@glynmoody@russ What's tricky is when you don't know what the f*ck you are doing and don't give an arse about what your legal requirements are, and cut entire support departments, willy nilly.
That's very tricky indeed, and will generally lead to major problems down the road, legal expenses, etc.
The French parliament has passed legislation that will enable the Government to set a floor price for farmers products, which is reviewable every four months.
The change will guarantee a minimum rate of return for French farmers.
It seems to me that if we are ever going to break the monopoly power of #Woolworths and #Coles in #Australia, then this is the sort of forward thinking approach needed by the #Albanese Government.
They would, of course, just have to locate their collective back bone again (last seen when they changed the Stage 3 tax cuts, but misplaced soon afterwards) and stop being a largely pointless waste of space.
"...this can only be interpreted as constituting prima facie evidence of an intention to systematically destroy the #Palestinians as a group,' said [Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese] ... to the #UN#HumanRights Council today."
#Australia / PM referred to International Criminal Court accused of complicity in genocide
A team of Australian lawyers from #Birchgrove Legal has filed a 92-page document with the International Criminal Court (#ICC) accusing Australian Prime Minister Anthony #Albanese of being an accessory to genocide in #Gaza
The document, endorsed by over 100 Australian lawyers and barristers, outlines several actions by Albanese and other officials that allegedly constitute complicity, including:
Freezing aid funding to UNRWA in Gaza
Providing military aid and approving defense exports to Israel
Deploying Australian military to the region without disclosing details
Allowing Australians to join the Israeli military
Providing political support for Israel's actions in Gaza
Every single week for the last 21 weeks upon #Gadigal land, there have been thousands upon thousands (sometimes easily tens of thousands) of people gathering in support of a #ceasefire in #Gaza and calling upon the Australian #Albanese government to stop supporting #Israel in its #genocide.
Every Sunday in Hyde Park at 1.30pm,* we've listened to #Aboriginal speakers, #Palestinian speakers, #Jewish speakers, politicians of various stripes (though neither of the major parties, of course, as they both remain complicit in support of the government responsible for most of the slaughter), elders who lived through the #Naqba, teenagers organising #StudentStrike4Palestine, community leaders, poets, faith leaders and more, with perhaps 75% of the speakers being women, and almost all being people of colour (most of the exceptions being MPs).
*Except when #NSWpolice has dictated otherwise, giving priority to (much smaller and only) occasional pro-Israel rallies and forcing a shift to Saturday a couple of times, under threat of #PoliceViolence.
Then we've marched (or rolled) with flags, banners, signs, drums and (loud!) voices: Arab, Aboriginal, African, Anglo, Asian and more; from those too old to walk (in wheelchairs) to those too young to walk (in strollers).
Indeed, there is a clear pattern in nearly all Australian media reporting that has even mentioned the existence of this weekly act of bearing witness against the slaughter of children at a rate unprecedented this century: we are only ever mentioned if there is a pro-Israel event to contrast us with. Though there will of course be plenty of coverage of those occasional events that doesn't even mention the larger pro-Palestinian event, typically held nearby on the same weekend, and the previous one, and the previous one, and the previous one, etc.
Pointing out #MediaBias is hardly groundbreaking, I know, but sometimes the patterns are so blatant as to be worth a little repetition.
6/6
The best of a bad lot is probably this ABC piece from November, which at least notes (unlike most) that the pro-Palestine rallies are:
a. weekly,
b. happening in many locations around the country,
c. are significantly larger than the contrasting one-off pro-Israel events the media always feels they need to justify covering pro-Palestinian activism in the first place.
Very few Oz media pieces touching upon pro-Palestinian activism have mentioned even one of those three points.
There are still numerous criticisms to be made of this article, but it's better than any other article from the mainstream press I've seen.
@appassionato@palestine every nation should absolutely condemnation furthering of this mass bombing, starvation and murder campaign while also focusing on ‘political solutions.’ They are not Al all going to stop unless the world uses force to stop them. 👎
It’s worth remembering that the Liberal party, under Peter #Dutton, began running a soft NO campaign almost immediately after the federal election.
The Nationals announced their opposition to the voice before the question was even put forward.
The referendum was on what Indigenous leaders who co-signed the Uluru statement from the heart had asked for.
It was not Labor’s request nor was it a self-starter policy from Labor or Anthony #Albanese.
It was the request of the Indigenous leaders who had been asked by Tony #Abbott to form a consensus on what form of constitutional recognition they thought was best.
The answer was the #Uluru statement from the heart – #voice truth, treaty.
So this idea that the government didn’t work hard enough to get bipartisan support is #bullshit.
If they had given the #Coalition what it said it wanted (with no guarantees it still wouldn’t have tanked the referendum), then #Labor would have been compromising what Indigenous people had asked for – and it wasn’t Labor’s compromise to make.
This wasn’t just politics. It never is.
But for the opposition to now turn around and blame the government “for a missed opportunity” when it spent the last year doing what it could to destroy the voice proposal – which included asking misleading “questions” – is not only transparently predictable, it is another sad indictment of the state of political “debate” in this country. #auspol
The surprising thing about this #pezullo business is that he is still there.
Genuinely surprised he kept his position after May 22.
Not remotely surprised records exist describing his politically partisan behaviour.
Exactly the same as Ita. We should not have to wait until someone leaks records of conversation to know Morrison's #abcnews pick is an LNP stooge. Why so slow #Albanese ?
@luciedigitalni@MarkDeasy
I’m hoping for a positive reason that some of these matters of cleaning up after nine years is taking so long.
Automatically sacking and replacing sends a signal to the public that it is more of the same jobs for the boys.
Let them continue for a period of time and perhaps it just becomes obvious how bad things had been. Pezullo is a good example. Ita is/was Australia’s darling to the current generation of boomers thanks to Packer.
The same generation who were exploited successfully to discredit labor’s more equitable anti-franking and anti-negative gearing policies a few years back.
I say take the time to make things right without giving any fuel to the libs.
@MarkDeasy actually, it's even simpler than that - as a Departmental Secretary, he is appointed by the Governor-General and can't legally be sacked without a finding against him from the Public Service Commission. This is the same reason why Kathryn Campbell was given a nothing job dreaming about nuclear submarines that will never exist. He could of course just resign, as Campbell did, but I think The Pez is so delusional he won't be doing that