It’s the same everywhere because everything is designed, funded and run by privileged able bodied people. This will never change. Don’t try to negotiate, or educate, or advocate. Live stream any discriminatory service failures and name and shame - because they only care if it hurts them.

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ARTICLE: NSW Health Budget “Broken” Says AMA
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Green Left #1420 OUT NOW!
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INTERVIEW with Jane Morris, President of Dying With Dignity Victoria giving a roundup of Voluntary Assisted Dying activities around Australia and her recent conference attendances.
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Here's my latest music column...
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#protestsongs #protestmusic #protestsongs2024 #protestmusic2024

McKinsey paid $1.6m to ‘guide’ Australian climate policy despite working for fossil fuel companies Firm disclosed its private sector work, Guardian Australia is told, but it is not known which clients were listed

Kind of like asking a cannibal to suggest a menu: McKinsey was paid $1.6m to ‘guide’ Australian climate policy despite working for fossil fuel companies. #climatecrisis #eco www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The Australian government rushed through legislation to ban under 16s from using social media - a measure widely criticised by experts.

But after 18 months they haven't been able to implement a total ban on gambling ads to protect children - a measure almost unanimously supported by experts.

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Saw one comment, "serial killer shot in NYC". Thought that summed it up succinctly

a non-zero number of diabetic people die every year due to not being able to afford insulin because even with insurance the bill is too high

all I can say is I try to live my life so that people aren’t motivated to assassinate me

The world’s richest 1% have more wealth than the bottom 95% put together, according to Oxfam.

There is no moral justification for this extraordinary level of inequality.

It's distorting politics, rigging our markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people.

Indeed. In a world where no one questions the societal and economic value of subsidised child care, or Defence, or public education, or fuel excise for public roads, somehow building accessibility and service equity of access for the disabled is ‘too expensive’, ie ‘no votes in it’.

On this International Day for People with Disabilities - please listen to disabled people.

A hashtag is well and good - but an empty gesture if you won’t address ableism and discrimination and help us get the social supports and medical care we need and deserve. 🧵

Socialist Alliance Merri-bek councillor joined the picket outside the Woolworths warehouse in Dandenong South, where management are trying to crush the workers strike.

#wooliesstrike #greenleft

European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.

"We cannot continue to participate in the social network feed of a man who proclaims the death of the media and therefore of journalists... X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies"

Green Left News Podcast Ep 61: Stopping coal ships with the Peoples Blockade Isaac Nellist and Riley Breen discuss the 2024 People's Blockade of the world's largest coal port in Muloobinba/Newcastle.

Isaac Nellist and Riley Breen discuss the 2024 People's Blockade of the world's largest coal port in Muloobinba/Newcastle. www.greenleft.org.au/content/gree...

INTERVIEW: Want to know why many people with disabilities are so cynical about the Government? Watch my interview with WA Greens Senator Jordon Steele-John about the changes to the NDIS.

Yet another International Day allegedly for People with a Disability. Apart from keeping segregated schools, slave wages at ‘sheltered’ workshops, allowing providers to hijack funding and bipartisan refusal to enforce even basic accessibility laws, tell me again what we’ve achieved Australia?

Here's a last look back at this month's political news and the best new music that related to it...
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Rest in Peace Whiskey: but you are not gone, or forgotten. You are carried in your owner’s heart forever and your lovely photos will stay with us all to remind us every day what unconditional love looks like.

CURRENT ISSUE OF GREEN LEFT includes my latest on the outrageous enforcement failures of Australia’s casino regulators in the face of repeated and systemic lawbreaking and it’s community harm by design.
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The dangerous impacts of Labor’s forcible administration of the CFMEU are being revealed, with some bosses flouting occupational health and safety laws more recklessly. www.greenleft.org.au/content/cfme...

CURRENT ISSUE OF GREEN LEFT includes my latest on the outrageous enforcement failures of Australia’s casino regulators in the face of repeated and systemic lawbreaking and it’s community harm by design.
www.greenleft.org.au/content/casi...

No idea what a Serum TouchOSC MIDI controller is, but for some reason now I want one!

YouTube video by Mat Ward Your Vote's A Joke (official lyric video)

Your vote's a joke
If it changed anything they'd make it illegal
Yeah your vote's a joke
If it changed anything they'd confine it to history

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The major parties want to entrench a system of unfairly distributed electoral funding and corporate donations to pay for their manipulative misinformation campaigns, and to stir up racism, misogyny and bigotry against minorities. www.greenleft.org.au/content/majo...

Ah but did you specify a year? Why does it matter? Edits take as long as they take. When you are finished you will know in your gut it’s ready. Ignore the calendar. Ignore judgements about disciplinary ‘failures’. Ignore everything except that gut feeling “it’s ready”.

Yeah they do. I read other writer’s work all the time and admire the craftsmanship in the full knowledge that it sometimes takes three weeks of research, re-writes, proving, disproving and eventually finishing and filing a measly 600 words.

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ARTICLE: AMA Says NSW Health Budget “Broken” - plans include more cuts to rural and women’s health.

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