Some recent pro-Palestinian tweets went viral, so I got to be exposed to pro-Israeli accounts, some real people, some trolls. And they exhibit behaviour I remember from the good (not good) days of Holocaust denial in Europe in the 1980s. A short 🧵 which will please no one.
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Under new legislation,the govt is proposing a 3 year moratorium on civil greenwashing litigation against Australia's biggest companies. So big business will be protected from consumers, but consumers have no protection against misleading claims by big business. 😑 #auspol #climate

'Put your $ where your mouth is'.
Defence budget 23-24 = $52.588 billion
DFV budget (21-22) = $1 billion
Actions ALWAYS speak louder than words.

@janecaro Lynie 🐦 ☮️💧 Sleeping Giants Oz 📣

Last week Tanya Plibersek referred to an internal audit of environmental offset compliance when announcing the establishment of a national EPA minister.dcceew.gov.au/plibersek/tran…
The audit apparently found that 1 in 7 developments could be in breach of their #offset conditions 🧵

Give us a break…

Happening right now - Students for Palestine are starting an occupation of Sydney University. Acting as they can to try and stop a genocide, and acting at an institution that shamelessly benefits from weapons $$$

I wish someone would at the National Press Club would ask the AFP Commissioner about the chilling effect of the pseudonymous 'Thomas Carrick' case, where a 13-year-old child with autism was targeted and further radicalised in an AFP operation. theguardian.com/australia-news…

Final post in my series on the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
paintingfakes.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-wa…

A few thoughts about electric bikes (spoiler, I’m a big fan.) Firstly, bike enthusiasts, stop being such massive snobs about e-bikes. They’re not an alternative to your fancy racer, they’re an alternative to getting in the car. (1/4)

Amanda Rishworth MP The Australian Australian Banking Financial Counselling Australia Optus Jim Chalmers MP Anthony Albanese ASIC Media CHOICE There's no social problem caused by neoliberalism that neoliberalism can't also be offered as the solution to, (sometimes by the very same corporate perpetrators).
#RaiseTheRate

Here's the fourth installment of my series on the Palestinian war - four down, one to go!
paintingfakes.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-wa…

Yep. Next election, vote for a party/representative that’s not utterly compromised and captured.

'Every single resources minister in Coalition and Labor governments since 2001 has gone to work in the fossil fuel sector' - australiainstitute.org.au/post/removing-…

My (hopefully) final piece for The Shot on the disastrous #Lehrmann affair.

theshot.net.au/news/general-n…