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Universal Basic Income: Its Time Has Come

21 May 2025 6 mths

Who is going to buy all the wonderful stuff if lots of folk can no longer afford to? Universal Basic Income: Its time has come.

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Trump’s BBC Billion Dollar Libel: Will The ABC Next?

by Clio

15 November 2025 2 dys

Trump’s BBC Billion Dollar Libel: Will The ABC Be Next?

I saw a headline from The Australian, a News Corp publication, which is an American multinational corporation, asking the question whether the ABC should be worried in light of Donald Trump’s threat to sue the BBC for a billion dollars. This is, of course, all about intimidation. Trump’s BBC billion dollar libel: Will the ABC be next? Trump sues people and organisations to shut them up, as do many powerful people. Intimidating the media is a favourite of the Trump regime, as it seeks to distort and divert attention away from factuality. The Murdoch family, the owners of News Corp, which operates Fox News and Sky News Australia have been a conduit for and supporter of Donald Trump. You could say that they plough the same right wing furrow.

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Aussie News Stuck In Adversarial 2 Party Politics Model

by Clio

12 November 2025 5 dys

Aussie News Stuck In Adversarial 2 Party Politics Model

The ABC and its legacy media pack leader, News Corp, are unable to adjust to the new political landscape downunder. The Liberal Party has become an irrelevance to modern metropolitan Australians. However, the mainstream media are stuck in a 2 party adversarial model in their coverage of federal politics nationally. Thus, we have disproportionate amounts of attention being paid to a political movement that the bulk of the population have moved past. Aussie news stuck in adversarial 2 party politics model. The LNP Coalition was trounced at the last federal election because Australians were sick of far right toxic masculinity masquerading as democratically elected representation. The Tony Abbott/Sky News Australia led hard Right faction of the Libs were completely out of step with a younger and more dynamic Australia.

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Neo-Nazis Demonstrating Outside The NSW Parliament

by Clio

10 November 2025 7 dys

Neo-Nazis Demonstrating Outside The NSW Parliament

If you wanted proof that the police services are more aligned with right wing white supremacist movements than other protest groups you only had to watch Neo-Nazis demonstrating outside the NSW Parliament. The NSW police service had no problem with this going ahead. You do not see many non-white faces among police anti-riot units when watching news coverage of protests around the genocide in Gaza. Bashing up brown skinned people and those passionate about defending the rights of innocent women and children in Gaza are, obviously, more in line with the priorities of Australian police. Masked men in black saluting in paramilitary fashion whilst protesting against Jews is more the cup of tea of the upper echelons of the NSW police, it seems.

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Midas Word @midasword ·

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Americans, and the rest of the world, have been assaulted by decades of super hero movies. This is a sign of the dumbing down of the intelligence of a generation, living in a fantasy world...

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Tony Shepherd @tonyshepherd4 ·

14 Nov

The LNP don't care what's best for the Nation, only care about the Billionaires who are paying them off behind closed doors!! The LNP do NOT represent Australian Working Families! This is why they opposed every single piece of Legislation Labor provided to help with Living COSTS

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Midas Word @midasword ·

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We live in a time of the ‘culture wars’, where folk get so caught up in identity politics that they lose the plot. Why voters vote against their own interests?

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Mike Carlton @mikecarlton01 ·

13 Nov

These idiots are not interested in the science of climate change. It’s beyond them. Their sole aim is political: to crush the moderates in their own disintegrating party and to fight the hated “Woke Left.”They’re heading for well-deserved oblivion, like Tony Abbott before them.