@athommo42.bsky.social
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"When the two major parties stitch up a deal behind closed doors, are afraid of scrutiny through a proper inquiry, we get bad outcomes."
- Helen Haines MP at our press conference today on the proposed changes to electoral reform.
@helenhainesindi.bsky.social
- Helen Haines MP at our press conference today on the proposed changes to electoral reform.
@helenhainesindi.bsky.social
November 28, 2024 at 1:23 AM
"When the two major parties stitch up a deal behind closed doors, are afraid of scrutiny through a proper inquiry, we get bad outcomes."
- Helen Haines MP at our press conference today on the proposed changes to electoral reform.
@helenhainesindi.bsky.social
- Helen Haines MP at our press conference today on the proposed changes to electoral reform.
@helenhainesindi.bsky.social
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No idea why anyone in the ALP cabinet would bother turning up to work when you have the PM doing this shite
Albanese kills off deal with Greens to pass ‘nature positive’ law after intervention by WA premier Roger Cook
Albanese kills off deal with Greens to pass ‘nature positive’ law after intervention by WA premier
Roger Cook says he spoke to ‘highest level’ of federal government to reiterate his view the environment bills in their current form ‘should not be progressed’
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2024 at 8:56 PM
No idea why anyone in the ALP cabinet would bother turning up to work when you have the PM doing this shite
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Labor's final sitting week checklist
Work w Coalition to rush through:
🟥Donation reforms benefitting the majors
🟥Draconian migration bills
🟥<16 social media ban
🟥Refuse to deal w Greens. Scupper enviro deal
🟥Vote against wiping HECS by 20%. Post memes about wiping HECS by 20%
Anything I missed?
Work w Coalition to rush through:
🟥Donation reforms benefitting the majors
🟥Draconian migration bills
🟥<16 social media ban
🟥Refuse to deal w Greens. Scupper enviro deal
🟥Vote against wiping HECS by 20%. Post memes about wiping HECS by 20%
Anything I missed?
A whole new level of bastardry here: Albanese undermining his own minister and stopping necessary environmental reform *because it involves the Greens*.
Albanese “has personally intervened to scupper a deal” with the Greens over an environmental reform promised last election… circumventing his own environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, who had been negotiating “for months and was close to striking a deal”.
Yikes.
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
Yikes.
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
November 27, 2024 at 5:48 AM
Labor's final sitting week checklist
Work w Coalition to rush through:
🟥Donation reforms benefitting the majors
🟥Draconian migration bills
🟥<16 social media ban
🟥Refuse to deal w Greens. Scupper enviro deal
🟥Vote against wiping HECS by 20%. Post memes about wiping HECS by 20%
Anything I missed?
Work w Coalition to rush through:
🟥Donation reforms benefitting the majors
🟥Draconian migration bills
🟥<16 social media ban
🟥Refuse to deal w Greens. Scupper enviro deal
🟥Vote against wiping HECS by 20%. Post memes about wiping HECS by 20%
Anything I missed?
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He could argue it’s working- Greens look loud & destructive. But- the downside for me is that he’s done a few dirty deals with Dutton. Starting with a totally compromised NACC.
Albanese obviously thinks his “neuter the Greens” strategy is working. And gets the bonus of humiliating Plibersek. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Albanese intervenes to scupper Plibersek’s negotiations with the Greens
Tanya Plibersek’s negotiations with the Greens over a major environmental reform were close to bearing fruit. But the prime minister halted talks.
www.smh.com.au
November 27, 2024 at 5:59 AM
He could argue it’s working- Greens look loud & destructive. But- the downside for me is that he’s done a few dirty deals with Dutton. Starting with a totally compromised NACC.
Professional parasite
November 26, 2024 at 5:10 PM
Professional parasite
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Australia wants to co-host COP31 with Pacific nations, but by 2026 will Australia be a climate champion or will we see another episode of petrostate greenwash?
As @amyremeikis.bsky.social explains, ending fossil fuel subsidies is a good first step. #auspol
As @amyremeikis.bsky.social explains, ending fossil fuel subsidies is a good first step. #auspol
November 25, 2024 at 6:08 AM
Australia wants to co-host COP31 with Pacific nations, but by 2026 will Australia be a climate champion or will we see another episode of petrostate greenwash?
As @amyremeikis.bsky.social explains, ending fossil fuel subsidies is a good first step. #auspol
As @amyremeikis.bsky.social explains, ending fossil fuel subsidies is a good first step. #auspol
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US Navy seeks emergency funding for submarines - don't tell Richard Marles who thinks it's all tracking well.
breakingdefense.com/2024/11/navy...
breakingdefense.com/2024/11/navy...
Navy asking Congress for $5.7B in emergency submarine funding
Most of the money would shore up buys for three Virginia-class subs, while some funding would go to help industry improve its productivity.
breakingdefense.com
November 26, 2024 at 5:47 AM
US Navy seeks emergency funding for submarines - don't tell Richard Marles who thinks it's all tracking well.
breakingdefense.com/2024/11/navy...
breakingdefense.com/2024/11/navy...
Yep no benefits to them 🤦♀️😝
All for the kids apparently
All for the kids apparently
November 26, 2024 at 6:25 AM
Yep no benefits to them 🤦♀️😝
All for the kids apparently
All for the kids apparently
Glad to do my bit 🤢🤮
If you paid any tax in 2022-23, you paid more than all of these multinational gas corporations did on $36 BILLION income, exporting Australian gas from QLD.
Really makes you think. #auspol
Really makes you think. #auspol
November 26, 2024 at 5:18 AM
Glad to do my bit 🤢🤮
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Anthony Albanese and Mark Dreyfus have failed whistleblowers and Australians. It’s been left to the crossbench (Pocock, Lambie, Haines & Wilkie) to introduce a Bill to strengthen Australia's whistleblower protection laws and establish a Whistleblower Protection Authority. 🤷♂️ #auspol
November 26, 2024 at 1:29 AM
Anthony Albanese and Mark Dreyfus have failed whistleblowers and Australians. It’s been left to the crossbench (Pocock, Lambie, Haines & Wilkie) to introduce a Bill to strengthen Australia's whistleblower protection laws and establish a Whistleblower Protection Authority. 🤷♂️ #auspol
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Introducing my bill into Parliament to ban anyone over 60 from accessing talkback radio
#LetOldiesBeOldies
#LetOldiesBeOldies
November 25, 2024 at 9:14 PM
Introducing my bill into Parliament to ban anyone over 60 from accessing talkback radio
#LetOldiesBeOldies
#LetOldiesBeOldies
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Anyone else totally fed up with U.S. politics and made a silent oath to "leave them to their own devices"?
And then, the reality of their global influence, and Australia's fealty to the "world's policeman", means you must keep a watching eye...knowing you can do SFA to stop the worst of it.
And then, the reality of their global influence, and Australia's fealty to the "world's policeman", means you must keep a watching eye...knowing you can do SFA to stop the worst of it.
November 25, 2024 at 3:09 AM
Anyone else totally fed up with U.S. politics and made a silent oath to "leave them to their own devices"?
And then, the reality of their global influence, and Australia's fealty to the "world's policeman", means you must keep a watching eye...knowing you can do SFA to stop the worst of it.
And then, the reality of their global influence, and Australia's fealty to the "world's policeman", means you must keep a watching eye...knowing you can do SFA to stop the worst of it.
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Watching the Social Media Minimum Age inquiry.
This is colossal failure by the Labor government.
Unsupported by evidence, nearly impossible to enforce, riddled with privacy risks, unworkable exceptions, and exposes major flaws in Labor's capability and competence.
This is colossal failure by the Labor government.
Unsupported by evidence, nearly impossible to enforce, riddled with privacy risks, unworkable exceptions, and exposes major flaws in Labor's capability and competence.
November 25, 2024 at 1:53 AM
Watching the Social Media Minimum Age inquiry.
This is colossal failure by the Labor government.
Unsupported by evidence, nearly impossible to enforce, riddled with privacy risks, unworkable exceptions, and exposes major flaws in Labor's capability and competence.
This is colossal failure by the Labor government.
Unsupported by evidence, nearly impossible to enforce, riddled with privacy risks, unworkable exceptions, and exposes major flaws in Labor's capability and competence.
Can’t wait to see the wicked become unplayable when the Aussies come in to bat
November 24, 2024 at 9:03 AM
Can’t wait to see the wicked become unplayable when the Aussies come in to bat
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So get this, former acting C'wlth Ombo Richard Glenn who was in the chair during the first botched Robodebt investigation and who Royal Commission found should have been alert to the "substantial" doubt about lawfulness of income averaging has been appointed as... CEO of the High Court of Australia.
November 22, 2024 at 6:27 AM
So get this, former acting C'wlth Ombo Richard Glenn who was in the chair during the first botched Robodebt investigation and who Royal Commission found should have been alert to the "substantial" doubt about lawfulness of income averaging has been appointed as... CEO of the High Court of Australia.
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Healthscope?
Aren’t they the private health provider which is housed in the caymans - and the Libs kept doing public private partnerships with? #auspol
Aren’t they the private health provider which is housed in the caymans - and the Libs kept doing public private partnerships with? #auspol
November 22, 2024 at 7:18 AM
Healthscope?
Aren’t they the private health provider which is housed in the caymans - and the Libs kept doing public private partnerships with? #auspol
Aren’t they the private health provider which is housed in the caymans - and the Libs kept doing public private partnerships with? #auspol
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The head of the NACC, Paul Brereton, may be a decent man, but he is desperately out of his depth as the head of this large, multi-faceted, public-facing, modern, public service organisation.
His disastrous performance this afternoon in the Senate hearing underlines that in very clear detail.
#NACC
His disastrous performance this afternoon in the Senate hearing underlines that in very clear detail.
#NACC
November 22, 2024 at 4:36 AM
The head of the NACC, Paul Brereton, may be a decent man, but he is desperately out of his depth as the head of this large, multi-faceted, public-facing, modern, public service organisation.
His disastrous performance this afternoon in the Senate hearing underlines that in very clear detail.
#NACC
His disastrous performance this afternoon in the Senate hearing underlines that in very clear detail.
#NACC
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Delusional
"The Nacc commissioner, Paul Brereton, does not accept there is “widespread” disquiet about the federal integrity body after the fallout of its decision not to investigate robodebt referrals."
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
"The Nacc commissioner, Paul Brereton, does not accept there is “widespread” disquiet about the federal integrity body after the fallout of its decision not to investigate robodebt referrals."
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australia news live: Nacc chief acknowledges ‘disquiet’ over new corruption body but denies it is widespread; Newcastle coal protest under way
Follow live
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2024 at 3:06 AM
Delusional
"The Nacc commissioner, Paul Brereton, does not accept there is “widespread” disquiet about the federal integrity body after the fallout of its decision not to investigate robodebt referrals."
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
"The Nacc commissioner, Paul Brereton, does not accept there is “widespread” disquiet about the federal integrity body after the fallout of its decision not to investigate robodebt referrals."
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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This is what was said today at the #NACC public hearing.
Both the Commissioner and the Deputy Commissioner implied that fully investigating Robodebt "seemed very hard".
Let that one sink in.
Both the Commissioner and the Deputy Commissioner implied that fully investigating Robodebt "seemed very hard".
Let that one sink in.
I really don't understand how "it seemed very hard" is a good excuse for a national anti-corruption commission to use when deciding not to investigate something.
November 22, 2024 at 4:13 AM
This is what was said today at the #NACC public hearing.
Both the Commissioner and the Deputy Commissioner implied that fully investigating Robodebt "seemed very hard".
Let that one sink in.
Both the Commissioner and the Deputy Commissioner implied that fully investigating Robodebt "seemed very hard".
Let that one sink in.
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It would be good for Australians if Paul Brereton, the head of the #NACC, bothered reading his own legislation.
That would be helpful and oooh I dunno, might be something the public expected from him in his ~$758,000 a year position
That would be helpful and oooh I dunno, might be something the public expected from him in his ~$758,000 a year position
Brereton always defines corruption as typically being engaged in "for a private benefit" which is explicitly NOT what his own Act requires. They even have a clause saying: "Conduct involving a public official may be corrupt conduct even if the conduct is not for the person’s personal benefit."
November 22, 2024 at 4:15 AM
It would be good for Australians if Paul Brereton, the head of the #NACC, bothered reading his own legislation.
That would be helpful and oooh I dunno, might be something the public expected from him in his ~$758,000 a year position
That would be helpful and oooh I dunno, might be something the public expected from him in his ~$758,000 a year position
Surely that is not the best angles for DRS….
#ausvindia
#ausvindia
November 22, 2024 at 4:14 AM
Surely that is not the best angles for DRS….
#ausvindia
#ausvindia