Day 33 cont 🗳️🗣️

“The #truth is, in what became an impressive field of advocates, #Albo did more to secure my freedom than any other politician or public figure, even more than the late Pope, whose support was both moving and significant.
Against all expectations for an #Australian politician, once elected, he kept his word.

#Albanese lobbied former US president #JoeBiden at several meetings, pushing for Assange’s release.

Albo hasn’t just stood up to the #US to end the #PoliticalImprisonment of an #Australian – he’s also intervened for other Australians detained in difficult circumstances, including in #China. This government has proven itself unusually capable of rescuing #Australians caught up in #sensitive political situations.

Does this mean Albo will put Australian interests first and skillfully navigate tensions between the US, #EU, and China? I can’t say for sure. But I do know this: He can. Albo did right by me ... You don’t need to be a #bully to have a #backbone.”

#AusPol / #JulianAssange / #veritas <https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/may/02/australia-election-2025-live-last-day-campaign-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-labor-coalition-poll-voting-ntwnfb>

Day 27 cont ⚫️🟡🔴 Colours 🇦🇺

“#PeterDutton 🥔🤓 (#LNP, #Liberal, #Coalition, #Nationals) says he wants welcome to country ceremonies respected even as he reaffirms his push to unite #Australians under “one flag”.

🥔🤓 made the comments after disruptions at #AnzacDay services and the sudden cancellation of a welcome to country ceremony at a major #NRL match in #Melbourne.

The #MelbourneStorm is facing criticism after it informed #Wurundjeri elder #AuntyJoyMurphyWandin she was no longer needed to perform the welcome to country ceremony at the club’s annual #AnzacDay clash at #AAMI Park against South Sydney on Friday night.”

Across the street at the #MCG the welcome ceremony was performed for the #AFL ANZAC clash with Essendon verses Collingwood.

#AusPol / #politics / #TheVoice / #Melbourne <https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/26/peter-dutton-urges-respect-for-welcome-to-country-but-reaffirms-stance-on-using-one-flag-ntwnfb>

Day 26 cont 🚫⚫️🟡🔴

“Nationals leader #DavidLittleproud says one of his “proudest” moments of his #leadership has been to oppose #TheVoice to # parliament.

Speaking to the #NationalPressClub, Littleproud says it wasn’t a decision that was made quickly by his party room.

Within our party room, in a #respectful way we undertook a #committee within our party room to listen [to the] yes and no case, to understand what the machinery would look like, what it would mean for us who represent some of the most #disadvantaged #Indigenous #Australians in remote areas.
Littleproud says the voice would have repeated “mistakes of the past” and was not the way to empower local communities.”

A reminder Littleproud has no tertiary #education, a rarity in leadership teams in #Labor, #LNP, #Greens and #Independents.

#AusPol / #racism <https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/apr/24/australia-election-2025-live-labor-coalition-teal-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-policy-cost-of-living-voting-spender-pamphletntwnfb?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with%3Ablock-6809ab7d8f08e65b05d1de6e#block-6809ab7d8f08e65b05d1de6e>

Victorians and #australians need to be aware that what the government says and what is actually happening are not the same thing.

"In other words, for many #Australians, it’s not just what evidence and information is presented about #climatechange. It’s also how it’s said, who says it, and why it’s being said."

What would change your mind about climate change? We asked 5,000 Australians – here’s what they told us
https://theconversation.com/what-would-change-your-mind-about-climate-change-we-asked-5-000-australians-heres-what-they-told-us-254329

#climatechangesurvey
#Australia
#Climatechangepolicy
#publicattitudes
#misinformation
#tacklingmisinformation

Day 22 cont 💰💰💰🏡

“Nearly half of all #renters sit in the bottom 40% of income levels, compared with just one-fifth of first home buyers.

“If you’re in the bottom two #quintiles of income, you’re probably not really going to have enough #income to be servicing a #mortgage, whichever way you go,” Phillips says.

“There’s not a lot that we’ve seen in the election #campaign to really help those people, and they’re the people who really are #struggling.”

That leaves nearly half the renting population, or four million #Australians, beyond the reach of homebuyer help even before the new #policies arrive.”

If you don’t own or cannot afford a home, Australian politicians are not interested in you.

#AusPol / #LNP / #Liberal / #Labor / #Nationals <https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/20/who-actually-benefits-from-the-coalition-and-labors-housing-policies>

Smalltalk: "In the 2000s, I had #crocodile steak at an #australian restaurant in #Stuttgart." - "Why would you do that? #Australians don't eat crocodiles. Crocodiles eat australians!"

#Australians & other world citizens are not merely declining to visit the #UnitedStates. We have started to cease to imagine it.

#America isn’t doing facts any more. Hence the defunding of science agencies & a political interference in education & research they are imposing on researchers beyond their borders.

Australian universities are having projects defunded “because they don’t fit with #Trumps authoritarian rightwing agenda”.

#USPol #auspol #TrumpCoup

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/17/america-used-to-fire-the-worlds-imagination-but-now-the-cultural-conversation-is-being-silenced

Day 18 🏡🏠🏘️🏚️🏘️💰💰💰💰

“Our first home buyer #mortgage #deductibility scheme is going to finally give first home buyers the firepower they need to purchase a #home.

We’re going to, through our housing #infrastructure program, deliver more homes for those first home #buyers.

So if you think the status quo is OK, that’s really what #Labor is offering.

The #Coalition (#LNP / #Liberal) believes that home #ownership is something that every generation of #Australians deserve, and that’s precisely what we’ll deliver, if we’re given the great honour of being elected” — #MichaelSukkar

The Opposition minister for #housing, who in his previous stint in government as Minister but nothing to show for it.

#AusPol / #finance / #banks / #Infrastructure <https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/apr/16/australia-election-2025-live-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-coalition-labor-housing-cost-of-living-bandt-greens-ntwnfb?page=with%3Ablock-67ff2a5d8f089c7bf64d5887#block-67ff2a5d8f089c7bf64d5887>

Day 16 Invest 🏡🏠🏠🏡🏡 Rent 🏚️🏚️🏚️🏚️

“The #PM is asked how Labor's announcements will affect #Australians who already own one home, but are looking at #purchasing a second.

It's simple, the PM says — #houses will be #cheaper.

"If you increase supply, you assist everyone because you have an impact on #
affordability," he says.”

If you’re a first home buyer, if you want to buy a home but they’re too expensive, Labor does not give a 💩

#AusPol / #AnthonyAlbanese / #Labor / #HousingPolicy / #FirstHomeBuyer <https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-14/federal-election-live-2025-updates-albanese-dutton-campaign-news/105172762#live-blog-post-169134>

Day 15 cont 🏡🏠🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡🏠🏡🏡💰

“I want to help #YoungPeople and #FirstHomeBuyers achieve the dream of #HomeOwnership,” — #AnthonyAlbanese said.

#PeterDutton (#LNP / #Liberal) has announced a $10bn tax cut measure, which would give #Australians who earn up to $144,000 relief of up to $1,200 in the upcoming financial year.”

What a load of horse💩. Where is the strategy to industrialise the housing Industry to drive down costs and increase quality? <https://www.youtube.com/watchv=36I6jCrWTvQ>

Does #Labor want people to #buy or #rent? Where is this discussion? If not where is the plan to rollback (middle class #welfare) house investment & #NegativeGearing? Where is the talk of #EducationalDebt? Free TAFE for Tradies won’t solve these problems.

Dream on Labor.
Libs, $1200 dollars 😆🤭🤣🤣

#AusPol / #Labor / #LaborParty / #housing / #HousingCrisis / #Financialisation / #NegativeGearing <https://theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/12/albanese-to-pledge-10bn-to-help-build-100000-homes-for-first-time-buyers>

Day 15 cont 🗣️🔊🚩

“The #Nationals #leader, #DavidLittleproud, called it a “slip of the tongue” when Price, the shadow minister for #GovernmentEfficiency and Indigenous #Australians, told a campaign rally she wanted to “make #Australia great again” on Saturday. The #senator later claimed she hadn’t “even realised” she made the comments, then accused the media of being “obsessed” with the US president.

Guardian #Australia has obtained an image of the senator at an event with her family over the Christmas period wearing a Maga hat.

…

Guardian Australia has approached #Coalition campaign headquarters for comment.”

#AusPol / #Liberals / #LNP / #HQ / #propaganda / #slogans / #JacintaNampijinpaPrice <https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/13/image-emerges-of-jacinta-price-wearing-maga-cap-one-day-after-she-says-coalition-will-make-australia-great-again>

Day 14 cont 🗣️🎙️📺 🇺🇸

“Price was appointed to lead a government efficiency unit if the #Coalition government is elected after 3 May. The unit, which would sit within the prime minister’s department, has been compared to one led by US #tech billionaire Elon Musk (#TechWeenie, #Oligarch), whose Department of Government #Efficiency, or Doge, is taking a razor to US government departments.

“Let’s be very, very clear, media, you’re obsessed with Donald Trump 🎃. We’re not obsessed with Donald Trump. We’re actually obsessed with ensuring that we can improve the circumstances for #Australians,” she said.”

Devoid of any #policy, #analysis, #costing, #ideas an LNP Senator makes a word salad of foreign phrases about making the “Bond market” sexy again, from a #BowlingClub on a Saturday in #Perth.

Repeat the slogans,
Repeat the slogans,
Repeat the #slogans.

#AusPol / #LNP / #Liberal / #propaganda / #JacintaNampijinpaPrice / #indoctrination <https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/12/jacinta-price-says-coalition-will-make-australia-great-again-then-accuses-media-of-being-obsessed-with-trump

Wowsa!

With the latest #iOS updates, #Australians can now use #AirPods Pro 2 as #hearingaids.

First reaction? Gees it’s a noisy world! #auspol

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