@scottmcwhirter.bsky.social
Living on Darug lands. Work in Higher Ed, but views are entirely my own fault. Daily fails and passing fancies a specialty.
the laughable idea that giving NSW Police more powers can solve social problems.
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Gas and greens bashing.
10.10.2025 22:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Prime Minister for Gambling, Anthony Albanese
10.10.2025 21:40 β π 23 π 8 π¬ 4 π 0oh no, someone who deploys troops in his own cities didn't get a Nobel Peace Prize...
anyway..
The jury is in. @albomp.bsky.social hates transparency. Loathes it! #FOI #auspol
10.10.2025 19:57 β π 53 π 22 π¬ 5 π 0Labor is negotiating the details and passage through parliament of these environmental laws with the LNP, not the Greens. That does not bode well. Without far stronger environmental laws the extinction and climate crises will get far, far worse. We all suffer, wildlife, ecosystems and people.
10.10.2025 20:29 β π 37 π 19 π¬ 1 π 2
"All that the law requires is for someone to claim theyβre offended, and off to court we go"
#whatsthescam with the zionist case against @marykostakidis.bsky.social #18C #freespeech #auspol @kimwingerei.bsky.social wingerei
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"Unless we can resolve the housing crisis, wealth will become much more unequally distributed in Australia.
If the Albanese govt fails to pursue proper policy reform, they "risk our social coherence and thus the foundations of our democracy". #inequality #auspol
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I rang DFAT, seeking information about Dr Bianca Webb-Pullman, the doctor we interviewed a few weeks ago on The Shot from the Sumud Flotilla. Here's how that call went.
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look, i'm nobody's boss but i strongly recommend you don't give out anything that could be used to steal your identity unless you absolutely have to
vanishingly few of them can be trusted with your data, and virtually none are worth the risk
The Federal Government funds 71% of every spit hood put on an Aboriginal child in the NT. It's time to ensure Federal Funding comes with conditions including complying with human rights law!
07.10.2025 05:44 β π 131 π 57 π¬ 5 π 6
Breach? Sounds like people gave their data to the government on a promise of disaster support, the government gave their data and our money to a contractor on a promise of service provision, and the contractor gave their data to a tech business on a promise of slop.
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More than 2 years after the NACC was established, it hasnβt held a single public hearing. Now we learn the PM pushed to make it harder to hold them.
Public hearings are vital to building trust - the Govt should be making them easier, not harder.
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This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
This is how media becomes a political campaigner.
There is no earthly reason why Larissa Waters should know all the details of one renewable project in Tasmania
The ABC asked a gotcha question she responded to adequately, then activated this sort of crap? Unfreakingbelieveable.. #auspol
Defence: βNo, no we are not working on Plan B for when the AUKUS nuclear subs donβt show up.β
Public: βWhat about all these secret documents about a Plan B that you refuse to release?β
Defence: βLook over there, a nuclear kitten!β @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social
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βTerrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.β
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
In an extraordinary submission to the Senate, the Public Service Commissioner has blamed transparency for #RoboDebt. He argues for more secrecy to make life easier for public servants as they advise and influence ministers on how we are governed. #auspol michaelwest.com.au/too-much-tra...
04.10.2025 22:49 β π 122 π 69 π¬ 10 π 6In order for the United States to become a party to the International Criminal Court and have our officials be subject to trial at The Hague, the US Senate would need to ratify the Rome statute by a two-thirds vote. Letβs start running on that.
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My latest article in The Shot
"The largest contributors to the breakdown of social cohesion in Australia are the governments of Australia, practising a privileged fuck-you version of democracy that makes its own rules & caters for those within the club"
#pffft
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Media making the mistake of treating him or the coalition more generally as relevant to modern Australia. #auspol completely irrelevant rabble.
04.10.2025 03:53 β π 16 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0"within Albaneseβs cabinet, the fiercest resistance to wider public-hearing powers for the NACC came from Albanese himself"
This secretive and unaccountable government rots from the head. #NACC #robodebt #auspol
That is how it is done @albomp.bsky.social #auspol donβt need to both sides violations of international law. #sanctionisrael
03.10.2025 06:51 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Colombia expels Israeli diplomats after unlawful interception of Sumud Flotilla - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/colombia-expels-israeli-diplomats-after-unlawful-interception-sumud
03.10.2025 06:34 β π 73 π 33 π¬ 3 π 7
"DFAT ready to assist after six Australians in Gaza flotilla detained"
A pity that the Australian government has never seemed ready to assist in preventing the #GazaGenocide that the #GlobalSumudFlotilla was trying to end. #auspol
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Barbra Streisand is joining Jane Fonda and 600+ entertainment figures in re-launching the Committee for the First Amendment. Fonda announced the revival of the organization, initially founded by her father, Henry Fonda.Β The organization was founded in the 1940s to defend free speech against fascism.
02.10.2025 03:25 β π 10836 π 3633 π¬ 176 π 137Why arenβt realtors legally obligated to quote strata fees in unit adverts? #auspol #nswpol
01.10.2025 06:13 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0The Australian Government says Australia is part of the Pacific 'family.'
But at the recent Pacific Islands Forum, local journalists were shut out of the Australian PM's press conference.
You don't treat family like that. #auspol
