Louise aka oldcoollady from 🐦

This was quite stunning. The Productivity Commission seems a bit confused about what is productivity.

Trump orders homeless he passed en route to golf course to leave Washington DC President demands unhoused residents leave US capital or face eviction and vowed to use officers to make arrests

Here’s a great article on the racist, fascist, anti-American madness and violence Trump is about to unleash in a city with *plummeting* crime rates and *no* epidemic of unhoused persons.

This is thinly veiled martial law, and we Americans will not accept it.

‘The Albanese government is under mounting pressure to dump a Morrison-era tertiary education policy that has drastically cut university funding, saddled many students with debts they will never be able to repay and driven many more away from higher education altogether.’

Labor - dump the damn JRG!

Tom Uren would be as horrified by the Labor party today as I am

This current group of politicians is riddled with an unhealthy culture of secrecy & lies, contempt for best practice legislation, a devotion to inequality, and lastly impervious to genuine respectful communication with the public

Ross Gittins: “Trouble is, when you boil it down, the (big) Business Council Aust exists to protect interests of big foreign businesses, which make profits in Oz, pay negligible tax. Business Council persuaded Canberra’s 23 other business lobby groups to join it in rejecting company tax changes.”

Ross Gittins: “For years Liberals have promoted themselves as party of lower tax. What’s more, they can do it without any reduction of “essential services”. This has always been no more than wishful thinking – and Labor’s not much better.”

Call for national action to prevent 'torture' or death of incarcerated First Nations children Paediatricians in the Northern Territory see the dire effects of entrenched structural racism on Aboriginal children on a daily basis.

Call for national action to prevent 'torture' or death of incarcerated First Nations children johnmenadue.com/post/2025/08...
A letter from NT paediatricians to NT chief minister

Algal bloom: first peoples ngamath-sea country A civilisation that proves incapable of solving the problems it creates is a decadent civilisation. – Aime Cesaire.

Prof Irene Watson: "The knowledge and laws of First Peoples are absent in this space, while our efforts to prevent the genocide of peoples and the ecocide of our land and ngamath-sea countries are ignored"
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The slow response to indefinite detention The latest Commonwealth Ombudsman’s report into long-term detention took nearly nine months to be tabled in parliament, indicative of the cruel pace at which time moves for asylum seekers.

"If it takes months and months until a report comes out, the government can just respond with ‘Well that’s old news and we’ve dealt with that’, without actually having to provide evidence." satpa.pe/WpdojCm

Mariam Barghouti مريم البرغوثي—

"PHOTO—Israelis bringing their children to obstruct aid trucks entering through Allenby bridge in Jericho to head to Gaza where 2 million people are being systemically starved & bombed.

"August 4, 2025.
"3:00 a.m.

"What a depraved society."

RUGBY UNION:
In rainy conditions at North Sydney Oval, the Wallaroos have put in a much improved performance from last week to defeat Wales 36-5 in their final match before the World Cup squad is announced early next week.
📸 Rugby Australia

Week in wildlife: a hippo with a hitchhiker, a wallaby jailbreak and a fly on the wall The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world

Week in wildlife: a hippo with a hitchhiker, a wallaby jailbreak and a fly on the wall
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"[The local staff] often work in multiple hospitals and do 24-hour shifts because travel is so difficult and dangerous. They choose to do longer shifts.

"They're often starving and weak during the day, often feel a bit faint while they're working, and they're absolutely desperate to keep going."

Imagine being such a sociopath that you're issue with famine is not the famine itself but the NYT choosing the sickest children to take photos of. Note to everyone, FAMINE MODELS MUST BE OTHERWISE HEALTHY (APART FROM THE EFFECTS OF FAMINE)

Time for your regular reminder that

A) the Coaltion’s feelings about climate are irrelevant for the next 3-6 yrs

B) how much you worry about the Coalition is up to you

C) the more you worry about the Coaltion’s irrelevant opinions the less pressure is on the ALP to stop approving new gas & coal

Steve Price says quiet bit out loud to Far Right Israeli Alex Ryvchin claiming it “worries” him Aussies want to protest & bring “national attention” to what “the Israelis are doing in Gaza”
Imagine being more worried about ppl finding out about genocide, than the actual genocide.

Lidia Thorpe calls out NT Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro who recently signalled cuts to the NT coroner following the killing of Indigenous man Kumanjayi Walker. Says she’s only doing it “bcoz she’s not happy with what the coroner’s findings were…that the cops are racist”💥💯 #Abc

Albo's expression of dismay that anyone could deny that children are starving to death in Gaza is confirmation that he believes Israel is committing war crimes, but he hasn't said how long he has believed that or why he apparently considers it's tolerable to not do anything about it just yet.

Senate launches inquiry into who is funding fake astroturf anti-renewables groups The Senate has launched an inquiry into the dark money funding anti-renewables astroturfing groups, and deliberately misleading anti-climate campaigns.

The Senate has launched an inquiry into the dark money funding anti-renewables astroturfing groups, and deliberately misleading anti-climate campaigns.

Danielle Bensky, Victim-survivor of Jeffrey Epstein describes how he used her mother’s illness to abuse her.
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #StandWithTheWomen

#auspol have you seen what they did to British water infrastructure and consequently rivers. Filthy operators taking huge profits then fleeing the scene of the crime.

Albo yesterday, on Gaza: "Australians want innocent people to stop losing their lives".

Hopefully the innocent people will take note of Albo's concerns and stop doing that.

Can’t help thinking Starmer’s ultimatum threatens the wrong people. “If you stop killing these people, we will refrain from recognising them.”

“Models usually assume that inflation has no effect on real economy, assume that profits each industry are minimal because competition competes them down, capital equipment can be repurposed at no cost.

It’s fortunate for economists that their profession has never worried too much about ethics.”

First Dog - #GazaGenocide
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An open letter to the Prime Minister By Helen Reynolds Dear Prime Minister, I write to you not as a politician, a lobbyist or a protestor – but as an ordinary Australian pensioner. I am one of more than two and a [...]

“I urge you - please consider raising the rate of the age pension above the poverty line. We can’t wait for another committee, another review, another promise. We need action. And we need it now.”

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Albo has responded to criticisms about his empty platitudes re the whole genocide thing by nominating for a Nobel peace prize the guy who invented the fancy trap door that releases the bombs from F-35s onto starving civilians, praising it as a wonderful example of Aussie innovation.