Philip Cocker

🚨HOLY SHIT !!!!! Israeli politician Yitzik Kroizer says killing Palestinian children is normal if it supports the IDF mission. He adds there are no innocent children in the West Bank. Repost this. Please I beg you

Today I boosted funding for 196 emergency relief providers across Australia by 15% this year. It means orgs like Vinnies can keep providing food, clothing, and essentials to anyone in need. We’re making sure no one has to choose between paying bills or putting food on the table.

Attacks on UN peacekeepers are unacceptable. We condemn the killing of three Indonesian personnel serving with the UN in Lebanon. We extend our sincere condolences to their loved ones, colleagues and to Indonesia. We support Indonesia's calls for a thorough investigation.

Why the growth of One Nation? My latest Oped in the AFR. Since the GFC, Australia has quietly dismantled the economic foundations of the outer suburbs and the regions. The car industry, gone. Steel, in some parts in administration. Timber towns, hollowed out by policy decisions made by people who never lived near one. Over 200,000 manufacturing jobs lost in seven years. Textiles, clothing, footwear, effectively eliminated. Wholesale trade contracted. Bank branches stripped from regional high streets. Energy-intensive manufacturing crushed by gas prices that tripled after LNG exports began. Health services in decline or now costing more. Being diagnosed with cancer in a big city is traumatic, in the regions, it’s far more severe as you have to battle day trips to a care facility….try doing that with today’s petrol prices. None of this happened to the inner city. It happened to the people who built things, fixed things, and drove things for a living. And the parties that governed through all of it, on both sides, never really had to answer for it. They called it modernisation. They called it the ‘just’ transition, or a move to a service economy where the service is done by one class of worker to enrich the life of another. One Nation didn’t come from nowhere. It came from exactly this. My new piece in the AFR on the long betrayal that made it inevitable. After you read this, you may realise that the votes wont easily come back. Link below.