Mandy Stefanakis

Really important documentation!!

YouTube video by The Sunday Shot Australia Protests the Herzog Visit - Speeches, Marches, and Police Brutality

Here's our documentary footage of what really happened at the protests against Isaac Herzog's state visit to Australia

Boycott, vocalise where possible, and protest. Collective, massive out in the street protest the most effective. But individuals can also have a huge impact, often serendipitously.

Yeah, it's not rocket science. You create a system that rewards narcissism, psychopathy greed and detachment, you get the worst people in the world ruling it. Seems both inherent, and obvious, really.

Absolutely!

"It’s time for state and federal governments in Australia to do what they’re elected to do: put communities first, instead of gas companies desperately trying to prolong their operations while the planet burns.” - Ellen Roberts

Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/46jpssm

I have written to the Ministers ahead of today’s Women’s Safety meeting: stop the murders with funding, not more talk. 

We need immediate, funded action on housing, policing, alcohol and gambling, and national data.

Love Penrose!

And fossil fuel extraction

All going to infrastructure. Guess a few murals on said infrastructure fill the arts quota. Ho hum.

Cutting the creative state: funding changes threaten the cultural future of Melbourne, arts workers warn Creative Victoria funding has dropped by more than $20m since 2022 and organisations including Writers Victoria now face closure

I spoke to @gingerandhoney.bsky.social this week about the cuts to Victoria’s arts funding ecosystem.

The cuts, the uncertainty and lack of transparency have left a cloud over what was Australia’s creative heart.

The Melbourne Advantage is over. We’ll see if other cities pick up the pieces.

A message from some gammon Karen saying: Funny you put Ramadan and eid up first. Its a Christian country first and foremost. Reply Bedford Borough Council replied: Ramadan began on February 17. That is why we put our Ramadan message on social media yesterday. Lent began today, which is why our Lent message went on social media one day later. The date of Lent is determined by the church calendar, rooted in the decisions of the Council of Nicaea (325 AD). The official start of Ramadan traditionally depends on the sighting of the new crescent moon. Bedford Borough Council holds no authority over the Council of Nicaea and was not responsible for the creation of the moon 4.53billion years ago.

Standing ovation for Bedford Borough Council.

Aahhh, the monolithic perception of language as consciousness, when it’s a side gig.

“When you see how the Australian Gov treats its own climate vulnerable communities, it is not shocking to see that it’s going to treat climate vulnerable communities who are their neighbours, even worse than they treat their own citizens when climate impacts hit,”
#environmentalvandals
#auspol

They are doing their utmost. Shoebridge, Pocock and Pocock, Ryan and others working as hard as they can. Thank god for these courageous people. #auspol

The devil is in the lack of detail!

The Greens warned the hate laws were biased and would target the wrong people. It took less than a month for police to raid Dissent Bar and prove every concern right. Laws supposedly about antisemitism are being used against anti-fascists.

Ahh the voice! Ahh the hair!

YouTube video by Gmph10 John Farnham & Melbourne Symphony Orchestra - Your the voice

youtu.be/6m2m_9Uijso?.... #Music #Aus #ResistUSA PLAY LOUD

tim time..

is that pauline?..

@trixie57.bsky.social made me think of you!🤗And I’m 💯identifying with their sensibilities expressed!😝

They’d have to change their entire philosophy. Can’t see that happening.

the smell of racism..

curling

For those of you keen for more revelations from the oil-drenched #AtlasFiles 🔥⛽️☠️here’s the full clip of me at the #Auspol Senate hearings on the organisation and funding of climate and energy disinformation.

Fun answering questions from Sen Roberts (?!) & Canavan. ✊🏼

youtu.be/VwuqxfyCYj0?...

ICYMI, cos the Albanese govt sure would like you to have missed the special carve out for the fossil fuel industry buried in Australia's new EPBC laws that @kirstyhowey.bsky.social exposes here

Two vignettes. 1. Isaac Herzog, President of Israel, with quote: “Now is not the time to recognise a Palestinian state.” 2. Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s Finance Minister, with quote (preceded by my words “…not while…”), “We’re deepening our roots in all parts of the land of Israel and burying the idea of a Palestinian state.”

Now?
My @smh cartoon.

One Nation, Liberals, Labor, they are all the same. They refuse to take on corporate power, refuse to invest in public housing and essential public goods, then play politics with immigration to divide and distract us.

“When you put a tax on something you get less of it” says Angus.

Yes Angus that’s why Labor put a tax on carbon 20 years ago to STOP FOSSIL FUEL POLLUTION and what did you and your venal mates do in government? 😏 #ABC730