@jilbybilby.bsky.social
Product of the 1950s - ie -
I rebelled. Freedom loving, creative, spiritual, kind and caring, hate bullies and oppressive authorities, socialist communalist, green, eco-conscious. On the last stretch, savouring life to the end.
I rebelled. Freedom loving, creative, spiritual, kind and caring, hate bullies and oppressive authorities, socialist communalist, green, eco-conscious. On the last stretch, savouring life to the end.
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The sheer volume of utter scum already using this tragic shooting to instil anti-immigrant and racist hatred is truly disgusting.
December 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM
The sheer volume of utter scum already using this tragic shooting to instil anti-immigrant and racist hatred is truly disgusting.
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The worst political abuses, of women, young people, those with less, are so often first trialled in immigration systems. This othering is deadly, and as we saw with Morrison, inevitably worked its way into his broader politics. Refugee justice is everyone’s business.
June 7, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The worst political abuses, of women, young people, those with less, are so often first trialled in immigration systems. This othering is deadly, and as we saw with Morrison, inevitably worked its way into his broader politics. Refugee justice is everyone’s business.
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Today's #SundayShot is up, people! Get into it for illumination and insight from @punterspolitics.bsky.social and @crystaljane.bsky.social. Oh, and @davemilbo.bsky.social too. #auspol
youtu.be/6Vpw9mOPk8M?...
youtu.be/6Vpw9mOPk8M?...
The Kids are Alright
YouTube video by The Sunday Shot
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March 23, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Today's #SundayShot is up, people! Get into it for illumination and insight from @punterspolitics.bsky.social and @crystaljane.bsky.social. Oh, and @davemilbo.bsky.social too. #auspol
youtu.be/6Vpw9mOPk8M?...
youtu.be/6Vpw9mOPk8M?...
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For too long, we've been working too hard without enjoying the real returns. Let's pave the way and make the four day work week a reality!
If you want change, you have to vote for it 💚
#auspol #fourdayworkweek
If you want change, you have to vote for it 💚
#auspol #fourdayworkweek
March 17, 2025 at 7:36 AM
For too long, we've been working too hard without enjoying the real returns. Let's pave the way and make the four day work week a reality!
If you want change, you have to vote for it 💚
#auspol #fourdayworkweek
If you want change, you have to vote for it 💚
#auspol #fourdayworkweek
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live in Perth and I am categorically OPPOSED to having them in our backyard yard.
Apoplectic this has been forced on us
Apoplectic this has been forced on us
March 17, 2025 at 11:24 AM
live in Perth and I am categorically OPPOSED to having them in our backyard yard.
Apoplectic this has been forced on us
Apoplectic this has been forced on us
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“It’s a glistening early autumn morning, and this masthead, alongside a handful of other media outlets, has been invited for a rare tour of a visiting Virginia-class submarine. Each boat costs around $8 billion to build and …” 🤮💵
March 17, 2025 at 8:27 AM
“It’s a glistening early autumn morning, and this masthead, alongside a handful of other media outlets, has been invited for a rare tour of a visiting Virginia-class submarine. Each boat costs around $8 billion to build and …” 🤮💵
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Yesterday we learned of millions of dollars in corporate donations to the major parties. Now the CEOs come to Parliament to dictate how our country should run.
Instead of selling out to them, we should make them pay their fair share of tax so more people can have a better life.
Instead of selling out to them, we should make them pay their fair share of tax so more people can have a better life.
February 3, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Yesterday we learned of millions of dollars in corporate donations to the major parties. Now the CEOs come to Parliament to dictate how our country should run.
Instead of selling out to them, we should make them pay their fair share of tax so more people can have a better life.
Instead of selling out to them, we should make them pay their fair share of tax so more people can have a better life.
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The major parties don’t want a duty of care on climate because it would mean they’d have to put Australians & our futures ahead of the fossil fuel industry - an industry that is putting short term profits ahead of people & our future.
Let’s change that this election👇
adutyofcare.davidpocock.com.au
Let’s change that this election👇
adutyofcare.davidpocock.com.au
December 22, 2024 at 5:15 AM
The major parties don’t want a duty of care on climate because it would mean they’d have to put Australians & our futures ahead of the fossil fuel industry - an industry that is putting short term profits ahead of people & our future.
Let’s change that this election👇
adutyofcare.davidpocock.com.au
Let’s change that this election👇
adutyofcare.davidpocock.com.au
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Spare a thought for retail workers this Xmas:
“Gross operating profits in the retail sector have increased by more than six times since 2001, while retail wages have risen by less than half as much.”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
“Gross operating profits in the retail sector have increased by more than six times since 2001, while retail wages have risen by less than half as much.”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘At the mercy of employers’: retail workers’ wages languish as industry profits soar
While the sector’s earnings have increased sixfold, poor bargaining power has left its employees among the lowest-paid in Australia and most vulnerable to inflation
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2024 at 10:15 PM
Spare a thought for retail workers this Xmas:
“Gross operating profits in the retail sector have increased by more than six times since 2001, while retail wages have risen by less than half as much.”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
“Gross operating profits in the retail sector have increased by more than six times since 2001, while retail wages have risen by less than half as much.”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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NSW Corrections just straight up killed this man. Beyond awful. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Advocates condemn ‘unconscionable’ denial of water beforeo mentally ill man’s death in Sydney prison
Guards at Silverwater deliberately turned off the water to Simon Cartwright’s cell to punish him and joked it was ‘entertaining’
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2024 at 12:07 AM
NSW Corrections just straight up killed this man. Beyond awful. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Looks like Govt has capitulated to pressure from airlines to water down customer rights.
I guess 🇦🇺 didn’t become the land of the duopoly without decades of the major parties giving vested interests what they want.
We have to start putting 🇦🇺ns first.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
I guess 🇦🇺 didn’t become the land of the duopoly without decades of the major parties giving vested interests what they want.
We have to start putting 🇦🇺ns first.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Australia declines to follow EU in forcing airlines to pay passengers for delayed and cancelled flights
Albanese government bows to pressure from Qantas and other airlines and omits compensation scheme from aviation customer rights charter
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2024 at 12:47 AM
Looks like Govt has capitulated to pressure from airlines to water down customer rights.
I guess 🇦🇺 didn’t become the land of the duopoly without decades of the major parties giving vested interests what they want.
We have to start putting 🇦🇺ns first.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
I guess 🇦🇺 didn’t become the land of the duopoly without decades of the major parties giving vested interests what they want.
We have to start putting 🇦🇺ns first.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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It’s deeply distressing the Attorney General has approved extraditing Dan Duggan to the US. He has chosen to send this Australian father of 6 to a politicised prosecution and done so just before Christmas hoping everyone has switched off from the news. This is so wrong.
December 23, 2024 at 7:11 AM
It’s deeply distressing the Attorney General has approved extraditing Dan Duggan to the US. He has chosen to send this Australian father of 6 to a politicised prosecution and done so just before Christmas hoping everyone has switched off from the news. This is so wrong.
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Speaking as one of those experts who've sounded the alarm bell about this execrable piece how legislation: thank you, Andrew Wilkie.
In the UK, the discourse around the OSA focused on protecting young people OR protecting free expression NOT protecting the free expression OF young people.
This excellent piece acknowledged the rights and experiences of young people as part of this debate
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This excellent piece acknowledged the rights and experiences of young people as part of this debate
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Why I’ve changed my mind about the social media bill | Andrew Wilkie
The ban is a blunt instrument that will silence the voices of young people instead of placing the onus on tech companies to protect them
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2024 at 11:00 AM
Speaking as one of those experts who've sounded the alarm bell about this execrable piece how legislation: thank you, Andrew Wilkie.
Never forget the last time the Australian government used biometric markers to determine age. It was a terrible failure, causing great harm. humanrights.gov.au/our-work/2-b...
November 26, 2024 at 3:36 AM
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PM: Mum and dads, we're on your side. Unless you're on Centrelink poverty payments, sending your kids to an underfunded public school, can't afford to see a GP or dentist, skipping meals, worried about your kids' future on a heating planet we're making worse, drowning in student debt...
November 26, 2024 at 3:04 AM
PM: Mum and dads, we're on your side. Unless you're on Centrelink poverty payments, sending your kids to an underfunded public school, can't afford to see a GP or dentist, skipping meals, worried about your kids' future on a heating planet we're making worse, drowning in student debt...
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Lots of focus on the desire by Musk & Ramaswamy to absolutely gut the US civil service with mass sackings but our conservatives have similar dreams of slashing nearly 20% of the Australian federal public sector workforce #auspol
November 26, 2024 at 3:23 AM
Lots of focus on the desire by Musk & Ramaswamy to absolutely gut the US civil service with mass sackings but our conservatives have similar dreams of slashing nearly 20% of the Australian federal public sector workforce #auspol
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Children aged 10-13 years in NSW lock-ups were put in isolation on 172 occasions in 23/24. 70% of these kids were First Nations. 60% of all the kids this age in lock-up are First Nations and 40% of kids who have formal contact with police at First Nations.
171 children aged 10-13 spent time in lock up in NSW in 2023 - almost all on remand. Theres plenty of facts and stats here: raisetheagensw.org.au/the-children
THE CHILDREN - Raise the Age NSW
Formal contact with police 2,144 NSW children aged 10-13 had formal contact with police in 2023. 171 of these kids spent time in lock up. Almost all these children were on remand. Lock up & isolation ...
raisetheagensw.org.au
November 24, 2024 at 5:58 AM
Children aged 10-13 years in NSW lock-ups were put in isolation on 172 occasions in 23/24. 70% of these kids were First Nations. 60% of all the kids this age in lock-up are First Nations and 40% of kids who have formal contact with police at First Nations.
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BREAKING: The Greens will vote against Labor’s new aged care laws.
Labor's so-called reforms represent a capitulation to the Coalition and the for-profit aged care industry. These laws will simply bolster the bottom lines of providers at the expense of older people.
Labor's so-called reforms represent a capitulation to the Coalition and the for-profit aged care industry. These laws will simply bolster the bottom lines of providers at the expense of older people.
November 21, 2024 at 5:29 AM
BREAKING: The Greens will vote against Labor’s new aged care laws.
Labor's so-called reforms represent a capitulation to the Coalition and the for-profit aged care industry. These laws will simply bolster the bottom lines of providers at the expense of older people.
Labor's so-called reforms represent a capitulation to the Coalition and the for-profit aged care industry. These laws will simply bolster the bottom lines of providers at the expense of older people.
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Wonderful first (for me) day at the Rising Tide People’s Blockade of the World’s Largest Coal Port
Had a great workshop on rethinking power & change, and the spokescouncil this evening was a brilliant demonstration of consensus democracy in action!
Come down, if you’re anywhere near Newcastle!
Had a great workshop on rethinking power & change, and the spokescouncil this evening was a brilliant demonstration of consensus democracy in action!
Come down, if you’re anywhere near Newcastle!
November 20, 2024 at 10:54 AM
Wonderful first (for me) day at the Rising Tide People’s Blockade of the World’s Largest Coal Port
Had a great workshop on rethinking power & change, and the spokescouncil this evening was a brilliant demonstration of consensus democracy in action!
Come down, if you’re anywhere near Newcastle!
Had a great workshop on rethinking power & change, and the spokescouncil this evening was a brilliant demonstration of consensus democracy in action!
Come down, if you’re anywhere near Newcastle!
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Again it’s worth asking: who asked for this?
For a govt always banging on about focusing on the cost of living (but doing little), or not having an electoral mandate to do something, how do they justify this? The public never asked for it, never would.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
For a govt always banging on about focusing on the cost of living (but doing little), or not having an electoral mandate to do something, how do they justify this? The public never asked for it, never would.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Sneaky, excessive and unjustified: why Labor’s electoral reforms are vulnerable to constitutional challenge | Anne Twomey
A political donor will be able to donate up to $640,000 in a year. How is this taking the money out of politics?
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2024 at 11:12 AM
Again it’s worth asking: who asked for this?
For a govt always banging on about focusing on the cost of living (but doing little), or not having an electoral mandate to do something, how do they justify this? The public never asked for it, never would.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
For a govt always banging on about focusing on the cost of living (but doing little), or not having an electoral mandate to do something, how do they justify this? The public never asked for it, never would.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Elon Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX billionaire who has become President-elect Donald Trump’s “first buddy,” appeared to publicly pressure Trump on economic policy and a key Cabinet appointment Saturday.
Musk appears to pressure Trump on Cabinet and tariffs, irking advisers
Elon Musk, the billionaire who has become Donald Trump’s “first buddy,” appeared to publicly pressure the president-elect on economic policy and a key Cabinet pick.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 17, 2024 at 4:33 PM
Elon Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX billionaire who has become President-elect Donald Trump’s “first buddy,” appeared to publicly pressure Trump on economic policy and a key Cabinet appointment Saturday.
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Haha. NACC head Paul Brereton says resigning in the face of bad publicity would ‘undermine’ the commission.
You know what would undermine the NACC even more?
theconversation.com/nacc-head-pa...
You know what would undermine the NACC even more?
theconversation.com/nacc-head-pa...
NACC head Paul Brereton says resigning in the face of bad publicity would ‘undermine’ the commission
The head of the National Anti-Corruption Commission. Paul Brereton, has rejected calls he resign after a finding of “officer misconduct”, declaring to do so would harm the NACC.
theconversation.com
November 17, 2024 at 9:03 AM
Haha. NACC head Paul Brereton says resigning in the face of bad publicity would ‘undermine’ the commission.
You know what would undermine the NACC even more?
theconversation.com/nacc-head-pa...
You know what would undermine the NACC even more?
theconversation.com/nacc-head-pa...