A World Turned Upside Down: Australian News

From the AP wire today:

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Reminder that no Australian prison guard has ever been convicted over an Indigenous death in custody.

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The West Australian state election is not going well for the Lib/Nat Coalition:

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From 40 Labor - 13 Liberal - 6 National to 53 Labor - 4 National - 2 Liberal out of 59 seats.

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Decline over time:

OTOH, don’t expect this to change anything here. The current ALP are almost as bad as the US Democrats, for much the same reasons.

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WA electoral trivia:

The Liberal MPs are now outnumbered by Labor MPs named “Lisa”.

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The Tasmanian government is trying to ban “workplace protesting”, labelling it as “economic terrorism”.

What it’s primarily aimed at is shutting down any effective protest action against the logging industry, by defining the forests as workplaces and criminalising any “trespassing” there. It would also criminalise any sort of climate protest that obstructed vehicles (e.g. coal trains, mining trucks, oil tankers, construction machinery…). And, unless it includes specific exemptions for industrial disputes, it would also criminalise just about any effective strike action.

And how does the supposedly left ALP respond to this?

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“Urging”. “Mercy”.

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After the mouse plague…

Obvious warning for the phobic.

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It wasn’t a “mistake”, there was no stolen bike that they were looking for. They went after him because he was Black.

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Every week, every year, for two centuries.

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Victory for now:

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How is hhis still going on?

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