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Similarly, expect the networks and avenues of communication being built to be rolled into other areas as well. Trans rights, same sex marriage etc. will all be targets anew. Wouldn’t entirely be surprised if we started to see a push back against gun laws either.

We’ve had hints of this in the past but this is by far the most direct coupling between the US reactionary right and Australia’s.

Price has been in the CPAC orbit for a while now.

Nearly 40 per cent of Victoria’s prisoner population is housed in three privately managed prisons – Port Philip Prison, Ravenhall Correctional Centre and Fulham Correctional Centre. As a consequence, Victoria has the largest proportion of privately managed prisoners in Australia, while Australia has the largest proportion in the world.

https://lens.monash.edu/@politics-society/2019/06/28/1375605/victorias-prison-system-rising-costs-and-population-little-accountability

It’s absolutely central to why, right across the country, we’re doubling down on carceral approaches that we know increase offending rather than reducing it. There’s vested interests keen to ensure that.

It’s very clear at this point that Albanese has put stakes on the table that his government was utterly unprepared to fight for.

Albanese was in parliament for the peak of the History Wars period, the 1999 referendum, and the dissolution of ATSIC. He can not reasonably claim he was unaware of what the opposition to this would look like and how it would behave, and yet none of it was preempted.

Unless there is something truly remarkable waiting in the wings I fear signing these writs effectively sees serious steps toward reconciliation pushed back another generation.

Some actual public housing expenditure is welcome, but for it to be 10% of the handout of developers is problematic in the extreme.

With how damaging the Victorian model has proven here and the near complete inaction on public housing it has whitewashed I'm inclined to think this was a policy better sunk entirely. It spends money and commits capacity to developers that we need to build true public housing.

Whilst this department has been a mess for years it's difficult to see that staffing cuts on this scale will be any improvement without major cultural and procedural changes being made first.

Interactions with the justice system in Australia are criminogenic, ie. they increase the likelihood of reoffending. Especially when it comes to youth offenders.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-15/buried-report-on-youth-detention-raising-the-age/101635706

Australia’s primary approaches are failing to produce correctional outcomes and doubling down on that will make the problem worse, not better, regardless of how much populist politics might wish it to be otherwise. We do have models that have demonstrated success but they’re all in a therapeutic justice tradition.

Try 12ft.io if you’re having issues reading. This really underscores the utter failure of Victoria’s affordable housing model - well, unless you’re an housing developer - and it should be ringing alarm bells that the current intention is to repeat the model nationally.

Try 12ft.io if you’re having issues reading. This really underscores the utter failure of Victoria’s affordable housing model - well, unless you’re an housing developer - and it should be ringing alarm bells that the current intention is to repeat the model nationally.

Dr Brown pointed out that the $20 million figure was the same amount heard at a coronial inquest last month.

The coronial inquest heard a working group for domestic violence funding in the NT identified $180 million over five years was the "absolute minimum" the government needed to provide the DSFV sector.

It further heard the working group was told to revise that figure down to $90 million, before the government then committed $20 million over two years.

Troy Gray, the secretary of the Electrical Trades Union (ETU), told Guardian Australia that a campaign would be launched by an alliance of unions and outdoor recreation and hunting groups next week, urging a database of about 300,000 emails to contact their local Labor MP.

Members of the Building Industry Group of Unions, which includes the ETU as well as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union, the CFMEU and the plumbers’ union, have also committed to spending a further $2m on the campaign to “defend our rights to the great outdoors”.

If you’re a member of one of these unions it might be a good time to get in touch and ask them wtf they think they’re doing with your dues.

Troy Gray, the secretary of the Electrical Trades Union (ETU), told Guardian Australia that a campaign would be launched by an alliance of unions and outdoor recreation and hunting groups next week, urging a database of about 300,000 emails to contact their local Labor MP.

Members of the Building Industry Group of Unions, which includes the ETU as well as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union, the CFMEU and the plumbers’ union, have also committed to spending a further $2m on the campaign to “defend our rights to the great outdoors”.

If you’re a member of one of these unions it might be a good time to get in touch and ask them wtf they think they’re doing with your dues.

Greens are between a rock and a hard place because there remains significant internal dissent from First Nations quarters, or at least unease. Don't forget that in February we were here: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/08/greens-first-nations-conveners-side-with-lidia-thorpe-and-say-they-do-not-support-voice-to-parliament

That's moderated some since but the First Nations activist support I've seen within the Greens here in Victoria at least has been framed around "a no vote will be the worse outcome" rather than much enthusiastic support. Issues around the validity of representation and recognition still loom large here and despite the recent First Peoples' Assembly elections are yet to be thrashed out at a state level.

As for Labor? Well the Queensland, NT and WA governments have made it pretty clear how much they intend to listen to First Nation voices. Not at all. Even the Federal Government have had some notable examples of picking only the advice they wanted to hear.

This feels like it would have been better off pushed until the next election or after. There's internal fronts that needed to be agreed upon first.

I'll be voting yes, but I'm also expecting a very disappointing government response to the Voice should it get up. I'm just hoping that disappointment is very, very publicly aired.

Here once the writs are in: https://www.aec.gov.au/referendums/vote/postal-voting.html

I said a few weeks back that, for the stakes the referendum has put on the table for First Nations people, the government isn’t fighting near hard enough.

6 weeks is not a lot of time to turn that around. They better be ready.

Rebranding ESTA isn’t going to solve Victoria’s enormous primary care crisis.

We are critically short staffed and we’ve allowed gaps to build up that prevent large numbers of people from seeking timely care throughout the health system, but it’s at the GP level that these two overlapping avalanches start.

If those are the stakes we’re showing little sign of acting on our emissions in accordance.

Cis supremacists never enjoy people realising that they are, in fact, supremacists. It's all you need to know about why they find such natural allies in white supremacists.

Want to reduce your carbon footprint? The most effective thing you can do is blockade a carbon exporter.

Fact Check estimated that Australia's domestic emissions plus the emissions embedded in its exports added to 1,712 million tonnes in 2016.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-20/fact-check-australia-carbon-emissions-fossil-fuel-exports/11645670

Our domestic emissions were about 411 million tonnes that year.

https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/australia#what-are-the-country-s-annual-co2-emissions

Palaszczuk‘s government, along with every other one in Australia, has had it explained at length that incarceration of children is criminogenic and increases recidivism.

Queensland Police and Labor under Palaszczuk abusing human rights may well be “standard practice” but it sure as hell doesn’t keep the public safe.