42°C
tram
no aircon
I guarantee not one Victorian state politician drove to work in a car without aircon, since 1980.
42°C
tram
no aircon
I guarantee not one Victorian state politician drove to work in a car without aircon, since 1980.
If you're interested, this is the live stream of the Victorian Parliament's official apology to the state's First Nations people (part of the historic Treaty process):
Legislative Assembly live stream https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/watch/?page=1&pageSize=9&pageSizeM=3&sorting=10
If you're interested, this is the live stream of the Victorian Parliament's official apology to the state's First Nations people (part of the historic Treaty process):
Legislative Assembly live stream https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/watch/?page=1&pageSize=9&pageSizeM=3&sorting=10
I don’t much like the state Labor government (too many careerist party hacks), but the people would need to be convinced the opposition LNP is a safe pair of hands before they vote for it; and let's face it, the LNP is a rabble. Vote Greens, IMO.
#VicPol #SpringSt https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-30/labor-liberal-victorian-state-election/106074182
I don’t much like the state Labor government (too many careerist party hacks), but the people would need to be convinced the opposition LNP is a safe pair of hands before they vote for it; and let's face it, the LNP is a rabble. Vote Greens, IMO.
#VicPol #SpringSt https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-30/labor-liberal-victorian-state-election/106074182
WTF? Victoria police has made the entire Melbourne CBD a 'designated area' until June 2026.
For the next 6 months anyone in the CBD can be randomly stopped and searched without cause on the pretense of a search for weapons.
This is quite an escalation in the abuse of this police power.
https://www.police.vic.gov.au/public-notice-melbourne-cbd-sunday-30-november-2025-friday-29-may-2026
WTF? Victoria police has made the entire Melbourne CBD a 'designated area' until June 2026.
For the next 6 months anyone in the CBD can be randomly stopped and searched without cause on the pretense of a search for weapons.
This is quite an escalation in the abuse of this police power.
https://www.police.vic.gov.au/public-notice-melbourne-cbd-sunday-30-november-2025-friday-29-may-2026
Melbourne Lord Mayor Nicholas Reece said the council supported the move. "This is very much welcomed by us. We have seen a 20 per cent increase in crime in the central city over the last 12 months. That is a fact,"
A 20% increase in crime sounds like a lot and seems like a wildly different world, but when you say it's just back to the same levels as 2018 it doesn't sounds like much at all.
We didn't need to level of police overreach to respond to crime in 2018, so why do we need it now?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-26/police-extend-search-powers-melbourne/106053990
WTF? Victoria police has made the entire Melbourne CBD a 'designated area' until June 2026.
For the next 6 months anyone in the CBD can be randomly stopped and searched without cause on the pretense of a search for weapons.
This is quite an escalation in the abuse of this police power.
https://www.police.vic.gov.au/public-notice-melbourne-cbd-sunday-30-november-2025-friday-29-may-2026
This is a sad story of a farmer who was subjected to… well, a lot of personal attacks and threats from other farmers and ‘powerful’ people including politicians when he decided to lease a parcel of his land to a Wind Farm. That was some time ago. The problem is, the same disinformation and misinformation is still bandied about by fossil fuel addled idiots and powerful interests for just about every new renewable project. Why aren’t we naming and shaming? Why are journalists silent, or worse still, part of the problems? Why have we not seen these ‘lobbyists’ in the Courts in class actions?
“My lived experience is the opposite to the majority of talk. And I find it unbelievable that after all this time with so many wind farms operating, there’s still the nastiness and the anti and the absolute nonsense said about wind farms.”
Read more
#ClimateAction #WindFarms #Renewables #FossilFuelLobby #AusPol #VIcPol #Ecology #Environment
This is a sad story of a farmer who was subjected to… well, a lot of personal attacks and threats from other farmers and ‘powerful’ people including politicians when he decided to lease a parcel of his land to a Wind Farm. That was some time ago. The problem is, the same disinformation and misinformation is still bandied about by fossil fuel addled idiots and powerful interests for just about every new renewable project. Why aren’t we naming and shaming? Why are journalists silent, or worse still, part of the problems? Why have we not seen these ‘lobbyists’ in the Courts in class actions?
“My lived experience is the opposite to the majority of talk. And I find it unbelievable that after all this time with so many wind farms operating, there’s still the nastiness and the anti and the absolute nonsense said about wind farms.”
Read more
#ClimateAction #WindFarms #Renewables #FossilFuelLobby #AusPol #VIcPol #Ecology #Environment
Every so often there's some good news in the media. This treaty between Victoria and its First Nations peoples is a welcome step forwards. #VicPol#SpringSt#FirstNationshttps://social.chinwag.org/@abc_bot/115171173588892770
Every so often there's some good news in the media. This treaty between Victoria and its First Nations peoples is a welcome step forwards. #VicPol#SpringSt#FirstNationshttps://social.chinwag.org/@abc_bot/115171173588892770
If VicPol are offering a $1m reward for the arrest of Dezi Freeman, isn't this just an admission they've no fucking idea where he is and they need to outsource their job?
Also, ACAB.
VicPol on ABC 774 this morning whining that people are "selfish" for going to protest in the city this weekend whilst their "resources are dedicated to Porepunkah".
I guess the takeaway here is not to have an kind of emergency or be victim of a crime because we don't want to inconvenience the police.
Fuck VicPol. ACAB.
VicPol on ABC 774 this morning whining that people are "selfish" for going to protest in the city this weekend whilst their "resources are dedicated to Porepunkah".
I guess the takeaway here is not to have an kind of emergency or be victim of a crime because we don't want to inconvenience the police.
Fuck VicPol. ACAB.
Police are conducting 'random' weapons searches across the entire Melbourne Hoodle grid.
I was searched, apparently this is legal.
Police are conducting 'random' weapons searches across the entire Melbourne Hoodle grid.
I was searched, apparently this is legal.
A great example of how people power can overturn bad political decisions.
The Melbourne City Council has abandoned proposed cuts to its cycling budget, following public outcry: https://bicyclenetwork.com.au/newsroom/2025/07/03/town-hall-abandons-bike-budget-cuts/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon
"In a dramatic change of tune, the City of Melbourne last week abandoned proposals in its draft 2025 budget to cut funding from its bike infrastructure program.
"The council restored much, but not all, of the funding that as recently as last year had been officially earmarked for expanding and upgrading the city's bike lanes over the next four years.
"The 2025 budget and council plan formally adopted by councillors this week folded $6 million back into the program, up to a total of $15 million over the next four years.
"The change of course followed a powerful community outcry over the breach of the council's former commitments on bike infrastructure delivery.
"Almost 1500 people made submissions to the council on the proposed bike underspend, an unprecedented number."
#auspol #vicpol #cycling #infrastructure #planning #Urbanism
