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jc2042.bsky.social
@jc2042.bsky.social
Retired community sector worker and volunteer, including Indigenous rights, environment, housing, governance, community arts and broadcasting. Donations for Palestine via UNRWA.
I don't need to read the ipea govt guidelines to understand that staying connected to your family is best in the privacy of your own home, not at meetings or public events. These 'entitlements' are rorted by people who can all afford to pay their own way, but choose not too #auspol
December 8, 2025 at 6:40 AM
@albomp.bsky.social @jimchalmers.bsky.social What is this boosting Arnott's marketing of Tim Tams with $45m of taxpayers money? WTAF! How can the rest of us get a loan like this? #raisetherate #auspol
December 8, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Annika Wells: I don't make the rules = Scotty from Marketing: I don't hold a hose #auspol
December 8, 2025 at 1:07 AM
How about closing down all the schemes that allow already wealthy to hoard for themselves, corporations making mega profits but pay next to no tax, all the while taking up space - education, health, environment, energy - paid for by the taxes of the ordinary working people? I'd vote for that #auspol
December 7, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Put simply, we have a settler colonial history founded on genocide & denial of 60,000 years of prior occupation...
chelseawatego.au/book/
book
Another Day in the Colony. In this collection of deeply insightful and powerful essays, Chelsea Watego examines the ongoing and daily racism faced by First Nations peoples in so-called Australia. Rat...
chelseawatego.au
December 7, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Roger Cook & @australianlabor.bsky.social show they never wanted to hear the voices of First Nations. Robert Watson of Walalakoo Aboriginal Corporation "We have always complied with the western legal system, but the system keeps looking for shortcuts around our rights."
www.msn.com/en-au/money/...
MSN
www.msn.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I often wonder when so many Australians will come to accept that we do not live in Europe or Britain?
December 5, 2025 at 1:17 AM
If he was a black kid about 11 years old, he'd be locked up no questions asked
December 4, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Also recall thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal etc?
Settler colonialism is the same the world over. This song is the Australian experience:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpWn...
Kev Carmody - Thou Shalt Not Steal (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Kev Carmody
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Clive Palmer leading the way again with Zeph Investments vs Commonwealth, as corporations sue those who stand in the way of their profits. Actually, not the ACTUAL profits, just their IMAGINED profits!
Only $$$ has any value for them. #auspol
unctad.org/publication/...
Facts and figures on investor–State dispute settlement cases | IIA Issues Note, No. 3, 2024
In the past 10 years, the number of treaty-based investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS) cases has more than doubled.
unctad.org
December 4, 2025 at 1:06 AM