AngoraFish

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Australian. Left wing nerd, native plants, landscape design, urbanism, urban fantasy reader, Celtic music, folk festivals, violins, free range children, atheist. No gofundmes, fund political lobbying instead. Free Palestine. Fuck Murdoch.

The Age Newspaper Headline: "I’m deeply sorry for what happened on Big Build projects. This is how we stop it happening again" Jacinta Allan Premier, State of Vitoria, Australia
The Age Newspaper headline. Who will replace Karl Stefanovic? (From left) David Campbell, Michael Rowlands, James Bracey, Tom Steinfort, David Woiwod and James Dry. News & current affairs The wildcards Nine might consider poaching to replace Karl Stefanovic With the Today host removed after 20 years in the chair, the network bosses are faced with the biggest decision of all.
Starmer: "Every decision I have taken is about putting the country I love first." Andrey X: "Is that country Israel?"
"People will say that he accomplished nothing. That is false. First, he extracted the poison of Corbynism from the Labour party. This ruinous fever dream stoked hatred against Jews and turned the opposition into an unelectable jumble sale of mad bullshit, thereby allowing the Conservative government to also degenerate into ever more extreme positions. It was a leadership cult for a moron. It had to be killed."
The Age newspaper headline: Albanese winds back tax hikes for small businesses, start-ups, testamentary trusts
The Age newspaper headline. Albanese weighs wider tax exemptions as Melbourne property price woes grow
Banging head in frustration.
Baby formula with baby on tin.
The Age Newspaper (Australia) 15/2/26 headline "She tried to fix the Liberals’ women problem. Now she’s quitting the party"
The Age Newspaper (Australia) headline "Taylor, Hume vow to lower taxes, flag budget cuts" 15/2/26
Proscribed protest area map for Sydney from The Guardian
The Ratchet Effect: Labor stops movement back to the left; conservatives move everything to the right.
The Age newspaper headline: PM considering calling a Bondi shooting royal commission: senior sources
Newspaper headline: PM considering calling a Bondi shooting royal commission: senior sources
The ratchet effect. Liberals stop movement back to the left. Conservatives move everything to the right.
The Age newspaper headline. Wells charged taxpayers $1000 for car to wait while she watched tennis – for seven hours
The Age newspaper headline. Shadow treasurer says Chalmers ‘humiliated’ in super tax backflip Ted O’Brien has accused Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of humiliating Jim Chalmers by taking leave just before the treasurer announced a retreat on super tax.
Headlines from various newspapers announcing approval of the Koala vaccine.
Map of developed countries with free and/or universal health care
Instead of rolling back the cabinet exemption, she’s dramatically expanding it, virtually back to where it was before Labor’s John Faulkner reduced the exemption in 2009, when everything vaguely connected to the cabinet process was exempt. The Centre for Public Integrity called it “a classic Yes Minister move”. Younger generations might call it something else: blatant gaslighting. To hear Rowland invoking those who died as a result of robodebt, as though this bill is some sort of recognition of what they suffered, makes the lie particularly grubby and offensive. It’s an absolute disgrace. It’s not the only lie hanging around the package. As Anton Nilsson noted yesterday, Rowland conjured the positively Trumpian fiction that “offshore actors” were using FOI to obtain information, but could produce no evidence whatsoever to back the claim, and could only offer one example of an agency being “flooded” with requests, involving the government’s internet censor, the e-safety commissioner. It’s just the latest example of national security being used as a fig leaf for government secrecy and evasion of accountability. This is not only a bad bill, but a bad bill backed by bullshit from a government that has clearly had its big election win go to its head. Australia’s big media companies, the ABC and SBS have previously joined together to run an aggressive Australia’s Right To Know campaign to oppose government attacks on media freedom and lack of transparency. Such a campaign is required again to fight an immensely retrograde bill that would be the biggest attack on transparency in a generation, but even in the short period since the last campaign, the media’s resources for such a campaign have shrunk.
Dan doesn’t care, but he has lost his moral compass Footage of Daniel Andrews posing with Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin is not just an opportunity to try out some jokes about Dictator Dan. It’s actually quite serious. James Massola
PM says some good people marched on Sunday, blames exploitation by neo-Nazis By Paul Sakkal and Nick Newling September 1, 2025 — 6.59pm Listen to this article 4 min Good people attended Sunday’s fiery anti-immigration protests, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has declared, warning that neo-Nazis were exploiting people’s grievances to spread hatred. Parliament erupted on Monday as Labor, the Coalition and the Greens blamed one another for fuelling the hostility displayed by far-right extremists on Sunday and those waving terror group insignia at pro-Palestine rallies.
Burke signs $400m deal to deport hundreds of former detainees to Nauru Burke’s office uploaded a statement to the Home Affairs website on Friday afternoon, saying Australia had agreed to pay Nauru in exchange for deporting former detainees.
Beavis and Butt-Head on a couch
Old man yells at cloud
Littleproud flagged that the two parties could reconnect in the future, saying his door was open to the Liberals. “We have had a coalition of over 80 years and I suspect we will have one in the future. It has been broken before. What this is about is taking a deep breath and saying to the Australian people, this is time apart [for] us to be better."
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Rusted on bingo card with all the excuses that Labor uses to avoid making meaningful change. Full credit to Jon Kudelka
“More investors mean more renters and less homeowners. We need to encourage home ownership. Housing should be about having a safe place to live, not a tax-effective way to make money. “Reducing investor demand for housing and then using the billions saved to increase the supply of housing is a win-win for cheaper housing."
CNN headline: Trump tariffs shock Wall Street; US markets post worst day since 2020
New York TImes front page Trump and Vance Berate Ukrainian Leader in Oval Office President Trump and Vice President JD Vance accused President Volodymyr Zelensky of being ungrateful for aid and not acceding to U.S. demands. In a Fox News interview, Mr. Zelensky dodged a question about whether he owed Mr. Trump an apology. See more updates › Analysis Zelensky, Seeking a Diplomatic Victory With Trump, Leaves With a Debacle President Volodymyr Zelensky had hoped to secure U.S. support in any cease-fire talks with Russia. Instead, his meeting with President Trump unraveled into insults. 6 min read
Paywalled article https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/jac-the-knife-new-treasurer-signals-major-budget-surgery-20250220-p5ldrz.html Jac the Knife: New treasurer signals major budget surgery By Chip Le Grand February 20, 2025 — 7.00pm Victoria’s finances are under new management. This is the clear message from Treasurer Jaclyn Symes, who has moved to bring government spending under control in three ways. The first is to acknowledge that the current rate of spending, and particularly the government sector wages bill, is a problem. The second is to admit that the government’s previous attempts to reduce a bloated and inefficient public service haven’t worked. Premier Jacinta Allan and Treasurer Jaclyn Symes (left) announce an independent review into the Victorian Public Service. Premier Jacinta Allan and Treasurer Jaclyn Symes (left) announce an independent review into the Victorian Public Service.Credit: Justin McManus The third is to bring a hired gun, Victoria’s former top bureaucrat Helen Silver, to help pull the trigger on some difficult and overdue decisions. “It’s the sort of thing which, though painful, needs to happen and should have happened once it was clear the pandemic was over,” economist Saul Eslake says. “I have high confidence in Helen Silver to get this right – as long as government listens to her advice.” Related Article Treasurer Jaclyn Symes and Premier Jacinta Allan announce the review on Thursday. Updated Public service Facing the chop: State public service review to target highest-paid bureaucrats
"Rusted on Bingo" A collection of things ALP apologists say to defect attention from their own failings. Credit to https://www.kudelkashop.com/product/rusted-on-bingo-tea-towel/684
"Rusted on Bingo" A collection of things ALP apologists say to defect attention from their own failings. Credit to https://www.kudelkashop.com/product/rusted-on-bingo-tea-towel/684
Historical image of Nazis destroying smut.