#(Australian Liberal)

[alexanderpearce]

did you know that former australian prime minister tony abbott was tangentially implicated in a wildlife trafficking operation back in the early 2000s google 'tony abbott budgie smugglers' to learn more

[nando161mando]

Democrats And Republicans are Horrible

[inezrable]

AUSSIES PLEASE LISTEN

The Australian government wants to ban social media for under 16s across the country. The way they plan on enforcing this is by having to submit your ID. I don't know about you, but I don't want even more of my personal info online. Plus, teens kind of need socials! Talking to friends and family, communication with potential employers, entertainment - social media isn't the best for you, but you can't really live with none of it. This ban would potentially include Twitter, Tumblr, YouTube, Snapchat, Tiktok, and LinkedIn, plus most other socials. Fuck Albanese.

[brick-van-dyke]

Okay, in light of the "vote blue or don't vote blue" argument I'm seeing around here, I'm gonna tell you all a story.

I'm Australian and I voted for the Labour Party in the last election. For context, the Labour Party is essentially the left democrat party for Australia, while the Liberal Party is the ring wing republican one. So, I did what you'd all call "voting blue" in the USA, but in Australia. Anthony Albanese is the leader of Labour Left, a faction within the Labour Party to push it towards more leftist policies and ideals. He promised to protect minorities and said he would advocate for a free Palestine. We all voted for him believing it would help and so far, it sounds good doesn't it?

Well, here we are and Anthony Albanese has so far been pushing against pro Palestine protests, trying to implement anti protest legislation and made things actively harder for minorities in Australia. He's done nothing that he promised and of course acted almost as bad as the Liberals when they were in just before. In fact, it's arguably worse since the Labour Party has been attacking the right to protest over the last several months. They haven't done shit for minorities and if argue the ALP has actively made our lives harder.

Is voting important or not important? I don't know if u can answer that, but I can say this; politicians shouldn't be trusted to carry out promises when they're only there for self interest, regardless of what label they use to advertise that self interest. You shouldn't depend on them for change and sit around waiting for that change to come from these people. And, most importantly? There is no difference between those who voted and those who didn't when the most left leaning candidate we had has now just become legally complicit in the ICJ for genocide. There is no lesser evil when even one of us is harmed, and there is no "well at least it's not as bad" when that means sacrificing each other for the sake of a few benefits, so we have to band together and fight the whole damn system. It doesn't matter who did what, because at the end of the day the power is to the people, not the politicians who clearly can't be trusted no matter if you voted for "the right one", or chose not to vote at all. So, sure, vote. But don't expect that to change the world. You change the world through getting up with your fellow community and making a stand through your own physical actions against he system, not waiting for a politician to change anything when it's their job to lie and cheat. Reliance on the system is how we all come to lose and division is how we're silenced.

We're in this together and we need to remember what's important; each other and the power WE hold when we work together and fight against the entire system itself, not some representative in a suit.

[redjennies]

this website will cancel a trans woman for breathing funny and then turn around and keep putting the unapologetic racist prismatic-bell's mid ass posts on my dash.

[dadsinsuits]

Malcolm Turnbull

[leftistfeminista]

"There can be no real revolution without women's liberation! There can be no women's liberation without revolution!" Banner at a Women's demonstration in Sydney NSW, 1975.

[lolliepops-rox]

I know y'all r talking a lot abt the American national election, but reminder to all my Queenslanders to put Labor and/or Greens first tomorrow if U haven't voted yet. And remember to put the Liberals/LNP, Nationals, and One Nation last.

Also Clive Palmer last if his party is still running?

[niceferatu]

my incredibly liberal uncle just watched the transgender episode of doctor who and is making it my problem

[malo-mart]

It was so random that I used to pen pal. I made 1 friend out of it and 2 enemies

[ryukisgod]

Corporate needs you to find the difference between this picture

and this picture

[agelessphotography]

Untitled (Women’s Liberation Demonstration in City Square), Ponch Hawkes, 1975

[archival-dodger]

A collection of four gay liberation papers, demonstrating the close ties between left-wing organising and the Australian gay lib movement. The top two come from the 1976 Manifesto of the Socialist Homosexuals, the bottom two are from a queer anarchist paper and satire Marxist groups by painting them as bourgeois intellectuals who would rather talk politics than engage in praxis.

(Photos my own, taken at the Australian Queer Archives. You can find a substantial collection of gay lib material on the site Reason in Revolt).

[stillnaomi]

failed. the word failed makes it sound like an oopsie, as though the state wanted to do well by indigenous people but just didn't do a good job. later on in the guardian article, we get something closer to the truth, admitted by a senior police officer:

It’s really confronting for us to remember that they were acting out policies that were set by the government of the day, that believed, for whatever reason, that they were doing something that was in the interest of the state.

the government were doing something that was in the interest of the state. here we have a recognition that the state acts against sections of society when that's in its interests. in this case, it systematically harassed, murdered, and impoverished indigenous people over the course of many decades, frequently separating children from their families in an urge to force them to assimilate. the liberal myth of a democracy that represents the whole society is so frequently shown to be bs, but liberals and their media insist on talking as though the state isn't an organ of class rule, even in a democratic republic

[nando161mando]

[dadsinsuits]

Scott Morrison