Your reminder that the purpose of the under-16s social media ban is to prevent organisation of a(nother) school strike against #ALP / #LNP policy, because Australian children overwhelmingly skew towards #TheGreens, and will continue to do so when they start voting. #AusPol
Your reminder that the purpose of the under-16s social media ban is to prevent organisation of a(nother) school strike against #ALP / #LNP policy, because Australian children overwhelmingly skew towards #TheGreens, and will continue to do so when they start voting. #AusPol
𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘
✧ 1975 Australian constitutional crisis ✧
The 1975 Australian constitutional crisis culminated on 11 November when Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismissed Gough Whitlam of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) as prime minister and appointed Malcolm Fraser, the opposition leader, as caretaker. The Whitlam government had been rocked by scandal...
#AustralianLaborParty #Kerr #Whitlam #ALP #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis
𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘
✧ 1975 Australian constitutional crisis ✧
The 1975 Australian constitutional crisis culminated on 11 November when Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismissed Gough Whitlam of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) as prime minister and appointed Malcolm Fraser, the opposition leader, as caretaker. The Whitlam government had been rocked by scandal...
#AustralianLaborParty #Kerr #Whitlam #ALP #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis
The #MarchForHumanity in early August saw ~300k people peacefully gather to march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge, a powerful statement of opposition to the #GazaGenocide (and of protest against the #ALP government's failure to #SanctionIsrael or even cease arms trade).
Imagine if, just hours after that march ended, one of the speakers who had helped lead the march then turned up with 50+ men of Middle Eastern heritage (faces masked in kufiyas) at a synagogue and assaulted a group of women, putting a couple in hospital.
It would be front page news for weeks. The government would probably proscribe the rally organisers as a designated terrorist organisation. More laws would be passed. There would be a (further) massive spike in #Islamophobic 'vigilante' violence.
Now stop imagining and compare with what actually happened on the weekend in Naarm/Melbourne.
Infamous neo-nazi Thomas Sewell, one of the speakers at the 'March for (White) Australia' marched with his henchmen at the head of the xenophobic gathering. Hours later, Sewell turned up at an Indigenous solidarity camp with 50+ intern goons and assaulted a group of mainly women, hospitalising two and wounding more.
Yet did a single mainstream media org put that story on their front page?
https://web.archive.org/web/20250901230856/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/01/neo-nazis-attack-camp-sovereignty-indigenous-site-melbourne-anti-immigration-protest-police-injured-sydney-ntwnfb
#Auspol#HateCrime
The #MarchForHumanity in early August saw ~300k people peacefully gather to march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge, a powerful statement of opposition to the #GazaGenocide (and of protest against the #ALP government's failure to #SanctionIsrael or even cease arms trade).
Imagine if, just hours after that march ended, one of the speakers who had helped lead the march then turned up with 50+ men of Middle Eastern heritage (faces masked in kufiyas) at a synagogue and assaulted a group of women, putting a couple in hospital.
It would be front page news for weeks. The government would probably proscribe the rally organisers as a designated terrorist organisation. More laws would be passed. There would be a (further) massive spike in #Islamophobic 'vigilante' violence.
Now stop imagining and compare with what actually happened on the weekend in Naarm/Melbourne.
Infamous neo-nazi Thomas Sewell, one of the speakers at the 'March for (White) Australia' marched with his henchmen at the head of the xenophobic gathering. Hours later, Sewell turned up at an Indigenous solidarity camp with 50+ intern goons and assaulted a group of mainly women, hospitalising two and wounding more.
Yet did a single mainstream media org put that story on their front page?
https://web.archive.org/web/20250901230856/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/01/neo-nazis-attack-camp-sovereignty-indigenous-site-melbourne-anti-immigration-protest-police-injured-sydney-ntwnfb
#Auspol#HateCrime
Murujuga (Burrup Peninsula) on the western coast of the Australian continent is home to the world's largest collection of paleolithic petroglyphs (rock carvings), an ancient art gallery containing around one million images carved into the rocks, some dated to at least 45,000 years old. Many of the images depict Australia's distinctive fauna, including extinct creatures like the thylacine, as well as the oldest known representation of a human face. The rocks are themselves noteworthy as coming from some of the oldest igneous bedrock in the world (around 2.7 billion years old). And the region is home to five #Aboriginal nations who are the inheritors of fifty thousand years of continuous human occupation and culture.
The place is an obvious candidate for #UNESCO World Heritage protection.
However...
The Burrup peninsula is also the location of the #NorthWestShelf gas hub, a massive piece of #DirtyEnergy infrastructure that has played a significant role in placing Australia at or near the top globally of liquefied natural gas exporters. #LNG
Over the last forty or fifty years gas industry activity on the peninsula has measurably degraded the artworks, which have survived intact for forty or fifty thousand years.
#Auspol #FossilfFuelIndusrty #CulturalHeritage #Aboriginal
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This week, the freshly re-elected #Albanese Labor government scandalously approved a forty-year extension on the operational life of the gas hub, a move that not only threatens the priceless petroglyphs, but represents permission for #Woodside (the massive gas company that basically runs the state of Western Australia) to profit off a #CarbonBomb that will, once extracted and burned, add somewhere between four and six billion tonnes of climate-wrecking ocean-acidifying carbon dioxide to the active carbon cycle. The cumulative climate pollution from the life of this one project will thus considerably exceed the sum of Australia's projected national domestic emissions for the next decade or more.
Of all the legacies of this Labor government, this decision (alongside giving the green light to dozens more coal and gas projects) will ultimately be the most impactful. The carbon released for the short-term profits of a wealthy few will contribute to massively disrupting and degrading the habitability of the planet for everyone, continuing to shape life on Earth for at least the next forty thousand years.
/web/20250529055300/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/28/approval-of-woodside-lng-project-gambles-with-ancient-heritage-for-short-term-gain
#Auspol #FossilFuelIndustry #DirtyEnergy #DirtyEnergyDirtyPolitics #FossilGas #Murujuga #BurrupHub #NorthWestShelf #Woodside #ALP 2/2
