Dean Lewis
@deenathy.bsky.social
@climate200.bsky.social on unions and progress?
So, "major parties are a duopoly" but that teals would basically be the LNP if they cared about action on the energy transition
Good... if you were otherwise voting centre-right anyway, right?
#auspol
So, "major parties are a duopoly" but that teals would basically be the LNP if they cared about action on the energy transition
Good... if you were otherwise voting centre-right anyway, right?
#auspol
March 24, 2025 at 10:26 AM
@climate200.bsky.social on unions and progress?
So, "major parties are a duopoly" but that teals would basically be the LNP if they cared about action on the energy transition
Good... if you were otherwise voting centre-right anyway, right?
#auspol
So, "major parties are a duopoly" but that teals would basically be the LNP if they cared about action on the energy transition
Good... if you were otherwise voting centre-right anyway, right?
#auspol
Anyone with an energy retailer who charges wholesale prices through the day and charges accordingly knows those low prices are from renewables flooding the energy market
Dutton is shocking with the blatant political storytelling fiction he engaged in #auspol
reneweconomy.com.au/dutton-blame...
Dutton is shocking with the blatant political storytelling fiction he engaged in #auspol
reneweconomy.com.au/dutton-blame...
reneweconomy.com.au
March 20, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Anyone with an energy retailer who charges wholesale prices through the day and charges accordingly knows those low prices are from renewables flooding the energy market
Dutton is shocking with the blatant political storytelling fiction he engaged in #auspol
reneweconomy.com.au/dutton-blame...
Dutton is shocking with the blatant political storytelling fiction he engaged in #auspol
reneweconomy.com.au/dutton-blame...
The council area in Knox in Melbourne's East is seeking guidance for community assets over budgeting. Noticing a right leaning business type on council, is this quiet talk for "the doors are open to sell off public assets?"
I hope not
#auspol
www.knox.vic.gov.au/whats-happen...
I hope not
#auspol
www.knox.vic.gov.au/whats-happen...
Budgeting for community assets
Influence how Council manages community assets worth $1.237 billion by joining the community panel. Expression of interest applications close 16 March.
www.knox.vic.gov.au
March 12, 2025 at 10:30 AM
The council area in Knox in Melbourne's East is seeking guidance for community assets over budgeting. Noticing a right leaning business type on council, is this quiet talk for "the doors are open to sell off public assets?"
I hope not
#auspol
www.knox.vic.gov.au/whats-happen...
I hope not
#auspol
www.knox.vic.gov.au/whats-happen...
@sloanefragment.bsky.social I'm in Australia so Australia Labor is different to UK Labour. I'm listening to Gary Stevenson from Gary's Economics and find it shocking UK Labour are weak on addressing inequality
I wonder strategically what can be done
I wonder strategically what can be done
February 12, 2025 at 10:03 AM
@sloanefragment.bsky.social I'm in Australia so Australia Labor is different to UK Labour. I'm listening to Gary Stevenson from Gary's Economics and find it shocking UK Labour are weak on addressing inequality
I wonder strategically what can be done
I wonder strategically what can be done
So, love @thejuicemedia.bsky.social - however with the constant calling Labor "shit lite", at least (read meme).... 👇👇
#auspol
#auspol
February 10, 2025 at 9:59 AM
So, love @thejuicemedia.bsky.social - however with the constant calling Labor "shit lite", at least (read meme).... 👇👇
#auspol
#auspol
It's not just #auspol - actually, this guy from Garry's Economics is from the UK... the issues are the same, cost of living, the middle class being squeezed
While it's not Australia specific, you need this as a lens around the election coming up and who represents who
youtu.be/ITg2wrnt-VU?...
While it's not Australia specific, you need this as a lens around the election coming up and who represents who
youtu.be/ITg2wrnt-VU?...
How to keep your house
YouTube video by Garys Economics
youtu.be
February 3, 2025 at 2:58 AM
It's not just #auspol - actually, this guy from Garry's Economics is from the UK... the issues are the same, cost of living, the middle class being squeezed
While it's not Australia specific, you need this as a lens around the election coming up and who represents who
youtu.be/ITg2wrnt-VU?...
While it's not Australia specific, you need this as a lens around the election coming up and who represents who
youtu.be/ITg2wrnt-VU?...
Reposted by Dean Lewis
Please buy books and read them. It will matter moving forward.
January 20, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Please buy books and read them. It will matter moving forward.
Reposted by Dean Lewis
It's a cop-out to just dismiss 19th century racism as just how things were back then. Here's Anne Fraser Bon in an 1882 letter to the editor of the Melbourne Argus:
![We have robbed them of their beautiful colony - deprived them of their hunting fields
and fishing grounds and given them in return our vices and diseases which are
rapidly doing their work. Decency forbids me to mention the disease from which I
have seen them suffer - even the litle children sharing in the bad effects ... they are
neither paupers, lunatics nor criminals; then why treat them as such? In their
primitive state their temporal wants were well supplied. [They] possess far more
intellect than they get credit for and the greatest crime of which they have been guilty
is having been the original owners of the soil ... Forty years ago they were a
numerous people, now the total number in Victoria is about 500,](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4hng6pqnbmf3pz45eelv5ue4/bafkreihdnmw7nvva55w6zrx7al4j6pbfwfrobbxsmb3pdfte64m7zfnpqi@jpeg)
January 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
It's a cop-out to just dismiss 19th century racism as just how things were back then. Here's Anne Fraser Bon in an 1882 letter to the editor of the Melbourne Argus:
December 19, 2024 at 9:34 AM
As the article says, for the market in #Australia "At this price, this EV is effectively a mobile battery with a free car thrown in"
The GWM Ora extended range is being offered for $26,490 drive away with a 63kWh LFP battery - that’s $420/kWh for the battery with the rest of the car thrown in for free
At this price, this EV is effectively a mobile battery with a free car thrown in
The GWM Ora extended range is being offered for $26,490 drive away with a 63kWh LFP battery – that’s $420/kWh for the battery with the rest of the car thrown in for free.
thedriven.io
December 14, 2024 at 7:45 PM
As the article says, for the market in #Australia "At this price, this EV is effectively a mobile battery with a free car thrown in"
While the #NIMBYs will be out in full force, this really would help and provide #housing that many would prefer to live in due to convenience and security
ABC News #Australia
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
ABC News #Australia
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
Would apartments on a shopping centre solve the housing crisis?
One of Australia's largest shopping centre operators is exploring whether it can build apartments on 42 of its shopping centres. But while some claim this could help the affordable housing crisis, oth...
www.abc.net.au
December 13, 2024 at 8:51 PM
While the #NIMBYs will be out in full force, this really would help and provide #housing that many would prefer to live in due to convenience and security
ABC News #Australia
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
ABC News #Australia
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
I'm finding an idea in China about mixing Marx and Confucius a "curious thing" as Confucius emphasized the importance of social harmony and the maintenance of a hierarchical social order based on filial piety where
Marx was a critic of hierarchical social structures, particularly on class divisions
Marx was a critic of hierarchical social structures, particularly on class divisions
December 10, 2024 at 11:09 AM
I'm finding an idea in China about mixing Marx and Confucius a "curious thing" as Confucius emphasized the importance of social harmony and the maintenance of a hierarchical social order based on filial piety where
Marx was a critic of hierarchical social structures, particularly on class divisions
Marx was a critic of hierarchical social structures, particularly on class divisions
Has anyone else ever used Ecological Systems Theory by Urie Bronfenbrenner as a lens to view Marx's base and superstructure theory?
#economy #sociology #society #progressive #politics
#economy #sociology #society #progressive #politics
December 8, 2024 at 6:28 AM
Has anyone else ever used Ecological Systems Theory by Urie Bronfenbrenner as a lens to view Marx's base and superstructure theory?
#economy #sociology #society #progressive #politics
#economy #sociology #society #progressive #politics
This is what the Queensland election was really about. This is entirely the ideological bent of the LNP (or the financial backers)
Not an ideal time to be doing this Queenslanders
#auspol
Not an ideal time to be doing this Queenslanders
#auspol
Queensland looks to gas and coal, hedges bets on nuclear as new cost blowout emerges for pumped hydro
Queensland’s new energy minister is keen on gas and coal, and won’t rule out nuclear, as yet another cost blowout revealed for pumped hydro.
reneweconomy.com.au
December 6, 2024 at 6:10 AM
This is what the Queensland election was really about. This is entirely the ideological bent of the LNP (or the financial backers)
Not an ideal time to be doing this Queenslanders
#auspol
Not an ideal time to be doing this Queenslanders
#auspol
Legit, three BreadTop's in Box Hill Central South Precinct area in #Melbourne (well, two + one directly outside)
Spam & Egg bun, my favourite at the moment
Spam & Egg bun, my favourite at the moment
December 1, 2024 at 1:51 AM
Legit, three BreadTop's in Box Hill Central South Precinct area in #Melbourne (well, two + one directly outside)
Spam & Egg bun, my favourite at the moment
Spam & Egg bun, my favourite at the moment
Furthest I've been in every direction
North: Beijing, China
South: Philip Island, Australia East: Brisbane, Australia
West: Vientiane, Laos
Here I am in Beijing
#pre-parenthood
North: Beijing, China
South: Philip Island, Australia East: Brisbane, Australia
West: Vientiane, Laos
Here I am in Beijing
#pre-parenthood
November 30, 2024 at 10:17 PM
Furthest I've been in every direction
North: Beijing, China
South: Philip Island, Australia East: Brisbane, Australia
West: Vientiane, Laos
Here I am in Beijing
#pre-parenthood
North: Beijing, China
South: Philip Island, Australia East: Brisbane, Australia
West: Vientiane, Laos
Here I am in Beijing
#pre-parenthood
Everyone in Melbourne should follow @melbournepollen.bsky.social — especially deciding on taking hay fever tablets
(plus download the app for the notifications)
(plus download the app for the notifications)
#Melbourne grass #pollen forecast for today (Sunday, Dec 1) is Moderate. Get the App for more pollen forecasts: https://bit.ly/melbournpollen
Note: Other locations within Victoria have an Extreme forecast today.
Note: Other locations within Victoria have an Extreme forecast today.
November 30, 2024 at 10:08 PM
Everyone in Melbourne should follow @melbournepollen.bsky.social — especially deciding on taking hay fever tablets
(plus download the app for the notifications)
(plus download the app for the notifications)
Reposted by Dean Lewis
November 30, 2024 at 7:07 PM
Rebel Sports at Westfield Knox in #Melbourne #Australia has a place for indoor basketball and indoor soccer / football as part of the retail experience
A nice touch, especially when taking the kids there
A nice touch, especially when taking the kids there
November 27, 2024 at 10:11 PM
Rebel Sports at Westfield Knox in #Melbourne #Australia has a place for indoor basketball and indoor soccer / football as part of the retail experience
A nice touch, especially when taking the kids there
A nice touch, especially when taking the kids there
A group representing Jewish, Palestinian and Muslim communities have lodged a complaint to the Australian Human Rights Commission claiming Peter Dutton has engaged in racial vilification and discrimination. Kim Wingerei reports #auspol
@michaelwest.com.au.web.brid.gy
@michaelwest.com.au.web.brid.gy
Peter Dutton could face legal action for racial discrimination - Michael West
The Australian Human Rights Commission, representing Jewish, Palestinian and Muslim communities, is taking legal action against Peter Dutton.
michaelwest.com.au
November 26, 2024 at 8:01 AM
A group representing Jewish, Palestinian and Muslim communities have lodged a complaint to the Australian Human Rights Commission claiming Peter Dutton has engaged in racial vilification and discrimination. Kim Wingerei reports #auspol
@michaelwest.com.au.web.brid.gy
@michaelwest.com.au.web.brid.gy
1980 I was born. 2024, my mother passed away 🥲
Growing up in Olinda, then Monbulk, marrying in Hong Kong before returning to live in Emerald then Bayswater back in Melbourne — my Mum has always been around. When living at home she always made sure anyone knew they were welcome over
Growing up in Olinda, then Monbulk, marrying in Hong Kong before returning to live in Emerald then Bayswater back in Melbourne — my Mum has always been around. When living at home she always made sure anyone knew they were welcome over
November 10, 2024 at 10:10 PM
1980 I was born. 2024, my mother passed away 🥲
Growing up in Olinda, then Monbulk, marrying in Hong Kong before returning to live in Emerald then Bayswater back in Melbourne — my Mum has always been around. When living at home she always made sure anyone knew they were welcome over
Growing up in Olinda, then Monbulk, marrying in Hong Kong before returning to live in Emerald then Bayswater back in Melbourne — my Mum has always been around. When living at home she always made sure anyone knew they were welcome over
So... Australian journalist, media personality and author John Safran is releasing a book on Kanye West after squatting in Kanye's mansion 😆
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Audiobook is popping up on Spotify Premium in a day
October 21, 2024 at 6:51 AM
So... Australian journalist, media personality and author John Safran is releasing a book on Kanye West after squatting in Kanye's mansion 😆
Audiobook is popping up on Spotify Premium in a day
Audiobook is popping up on Spotify Premium in a day