Betty Gill
@sickofx23.bsky.social
Retired academic, disillusioned political tragic, terrified of the future my grandchildren will confront. Sydney Aust
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Aaaah! The old ‘only joking’ defence for gobsmacking misogyny. Violence against women is not a joke. Ever. www.smh.com.au/politics/vic...
‘Chilling’ video shows surgeon stomping on Monique Ryan corflute
A Melbourne surgeon has admitted tearing down the election sign before tutoring men in how to “bury the body”, outraging anti-violence campaigners and politicians.
www.smh.com.au
April 18, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Aaaah! The old ‘only joking’ defence for gobsmacking misogyny. Violence against women is not a joke. Ever. www.smh.com.au/politics/vic...
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Absolutely. We've known for decades that the Scandis are the happiest, healthyist, best educated nations (and more) yet we make no moves in that direction...we don't even discuss progressive thinking or envision it.
We severely handicap ourselves at the behest of capitalism and duopoly interests.
We severely handicap ourselves at the behest of capitalism and duopoly interests.
For years I've been banging on about why we in Australia should follow Scandinavian influence rather than the stupid Americans, maybe now is the time?
April 13, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Absolutely. We've known for decades that the Scandis are the happiest, healthyist, best educated nations (and more) yet we make no moves in that direction...we don't even discuss progressive thinking or envision it.
We severely handicap ourselves at the behest of capitalism and duopoly interests.
We severely handicap ourselves at the behest of capitalism and duopoly interests.
Microsoft.365.bsky.social
This company has NO interest in their customers once they get their money. Customer service is appalling with zero capacity to talk to anyone to get help!
Tech companies need regulation!!!
This company has NO interest in their customers once they get their money. Customer service is appalling with zero capacity to talk to anyone to get help!
Tech companies need regulation!!!
March 30, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Microsoft.365.bsky.social
This company has NO interest in their customers once they get their money. Customer service is appalling with zero capacity to talk to anyone to get help!
Tech companies need regulation!!!
This company has NO interest in their customers once they get their money. Customer service is appalling with zero capacity to talk to anyone to get help!
Tech companies need regulation!!!
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If you’re drawn to a politician because they promise to be cruel to Muslims or Jews or immigrants or gays or transgender people etc, the least you should do - the absolute, bare bones, still morally vacuous least - is ask yourself whether they’re likely to stop at the group you want to see targeted.
March 8, 2025 at 8:59 AM
If you’re drawn to a politician because they promise to be cruel to Muslims or Jews or immigrants or gays or transgender people etc, the least you should do - the absolute, bare bones, still morally vacuous least - is ask yourself whether they’re likely to stop at the group you want to see targeted.
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They’d be mad not too. Australia should too
February 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
They’d be mad not too. Australia should too
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Bring. It. On.
February 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Bring. It. On.
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The Israeli embassy in Dublin last night.
November 26, 2024 at 8:29 PM
The Israeli embassy in Dublin last night.
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theklaxon.com.au/liberal-part...
The Liberal Party and “Advance” have for years denied they are connected, yet two weeks ago it emerged the Liberal Party is Advance’s biggest funder — and by a factor of ten.
#auspol #qldpol
The Liberal Party and “Advance” have for years denied they are connected, yet two weeks ago it emerged the Liberal Party is Advance’s biggest funder — and by a factor of ten.
#auspol #qldpol
Liberal Party caught funding fossil fuels lies - The Klaxon
Liberal Party-funded billboards spruiking fossil fuels propaganda have been taken down by the nation’s largest outdoor advertising group.
theklaxon.com.au
February 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
theklaxon.com.au/liberal-part...
The Liberal Party and “Advance” have for years denied they are connected, yet two weeks ago it emerged the Liberal Party is Advance’s biggest funder — and by a factor of ten.
#auspol #qldpol
The Liberal Party and “Advance” have for years denied they are connected, yet two weeks ago it emerged the Liberal Party is Advance’s biggest funder — and by a factor of ten.
#auspol #qldpol
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Peter Dutton’s line that having a strong public sector is about “pleasing the unions” is just wrong. It is about providing decent services to Australians, something he clearly doesn’t care about. He wants to return to mass outsourcing to their favourite consultants #insiders
February 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Peter Dutton’s line that having a strong public sector is about “pleasing the unions” is just wrong. It is about providing decent services to Australians, something he clearly doesn’t care about. He wants to return to mass outsourcing to their favourite consultants #insiders
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January 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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"Donald Trump's administration is lying to you."
Gov. J.B. Pritzker slammed the White House for saying the freeze wouldn’t affect Head Start and Medicaid.
This is how we do it. Call out Trump’s lies to the camera, bold, strong action. Hold him accountable, every single time.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker slammed the White House for saying the freeze wouldn’t affect Head Start and Medicaid.
This is how we do it. Call out Trump’s lies to the camera, bold, strong action. Hold him accountable, every single time.
January 29, 2025 at 2:59 AM
"Donald Trump's administration is lying to you."
Gov. J.B. Pritzker slammed the White House for saying the freeze wouldn’t affect Head Start and Medicaid.
This is how we do it. Call out Trump’s lies to the camera, bold, strong action. Hold him accountable, every single time.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker slammed the White House for saying the freeze wouldn’t affect Head Start and Medicaid.
This is how we do it. Call out Trump’s lies to the camera, bold, strong action. Hold him accountable, every single time.
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Read this by Ross Gittins. www.smh.com.au/business/the...
January 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Read this by Ross Gittins. www.smh.com.au/business/the...
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‘The smear campaign against me, which deliberately misinterprets my presentation, concocting a fantasy of it that is completely divorced from reality, proves my point: the right will go to great lengths to silence any Jew who does not fit into their mould’
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
When Peter Dutton and the Coalition use the Jewish community as political footballs it makes all of us less safe | Sarah Schwartz
They have created an imaginary caricature of Jewish people to push their political agenda
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2025 at 5:24 AM
‘The smear campaign against me, which deliberately misinterprets my presentation, concocting a fantasy of it that is completely divorced from reality, proves my point: the right will go to great lengths to silence any Jew who does not fit into their mould’
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Hey guys! I’ve started something new. My new Substack… Go check it out! jimacosta.substack.com/p/hold-on-to...
Hold on to the truth…
A recording from Jim Acosta's Substack live video
jimacosta.substack.com
January 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Hey guys! I’ve started something new. My new Substack… Go check it out! jimacosta.substack.com/p/hold-on-to...
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It should go without saying that this is appalling public policy. Of all the things small businesses can spend money on, business lunches are the least likely to improve productivity or business viability.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dutton may think voters no longer care about good government. But there’s no such thing as a ‘free lunch’ | John Quiggin
Australian politics has become a vehicle for personal enrichment in a way that would have been considered shocking last century
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2025 at 1:50 AM
It should go without saying that this is appalling public policy. Of all the things small businesses can spend money on, business lunches are the least likely to improve productivity or business viability.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Good ole AFR, you have to wait till the small print at the bottom to find out he was Josh Frydenberg's advisor
January 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Good ole AFR, you have to wait till the small print at the bottom to find out he was Josh Frydenberg's advisor
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🚨 this week the coal industry launched a dirty campaign against the independents through an ‘astroturf’ group: ‘australians for progress’.
using classic negative ad styling — complete with misinformation — billboards went up in monique ryan’s & allegra spender’s electorates.
using classic negative ad styling — complete with misinformation — billboards went up in monique ryan’s & allegra spender’s electorates.
January 8, 2025 at 10:07 PM
🚨 this week the coal industry launched a dirty campaign against the independents through an ‘astroturf’ group: ‘australians for progress’.
using classic negative ad styling — complete with misinformation — billboards went up in monique ryan’s & allegra spender’s electorates.
using classic negative ad styling — complete with misinformation — billboards went up in monique ryan’s & allegra spender’s electorates.
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Finding out that Australia is one of the only countries that publicly funds private schools at this level is one of those “Oh this country really is nothing like the myths it tells itself” moments.
This is INSANE. Somehow we have decided as a nation that it's fine to give taxpayer funds to the very richest schools while sabotaging public education. How is this okay? How is this sustainable in any way? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Twenty private schools with wealthiest parents received $130m total in Australian public funds in 2023
Data comes as education minister remains stalled in negotiations with states and territories over contributions to Schooling Resource Standard
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2024 at 11:18 PM
Finding out that Australia is one of the only countries that publicly funds private schools at this level is one of those “Oh this country really is nothing like the myths it tells itself” moments.
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The head of the NACC, retired judge Paul Brereton, is incapable of leading a public service organisation of over 260 people with a very forward facing and very public role
He appears either unwilling or unable to accept that he does not have the skill set required for such a vast undertaking
#NACC
He appears either unwilling or unable to accept that he does not have the skill set required for such a vast undertaking
#NACC
I wish I was making this up, but the boss of the National Anti-Corruption Commission has given a speech where he admits that he acted with "apprehended bias" during the Robodebt non-investigation. As Bernard Keane and many others argue, Brereton has to resign www.crikey.com.au/2024/11/18/p...
Discredited Brereton should stop whingeing and resign from the NACC
The National Anti-Corruption Commission head devoted a major speech to explaining why he shouldn't resign. It perfectly demonstrated why he should.
www.crikey.com.au
November 18, 2024 at 4:09 AM
The head of the NACC, retired judge Paul Brereton, is incapable of leading a public service organisation of over 260 people with a very forward facing and very public role
He appears either unwilling or unable to accept that he does not have the skill set required for such a vast undertaking
#NACC
He appears either unwilling or unable to accept that he does not have the skill set required for such a vast undertaking
#NACC
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Seriously - The Australian's front page is an "exclusive" from the CEO of Glencore - the world's second biggest coal miner - saying that Albanese should slow down the transition to renewables and use more coal
November 17, 2024 at 10:00 PM
Seriously - The Australian's front page is an "exclusive" from the CEO of Glencore - the world's second biggest coal miner - saying that Albanese should slow down the transition to renewables and use more coal
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23 months ago I wrote this
"Twitter: exit. Because you have no voice to change it, and Musk does not deserve your loyalty."
This week feels like some sort of grim vindication. Annoyed it took so long, sort of annoyed I was right and it got even worse
euroblog.jonworth.eu/twitter-exit...
"Twitter: exit. Because you have no voice to change it, and Musk does not deserve your loyalty."
This week feels like some sort of grim vindication. Annoyed it took so long, sort of annoyed I was right and it got even worse
euroblog.jonworth.eu/twitter-exit...
Twitter: exit. Because you have no voice to change it, and Musk does not deserve your loyalty. - Jon Worth Euroblog
I’m not going to get into a discussion about whether what Musk is doing to Twitter is by accident or by design. All I know is that Twitter is, at the time of writing, a network I no longer want to be ...
euroblog.jonworth.eu
November 17, 2024 at 10:07 PM
23 months ago I wrote this
"Twitter: exit. Because you have no voice to change it, and Musk does not deserve your loyalty."
This week feels like some sort of grim vindication. Annoyed it took so long, sort of annoyed I was right and it got even worse
euroblog.jonworth.eu/twitter-exit...
"Twitter: exit. Because you have no voice to change it, and Musk does not deserve your loyalty."
This week feels like some sort of grim vindication. Annoyed it took so long, sort of annoyed I was right and it got even worse
euroblog.jonworth.eu/twitter-exit...