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• Post #2213239

  #Caturday Our Dora catching some rays in the garden on a cold morning in Perth.

• Post #2213237

  It seems to me that the relationship between Iran and Hezbollah is of the same nature and importance as the relationship between America and Israel. We need to change the narrative to include the term "the American backed State of Israel". Seems only fair.

• Post #2213236

  #MayDay. Joined the Frack Free Kimberley people for the MayDay march in Fremantle

• Post #2213234

  "The flotilla participants were released on Crete after being intercepted off the coast of the Greek island by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) on Wednesday." SBS News Where is the international outcry at this cimpletely illegal action by the IDF. Under what jurisdiction did the Israeli Military detain people in international waters, incarcerate them on Greek Territory for interrogation, and the simply release them. These are the actions of terrorists.

• Post #2213231

  In the May ANUpoll "The Greens top the poll as the most hated party, with 25.6 per cent of respondents reporting a strong dislike of the party compared to One Nation at 24.2 per cent." While the Greens occupy the right existential space for my way of thinking about Politics, they have clearly played "the game" of politics badly in recenty years and now the results of that are beginning to show. Meanwhile, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party seems to be...

• Post #2213230

  Western Australia's parliament is in the control of Labor in both houses - so it can pass whatever legislation it chooses. But they have stuffed this procedural legislation that has no ideological pressure one way or the other and they stand alone in not sharing data across jurisdictions. It makes one wonder whose money is in their pockets stalling this important legislation. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-03/working-with-children-check-delays-in-western-australia/106635892

• Post #2213229

  It is a good day when you see a politician finally getting the message that something really needs to change. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-04/wa-to-ban-no-grounds-evictions-in-housing-policy-shift/106637922

• Post #2213228

  In Australia, there is a lot of media HYPE about rorting of our National Disability Insurance Scheme which provides services to many people with all kinds of disabilities that are intended to improve their quality of life and ability to engage in work and community activities. You can easily get the impression that it is the clients who are rorting the system, when in fact it is unregistered and unregulated service-providers doing the rorting. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-05/ndis-fraud...

• Post #2213227

  Australia's Central Bank has just hit consumers again with an interest rate hike - on top of the fuel price hike they are all having to adjust to the copnsequences of. The ABC News Headline of the story says "The RBA is risking a recession by raising interest rates but feels there's nothing else it can do" I say the reason it feels there is nothing else to do is that it is reading from the wrong economic textbook. The RBA has been stifling our economy for t...

• Post #2213226

  If any other country was doing what the American backed State of Israel is doing in Lebanon there would be a huge international outcry of condemnation and they would be declared a rogue state. It is not difficult to anticipate the future for Lebanon - just look at the Palestinian territories. OCCUPY - EXTERMINATE - ANNEXE The Greater Israel will become a realtiy while the rest of teh world looks away. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/3/israel-issues-new-forced-displacement-orders-in-sou...

• Post #2213225

  Just wondering if the mental health issues that are driving millions of people out of the workforce and onto some form of commercial income support might have something to do with the dog-eat-dog industrial relations system that has turned many bosses into clear and outright exploiters of the workforce. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-06/income-support-grows-mental-health-work/106626692

• Post #2213224

  Woodsied has been playing a long game in its Browse Basin Gas Project. It had no hope under existing laws so it has quietly set about influencing government into nobbling the approval process by degrading environmental protection laws and processes and ultimately empowering the Minister to make a decision in their favour if all else fails. Well done. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-08/woodside-browse-gas-project-epbc-decision-plan/106654260

• Post #1817972

  Chevron's GM Kynan Scarr says: "Across both facilities [at the Gorgon and Wheatstone projects] we're paying around $1.8 billion a year to operate and maintain these facilities." He should have gone on to say that all this is reimbursed by the price they charge their customers for the gas and that their taxes are based on profits, not the amount of the running costs.

• Post #1817970

  What sort of person would go to an Anzac Day Dawn Service to heckle? The politics of division orchestrated by Hanson and Dutton has revealed a dark underbelly of Australian Life that is at odds with all we believe of what it means to be an Aussie.

• Post #1817969

  My mind was racing with outrage at the Prime Minister's intervention to douse growing enthusiasm for a new tax on Gas Exporters and the only way to deal with this was to write a little blog. It might entertain you. It might even inform you. But it has settled my mind. https://freedomfromworkparty.weebly.com/blog/waiting-for-that-rainy-day

• Post #1817968

  I'm reading a book of poetry. I have never done that before. I wrote a blog to explain why I should be doing such a thing. https://freedomfromworkparty.weebly.com/blog/poetry

• Post #1817967

  The Australian political discourse is all focussed on how far the Libs have drifted to the right - but Albo's stance on the Gas Tax, and Butler's action slashing the NDIS to bits would make Scomo proud - straight out of the neoliberal play book. This is not a government of the left by any of the usual measures.

• Post #1817966

  #AusPol - How is it that when an unemployed person in Australia, under the obligations of an Activity Test has to demonstrate that they are applying for jobs and attending interviews that are offered - with no help from their employment service provider (some of which are multinational, for-profit corporations), finally succeeds in securing a job, that employment service provider is rewarded with payments in the thousands of dollars? Just saying.

• Post #1817965

  #auspol Now would be a good time for the Reserve Bank Board to dump is anxiety about a wages-driven inflation spike. Twice, now, inflation has been driven by rapacious pricing in the retail sector, or an energy crisis over which we have no control. Meanwhile our completely useless Fair Work Commission presides over the longest period of wage-growth suppression in living memory. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-29/asx-markets-business-live-news/106619032

• Post #1817964

  Australian readers must have enjoyed this sentence by Kerry Greenwood (say her name) on pages 6 of her first Corinna Chapman story - Corinna is a baker had she futures some cats in her bakery for special duties. "The Mouse Patrol ran outside with cries of relief, as though they had been trapped for days in a lift with Philip Ruddock talking about border protection."

• Post #1254909

  I can't fathom what is so "unexpected" about the rise of solar. Rooftop solar take up by Australians ad their own expense was globally high and state generators have not reacted quickly enough to the changing role of the poles and wires. Politicians have been abysmally slow in adjusting policy settings to encourage all of this and yet we have South Australia at almost 100% renewables for electricity generation with energy prices plummeting. That changeover is happeni...

• Post #1254907

  How is Trump's blockade of the Strait going to make things better for the US or even the rest of the world? Just wondering.

• Post #1254906

  "Social media screening of visa applicants would be ramped up and migrants who breach Australian values would be deported under a Coalition government proposal." The Coalition is looking more and more like the madness of MAGA and Trump. Why do they want to go there? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-13/coalition-immigration-policy-angus-taylor-announcement/106559472

• Post #1254902

  Maybe its time for the Federal Government to offer funding to LGAs to establish park-home villages that will not be subject to new owners buying up and evicting tenants - month-by-month tenancy with a ban on no-fault evictions. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-17/kirra-beach-tourist-park-residents-face-eviction/106479458

• Post #619907

  What's causing the Greek yoghurt shortage in Australian supermarkets. Easy easy. Make your own peeps. A litre uht full cream milk, couple heaped tablespoons powdered full cream milk. Warm up to 38 degrees C, mix in a small portion of your previous yoghurt, and the put in thermal container with some boiling water - then wait a few hours. https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/whats-causing-the-greek-yoghurt-shortage-in-australian-supermarkets/m81waskx4?cid=newsapp:socialshare:other

• Post #617678

  So, AUKUS really means that when the US goes to war, Australia is automatically at war as well. Personnel, intelligence services, Pine Gap telecommunications - all are on action-stations in support of the US regime. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-06/australian-navy-personnel-on-us-submarine-that-sunk-iran-vessel/106423710