#FUCK THE AUSSIE GOVERNMENT
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stil-lindigo · 1 year ago
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Recently, dual citizenship Palestinians managed to safely arrive back in Australia, and while it is a relief to have them out of the reaches of Israel’s bombs, it’s an undeniable tragedy that they have been unjustly ejected from their homes by an active genocide. While celebrating their arrival, remember that the Albanese government STILL won’t demand a ceasefire and obscures any attempt to uncover details about the military aid we’re currently sending Israel, all the while supplying the US and Israel with surveillance intelligence of Gaza sourced from a base in Alice Springs.
Penny Wong, our minister of foreign affairs, remains committed to doing absolutely nothing besides clutching her pearls and pleading for a “humanitarian pause”. We should all be calling her offices (not emailing) and inundating her with demands for a ceasefire.
You can use this template to call Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Defence Minister Richard Marles today.
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The Greens party (the only party to have enough of a spine to call for a ceasefire and to walk out of Parliament in disgust for our cooperation in Israel’s war crimes) has also put together a petition to stop Labour exports of weapons into Israel. You can sign it here.
If you live in Sydney - a boat carrying armaments meant for Israel is going to be docking there in a few days.
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Join trade unionists to protest the boat and delay it for as long as possible.
Australians - I know as a population that a lot of us are checked out of politics. You can’t afford to do that now. 1% of all Palestinians have been killed by Israel’s assault on Palestine - 1 in 100 are dead, and half of those are children. Australia is complicit in genocide and it is up to you to never give our politicians a moment of peace until Palestine is freed.
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drivemysoul · 1 month ago
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“oh no america’s becoming more fascist and conservative i’m gonna move to australia” i hate to tell you this………..
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nando161mando · 4 months ago
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mcsquared789 · 2 months ago
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From a fellow Australian to others! Let’s not let misinformation divide us.
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Aussie Drafty culture is: "WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS HAPPENING OH MY GOD, THE CORRUPTION AAAAAAA"
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"can... can someone PLEASE FIX THE MOTHERFUCKING ONLINE SHIT, WHY IS ALL OF IT GLITCHY! INACCESSIBLE! AND ONLY WORKS ON ONE BROWSER???????"
someone please fucking punch them in the face, it's a dishonour and a disgrace that they allow this level of bugginess.
it's not even easy too lookup and use, it's under like so much stupid bloat text and Is confusing to find like in what world is this even okay.
UGGHGHHGGGGHHGHGH
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calumhoodgoss · 6 months ago
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completely unrelated to 5sos - i just rewatched chernobyl, the hbo series, and its literally rocked my world all over again
you all have to watch it if you haven't yet
not joking its probably one of the most impactful shows ive ever seen
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sissa-arrows · 1 year ago
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French secularism is making it illegal for Black and Brown girls to wear long loose dress and even just large pants at school… BUT lighting candles for Hanukkah at the Élysée palace.
When told by a journalist “that’s kinda not super secular what do you have to say about it” they replied “I would like to remind you that this is the same government who made long loose dresses illegal so saying we are against secularism is wrong”
When I say that France weaponize secularism against North Africans and/or Black people that’s what I mean. Like in their mind secularism is meant for Muslims only and in their same fucked up minds Muslims means Black and Brown people.
Je souffle mais je souffle… c’est trop y’a pas à être aussi cons putain ça devrait pas être possible ils ont pas de cerveau pas d’humanité rien.
Edit: For the record French Jews are not supporting this, they didn’t ask for it. Macron and his government just decided to go for it… the government also said “well Macron visited a mosque in the past” VISITING A MOSQUE IS FUCKING DIFFERENT FROM LIGHTING A CANDLE FOR HANUKKAH AT THE FUCKING ÉLYSÉE. Had he been invited to a synagogue to do that I would be perfectly fine but the presidential palace? No. That’s the fucking opposite of secularism.
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kkoffin · 2 months ago
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make Australia TERF island please. we got Germaine Greer and Sal Grover PLEASE‼️ It’s getting too much altogether with female-only spaces literally being illegal IM BEGGING!! Our fucking DV rates are off the charts but the government seems to be spending more time making ads shaming women for being uncomfortable and feeling unsafe being left alone in a private space with a TIM
If any Aussie radfems are reading this, START STICKERING!!! PUTTING UP POSTERS!! WRITING LETTERS!! ANYTHING TO RAISE AWARENESS! Even if it’s anonymously. Do as much as you can. We need politicians to realise we are a considerable voting class. There’s nothing more judges can do, judges cannot remove existing law, and males can LEGALLY be considered female here. We need change in the law.
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inezrable · 2 months ago
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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.
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submalevolentgrace · 6 months ago
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for pretty much my entire life we have been locking up refugees in UN-certified human-rights-violating "offshore detention" camps for the heinous crime of daring to try and flee from death and worse, often from wars-on-terror we've helped wage, and have very much done highly decorated war crimes in. we hold them in conditions so bad that war-fleeing refugees have sown their mouths shut, tried to starve themselves, even children trying to kill themselves to escape what we're doing to them. WE are doing. because in my boots on the ground activism days i tried to fight the government on this, and the fact is, the australian public on the whole doesn't give a shit about us torturing refugee kids, half the country is in support of it, so the government gets a free pass no matter which side is in power. from howard to rudd to gillard to rudd to abbott to turnbull to morison to albanese, we lock up and torture refugees. the UN anti-torture inspectors aren't allowed to visit. the camps are run by a private USA prison contractor now.
and it's not like we can't organise a protest! we'll barricade MP's offices because of something an ally-in-law country is doing that we condemn, but when the blood is on our hands we don't wanna know, don't wanna fight, don't wanna admit. and albanese gets up there and says those barricades have "crossed a line", "there's no place for violence like this in our democracy", he says. you know where there is an implicit place for violence, apparently? cops beating indigenous kids to death on camera, the australian people are fine with that apparently. happens all the time. better have a curfew so those kids don't get too rowdy about it!
oh and the CIA agents and US soldiers we welcomed here to supposedly defend us, they rape a bunch of women and children, mostly also indigenous? better get ASIO and the AFP to monitor the population for anti-american sentiment, local cops do it plenty too and we can't stand up to the USA, we're about to go to war with our biggest economic trading partner on their behalf, the troop buildup locations have already been announced! sweep it under the rug little aussies, scrub it from your memory, who cares about raped children anyway? not worth protesting, apparently.
we are right in the middle of the asia-pacific, with loosely speaking about a 5th of the population ethnically or culturally asian, and they are absolutely terrified of speaking out about how many hate crimes they suffer constantly, because the other 80% of the population is more culturally invested in american politics than the fact that labor considers pauline hanson an ally. i don't blame the 20% getting hatecrimed for being scared to speak up, i sure as fuck blame the rest of us for not protecting them, and for doing those hate crimes. "wE'rE a MuLtIcUlTuRaL sOcIeTy!! nO rAcIsM hErE!!", but we'll organise citywide marches in the middle of a pandemic if a black american kid gets killed over there, and then tell blak people they're spelling it wrong.
then we flood the region with our white-bleached propaganda and "culture", to control smaller governments and and lure the people of the region here for our economic benefit; the wealthy as fodder to fund the education complex, and the poor to work below-minimum-wage-slavery "jobs programs" on our great proud aussie battler family run farms.
it's all out in the open. the torture, the murder, the rape, the hate crimes, the technically-it's-legally-distinct-from-slavery, it's all known, all reported regularly on the news, endlessly, cyclically, every few months or years, for my whole life. fuck knows what else we're doing and i don't know about because pine gap prevents it from reaching english language news.
i know the internet zeitgeist really only cares about the single latest trending topic to happen, so you're wondering what that is to make me react enraged and ashamed; but it's everything. i haven't even scratched the surface, just ranting off the top of my head.
every day i carry the shame of what a disgusting violent colony nation this is; to the people who consider themselves australian, to the people here before the nation and their descendants, to the people surrounding us now. i carry the guilt of failure to stop it, and casual complicity of having given up the fight because i couldn't handle it. i think that's what most activists do here, give up in shame, because activists aren't fighting the government - we have one of the most free and open democracies in the world, and the spineless cowards in charge absolutely will do what the populace whims of them - activists here are fighting the cruel and apathetic average australian, who either don't care, or active condone it all. we have the blood of this country on our hands.
so.
what has australia done now?
it's fucken wednesday, mates. nothing new.
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kalethemonster · 2 months ago
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my american trans siblings, you will be under a fascist government once january rolls around. that fact is fucking terrifying. even for me as an aussie. (though your politics heavily affect us also bc all social media algorithms treat anyone posting in english as american)
take your time to mourn your freedom. you're losing sooo fucking much and it breaks my heart. the next two months you have left should be used for networking with irl trans people and preparing yourself mentally. let yourself morn but for fucks sake stay alive.
every day you exist is an act of resistance against those who wish you never existed in the first place.
so, how can you keep yourself existing?
irl? go back to 80's queer social policy. dont ask, dont tell. but definately use ways of signing to other queer people that you are one. with irl community, do your best to keep eachother afloat and help where you can. if you grow food, share it out. if you have a vacant room, add someone who needs a place to your household (ground rules and house rules important obvi). if you gotta go back in the closet do so, if you're already transitioning medically do your best to stock up on hrt during the next two months. your irl community is the best resource you have, so networking to find them while you an still do so freely in the next two months is critical.
social media is a tad more complicated so i'll break it down by site/company.
twitter: archive any important past posts you have made via screenshots and then just fucking nuke your account, delete all posts you have made individually to make sure and the delete the acc. elongated muskrat is the annoying orange's biggest financial supporter. he will turn over any and all info he government may request about trans and queer users. if you ever needed any more reasons to dump twitter thab the ones you have already had, take this one.
meta: in terms of facebook, if you still need it for family, archive posts abt being trans via screenshots, and delete said posts. if they were posted by supportive familiy members then get them to delete what they have posted of your identity for safety reasons, then only use for family you can only reach through it. for instagram and threads private any accounts you have that has your personal information attached other than ones for personal businesses. if you need public account access for reaching out,, make an account with only your first name listed, fill it with aesthetic shit or meme posts so it isn't easily linked to you as a person.
as far as i know with bluesky, more or less post as usual but stilll protect your personal information. first name and pronouns only. do not include location markers.
redit, hold all personal info verry close to your heat, give nothing away, have like 50 burners, you dont need karma.
youtube, if you only use it for viewing, use as normal. if you upload, do your best to not show ANY recognisable outdoor landmarks, keep personal info tight, and donot get into anything political. if you can take a hiatus that would be even better.
tumblr: post as normal minus locational and government info.
common thread here is do not reveal any personal shit at all and do your best to conceal what is already posted. back to 90s rules for most sites. unfortunately tech-literate bigots finding your info is a possibility and so you want to withhold as much as you can to avoid being located and identified.
general ruled (both irl and online):
you are dealing with fascists. anything out of line they will actively try to snuff out. if anyone st all tries to get you to talk about ANYTHING REMOTE POLITICAL in any form of public space, SHUT THE FUCK UP. completely shut it down with "i dont talk about politics" or "i dont like politics". yes it's the pussy's answer to get out of shit, but being a pussy in the presence of violent fascists keeps you alive. if they try to talk about palastine, shut the fuck up. if they try to talk about trans people, shut the fuck up. if they try to talk about abortion, shut the fuck up. if they try to talk about disability/meantal health. from new years onwards, you will treat any person in the US who tried to talk about any of that shit in public that isn't doing it for the sake of protest as a narc. you will only properly discuss it behind closed doors with trusted family, comunity and allies.
as of new years day, it is the job of all allies in the us to basically be human shields for not only queer communities, but disabled, migrant, and any form of non-white communities too. if you are cis, white, able bodied, and have been an american citizen from birth, and happen to be a decent person, you are the ones who gotta protect those who cant protect themselves or cant leave the country. yes even if you're queer. if you are a white cis queer person, you can hide your sexuality for 4 years. most trans and intersex people cannot hide their gender or traits.
to recap: for the next two months, mourn your freedom, connect with your local queer comunity. do not share any personal info anywhere online unless you have a buisness, and then keep said info to the bare minimum. if people try to talk to you in public, shut the fuck up. allies and white cis lgb must protect those who cant run or hide.
the next four years are gonna be hell. but just know that of it seems no one has your back, this trans man all the way in australia has your back. love from me, my cousin, and my wonderfully supportive mother. stay sane, aqy safe, stay together.
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theshampyon · 1 year ago
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It's that time of year where I'm reminded how utterly fucked it is that so many Aussies fall for the lies about how much of their tax goes to "dole bludghers" and "artsy fartsy shit no-one sees" and blah blah blah.
Australian tax receipts include a breakdown of what proportion of your total taxes paid goes to which government services. Here's a sample:
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I compared the sample to my real return. It's roughly accurate to the real proportions.
That long blue line is welfare as a whole. It's a little over a third of total taxes paid. It's definitely not a small part of it. But look at how much of that goes to the unemployed. That's the tiny pale green line.
6.67% of the entire welfare portion. 2.5% of the total tax. That's the "dole bludgers", most of whom are actually workers with inconsistent schedules, working in fields with down periods, people between jobs, etc. High estimates put the total percentage of fraudulent recipients in that little green splotch at 0.04%.
That's 0.00001% of your total tax going to the estimated welfare cheats. Save that for five years and you have a penny. An absurdly small price to pay to ensure everyone who needs it can rest assured they (probably) won't starve to death on the streets.
That little dark blue dot? That's all of those arts programs that the newspapers tell us are the reason we can't make rent. And they're only a small part of that slice - the rest is for town fairs and community festivals and town centenary celebrations and on and on.
Politicians and newspapers and talking heads keep telling us that every financial problem we have would be solved if we eliminated the dole and arts funding. But they're clearly not the issue. And looking at that breakdown, not a lot of it is. It's all going to things we need. Things we should have. The problem clearly isn't where we're spending. It's the fact that we don't have enough to spend. And that is a problem caused by a complete and utter failure to make the wealthy, especially corporations, put a fair share of their profits back into the public purse.
Not only that. They tell us these lies while cutting the tax burdens of the wealthy. Reducing the amount we have to spend, without ever reducing the amount we need to spend. Always knowing with certainty that a huge number of voters will buy the lie, in spite of the evidence staring them right in the face.
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skopostheorie · 5 months ago
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To be clear, there are absolutely extremists in Australia and there's a couple in government. But I think a lot of Aussies don't realise the role compulsory voting plays in avoiding maniacs as prime minister. Because they have to make sure they actually appeal to the Aussie who has the most middle of the road opinions ever. An Aussie who doesn't watch the news or even know who leads each party will go to vote, get a pamphlet that says let's deport everyone and force everyone to be heterosexual and is like what the fuck? And votes for Normal Normalguy instead. Whereas in other countries that person doesn't even show up
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nando161mando · 4 months ago
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Aussies know how to get down 🇦🇺✊🏼
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evangelifloss · 1 year ago
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Please tell me about the great emu war of 1932 :3
"Haha Australia lost a war to emus twice"
NO BUT YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND!!
Here's why:
First, I don't believe foreigners know how BIG emus are, and how much of their stocky main body is just layers and layers of feathers
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This is Peck. He doesn't actually Peck but he LOVES the LADIES and for reference, that's me as he's uh... trying to woo me. I'm 4'11 / 149cm tall and in that photo he's not standing at full height either because he's preparing to get lower and ahem, grind. He is also a juvenile.
Emus are typically 5.7 feet/1.75 meters tall, but they have been recorded to get up to 6.2 feet/1.9 meters.
So imagine you've got this big ass dinosaur bird with the most t-rex looking feet perfectly designed for running. Yeeting. Skeeting. Killing you maybe. And now take into account these flightless fucks can run up to 62 Kilometers per hour. THATS 39 MILES PER HOUR TOP SPEED.
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Now add 20,000 emus.
So 20,000 emus against poverty-stricken farmers with failing crops, farmers WHO WERE MOSTLY WW1 VETERANS BY THE WAY. Yeah nah.
Here's a visual to help y'all understand how insanely large emu groups get.
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Onto why the hell were there so many emus on the farmlands (even tho... yknow... the emus and the local indigenous were there first but we won't get into that.)
Basically a big drought made the horde of emus move away from their usual dwindling territory, onto the sprawling Australian "farm lands" and remember I mentioned their feet before? BIG STOMPY. Whatever crops that had somehow managed to survive the severely vitamin-deficient soil and grow, did not in fact, survive the dinosaur feet as the emus strolled through, pecking and foraging the ground along the way.
The plight of the veteran farmers didn't fall on deaf ears, but the Australian government severely underestimated the power of 20,000 emus by a LONG shot. Plus they weren't all that interested either, until at least it was reported that the emus were destroying the Rabbit Proof Fence. What legends.
For the first "war" the government sent 3 men.
Yep. You heard me. Three guys. Major Meredith, Sargeant McMurray and a soldier by the name of O'Halloran.
They had one truck with a machine gun, and probably other guns, but between them roughly 10,000 rounds of ammunition.
So off they went. To wage war against the progressive emus breaking the symbol of "White Australia" AKA the Fence. Oh and also I guess the starving vets.
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This is it. This is what they had.
Locals from all around joined in the fight and tried to herd the roaming groups of emus into the murder range but the emus had a tactic. One that us Aussies use at bush doofs when you hear police sirens- and that is to SCATTER.
They only killed "a dozen birds" from a group estimated to be around 1000. It didn't help that the machine gun jammed during this organised ambush.
And by then, the Emus clicked onto what was happening. They split up into smaller groups, observed to be led by the largest sized male who kept an eye out for the enemy. Never again did they risk coming together as seen before.
The war was lost. Only a few more attempts were made that had little success and Ornithologist Dom Serventy concisely summarised the whole operation.
I want to remind you all that this is a recorded statement, kept on file in legal military documentation
"The Emu command had evidently ordered guerrilla tactics, and its unwieldy army soon split up into innumerable small units that made use of the military equipment uneconomic. A crestfallen field force therefore withdrew from the combat area after about a month."
Let's move onto Emu War Part Two: Unsuccessful Boogaloo
Heads up by the way, TW below.
Emus were still, y'know, Emu-ing about and the drought didn't let up either. People were still dying of starvation, becoming homeless and committing suicide. It took the Premier of Western Australia, and a Base Commander in the military penning letters and using media pressure to finally convince the government to give it another go.
Major Meridith returns to the War and having learnt from practically everyone's past assumptions of the highly intelligent sonic-speed bird, brought success. And by that I mean, more success than the previous war.
Ultimately only 5% of the 20k Emu Army were ever killed, and even that is debated since it is more than likely they inflated numbers of kills to lessen the damage of being completely inferior to the superb qualities of the Emu.
A Federal parliamentarian (like a senator) when asked about whether there should be a medal made for the conflict, he replied with:
"Any medals should go to the emus who had won every round so far."
And of course in true Aussie fashion, the Defence Minister who supported and approved for the Emu War 1 and 2, was given the title by the Australian public, and international conservationists of ‘Minister for the Emu War’.
Ouch, but also, Not Every Problem Has To Be Solved With Guns.
Ironically what worked far better was the implementation of fences to keep the Emus OUT and unfortunately, a bounty system that saw many locals and professional hunters alike have FAR more success than an entire military operation. 57,000 bounties were claimed in a six month period after it being introduced in 1934.
Thus concludes the Great Emu War of 1932.
If you're asking why I know this, I studied it when I was 16, and made an entire poster to which I gave it to my Japanese Teacher. For context: I was living in Japan. Going to a Japanese School. And teaching my poor English teacher about this Emu War that he only believed once he looked it up. As a parting gift I gave him a poster. Shout out to Kawamura-Sensei you tried so hard not to laugh at the poster but I won that war.
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Here it is. All the quotes on there are real too!
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cultofmalcolm · 9 months ago
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so i've decided to put like the mercs in a british secondary school
Here's some facts abt each of them!
@muttering-folklore helped a lot with this, so danke mein vater
Soldier: Trans Solly propergander (ftm), instead of touring people around famous people, he was either helping out on open evening or showing governers around. Merasmus' only friend (M swears they're not friends) GCSESs: Food tech, Pe, history, spanish, trilogy
scout: He and sPy are half brotehrs in this, bc its a bit weird if ur dad goes to the same school as you. Wears headphones around bc most teachers dont care (at our school at least) Gcses: Art, Pe, French, Geography, Trilogy
Pyro: i have no fucking clue what to do with them, other than them being a head prefect :( GCSEs: Art, busniess, doesn't do a language does extra maths and english lessions instead, geography, trilogy
Demo: Not much abt him again, i don't even have his gcses down, and he's sctually britsh. gets drunk in fields most of the time
Heavy: Moved schools over the summer, to be with his sisters but moved back along with Zhanna. Used to date Medic, then stopped, then started again <3 GCSEs German, Geography, food, PE, Triple
Engie: Head boy. Buzz cuz. Wears glasses in this bc its very similar to goggles GCSEs: DT, computing, History, german, triple
Medic: fellow trans man, joined the abserloute cunts that are the classics over the summer. neek. GCSEs: Triple, PE, geography, History, German
Sniper: gamer kid. moved from aussie over the summer, the gang saw him in a window looking all sad and was like, "yo you wanna be friends?" "sure" called sniper bc he's very good at shooter games, especially one called Band Bastille 2 GCSEs: no fucking clue mate
spy: as said before, scouts half brother. No one actually knows what he looks like due to the fact that he always has his hood up, despite the teachers constant nagging. steals cigs from shops (would never even touch a vape ewww) GCSEs: French, idk ehat else
merasmus: enby, goth though everyone calls them a wizard or magician, fucking hates it, went by max for the best part of year 7 then a substitute came along and everyone knew their real name, embarrassed as fuck abt it GCSEs: Spanish, idk what else
Miss. Pauling: college student, hangs out with the gang while they all skive off school, idk what she took for college bc I'm still in secondary school, probably a levels though. somehow top of her classes??
rights that it, i have ideas for admin, and the manns and that lot, but that shall have to wait
please reblog this, i would like others to know the glory that is a British secondary school au
hehe sideways merasmus design
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