Zagorath
@Zagorath@aussie.zone
- Comment on Australia to form royal commission into antisemitism after Bondi mass shooting 2 days ago:
I’ll just share a great comment I saw last week on Facebook:
A Royal Commission is for systemic, nationwide failure not a single criminal act like the Bondi Shooting
Australia only uses Royal Commissions when normal oversight has completely failed, causing widespread harm over years not localised to one region, city or state.
Examples:
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Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
- Most expensive ever (~$535 million)
- Decades of abuse across churches, schools, state institutions
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Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability
- ~$300–350 million
- Widespread abuse and neglect across care, health, justice, NDIS
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Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety – ~$110–120 million – System found to be unsafe, neglectful, and failing nationally
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Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme – ~$60 million – An unlawful government scheme that harmed hundreds of thousands
The Bondi attack was a single act of violence by an individual.
It is already subject to:
- Police investigation
- Coroner’s inquest
- Independent reviews
Unless evidence shows repeated ignored warnings, systemic government failure, or nationwide negligence, a Royal Commission is not justified.
Calling one without proof of systemic failure is political theatre, wastes public money, and retraumatises families.
Facts first. Evidence first. Accountability where it belongs.
I really hope they at least are listening to some sane non-zionist voices and reject the bullshit IHRA definition of antisemitism
But considering our “special envoy against antisemitism” is an open zionist, I don’t have a lot of faith that that will be true
On the other hand, I’ve seen zionists already complaining that the Commissioner for being insufficiently pro-genocide. So maybe there is some cause for hope?
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- Comment on VILK [Vegemite + milk] shoey ✨ FOR DA KIDZ ✨ | Streamas [Starlight Children's Foundation charity stream] 4 days ago:
edit: hadn’t watched it yet and thought it was for kids to view.
Oh hahaha no, definitely not.
- VILK [Vegemite + milk] shoey ✨ FOR DA KIDZ ✨ | Streamas [Starlight Children's Foundation charity stream]www.youtube.com ↗Submitted 5 days ago to ausmemes@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Comment on In your heart of hearts, you know this wrong 1 week ago:
His incrementalist approach has been wrong from the start and was always going to fail. The only thing that has saved him thus far has been the collapse of the non-Labor side of politics, but instead of taking advantage of that and staking out a genuine progressive alternative, he has left himself—and the broader left—exposed.
That was the part that really stood out to me. Some really great writing there, thanks for sharing.
I do wish it wasn’t on the Nazi blogging platform, though.
- Comment on federation to feddit.nl issues? 1 week ago:
Check your language settings. Every post and comment on Lemmy has a language tag associated with it, and Lemmy will only show you posts and comments in languages that you have said you speak. (The Dutch language is called “Nederlands” in its own language, but I think the language settings sort order is based on languages’ two-letter code.)
- Comment on A majority of Australians support banning pro-Palestine marches 1 week ago:
I mean, it’s not complicated. People protest against Israel’s genocide in Gaza because our government is supportive of the genocide. There’s an enormous amount of trade, diplomatic support, etc.
Our government is pretty strongly against Russia in that conflict, so there’s not much to protest against.
- Comment on Israeli president invited to visit Australia after Bondi shooting 2 weeks ago:
No offence, but that screenshot is not particularly useful. Because it’s not as simple as “thing I disagree with, downvote”. There are serious reasons to believe the post itself is low quality, presenting biased, directed results as representative of the whole population.
- Comment on Israeli president invited to visit Australia after Bondi shooting 2 weeks ago:
Israel bad
Well, yes. That’s true.
And Israel’s president is, by all accounts, also a terrible person.
But he’s a terrible person with limited powers. Not like Israel’s Prime Minister, or America’s President.
- Comment on A majority of Australians support banning pro-Palestine marches 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Israeli president invited to visit Australia after Bondi shooting 2 weeks ago:
Sorry I don’t follow. Could you elaborate?
- Comment on Israeli president invited to visit Australia after Bondi shooting 2 weeks ago:
Hitler was actually the one ordering it. That’s Netanyahu’s role in Israel. The President is more like our Governor General, or the King. A largely ceremonial role.
- Comment on Israeli president invited to visit Australia after Bondi shooting 2 weeks ago:
That makes him a horrible person. It doesn’t make him a war criminal.
- Comment on Israeli president invited to visit Australia after Bondi shooting 2 weeks ago:
Because the UN has declared him a War Criminal.
Wrong Israeli. The President has been invited, not Netanyahu, who’s the Prime Minister.
I agree with Fleur’s and Gorgritch’s comments that we shouldn’t invite someone who represents a genocidal regime to the country, but he won’t be arrested because he isn’t himself a war criminal any more than Sam Mostyn could be considered a war criminal if Australia were committing an ongoing genocide.
- Comment on Israeli president invited to visit Australia after Bondi shooting 2 weeks ago:
Netanyahu is the Prime Minister, not President. The President is more of a ceremonial role, similar to our Governor General.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 2 weeks ago:
The service was shut down on June 26, 2024
- Comment on Coalition shamelessly uses tragedy for political gain 3 weeks ago:
Cannot believe that headline isn’t satire.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Comment on Greens Preferences Flow to Labor – 2010 and 2025 Compared | Antony Green 3 weeks ago:
whoops: typed this up immediately after submitting the post, but forgot to actually post the comment.
Greens voters giving preferences to the Coalition have fallen from 21.2% in 2010 to just 11.8% in 2025
Note that Antony Green ascribes this to voters who primarily identify as Coalition voters who previously might have decided to give the Greens their first vote, but who now, thanks to continuing demonisation of the Greens by the Coalition, are less willing to do that.
Green preference now flow to Labor at a rate that the Liberal and National parties struggle to achieve between each other in three-cornered contests. In reverse, Labor preferences to the Greens where counted are often about 10% weaker in flow.
This contrasts with previous wisdom that Labor and the Greens preference each other at roughly the same rate. Disappointing, but not exactly surprising, given how much Labor and Labor’s supporters tend to demonise the Greens…and given the natural votes for where the two parties sit in the political spectrum, with Labor in the middle of the Greens and LNP.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 13 comments
- Comment on Aussie travellers who criticise US most at risk as Trump administration proposes social media disclosures 4 weeks ago:
That’s cool. I already didn’t want to go.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, no carve out. The only way to be exempted is for them to specifically choose to exempt you. Or if you’re for one of the specific purposes listed as exempt, like education and work.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 4 weeks ago:
According to the AFR…almost literally any. Many platforms don’t even stop you if you tell them you’re under 16. And none seemed to stop you viewing content if you told them you’re an adult, without any further verification.
- Comment on Israel to compete at Eurovision Song Contest in 2026, prompting several nations to withdraw 5 weeks ago:
she was narcissist wing
lol what? That couldn’t be further from the truth. The biggest defining feature of her prime ministership was her she contrasted with the actual narcissist that was Kevin Rudd. Rudd initially got kicked out because his coworkers hated working with him. And his rather extreme failure to be open to negotiating (yunno, the *main part of politicians’ job!) and the subsequent failure to pass his lacklustre excuse for climate law ended up providing the requisite excuse to roll him. Then Gillard comes along, does an amazing job of negotiating with the crossbench, and passes world-leading legislation on climate, along with passing more legislation overall than any other PM had to that point in living memory.
Her ties to America and its interests are a legitimate angle of criticism of her. But her personality certainly is not.
- Comment on Israel to compete at Eurovision Song Contest in 2026, prompting several nations to withdraw 5 weeks ago:
Really disappointed with the SBS that Australia is not among those boycotting. We’re repeating the Australian Rugby Union team’s tours of South Africa in the '70s and '80s. Except worse, because Israel has been doing apartheid for decades…it’s just that now they’ve escalated to genocide, worse than South Africa ever did.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I haven’t been to Melbourne since like 2011, so I’m just taking AllNewTypeFace at their word that you’re mistaken about 2019.
Is it possible you’re conflating it with Sydney, which has allowed paying with credit cards since 2017? Or maybe with Melbourne’s free tram?
- Comment on Right faction stages walkout at Labor conference over CFMEU motion 5 weeks ago:
Labor Left members should just be part of the Greens. They reason they’re not is because they value the power associated with being part of a larger major party more than they value good policy. That’s the same reason Labor won’t split.
- Comment on Accidentally range testing an electric motorcycle, and unexpected kindness 5 weeks ago:
and I don’t think anyone actually looked at a map. They were just going from memory and heading in a general direction
Yeah honestly that’s fair. But I do think it’s on them to at least give you a heads-up ahead of time about their level of confidence that the distance will work out, if you’ve given them prior warning that it’s necessary.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 5 weeks ago:
Haha fair enough! I guess it’s not quite as widely spread as I thought.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 5 weeks ago:
Haha yeah I know! I was actually watching a streamer (who mostly streams completely unrelated stuff—Photoshopping thumbnails for others’ aoe2 YouTube channels) just a few weeks ago, and the topic of Zoombinis came up. She’s apparently the moderator of the Zoombinis speedrunning records. Which…is apparently a thing.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 5 weeks ago:
What do you mean Lodion and you. I thought Molly was doing the verification!