Foreign Minister Penny Wong says Israel has a right to defend itself, and judging its security decisions from a distance is "very difficult", as Israel's government vows to cut off food and water to the blockaded Gaza Strip.
In practical terms you avoid the situation entirely by not operating an open air prison for decades and indiscriminately bombing civilians, thereby breeding terrorists with nothing to loose, and then cutting off the food, water and electricity to civilians as a collective punishment.
You guarantee Israel wouldn’t do this if they had a better option? I think it’s far more likely that the far right in Israel have just been waiting for an excuse to do this.
The Andrews government dumped an ambitious cabinet-approved plan to lift the proportion of social housing in Victoria by almost two-thirds, opting instead to respond to the housing crisis with a voluntary, developer-led delivery of so-called affordable housing.
Isn’t brave enough to stand up to developers? He acts like he’s on their payroll. He’s effectively privatised public housing in Victoria:
First they spun off Homes Victoria from the Department of Families, Fairness and Housing to manage public housing.
Then they creates a not-for-profit company called Building Communities and contracted out managing new “social and affordable housing” to them for the next forty years.
They are now demolishing public housing and replacing it with this “social and affordable housing”.
In some cases, only one third of the new residences will be “social housing” (supposedly similar terms to public housing but not managed directly by a government department), while the rest will be “affordable housing” which in practice is meaningless.
Thousands of people are being displaced from their homes, communities, and support networks.
Calling it “Building Communities” is a bad joke when they’re in the process of destroying communities. It’s sickening. In privatising public housing, Andrews has done what even Kennett wouldn’t dare to do.
Dan’s been far too eager to help out the property developers and construction companies. The extension on CityLink tolls that Transurban got as part of the West Gate Tunnel project was just too good to be true. Meanwhile, Vic Labor is running up more debt, which will inevitably lead to another Kennett being elected when servicing the debt becomes crippling. But this time, there won’t be anything left to sell off to pay down the debt.
This happens quite often - pointing out someone may have inadvertently spoken from a position of blindness gets you more outrage from the ego blow than the actual offense itself. You can pretty much triple that shit for anyone right leaning.
The good news is that society has accepted that racism is a bad thing.
The bad news is that the main consequence of this is that it’s unacceptable to accuse anyone of racism if they have any social capital. It’s also unacceptable to shout racial slurs and such, but if someone is sufficiently rich, talented or well-connected, even that can be explained away as consistent with them not being racist.
Straight out of the US conservative playbook. An embarrassing look in Australia, and shows in the most obvious way that they are not acting in good faith.
It’s pretty gross. Made even grosser in the context of the Voice, where one of the things the No campaign has been doing is attempting to label the Yes campaign as the real racists. What utter bollocks.
I don’t think anyone is surprised at the fake outrage. It’s textbook right wing politics to claim the moral high ground after rightfully being called out. If you think this is just some lazy dismissal on the part of Langton though, you are clearly very uninformed about who she is and her life’s work.
We need some massive police overhaul in this country. Couldn’t hurt to take some of their budgets and spread it out to social services that actually make us safer.
We wouldn’t need as many police if we had more social services. We wouldn’t need as many prisons either, and therein lies the reason why it won’t happen. Prison is a profitable business and intertwined with governments and campaign funds.
Senator Elizabeth Warren is demanding an investigation into SpaceX after Elon Musk acknowledged he had blocked Ukraine from extending the private Starlink satellite network for an attack on Russian warships near the Crimean coast.
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A group of Google engineers has proposed a new Web API that threatens to uproot the work of apps and browsers if they interfere with its ad business. Will the open Web survive?
Ukraine has recaptured some villages in the south and territory around the ruined city of Bakhmut in the east, but has not had a major breakthrough against heavily defended Russian lines.
Israel's order to cut food and water from Gaza difficult to judge from afar, says Foreign Minister Penny Wong (www.abc.net.au)
Foreign Minister Penny Wong says Israel has a right to defend itself, and judging its security decisions from a distance is "very difficult", as Israel's government vows to cut off food and water to the blockaded Gaza Strip.
Hamas has launched an unprecedented strike on Israel. Here’s what you need to know. (www.vox.com)
The IDF has launched retaliatory strikes after scores of Israeli citizens are dead and hundreds wounded.
Cabinet plan to boost social housing dumped in favour of developers (www.theage.com.au)
The Andrews government dumped an ambitious cabinet-approved plan to lift the proportion of social housing in Victoria by almost two-thirds, opting instead to respond to the housing crisis with a voluntary, developer-led delivery of so-called affordable housing.
Some Australians seem more outraged by accusations of racism than by racism itself (www.theguardian.com)
Second academic quits Queensland police First Nations advisory panel, saying force doesn’t want to change (www.theguardian.com)
Exclusive: Marlene Longbottom says police are ‘comfortable with the status quo’ and unwilling to confront real problems in the ranks
Elizabeth Warren Demands Probes of Elon Musk, SpaceX After Ukraine Revelations (www.bloomberg.com)
Senator Elizabeth Warren is demanding an investigation into SpaceX after Elon Musk acknowledged he had blocked Ukraine from extending the private Starlink satellite network for an attack on Russian warships near the Crimean coast.
Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads. Here's what you need to know (theconversation.com)
Google is paving the way to serve you ads based directly on your browsing history, instead of cookies.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament referendum set for October 14 (www.abc.net.au)
Too hot to handle: climate crisis report so secret Albanese government won’t even reveal date it was completed (www.theguardian.com)
Anthony Albanese continues to reject calls to make even a sanitised version of the assessment public
Climate change complacency is biggest risk to our economy and security - report (inqld.com.au)
Met only authorised baton rounds for black-led events, FOI reveals (www.theguardian.com)
Metropolitan police approved their use at Notting Hill carnival and Black Lives Matter protests in 2020
Are TERF-centric magazines allowed on this insurance?
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WikiLeaks publishes "The Intolerance Network", over 17,000 documents from right-wing campaigning organisations globally (wikileaks.org)
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Greens decry property tax breaks costing 78 times what Labor proposes to spend on social housing (www.theguardian.com)
NSW police use force against Indigenous Australians at drastically disproportionate levels, data shows (www.theguardian.com)
Exclusive: Redfern Legal Centre obtained records which show First Nations people were involved in about 45% of the incidents
Two teachers called out far-right activities at their German school. Then they had to leave town. (apnews.com)
Two teachers in eastern Germany say they spent months unsuccessfully trying to counter the far-right atmosphere at their small town high school.
Google wants to kill open Web under the guise of making it safer (adguard.com)
A group of Google engineers has proposed a new Web API that threatens to uproot the work of apps and browsers if they interfere with its ad business. Will the open Web survive?
Ukraine has recaptured 50% of the territory that Russia seized, Blinken says (www.reuters.com)
Ukraine has recaptured some villages in the south and territory around the ruined city of Bakhmut in the east, but has not had a major breakthrough against heavily defended Russian lines.