If I wanted to avoid escalation by militant Islam in the #middleeast, I wouldn’t start by making a quarter million able-bodied men homeless & motherless with nothing to lose.
@gimulnautti surely they will get gainful employment building the soon to be Israeli occupied Gaza apartment blocks with sea views. You know, the ones that Palestinians will never be allowed to visit once built.
The eSafety commissioner has gone completely mad! The porn passport has now been extended to Social media and video games. Requiring a grandmother to register for a “porn passport” so she can see her grandkids on Facebook. Either that or set up a VPN. #auspol The porn passport will be hacked, and the number of places needing a porn passport will grow! Books, music, political commentary, medical site and sites discussing sexuality are next. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-19/age-verification-internet-use-children-online-pornography/103843886
@luciedigitalni That reminds me I need to get on the roof and remove the defunct Foxtel dish. The receiver was returned 4 years ago, but they didn’t want the dish.
Australia has long bought into the “dole bludger” mythology first raised in the 1970’s by Malcolm Fraser and perpetuated by Labor and Liberal governments ever since. Howard’s insistence on the “best form of welfare is to get a job” ignores all the challenges unemployment causes for people. Outsourcing the CES has been a disaster so the unemployed are hit from both the left and the right. #auspolhttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-05/why-are-australias-unemployment-payments-so-inadequate/103804884
"It is clear that the predominant reason for low charge rates in the ACT is a failure to properly and appropriately investigate sexual offences," the report said.
The ACT needs to finally ditch the systemically incompetent AFP and create its own fit-for-purpose police service.
I’ve just been to the Australian National Gallery. The front of the building is very nice with spectacular art work. But the back where there used to be a cafeteria, restaurants and members lounge looks like a deserted Doctor Who set. The escalators down to the sculpture garden are blocked off and the rotating doors are closed.
I suppose this is the result of 10 years of Liberal “better economic management” , it will be worse if Dutton becomes Prime Minister ! #auspol#canberra
@luciedigitalni that just confirms my opinion that the NGA has been left to rot. It’s a race to see if the current government can fix things before the next wave of better economic managers gets their hand on it.
I predict not a single nuclear power plant will be built. But if Peter Dutton gets in all support for renewables will cease, massive government funding will be injected into the coal industry and we will become the world’s nuclear waste dump. #auspol#abc730
Hydroelectric dams, for example, emit a billion tons of greenhouse gases a year. This does not account for the pollution costs of the concrete and electrical equipment.
More energy production equals more pollution.
We don't have an energy production problem.
We have an energy consumption problem.
Our environment cannot sustain the amount of energy we consume. Every year, we consume more. We must consume less.
@gerrymcgovern from the Opennem web site. Last year we only just consumed more electricity than 2007. 207,691 Gw in 2023 as opposed to 207,564 Gw in 2023.
Electricity demand flat lined for 16 years with the loss of manufacturing, aluminium, steel and car industries.
I suspect a great amount of electricity is now consumed behind the meter by households with roof top solar.
The attacks on aid workers in Gaza should not surprise us. And I wonder why some people are more outraged by the deaths of these workers than the deaths of innocent civilians including babies. Am I being particularly autistic here? @actuallyautistic#ActuallyAutistic
@Susan60@actuallyautistic nobody condones Israeli murder of 30,000 Palestinian children. This atrocity is on top of a growing anger at Israel and will lead to mass starvation of millions in Gaza as a deliberate Israeli policy. Aid groups are already pulling out after being targeted by the IDF.
The AFP training unit (ACT policing) will continue using a web form for people to report burglary without a guarantee of a police attendance. Can we now have a real ACT police force separate from the AFP?? #canberra#auspol Like we had until 1979.
PM says he's calling in the Israeli Ambassador to demand a full explanation. Don't call them in Albo, kick them out. There's no way Australia should continue as a friend and ally of Israel. They are a rogue state that has a long history of disdain for the rule of law and human rights. #auspol
@DropBear@smitjo@palestine First we will need to find a spine. So far we have failed to boot out the Russian ambassador so I have only faint hope regarding the USA’s best boy Israel.
@DropBear@mativity@smitjo@palestine or we could just cancel all Russian and Israeli visas then send them home. Why should they have a safe place to live.
@DropBear@mativity@smitjo@palestine let the Israeli’s whine, I’m all for allowing the Palestinian’s stay here in safety along with the Ukrainian’s. It’s the Russians and Israelis I want sent home.
Zomi Frankcom, an Australian aid worker who was killed in an IDF attack in Gaza.
Australian PM Anthony Albanese says the death of an Australian aid worker in Gaza is “completely unacceptable” and “beyond any reasonable circumstances”, saying the government will call in the Israeli ambassador and contact Israel’s government.
Albanese says the government is demanding “full accountability” over the death.