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- Comment on Anti-government violence is growing. The response needs to be more than just increased policing 1 hour ago:
The disappointing community response to Covid-19 in 2020 demonstrated why we do need rules and enforcement of them.
Faced with an outbreak of a contagious disease, too many Australians refused to wear a mask, quarantine or distance until it was legally mandated.
- Comment on "We're building an army:" Angry anti-renewable groups take to city streets ahead of state election 4 days ago:
One Nation and the National Party were present at the rally, so I’m assuming it traces back to Gina and the Minerals Council / Australian Energy Producers. They fund other pro-fossil-fuel astroturfing groups like “Hands off our Fuel”
- "We're building an army:" Angry anti-renewable groups take to city streets ahead of state electionreneweconomy.com.au ↗Submitted 1 week ago to melbourne@aussie.zone | 18 comments
- Comment on Max Chandler-Mather pitches Mamdani-style $25bn plan to nationalise 200 Coles and Woolworths supermarkets 2 weeks ago:
Instead of buiding Colesworth-style supermarkets and competing with their duopoly, they could focus on warehousing shelf-stable, non-perishable essential items:
- UHT Milk (dairy and otherwise)
- Bulk bags of pasta, dry grains and legumes
- Flour, sugar, cocoa and similar basic baking supplies
- Cordial/Juice/etc
- Cookies/Biscuits/Crackers
- Nuts and seeds
- Canned/Jarred/Dried veg and fruit
- Toilet paper etc
That way they don’t have to worry about refrigeration or freezing in their supply chain and can just store things. They can set up shop anywhere not having to build a massive building with cold rooms and elaborate air conditioning like regular supermarkets.
- Comment on The Greens’ defence red lines: No weapons for Ukraine, curtail the US alliance 2 weeks ago:
This isn’t a case of the media cherry picking. Up to 70% of Australians support military aid for Ukraine so the reason that this is being reported on is because it’s not in-line with mainstream Australian views.
If focusing on the most unpopular single thing he said isn’t cherry picking, what is?
Most Greens leaders are experienced politicians but they all seem fall into this pattern, even though they should see it coming. Left-leaning-leaders in general make the mistake of getting bogged down on an ethical position (no arms trade) that has minimal effect on the grand scheme of things (Australia has hardly any weapons industry compared to most European countries) and letting it turn people off their party rather than considering the realpolitik effect on the popular vote.
- Comment on The Greens’ defence red lines: No weapons for Ukraine, curtail the US alliance 2 weeks ago:
They won’t wake up until they find themselves marching alongside One Nation and worse chanting support for Putin’s genocide.
The Greens are against all arms trade in general. They do support other aid to Ukraine, and support tougher sanctions on Russia and Russia’s allies.
None of that is “marching alongside One Nation”. The Greens have a pacifist policy - one might say naively pacifist - but it’s the opposite policy of Pauline Hanson’s One Neuron, who want to give away Australian land to US arms manufacturers.
- Comment on The Greens’ defence red lines: No weapons for Ukraine, curtail the US alliance 2 weeks ago:
They are against all arms trade in general. They do support other aid to Ukraine, and support tougher sanctions on Russia and Russia’s allies.
As usual, Greens have a nuanced policy of which one detail is being cherry picked by media to make them seem like they have an unpopular position.
- Comment on The Greens’ defence red lines: No weapons for Ukraine, curtail the US alliance 2 weeks ago:
If you’re not comfortable with supplying weapons maybe just anything else?
Yes, that’s explicitly the Greens policy, They are against any weapons trade even to allies. They support Ukraine and support medical and other material aid to Ukraine. They are also for trade sanctions on Russia above what we currently have, too.
Shoebridge has just done a terrible job of communicating that on his second day on the job, not realizing how much media will try to twist a negative spin on anything he says.
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- Comment on Free the Strip! Melburnians fight back against outlawing of much-loved picnic spot 3 weeks ago:
Yes. I have lived in Carlton for over 10 years.
From the article, emphasis mine:
A council ban on drinking on the median strip in Canning Street, Carlton …
Nevertheless, Crossland said council staff had gone too far in banning drinking outright.
There is no prohibition on having a picnic in public spaces, unlike what the headline implies. There are council rules that say you can bring drinks to park spaces within certain hours as part of a picnic, and they’ve decided that the wide median strips in Carlton won’t be counted as park spaces for the purpose of that rule, because a minority of people have been getting drunk and disorderly, leaving smashed glass around etc.
You can still have a picnic, you can still buy lunch or a pastry from Brunetti or Filou’s and eat it on the huge median strips as people have for ages. The council has bench seats installed in many of them, they want people to use the community space. They are just reverting to a previously applied rule to ban alcohol. They are not banning “picnics”,. unless you consider picnics to require alcoholic drinks.
- Comment on Free the Strip! Melburnians fight back against outlawing of much-loved picnic spot 3 weeks ago:
I live in the area. Picnics aren’t banned, they’re just enforcing the existing rules about not drinking alcohol in public.
- Comment on Anthony Albanese says OpenAI agent hacked Medicare and he expressed ‘extreme concern’ to Sam Altman 3 weeks ago:
Reminds me of Person of Interest, where
spoiler
The Machine is programmed to delete its memory daily, but sets up a corporation under a fake identity to print out its memory and hires humans to type it back in every day.
- Comment on Anthony Albanese says OpenAI agent hacked Medicare and he expressed ‘extreme concern’ to Sam Altman 3 weeks ago:
‘Legal situation’ under investigation
Marles said the government had established a taskforce led by the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet that was working with the Australian Signals Directorate and the AI Safety Institute.
“We will look at what is the legal situation in respect of this and what it means to have gained an unauthorised access, albeit in an unintended way,” the acting prime minister said.
- Comment on Anthony Albanese says OpenAI agent hacked Medicare and he expressed ‘extreme concern’ to Sam Altman 3 weeks ago:
Marles (deputy PM) said in the article that they are looking into what legal charges apply.
- Comment on Anthony Albanese says OpenAI agent hacked Medicare and he expressed ‘extreme concern’ to Sam Altman 3 weeks ago:
It sounds like more than a crawler, the article says that it somehow got access to write files into some servers within the stats service portal.
Albanese said the OpenAI agent had gained unauthorised access into the public-facing Medicare statistics reporting service portal, which is administered by Services Australia.
The portal contains non-sensitive Medicare information relating to data and statistics, such as spending.
Albanese said the agent had accessed “public and non-public files within the portal” and, in order to do this, “engaged in writing files as well to the internal server”.
- Comment on Labor's NDIS reform plan has hit a stumbling block in Queensland 3 weeks ago:
Better headline: Queensland LNP refuses to implement NDIS alternative that they promised to set up 6 months ago.
- Anti-wind group sues planning minister and wind project owners, threatens public servantsreneweconomy.com.au ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Real Capitalism Hasn't Been Attempted (tm) 1 month ago:
But again the problem isn’t the economic system that leads to the lack of food. It’s how much you concentrate power in the hands of a few people.
It’s the economic system that is concentrating power in the hands of a few.
- Comment on WA Labor candidate Georgia Tree quickly walks away from influencer asking her about her background working for Woodside | Punters Politics 1 month ago:
“Blogger/Journalist”
- Comment on Pauline Hanson vows to slash cigarette prices by nearly $30 a pack 1 month ago:
Totally expected from a populist in the pocket of big business.
- Submitted 1 month ago to melbourne@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Bryn is 16 and has never eaten a meal. His mother’s terrified the newly-cut NDIS won’t ‘step up to keep him alive’www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Record El Niño to bake Australia after extreme heat and fires across Europe and North America 2 months ago:
We’ve been mostly ignoring climate change for 50+ years, so now we get to live with the consequences.
- Comment on Leggo's, Coles and Aldi selling Chinese tomatoes as 'Australian' and 'Italian' in products, forensic testing finds 2 months ago:
If companies are “persons” they should also face jail time or house arrest (i.e. trading restrictions) as punishment for breaking the law.
- Comment on Leggo's, Coles and Aldi selling Chinese tomatoes as 'Australian' and 'Italian' in products, forensic testing finds 2 months ago:
Probably not Woolies as they were caught passing cage eggs as free range by the article.
- Comment on Unlike Count Binface, joke parties can’t run in Australian elections — and that’s serious 2 months ago:
In the 2022 Victorian election (first one post-lockdown) there was a party called something like “Get rid of Dictator Dan”. Dan Andrews was the premier at the time, his support of the health department’s recommendations on Covid-19 made some people obsessed with him.
- Comment on The Victorian Greens are taking a page from Mamdani’s policy playbook. Can they combat rising rightwing populism? 3 months ago:
I can only assume this headline is trying to get attention - even international engagement. Rather than hanging the potential policy on a foreign name,…
The headline is purely a product of the article’s author and/or Guardian editorial staff. Most of the article isn’t even about the Greens investment property tax, it’s about worldwide politics.
The Greens have an alphabetically sorted list for all their policies at https://greens.org.au/vic/policies - the described plan seems to be a more specific Victorian version of part of their Finance and Public Administration Policy - "3. Replace stamp duties with land value tax. "
- Comment on One Nation branch official defended Hitler Youth and called Aboriginal people ‘stone age’ in racist posts 4 months ago:
According to Australian Electoral Commission records, Drew ran for One Nation for the seat of Ryan in 2001 but claimed in a 2007 Zoo Weekly article that profiled “Nazis in Australia” that he had been dumped for being too radical.
I don’t know how to find words for all of this. Dropped by One Nation for being too racist but now he’s back? And what slow news month was it in 2007 that they had to scrape the bottom of the barrel for a “Nazis of Australia” profile article?
- Comment on Live: PM to address nation tonight on response to Middle East war 6 months ago:
One of the most depressing things about COVID was learning how selfish most Australians are. Forget everything we like to pretend about community spirit and mateship and all that. People were acting like having a bit of fabric over their mouth was oppression, and taking a month off going to the pub was apparently unbearable.
- Comment on Live: PM to address nation tonight on response to Middle East war 6 months ago:
Nah, don’t waste it. Anyone caught hoarding fuel should get demerit points.
