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 (DIR) Post #At5UFVkrFKXSDf8vC4 by RaymondPierreL3@aus.social
       2025-04-14T08:45:17Z
       
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       This is as good a painted picture of #Dutton as can be shared:"At a photo-op on a football field, Dutton managed to kick a ball directly into the head of a cameraman, Ghaith Nadir. Accidents do happen, but Nadir was an Iraqi refugee and asylum seeker, the very type of person Dutton has spent much of his political career vilifying and targeting with punitive policies and rhetoric. That alone gave the incident a clear subtext, but it was Dutton’s response that turned a simple mishap into something more sinister.Instead of showing concern or even mild embarrassment, Dutton shouted out that he “got him!”, and then made a joke about the cameraman not catching the ball, laughed it off, and suggested that had it been Albanese, he would have ‘lied’ about the whole incident. It was an oddly triumphant, almost gleeful reaction to an accident that left a man with a head injury, revealing a man more comfortable deflecting with ridicule than showing empathy."Source: https://www.patreon.com/posts/how-duttons-fell-126609871?#AusPol
       
 (DIR) Post #At5UFdQEjsnU01YZA8 by RaymondPierreL3@aus.social
       2025-04-14T08:48:59Z
       
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       #AlboPM didn't fare any better and the picture we get is one of 'dismissal' due to the severity of the lacuna in environmental action."On the other side of the campaign trail, Albanese was confronted by a climate change protester, Alexa Stuart, furious about the government’s continued approval of new coal and gas projects. She accused the Prime Minister of condemning her generation to a future of climate catastrophe, and she had every right to be angry: despite all the rhetoric about net zero and clean energy, Labor has green-lit 173 new fracking wells in Queensland and continues to approve existing fossil fuel projects under the fiction that they are not ‘new’ developments, but ‘expansions’. But a bigger gas field is still a bigger gas field, and a deeper coal mine still burns more coal.Albanese’s response was to brush it off. He refused to comment, claiming that engaging would only encourage more protesters. But this isn’t a time to be avoiding engagement. Elections are one of the few moments when political pressure has real leverage – when leaders can be held to account by the very people they claim to represent. Protest during a campaign isn’t a disruption; it’s a democratic necessity. These aren’t just votes at stake – they’re lives, futures, and the shape of the planet to come. The climate crisis isn’t going to pause for polling day.Source:ibid.#AusPol
       
 (DIR) Post #At5UThnRGxU3cV7POK by splat@aus.social
       2025-04-14T09:18:30Z
       
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       @RaymondPierreL3 #AusPolWouldn't it be great if everyone voted for independents, greens and minor parties and the majors lost most of their seats....It won't happen...But one can hope...