Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialJohn C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 08/10/2026My least popular opinion remains that ethno-essentiallist attacks on multicultural identity (as in, It's Not Real) is an import from American racial frameworks. 68310
beldame.bsky.social @beldame.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This is how the co-op movement started, of course. 010
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialShane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I was already probably going to break from 15 years of voting Green and return to Labor at the next election, but this is the final straw for me www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...theage.com.auThe Greens’ defence red lines: No weapons for Ukraine, curtail the US allianceDavid Shoebridge believes the Greens can win votes by campaigning to scrap the AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine pact and legalise recreational cannabis. 6222
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialEmma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Keep thinking about burnham saying he prefers poetry over fiction (sorry not to think more about fiscal balances) 4232
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026From Politico. That motion is absolute fucking poison and by failing to stand up to it, the Greens have allowed that poison to seep into the party. 4436873
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialThe Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 02/10/2026Governments in rich nations tend to spend more on health. Do we really want them to spend less?theconversation.comAre Australians really overtaxed? It depends what you think government should do 0139
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialInside Ukraine 🇺🇦 @insideukraine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Andy Burnham’s government is looking for a British alternative to U.S. tech firm Palantir for major NHS and Ministry of Defence contracts as part of its “Buy British” push. 67028
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialPossum @pollytics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Are they the same? CGT/Neg gearing reform? Changing the Stage 3 tax cuts to be proportional across the income spectrum instead of the top 10%? Funding the renewables transition instead of sabotaging it? Free Tafe? Bulk Billing expansion? There is no uniparty - just stuff you disagree with 192
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialPossum @pollytics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Because the Greens aren't the government and don't have demographic representative weight substantial enough to be dictating government policy. If we go down this route, we end up like Israel - where small parties dominate government policy and direction. Doesn't that work well eh. Time to grow up.. 354518
beldame.bsky.social @beldame.bsky.social · 27/09/2026You change the government, you change the country. 🤷♀️ 010
beldame.bsky.social @beldame.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This is refreshing, to say the least. Bravo Andy Burnham. 🙌 000
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.theintercept.comDoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam 6584022411830
beldame.bsky.social @beldame.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Couldn’t find a single cafe open this morning in Southbank. 000
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialThe Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 22/09/2026Jason Koutsoukis on how News24, the rebranded Sky News, is driving the rise of One Nation: trib.al/xHXZ7Mztrib.alInside the Murdoch television deal driving One NationA content deal that came out of frustration when Lachlan Murdoch and Bruce Gordon failed to take over Network Ten is now pushing regional voters to Pauline Hanson. 0913
beldame.bsky.social @beldame.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I wasn’t correcting you, I meant it as a rhetorical question in support. It was badly expressed. I apologise. 020
beldame.bsky.social @beldame.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Sorry - I meant to reinforce: too many people forget how far we’ve come and how. Increasingly, I feel the need to be boringly explicit on social media. 000
beldame.bsky.social @beldame.bsky.social · 15/09/2026It’s not luck, though, is it? All those things are the benefit of strong social policies enacted decades ago. They didn’t just happen, they were fought for by organised working people. 120
beldame.bsky.social @beldame.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Around 48% of the population, none of whom are on Bluesky. 010
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialGaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I’ve been a bit quiet on here lately, and this was why www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comLosing a parent is a bewildering, lonely experience. Here are the things I wish I had known before | Gaby HinsliffThere’ll be exhaustion, love tinged with occasional rage, even moments of black humour. But my mum would want me to tell you: don’t be afraid, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff 13467591
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialEvonomics: The Next Evolution of Economics @evonomics.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Venture capitalist @nickhanauer.bsky.social: "Since 1975, roughly $79 trillion has been redistributed upward from the bottom 90% to the top 10% — not through theft, but through the steady accumulation of rules written to favor capital over labor, shareholders over workers, assets over wages." 196
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialJim Chalmers @jimchalmers.bsky.social · 02/09/2026GET THE FACTS: New numbers just released show that workers’ share of national income is the highest in a decade. More than half of national income now goes to workers, under Labor. Under the Liberals and Nationals it was less than half. 2289
beldame.bsky.social @beldame.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Has The Point joined the Press Council? Does it have a code of practice or statement of news standards that it has published and is accountable for? I can’t find one. 020
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialPossum @pollytics.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Hi @australiainstitute.org.au I appreciate that few are across the mechanics of our energy industry, and may have misunderstood what the PM said at NatCab. However this piece was published AFTER Bowen's clarification. It is clear disinformation - will you remove it? thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...thepoint.com.auAI data centres are about to become Australia's newest gas backed pollutersNational Cabinet has just made its choice on how Australia's AI boom gets powered. The Albanese Government went into this week's meeting insisting new data centres will be powered by renewable energy ... 74516
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialPossum @pollytics.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Sad trombone for political nihilists who can't read national cabinet releases properly. www.afr.com/policy/energ...afr.com‘No carve-outs’ for Queensland on data centres, says BowenEnergy Minister Chris Bowen says states will be able to use non-renewable power for data centres only if they can prove it would be cheaper for household bills. 33111
beldame.bsky.social @beldame.bsky.social · 24/08/2026“What catches the eye is the conception of politics underneath the words. Society barely appears. There are identities, enemies, solidarity and declarations of ideological allegiance, but very little sense of the material relationships through which most people actually experience power” Excellent. 010
beldame.bsky.social @beldame.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Over 40% of JS recipients have a recognised partial capacity to work due to ill health (physical or mental), and the number of JS recipients on multiple medications is quite high compared to the general population. Of course, all those people should really be on the DSP… 020
beldame.bsky.social @beldame.bsky.social · 24/08/2026No. Increases to Commonwealth Rent Assistance and cuts to medicine prices under Albanese have been significant. When you add CRA for a single JS recipient and other savings, total fortnightly income is now on par with 1996. Still way below any poverty line but those targeted supports matter. 030
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialmariecolemanao.bsky.social @mariecolemanao.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Thread NDIS: thinking back- designed for a particular seriously disabled popn. One often in residential care. States invited to costshare. States immediately shut all their systems down for all disability types. 73111
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialTristan Stewart-Robertson @srtristan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026And the full link is as brutal as the graphic.newscord.orgJason Arday told the press he was at his limit. It answered with 188 more articles. He is dead at 41.A full census of the 249 articles fifteen national outlets published about Jason Arday in 22 days, with the last day reconstructed hour by hour. Every article listed and linked. 26975379
beldame.bsky.social @beldame.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Maybe educate yourself a little before sounding off. theconversation.com/why-the-2-5-...theconversation.comWhy the $2.5 billion Tomago aluminium deal is no ordinary bailoutThe government’s approach to saving Tomago offers a blueprint for other interventions to future-proof industry, such as at Whyalla. 000
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialMartin D.B. Brown @martindbbrown.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Nods. 422564
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialDaniel Villar @daniel-a-villar.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Reminds me of a line from (I think) Stuart Macintyre’s Concise History of Australia, that Chifley was voted out in 1949 due to the resentment over high petrol prices by people who couldn’t afford a bus fare when he’d entered office 121
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialAustralian Labor @australianlabor.bsky.social · 03/08/202642 years ago this month, Susan Ryan's Sex Discrimination Act came into effect. This is what nation-changing Labor reforms look like. 1234
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialCo-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 30/07/202680% of England's largest care home providers are owned or backed by private equity. Every pound taken out for investors is a pound not spent on pay, staffing or care. That's why we're calling for care firms owned and run as co-ops to play a bigger part in the UK's social care system. 024
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialDee Madigan @deemadigan.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Always enjoy Labor Nat Conf. And this was a cracker. A few thousand people giving up a weekend to argue in public about how to make things better. Some of it I agree with. Some I don’t. But turning up beats sniping from the sidelines. Every time. 134711
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialSarah Richards @sarahrichards.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Many Londoncentric voices seem remarkably sensitive about meaningful national thunder being reclaimed by the North. Burnham’s touched a nerve - and history’s on his side: placesjournal.org/article/manc... “Rightly understood, Manchester is as great a human exploit as Athens.” - Benjamin Disraeli. 011
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Agreed. How Burnham fares remains to be seen, but having leaders who've experienced defeat & tried to learn from it; who are willing to talk about what they got wrong; who've been in politics for more than 5 minutes & whose position has evolved used to be normal. It's not some Scooby-style unmasking 1341767
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Why it matters that @andyburnham.bsky.social is an English Lit graduate. Thoughtful piece from @tanjilrashid.bsky.social magazine.newstatesman.com/2026/07/01/a... 3357
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialAndrew Faith @andrewfaith.bsky.social · 19/07/2026According to Andrew Bragg, Australia is the world’s highest taxing country. Among nations tracked by the OECD, Australia's overall tax-to-GDP ratio sits below the OECD average, ranking roughly in the middle-to-lower tier of developed countries. I’d believe the OECD #insiders 1176
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialJennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 18/07/2026AB, a 🧵 11274110
Reposted by @beldame.bsky.socialJim Chalmers @jimchalmers.bsky.social · 09/07/2026GET THE FACTS: Australia’s gross debt as a share of the economy is lower than any major advanced economy. Gross debt in the last financial year was almost $200 billion lower than what we inherited. 217531
beldame.bsky.social @beldame.bsky.social · 06/07/2026static.klipy.comEngland Football: It's Coming HomeALT: England Football: It's Coming Home 000
