Dr Blair Williams

Morals can be culturally specific but ethics are universal. The ethics of reciprocity, or the Golden Rule is universal. Kidnapping & torture of Greta & others, people seeking to help a displaced and starving population, is immediately identifiable as repugnant, universally.

Exactly!

Agree. Most aren’t grinning Artful Dodger types. There is hunger, desperation and an awareness no one is watching (out for) them.
I can understand not abiding by a law in a place which seems to have so much and not really care about looking after it.

The Australians who think it's fine to steal, and those who disagree A new survey found a generational divide when it comes to rationalising retail theft behaviours, including scanning items incorrectly at self-checkout.

I'm more worried about wage theft and giant corporation tax dodging 💁‍♀️💁‍♀️

Perhaps more young people are ok with petty theft because they know they're stealing from unethical companies?

Would be interesting to know the % of people ok with stealing from big corps vs small businesses 🤔

Liberals will appease the fascists before allowing you to protect yourself or community from fascist violence.

The mayor is doing the fascists job for them by curtailing our first amendment right to protest

Seriously, "leftie" journos in that room, where. the . fuck. are. you? It might be time to put ethics and morality ahead of your career prospects. This is a holocaust and a fascistic assault on democracy in the West. And you're just gonna sit there quietly? Go fuck yourself.

When journalists, healthcare workers and children are targets, their stories must be recorded and witnessed Introduction by Croakey: Israel carried out at least 17 military attacks on or near healthcare facilities in Gaza City between

When journalists, healthcare workers and children are targets, their stories must be recorded and witnessed
www.croakey.org/when-journal...
By Palestinian journalist Mohammed Al-Sawwaf

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

It does help! 😜

The UK government's response to the unpopularity of its policies regarding Israel and Gaza is to simply ban public demonstrations of dissent, it seems.

Labor during the election: “we’ll fully fund public schools”

Labor after the election: “actually we meant private schools soz”

I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage.
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage

Me, a white woman with brown hair and bangs, in a cream and black handmade spotty dress and black converse and handknit yellow socks

After more than TWO WHOLE YEARS I have FINALLY finished this dress!!

It is made from the most gorgeously soft rayon... which made it an absolute pain to sew. Namely, the neckline. It just would NOT sit flat. Looked terrible.

I tried over and over to fix it and just couldn't figure out a way!

Thank you! 😁

Everything I make has pockets 😎😎

Right?? I loooove themmm 😍

Me, a white woman with brown hair and bangs, in a cream and black handmade spotty dress and black converse and handknit yellow socks

Me, a white woman with brown hair and bangs, in a cream and black handmade spotty dress - close up of the pockets

Me, a white woman with brown hair and bangs, in a cream and black handmade spotty dress - close up of the pockets

It was only after consulting my Melbourne neighbour (who happens to be a retired TAFE sewing prof) that we managed to fix it.

But I'm so happy we've finally finished it as it's so beautiful to wear and feels soooo lovely 😁

🪡🪡🪡🪡🪡

Me, a white woman with brown hair and bangs, in a cream and black handmade spotty dress and black converse and handknit yellow socks

After more than TWO WHOLE YEARS I have FINALLY finished this dress!!

It is made from the most gorgeously soft rayon... which made it an absolute pain to sew. Namely, the neckline. It just would NOT sit flat. Looked terrible.

I tried over and over to fix it and just couldn't figure out a way!

Omg definitely 😂

This copy was my Dad's and I happened to find it one day looking through his bookcase. I had zero idea about political economy.

17-year-old me, with long brown hair and bangs, staring into the cameta holding the Manifesto of the Communist Party

17 year old me knew what was what 😂✊️

It's so silly to blame.first home buyers when the govt could do this policy IN ADDITION TO cracking down on airbnbs and getting rid of negative gearing - we need more housing (both rentals and for sale) in the market.

Also, while I'm at it, can we please have better (and more) public housing? 😅

Four photos of the seedlings, at different stages of growth

The seedlings after thinning them out - 1 seedling per pot.

My tomato seedlings are growing nicely!

The first four photos are taken over the last week and a half.

But I finally had to "thin" out the seedlings, which was sad to do 😥 The second photo is afterwards - so they can grow nice and strong.

🌱🍅🌱🍅🌱

I'm rewatching The Simpsons and... omg S18 E5 is eerily close to what's happening now in the US!

So, of course I had to make a meme:

#Trump #USPolitics #SimpsonsMeme

Advance doesn't worry me. It's the backers of Advance that worry me.

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I look forward to Hastie’s calls for party unity and to ‘look forward, not dwell on the past’ after he rolls Ley (which is almost a certainty).

And then for Taylor to try and roll him come February.

All being engineered by Advance to ensure it’s an ultra Conservative Party

Andrew Hastie quits Coalition frontbench over immigration policy dispute Liberal MP resigns as shadow home affairs minister, increasing pressure on opposition leader Sussan Ley

Wow, the Liberal Party really are choosing implosion, huh.

#AusPol

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.

The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”

It’s about control.

“.. no modern American president has positioned his family to make so much money while in the White House. Already, since the early days of his reelection campaign, he’s more than doubled his net worth to about $5.4 billion.”

@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

One of my heroes. RIP.

Refugees and asylum seekers on Nauru going hungry despite government spending $1.5m a year for each person The Australian government is spending millions of dollars a year to house asylum seekers, yet many say they can not afford food and are forced to skip meals

Federal governments have known about the gross mismanagement and corruption in their offshore detention operations for years.
Neither the NACC nor the AFP nor Home Affairs nor DFAT - who all know about it - have shown any desire to stop it. Serves their political purposes.