fwiw, personal privacy isn’t the reason I close the door, it’s consideration of others.

This reply doesn’t explain how “she’s being dishonest”. That’s a strong claim. In fact, you’re repeating some of the points made in the video.

A bill can have benefits but fail to achieve its stated goals. The fact that this bill could frustrate the influence of rich like Palmer is progress, as mentioned in the video, but the video also interprets apparent issues with those annual limits (individual donations to multiple branches of the same party, caps are annual and reset after elections) raise those limits in practice above those stated - an individual can donate $20,000 a year to branches in each state for each year, effectively raising it to $540,000 per typical election cycle to parties with a nation-wide party structure (e.g. Liberal Party, Labor Party). A cap is good in theory, but that cap is excessively high for large parties, does not adequately address the issues of big money in politics, has a clear bias against small parties (both in the aforementioned points and also in other aspects of the bill), and therefore should not be accepted if this interpretation is correct. (As stated in the video, it’s hard to be confident in interpretations since the bill is complex and being rushed through after closed-door discussions.)

For what it’s worth, I don’t think Palmer themself is really a threat in the grand scheme of things. They’re a pathetic waste. I’m far more concerned about the owning class propping up the Liberal Party, who will collectively benefit from this legislation, in fact I’m more concerned about the Labor Party than the UAP.

Yeah, right. Regular Australians harmed by an $800k [per seat] spending limit. Ridiculous.

Many of the parties I voted for are harmed by letting that limit be so high. Most parties are harmed by that limit being so high. And Regular Australians are harmed by the two dominant parties sharing power.

Independents are especially harmed, as they are limited to $800k in total while parties can go to 90 million, according to what you wrote.

The National Anti-Anti-Corruption Commission

He was also gay and didn’t like being informed he would be first into the ovens if he ever got his wishes.

Neo-Nazism, while dangerous, is a farce. We don’t have a Great War full of bitter returned soldiers like the original wave of fascists did. They’ve generally doubled down on recruiting alienated teens (now more than ever doing this through video games and edgy forums), so most of their recruits would be sent to the camps if their idol were in charge, discarded quicker than Röhm. And the few they get who aren’t alienated teens are tattood-up prisoners in race gangs. Not exactly their ideal man.

Ah, making a clickbait article about a ranking and quoting the experts telling people not to just look at the ranking! Great journing, SBS.

Thanks, Antibait Aktion!

A few further key notes in the article: [some may have been updates added after this post was made]

NSW Police said Mr Jones was charged with a total of 24 offences involving eight alleged victims.

Assistant Commissioner Michael Fitzgerald said:

• Police will allege the youngest victim was 17 years old at the time of the offending.
• Some of the alleged victims were known to Mr Jones personally, but others knew him in a work capacity and were employed by him.
• Other alleged victims did not know Mr Jones at all before the alleged incidents took place.

[NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb:] “I can’t speculate in this particular case, but what is often the case is when it is known – the full circumstances and those parties involved – other people may come forward, and we are anticipating that other people may come forward,”

Sickening, although not shocking to learn. It’s unfortunate this wasn’t brought to light sooner.

Can’t let this post go without posting the Pig-Iron Song (1964):

https://unionsong.com/u150.html

Thanks, I rushed and used the wrong link. I’ve updated the post link now.

Unfortunately had an injury and couldn’t walk along with them. Good on them for having the guts and solidarity to walk out together.

Someone in /r/australia noticed that contradiction too:

Mr Park said it would be impossible to “essentially erode the gap in wages in a single year” because it would cost the state several hundred million dollars.

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Their frustrations were heightened when on Monday NSW Police officers were offered an historic pay increase of up to 39 per cent over the next four years, at a cost of almost $700 million.

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Sewell was in contact with the Christchurch mosque shooter too.

More specifically, trying to recruit Tarrant to their organisation.

He is a cunning little thing, very good at walking the line without ever crossing it.

You’re giving them too much credit. They’ve been found guilty (community service only) for attacking a security guard outside Channel 9 in 2021, was jailed for a month for the hiker incident and subsequently their org was raided, they’ve been beaten down by police in public on parliament steps (only after antifascists intentionally gave the police a premise to intervene) and if you want to count it, their lackeys attempted to attack a fundraiser armed with knives which would have certainly crossed lines if they weren’t chased back up the street like the children they are.

What they’re very good at is not being punished by the law or the cops. Sewer doesn’t deserve credit for that.

Tom Sewer is a terrorist, they just kinda suck at it.

That said, their shift in public rhetoric is noteworthy. They’ve always been this kind of mask-off behind closed doors (see antifascist leaks and the joint media investigation where someone infiltrated their group with cameras on) but IIRC they tactically saught to play the ‘they started it’ card, avoiding explicit violence unless hit first. “Optics”, you know.

edit: Ah, that lovely loaded quote about protecting the children. It would be easier to take it seriously if there weren’t at least two known loud-and-proud child marriage advocates in their ranks, and a member lurking playgrounds to put propaganda stickers in them (10:45). The NSN didn’t earn the nickname “Groomerwaffen SS” for nothing.

No no no, you see, they can quit and risk starvation any time they want! It’s totally different! Fine! Ethical!

A “neat and tidy” flat?! Beggars can’t be choosers, you know. lower your expectations, Rose.

Lemmy allows editing the post link, so if you find the normal Guardian link then please update this post.

Zedda is a new one to me, but I reckon it will stick.

But Was He Really the First to Fly in Australia?

This kind of question clearly depends on the definition of flight, but it would have been nice for the article to give an honourable mention to Lawrence Hargrave, who lived in Australia since age 15.

Of great significance to those pioneers working toward powered flight, Hargrave successfully lifted himself off the ground under a train of four of his box kites at Stanwell Park Beach on 12 November 1894.

Obviously very different to a piloted and controlled flight like the Wright Brothers and these examples, but certainly notable.

by not using the countries name

“America” is not their country’s name either (“USA” is actually closer, now that you mention it)

no one says Gen Zed

Odd choice of example, I hear it often.

Yeah, this slogan is derivative of the classic “My body, my choice”, but I don’t see a problem with that. It’s alluding to the those themes of autonomy and rights, in a different context.