Documents reveal the scale of carbon pollution leaking from a Darwin LNG tank was like adding 8,300 new cars to the road every year. It is about to be filled again.
  • Arancello@aussie.zone
    13·
    12 days ago

    A couple of interesting developments this week:

    • Albanese declares its still ok for american and middle east resource giants to take Australian resources without paying for them.
    • Albanese says its ok that youth of today cant afford to buy homes and that negative gearing and capital gains tax discounts will remain for short stay accommodation landlords getting tax handouts.
    • Regulators cowtow to american and middle east resources giants and give them what they want.
    • Giant LNG storage tank leaks. Regulators have done nothing for 18 years. Companies asked to edit reports before regulatory actions.
    • Mineral sands company forces farmers off their land in the Wimmera.
    • Albanese and Marles (reference Aukus subs disaster) told by americans to commit to fighting China over Taiwan even though the mericans maintain “strategic ambiguity”

    At what point do we decide that neither side of politics is doing us any good?

    Looka a lot like Albanese has

    • maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zoneEnglish
      7·
      11 days ago

      I think a lot of people have decided that and it’s reflected in rise of the Greens, some progressive independents and the mixed bag that is the teals. One of the main issues is that it’s mostly confined to electoral politics so nothing really happens in between. There’s a lot of activist campaigning and organising but the campaigns and groups behind all the activity are still a bit disconnected politically and sometimes even socially.

      One thing to keep in mind is that it’s objectively better to have Labor in government over anything to the right of Labor. Labor is in general more socially progressive than anything to it’s right based on a lot of its support base being actual workers, regardless of how conservative many of those workers may be.

      The recent big Palestine solidarity protests were only as big as they were because a lot of Labor supporters/unions first broke ranks to join the Harbour Bridge protest and then the party as a whole finally got the memo after Albo declared the government’s intention to recognise Palestine. Labor members have been protesting for Palestine since Oct 7 but Labor as a whole has not mobilized around the issue like it has with other national campaigns when it came late to the party (work choices, East Timor etc).

      This pattern is reflected throughout many social and political issues. Labor as a whole doesn’t really move unless it comes from the top. At the moment the top is captured by neoliberal ideologues and has been since Hawke. If this were to change everything to the left of Labor could be dwarfed by how many more people Labor could bring into action to work on social and political change compared to the entire left of Labor as a whole. This scenario seems highly unlikely though.

    • kingofras@lemmy.world
      2·
      11 days ago

      Welcome to the lonely club of understanding the LibLab uniparty. With kind regards from the Westminster system.

      After genociding the First Nations, drawing some arbitrary lines in the Middle East, enabling the current genocide, you’ve got to wonder if the Brits did anything that wasn’t fucked up.

      In a way the current aussie LibLab situation is a direct descendant of the UKs only export program: Divide and Conquer™.

      As long as we still are behaving like a colony with massive daddy issues, I doubt much will change. Oh, look there’s the climate emergency, turns out we ran out of time.