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Two questions for those with some knowledge of Australian law:

Is it a crime under Australian law (whether federal or state) to incite the commission of #WarCrimes and/or #CrimesAgainstHumanity?

Would enthusiastic public advocacy for the Commonwealth government to (openly)* join the wildly illegal #WarOfAggression launched by #Israel + #US forces against #Iran (including celebrating the deliberate targeting of civilians)** be prima facie evidence of such a crime?

Since Australia has still not arrested #JohnHoward for his crimes in helping to launch an earlier disastrous war of aggression 22 years ago, I'm not holding my breath here, but I would like to know whether/which laws are being ignored when (for instance) a high-profile weapons lobbyist urges the federal government to commit illegal acts by joining this latest war of aggression (completely unauthorised by the UN Security Council).

*See: #PineGap.
**The 10+ scientists assassinated (often along with their families and neighbours) by Israel's initial strikes were civilians. Israel has openly admitted, even boasted, that these individuals (non-combatants under #InternationalLaw) were specifically targeted with overwhelmingly lethal force.

#Auspol #AusLaw #WarCrimes #ScottMorrison

The #KissOfDeath has spoken!

#JohnHoward urges #COALition reconciliation.

Doomed! They’re all DOOMED Captain Mainwaring! #auspol

https://youtu.be/lZiHQprbtTs?si=SH4BpYmp21gM0dQ_

The good old “kiss of death” #endorsement from #JohnHoward. (works every time!)

The #LNP was doomed. #auspol

#Auspol #OneNation #Election2025
the slippery slope of policies deciding some lives are more important than others… which we are now seeing bear fruit in USA 🤔

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on immigration <This remains part of the party's policy platform, which includes "deporting 75,000 illegal migrants" and "cutting immigration by over 570,000 people" from current levels by capping visas at 130,000 per year.

In 2001, then Liberal prime minister #JohnHoward demanded One Nation be placed last on the party's how-to-vote cards.

He later defended the WA Liberal's 2017 preference deal with One Nation, saying "everyone changes in 16 years".>
——
and
<<Now, it is disaffected Liberal voters generally, just as a lot of Greens voters are disaffected Labor voters, rather than voters who are desperately concerned about immigration.

"On paper, both major parties are addressing that anyway.">>

From preferences to polling: Could One Nation gain more power this election?
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/could-one-nation-gain-more-power-this-election/bx90wjmqs?cid=newsapp:socialshare:copylink

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 <https://archive.md/dTKcZ> / <https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/australians-once-feared-the-health-impacts-of-nuclear-now-nobody-s-talking-about-it-20250324-p5lm2k.html> (paywall)

@DjityDjity

The good old “kiss of death” #endorsement from #JohnHoward. (works every time!)

The #LNP is doomed. #auspol

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”

…

“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 <https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/apr/22/australia-election-2025-live-pm-leads-tributes-to-pope-francis-pre-poll-voting-begins-ntwnfb?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with%3Ablock-6806e3898f089c7bf64d93f3#block-6806e3898f089c7bf64d93f3>

watch where #JohnHoward goes… as a wise liberal once said:

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 <https://archive.md/savad> / <https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/frantic-calls-party-concern-as-lib-candidate-under-spotlight-20250409-p5lqkx.html> (paywall)

@fixatedpersonsunit

Dutton in 2003, backing up #JohnHoward and the "pre-emptive" invasion of Iraq on the grounds of #FakeNews, lies and the need to #BrownNose #GWBush.

"Australia has chosen to forward deploy elements of the Australian defence forces as part of its moral obligation to ensure where possible ongoing stability around the world." - #PeterDutton

#AusPol

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 #Zelenskyy #Ukraine #USPol #AusPol #MarkLatham #PaulKeating #JohnHoward #AltText #UseAltText #JeffBezos #ElonMusk

@MsDropbear42

"The newly released official history chapter shows those arguments were made in full knowledge of the Indonesian military’s orchestration of atrocities in an effort to prevent East Timor from becoming independent and with a clear expectation of the violence that would follow an independence vote in the absence of an international peacekeeping presence."

200,000 dead East Timorese?
#AlexanderDowner and #JohnHoward condoning genocide by #TNI.

#OnThisDay in 2007, Australians elect the Kevin Rudd-led centre-left Australian Labor Party at the federal election, ending the eleven-year tenure of the #JohnHoward-led centre-right Liberal/National coalition government.

Australian government takeover of construction union: #union of 100,000 electrical, plumbing and postal workers disaffiliates from #ACTU due to ACTU's ties to government

https://jacobin.com/2024/10/australia-labor-albanese-construction-union

#Australia #unions #AnthonyAlbanese #LaborParty #CFMEU #corruption #democracy #authoritarianism #UnionBusting #JohnHoward #CompanyUnions #RAFFWU #ColesWoolworths #SDA #FreedomOfAssociation #ACTU #MarkIrving #PoliceState #BLF #FairWork #CEPU #ALP #ChrisMinns #capitalism #exploitation #ClassWar

@tonycart
Yes the possibility is becoming apparent with Dutton having a major party sounding like the fringe nationalist One Nation party from decades ago.

And the arc from John Howard to Tony Abbott to Morrison to Dutton is looking more and more like a direction that will be continued.

The article' places the roots in "failures of neoliberalism and globalism".

I doubt this is an very helpful explanation.

#GraeberAndWengrowe
#TheDawnOfEverything
#Capitalism
#JohnHoward
#OneNation
#Dutton

#OnThisDay in 1996, Following the Port Arthur Massacre, #JohnHoward's Australian government starts a gun buy back scheme. Compulsorily acquires more than 640,000 firearms, including many newly illegal semi-automatic rifles and shotguns.

#OnThisDay in 1997, #JohnHoward's Australian government gun buy back scheme ends with more than 640,000 firearms compulsorily acquired, including many newly illegal semi-automatic rifles and shotguns.