@IndyMediaAus
That was a great interview, and Richard got all his points across clearly and compulsively attractive. #AlboPM would be a fool to let this opportunity pass by without some kind of progressive action.

Here is the answer to the lower tax receipts and a bunch of dollars to throw at health, education, the environment and housing. Decisive action on any of these public responsibilities would catapult #Labor into the history books and grow its support amidst swinging voters.

#AlboPM didn't fair 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.

@Godfrey642 @fixatedpersonsunit
Bugger, and #SBS was my last resort for news since I no longer watch the #ABC.

Our bloody govt should pull out all stops and do something about our #NewsMedia lanscape. We can’t allow wholesale right wing brainwashing of the Australian population. #AlboPM should sack the ABC management and put some #RealJournalists in charge while simultaneously strengthening the ABC code of conduct in line with those of the #AustralianPublicService

@rood
Not a terribly good orator is he our #AlboPM . The sentiment is certainly on show but he should take some public speaking classes methinks.

As for the Journos, trying to make the PM say something outrageous to splash on a headline about the #TangerineMan ‘s behaviour during the white house meeting with the #Ukrainian President, give us a break guys. Do a proper job for goodness’ sake and that is not ‘fishing for controversies’ or harvesting ‘gotchas’. Inform the public rather than ingratiate your editor/owner.
#ThisIsNotJournalism #auspol
#SlavaUkraini

@Alpha1Nine
#Greens and #AlboPM had better pull their fingers out and do some damned electioneering quick smart if we don’t want ot be lumped with an LNP federal Govt come #election2025

I’m so mad, they both seem to be sleeping on the job. They should be capturing air-time like there’s no tomorrow. They should be slapping #Dutton ‘s face as if it was a Russian/Chinese interrogation session. This is no time to be ‘nice’, to be ‘passive’ and let the record speak for itself.

WAKE UP guys
#auspol

@ApaulD
Here we go again… why is it that our fourth estate must make every election face off a two horse race?

Why must the Australian Electorate be presented with the excoriation of the two main party leaders as the defining metric for deciding which candidate to vote for (when few directly vote for the leaders who only carry one ‘seat’ anyway). Do we have dictators in charge of our political duopoly? Does the composition of the Parliamentary members not have any sway on how a Party governs when in power? Is it all up to one individual? All that this farcical comedy (polling) does is to promote the insanity that governments should be elected based on the charismatic index score of party leaders.

Where are the critical looks into presumed cabinet members? Where are swing seat candidates fairly assessed? Where are electoral lies exposed? Where is the performance ‘record’ tabulated, compared and contrasted? How about #informing the electorate instead of pushing a political #agenda ?
/end-of-rant

#FedUpWithThePress #ThisIsNotJournalism #auspol #Dutton #AlboPM
#Labor #LNP #Greens #Election2025

@feather1952
It was all pre-planned (Project2025). It was published. They voted them In nevertheless. They’ve got what they deserved.

Now would be agood time for #AlboPM to go on the attack and label #Dutton as a Trump-wanabe and push hard with US examples of the chaos caused by #Trumpists over there and scare the fuck out of all Australians thinking #Dutton ‘s #LNP is the way to go. Use LNP political bullshit against them.
#auspol #Elections25 #InUnity #WeCanDoThis

@HardBeingGreen
Just for the record, I am not happy with #AlboPM ‘s strategy in Parliament. I would rather have seen Labor more aggressive with the progressive agenda and be damned the next election (a la Whitlam)
#auspol

@BruceC01 @feather1952
It’s even more frustrating because #AlboPM has a 27 year example of such coalition working right in front of his nose in Canberra. The ACT Labor-Green govt has been a boon for progressive and responsible social policies with the Libs reduced to zero influence. #auspol #Lanor #Greens #IND