gregtasker
@gregtasker.bsky.social
I Come In Pieces.
Lost. (really lost)
Confused.
Thought I knew things.
Walked in some shoes.
Hopeful.
Lost. (really lost)
Confused.
Thought I knew things.
Walked in some shoes.
Hopeful.
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"Tiny broken bodies, rotting babies, flattened corpses, mass graves, levelled neighbourhoods and the wild, wild grief of the bereaved."
"Despite the overwhelming evidence we see before us, still nothing changes." #genocide
"Tiny broken bodies, rotting babies, flattened corpses, mass graves, levelled neighbourhoods and the wild, wild grief of the bereaved."
"Despite the overwhelming evidence we see before us, still nothing changes." #genocide
A consensus is emerging: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Where is the action? | Nesrine Malik
It may feel hopeless to see supportive states continue to back Israel, but bearing witness matters for future reckoning, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2024 at 9:07 AM
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"Tiny broken bodies, rotting babies, flattened corpses, mass graves, levelled neighbourhoods and the wild, wild grief of the bereaved."
"Despite the overwhelming evidence we see before us, still nothing changes." #genocide
"Tiny broken bodies, rotting babies, flattened corpses, mass graves, levelled neighbourhoods and the wild, wild grief of the bereaved."
"Despite the overwhelming evidence we see before us, still nothing changes." #genocide
"Very convenient for the government that the poor are too tired to fight back.."
"Until they aren't.."
#homelessness
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"Until they aren't.."
#homelessness
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10,000 people are becoming homeless every month – you’d think the government would do something about it | First Dog on the Moon
As the kids are all saying, the purpose of a system is what it does
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December 11, 2024 at 9:44 AM
"Very convenient for the government that the poor are too tired to fight back.."
"Until they aren't.."
#homelessness
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"Until they aren't.."
#homelessness
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Here's my latest piece for The Shot @shotau.bsky.social on Aust's political IQ
".... with the election of Babet, certainly Pauline Hanson must have been relieved to relinquish her reigning senate title as Most Likely To Confuse Themselves With A Push-Pull Door."
😎
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".... with the election of Babet, certainly Pauline Hanson must have been relieved to relinquish her reigning senate title as Most Likely To Confuse Themselves With A Push-Pull Door."
😎
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I’m with stupid - The Shot
There’s always been a healthy level of stupid in Australian politics, but let’s face facts: the collective intelligence of the...
theshot.net.au
December 7, 2024 at 9:13 AM
Here's my latest piece for The Shot @shotau.bsky.social on Aust's political IQ
".... with the election of Babet, certainly Pauline Hanson must have been relieved to relinquish her reigning senate title as Most Likely To Confuse Themselves With A Push-Pull Door."
😎
theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
".... with the election of Babet, certainly Pauline Hanson must have been relieved to relinquish her reigning senate title as Most Likely To Confuse Themselves With A Push-Pull Door."
😎
theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
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Sewing the seeds of division at every given opportunity with whatever it takes to become Prime Minister.
What a grub.
Sewing the seeds of division at every given opportunity with whatever it takes to become Prime Minister.
What a grub.
Peter Dutton accused of ‘disgusting’ political point-scoring after synagogue fire – then attacks Jewish Labor MP
Josh Burns says he has been standing up for his Melbourne community ‘every day’ as Chris Bowen calls for national unity
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December 9, 2024 at 9:02 AM
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Sewing the seeds of division at every given opportunity with whatever it takes to become Prime Minister.
What a grub.
Sewing the seeds of division at every given opportunity with whatever it takes to become Prime Minister.
What a grub.
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I will never, ever get over this.
December 3, 2024 at 5:49 PM
I will never, ever get over this.
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1000 people — maybe even more — had their welfare payments unlawfully CANCELLED because Dept of Employment / Services Australia can’t read their self-defeating legislation that dictates mutual obligations to jobseekers. Latest in a series of bungles. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-cri...
Exclusive: Welfare payments cancelled unlawfully
An error in the interpretation of welfare legislation has led to the unlawful cancellation of payments, as the department fails to manage its own compliance system.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
November 29, 2024 at 11:43 PM
1000 people — maybe even more — had their welfare payments unlawfully CANCELLED because Dept of Employment / Services Australia can’t read their self-defeating legislation that dictates mutual obligations to jobseekers. Latest in a series of bungles. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-cri...
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Dave Milner on fire in The Shot: "This is us. This is mainstream, ruling class Australia."
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Arrest warrants issued for genocidal babykiller, Benjamin Netanyahu - The Shot
The ICC has proven it has eyes and brains and has issued warrants to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant for crimes against humanity.
theshot.net.au
November 22, 2024 at 8:19 AM
Dave Milner on fire in The Shot: "This is us. This is mainstream, ruling class Australia."
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I’ve signed the petition to keep Sarah Macdonald at ABC Sydney. Getting rid of her while they keep people like Macca is beyond me.
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Sign the Petition
Bring back Sarah Macdonald on ABC Radio Sydney 702
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November 21, 2024 at 10:48 AM
I’ve signed the petition to keep Sarah Macdonald at ABC Sydney. Getting rid of her while they keep people like Macca is beyond me.
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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
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I've just made my first starter pack of Aussie Independent Journos. If I've missed anyone, please let me know & I'll add them. Somehow Kylie's mug ended up in the middle & there was no way to get rid of her. She goes, She goes, she just won't go #auspol #ausmedia #ausnews
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November 19, 2024 at 10:25 AM
I've just made my first starter pack of Aussie Independent Journos. If I've missed anyone, please let me know & I'll add them. Somehow Kylie's mug ended up in the middle & there was no way to get rid of her. She goes, She goes, she just won't go #auspol #ausmedia #ausnews
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Dump AUKUS. Spend the money rebuilding a fairer, kinder, better educated, renewables powered , cleaner, safer, more harmonious society.
Dump AUKUS. NOW.
Dump AUKUS. NOW.
Adelaide residents blindsided by decision to store AUKUS nuclear waste at submarine shipyards.
Federal parliament has passed legislation that allows for nuclear waste to be stored and disposed of at a shipping yard in Adelaide.
Locals say they weren't told or consulted.
#auspol #AUKUS
Federal parliament has passed legislation that allows for nuclear waste to be stored and disposed of at a shipping yard in Adelaide.
Locals say they weren't told or consulted.
#auspol #AUKUS
'Sly and conniving': Government plan to store AUKUS nuclear waste in suburbs blindsides residents
The $368 billion AUKUS pact is promising to return submarine construction to Australia. But residents have just learned the deal also means nuclear waste will be stored on their doorstep.
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November 18, 2024 at 11:32 AM
Dump AUKUS. Spend the money rebuilding a fairer, kinder, better educated, renewables powered , cleaner, safer, more harmonious society.
Dump AUKUS. NOW.
Dump AUKUS. NOW.
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Thinking of survivors today, and all those who tried to come forward and weren't heard, or were deliberately silenced.♥️
November 18, 2024 at 1:56 AM
Thinking of survivors today, and all those who tried to come forward and weren't heard, or were deliberately silenced.♥️
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The NACC has still produced no significant corruption findings.
But instead of talking about Paladin, Eastern Australian Agriculture water deals, Robodebt execs, Stuart Robert, etc etc etc, we’re talking about Paul Brereton.
Read the room, mate.
www.crikey.com.au/2024/11/18/p...
But instead of talking about Paladin, Eastern Australian Agriculture water deals, Robodebt execs, Stuart Robert, etc etc etc, we’re talking about Paul Brereton.
Read the room, mate.
www.crikey.com.au/2024/11/18/p...
Discredited Brereton should stop whingeing and resign from the NACC
The National Anti-Corruption Commission head devoted a major speech to explaining why he shouldn't resign. It perfectly demonstrated why he should.
www.crikey.com.au
November 18, 2024 at 2:21 AM
The NACC has still produced no significant corruption findings.
But instead of talking about Paladin, Eastern Australian Agriculture water deals, Robodebt execs, Stuart Robert, etc etc etc, we’re talking about Paul Brereton.
Read the room, mate.
www.crikey.com.au/2024/11/18/p...
But instead of talking about Paladin, Eastern Australian Agriculture water deals, Robodebt execs, Stuart Robert, etc etc etc, we’re talking about Paul Brereton.
Read the room, mate.
www.crikey.com.au/2024/11/18/p...
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We need electoral reform, but not in the form of a stitch up that favours the 2 party system and locks communities out of democracy. The government’s electoral reform bill needs proper scrutiny. Watch. Part 2.
November 18, 2024 at 8:21 AM
We need electoral reform, but not in the form of a stitch up that favours the 2 party system and locks communities out of democracy. The government’s electoral reform bill needs proper scrutiny. Watch. Part 2.
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I learned some stuff about Bluesky I did not know by reading this.
Maybe worth passing it on to others so we can all start getting the full benefit of the 🦋.
Maybe worth passing it on to others so we can all start getting the full benefit of the 🦋.
Here’s some cool stuff you can do with Bluesky
It’s not just an Alf pics repository.
www.theverge.com
November 17, 2024 at 8:55 AM
I learned some stuff about Bluesky I did not know by reading this.
Maybe worth passing it on to others so we can all start getting the full benefit of the 🦋.
Maybe worth passing it on to others so we can all start getting the full benefit of the 🦋.
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There's an opportunity for an Australian political party to do actual, real things at the moment with clear majority public support. But they can't, because they've been caught up in terminally failing political spivery and orthodoxy for so long, it doesn't compute to them. /n
November 17, 2024 at 4:45 AM
There's an opportunity for an Australian political party to do actual, real things at the moment with clear majority public support. But they can't, because they've been caught up in terminally failing political spivery and orthodoxy for so long, it doesn't compute to them. /n
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Breaking:
An emergency public holiday has been declared for Australia for tomorrow (Monday, November 18).
Everyone gets the day off, with triple pay.
Everyone also gets a $50 gift voucher at their local bottle shop.
All deadlines are extended, and all planned tasks will be considered completed.
An emergency public holiday has been declared for Australia for tomorrow (Monday, November 18).
Everyone gets the day off, with triple pay.
Everyone also gets a $50 gift voucher at their local bottle shop.
All deadlines are extended, and all planned tasks will be considered completed.
November 17, 2024 at 9:49 AM
Breaking:
An emergency public holiday has been declared for Australia for tomorrow (Monday, November 18).
Everyone gets the day off, with triple pay.
Everyone also gets a $50 gift voucher at their local bottle shop.
All deadlines are extended, and all planned tasks will be considered completed.
An emergency public holiday has been declared for Australia for tomorrow (Monday, November 18).
Everyone gets the day off, with triple pay.
Everyone also gets a $50 gift voucher at their local bottle shop.
All deadlines are extended, and all planned tasks will be considered completed.
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Why is Labor rushing to legislate fundamental changes to our electoral system?
With 180 pages of explanatory memorandum and 230 pages of amendments, this bill, likely to pass with Lib/Lab support, will entrench the Lib/Lab duopoly.
Like Alex, everyone who cares about democracy should be angry.
With 180 pages of explanatory memorandum and 230 pages of amendments, this bill, likely to pass with Lib/Lab support, will entrench the Lib/Lab duopoly.
Like Alex, everyone who cares about democracy should be angry.
What do we all think about the new electoral laws our ever righteous and boldly envisioned leader @albomp.bsky.social is planning on bringing in?
I say: get fucked.
#auspol
I say: get fucked.
#auspol
November 16, 2024 at 6:43 AM
Why is Labor rushing to legislate fundamental changes to our electoral system?
With 180 pages of explanatory memorandum and 230 pages of amendments, this bill, likely to pass with Lib/Lab support, will entrench the Lib/Lab duopoly.
Like Alex, everyone who cares about democracy should be angry.
With 180 pages of explanatory memorandum and 230 pages of amendments, this bill, likely to pass with Lib/Lab support, will entrench the Lib/Lab duopoly.
Like Alex, everyone who cares about democracy should be angry.
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I wish for a world where one day people get more upset by genocide than they do about decorative windows.
November 14, 2024 at 1:32 PM
I wish for a world where one day people get more upset by genocide than they do about decorative windows.
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Ethnic cleansing.
“1.9 million people have been displaced in Gaza out of a population of 2.2 million people.
“Israel’s actions have intentionally caused the mass forced displacement of the majority of the civilian population of Gaza.”
Human Rights Watch
www.hrw.org/report/2024/...
“1.9 million people have been displaced in Gaza out of a population of 2.2 million people.
“Israel’s actions have intentionally caused the mass forced displacement of the majority of the civilian population of Gaza.”
Human Rights Watch
www.hrw.org/report/2024/...
“Hopeless, Starving, and Besieged”
The 154-page report, “‘Hopeless, Starving, and Besieged’: Israel’s Forced Displacement of Palestinians in Gaza,” examines how Israeli authorities’ conduct has led to the displacement of over 90 percen...
www.hrw.org
November 15, 2024 at 10:15 AM
Ethnic cleansing.
“1.9 million people have been displaced in Gaza out of a population of 2.2 million people.
“Israel’s actions have intentionally caused the mass forced displacement of the majority of the civilian population of Gaza.”
Human Rights Watch
www.hrw.org/report/2024/...
“1.9 million people have been displaced in Gaza out of a population of 2.2 million people.
“Israel’s actions have intentionally caused the mass forced displacement of the majority of the civilian population of Gaza.”
Human Rights Watch
www.hrw.org/report/2024/...
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