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#labor

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David Sentinella

Cuts to fuel excise favour the wealthy, reduces funding of roads, and gives nothing to those who do the right thing and take public transport or have electric vehicles. The #LNP will always support such regressive measures. #Labor's election sweetener is marginally better in that the tax cuts appear mostly progressive. The #LNP have never supported, or understood, action on climate change.

We should be much more progressive in taxation and use funds to improve public transport in all forms. We no not need or want nuclear or massive gas projects. Renewables with grid stabilisation, already mostly negates the idea that we need gas or nuclear to meet baseload demand. #FederalElection2025

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Morpheus Being

#auspol #election2025 #Politics

It is not #Labor induced cost of living crisis, but from the seeds sown during the last 9 years of #LyingNastyParasites being in power. #Labor inherited almost 1 trillion debt which has been reduced a lot by their management.

#FuelExcise cut for 12 months? Sounds good, but is not solving the structural problems or ensuring a better future.

The #Nuclear power proposal will take decades to come and double energy prices. And be an enormous burden on our economy. And where is the water coming from? There isn't enough.

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quackademic

For #Labor it’s about politics. The #Libs are just clowns. The team sport is a distraction.

Offering tax cuts to low income earners is great. But while both major parties support policies that abandon the most vulnerable among us to abject poverty while siphoning billions in tax breaks & other benefits to those who are most wealthy - AND pretending that climate catastrophe is not an existential threat to everything in our collective future - this whole budget discussion is a sideshow.

We need our governments to do so much better. #AusPol

Labor’s budget tax cuts make good economic sense – and have backed Dutton and Taylor into a political corner theguardian.com/business/grogo

The Guardian · Labor’s budget tax cuts make good economic sense – and have backed Dutton and Taylor into a political cornerBy Greg Jericho
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CBC Kitchener-Waterloo

Union representing striking workers, Region of Waterloo reach tentative agreement
The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) local 1656 and the Region of Waterloo have reached a contract agreement. It comes in the fourth week of a strike by the region's outside workers, which has impacted operations at the airpo...
#labor #agreement #union #Waterloo #News #Canada
cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-w

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2025 “He didn’t come during his first term as president, but American presidents will always be welcome here, as are other international visitors.” — Australian PM

VS

1966 “Outside Melbourne Town Hall, a carefully prepared civic welcome was swept aside in a minute. Civic dignitaries and their wives were crushed, bruised and pummeled by surging people.

Fist #fights broke out, and police, soldiers and American security men fought desperately, but vainly to keep the frenzied crowd clear of the President.

A number of people #fainted but the crush was so great they could not collapse underfoot…. Plastic bags of paint were #thrown at the President's car as it pulled slowly away from #ElmTree House. A bag burst over the windscreen and the canopy, splattering paint over three of the President's security guards.

The President's comment was: "I guess he just couldn't stand the size of that turnout." — referring to the size of his car.”

The “Bubble top” was down.

#AnthonyAlbanese / #labor / #AustralianLaborParty / #LBJ / #Vietnam <theguardian.com/australia-news> / <archive.md/9V8vF> / <theage.com.au/national/victori> (paywall)

“Last night as he swept out of Melbourne two hours behind schedule he promised he would return, probably at the end of the war in Vietnam. The Presidential jetliner, Air Force 1, left Essendon at 10 p.m.” LBJ in Melbourne 1966.
“Last night as he swept out of Melbourne two hours behind schedule he promised he would return, probably at the end of the war in Vietnam. The Presidential jetliner, Air Force 1, left Essendon at 10 p.m.” LBJ in Melbourne 1966.
“Last night as he swept out of Melbourne two hours behind schedule he promised he would return, probably at the end of the war in Vietnam. The Presidential jetliner, Air Force 1, left Essendon at 10 p.m.” LBJ in Melbourne 1966.
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Jeff (of the internet)

Florida debates lifting some CHILD LABOR laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants

DeSantis said that a child workforce could be part of the solution to replace “dirt cheap” migrant labor.

tampabay.com/news/florida-poli

Tampa Bay Times · Child labor protections could soon be rolled back in Florida. Why?By Romy Ellenbogen
#news#florida#labor
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

"The admn’s attempts to characterize this as a routine “deportation” matter represent perhaps their most cynical wordplay yet (& one the #media should stop repeating...) #Deportation is a legal process w/ established due process #rights. What happened here was something far darker: the #US govt engaging in what amounts to #HumanTrafficking, shipping people to #ElSalvador as forced #labor without any due process."
- @mmasnick.bsky.social

techdirt.com/2025/03/24/contem

Text from article(edited for length): This outright defiance marks a subtle, but notable, departure from the administration’s playbook the past few months. Until now, they’ve preferred more smirking forms of contempt... But each of these smaller acts of contempt has apparently emboldened them toward more brazen defiance. Even in this case with Judge Boasberg, the White House has been trying to claim that it’s not ignoring his orders. "A second administration official said Trump was not defying the judge whose ruling came too late for the planes to change course..." This argument, that the order came too late, is nonsense. But it’s notable how the administration is trying to insist it’s actually obeying orders in court, while doing wink, wink, nod, nod stuff out of court. The administration’s attempts to characterize this as a routine “deportation” matter represent perhaps their most cynical wordplay yet (and one the media should stop repeating, though that’s a different issue). Deportation is a legal process with established due process rights. What happened here was something far darker: the US government engaging in what amounts to human trafficking, shipping people to El Salvador as forced labor without any due process. The mask slipped entirely when El Salvador’s President tweeted “Oopsie… too late” in response to Judge Boasberg’s order — a tweet that Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Elon Musk both found amusing enough to amplify:
#Trump#Law#News
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