65Stanford
@65stanford.bsky.social
Retired after 44 years in Australian education. Father of 3 and grandfather of 4. Living in Brisbane, Australia.
Our PBS may become a battlefront. Be prepared to defend it! #auspol #measles #publichealth
Ros@roshart.bsky.social · last yr.It is free and easy to get a measles vaccination in Australia. America’s health policies are obviously designed to kill poor people. Trump is cruel.
Aside from returning Queensland to the Johmander, Qld Attorney-General Deb Frecklington has been copping it at home in Nanango over her 2017 Cooyar Bridge pledge. Now she's in government & it's a promise that doesn't count, apparently. Next it'll be Labor's fault. #qldpol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... And on 7:30 Sarah Ferguson asked could the problems with child care be due to having for profit childcare centres. Well, is the Pope Catholic? #auspol
Melbourne childcare worker charged with sexual abuse offences as 1,200 children to be tested for infectious diseases
Victoria police allege Point Cook man Joshua Brown sexually assaulted infants and children in his care at a western suburbs childcare centre
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Prepare for the privatisation by the Crisafulli LNP Govt of Queensland's energy generation sector. 🤔 #auspol #qldpol
Shiannon Corcoran@shiannonc.bsky.social · last yr.David Janetzki, the QLD LNP’s treasurer - is a real little Hitleresque jackbooter Janetzki & Bleijie are the mining industry donor sycophants calling the shots in QLD LNP govt. Right now they’re drunk on power & their access to the treasury trough Prepare for the privatisation of QLD energy sector
A reminder of the extremely poor quality media we have to endure in Queensland. 🙄😐 Here's Murdoch's pro-LNP "Courier Mail" from late April this year telling Queenslanders that Dutton would easily win the state in the May federal election. He didn't! He lost seats, including his own! #auspol #qldpol
Shiannon Corcoran@shiannonc.bsky.social · last yr.A flashback to 2025 election campaign & the QLD Courier Fail’s on-point election analysis 🙄😵💫 Honestly, the media shyte we have to put up with here in Queensland is next level. I suggest saving this headline in a screenshot to remind the Fail just how batsh*t their bloviating sycophancy has become.
Queensland, under the LNP Crisafulli Government, is what Australia would have become if the Queensland LNP's Peter Dutton and David Littleproud had won this year's federal election. Fortunately, Australian voters had more sense! #qldpol #auspol
David Marler@qldaah.bsky.social · last yr.Queensland Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie is more interested in being an Elvis impersonator than taking any meaningful action on climate change. LNP-ruled Queensland is what Australia would have looked like under Peter Dutton & David Littleproud. #qldpol reneweconomy.com.au/parkinson-re...
Queensland's LNP Crisafulli Government has reverted to the anti-renewables mind-set of the Newman Government years. #qldpol #auspol
David Marler@qldaah.bsky.social · last yr.Qld regresses to the anti-renewables era of the Newman govt. The state now an anchor on Australia's renewables transition through Jarrod Bleijie's latest Act. The consultative bill itself was ushered into law without consultation on its design. #qldpol reneweconomy.com.au/flashback-to...
"The person who had China's Xi Jinping address Australia's Parliament was Tony Abbott, for the record." (PM Anthony Albanese to Sky News) #auspol
stranger@strangerous.bsky.social · last yr.PM Albanese fires back at Peter Stefanovic who says he’s had “more meetings Xi Jinping” than with Trump, reminding him Xi Jinping has been “in office for some time” & that the person who “had Xi Jinping address our national parliament here was Tony Abbott, for the record”🔥🤣
From today, 3million workers will benefit from an increase in the minimum wage. LNP would never have done this. #auspol
#auspol As the USA slides into become just another 3rd world dictatorship, In Australia we now have 24weeks paid parental leave & 12% compulsory employer paid superannuation. So glad we were founded by Convicts & not Christian Fundamentalists!!
‘We don’t give tax breaks on superannuation so that you can fund the inheritance of your children.’ Greg Jericho shows how the super tax ‘debate’ highlights everything wrong with Australia’s media #auspol #ausecon #journalism www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
Super tax debate highlights everything wrong with Australia’s media and economic system | Greg Jericho
The way superannuation is mostly covered by the media in Australia is about how to avoid paying tax and how to use it to fund inheritance
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More cost of living help is kicking in today. For workers. For parents. For students. For households. We’re delivering for Australians.
Keating on superannuation... Elections have consequences. Just think how much better millions of people's retirements would be... #Auspol #AlwaysLabq nor10
The Qld LNP can't deliver a state budget without blaming someone. It's all nonsense when they can conjure up billions to bulldoze parks for their Olympics monuments; the Crisafulli Colosseum & the Bleijie Blight Bowl. #qldpol
"We'll invest in whatever capability Australia needs to defend ourselves" - not some arbitrary figure. (PM Anthony Albanese) #auspol
stranger@strangerous.bsky.social · last yr.PM “We’ll invest in whatever capability Australia needs to defend ourselves” For probably the thousandth time, PM responds to Q’s on Trump’s demand for a further increase to our Defence spending, saying exactly the same thing. What is it that the media doesn’t understand?🙄 #Abc
Reciprocal tariffs on Australia by the US should be zero. That's what Australia imposes on US imports under the Free Trade Agreement - zero. #auspol
stranger@strangerous.bsky.social · last yr.PM Albanese lashes #AfternoonBriefing host Patricia Karvelas after she fails to mention he was asked about “reciprocal tariffs” with the US when he gave an answer of “zero tariffs” today. PK “We have to be realists.” Albanese “Yeah, & we have to give facts.”🔥 #Abc
The LNP Federal Opposition is reportedly shifting away from the Dutton era anti-immigration rhetoric. #auspol
Shiannon Corcoran@shiannonc.bsky.social · last yr.‘Coalition signals dramatic shift away from anti-immigration rhetoric of Dutton era’ 🙄 Stoking the fires of hate, culture wars, racism & “go home if u don’t like it here” has been part of their strategy forever. Only difference now is it is covert. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Jarrod Bleijie has declared construction of Crisafulli Colosseum & other Olympics venues will exclude CFMEU members. Peter Dutton made the Qld LNP based threat earlier this year but experts say it's likely illegal. #qldpol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Peter Dutton’s pledge to exclude CFMEU from Queensland road projects could be illegal, experts say
Law professor says prohibiting companies from tendering because of uninon relationships would be ‘tantamount to a secondary boycott’
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Queensland LNP State election promises from previous elections "no longer count." #qldpol #auspol
David Marler@qldaah.bsky.social · last yr.John Howard had core & non-core promises. Now we have counting & non-counting promises. AG Deb Frecklington is from the LNP very safe seat of Nanango on a margin of 22.9%. #qldpol
Reflecting on Jarrod Bleijie's attempted slur using Tuvalu. A third of Tuvaluans have applied for Australian residency. The situation isn't a Peter Dutton attempt at humour, either. The country will be uninhabitable within 80yrs. Only 280 visas on offer pa. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
In four days, nearly a third of Tuvalu applied to live in Australia
The Pacific Island nation has rushed to apply to live in Australia under a landmark climate change visa.
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NACC Commr Paul Brereton has lashed out after an unnamed Home Affairs employee was found to have engaged in a conflict of interest Brereton “conflicts of interest are an area of widespread concern” Unless you do it yourself? Then it’s Okay? In no place to talk Brereton #Robodebt
