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#Housing #PeopleOverProfit #Auspol
5% deposit guarantee is GREAT for first home buyers

BUT the tax loophole that lets investors outbid them crushes opportunity pushing prices up 2-4%.

QUARANTINE losses in new negative gearing investments to only offset future rental income:- stabilise prices
#Palestine #Auspol
FIFA & UEFA: Ban Israel from the World Cup!

When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Russia was banned from the World Cup and the Euros. How can FIFA act for Russia but turn a blind eye to Israel’s war crimes?
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FIFA are rolling out the red carpet for Israel
But not if these brave Italian football coaches can do anything about it. Join their calls to ban Israel from the tournament.
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#Palestine #Auspol
Australia's defence industry has been caught red handed exporting weapons.......

Every message adds to a chorus of millions demanding .... and an end to Australia's role in this genocide.

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Send your message
An independent movement to build a progressive Australia and bring participation back into our democracy.
www.getup.org.au
#Auspol #proportionalrepresentation
The Danes thought they were badly off, Australia's "disproportionality" rating for the last Federal election was 22, ie 47% higher than Denmark.
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Gallagher index (disproportionality) for Danish parliamentary elections. Guess when they stopped using single-member electorates? @benraue.com
#gambling #gamblingreform #auspol
Survey of AFL players managers reported that even the players were being negatively impacted. It found more than 76% of player managers cited gambling among footballers as a grave concern.
Alliance for Gambling Reform
Australia's preferential voting system is often praised, and for good reason. But in terms of reflecting overall votes cast it's not much better than first past the post.

My look at how our winner-takes-all voting system skews election outcomes for @australiainstitute.org.au 👇 #auspol
#Palestine
The Sydney, Australia March for Humanity over the Harbour Bridge was extremely uplifting in these challenging times.
Especially with such a diverse group attending and so courteous to each other, sad the police shut it down claiming we marchers were at risk from ourselves, NOT TRUE.
#Auspol
Who won the Tasmanian election, #ProportionalRepresentation did delivering pretty much the same outcome as before the election.
Time now for the MPs to earn their pay and form a government.
#gambling #gamblingreform #auspol
Cost of gambling harm in Victoria reaches $14 billion, with pokies behind most losses.
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more from alliance for gambling reform tinyurl.com/2pnfrt57
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#ElectoralReform #Auspol
Many of us struggle to understand how Woodside just got approved without any consideration of Climate Change impacts. Answer, we have a govt that was elected on a primary vote share of only 34.7%.
Bring on #ProportionalRepresentation

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On this episode of What's the Big Idea, Christine Milne AO explains how proportional representation and minority governments can be more democratic, diverse, and help reduce corporate lobbying power. Hosted by Paul Barclay.

Have a listen! ⤵️
One vote. One value. - The Australia Institute
Australians know how to solve national problems, but our political system protects the duopoly that creates them. That’s why we need proportional representation.
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Allsru, figures for pokies intimate partner violence are horrific, its not worth the risk guessing how much intimate partner violence supports that 10% going to NSW Racing.
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#gambling #gamblingreform #auspol
Tim Costello - Poker machines are of particular concern — about half the people who play the pokies regularly have a gambling problem
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Over 36.5% of problem gamblers report being perpetrators of physical IPV, and 38.1% report being victims.”
COVID prompts spike in problem gambling as Queenslanders pump billions into poker machines
Since lockdowns were lifted Queenslanders have been pumping more money into pokies than ever before — and up to half of those gamblers are addicted, advocates say.
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“Over one third of problem gamblers report being victims of physical Intimate Partner Violence(IPV) (38.1%) or perpetrators of physical IPV (36.5%), and the prevalence of problem gambling in IPV perpetrators is 11.3%.”
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Problem Gambling and Intimate Partner Violence: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
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