Africanyak
@tess45au.bsky.social
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Labor wants credit for climate action while approving fossil fuel projects that will still be operating when today's toddlers are collecting the pension. That isn't a transition away from fossil fuels, and it sure as fuck isn't ensuring those toddlers a livable future!
#auspol
#auspol
September 18, 2026 at 8:15 AM
Labor wants credit for climate action while approving fossil fuel projects that will still be operating when today's toddlers are collecting the pension. That isn't a transition away from fossil fuels, and it sure as fuck isn't ensuring those toddlers a livable future!
#auspol
#auspol
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Today there is (yet another) senate inquiry hearing that will receive evidence about the extraordinary harm caused by compulsory income control programs.
We know the government has no evidence that people want to be forced to use the BasicsCard. If the evidence existed, they would publish it.
We know the government has no evidence that people want to be forced to use the BasicsCard. If the evidence existed, they would publish it.
Labor rewrites history on cashless welfare as it quietly traps people in income control programs
The Antipoverty Centre is disturbed by Labor's comments regarding the failure to deliver on the government’s promise to end compulsory income control programs such as the BasicsCard and SmartCard.
apcentre.substack.com
September 17, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Today there is (yet another) senate inquiry hearing that will receive evidence about the extraordinary harm caused by compulsory income control programs.
We know the government has no evidence that people want to be forced to use the BasicsCard. If the evidence existed, they would publish it.
We know the government has no evidence that people want to be forced to use the BasicsCard. If the evidence existed, they would publish it.
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Nyadol Nyuon who spoke with such eloquence on the ABC this week calling out the racism underlying the debate on migration is now being subjected to the same racism for saying she has no intention of assimilating. Why should she have to? We always are expected to lose our culture, languages & ways.
September 18, 2026 at 3:06 AM
Nyadol Nyuon who spoke with such eloquence on the ABC this week calling out the racism underlying the debate on migration is now being subjected to the same racism for saying she has no intention of assimilating. Why should she have to? We always are expected to lose our culture, languages & ways.
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we support police issuing move on notices to disrupt community and criminalise poverty with use of force and the very financial penalties that contribute to causing homelessness in the first place - while victim blaming - said the literal Minister for Homelessness.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
Dozens of homeless people at Perth camp given less than a week to move
Roughly 50 people staying in tents and cars at a makeshift camp in the City of Rockingham have been ordered by the state government to clear the area, leaving many scared and with nowhere else to go.
www.abc.net.au
September 18, 2026 at 10:54 AM
we support police issuing move on notices to disrupt community and criminalise poverty with use of force and the very financial penalties that contribute to causing homelessness in the first place - while victim blaming - said the literal Minister for Homelessness.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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“Even for a government, $10 billion per year is a lot of money. It is one of the largest expense items in the federal budget, usually costing more than running either the Australian Army or the Royal Australian Air Force.”
Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
September 18, 2026 at 2:19 AM
“Even for a government, $10 billion per year is a lot of money. It is one of the largest expense items in the federal budget, usually costing more than running either the Australian Army or the Royal Australian Air Force.”
Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
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Australian tax payers are funding a $150k to $180k salary for Pauline Hanson’s daughter Lee Hanson, to work as an advisor to a NSW 🤡N senator.
LEE HANSON LIVES IN TASMANIA!
She is campaigning in Tasmania for 🤡N!
How is this an ethical use of tax payer’s money?
LEE HANSON LIVES IN TASMANIA!
She is campaigning in Tasmania for 🤡N!
How is this an ethical use of tax payer’s money?
September 18, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Australian tax payers are funding a $150k to $180k salary for Pauline Hanson’s daughter Lee Hanson, to work as an advisor to a NSW 🤡N senator.
LEE HANSON LIVES IN TASMANIA!
She is campaigning in Tasmania for 🤡N!
How is this an ethical use of tax payer’s money?
LEE HANSON LIVES IN TASMANIA!
She is campaigning in Tasmania for 🤡N!
How is this an ethical use of tax payer’s money?
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There goes the neighbourhood
K'gari-Fraser Island tourism businesses to be sold to US-owned Journey Beyond
K'gari resort set to be sold to US travel giant
K'gari's Kingfisher Bay Resort is set to be taken over by US-owned "experiential tourism" giant Journey Beyond.
www.abc.net.au
September 18, 2026 at 12:54 AM
There goes the neighbourhood
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The stakes are too high to sit on fence.
It’s glaringly obvious that the Albanese Labor Government has been captured by two foreign powers, Trump’s US govt and Netanyahu’s Israel Zionist Ethnostate. Along with the fossil fuel multinationals and many others.
Australia’s very democracy at risk.
It’s glaringly obvious that the Albanese Labor Government has been captured by two foreign powers, Trump’s US govt and Netanyahu’s Israel Zionist Ethnostate. Along with the fossil fuel multinationals and many others.
Australia’s very democracy at risk.
September 18, 2026 at 2:58 AM
The stakes are too high to sit on fence.
It’s glaringly obvious that the Albanese Labor Government has been captured by two foreign powers, Trump’s US govt and Netanyahu’s Israel Zionist Ethnostate. Along with the fossil fuel multinationals and many others.
Australia’s very democracy at risk.
It’s glaringly obvious that the Albanese Labor Government has been captured by two foreign powers, Trump’s US govt and Netanyahu’s Israel Zionist Ethnostate. Along with the fossil fuel multinationals and many others.
Australia’s very democracy at risk.
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A brittle economy on the brink of collapse
An economy stuck in the past - dependent on fossil fuels and at the end of a very, very, very long tenuous supply line
A body politic that has not urgently mandated an accelerated shift to a renewables economy
The consequences are going to be harsh
An economy stuck in the past - dependent on fossil fuels and at the end of a very, very, very long tenuous supply line
A body politic that has not urgently mandated an accelerated shift to a renewables economy
The consequences are going to be harsh
September 16, 2026 at 11:48 PM
A brittle economy on the brink of collapse
An economy stuck in the past - dependent on fossil fuels and at the end of a very, very, very long tenuous supply line
A body politic that has not urgently mandated an accelerated shift to a renewables economy
The consequences are going to be harsh
An economy stuck in the past - dependent on fossil fuels and at the end of a very, very, very long tenuous supply line
A body politic that has not urgently mandated an accelerated shift to a renewables economy
The consequences are going to be harsh
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michaelwest.com.au/israel-funde... Investigations by MWM have found that United Israel Appeal & the Jewish National Fund are among a number of Australian charities raising tax-deductible funds for programs supporting the IDF & illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian Territories
Israel funded the legal assault on Mary Kostakidis - Michael West
The Zionist Federation of Australia's legal assault on Israel critic and journalist Mary Kostakidis was financed by Israel's war machine
michaelwest.com.au
September 17, 2026 at 10:41 PM
michaelwest.com.au/israel-funde... Investigations by MWM have found that United Israel Appeal & the Jewish National Fund are among a number of Australian charities raising tax-deductible funds for programs supporting the IDF & illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian Territories
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The Greens are calling for a moratorium on data centre approval in Australia, amid new polling showing a majority wanting more government regulation to deal with AI
Greens communications spokesperson @sarahhansonyoung.bsky.social spoke with 6 News: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL0b...
Greens communications spokesperson @sarahhansonyoung.bsky.social spoke with 6 News: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL0b...
Greens want Australians protected from AI with call for data centre pause
YouTube video by SIX News Australia
www.youtube.com
September 17, 2026 at 7:41 AM
The Greens are calling for a moratorium on data centre approval in Australia, amid new polling showing a majority wanting more government regulation to deal with AI
Greens communications spokesperson @sarahhansonyoung.bsky.social spoke with 6 News: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL0b...
Greens communications spokesperson @sarahhansonyoung.bsky.social spoke with 6 News: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL0b...
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1.26 million low income Australian households are in housing stress. Tony Burke has declared six properties. Tanya Plibersek four. Nothing illegal about that, but perhaps it helps explain why Australia's housing crisis looks very different from inside Parliament than it does from the rental queue.
September 17, 2026 at 10:02 PM
1.26 million low income Australian households are in housing stress. Tony Burke has declared six properties. Tanya Plibersek four. Nothing illegal about that, but perhaps it helps explain why Australia's housing crisis looks very different from inside Parliament than it does from the rental queue.
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One in three Australian households experienced food insecurity last year. One in five were severely food insecure, skipping meals or entire days of eating. Meanwhile, Cabinet ministers earn north of $400,000 a year. Imagine governing a country where people skip meals from that far above the problem.
September 17, 2026 at 10:00 PM
One in three Australian households experienced food insecurity last year. One in five were severely food insecure, skipping meals or entire days of eating. Meanwhile, Cabinet ministers earn north of $400,000 a year. Imagine governing a country where people skip meals from that far above the problem.
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New from 404 Media: Georgia State has rescinded a job offer given to Samuel Tunick, the activist who allegedly wiped his GrapheneOS phone before DHS could search it. Tunick says the case is "textbook political repression". Now can't study or work at the university
www.404media.co/university-r...
www.404media.co/university-r...
University Rescinds Job Offer to Activist Who Allegedly Wiped Phone Before DHS Could Search It
Samuel Tunick allegedly wiped his GrapheneOS phone before CBP officials could search it, in what has become a high profile civil liberties case. Now Georgia State University has rescinded a job offer ...
www.404media.co
September 17, 2026 at 3:32 PM
New from 404 Media: Georgia State has rescinded a job offer given to Samuel Tunick, the activist who allegedly wiped his GrapheneOS phone before DHS could search it. Tunick says the case is "textbook political repression". Now can't study or work at the university
www.404media.co/university-r...
www.404media.co/university-r...
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Queensland’s LNP government has signed away our power and data to a trillion-dollar company.
The site in Western Downs will use the same amount of energy as 1.5 million households. That’s 44x the population there!
The community didn't ask for this. Moratorium now.
The site in Western Downs will use the same amount of energy as 1.5 million households. That’s 44x the population there!
The community didn't ask for this. Moratorium now.
September 16, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Queensland’s LNP government has signed away our power and data to a trillion-dollar company.
The site in Western Downs will use the same amount of energy as 1.5 million households. That’s 44x the population there!
The community didn't ask for this. Moratorium now.
The site in Western Downs will use the same amount of energy as 1.5 million households. That’s 44x the population there!
The community didn't ask for this. Moratorium now.
It is an ethical problem, though, that governments are expected to take hardship seriously only when its political consequences are alarming, like finding the right beggar to give to. Which is the most deserving: the angriest, or the most politically dangerous?
#auspol
theaimn.net/welfare-barr...
#auspol
theaimn.net/welfare-barr...
Welfare-barrelling
Politicians are right to be worried that economic insecurity can fuel radical politics. Labor should understand why some economically pressured voters are moving to parties it fears. There is somethin...
theaimn.net
September 17, 2026 at 10:12 PM
It is an ethical problem, though, that governments are expected to take hardship seriously only when its political consequences are alarming, like finding the right beggar to give to. Which is the most deserving: the angriest, or the most politically dangerous?
#auspol
theaimn.net/welfare-barr...
#auspol
theaimn.net/welfare-barr...
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How Labor's invite-only grant scheme pork-barrelled $560 million into its own seats
September 17, 2026 at 5:51 AM
How Labor's invite-only grant scheme pork-barrelled $560 million into its own seats
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Considering banning smart glasses in commonwealth workplaces to protect themselves but not the broader community is 100% on brand for this government - nothing to stop people filming kids at playgrounds or women at beaches but bureaucrats will be safe 🙃
September 17, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Considering banning smart glasses in commonwealth workplaces to protect themselves but not the broader community is 100% on brand for this government - nothing to stop people filming kids at playgrounds or women at beaches but bureaucrats will be safe 🙃
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Folks asking for more details here ya go bsky.app/profile/five...
September 17, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Folks asking for more details here ya go bsky.app/profile/five...
No ambulances immediately available almost 17,000 times in Tasmania in 2025-26
#auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
#auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
No ambulances immediately available almost 17,000 times in Tasmania in 2025-26
There were no immediately available ambulances for nearly 17,000 Triple Zero callers in 2025-26, new figures have revealed — around 46 times per day.
www.abc.net.au
September 17, 2026 at 10:51 AM
No ambulances immediately available almost 17,000 times in Tasmania in 2025-26
#auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
#auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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The manner in which international students are treated by this country is a disgrace. Fleeced of money, and kicked around like a political football
September 17, 2026 at 3:38 AM
The manner in which international students are treated by this country is a disgrace. Fleeced of money, and kicked around like a political football
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They are coming after all our data, all our ideas, all our art, and Labor is paving the way for them. We need to stand up to big tech, stand up to US bullies and billionaires. The Greens know this.
September 16, 2026 at 8:48 PM
They are coming after all our data, all our ideas, all our art, and Labor is paving the way for them. We need to stand up to big tech, stand up to US bullies and billionaires. The Greens know this.
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Um, It seems to me the economic activity in building all these toxic data centres is putting upward pressure on intetest rates so let's put the kybosh on them, and AUKUS, to rein in rates rather than defunding programmes that actually benefit Australians? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
IMF urges Australian government to cut spending as another interest rate hike looms
Warning comes as forecast for nation’s economic growth downgraded amid concerns over rising debt and inflation
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2026 at 9:47 AM
Um, It seems to me the economic activity in building all these toxic data centres is putting upward pressure on intetest rates so let's put the kybosh on them, and AUKUS, to rein in rates rather than defunding programmes that actually benefit Australians? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Currently I am deciding between car insurance, pet insurance,or food.
But all good, data centres,US Base housing, Israel and keeping Harbour-side mansions affordable for billionaires is the go
#auspol
But all good, data centres,US Base housing, Israel and keeping Harbour-side mansions affordable for billionaires is the go
#auspol
My column on how the level of Jobseeker kills people. And those running the economy for over 30 years have decided that is how it should be.
www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
In such a rich country, it is shameful how many Australians on jobseeker are dying in desperate poverty | Greg Jericho
Lifting the abysmally low jobseeker rate to the poverty line would save thousands of lives
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Currently I am deciding between car insurance, pet insurance,or food.
But all good, data centres,US Base housing, Israel and keeping Harbour-side mansions affordable for billionaires is the go
#auspol
But all good, data centres,US Base housing, Israel and keeping Harbour-side mansions affordable for billionaires is the go
#auspol
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Plug-in solar is moving closer to reality. That’s great news for renters who want cleaner, cheaper energy.
Australia is an established global leader for rooftop solar, with more than 4 million homes seizing the power of the sun.
Australia is an established global leader for rooftop solar, with more than 4 million homes seizing the power of the sun.
Plug-in solar "not an overnight proposition," says Bowen, as pressure mounts to legalise it within 10 months
Bowen says there is "a lot of work to do" to legalise plug-in solar and batteries. But experts say it's not complicated, and want regulators handed a firm deadline.
reneweconomy.com.au
September 17, 2026 at 1:44 AM
Plug-in solar is moving closer to reality. That’s great news for renters who want cleaner, cheaper energy.
Australia is an established global leader for rooftop solar, with more than 4 million homes seizing the power of the sun.
Australia is an established global leader for rooftop solar, with more than 4 million homes seizing the power of the sun.