Rodney Holmes
@rodneyholmes.bsky.social
Progressive politics & policy; philosophy, psychology & film. On unceded Turrbal/Yaggera land. #DismantleNeoliberalism Opinions mine. he/him/his https://rodneyholmespolicy.com.au/
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Rodney Holmes
@rodneyholmes.bsky.social
· Jan 16
My submission (#174) to the federal AOD inquiry, asks: 'Why is alcohol still causing more harm, when the population is using it less?' In it I share my dependence lived experience & challenge some dominant approaches to alcohol policy. #AOD #Addiction www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...
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There is no credible evidence that the perpetrators of the Bondi terrorist attack had anything to do with recent protests www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
NSW will move to ban phrase ‘globalise the intifada’ in crackdown on ‘hateful’ rhetoric. Here’s what we know so far
NSW parliament will sit next week to consider legislation to limit protests and ban hate speech in response to the Bondi attack, Chris Minns says
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:54 AM
There is no credible evidence that the perpetrators of the Bondi terrorist attack had anything to do with recent protests www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Two men.
My @smh cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.
December 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Two men.
My @smh cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.
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"While the victims of the massacre at Bondi Beach were still bleeding, Benjamin Netanyahu - architect of the genocide in Palestine - blamed Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese."
Butt out, Netanyahu
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Butt out, Netanyahu
#auspol
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Butt out Netanyahu. Ugly political point-scoring follows Bondi Beach tragedy - Michael West
Israel’s Prime Minister should butt out of Australian politics. The tragedy at Bondi Beach must not be exploited for political points.
michaelwest.com.au
December 15, 2025 at 12:45 AM
"While the victims of the massacre at Bondi Beach were still bleeding, Benjamin Netanyahu - architect of the genocide in Palestine - blamed Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese."
Butt out, Netanyahu
#auspol
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Butt out, Netanyahu
#auspol
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An important piece. With dark forces already seeking to exploit this horrific event we must be extremely vigilant to avoid this: “Calls are already rising for attacks on peaceful protest, free speech and freedom of assembly”.
"While the victims of the massacre at Bondi Beach were still bleeding, Benjamin Netanyahu - architect of the genocide in Palestine - blamed Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese."
Butt out, Netanyahu
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/butt-out-of-...
Butt out, Netanyahu
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/butt-out-of-...
Butt out Netanyahu. Ugly political point-scoring follows Bondi Beach tragedy - Michael West
Israel’s Prime Minister should butt out of Australian politics. The tragedy at Bondi Beach must not be exploited for political points.
michaelwest.com.au
December 15, 2025 at 2:09 AM
An important piece. With dark forces already seeking to exploit this horrific event we must be extremely vigilant to avoid this: “Calls are already rising for attacks on peaceful protest, free speech and freedom of assembly”.
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Here’s an article from this year with the Australian gun lobby boasting that, with surging gun numbers, it was winning the fight against firearms control advocates. Blame guns. Blame anti-Semitism. Blame terrorists. Do not blame everyday Australians who marched for peace.
Australia’s gun lobby says it’s ‘winning’ the fight against firearm control as numbers surge
There are now more than 4m guns in the community – almost double the number recorded in the years after the Port Arthur massacre that prompted a national crackdown
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Here’s an article from this year with the Australian gun lobby boasting that, with surging gun numbers, it was winning the fight against firearms control advocates. Blame guns. Blame anti-Semitism. Blame terrorists. Do not blame everyday Australians who marched for peace.
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1/2 The Sydney Jewish community and Australia have experienced the horror of terrorist violence.
The PM's Antisemitism Envoy has cynically used this tragedy to demonize peaceful protests for #FreePalestine and an end to the #GazaGenocide.
If Albanese wants 'social cohesion', she needs to go.
The PM's Antisemitism Envoy has cynically used this tragedy to demonize peaceful protests for #FreePalestine and an end to the #GazaGenocide.
If Albanese wants 'social cohesion', she needs to go.
December 14, 2025 at 8:26 PM
1/2 The Sydney Jewish community and Australia have experienced the horror of terrorist violence.
The PM's Antisemitism Envoy has cynically used this tragedy to demonize peaceful protests for #FreePalestine and an end to the #GazaGenocide.
If Albanese wants 'social cohesion', she needs to go.
The PM's Antisemitism Envoy has cynically used this tragedy to demonize peaceful protests for #FreePalestine and an end to the #GazaGenocide.
If Albanese wants 'social cohesion', she needs to go.
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Jillian Segal is a danger to social cohesion. Claiming that public support for Palestine directly enabled this terror is beyond vile. People who are against genocide in Palestine are also against the murder of Jewish people and anyone else. Segal is a pernicious vulture.
#Bondi #Auspol
#Bondi #Auspol
December 14, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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But reports like the one we have seen this week and the ongoing reports from advocates, legal experts and those caught in the system prove beyond a doubt the fire isn’t just burning, it’s burning out of control. thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
The welfare system isn’t just on fire, it’s burning out of control
The problem with having pattern recognition is that you can always see the fires before they start. Governments are a bit like that, too. It’s not that they don’t see the fire before the smoke, it’s...
thepoint.com.au
December 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
But reports like the one we have seen this week and the ongoing reports from advocates, legal experts and those caught in the system prove beyond a doubt the fire isn’t just burning, it’s burning out of control. thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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A fundamental quality needed to be a politician is judgement. A fundamental role of a politician is to ‘show the way’. Taking advantage of flexible travel rules for private benefit demonstrates neither. #auspol
Anthony Albanese sidesteps calls for reform amid growing community anger over MP travel perks
The federal opposition and crossbenchers have backed a review of expenses spending rules
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December 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
A fundamental quality needed to be a politician is judgement. A fundamental role of a politician is to ‘show the way’. Taking advantage of flexible travel rules for private benefit demonstrates neither. #auspol
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"A ban that normalises punitive rather than developmental responses to youth online behaviour ensures that the conversation stays on terrain advantageous to legacy media – fear, surveillance, and control." #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
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The real winners of Australia’s under-16s social media ban
Australia’s social media ban for under-16s is sold as child protection, but its most tangible effect is a transfer of power away from global platforms and back to legacy media interests.
johnmenadue.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
"A ban that normalises punitive rather than developmental responses to youth online behaviour ensures that the conversation stays on terrain advantageous to legacy media – fear, surveillance, and control." #auspol
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“It is clear from both government and the department that they feel the financial viability of these providers is a higher priority than treating poor people with respect and care.”
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'Is this Labor's robodebt?': Welfare advocates slam escalating failures
At least 15 welfare and human rights organisations have renewed calls for the government to end its Targeted Compliance Framework.
www.themandarin.com.au
December 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
“It is clear from both government and the department that they feel the financial viability of these providers is a higher priority than treating poor people with respect and care.”
www.themandarin.com.au/304738-targe...
www.themandarin.com.au/304738-targe...
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Press freedom is being destroyed from Gaza to America. Don’t think it can’t happen here | Kerry O'Brien
Press freedom is being destroyed from Gaza to America. Don’t think it can’t happen here | Kerry O'Brien
Anthony Albanese promised to end the ‘culture of secrecy’. With freedom of speech under attack globally, it’s past time he delivered
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First things first. It would be remiss of me not to refer specifically to the appalling and outrageous casualty list of Palestinian journalists and other media workers in Israel’s war on Gaza since the brutal attack by Hamas on Israeli citizens two years ago.
Having excluded independent global media access inside Gaza, leaving us all to rely on local journalists to bear witness to the devastating effect of Israel’s bombardment on the civilian population of Gaza and the famine that has accompanied it, Israel has failed dismally to explain with any credibility why so many journalists have been killed. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Press freedom is being destroyed from Gaza to America. Don’t think it can’t happen here | Kerry O'Brien
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Earlier, @davidpocock.bsky.social calls out Plibersek for saying critics of the amendment (to cut ppl's welfare before they're guilty) "are on the side of rapists & murderers"
"What a way to make laws: to rush something through, point the finger at those who dare question these provisions"
"What a way to make laws: to rush something through, point the finger at those who dare question these provisions"
November 26, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Earlier, @davidpocock.bsky.social calls out Plibersek for saying critics of the amendment (to cut ppl's welfare before they're guilty) "are on the side of rapists & murderers"
"What a way to make laws: to rush something through, point the finger at those who dare question these provisions"
"What a way to make laws: to rush something through, point the finger at those who dare question these provisions"
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The news has been coming so fast, I did another later which might not otherwise see the light.
November 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The news has been coming so fast, I did another later which might not otherwise see the light.
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"fear within the Labor caucus is leading to silence."
And that silence is leading to very bad policy.
The Silence of the Labor Lambs is just amplifying the voices of gambling, sports and media lobbyists [and so many others] who have successfully captured Albanese and his gutless Cabinet. #auspol
And that silence is leading to very bad policy.
The Silence of the Labor Lambs is just amplifying the voices of gambling, sports and media lobbyists [and so many others] who have successfully captured Albanese and his gutless Cabinet. #auspol
Andrew Wilkie has asked the PM to allow a free vote on banning gambling advertising and it appears many Labor MPs would support it.
'Broad, unspoken consensus': silent Labor MPs want action on gambling
Andrew Wilkie has asked the PM to allow a free vote on banning gambling advertising and it appears many Labor MPs would support it.
www.abc.net.au
November 7, 2025 at 7:34 PM
"fear within the Labor caucus is leading to silence."
And that silence is leading to very bad policy.
The Silence of the Labor Lambs is just amplifying the voices of gambling, sports and media lobbyists [and so many others] who have successfully captured Albanese and his gutless Cabinet. #auspol
And that silence is leading to very bad policy.
The Silence of the Labor Lambs is just amplifying the voices of gambling, sports and media lobbyists [and so many others] who have successfully captured Albanese and his gutless Cabinet. #auspol
Some very interesting faces from movies I've watched in the last couple of months. How many people / films do you recognise?
November 6, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Some very interesting faces from movies I've watched in the last couple of months. How many people / films do you recognise?
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Gift horse.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
November 4, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Gift horse.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
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The new Support at Home Program sees the elderly paying private operators per shower.
@sarahrussell.bsky.social on the neoliberal aged care program #auspol
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@sarahrussell.bsky.social on the neoliberal aged care program #auspol
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Pay per shower: fully-funded aged care turns market-driven aged support - Michael West
The new Support at Home Program for the elderly is introducing a 'free market' transactional aged care system. It's a retrograde step.
michaelwest.com.au
November 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The new Support at Home Program sees the elderly paying private operators per shower.
@sarahrussell.bsky.social on the neoliberal aged care program #auspol
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@sarahrussell.bsky.social on the neoliberal aged care program #auspol
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Another #AlboSellout 🤯
The new Support at Home Program sees the elderly paying private operators per shower.
@sarahrussell.bsky.social on the neoliberal aged care program #auspol
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@sarahrussell.bsky.social on the neoliberal aged care program #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/pay-per-show...
Pay per shower: fully-funded aged care turns market-driven aged support - Michael West
The new Support at Home Program for the elderly is introducing a 'free market' transactional aged care system. It's a retrograde step.
michaelwest.com.au
November 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Another #AlboSellout 🤯
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In the same month that the UN Commission of Inquiry came out and said that there is a genocide in Gaza, the Albanese Government handed over $20 million to an Israeli arms manufacturer that tests its weapons in Gaza.
October 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
In the same month that the UN Commission of Inquiry came out and said that there is a genocide in Gaza, the Albanese Government handed over $20 million to an Israeli arms manufacturer that tests its weapons in Gaza.
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The electorate voted for a senate that has a majority of ALP and Greens.
Murray Watt and the ALP are choosing instead to write laws that will please the LNP and mining companies.
This is not the outcome a majority of Australians voted for.
Murray Watt and the ALP are choosing instead to write laws that will please the LNP and mining companies.
This is not the outcome a majority of Australians voted for.
I’m getting weary of this. This government is representative of what the people of this place want. The argument is with all of us. Turning it into a constant personalised political snipe belittles the nature of the problem.
Thanks to Murray and his ALP pals, weather reports like this will become increasingly scary and weird
October 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The electorate voted for a senate that has a majority of ALP and Greens.
Murray Watt and the ALP are choosing instead to write laws that will please the LNP and mining companies.
This is not the outcome a majority of Australians voted for.
Murray Watt and the ALP are choosing instead to write laws that will please the LNP and mining companies.
This is not the outcome a majority of Australians voted for.
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“The environment minister wants to pass a major re-write of federal nature laws this year, encouraging miners to lobby the Coalition to work with Labor to help rush it through parliament in the final three sitting weeks”
Just contemplate that sentence.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Just contemplate that sentence.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
With climate trigger axed Labor wants to rush new environmental laws through after ‘positive’ talks with Coalition
Proposed timeframe leaves 12 days to scrutinise most significant changes to national environmental protection regime since 1999
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:39 PM
“The environment minister wants to pass a major re-write of federal nature laws this year, encouraging miners to lobby the Coalition to work with Labor to help rush it through parliament in the final three sitting weeks”
Just contemplate that sentence.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Just contemplate that sentence.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Always remember - The ALP do not need a single vote from an LNP Senator to pass laws.
“The environment minister wants to pass a major re-write of federal nature laws this year, encouraging miners to lobby the Coalition to work with Labor to help rush it through parliament in the final three sitting weeks”
Just contemplate that sentence.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Just contemplate that sentence.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
With climate trigger axed Labor wants to rush new environmental laws through after ‘positive’ talks with Coalition
Proposed timeframe leaves 12 days to scrutinise most significant changes to national environmental protection regime since 1999
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Always remember - The ALP do not need a single vote from an LNP Senator to pass laws.
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“Let’s cut through the spin: if the mining industry and the Liberals back this package, it says everything. It’s a deal for corporate profits, not a deal for nature or our climate”
The 'two-party system' delivers literally toxic policy driven by fossil fuel profiteers.
#ClimateCrisis #auspol
The 'two-party system' delivers literally toxic policy driven by fossil fuel profiteers.
#ClimateCrisis #auspol
With climate trigger axed Labor wants to rush new environmental laws through after ‘positive’ talks with Coalition
With climate trigger axed Labor wants to rush new environmental laws through after ‘positive’ talks with Coalition
Proposed timeframe leaves 12 days to scrutinise most significant changes to national environmental protection regime since 1999
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The environment minister wants to pass a major re-write of federal nature laws this year, encouraging miners to lobby the Coalition to work with Labor to help rush it through parliament in the final three sitting weeks.
Murray Watt relayed the message in private talks with mining industry leaders in Perth this week after giving a speech promising faster project approvals under a planned overhaul of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC Act). Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
“Let’s cut through the spin: if the mining industry and the Liberals back this package, it says everything. It’s a deal for corporate profits, not a deal for nature or our climate”
The 'two-party system' delivers literally toxic policy driven by fossil fuel profiteers.
#ClimateCrisis #auspol
The 'two-party system' delivers literally toxic policy driven by fossil fuel profiteers.
#ClimateCrisis #auspol