Delta Delta Bravo.🏍🇦🇺

The Electoral Reform Bill should be renamed the Funnelling Public Money to the Major Parties Under the Guise of Transparency Bill 2024. The major parties have the gall to push this reform, so they should stand up and call it for what it is. #politas #auspol

This Parliament has not passed bills addressing the homelessness and rental crises, and other cost of living issues. But the major parties colluded this week on legislation increasing their own public funding, and making it harder for independents to be elected. Priorities.

“What the hell does Israel need to do more for this Council to act under Chapter VII? Is there a UN charter for Israel that is different from the charter we all have? Tell us, is there an international law for them and international law for us? Do they have the right to kill? And the only right we have is to die?”

Me, in the Gooder Place

#WordoftheDay karoshi: (in Japan) death from a heart attack or stroke brought on by the stress of long hours of work and job pressure. #MacquarieDictionary

Yes, I was Richard instead of Ricardo before @SBS… here’s the (short) story

When the National Anti-Corruption Commission was set up the major parties teamed up to make it harder for hearings to occur in public I just moved an amendment to make it easier to hold public hearings and build confidence in the NACC Labor & Coalition voted against it again 🤯

@AmyRemeikis @GrogsGamut @GuardianAus Thank you @AmyRemeikis for making some sense of what masquerades as leadership in our elected representatives.

@GrogsGamut @GuardianAus I am fuelled by coffee and anxiety

From @davpope in Canberra Times

@kcmunoz_ As a fairly new grandfather, I understand the other side of this. Grand children change you.

Al Jazeera released a FULL documentary today that EXPOSES all of Israel’s WAR CRIMES! (Full credit @AJIunit)

Doonesbury comic on Israel's invasion of Lebanon, 1982

From @davpope in Canberra Times

The appointment of Michael Sterzinger as chief executive of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra is good news for the company – and for the arts. inqld.com.au/arts-culture/a…

Yes.

Amazing how easy it seems to be to continue to convince people ‘immigrants’ are taking their jobs and not the capitalists/corporations who seek the cheapest labour possible, be it automation or exploiting the workforces of other nations.