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So who's the new special envoy for combatting anti-first nations racism?
So who's the new special envoy for combatting anti-first nations racism?
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"Surely an Australian app, with an Australian founder, becoming the most downloaded app on Apple’s US app store, is a story worth telling? If it’s newsworthy for Euronews, surely it’s newsworthy for Australian news sites?
It seems not."
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02/the-meteoric-rise-of-upscrolled-and-the-australian-medias-silence-about-it/
Kate Bowles
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Angela Antunovic
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South Africa kicks out the Israeli envoy, an act which Australia should emulate, as well as banning Herzog from entry.
https://saftu.org.za/archives/9344 #Israel #Palestine #GazaGenocide #auspol #BanHerzog
South Africa kicks out the Israeli envoy, an act which Australia should emulate, as well as banning Herzog from entry.
https://saftu.org.za/archives/9344 #Israel #Palestine #GazaGenocide #auspol #BanHerzog
"Surely an Australian app, with an Australian founder, becoming the most downloaded app on Apple’s US app store, is a story worth telling? If it’s newsworthy for Euronews, surely it’s newsworthy for Australian news sites?
It seems not."
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02/the-meteoric-rise-of-upscrolled-and-the-australian-medias-silence-about-it/
Angela Antunovic
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This article addresses the fact that parliamentary representation isn’t the only method by which people can participate in a healthy democracy. When legislation is drawn up which is about a particular group in society, it’s important that the group is consulted & heard.
Our failure to institute The Voice, given the history of dispossession, violence & abuse, was a gross failure to recognise how democracy works and needs to be maintained.
We are seeing how democracy has fallen into decay in the US and is at risk of becoming a total sham as it is in Russia.
The Voice would have renewed Australian democracy. Its failure leaves us all worse off https://theconversation.com/the-voice-would-have-renewed-australian-democracy-its-failure-leaves-us-all-worse-off-271836?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20February%204%202026%20-%203663837432&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20February%204%202026%20-%203663837432+CID_980c5e02ab1881f059276353a3f9d65b&utm_source=campaign_monitor&utm_term=The%20Voice%20would%20have%20renewed%20Australian%20democracy%20Its%20failure%20leaves%20us%20all%20worse%20off
This article addresses the fact that parliamentary representation isn’t the only method by which people can participate in a healthy democracy. When legislation is drawn up which is about a particular group in society, it’s important that the group is consulted & heard.
Our failure to institute The Voice, given the history of dispossession, violence & abuse, was a gross failure to recognise how democracy works and needs to be maintained.
We are seeing how democracy has fallen into decay in the US and is at risk of becoming a total sham as it is in Russia.
The Voice would have renewed Australian democracy. Its failure leaves us all worse off https://theconversation.com/the-voice-would-have-renewed-australian-democracy-its-failure-leaves-us-all-worse-off-271836?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20February%204%202026%20-%203663837432&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20February%204%202026%20-%203663837432+CID_980c5e02ab1881f059276353a3f9d65b&utm_source=campaign_monitor&utm_term=The%20Voice%20would%20have%20renewed%20Australian%20democracy%20Its%20failure%20leaves%20us%20all%20worse%20off
I often imagine what Australian politics might look like if we had a once-off candidate who ran on the basis of changing the current 2PP system.
= Run a party that exists only for the purpose of changing the current system. One term and step aside for a better future.
What changes do I mean?
- Replace 2PP with proportional representation
- Remove corporate donations
- Remove ability for ministers to sell themselves to corporations within 10 years of leaving parliament.
- New laws for truth in advertising to apply to political parties
- Restore media ownership laws to reduce cross-media ownership
- Restore working conditions to prevent "gig economy" contracts that undermine minimum wages.
- Make room for people to participate in politics without being a lawyer.
That's just a few thoughts off the top of my head.
#auspol
Spain, France and the UK are considering following Australia in banning under-16s from using "social media". To put it differently, it means all social media users are required to prove their identity and age.
How do they define "social media"? All discussion I have seen so far has been really vague, and basically assumed that American tech giants and social media are the same thing.
Depending on their definition, this onerous requirement could destroy the Fediverse.
How has this affected Australian users and Fedi instances so far?
Morning Jim Chalmers. Here we are where the reckoning occurs. Your path to the top means now you have to actually do something. 1/ Free means tested childcare 2/ Tax wealthy property owners and give the money to young homeowners (yes, actual cash) 3/ Penalise the states that are not building enough houses (WA, Qld, NSW). Make it hurt. You are welcome. #auspol
Emma Davidson
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Political donations. Money doesn’t buy you happiness! https://michaelwest.com.au/political-donations-money-doesnt-buy-you-happiness/ #Auspol
Alex Akselrod
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@amirbkhan/115994957710912346
100% why the work of @oaf is so important to what we have of Australian democracy.
❤️ that theyvoteforyou.org.au makes it so plain and simple to see what politicians do in parliament, not what they say to the media.
#OpenSource #SaveDemocracy #Australia #AusPol #FosDem
If you take just one thing away from #FOSDEM this is it.
“If we lose our democracies, Open Source is irrelevant and goes away”
or putting it another way:
If we don’t apply, enforce, adopt and embrace Open Source in our public and government institutions we risk to lose our democracies.
#OpenSource #SaveDemocracy
Boost if you agree!
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Political donations. Money doesn’t buy you happiness! https://michaelwest.com.au/political-donations-money-doesnt-buy-you-happiness/ #Auspol
RE: https://mastodon.social/@amirbkhan/115994957710912346
100% why the work of @oaf is so important to what we have of Australian democracy.
❤️ that theyvoteforyou.org.au makes it so plain and simple to see what politicians do in parliament, not what they say to the media.
#OpenSource #SaveDemocracy #Australia #AusPol #FosDem
If you take just one thing away from #FOSDEM this is it.
“If we lose our democracies, Open Source is irrelevant and goes away”
or putting it another way:
If we don’t apply, enforce, adopt and embrace Open Source in our public and government institutions we risk to lose our democracies.
#OpenSource #SaveDemocracy
Boost if you agree!
👇🏽
Joel Michael
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Oh, please One Nation, do bring back Cory Bernardi. That will totally help your chances outside rednecks in the bush
Oh, please One Nation, do bring back Cory Bernardi. That will totally help your chances outside rednecks in the bush