Well May We Say
@wellmaywesay.bsky.social
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A progressive podcast about Australian politics by @jeremysear.bsky.social and guest hosts (often @nickcarrcomedy.bsky.social and @deensey.bsky.social). Find us at wellmaywesay.com and your favourite podcast app.
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If you're in any way lefty, the ALP hates you
ALP 100% committing to giving industry the power to do whatever environmental damage it likes. Don't vote Labor, unless you want more of the natural environment trashed by industry. They really are Another Liberal Party.

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So tax them. Brutal land taxes on all residential zoned land, with
*100% exemption for a person's primary residence;
*reduced rate for properties with long-term tenants (2+ years, higher up to max reduction at 5 yrs; max 2 such properties)

Make these sociopaths sell. "I'll leave it empty" indeed.
expropriate the airbnbs
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It would be a disincentive to those speculative investors who like to kick tenants out to punish them for asking for repairs or something, or so they can get someone else in at much higher rent.
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You know what else renters have to find $1000s for when investors decide to evict them? Moving costs. It should be a condition of a notice to vacate (limited exceptions) that a landlord immediately release the bond & pay a figure for moving costs.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Hundreds of thousands of tenants set to benefit as long-awaited rental reforms introduced to Victorian parliament
Exclusive: New bill seeks to ban rent processing fees, require landlords to provide proof for bond claims and establish a portable bond scheme
www.theguardian.com
Who could love someone like that
Linda Reynolds stampedes to the front of the pack in the hotly contested race for Utter Monster Of The Year (Australia). Enabled by our horrifically broken defamation laws, she's determined to confirm her reputation as one of the worst Australians to have ever lived, up alongside Scummo and Howard.
Linda Reynolds launches bankruptcy proceedings against Brittany Higgins
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Genocidal war criminal nominates his weapons dealer for the Nobel Peace Prize and our Foreign Minister fawns over it.

Embarrassing.
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It's interesting how fascist states go from trying to deport political opponents to seizing and imprisoning any they can get their hands on and refusing to let them leave. See also the flotilla heroes kidnapped by Israel and who Israel has refused to release. Rogue states.
Also - so there's a new Berlin Wall? The US is stopping people escaping it now? The good Americans, the ones targeted by fascists, are now to be trapped there?
you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate
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I guess it's the transition between their fantasy that they have a great place everyone wants to go to, which powers the initial xenophobia that gets them in power; and the reality that they've made it all so awful people now *want* to leave, so *stopping* people escaping is the punishment.
It's interesting how fascist states go from trying to deport political opponents to seizing and imprisoning any they can get their hands on and refusing to let them leave. See also the flotilla heroes kidnapped by Israel and who Israel has refused to release. Rogue states.
Also - so there's a new Berlin Wall? The US is stopping people escaping it now? The good Americans, the ones targeted by fascists, are now to be trapped there?
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This is why we *had* a government-owned bank, to provide services even where not cost-effective for the bank, and what privatising it was a stupid mistake. Same goes for telcos and other necessary services. Basic services need a govt option to be reliable. au.finance.yahoo.com/news/bendigo...
Aussie town running out of cash as residents left with four-hour ordeal: 'We need your cash'
A Tasmanian town is running out of cash after its last bank branch closed its doors.
au.finance.yahoo.com
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If you give a damn about the environment,!or are concerned about climate change, don't vote ALP. They're Another Liberal Party.
Labor is negotiating the details and passage through parliament of these environmental laws with the LNP, not the Greens. That does not bode well. Without far stronger environmental laws the extinction and climate crises will get far, far worse. We all suffer, wildlife, ecosystems and people.
Australia's much loved wildlife and places sorely need greater care and legal protection.

Our latest for @aunz.theconversation.com.

theconversation.com/labor-is-clo... With good friends and colleagues, @drphilmccormack.bsky.social & @yungenchee.bsky.social.
The White House was correct - the Nobel Prize committee clearly *did* "place politics over peace" - awarding it to someone who dedicated it to Trump; who identifies with Margaret Thatcher; and who is a big supporter of the war criminal Netanyahu and his genocidal govt.

nypost.com/2025/10/10/u...
Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado dedicates it to Trump
The Venezuelan opposition leader dedicated her award to President Trump and his “decisive support” of democracy in the South American nation.
nypost.com
An ally of Netanyahu who dedicated her award to Trump? Uh, no, if she's a winner of the Prize, it's worthless.
Sounds like the Nobel Peace Prize is another award given to monsters, and no longer has any value.
The court has its share of blame here - granting Reynolds costs was nuts; costs at the obscene level awarded is an absolute travesty. Defamation law and defamation courts are absolutely out of control in this country and need to be reined in, hard.
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How could they harm Reynolds' reputation any more than her reported actions did and continue to do? What an absolute monster.
The question to ask the people who still insist, despite all the evidence, that their difficulties (house prices and rents, supermarket ripoffs, underfunded healthcare) are the fault of immigrants - "what makes you think that?" Or - "where'd you get that idea"? Make them consider the source.
To the political right, the cruelty IS the point
A young person died just days after the LNP make pill testing illegal.

There’s a good chance that if they could have had these pills tested, they’d be with us all today.
Highly potent synthetic opioids found in teddy bear-shaped pills linked to a death in Queensland
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I'm not sure Labor has any incentive to reform the toothless anti corruption body it designed to be toothless
Reforming the NACC is some low hanging fruit shit. The simple political lines that "We created the first national corruption commission, it's done a god job, but we've seen where the rubber meets the road that it needs to be more robust. <insert actual reform>" Vote winner with easy Senate passage.
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That's like thanking an arsonist for eventually picking up a hose, whilst holding a molotov.
#BREAKING 🚨 Anthony Albanese and Penny Wong have released a joint statement after Israel and Hamas signed off the first phase of a peace plan

The federal government said it welcomes the announcement and thanks US president Donald Trump "for his diplomatic efforts"
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Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her
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Someone should do a FOIA request for the raw footage of the videos they took of that Chicago raid and then edited into a fascist ad for ICE.
Getting there. At 1hr5 out of 1hr25. This was so much easier when Daniel was editing!