Our supermarkets have been caught price gouging again. It's impossible to export top-grade locally-produced food all the way to Japan and for it to end-up far cheaper. The government needs to step-in to stop this price gouging.
The government also needs to give back power to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. After years of undermining and by the successive RWNJ governments and nepotistic placements of their own pro-big-business colleagues high-up in the ACCC, the ACCC has been rendered toothless. We need the ACCC to be an independent umpire again.
Someone just asked me the technical difference between a Bureau and an Agency in Australia and, help, I've been a public servant for 20 years and I do not know. #auspol
@feather1952 I agree with her, after my many years of experience in so many different roles in communities across the country, white and black, teaching students from all over the planet.
And often, when working in Alice Springs, and getting take away after late classes often called a white racist c**t by indigenous people.
Yes, it'd be much clearer to expand the question to a simple “Does the person have a religion?” before asking which one.
“[Michael Dove, chair of the Census21 Group, told Crikey that] the current question on the [#AustralianCensus, “What is the person's religion?”] leads many people to talk about their cultural background rather than what religion they align with.
“It was in the interests of bishops and the church that the “cultural Catholics get counted so the Catholic Church can overstate its relevance, and continue to enjoy the privileged funding, policy, and media access benefits”, he said.
““There’s an awful lot of religious privilege that flows from the census stage and that needs to be changed.””
"There’s an awful lot of religious privilege that flows from the census stage and that needs to be changed." -- Mike Dove, chair of the Census21 group.
The Census21 group, of which the NSL is a part, is responding to a new pushback from religious leaders on the census question change.
Read the latest coverage in Crikey today on the debate around the #census question on religion.
David Littleproud wants city people to understand the burden on regional people by following the current renewables policy. The livelihoods ripped up as their land is taken away. Families & communities torn apart. The Qld LNP nuclear energy plan will take away the pain. #auspol
@feather1952 I mean, other than the article is generally stating the "obvious", I am glad that people who are able to articulate it / propagate this message more widely than I, write about these things.
Another suggestion for "how to fix it" is to "ban" writing about GDP in talking about whether things are going well (obviously we can't ban it, but hopefully it's understood I mean it'd help to shift the "economic" conversation to talking about things that "matter" to people in general/society).
@IndyMediaAus the policy to spread public housing through the suburbs might look good on paper but it has been disastrously implemented in the ACT with sociopathic disregard for the humanity of existing tenants, combined with massive cost blowouts that have contributed to a significant reduction in the total number of social houses
If you wanted to write today about vested interests, about the groups (and their networks) that are preventing governments from pursuing the reforms needed for Australia's economy to flourish, you'd have different targets.
Why are we still even having this conversation? When did the Liberal Party turn into an organisation of "alternative facts"?
And before I get a pile on from everyone, that's really not what the Liberal Party used to be. We may have disagreed with their position, but they were never like the Republicans or even One Nation or Clive Palmer who actually have sought out fringe views as "facts". #insiders#auspol
@joannejacobs Feels like it first got started with the group in the party opposed to action on climate change, then really got running as the opposition within the party to Turnbull coalesced around Morrison. #auspol
Senator Hollie Hughes earned her status as Peter Dutton's preferred pick through years of dutiful performance as a crumb maiden of the patriarchy. An outspoken transphobe, she was also a frequent fearmonger on Sky News "After Dark", and recently sought public attention by voicing support for Israel's genocide in Palestine and criticising the ICC.
To put it another way, Australia will be better-off for Hollie Hughes' absence from our Parliamentary system after the next election.
I'm feeling mildly confident of the Greens winning a bunch more inner-city and inner-west seats in the next Victorian election. The Greens always do well when Labor starts disappointing while in office - and that applies to the federal election next year too.
Jacinta Allan’s Labor faces trouble as the west gets wild
