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Heard Andrew Hawkey explaining on ABC radio how it was going to take 30 people 2.5 hrs to just unfold the ballots before counting begins at one of the pre poll sites. Having scrutineered several times now it seems to me a very inefficient way of doing it - why donโ€™t they unfold and sort in one step?

18.07.2025 09:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Mฤori Party MPs suspended over haka protest in NZ parliament In New Zealand, a parliamentary committee has handed down its punishment for the MPs who performed a haka on the chamber floor.

"When tangata whenua (people of the land) resist, colonial powers reach for the maximum penalty. This is a warning shot for all of us to fall in line."

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

14.05.2025 22:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Effect of the tariffs on the imported components - shea butter and coconut? Theyโ€™ve also just started being sold at major chains here in Australia so maybe supply/demand impacts if exporting lots to us and elsewhere? Pure speculation on my part.

12.04.2025 23:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Maori song rings out as NZ parliament rejects push to redefine founding treaty | AFP #shorts
YouTube video by AFP News Agency Maori song rings out as NZ parliament rejects push to redefine founding treaty | AFP #shorts

At least one countryโ€™s Parliament knows how to deal with shit fuckery. Well done New Zealand

m.youtube.com/watch?v=xrGO...

10.04.2025 19:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Dutton and Murdochโ€™s grift on Welcomes to Country You can picture the staffer who thought of this, some slippery little Tarocash chancer. It would have been pitched as the perfect story for the quiet weeks of January, a chance to capture the news cyc...

โ€œItโ€™s an old racist trope, the idea of an โ€œAboriginal industryโ€โ€ฆ.For him (Dutton) it is a useful prejudice. He has spent a long time passing racist thoughts for pragmatism.โ€

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/2025/01/11/d...

11.01.2025 23:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wondering now if Iโ€™m going to have to eat my like

26.12.2024 00:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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My daughter loved Corduroy. Now an adult she gave me this picture to put on my wall

26.11.2024 22:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Pacific Labourers overtaxed and exploited in Australia The Pacific-Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme is often presented as being beneficial to all partiesโ€”Australia, Pacific workers, and those workersโ€™ home countries. In reality, the benefits are we...

This is an issue that Pacific Islanders pretty much have second on the list of concerns re Australia after climate change - and most Australia wouldn't have heard of it

Pacific Labourers overtaxed and exploited in Australia - The Australia Institute australiainstitute.org.au/post/pacific...

15.11.2024 02:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 388    ๐Ÿ” 142    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 34    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

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