“When Pauline Hanson says ordinary Australians have been forgotten by politicians, it’s hardly surprising that people listen. Perhaps she has a point. But identifying a problem and solving it are two different things.” By @lachiemc64.bsky.social theaimn.net/pauline-has-...

Pauline Has a Point. After Thirty Years, What Is It?

One Nation says it stands up for ordinary Australians against the powerful. After thirty years, it’s reasonable to examine its promises, its record, its supporters – and who benefits. Australians have...

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Pauline Hanson has been telling Australia what's wrong for 30 years. But after three decades in politics, what has she actually fixed? And why do the same problems keep getting worse? Perhaps it's time we asked a different question. 😉🇦🇺 (Article in replies)

AFP Commissioner Krissy Barrett calls out violent political rhetoric such as Pauline Hanson’s car ramming video—for having a "direct correlation" to real attacks on politicians. Speers: “Like a cartoon that suggests someone should be hit by a car…?” Barrett: Yep.💥 #auspol

Ronni Salt raises important concerns about violence against women. But we still don't know the motivated the attack on Helen Haines. Sam Connor (@criprights) offers another important perspective: compassion, accountability and fixing systems that fail people. theshot.net.au/news/opinion...

YOUR DOCTOR DOESN'T HAVE TO LOOK LIKE YOU TO SAVE YOUR LIFE. Your nurse doesn't have to share your skin colour, birthplace, accent or religion to care for you. They do have the right to come to work without being racially abused. If that offends you, the problem isn't the healthcare worker.

Renewables just supplied more than 80% of demand on Australia's main grid, while excess wind and solar were being curtailed. The problem is increasingly moving all that cheap power where it's needed. So naturally: scrap transmission. 🤦⚡

Pauline said no, then yes, then no — while explaining she hadn't flip-flopped. The next morning she defended changing her mind as often as she wanted. No parody required. Sometimes the safest approach is simply to put the quotes next to each other. 😵‍💫🇦🇺

“Australia is relying heavily on internationally qualified nurses.” theaimn.net/justice-as-r...

“The Albanese Government has achieved things that deserve recognition. But it has also disappointed people. And whether those disappointments are justified, exaggerated or simply the product of unrealistic expectations is almost beside the point.” theaimn.net/what-went-wr...

What went wrong? (Part 5)

Continued from What Went Wrong? (Part 4) Part 5 – The Vacuum At the end of Part 4, I suggested that we had reached the next stage of this story. When people lose faith in [...]

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Barnaby says he’s not Jesus Christ. Just as well. Middle Eastern, foreign-born, fed the poor without modelling the cost and preached “love thy neighbour”? Jesus might want to keep his passport handy. 🐧😂 Same outrage. Different target.

"Labor and Coalition figures have at times avoided arguments that might rankle Hanson’s voter base, but Bowen used a speech on Friday night to turn Hanson’s brand of patriotism against her."

One Nation rails against Bowen. He’s now ready to turn Hanson’s patriotism against her

Labor hardheads believe Pauline Hanson’s recent controversies have altered the dynamic and created space for a more strident line on One Nation.

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“Nobody was entirely sure what finished the humans.” By @lachiemc64.bsky.social theaimn.net/the-penguin-...

The Penguin Diaries: Welcome to MACHINE

A post-human guide to aged care on Planet Bureaucratia Humanity disappeared centuries ago. The paperwork survived. Nobody was entirely sure what finished the humans. The cockroaches suspected climate ...

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Thirty years of grievance can become a habit. Same outrage, new target, repeat. Perhaps before the next rebuttal we should try the traditional IT solution: turn the grievance off, wait a moment, then switch it back on. Empathy update optional. 🐧😂

How do you build an aged-care system with a human override, train assessors to use it, then decide days before launch that they legally can’t? The button stayed. The discretion didn’t. Welcome to MACHINE. 🐧🤖☕ theaimn.net/the-penguin-...

Australia is heading towards 9 million people of pension age — yet the Age Pension bill is projected to FALL. Why? Superannuation is doing what it was designed to do. Shane Wright from The Age explains why super is not a Magic Pudding. 👇 🎥 The Age/Shane Wright

🎧 New from Outrage Nation: old grievances, new drip, fully costed vibes and the endlessly renewable Magic Pudding™. When the numbers don’t fit? #REGRIFT. #UNGRIFT. PIVOT THAT SCRIPT. 😂🐧 Turn it up. #PLEASEEXPLAIN. vt.tiktok.com/ZSqu7MSxu/

Three decades of throwing rhetorical hand grenades, followed by genuine outrage when someone asks who pulled the pin. Grievance in. Outrage out. Accountability apparently lost in transit. 🐧 Same outrage. Different day. PLEASE EXPLAIN.

Cost-of-living crisis? Outrage Nation has found the Magic Pudding™: raid Future You’s retirement to pay Present You. No need to fix wages or housing when you can simply send yourself the bill. Same outrage. Different bill. PLEASE EXPLAIN. 😂🍮🐧 Just #Super

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Trump off by one election

By Walt Zlotow  Trump off by one election when gas will come down Facing defeat at the midterms in 54 days, Trump tried to reassure his MAGA base to maintain his control of Congress. “Just vote [...]

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HASTIE: We must call out Outrage Nation at every opportunity. ANGUS: We must out-rage Outrage Nation at every opportunity. PAULINE: I do the outrage here. Anything else is just a cheap copy. OUTRAGE VOTER: So why would I buy the generic brand? 🤔

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The crime of being Aboriginal

“He was naturally suspicious of white strangers, having spent twenty-seven months in prison for actions would not have been ‘crime’ had a white man committed them.” (In the spirit of Crazy Horse, page...

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One Nation’s energy plan: keep an ageing coal plant open beyond its planned closure—despite the owner warning it’ll become more expensive and less reliable. Who pays? Details, details. 🪨🍮 The Coal Magic Pudding™: thoughts and tax concessions. 🙏💰

Apropos of nothing, and certainly nothing to do with current investigations into Outrage Nation, in an imaginary world Polly Puddington has been asked to elaborate. The money may be fictional, the accounting mysterious, but the pudding is appropriately recorded. 😌

One Nation’s Magic Super Pudding: take money from your future self to pay today’s housing costs, add purchasing power without adding housing, then hope none of it becomes higher rents. Same pudding, different plate. Future you gets the crumbs. Please explain. 🤔

The plan is simple: work for less, spend more, raid your super, buy cheaper cigarettes and try not to trouble the retirement system for too long. Finally, a policy where the health, tax and retirement settings all point in exactly the same direction. 😌

“Australia proudly describes itself as a democracy. Every few years we vote for our representatives and decide which major party will form govt. But there is a question we rarely ask: How much influence do ordinary Australians actually have once the election is over?” theaimn.net/australian-p...

Australian Political Reform: Why Australia Needs Change

By Denis Hay  Australian political reform could give citizens more influence between elections. Is our democracy really delivering for the people? Introduction: What Does Democracy Actually Deliver? A...

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Give renters their super today, give landlords more purchasing power tomorrow, and leave workers with less retirement savings later. If the problem is unaffordable housing, perhaps try the radical policy of making housing more affordable. Please explain.

Melbourne is famous for its coffee culture. Entertaining read by @lachiemc64.bsky.social theaimn.net/the-perfect-...

The Perfect Cup

Penguin had learned that cafés were dangerous places. This was not because of the coffee. Usually. The difficulty was Café Mathematics, a specialised, high-precision branch of Bistro Mathematics conce...

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The Perfect Cup

Penguin had learned that cafés were dangerous places. This was not because of the coffee. Usually. The difficulty was Café Mathematics, a specialised, high-precision branch of Bistro Mathematics conce...

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