner has slammed Yarra Council's plan to cap speed limits at 30km/h around Collingwood and Fitzroy as 'ridiculous'.
@reid_butler9
#9News
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@Daniel_Weil
Lots of Jews attend these rallies and are more than welcome. It���s only zionazis who are unwelcome
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This “RIP the CBD” stuff is so weird, because **by far** the worst thing about the CBD is all the cars.
But these guys never ever mention that, presumably because they always drive to the CBD themselves.
Lots of Melbourne people out defending their city tonight and I get it but the CBD is an absolute shadow of its former self and Andrews really screwed you guys hard on lockdowns and much else besides. Still love the surviving restaurants/bars when I do visit.
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What a disaster - not just for transport and environment but for physical and mental health.
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"More than half the kids got ATAR scores over 95, must a great school"
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If you’re unhappy with Hezbollah, why not join Hezbollah and change it from within? Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good
4/ Australia has consistently called for the protection of civilian lives and warned of the risks of conflict spreading.
We call on Hizballah to cease its attacks on Israel.
We will continue to work with countries who have influence in the region to prevent further escalation.
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Funny how this artwork was up for months, nobody batted an eye, and when asked about it, Jewish community leaders said they weren’t concerned.
It was only when zionists needed to cast themselves as victims rather than genocide supporters that it suddenly became antisemitism.
Port Philip Council is under fire in a fierce storm over a ratepayer-funded mural. Melbourne's Jewish community claims the work is anti-Semitic, likening it to the way they were depicted by Nazis - and they want it removed.
@SharnelleVella
#7NEWS
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I love reading the Domain real estate pages. This woman is talking about a place with a price guide of $3.7 million.
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Please do not let Labor get away with pretending that they are some kind of pro-housing party. They are gaslighting us.
Here's their track record in Victoria, where Labor has been in power for the last decade or so:
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Just because it works in a small town like Paris doesn’t mean it’ll work in a big city like Melbourne
In Paris, just 4.3% -- 4.3%!! -- of the trips within the colored areas now occur in private cars.
Source:
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Welcome to Australia - we’re all laid back larrikins here! By the way, your 5 year old will need their own transport card.
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How come Labor is just giving Defence more funding directly rather than setting up a Defence Affordability Future Fund?
I was told in no uncertain terms that this was the better way to fund things, so confused about why we wouldn't do this?
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Narrator: Fiona Martin was exactly what I expected
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I cannot stop thinking about this reply. Pure poetry
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“Dunkley” should not be the name of an electoral division, it should be the name of a basketball-playing dog.
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If you're an ALP member and you haven't resigned your membership yet over ongoing support of genocide in Gaza: What would it take for you to do so?
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Here’s the clip where Van Badham says that she and co-host Ben were so disgusted by the notion of a cycle safety campaign that they decided to leave North Melbourne.
Just bizarre stuff, and gross considering that Melbourne is genuinely dangerous and deadly for cyclists!
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This event had to be moved due to fears for safety from pro-zionist violence. When is this country going to start treating zionism as the violent genocidal extremism that it is?
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Budget Winners and Losers pieces always read like:
LOSERS: Ferrari collectors (modest levy introduced on 8+ cars >1$m)
WINNERS: Dumpster divers (funding reduction to the supermarket skip bin padlock subsidy program)
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Proposed redesign for Inkerman St in St Kilda look fantastic. No reason every street in Melbourne can't look like this.
Let's hope the usual suspects don't ruin it as usual.
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Apparently the economy was productive enough in 1856 to support the 8 hour day.
And yet here we are in the year of our lord 2024 with the economy 10x as advanced and still typically working the same hours.
Really makes ya think
On this day in 1856, stonemasons walked off the job to protest their long working days. They had an ambitious vision: dividing 24 hours into 8 hours work, 8 hours recreation and 8 hours rest. And they would achieve it with no loss of pay.
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Even when locations in Melbourne are very well serviced by public transport, poor fare structure design and underpriced/oversubsidized car parking result in car congestion and overuse. A 🧵on probably the worst example, Melbourne Zoo.
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Why are so many people being killed on Australian roads? Turns out the answer is “trees”
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In Singapore car rego costs ~$12000 a year ($120000 upfront for 10 years)
This is a really interesting point on the Singapore-Australia tax comparison. Singapore has basically zero natural resources yet has achieved great wealth yet has a far higher GDP per capita and far lower corporate and personal tax rates.
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Another amazing Melbourne rail station catchment.
This time it's Donnybrook station. Heaps of houses within 1km, but the actual walk is usually >3km, half of which is down a high speed road with no footpath to the one road in/out of the estate.
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Superannuation is a system that raises people's standard of living in retirement **by lowering it before retirement**.
People often seem to forget about that second part.
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"Genius" is when you spend more on tax concessions than the **entire** age pension in order to reduce age pension spending slightly.
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So Yemen is disrupting shipping to try stop genocide in Israel, and instead of getting Yemen to stop by pressuring Israel too, we're helping the US bomb Yemen so that Israel can keep doing genocide...
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Thank you to Victoria's brave PSOs for keeping us safe
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Van Badham’s podcast is usually all about the news of the week but they haven’t mentioned Israel/Palestine at all over the last month. Weird!
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@nickschadegg
Sadly he's right tho in this case. Tipping is scab behaviour - we shouldn't normalize American-style labour norms here
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