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Day 33 cont ☢️☢️☢️☢️

“If #PeterDutton (#Liberal) ☢️ were to form government, safety could come to the fore again because it would need to overturn the #FederalBan on #NuclearEnergy, implemented in 1999 by #JohnHoward (ex PM, Liberal) in a deal with #TheGreens.

Despite the dangers being dismissed by Labor☢️ (AUKUS) and the Coalition ☢️, Caldicott remains concerned about #NuclearWaste being improperly stored in #Australia and contaminating water supplies – or even a #Chernobyl-like #reactor meltdown.

“It’s not being discussed at all, which is amazing to me”, Caldicott says. “People are very ignorant.”” — #HelenCaldicott MD

Q Where is the hottest Nuclear waste in Australia right now? (hint 1950s Nuclear tests exploding #Plutonium above ground)

#AusPol / #LiberalNational / #LNP / #Nationals <archive.md/dTKcZ> / <smh.com.au/environment/climate> (paywall)

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Day 24 cont ⚕️💉💊

“But speaking of gambling, #gambling is a behaviour where #people don’t think of the #consequences. And what this (#Labor) #government has done is gambled the #taxpayers’ money of Australia”

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“We understand that the other side has a good heart, that they want to make #medicines cheaper. But to recklessly, recklessly cut the profits of small business owners, the #pharmacies working extremely hard, some of them have told me they’ve gone down to 30-40%. That gambling-like behaviour is simply not on.” — #ScottYung

Piss off Scotty, leave our Pharma alone.

#AusPol / #Medicare / #pharmaceuticals / #PBS / #Liberal / #Bennalong / #LNP / #Nationals / #CCP / #LiberalPartyChineseYouthCouncil / #JohnHoward / #XiongmingXie <theguardian.com/australia-news>

the Guardian · Greens campaign signs defaced with offensive graffiti – as it happenedThis blog is now closed
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Day 18 cont

The #LNP has a candidate problem cont

“On March 5, #Yung admitted to falsely claiming he had raised $60,000 during an intimate dinner with #JohnHoward ahead of the 2019 state election. He did not specify how much was actually raised. Then revelations came out that the then-#Kogarah candidate engaged a *digital strategy firm* to undertake work potentially worth tens of thousands of dollars.

One month later, a leaked video of a speech Yung gave during a Lunar New Year celebration discredited previous efforts to distance himself from #XieXiongming, a #casino high roller linked to the #ChineseCommunistParty.”

#AusPol / #Liberal / #Nationals / #CPP / #SecurityRisk <archive.md/savad> / <theage.com.au/politics/federal> (paywall)

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Mainstream media in Australia might finally be starting to wake-up and call-out Trump and his cronies.

Years ago, the Sun-Herald used to be Sydney's broadsheet newspaper, but it has long since lost its sense of balance and political teeth after being bought-out by a succession of increasingly right-wing media moguls. It's quite remarkable that they're printing a headline like this now.

The headline is a reference to a sledge aimed at cowardly, right-wing, yes-men for their support for the invasion of Iraq, "There they are a conga line of suckholes on the conservative side of politics." It was delivered by former ALP Leader of the Opposition and aspiring PM, Mark Latham (when he still sounded sane; long before he got RWNJ brainworms). I've always wondered about that particular line, and mused that his speechwriters were tapping into a vein of former Prime Minster, Paul Keating. He once said John Howard was "Like a shiver waiting for a spine to crawl up."

Amusingly, the subeditor misnamed Jeff Bezos as "Geoff Bezos" in the caption.

This picture was originally posted by someone else on Mastodon without Alt-text, so I have liberated it and added Alt-text.

#Trump#DonaldTrump#Zelensky
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Nine board chairman Peter Costello resigns after reportedly assaulting a journalist
abc.net.au/news/2024-06-09/nin

Peter Costello always was a bully, and although not known for being a physically abusive thug, he sure was an entitled piece of shit.
As the Federal Treasurer during the disastrous years of John Howard being Prime Minister, Peter Costello displayed an aptitude for class-based disdain for those he thought were beneath him.
After retiring from politics, he was the recipient of a generous nepo-hire as Chairman of the Board at the Nine Entertainment media empire, where he continued to push his RWNJ agenda.
Good riddance and fuck off, Peter Costello.

ABC News · Nine board chairman Peter Costello resigns after reportedly assaulting a journalistBy Tessa Flemming
#AusPol#PeterCostello#JohnHoward
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#Auspol #Liberal/NPCoalition #JohnHoward #Iraq2003
Hilarious headline in my email inbox: MORRISON GOVERNMENT FAILED

the hidden text actually reveals
“Morrison government failed to hand over some 2003 national security records to archives In a statement, the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet said the transfer of a "small number" of 2003 cabinet records did not happen, due to "apparent administrative oversights" likely caused by disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic.”

if i wasn’t so cynical about lib/np values i’d just assume they are incompetent, with all the mistakes they make 🙄

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