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- Comment on Car hits pedestrians in Melbourne, killing Supernova Comic Con attendee 4 days ago:
It’s a pretty reasonable long-term goal in many areas, like cities. There are pedestrian-only streets near me already. We just need a long-term vision and the infrastructure to follow it.
- Comment on Former US Marines pilot Dan Duggan loses bid to avoid extradition from Australia 1 week ago:
Dude has been in solitary confinement in Lithgow for over three years so far. That’s frankly pretty damn harsh all on its own for the accusation of ‘three cases of military training’.
I thought the max security prison was a bit extreme - their alleged crime is obviously serious to the state, but hardly one that requires high security or solitary.
- Comment on Man charged with using newly banned phrases in Queensland tries to argue law 'insane' 1 week ago:
It’s important to understand that Australia, like plenty of other countries, has its own imperial interests in the region. It’s unhelpful to blindly assert someone has to be blackmailed in order to abide by these horrors.
- Comment on Man charged with using newly banned phrases in Queensland tries to argue law 'insane' 1 week ago:
Damn it, he’s using the reverse-insanity plea!
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- Comment on Anti-war activist to face court over 'From the River to the Sea' banner 1 week ago:
Mr Dowling said he had a banner with the words: "From the River to the Sea-
“OOO he said it again!”
- Comment on Israel said it targeted Hezbollah, so we went to the site of a strike 1 week ago:
Oh, you ain’t kidding: aussie.zone/post/30293643/21777175
- Comment on U.S. Pushes Allies to Chase a New Terrorism Target: The Far Left 1 week ago:
Yeah, CPAC.
- Comment on U.S. Pushes Allies to Chase a New Terrorism Target: The Far Left 1 week ago:
Last Christmas, a friend of the family said “Every journalist in Australia is a communist.”
- Comment on U.S. Pushes Allies to Chase a New Terrorism Target: The Far Left 1 week ago:
“It is important to recognize their actions as political terrorism rather than mere protest or criminality,"
The silver lining is, we know they’re terrified.
- Comment on U.S. Pushes Allies to Chase a New Terrorism Target: The Far Left 1 week ago:
a ‘far left’
Electorally? None with any real hope, in my view. Possibly some local council members?
There are certainly people with communist and anarchist ideas, organising with like-minded people and engaging in antifascism. I don’t know to what degree they’re organised, and there are efforts from the government to chill them, but they exist.
- Comment on Max Chandler-Mather to lead revamped Green Institute (official press release) 1 week ago:
From Wikipedia:
The Green Institute is an Australian public policy think tank founded in 2008. The institute “supports green politics through education, action, research and debate”.
In disclosure returns lodged with the Australian Electoral Commission, the institute indicated that it is an associated entity of the Australian Greens. The institute is similar to the Liberal Party aligned Menzies Research Centre and Labor’s Chifley Research Centre.
Forming a “mass movement” approach would be an interesting shift for an institute affiliated with The Greens.
- Max Chandler-Mather to lead revamped Green Institute (official press release)www.greeninstitute.org.au ↗Submitted 1 week ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Comment on Donald Trump says he has agreed two-week ceasefire with Iran 2 weeks ago:
We were never at war with Westasia
- Comment on Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith arrested, expected to be charged with war crime of murder 2 weeks ago:
From news.com.au coverage of political reactions:
Greens senator David Shoebridge posted a screenshot of an article about the arrests, and wrote: “Good.”
- Comment on Newly established neo-Nazi group NRWM recruiting Sydney teens 2 weeks ago:
For anyone unfamiliar with the NSN, a child-grooming cult, many of Tom Tanuki’s YouTube videos provide solid overviews of them and their close associates.
- Comment on Newly established neo-Nazi group NRWM recruiting Sydney teens 2 weeks ago:
Posting in Australian News it’s obviously not just going to be a NSW-only effort.
Yes, it’s obviously the “former” NSN continuing under a new organisation. Let’s see if the government can adjust their aim in time to nip this public effort in the bud.
Their specific emphasis on their Youth Club, officially aimed at 15-18 year olds, is not novel but nonetheless disturbing.
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- Comment on Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith arrested, expected to be charged with war crime of murder 2 weeks ago:
the boy boy video talking about this prick (our friend is going to prison)
Link for convenience: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYt4CxFfQUU
- Comment on Live: PM to address nation tonight on response to Middle East war 3 weeks ago:
Closer than my guess. I thought they were going to announce that anyone caught hoarding fuel will have it poured on them.
- Comment on PM to urge Australians to 'play their part' in Iran response 3 weeks ago:
Anti-car activists finally get a win.
- Comment on Huge swings to ONP, against Libin today's SA election, small swing against ALP, towards Greens 3 weeks ago:
I was like when has it ever been a thing that you get a pay raise in line with inflation? isn’t it always what the market offers?
First things first: it doesn’t really mater if “it’s a thing” - most of our historical wins, that we take for granted, weren’t a thing until they were.
But since we’re in a liberalist market economy, ‘the market’ here is really just business administration offering as high or low as they want, so long as there are some workers who accept it (and so long as they don’t violate minimum wage laws). So if the typical worker doesn’t want our real wages to spiral down, we have to play our part in shaping what is acceptable in the market. If we work together, we have a stronger voice, and can make the reasonable demand that our pay doesn’t just decrease every year without reason.
I myself have no reason to do this as my life is too comfortable
Surely your life improves as the living situation of people around you improves.
For example, if you interact with people daily, and some of them aren’t comfortable enough to take time off work when contagious, or to afford better food or medicine to defend against illness, or are simply more stressed in general, then that increases the odds of you getting sick. And if you’re in an emergency situation and have to go to hospital (even private), less workload on the hospitals means faster and less rushed service to you. There are hundreds of other similar examples, no point in me carrying on as I’m sure you can think of a few others.
- Comment on Huge swings to ONP, against Libin today's SA election, small swing against ALP, towards Greens 4 weeks ago:
voting is the main way to show support to a political party and it’s platform, if you’re not getting votes it’s pretty clear people don’t agree with what you’re offering
politicians listen to votes
I don’t disagree with either of these statements. Nor do they disagree with my statement that votes are a vague message - if I tell you (and it’s the truth) that the Greens weren’t in my top two preferences in 2025 (nor Labor, nor Liberal) - what information does that give them? What would the Greens do if they wanted my vote? All my vote really says is, “I prefer this other party”, but not which policies I like, or even if it’s the policies I have a problem with. I know people who vote Liberal but are anti-privatisation! I know people who vote Liberal but are environmentally progressive! I know someone who voted for the opposition one year to “give someone else a go”! Even just the differing policies of each party are complicated, let alone other factors like personalities.
I don’t agree that voting is our biggest weapon, but it’s one everyone can use without any risk, so it’s certainly potent and important! Our biggest weapon is our labour. If you, me and millions of other people all voice a unified demand and stop going to work, that’s both a more accurate weapon (they know precisely what we want changed) and a weapon that can bring a government to its knees - look at revolutions overseas started by strikes. And it also works against companies which don’t even let us vote!
You can see the impact PHON has, even though they only got a tiny % of the pie in SA the big parties are keenly aware of them and why people are voting for them
The following quote from Labor is extremely vague. Why did people vote for One Nation? Was it frustration with housing costs? General cost of living pressures? Reaction to the firearm laws after the Bondi massacre? Opposition to Islam? A hatred of Arabic people (Muslim or not) or Asians? Opposition to all immigration, including English? Simply sending a message of dissatisfaction to the Liberals? A disdain towards conventional, formal politicians? Media exposure and familiarity? (some people can’t even name our Prime Minister, so don’t underestimate this!)
tbh the greens should really be shining right now, absolute shambles from them
Absolutely. While I do think they’re right to support activism around Gaza (even if it comes from the argument of “stop wasting our resources on foreign wars”), it shouldn’t be at their forefront.
the demands they seem to levy are egregious that have me siding with businesses going damn that’s crazy
It’s worth pointing out that sometimes (and maybe this doesn’t apply to the ones you’re thinking of) they come to the table with high demands with the intention to settle on a lower demand.
Not all unions are the same, nor are all organisers the same (had a string of bad ones until recently) so I’m fully aware that some are bad at representing employees. And it’s a damn shame. It makes a feedback loop where a bad union experience makes people dismissive of the actions necessary to improve the union. I’m lucky enough to be in one where we’ve recently managed to reorganise and volunteer enough to build campaigns where fellow employees were able to instruct us with their demands (and you bet thousands of us were asking for a 10% pay rise that we had to temper to something more realistic). But until I volunteered to help build this reorganisation, I did feel disempowered and unrepresented, and hesitated to even join the union, despite being a unionist.
The tough answer is, if institutions aren’t giving you power, you have to build it.
- Comment on Huge swings to ONP, against Libin today's SA election, small swing against ALP, towards Greens 4 weeks ago:
over my dead body do i want phon in, but how do i tell labor what i want? i did that putting greens first previously, am i not right to do the same here?
Voting is an extremely vague way to “tell Labor” anything, whether by voting Green, Reason, Shooters, Socialist or PHON. I assume their reaction to a rise in PHON would be to double down on anti-immigration rhetoric, not to repress Islam. (I’m not exactly sure what you envision, policy-wise, when you say “anti-Islam”)
But you raise a great question - how do you tell Labor what you want? Voting doesn’t send a clear message, nor are any of our votes individually worth much at all. And specifically to Labor, their own rank-and-file majority have been overruled by the Albanese leadership on some very significant matters. If their own members are struggling to be heard, I don’t recommend that as a way to sway Labor either - I believe some other “left” parties have working representation, but from discussions I’ve had with Labor members at pubs, I don’t have faith in their internal democracy. It comes down to other forms of power.
So, we organise to gain power for ourselves - for Labor in particular, a major example is through worker unions with the power to combine resources and ultimately to withdraw labour. In fact, this is how major historical wins were made in anti-racism laws here, or eviction protections for renters, and even lots of Whitlam’s infamous social policies - governments did fuck-all until unions put pressure on them. Same with other wins like the Green Bans. And it’s not just worker unions, but other forms of collective action, like Erskineville’s Road Wars which have probably saved many lived by now.
The bottom line is obvious: telling a gigantic political party of millions what you want requires more than just voting.
- Comment on Greek Court Bans Kosher and Halal Slaughter 4 weeks ago:
Did you read the article?
- Comment on Greek Court Bans Kosher and Halal Slaughter 4 weeks ago:
published five years ago btw.
The Panhellenic Animal Welfare and Environmental Federation requested that the court annul an exemption in a law that allowed religious slaughtering practices to take place without anesthetic.
The courts ruled that the religious preparation of animal products did not outweigh those animals’ welfare, and decided that the exemption was a violation of the law’s requirement to slaughter animals with anesthesia.
Fair call. Religions and other traditions should not be above anti-cruelty standards. This law, while in direct contradiction to a traditional practice, does not appear to be intended as harassment or persecution. If a culture is incompatible with anti-cruelty standards, drop the practice from the culture. I’d expect the same if anti-discrimination legislation outlaws the sexist enforcement of 1 Timothy 2:12, 1 Corinthians 14:34, 1 Corinthians 11:4-5 among unliberalised Christian organisations.
I wonder if these laws encouraged vegetarianism, rather than breaking diet requirements.
- Comment on Huge swings to ONP, against Libin today's SA election, small swing against ALP, towards Greens 4 weeks ago:
Presenting themselves as an alternative creates higher expectations, I’d guess.
- Comment on Huge swings to ONP, against Libin today's SA election, small swing against ALP, towards Greens 4 weeks ago:
Results still very much in progress, of course, but sad to see PHON shoot up past 20% of the total vote (ahead in two seats), and gaining two senate seats so far.
I’ve seen (perhaps on other sites more than here) a few people claiming that their huge rise is just a rigged polling number or a unrepresentative sample. Clearly not the case - this has translated into electoral results - although the claims of them taking numbers from ALP voters too may be exaggerated, albeit possible.
Last time PHON rose like this, it took direct action to knock them back into place. I highly recommend having a quick look at the history of how they were repelled last time. Then think about what we (you and us) can do about this issue.
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- Comment on North Korea Just Overtook the U.S. in Destroyer Construction Rates as Plans For Far Seas Navy Begin to Materialise 5 weeks ago:
Removing post - Rule 1
