Zagorath
@Zagorath@aussie.zone
- Comment on Has AI gone too far? 1 day ago:
This just would have been 70% funnier if you had asked it to make that photo of Peter Dutton 30% sexier.
- Submitted 1 day ago to ausmemes@aussie.zone | 10 comments
- Comment on Unintended Consequences 1 day ago:
The Coalition was absolutely crying out for him to do something about the evils of antisemitism in the wake of Bondi. Absolutely hounding him to do a Royal Commission and to pass stronger laws.
Albo caved and did the Royal Commission, and they whinge about who the Commissioner is.
Albo brings forward the hate speech legislation, and they worry it might mean they can’t be as openly racist anymore, so reject it. The Greens also reject it because of concerns it might protect zionists from fair criticism, and because whatever actual hate content gets blocked by it should also apply on non-racial grounds, like protecting LGBT+ folks.
So Albo amends it. Removes the worst parts of the hate speech laws, but keeps some stuff in. Liberals agree to pass it. Nationals refuse. Many Nationals officially resign from the shadow cabinet over this, leading to a situation where it looks like the Coalition may again break apart.
Liberals are in-fighting because some of them blame Suss Ley for having caused the Coalition to break apart. There’s a strong faction in the Liberals who want to go down the strong culture war extreme-right route that worked for Trump in America, and the Nationals are more or less entirely made up of that same ideology. But even the majority of the Liberals’ hard-right faction are not necessarily on board with that. They like destructive right-wing policy, but they like a sense of decorum about it that the New Right does not. Think more like Howard, and less like Dutton. And that faction wants to oust Ley as soon as possible, while the Old Right wants a slower more considered approach, possibly involving ousting Ley a few months before the next election so the new leader has time to establish themselves as leader, but not enough time to lose their honeymoon period with the public. But it looks as though a compromise between those two factions has been reached, where the leader of the Old Right will challenge Ley (who is from the third, Moderate faction) next week (or certainly within the next month) in exchange for acting now to get rid of Ley, which is what the New Right want done most of all.
Really good summary of the Liberal factions, from 3 months ago.
- Comment on Peter Dutton alienated voters with ‘arrogant and aggressive’ approach, Labor election review finds 1 week ago:
Well, we might not be able to see what the Liberal election review said, since Dutton threatened to sue his own party over it. But at least we can get Labor dunking on them instead!
- Comment on Why are the Populist Right Surging in Australia? 1 week ago:
Yeah, maybe. But there are a few issues. One is that some regression to the mean is just expected. The last election was an exceedingly good result for Labor.
Another is that there are issues with the data because of the irrationality of One Nation voters. Rationally, we would expect nearly every One Nation vote to flow back to the LNP, but evidence suggests it is actually much more evenly mixed.
There’s also the fact that One Nation’s vote is not nearly as evenly spread as the Coalition and Labor’s votes are. Total percentage may be high, but it’s very unlikely to translate into an equivalent number of seats.
- Comment on Why are the Populist Right Surging in Australia? 1 week ago:
Who is “nebula.tv”?
Nebula is an independent creator-owned streaming service. Think of it like a cross between Patreon, YouTube, and Netflix.
Patreon, in that you get some exclusive or early-access content, but largely it’s about ad-free versions of what’s available on YouTube already.
YouTube in that it’s a large number of small-time creators, and the vast majority of the creators on Nebula got invited to the platform because of their success on YouTube.
And Netflix because unlike Patreon, it’s a single subscription to gain access to the whole library, not a per-creator fee. It’s also relatively exclusive and only available to creators who are selectively invited to join.
The full library can be browsed without an account, so you can use that to decide if you like what’s on offer. They’ve got news programmes, media reviews & criticism, urbanism, science and sport discussion, cultural commentary, and more. Oh, and game shows. But as a general rule, it’s all extremely high quality stuff, and most of it is either left leaning or attempts to present a neutral point of view (as TLDR does).
If you wanna know more, head over to !nebula@lemmy.world.
- Comment on Why are the Populist Right Surging in Australia? 1 week ago:
Haven’t had the chance to watch it yet, but from the title my answer would be…they aren’t. The Coalition is collapsing, and One Nation is benefitting from that. But the right/left vote is not shifting that much.
- Comment on Why are the Populist Right Surging in Australia? 1 week ago:
See also: aussie.zone/post/28842108
- Submitted 1 week ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 6 comments
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- Comment on Banning hate groups in Australia | Constitutional Clarion 1 week ago:
Some serious problems with this bill, even after scrapping the racial vilification section and splitting the gun laws into a separate bill.
- Submitted 1 week ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Comment on Liberal election autopsy delayed after Dutton suggests report defamatory 1 week ago:
I think he meant derogatory.
He definitely meant defamatory, since he apparently tacitly threatened suing the Liberal Party. But whether it’s true or essentially a SLAPP threat is unclear.
It’s certainly possible that he believes the report contained factually incorrect non-opinion claims about him. I can’t see that being likely though. I guess the fact that they didn’t give him the opportunity for a right-of-reply in the report can’t have helped. That would have given him an opportunity to address any potential issues before it got to this point. It really seems like a monumental fuck-up on their part not to have contacted him for right-of-reply.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 15 comments
- Comment on Promoting and inciting racial hatred - the proposed new Australian offence | Constitutional Clarion 2 weeks ago:
Well, politicians get an automatic exemption for things they say in Parliament.
- Comment on Promoting and inciting racial hatred - the proposed new Australian offence | Constitutional Clarion 2 weeks ago:
I’m like 90% sure that the recent announcement by the government is that the specific part of the law Professor Twomey covers in this video is no longer proceeding.
Which, if its current form were all that mattered, would be undoubtedly a good thing.
But I’d have liked to see an attempt at making the spirit of this law work, without the risk of criticising genocidal regimes being caught up in it.
- Comment on Promoting and inciting racial hatred - the proposed new Australian offence | Constitutional Clarion 2 weeks ago:
The most salient point might be that the way it’s currently worded, pointing out that Israel is committing genocide could get you in trouble with this new law (and truth is not a defence) because your statements could reasonably cause hatred towards Israelis.
- Promoting and inciting racial hatred - the proposed new Australian offence | Constitutional Clarionwww.youtube.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 12 comments
- Adelaide Festival board members, chair quit after author's cancellation from Writers' Weekwww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Australia to form royal commission into antisemitism after Bondi mass shooting 3 weeks 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] 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago to ausmemes@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Comment on In your heart of hearts, you know this wrong 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 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 5 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 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Israeli president invited to visit Australia after Bondi shooting 5 weeks ago:
Sorry I don’t follow. Could you elaborate?
- Comment on Israeli president invited to visit Australia after Bondi shooting 5 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.
