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identitty-dickruption · 9 months

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The "No" campaign against the Voice is really lucky that the "Yes" campaign seems to br run by a bunch of old wethers (old slang term for a gelding). Also the "Yes" campaign seem to have no idea how to market or connect to normal ordinary people, which intellectuals and activists are not and never will be (see also the last 20+ years of conspicuous failure to force Australian voters to accept unauthorised immigration by boat despite the Australian people making it repeatedly clear that they do not want this).

boy howdy. you have come to the wrong person if you want sympathy with this argument. but right, okay. let's talk about it

the "yes" campaign is falling behind at the moment, and I continue to be frustrated at the way the campaign is being run. the "no" campaign is, however, not being run any better. they're simply benefiting from the age-old tradition of appealing to the status quo in times of crisis and confusion. they've also been helped by the facts that:

we're currently in a cost of living crisis, so many people no longer have the energy or resources to engage in the news

the AEC pamphlet was not fact-checked, so now they've got an official essay full of lies (but this time it has the AEC logo on it)

I think there's still time for the "yes" campaign to catch-up, but it doesn't happen by wringing our hands about how far behind we've fallen. it's true that what's being said at the federal level does matter, but the "yes" campaign is ALL OF US. anyone who is planning to vote yes can be part of the campaign by doing the number one thing that has been proven to be able to change minds.... talking to friends and relatives, having no-judgement conversations about the issues, and politely/carefully fact-checking people when they start to talk bogus

right, no we turn to the humdinger of a comparison you've got there. "unauthorised immigration by boat"

that is not a good example in any sense of the word

political elites are also very against refugees

completely free "unauthorised immigration" has never been on the table for either of the major parties

the Australian people have been lied to for years about refugee policy

you may call me biassed here. I'm a card-carrying member of the Greens party. I went to my first pro-refugee march under the Rudd Labor government, and spent most of my childhood helping my parents with their refugee action activism. so like. whatever. I'm not the most neutral party if we wanna talk "opinions about refugees"

but you cannot say that the Australian people are entirely against the idea of welcoming more refugees into our country without acknowledging the type of fear mongering that has happened here for as long as I've been alive. xenophobia. racism. ableism. it never stops. the Liberal Party sending out a message about successfully intercepting a boat during an election blackout period. the Labor Party straight up refusing to talk about their refugee policy, because they knew it would turn their base against them

it's not "elites trying to convince Australians that we want refugees". it's "politicians turning refugees into a political point in order to justify their mistreatment of vulnerable people from overseas". I don't know who wants complete unauthorised access to Australia, but that's not a legitimate position that has been floated in Australia. the position has been "stop locking traumatised people in cages while you deliberately take ages to process their paperwork" AND "stop trying to deport people who have been here, causing no trouble, for years"

and do you know what? it's not even true that most Australians don't want refugees. in 2022, 29% of people wanted Australia to close our borders to refugees while 68% believe that refugees make a positive contribution to Australia. it's the politicians who are lagging behind here, not the Australian people

this has been a clusterfuck of a post, so I'll do a TLDR:

talk to your friends and family about the referendum, get involved in the campaign, it is not too late

both of the major parties hate refugees in Australia, so that is both a buckwild and inaccurate comparison

#asks #auspol

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zvaigzdelasas · 2 years

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Australia: [Potential r]eferendum no earlier than 2025

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, elected to a three-year term just this past May, began laying the foundations for a nationwide referendum on transitioning Australia into a republic. In June, he appointed the country's first minister to begin looking into the process.

This past Sunday, however, he paused his timeline in deference to the queen and her passing, saying now is the time to pay tribute to her memory, not push for swift change. He has said he will not call a referendum in his current first term as premier. The next federal election is scheduled for 2025.

New Zealand: [Potential r]eferendum within prime minister's "lifetime" Like her Australian counterpart, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern supports her country's transition to a republic but, after the queen's death, said she will not push for that change at any time during her own government. "I've made my view plain many times. I do believe that is where New Zealand will head, in time. I believe it is likely to occur in my lifetime," she said. "But I don't see it as a short-term measure or anything that is on the agenda any time soon."[...]

Antigua and Barbuda: Referendum before 2025 Just after Charles was proclaimed king on Saturday, the premier of the tiny eastern Caribbean island country of Antigua and Barbuda said he will hold a referendum on transitioning to a republic and removing King Charles as head of state within the next three years.

Jamaica: Referendum before 2025 In March [2022], Prime Minister Andrew Holness made news of his intent for Jamaica to become independent directly to his guests Prince William and Kate, now the new Prince and Princess of Wales, on their official visit to the Caribbean island country.

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sarioh · 2 years

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wow guys cub made an entire shop to show his support for the greens in the australian federal elections of 2022

#SORRY. sorry. this is niche. but i saw this in my sub box and i had to #rio posts

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natsolute · 1 year

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2022 Victorian State Election

As the majority of the election comes to a close for the lower house-- only 9 seats found to be in doubt, which will be decided by the pre-poll and postal votes as they begin to be counted over the coming days, Daniel Andrews has secured a historic third term as Victorian Premier and leader of the Victorian Labor Party. This means that, unless interrupted by a resignation or retirement from Andrews, Victoria will have had an Andrews Labor government from 2014-2026.

This state election was widely seen as a complicated and uncertain one; as typical of Australian elections, widespread media narratives, particularly those posed by News Corp associated orgs, all presented a tight race, which was reinforced by several Liberal Party officials, including opposition leader Matthew Guy, who all spoke positively on the campaign and claimed that they held a clear chance at winning majority government. As the votes came in, however, this was shown to be not only inaccurate, but bordering on delusional-- to put it in the words of the Victoria Votes ABC panel: "The Liberal Party needs to hire a new pollster".

Despite polls and front-cover claims from the majority of Australian news organizations, and the perspective provided by the Victorian Liberals, there was, in fact, a further loss of popularity for the Liberals. As currently standing, it is likely that Labor will retain the number of seats they had prior to the election, at around double the Liberal National Coalition's seats.

Key Quotes of Tonight:

Richard Willingham: "it's a raw moment for Matthew Guy, but he would know his political career is essentially over."

Ellen Sandell: "This shows that the old two-party system is dying, [...] we're seeing Labor get elected on Greens preferences."

Ellen Sandell: "If you look at something like Northcote, if you look at the Green vote, plus the Socialist vote, we're actually over the Labor party, [...] and what this means is that now, the Labor party can't get elected in the inner-city without the Liberal vote."

Kos Samaras: "[Liberals] are possibly a political movement that no longer talks to a significant number of Victorians, full stop. Political parties come and go; it's a historical fact, and I think that the Liberal Party is pitching to a constituency that doesn't live in Victoria all that much."

Major Key Points

The LNP vastly overestimated the presence of anti-Daniel Andrews sentiment in communities after COVID-19 lock-downs.

Matthew Guy will likely not remain Opposition leader for long; two consecutive losses as leader of the opposition will likely be enough to eject him from the position.

The results of the federal election provided an incredibly accurate prediction of how the Victorian State Election would result.

The LNP suffered greatly due to a combination of preferencing far-right candidates and preselecting ultra-conservative candidates for their own campaigns, which made them less appealing to voters.

While Victoria is broadly moving to the left (a ALP government with progressive values, an increasing Greens vote, etc.), voters are leaving the major parties either in the direction of groups such as the Victorian Greens or Victorian Socialists, or in the direction of "alt-right parties", as described by Victoria Votes panelists.

The ALP has largely benefited from their presentation of progressive politics, largely through the adoption of Greens policies; this has been regarded, as said by Ellen Sandell, as a victory for the Greens party.

My Analysis

The results of the Victorian 2022 State Election have compounded a set of pre-existing trends that I had begun to recognize in the federal election; some of these trends had been reported more widely, while others have been more personal evaluations of politics.

Firstly: Australians are rejecting the major parties; in the federal election, only a third of the country voted for an ALP government, yet that government was formed in the majority-- furthermore, these votes are going to three key categories:

Alt-right parties (One Nation, United Australia, DLP, etc.)

Teal independents

Progressive minor parties (Greens, Socialists, Animal Justice, etc.)

This trend, which was first present in the 2022 Federal election, mostly continued into the state election-- the state is now forming a stable majority ALP government currently at around 37.1% of the vote-- the opposition holds a total of 34.6%. The rest is split between an 11.2% Greens and 17.1% Other vote.

Within the Other vote, the first category of minority party voters are clearly present, with far-right parties such as Family First, Freedom Party Victoria, and Labour DLP getting a combined 5.7%.

The second category of minority party voters can be seen through the 6% Independent vote; interestingly, the number of independents in the lower house will have dropped by the end of this election, as two key rural independents were ousted by successful Nationals campaigns. Contrarily, however, traditionally Liberal electorates faced major competition from independents in the east, particularly in the case of Hawthorne, a state electorate within the federal electorate of Kooyong, where independent Melissa Lowe followed the example of Monique Ryan in the Federal Election and is poised to defeat John Pesutto, who was vying to retake the seat after having it taken by ALP member John Kennedy in 2018.

The third category of minority voters can be seen through the 11.2% Greens vote, 1.4% Victorian Socialist vote, and 2.3% Animal Justice vote, totalling to a 14.9% vote.

By looking at the state of Australian politics-- preferences by the LNP towards alt-right candidates, hyper-conservative News Corp biases, and rampaging issues of misogyny, racism, inequality, corruption, and mistrust in each consecutive government, whether it be at the state or federal level, it is easily identifiable how this escape from the major parties has occurred, and particularly through explorations of COVID-19 and the impact of it on working class families, as well as the manipulation of the pandemic by far-right groups to promote fascist ideologies, it is understandable how there has been an increase in the alt-right vote.

While the expansion of the fascist vote in Australia is concerning, there is a hopeful counter-movement rising in the establishment and rapid expansion of leftist organisations such as the Victorian Socialists; while the Victorian Socialists were unable to take any lower house seats, and it is too early to call whether they were successful in their move to disrupt far right politician Bernie Finn's place in the Western Metro legislative council ticket, it is important to acknowledge the success of what could soon be one of the most successful Australian socialist movements in decades.

Founded in 2018, and first running in the Victorian state election that same year, the Victorian Socialists are an expansion of various socialist groups in Australia, particularly the Socialist Alternative; while they lacked major presence during the 2018 election, they packed genuine influence in the 2022 Victorian election. As expressed by Ellen Sandell's previously mentioned quote, the Victorian Socialists were actually responsible for the election of a fourth Greens member through preferences, and if their fight to overtake Bernie Finn in the upper house is successful, they would be poised to put one of the first socialists in Australian government in 70 years.

In a similar vein of recognising the influence of progressivism in Victoria, it is important to acknowledge the key role that progressive movements such as the Victorian Greens have played in influencing the political attitudes of the Andrew's government, and how said part can be key in making the best out of a ALP majority government. Climate commitments and the commitment to re-establish the SEC, for instance, both directly link back to the policy proposals of the Victorian Greens. Additionally, here is hope from Greens members that, despite not succeeding in creating a hung parliament with the Greens holding balance of power, their influence could be key in further strengthening environmental policies, and I am personally hopeful that the influence of the Victorian Greens could result in the expansion and improvement of the current proposed SEC, which is highly flawed and needs major changes before it is able to succeed.

As stated by members of the ABC Victoria Votes panel, it is highly likely that the catastrophic losses experienced at both the 2018 and 2022 state elections by the LNP are symptoms not of a failure to recognise issues within their party's campaign, but rather a symptom of a party that is no longer relevant or necessary within the state.

For progressives, the ALP majority government is not the ideal outcome, but it is one that can be utilised to the advancement of leftist politics, and the success of the Andrews government, even if by an arguably thin margin, is proof that Victoria could remain safe from the far-right toxicity attempting to enter Australian politics through the actions of the LNP.

This post may be followed up on in the near future; for now though, I will leave my commentary as is, because I need sleep. I have just done 9 hours of volunteering for election day, followed by a 5 1/2 hour watch of the election results, and now, the 1 1/2 hours that it has taken to fully write this analysis. Thank you for reading, and I hope my analysis was one of value. :)

#vicpol #auspol #australia #australian politics #victorian politics #politics #elections #voting #democracy #leftism #socialism #victorian socialists #analysis #political analysis

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tozettastone · 1 year

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The degree to which Australian politicians will complain about "useless" humanities qualifications has always felt absolutely fascinating to me.

The current context of this thought—about which I'm torn between weary sigh and spockian eyebrow raise—is this:

The "Job Ready Graduates" package came out of the previous federal government (not the one that's been in for the last 10 odd months), allegedly as an attempt to "fix" our skills shortage by making some qualifications (like teaching or nursing) more attractive than others through their pricing, and discouraging students from others by making them more expensive.

Aside from all the other problems with this, it's an approach that's fundamentally at odds with the way our domestic university placements and payments are set up—most Australian citizens going to a public university will get a government loan, which is to be paid back when they earn over a certain threshold. It's literally set up so people can study what they want (if they get in via their scores/interviews/folios) without the cost affecting them until they earn $48k (in 2022, anyway—they keep lowering it). Appetite is not very responsive to changes in price.

So the price gap between the cheapest and most expensive degrees has more than doubled, and the biggest increases in the cost of degrees ($7,800 a year [citation]) were in arts and humanities.

Because, as our politicians frequently remind us when they veto research projects previously approved by major funding bodies, or stand around sneering about inner-city latte sippers, that kind of education is somehow... worse. Humanities, arts and social sciences are, we're told, not contributing to society, and don't add to our stock of national knowledge, and they're just a waste of time.

And it's fascinating as hell to me because this is so very much part of the anti-intellectual display of people who are elitists, but who seriously underestimate the intellect of the people they're performing for. It's part of their grand and absurd performance of class, a nod to the same people they cynically attempt to hoodwink by strapping on the hard hat and struggling awkwardly into a fluorescent vest for a 10 minute photoshoot every election season.

We've had 31 prime ministers. At least 10 have had a bachelor of arts. Going out on a limb, but I suspect it's not because it's secretly a useless qualification.

#deep sigh #australia #straya #auspol #What the fuck is the tag I use for this #tozette.txt #it's just all so incredibly inauthentic and cynically done

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axvoter · 1 year

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Blatantly Partisan Party Review VII (Victoria 2022): Fiona Patten’s Reason Party

Prior reviews (first three as the Australian Sex Party): federal 2013, VIC 2014, federal 2016, VIC 2018), federal 2019, federal 2022

See also my reviews of two parties that merged with Reason:

Australian Cyclists Party: VIC 2014, federal 2016

Voluntary Euthanasia Party: federal 2013, VIC 2014, federal 2016, VIC 2018; NSW 2019

What I said before: “My general vibe is that this is the party for left-leaning urban Gen X/younger Boomers, especially those in small business.” (federal 2022)

What I think this time: Fiona Patten managed to narrowly retain a seat for Northern Metropolitan in the Legislative Council in 2018, an uncommon example of a micro-party securing re-election under the anti-democratic Group Ticket Voting system. She faces an uphill battle to hold onto it again this year. The irony is that Patten and Reason support GTV for mistaken and frankly baffling reasons, and the only reforms they propose reflect a personal grudge against “preference whisperer” Glenn Druery instead of achieving more democratic outcomes. It would be easier for Patten to secure re-election if voters at Victorian state elections could distribute preferences above the line (like they can in the Senate) and if her rivals couldn’t siphon 100% of their voters’ preferences away from her (which would never happen under any other system). For more, see the Reason section of Kevin Bonham’s blog entry on each party’s GTV policies.

So, what do Reason stand for besides endorsing a shitty anti-democratic method of electing the state upper house? Happily, the rest of their platform is better. They are taking to the state election the same sort of policies that they took to the federal election, focused on civil liberties, gender equality, and personal freedoms. Broadly put, they are much closer to the Greens than they are to Labor.

Perhaps the bigger question is what distinguishes Reason from the Greens. In some cases, it is a matter of emphasis. Reason have decent policies on climate change and the environment, but it is not their raison d’être. Rather, their civil libertarian ethos leads to an emphasis on topics such as drug law reform, reproductive health, and limiting the influence of religion in public life. This outlook, plus Reason’s links to the adult industry, means they are friendlier to cutting regulations for small businesses, and your enthusiasm for this might vary depending on whether you own a small business or work for one!

Reason supports the rights of the sex industry, as you might expect from the erstwhile Sex Party. It seems this support includes sex workers, despite concerns (including mine) in their early days that this was the party of industry bosses. By contrast, there have been some issues with SWERFs within the Victorian branch of the Greens—the preselection of a notable SWERF as a candidate for one seat in 2018 elicited protests from party members.

The last and perhaps most significant point of comparison between the Greens and Reason is over trans rights. This year, issues within the Greens regarding TERFs in the Victorian branch have come to a head. Despite the party’s subsequent disavowals of transphobia, I would not blame anyone for waiting to see more concrete proof that Victorian Greens are genuine advocates for the trans community. By contrast, Reason has consistently supported trans rights.

The impression that I get from Reason’s website is that they are clearly pitching at socially-liberal urban professionals, particularly Gen X and extending to older Millennials and younger Boomers. The language, presentation, and core issues all suggest this is their main demographic. Reason has no strong ideological undercurrent—Marxists will certainly be disappointed—but in broad terms there is not much objectionable for the left-wing voter.

My recommendation: Give Fiona Patten’s Reason Party a good preference. Remember to vote below the line on the large ballot for the Legislative Council so that your preference goes where you want it to go; all ballots with 5 or more preferences marked below the line are valid votes.

(I feel like I need a disclaimer, lest I look like I am writing this entry to promote a vote for Reason over the Greens. I am not a member of any political party, nor have I ever been, and in past elections I have preferenced the Greens above Reason. I do think, however, that this year it is worth considering your options—for voters in Northern Metropolitan, this might be an especially tough decision.)

Website: https://www.reason.org.au/

#auspol #springst #vicvotes #vicvotes22 #vicvotes2022 #Victorian election #Victoria #Election 2022 #Melbourne #Reason Party #Fiona Patten's Reason Party #Reason Australia #Fiona Patten #Australian Sex Party #civil liberties #civil libertarianism #good preference #sort out that GTV stance and you're golden

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totalheatherisland · 2 years

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TD Character + who they’d vote for in the 2022 Australian federal election

#td #auspol #totaldrama #shitpost #td characters

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wewantclimateactionnow · 1 year

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"What you need to know from Australia’s first-ever annual Climate Change Statement

02.12.22By Climate Council

First off, what is all of this?

As part of the current Federal Government’s election commitments, this year the Climate Change Authority was reinstated. This Authority is responsible for providing independent advice to the Government on climate change policy. The Climate Change Authority’s First Annual Progress Report was submitted to the Federal Government in November, and has now been made public.

The first Annual Climate Change Statement is the Government’s public response to this report.

Ok, so what does it say?

Well, quite a lot – it’s an 80 page document!

To summarise: Australia has turned a welcome corner in national climate and energy policy, but we have a mammoth task ahead with the stakes higher than ever.

Specifically, the documents tabled in the Australian Parliament show:

Australia has raised its expected emissions cuts from 30% by 2030 under the previous government to a now 40% by 2030 expected cut. This still falls short of the legislated 43% by 2030 target.

Australia’s Emissions Projections 2022 forecast that our current trajectory means transport and fugitive emissions from fossil fuel will continue to rise, with the mining industry being the largest source of emissions in 2030.

The government needs to drive cuts of at least 17 million tonnes of carbon a year on average (this is equivalent to the emissions from Australia’s utes, small buses and vans each year) in order to achieve its own target of at least a 43% reduction in emissions by 2030 and net zero by 2050.

The statement sends a stark warning that climate change, driven by the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas, is accelerating with severe consequences already being felt by Australians here and now.

Experts agree that the world is still barrelling towards climate catastrophe, and all countries need to do much more – more quickly – to cut emissions this decade. The Climate Council recommends Australia aim for a 75% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, and reach net zero shortly after. "

#jail climate criminals #we want climate action now #climate change #cambio climático #changement climatique #klimawandel #izmeneniye klimata #klimakatastrophe #qihou bianhua #fossil fuel industry #oil and gas #australia #greenhouse gas emissions

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luthienebonyx · 1 year

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I posted 1,091 times in 2022

13 posts created (1%)

1,078 posts reblogged (99%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@whiteorangeflower

@tanoraqui

@ophidiae

@it-may-be-dull-but-im-determined

@bethanyactually

I tagged 741 of my posts in 2022

Only 32% of my posts had no tags

#cats - 143 posts

#writing - 59 posts

#fanart - 30 posts

#kittens - 26 posts

#dogs - 25 posts

#art - 22 posts

#doctor who - 22 posts

#persuasion - 22 posts

#star trek - 17 posts

#sga - 17 posts

Longest Tag: 140 characters

#taking a paper spill from the jar she re-lit the candle that had lighted her way to bed - more than an hour ago now according to the bracket

My Top Posts in 2022:

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Peter Grant (Rivers of London), Sahra Guleed, Jennifer Vaughan, Miriam Stephanopoulos, Thomas Nightingale, Kimberley Reynolds Additional Tags: Case Fic, architecture, gothic architecture, Gargoyles Summary:

Peter is called to a break-in at just about the last place he expects, and soon discovers that the intruder's identity is even less expected.

This is the story I wrote for Yuletide this year. I was SO sure that I was going to get Ted Lasso that when I got my assignment and saw I’d been matched on Rivers of London I didn’t have any idea what to write at first. But when I looked at my recipient keerawa’s prompts, the idea of a case fic touching on real events jumped out at me - if I could think of the right real event. Luckily, @firesign23 suggested Big Ben’s renovations, and something clicked in my brain and said: gargoyles!

And almost 11,000 words later, here we are. 😂

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Game of Thrones (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jaime Lannister/Brienne of Tarth Characters: Brienne of Tarth, Jaime Lannister, Josmyn "Peck" Peckledon Additional Tags: One Night Stands, Hurt/Comfort, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting Summary:

Six months after an eventful night in the mountains that feels more like a dream than reality, Brienne makes an unwelcome discovery on the day she starts her new job.

This is my story for the JB Fic Exchange, which I wrote for the lovely @writergirl2011

It’s been eight months since I last wrote anything, so it was really nice to sit down and let the words flow again.

A big thanks to @firesign23 and her team for all their hard work running the exchange this year! (And also thanks to @firesign23 for reading this baby through when she had so much else going on yesterday.)

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What a truly progressive government looks like

The man in this photo is Gough (pronounced Goff) Whitlam, the 21st prime minister of Australia. Fifty years ago, on 2 December 1972, Gough Whitlam’s Australian Labor Party won the federal election, and ushered in easily the most progressive government Australia has ever had. It was a government that truly changed Australia, and set it on the path towards being the country it is today.

Gough (he was one of those rare politicians who was widely known simply by his first name. There was truly only one Gough) was tall and imposing, with silver hair and dark eyebrows, and a booming voice that delivered his razor sharp wit. When he led the ALP to victory in 1972, the party had been out of government for 23 long years, and were determined to make a difference when at last they were back in power. As you’ve probably worked out from the glorious 1970s t-shirts in the picture, the election campaign slogan was It’s Time. It featured in a famous election ad jingle, performed by Alison McCallum and accompanied by many famous faces of the time.

After winning the 1972 election, Gough wasted no time in implementing his election promises. Not willing to wait until the final results of the election were confirmed and the full ministry could be appointed, he and his deputy, Lance Barnard, were sworn in as prime minister and deputy prime minister on 5 December. Between the two of them, they held all 27 government portfolios for two weeks until the rest of the ministry was sworn in. The duumvirate, as it was known:

ordered negotiations to establish full relations with China

ended conscription in the Vietnam War

freed the conscientious objectors who had been jailed for refusing conscription

ordered home all remaining Australian troops in Vietnam

re-opened the equal pay case (for women, who were at that time by law paid less than men for doing the same job) and appointed a woman, Elizabeth Evatt, to the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, the body that made the decision

abolished sales tax on the contraceptive pill

announced major grants for the arts

appointed an interim schools commission

barred racially discriminatory sport teams from Australia, and instructed the Australian delegation at the United Nations to vote in favour of sanctions on apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia

And that was just the first two weeks.

In the three years that followed, the Whitlam government:

introduced a national universal health scheme

abolished university fees

abolished the death penalty for federal crimes

established Legal Aid

replaced God Save the Queen with Advance Australia Fair as the national anthem

replaced the British honours system with the Order of Australia

created the family court and introduced no fault divorce, the first country in the world to do so

ended the White Australia policy

introduced the racial discrimination act

advocated for Indigenous rights, including creating the Aboriginal Land Fund and the Aboriginal Loans Commission, and returned some of their traditional lands to the Gurunji people in the Northern Territory. This was the first time that any Australian government had returned land to its original custodians. Here’s a famous photograph by Mervyn Bishop of Gough pouring a handful of red earth into the hands of Gurunji leader Vincent Lingiari, ‘as a sign that this land will be in the possession of you and your children forever‘:

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My #1 post of 2022

You...watched it??? The Netflix-so-called-Persuasion???? I mean. I don't think I have an actual question. Was it just that human urge to stare at a car crash/doom scroll?

@firesign23 and I watched it together. It was good to have someone to scream at as we somehow made our way through it.

I have to say: NOTHING could have prepared me for how bad it is. It is WAY worse than the trailer. And it's not just a dreadful, dreadful DREADFUL adaptation that understands NOTHING about the novel it's allegedly based on. It's not just that it neither knows nor cares about the social rules, styles and fashions of the Regency period.

It's quite simply one of the worst movies I've ever seen in my life. Just so, SO bad. The makers of it clearly have utter contempt for their audience. The way it veers wildly between slapstick comedy and angst, the complete lack of chemistry between (allegedly) Anne and the block of wood playing Wentworth, the random decisions that the characters make which make NO SENSE WHATSOEVER. (Eg. After a conversation with Wentworth on a beach, Anne walks into the water, fully-clothed, and then swims around for a bit. Presumably she then walks back to where she's staying in a soaking wet dress. And yeah, that's a spoiler, but honestly it should serve as a warning, if anyone needs one.)

Henry Golding, who plays Mr Elliot, is the one member of the cast who seems to have realised just what sort of movie he's in, and his performance is COMPLETELY over the top. Perhaps the scene where he explains his Sekrit Plan to Anne with no prompting (because clearly the audience would not have picked up on it without it being spelled out to them) gave him a clue. The bit right near the end where he's kissing Mrs Clay in the street was so extreme that @firesign23 and I both completely lost it. I guess it's better to laugh derisively than to scream in horror?

So, I bet you're sorry you (didn't) ask that question, hey? 😂

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wirbelwindria · 1 year

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Labrys as a serious question, gender bc it looks fun

Labrys/🪓: If you’re a lesbian, how do you feel about the labrys (both the flag and the icon)?

I do like the axe, and I consider the flag pleasing to the eye, in theory at least... I'm not comfortable using it since I find the claim to reclaim the black triangle for lesbians specifically lacking

yes lesbian women certainly weren't embraced by the nazi regime, but from what I understand the black triangle was predominantly used to mark sinti and roma, not specifically female homosexuals

it wasn't used specifically for lesbians, like the pink triangle was for gay men, it seems a lot more relevant to generational trauma in certain groups than to me as a lesbian without ties to historically prosecuted groups

so, I'm not gonna use it, but I'm also not in a position to preach, not enough claim to the history of it, or enough knowledge on the subject

I might give a different labrys design a try though, because as of yet I haven't found an alternative design I like well enough to use

Gender/💩: Here’s the link to get a random Wikipedia page. You now have a neogender based off of the page that was pulled up–what is it?

apparently I'm just identifying as Amanda Stoker lol

Amanda Jane Stoker (née Fell; born 30 October 1982) is an Australian politician who became a Senator for Queensland in 2018 until 2022. She is a member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland (LNP) and sits with the Liberal Party in federal parliament. She was appointed to the Senate after the retirement of George Brandis. Stoker held the ministerial portfolios of Assistant Minister to the Attorney-General, Assistant Minister for Industrial Relations and Assistant Minister for Women in the Morrison government.[1] Stoker was unsuccessful in her re-election bid in the 2022 federal election and departed the Senate on 30 June 2022.

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