Lid posted:

CMFEU 4 Adani

quote:

Coalition MP Warren Entsch has backed a plan to bulldoze 2000 hectares of pristine forest near the Great Barrier Reef despite being appointed to a role championing the natural marine wonder.

froglet posted:

Good post

JBP posted:

Also good post

fiery_valkyrie posted:

If you haven’t seen the Great Barrier Reef yet, you better hurry up. The Liberal party are doing everything they can to kill it.


https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/coalition-s-reef-advocate-backs-massive-tree-clearing-plan-20190601-p51thy.html

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Nationals deputy leader Bridget McKenzie made an amazing admission in an interview on Sky but nobody (except The Australia Institute) seemed to notice.

“[Adani will] be employing 1500 through the construction phase and around about 100 ongoing.”

Zenithe posted:

https://theaimn.com/bridget-mckenzie-revealed-the-adani-jobs-lie-and-no-one-noticed/

Not sure how reliable this source is but.


100


lol

Schlesische posted:

Thank gently caress I got 50 dives in 6 years ago.
It is genuinely very neat and you don't need to have fancy dive licenses to enjoy 90% of the reef; most of the colourful stuff that you actually want to see is stuff you should be able to see above 10m, which is how deep an intro dive will take you. You also want to go in the dead of winter because that's the dry season when there will be no cat1 cyclone grounding all boat trips to a halt.

Knorth posted:

Yeast posted:

Garbage party.

The Peccadillo posted:

Is that why it was called the "barrier" reef in the first place? Because it was hard to do ships over?

starkebn posted:

What the actual gently caress? Locked up overnight so she could be a witness? Strip searched?

To be a witness against her abuser?

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Anthony Albanese’s team in warning on religious freedom

Anthony Albanese is under pressure from frontbench Labor MPs to “work constructively” with Scott Morrison to pass religious freedom legislation that enshrines the right of schools and charities to teach faith-based ideology, including the traditional view of marriage.

Senior Labor MPs yesterday warned that the swing against the party in faith-based communities — mainly in western Sydney seats — had galvanised support in the new Opposition Leader’s partyroom for new laws to protect ­religious institutions from being accused of discrimination.

The Labor push to bolster support for religious groups comes as Scott Morrison prepares to table a Religious Discrimination Act in parliament by the end of the year, acting on recommendations in the Ruddock Review into religious freedom.

During the election campaign, the Prime Minister said the new religious discrimination laws would provide the same protections of anti-discrimination for people of religious faith, as it did for “people of different genders, LGBTIQ, others”.

A senior Labor frontbencher said there were concerns among some religious schools and faiths that a government of either persuasion might decide to cut funding for a school or charity because they were teaching a traditional version of marriage.

“There is a view from some people that (protection) may not be required in law because it is ­already covered in the Racial ­Discrimination Act,” the senior Labor MP said. “Sometimes it is good, even if laws aren’t strictly necessary, for the sake of absolute certainty to put it in law.”

Labor MPs also attacked former ALP leader Bill Shorten over his criticism of Mr Morrison in the final week of the election campaign for not explicitly stating that he did not believe gay people would to hell. They described the tactic as a “very poorly timed intervention” that made it look as though “we were persecuting people, particularly Christians, and their beliefs”.

Senior frontbenchers Kristina Keneally, Tony Burke and ­Michelle Rowland yesterday added to warnings that people of faith were turning against Labor. Chris Bowen last week declared: “People of faith no longer feel that progressive politics cares about them.”

Senator Keneally, Labor’s new deputy leader in the upper house, savaged Labor’s campaign as being “tone deaf” to the concerns of religious people.

“We lost them on the more traditional, touchstone culture and social issues,” Senator Keneally said. “I think it is because we were tone deaf. If you take the issue of religious freedom, I see a growing concern of people of faith that in this Twitter world, the instant response world we live in, that they are going to be ganged up upon.

“The Israel Folau matter, which was frankly a contract issue, spoke to a broader concern people had, and understandably so, that in expressing their faith they are going to be howled down by other people in the community. The extent to which Labor wasn’t seen to be standing up for people of faith did hurt us.”

Mr Albanese said yesterday he was prepared to work with the Morrison government on the ­introduction of a religious discrimination bill.

“I’m certainly prepared to work cooperatively on issues which should not be the subject of partisan politics, and that includes that issue,” Mr Albanese said.

Mr Bowen told The Weekend Australian that anxieties within religious communities had contributed to Labor’s election loss.

The former Treasury spokesman, who suffered a 7.4 per cent primary vote swing against him in his western Sydney seat of ­McMahon, urged the Prime Minister to bring forward legislation on religious freedoms quickly so it could be considered by Labor.

“I think it is not actually any particular policy as such,” Mr Bowen said.

“I think it is a general impression which has built up as a result of various debates, including marriage equality but also religious freedom more generally.

“It is a very urgent problem for us to tackle. Partly by the way we look at policy but party by our general demeanour. It is the old saying people think you only care what you talk about.”

Mr Bowen said it was essential that Labor welcome social conservatives in its parliamentary ranks so the party could appeal to suburban voters.

“The Labor Party has a strong tradition of people who are socially conservative but economically progressive and we have got to make sure that tradition continues to be represented both in our party and our voters,” Mr Bowen said.

Ms Rowland, who represents the western Sydney seat of Greenway, said Labor had had a “very real” perception problem from some ­religious people during the campaign.

“I definitely detected there was a different sense during the campaign,” Ms Rowland said. “I rarely had religion raised as an issue in the three years prior. But doing phone calls and the type of engagement you do during the campaign it was certainly markedly different. There was a perception of a problem and for some people that was very real.”

Mr Burke, whose seat of Watson takes in prominent Muslim and Maronite communities including the Lakemba mosque, said Labor needed to “carefully work through” the reasons religious communities swung against the party.

“The vast majority of people of faith in my part of Sydney still voted Labor,” Mr Burke said. “But the government has been specifically targeting faith communities and there was a swing as a result.”

Victorian Labor MP Anthony Byrne, a social conservative, said the party was creating the perception that it did not welcome people of faith.

“We are creating a perception that for people of Christian and other faiths that the Labor Party doesn’t have a place for them on the table, doesn’t want to hear their views, doesn’t want to take their beliefs into account,” Mr Byrne said.

“I think that caused us substantial damage during the election campaign.”

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An email from a crestfallen snowflake named Emily arrived in the inboxes of GetUp's supporters and stalkers late last week.

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Gridlocked posted:

Tried reading the local Murdoch rag again today while waiting for my coffee. Yeah nope it's worse than usual.

Whitlam posted:

When I did year 12 English Language (VCE subject, equivalent of linguistics) we each got a free copy of the Herald Sun daily. Our teacher was stoked, because it was so full of examples of language being used to manipulate. Just lol if you read anything but the nine letter word unless you absolutely have to, though.

Whitlam posted:

When I did year 12 English Language (VCE subject, equivalent of linguistics) we each got a free copy of the Herald Sun daily. Our teacher was stoked, because it was so full of examples of language being used to manipulate. Just lol if you read anything but the nine letter word unless you absolutely have to, though.

clusterfuck posted:

Bold all of it.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2019/jun/02/labor-and-the-greens-have-to-join-forces-for-the-climates-sake

Half baked potato posted:

"Kristina Keneally I predict will be somebody who is very spiteful, very nasty and very personal in her attacks. That's been her history," he said, adding, "I'm not going to attack Kristina Keneally on a personal basis".

Megillah Gorilla posted:

“People of faith no longer feel that progressive politics cares about them.”