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Changes to Voluntary Assisted Dying laws pass Victorian parliament The amendments remove a "gag order" that prevented doctors from raising Voluntary Assisted Dying as an option for patients with terminal illness.

“Opposition leader Brad Battin previously opposed VAD, but changed his mind to vote for the reforms after personal experiences with a friend.”

I’m a bit weary of Tories who can only empathise when the thing happens to them. It’s not how government, or humans, are supposed to work.

#AusPol
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Liberal moderates fear electoral oblivion in metropolitan seats after net zero scrapped While many Liberals who wanted to keep net zero say they are happy with the position the party has landed, some despondent moderates fear electoral oblivion in metropolitan seats.

Alleged Liberal moderates who signed on with Morrison, then Dutton, weaselling away as usual.

They can’t be moderate and in the Liberal Party, it’s not possible.

Quit or shut up. These are their options.

#AusPol

Good on the Guardian for this. I'm astonished at how many journalists at other organisations don't seem to know this or think that it's important to mention. Coalition politicians keep claiming it's net zero causing rising costs without any pushback

Dear Humans,

Trump is in a full out panic. He hasn’t posted in 24 hours. It’s time to make him the pedophile formerly known as president. If you could do that God would be so happy.

Love,

God

Right wing nutters across Australia celebrate the Liberal Party's decision to finally come clean on the fact that it never really supported Net Zero in the first place.
#AusPol #NetZero

Whitlams legacy lives on

AFR headline: AMZ's cash profit slumps 14pc to $5.8b, warns of intense competition

"*warns* of intense competition"

Your regular reminder that those who cheer capitalism actually hate a free market, and want a rigged one.

Australian politics 101: Getting the lessons wrong every time If one thing is true for all mainstream political parties, it’s that they will always learn the wrong lessons.

Gough Whitlam towers above any other Australian leader

Why?

He was brave, & committed to serving the Australian people. He would not cave to lobbyists, corporations, media owners, & foreign powers & he paid the price

No politician in Australia is fit to shine Gough’s shoes

Amy Remeikis gets it..

The Dismissal, the role of the CIA, MI6 and Austral Americans I was familiar with many of the events leading to the Dismissal on 11 November 1975. That knowledge was greatly increased by Professor Jenny Hocking with her long and successful campaign to have the P...

“Whitlam announced “there should not be foreign military bases, stations, installations in Australia. We will honour agreements covering existing stations. We do not favour extensions or prolongation of any of those existing ones”.”

Oh, how I miss him. #auspol
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This is absolutely the most obvious thing to do. The govt should be shoveling all the funding it can at getting all the researches in the US who have been cut by Trump.

"So there was our PM, a man who talks and lives in all lower-case letters, sitting up at the table with the man who lives permanently in an all-caps world."

- Ronni Salt's excoriating words

LOL

UN on Israel:

"I want them to engage with the evidence but they never engage with the evidence and they spend so much money on propaganda."

The state of Israel summed up. Liars

Six frames. Man addressing a woman with a Palestine flag t-shirt and a sign saying STOP THE KILLING. Frame 1: Man says, “If you care so much about humanity, why aren’t you marching for Sudan?” 2. Woman: “can you tell me first: who is the “us” and who is the “them”?” 3. Woman: “Which group should we see as the victim? Which is sub-human?” 4. Woman: “How many weapons or parts are we supplying?” 5. Woman: “Which side controls the narrative? Whose version gets discredited?” 6. Woman: “Now, if you would like to lead the march?”

Stop the killing.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

The gas industry is ripping us off, and 'it’s been an open secret for years': ACTU ACTU calls for a 25% tax on gas exports to help fix Australia's housing problem

The ACTU is calling for a 25% tax on all gas exports and for the tens of billions it would raise to be invested in public housing…sounds good to me…what do you reckon we should spend all the money we’d get if we stopped giving our gas away for free? #climate

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GAZA CEASEFIRE Israel launches more strikes on Gaza, US insists truce deal will hold

We’re truly expected to tolerate these headlines like they’re not batshit crazy, huh?

Treasure the little things.

No Joy, only Division: It's just the stupidest stupid we've yet seen A self-processed former "punk" using her position to criticise the PM for wearing a Joy Division T-shirt is stupid-stupid, even for Auspol.

No Joy, only Division: Just the stupidest stupid of all

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Sussan Ley reveals image of Albanese drinking Fanta, "like a Nazi"

"He may as well be drinking from a bottle that says 'I love Hitler'." - Sussan Ley chaser.com.au/national/sus...

She points out a company tax cut might increase GDP but NOT gross national income. WHy? Because the biggest beneficiaries are foreign owned companies who take the money from tax cut and leave Australia actually poorer

Typical centrist behaviour from Albo. Here’s the band t-shirt he should have worn.

Israel is bombing tents again with F35 jets.

They commit genocide with impunity.

There was no ceasefire, they broke it every single day.

They must be held to account.

Speak up. Take action.

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

The Australia Institute proudly co-hosted a climate summit yesterday, attended by people from all over Australia.

And although there were lots of different views, everyone agreed on one thing: it's time to stop the expansion of fossil fuels.

#auspol @leanneminshull.bsky.social

Publishing this complete bullshit should be the end of an organisation.

“People aren't buying their shit anymore”: They think they can make you forget what you’ve seen - The Shot Like colours, neurodivergence and political ideology, being a dickhead operates on a spectrum. From narcissistic middle managers, to people that...

Here's me. '“People aren’t buying their shit anymore”: They think they can make you forget what you’ve seen'

This is a little taste of my long chat with Chris Hedges.
You're welcome.

This is so fucked up. Is anyone in govt seeing this? Louis Vuitton handbags for staff of a govt funded job agency? wtf

Senator Hume doesn’t seem to understand that the Liberal Party electing Dutton as leader and trying to foist him on us as PM is impossible to forgive.

She talks of ending an “apology tour” without comprehending what she should be apologising for.

“Sorry ‘bout the fascism back there.”

#AusPol

The one-man super scheme Of all the things Scott Morrison does not understand, and the list is long and often embarrassing, somewhat in the shape of his prime ministership, China would rate very close to the top.

Editorial: A decade ago, it would have been unthinkable for a man who led the country to go and shill for a foreign military. Decency and clearance would have restrained it. AUKUS is less a security partnership and more a one-man superannuation scheme. satpa.pe/TmFvL5U

The one-man super scheme Of all the things Scott Morrison does not understand, and the list is long and often embarrassing, somewhat in the shape of his prime ministership, China would rate very close to the top.

Great editorial on the lingering stench of our previous PM…
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Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

We desperately need to stop treating rich people like they are smart because they are rich. Just gibberish. (This bloke just fell arse-backwards into a fortune from a firm clipping the ticket on payment processing.) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...