I LOVE they had to add the authorisation at the end because of electoral laws haha

Icing on the cringe cake

I expect it’s at the behest of the oil industry anyway, gotta keep consumption as high as possible.

Brought to you by my conspiracy theory, which seems very plausible given oil companies’ history.

I’ve been rather turned off by Anzac Day growing up, since it’s felt more and more the narrative has turned to “mateship” and how heroic the ANZACs were, instead of the reality which is that Australians were sent into the meat grinder by the British Empire (which in fairness, I was taught at school), and that war is hell, and we ought to do everything we possibly can to avoid it.

That all being said, excluding more modern veterans is total bullshit and anyone suggesting modern veterans are any less deserving are being dicks*. And I say this as someone very critical of Australia’s involvement in America’s imperialist invasions.

It’s not our soldiers fault they were sent. They’re the ones who actually had to endure the trauma of war, not Howard, who sent them.

Really hope all veterans in good standing can take part in any march they desire.

*Criticising the military in general, and specific soldiers/units who engaged in war crimes is fair game, in my opinion.

We’re on the fast lane? Why yes, this is why we’ve seen emergency levels of funding into storage?

Oh wait, no we haven’t. We’re still approving new coal mines.

Shouldn’t the headline be: “We could be on the fast track to 100% renewables”?

Next thing you’re gonna be telling us is to bring back public servant building surveyors as the only building surveyors, to stop the conflict of interest that the builder paying the inspector directly causes.

Bloody madness, clearly the private market is more efficient /s

Our housing regs are a joke since they’re not even well supervised

Thanks to Trump’s far-right power grab, we may retain our centre-left government.

Dutton just has a face that makes you think of fascism (in my opinion). The harry potter films have cemented that image in many people’s minds, I would guess.

Thanks Trump haha

The exception here being teal independents who vote with the Libs, as the colour name suggests, they’re not for workers. The only difference is that they believe in climate change and are not as socially conservative.

Handy tool: https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/

Even under our current capitalist model, I think there are practically no benefits for privatisation of necessities. (Management of each being equal, that is. People pointing to “government inefficiency” are naive to think there aren’t just as many private orgs who run very inefficiently.)

What’s the point of having energy transmission private? I can’t well plug in a different network. I’m stuck with one, and then have to do a stupid dance with the retailers who “compete”.

What’s the point of having the airport be privately owned? It’s not like we have much of a choice of which airport to fly out of.

What’s the point of paying private schools with government money? That’s just money that could have been spent on public schools.

All of which we have to pay cost + profit. Instead of just cost.

The list goes on.

Privatisation is stupid.

While a large part of the population is mislead about capitalism or benefitting from the system themselves, I think you’ll find your sentiments are shared by many. Especially here on Lemmy.

This system sucks.

But yeah, our media is so fully captured by corporate interests that any proposal tooooo socialist is promptly demonised.

Oh those profits from our minerals? Nahhhh the foreign companies deserve that. Can’t have a mining tax.

Breaking up monopolies? Nahhhh that’s practically communism (despite competition being part of capitalism’s rhetoric)

Big sad :(

At least Trump will likely secure us another term without an LNP majority government hehe

Aldi is a nice way to save, but, their fresh food selection is pretty meh, and often not great quality (as in, going mouldy fast, I don’t care about how they look).

I usually pair going to Aldi and an Asian supermarket

This is shockingly low. I would have thought more like 60%

40??

My lordy we’re so screwed haha

Edit: turns out you’ve accidentally swapped the numbers

Removed by mod

My original comment was exaggerated, but essentially the same.

I haven’t been on Reddit in years

You’re very grumpy, hope you’re going alright mate, I shall leave you to it.

Not one, not every, not anywhere.

You have lowered my bar for success, challenge accepted (should I remember the next time I encounter one in the wild).

And jeez, sorry for apologising, I guess?

I don’t think it’s a straw man to say there are many people out there who look at countries that hold or held the banner of communism or socialism through extremely rose tinted glasses, and many of them are on Lemmy.ml

Annoys me because I’m a socialist (in my eyes) and think these people detrimental to convincing others of socialism’s merits.

Anyway, challeng accepted, mr grumpy pants.

The monarchy is a rubber stamp at best, and a foreign actor at worst (Whitlam Dismissal).

Though I agree, this year may not be the best time. Over the next decade where we cross our t-s and dot our i-s, still a totally good as time as any to become a republic.

Republic doesn’t mean the USA. Thankfully.

We don’t need an executive with way too much power

UwU

Typo, was supposed to be lapdog*

I think you’ll find there are numerous comments around Lemmy with this sentiment.

To be fair, it’s not everyone on .ml, but damn, it is a lot

And apologies for taking it out on yourself, that wasn’t cool of me

This is a weird take.

Even many-roomed apartments take way less space than any-roomed single family detached homes.

We at least need to right the stupid mistake of shipping off our resources and getting barely any of the profit.

We should have nationalised our mines decades ago.