eureka
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- Comment on Live: PM to address nation tonight on response to Middle East war 2 days 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 2 days 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 5 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Did you read the article?
- Comment on Greek Court Bans Kosher and Halal Slaughter 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 2 weeks ago:
Removing post - Rule 1
- Comment on Max Blumenthal: How FBI & Israel Got Trump to Attack 2 weeks ago:
No, that’s not the real question. The real question is, why is this in “Australian Politics”?
The article doesn’t even mention Australia in passing. We’re well aware that our politics is linked to the USA but that doesn’t make all USA foreign policy worth posting in this community. This is a federated platform, most of us see posts from other communities where this post should be made.
- Comment on SA Liberals stand by candidate who said homosexuality opens up ‘demonic realms’ 3 weeks ago:
Is it possible to learn this power?
- Comment on Two protesters arrested on first day of Queensland’s ‘from the river to the sea’ ban 3 weeks ago:
It now seems that they were just a few years behind them.>
Australians have known this phenomenon for a long time.
- Comment on Are users who openly parrot literal Nazi talking points allowed here? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Are users who openly parrot literal Nazi talking points allowed here? 3 weeks ago:
I want to raise a point on the “Nazi talking points” response:
- On one hand, it’s certainly more useful when a report is more specific, yes. I know plenty of fascist talking points which aren’t common knowledge or obvious.
- On the other, it sounds like they’re talking about Lebensraum - “living space”. If we look at it technically, it was a common concept in German politics decades before the Nazi Party was formed. And it’s a far cry away from the various social reforms implemented in the Third Reich you mentioned. But in context, I think it’s clear that someone on aussie.zone reporting a post for “Nazi talking points” is reporting that a post is fascistic, supporting the supremacist aspects Nazism is famous for. People surely aren’t going to report pro-vegetarian posts for this reason, or even anti-union posts (despite the crushing of worker’s organisations being core to fascism).
Lebensraum is a relatively infamous policy, and one which neo-Nazis like the NSN explicitly invoke. They’re never holding up banners saying “protect the wildlife”, “support animal rights” or “fast roadways now!”, this is the bigoted supremacy generally associated with Nazism and carried on by neo-Nazism.
If you delete all the users from your politics community that you don’t agree with, what is the point of the community?
But this isn’t just “all the users you disagree with”, or even just disagreement - if someone, when discussing an expansionist regime, tries to justify “living space”, that makes me think that person might well want me thrown in a camp and killed. It’s no smoking gun, but it’s a loud wolfwhistle.
- Comment on Are users who openly parrot literal Nazi talking points allowed here? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t see the point in beating around the bush.
A glance at the homepage tells us that Nazism would break the first 3 instance rules, there’s no reason to expect it to be allowed. The difficulty comes when bigoted rhetoric is subtle enough to go unrecognised, or has been normalised. So it would help to know which comment is repeating which talking points.
- Comment on Are users who openly parrot literal Nazi talking points allowed here? 3 weeks ago:
This is a user on aussie.zone on the meta community of aussie.zone talking about a user of aussie.zone.
And it’s bizarre and ridiculous to claim that lemmy.ml allows Nazis.
- 'Most brazen acts of corruption': [former Labor politician] Obeid family loses $30m worth of propertywww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to news@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on The First Man Has Been Jailed Under NSW’s Coercive Control Laws 3 weeks ago:
The behaviour being described is insane. If this legislation filled a legal gap which enabled this sort of behaviour to be prosecuted substantially beyond just stalking and harassment, then it’s great to see it’s finally in action.
- Comment on The First Man Has Been Jailed Under NSW’s Coercive Control Laws 3 weeks ago:
It’s the correct link, it’s just blocking access for you (my guess is they’re blocking either non-Australian IP addresses or maybe VPN)
- Comment on How are we feeling about the UN guys? 4 weeks ago:
When does the lunacy cease I wonder.
If history is an indicator, it won’t cease on its own. It takes power in the hands of people to truly pressure a government to act smart, or to replace it with a better system.
- Comment on How are we feeling about the UN guys? 4 weeks ago:
The United Nations organisation shouldn’t be understood as a neutral entity, and the fact that one of its core founders, benefactors and yes, historical funders is so brazenly rejecting it is just another signal that they have less and less interest in the facade of diplomacy.
It’s hard to say to what degree it might be replaced or salvaged (e.g. if the US elect a Democrat government), as it’s inherently used to hostile nations. I don’t believe it will be replaced through a split - the whole concept is that it’s a global organisation, not a bloc.
- Comment on Pauline Hanson censured over remarks there are no 'good Muslims' 4 weeks ago:
And given the fact that Australia has seen recent pro-Zionist terrorism (e.g. bomb threat in 2024), I think it’s a reasonable comparison to make.
(yes, zionists ≠ jewish people, just like Islamic State agents ≠ muslim people)
- Comment on LGBTQIA+ teens bashed and filmed in IS-inspired Sydney attacks 5 weeks ago:
I say this out of curiosity, I’m not arguing:
What should be done to stop this, beyond arresting and charging known attackers? (Obviously we’re talking about government and police, not community efforts.)
- Comment on LGBTQIA+ teens bashed and filmed in IS-inspired Sydney attacks 5 weeks ago:
Shame this will be ignored
Ignored by who? Just from skimming the article:
Five teenagers have so far been convicted over the bashings.
Similar attacks have been reported in the ACT, Queensland and Western Australia, but police say many more incidents go unreported.
With a Victorian parliamentary inquiry into so-called Grindr attacks announced last week, there are now calls for a national response to anti-LGBTQIA+ hate crimes, as well as urgent measures to protect events like this weekend’s Sydney Mardi Gras.
- Refugee Action Collective Victoria: Unite to Fight Racism - Large Public Forum this Wednesday 25th Febwww.instagram.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to melbourne@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Sky News Australia rebrands as News24 5 weeks ago:
NewsPlentyFlaw doesn’t have the same ring…
- Comment on ADF member who trained with neo-Nazis allegedly caught with child abuse and extremist material 5 weeks ago:
Honestly, I’m only half surprised. I know of at least two instances of child-abuse plus neo-Nazi material being discovered in German police groups (the first linked article is of an investigation of a far-right police chat being discovered when searching the phone of an SEK officer after finding pedophilic texts). As far as I’m concerned, the links between police jobs, neo-Nazism and child abuse are not mere coincidence, there are material reasons why this triangle appears repeatedly.
- Comment on 'Come down': locals seek Hanson meeting after diatribe 1 month ago:
[Senator Hanson’s comments] that she felt “unsafe” and not welcomed in the area.
After the decades of garbage Hanson’s said about Muslims, continuing to this day, the fact that they’re welcoming Hanson to break bread is outstanding.