#auspol

A private equity firm fucked up running a 188-year-old department store chain, which had survived two world wars and the Great Depression. So now low-paid retail workers are being told that they'll lose their jobs just weeks before Christmas. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-11-11/david-jones-to-close-stores/107372854#auspol #capitalism @latestagecapitalism

#Aus Pol #AusPol. how fucking adsurdium - privatisation takes the egg out of life ...

BUPA's taking the fucking mickey calling it their '"Enhanced Dining Experience"

$42 a day EXTRA will get you exactly : *. two hot breakfasts a week

• a daily extra hot meal option at lunch
• a dessert at lunch and
• a beer, wine or soft drink with lunch and dinner

No thanks. I'll go with the Full Meal Plans from Lite n’ Easy costing less than $25 a day Full Meal Plans (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and Snacks) !! https://www.liteneasy.com.au/

or PLAN B for aged care? commit a crime and spend the rest of my life in prison ...

Feeding a prisoner in Australia typically costs between $7.50 and $10.00 AUD per day

I'm currently at an anti AI protest in central Launceston. Greens, socialists and many young people present. Really hopeful. #Tasmania #lutruwita #auspol #AI

Mascot residents organise against hyperscale AI data centre construction https://www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1466/news/mascot-residents-organise-against-hyperscale-ai-data-centre-construction #Auspol

Tax billionaires (& multi x multi millionaires) & large corporations effectively, so they can’t buy politicians. Legislate to remove big money from politics. #auspol #politics #democracy #corruption

I guess we'll have to build all those datacenters here now. We've never met a billionaire or vested interest we didnt immediately fall in love with. #USPol #AusPol

A flicker of light #USPolitics #Trump #Midterms #auspol

@Unixbigot@aus.social : Most importantly, the AEC has confirmed that your ballot is still valid with a dick-and-balls artwork, as long as the rest is filled in correctly. However everyone I've spoken to who actually looks at ballot papers say they see a *lot* of dick-and-balls, so I'd really encourage Australian voters to draw other artworks on their ballots. #auspol

#InterestRates now the highest they've been in 18 years. Interestingly, 18 is the percentage interest rates were at last time Labor allowed the Reserve Bank to deliver a recession. #AusPol

A house price poll Interested in what people think I only get 4 options in my polls so used "Other" to cover renters, etc Question based on the article below and predictions the falls have a bit further to go yet, potentially getting to 10.9% by the end of March #auspol #HousePrices

@kcarruthers@infosec.exchange “Australia [...] will not normalise Russia’s brutal and illegal invasion of Ukraine." Well, big ups to our Government for bravely boycotting a photo op. Pity they won't do anything about Israel's brutal and illegal invasion of Palestine. Not even kick out an ambassador. Not even curtail arms sales. Not even restrict Israeli tourism. Cunts. #AUSPol

The Citizens Dividend is a UBI with a simple idea: every Australian gets an unconditional income floor, replacing baseline welfare while keeping disability, housing and carer support on top. It starts at the Henderson Poverty Line, then indexes to a smoothed share of GDP per citizen, so the payment grows when the country actually grows. Because it's taxed like ordinary income, there are no withdrawal cliffs and no incentive to stay below a threshold. That means real freedom to take part-time work, retrain, care or start something, without losing basic security. Fusion is building this. Join us and put an income floor under everyone. #auspol #UBI

I remember at the time that I was puzzled with John Howard's high rotation deploymens of the SAS early on in Afghanistan. Is there a link between that, and the subsequent issues being uncovered? #SAS #auspol

Hoping the Australian Government might treat AI companies the same as regular citizens? Sign this petition, and please boost for reach 🙏 https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN10714 *Petition Reason* This petition of citizens and residents of Australia draws to the attention of the House that on 24 September 2026 the Prime Minister stated that an OpenAI AI agent gained unauthorised access to the a Medicare portal, administered by Services Australia, on 18 June 2026. While the Government has announced a taskforce and a forensic investigation, it has not announced a referral of the matter to Police. *Petition Request* We therefore ask the House to call on the Government to immediately refer the matter to the Australian Federal Police for investigation, with a view to criminal prosecution if the evidence supports it. #ai #auspol #australia #openai

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social we thought the PM in Australia had got this brief but he must have decided we didn’t mean it. #auspol

The Citizens Dividend is a Universal Basic Income for every Australian. Unconditional, automatic, and launched at the Henderson Poverty Line before being tied to a share of national productivity. It replaces the churn of targeted welfare with a stable income floor. No more choosing between a bad job and poverty. No more employers profiting from low wages while taxpayers pick up the tab. Paired with sector-level bargaining to coordinate fair pay and conditions, this is the structural fix to privatised-upside-socialised-cost. Workers gain bargaining power; corporations can't externalise poverty onto the public. This is what a fair economy looks like. Join Fusion to make it law. #auspol #UBI

And we are back with Howard’s “mutual obligations”. Which are obligations on the recipient but not the government. Back to punishing the unfortunate in today’s cost of living crisis. Time to get back to the CES and dump privatised JobSearch agents. #auspol

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"This is a new low in a pattern of threatening behaviour against politicians and it has been reported to Victoria Police,"

• Paul Edbrooke, after finding a bullet on his car

Bitch, Helen Haines has just had both her legs amputated because of a violent attack on her, and you think someone leaving something on your car is a "new low"?

Men will take the violent traumas other men inflict on women and use them as fodder for their own little faux hero-dramas.

#AusPol #Australia #HelenHaines #Men #Sexism #mansplaining #ToxicMasculinity #gaslighting #misogyny #patriarchy

A thought has occurred to me … It is possible to find out what is in one’s ASIO file from decades past via FOI. It is possible to get a copy of one’s past health records via FOI. I will never know what was in the Labor dirt file about me because j can’t FOI it. But if any journalist would like to fill me in, I’m very curious to know! (I know they had one, it once found that I had $67 invested in a company I wasn’t aware I’d invested in via a managed fund that I wasn’t paying attention to.) #Auspol

Fusion's Citizens Dividend replaces our broken welfare system with a universal income floor for every Australian. It starts at the Henderson Poverty Line and grows as the nation's productivity grows. No conditions, no means tests, no benefit withdrawal cliffs. Just a stable baseline that gives people real economic security and bargaining power. Imagine being able to leave a bad job without losing everything, or retrain without falling through the cracks. That's what a Universal Basic Income delivers. Australia can afford it – we've just chosen not to. Let's change that. Join Fusion and help make a Citizens Dividend a reality. #auspol #UBI