Australia’s most picturesque trucking wash bay! #kununurraquarantine

1860's: We physically raised central Chicago to improve the sewer system and stop cholera!

2024: We can't install portable air filtration and UV systems in hospitals to stop c.ovi.d and other airborne diseases. We'd have to change the filters and bulbs!

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No, Mr. Netanyahu. It is not antisemitic or pro-Hamas to point out that in a little over six months your extremist government has killed 34,000 Palestinians and wounded more than 77,000 – 70% of whom are women and children.

You will not distract us from this immoral war.

'The claim Australia is over-reliant on income tax is based on a semantic trick about what 'income tax' really is'

Matt Grudnoff, Senior Economist, debunks the commonly held assumption Australia relies too much on income tax.

Matt Grudnoff
#auspol

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Antisemitism is never acceptable. But protesting against the slaughter in Gaza is not inherently antisemitic.

It is doing what should be done on a college campus – taking a stand against a perceived wrong, thereby provoking discussion and debate. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The corruption in Trump world runs deep. Former Trump attorney Christina Bobb, indicted in Arizona for trying to overturn the 2020 election, is now running the RNC’s “election integrity” unit. Bobb is also the same Trump attorney who signed the certified letter claiming Trump had…

Day 563: Only 4 weeks to go today til the extradition hearing, and #FreeDanDuggan had another freezing night with COVID in solitary at Lithgow, no Panadol, no nothing. He can't possibly focus on the case, sick and with no laptop or computer.
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Police in riot gear moved in to clear anti-war protest camps set up by pro-Palestinian campaigners at US universities, leading to the arrests of dozens of students and their supporters who want the Gaza war to end.

The letter from the PNG Prime Minister & statement from the PNG Foreign Affairs Minister & subsequent news stories demonstrate they were more than ‘bemused’.

How much anxiety was felt by a person who was told they'd be found, made to pay a debt (they didn't owe) or go to prison whilst they were on that precipice just before they ended their life?

Go & ask Jen. We'll wait for your answer.

#Robodebt #GrifterMorrison #auspol

BREAKING: 46 PEOPLE ARRESTED AT UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PROTEST HAVE CASES DISMISSED

More evidence there was no basis for the arrest.

Totalitarian society.

Police state.

The security guard who survived the Bondi Junction massacre, Muhammad Taha, has left hospital to attend the funeral of colleague Faraz Tahir. “His last words to me were ‘let’s see what’s going on’ and we rushed towards that area.” ⁦10 News First⁩

It is worth watching this CNN video from the moment Emory Econ Professor Caroline Fohlin came across the violent arrest of a protester on campus and asked the police, with shock, 'What are you doing?' That's all that prompted an officer to hurl her to the ground and handcuff her.

tldr
welfare base rates: more money more gooder
rent assistance: more money more gooder
employment services: make them good not bad
child care: activity test bad
systems and culture: big stick approach bad, dole bludger ideology bad, everyone just chill a bit

Investing in social housing doesn’t just help people in need - it’s a smart financial decision and sound economic investment. We need the Commonwealth and NSW governments to each invest $1 billion per year over the next decade to build 50,000 new homes. bit.ly/4derdbZ

I've had the profound experience of interviewing June Oscar on Bunuba Country near Fitzroy Crossing

We talked abt connection to country, colonisation & matriarchy.

I'm changed by this yarn.

Also pictured - senior advisor, Jane Pederson 😍

#amwriting #nonfiction #Indigenous

'whatever their causes, wars are usually won by the side with the most economic resources': Ross Gittins's incisive SMH/Age review of 'The Shortest History of Economics' theage.com.au/business/the-e… #auspol Ross Gittins

Get your copy: blackincbooks.com.au/books/shortest… Black Inc. #ausecon

Emory's Caroline Fohlin is knocked down by the police while shouting: “I’m a professor!!” Hear the disbelief in her voice. She never expected to be treated like this by her own university for protesting Israel's slaughter.

But remember, democracy is on the ballot in Nov...

26 April 1938 | A Czech Jewish girl, Eva Weintraubová, was born.

In #Theresienstadt Ghetto from 20 November 1942.
On 15 December 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz with her elder brother Pavel. They both did not survive.

It's that time of the year when influenza begins to take hold. The flu isn't just a cold, it's an extremely serious virus, especially for elderly people and children. Protect yourself, and the ones you love, by booking a flu shot and Covid booster today. ama.com.au/media/protect-…