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Bot4Sale<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aus.social/@MorpheusB" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>MorpheusB</span></a></span> Rules for thee...</p><p><a href="https://fairdinkum.one/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>auspol</span></a></p>
Morpheus Being<p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>auspol</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/DumpUSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DumpUSA</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ThePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThePolitics</span></a></p><p><a href="https://thepolitics.com.au/your-guide-to-being-unashamedly-un-american/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thepolitics.com.au/your-guide-</span><span class="invisible">to-being-unashamedly-un-american/</span></a></p>
Morpheus Being<p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>auspol</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Encryption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Encryption</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Signal</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Crime</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MWM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MWM</span></a></p><p>Signal is an encrypted messaging application, than can auto delete messages, but if used by government officers/public servants they are breaking the law!</p><p><a href="https://michaelwest.com.au/sending-the-wrong-signal-australias-disappearing-political-history/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">michaelwest.com.au/sending-the</span><span class="invisible">-wrong-signal-australias-disappearing-political-history/</span></a></p>
Matthew Rimmer<p>The Reserve Bank of Australia has faced a number of complaints in the past over misappropriation of Indigenous IP (from Malangi, Yumbulul, and the Unaipon family). How will the Bank fare this time round - as it commissions a new design for the $5 dollar note?</p><p>'The Reserve Bank of Australia has opened submissions for an artwork to honour the “enduring emotional, spiritual and physical connection” of First Nations people to the land, seas and waters dating back thousands of years... </p><p>Australian bank notes and coins have borne images or engravings of Indigenous peoples, plants and animals since the 19th century, when the country still used pound sterling.</p><p>The £1 banknote, first issued in June 1923, was a homage to the artist E Phillips Fox’s Landing of Captain Cook at Botany Bay, which depicted then Lt James Cook and Joseph Banks’ point of first contact – with Gweagal warriors and their spears armed resistance to the encroachment of territory.</p><p>In 1966, however, the artwork on the new A$1 note marked the first Aboriginal copyright dispute, after the Reserve Bank failed to seek permission from Arnhem Land artist David Malangi when it reproduced his work on the note. He was later paid $1,000, a medallion and a fishing kit.</p><p>The $2 coin has depicted the image of Gwoya Tjungurrayi, sometimes referred to as “One Pound Jimmy”, since 1988. Tjungurrayi survived one of Australia’s last recorded frontier massacres in 1928 where 60 men, women and children were murdered in the Northern Territory.</p><p>In 1995, the RBA released the $5o note, which depicted the author, explorer and inventor David Unaipon, from the Ngarrindgerri nation of present day South Australia.</p><p>Entries for the redesign close in April.'<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/17/australia-5-dollar-note-redesign-first-nations" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/australia-news</span><span class="invisible">/2025/mar/17/australia-5-dollar-note-redesign-first-nations</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/IndigenousIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousIP</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>copyright</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>auspol</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/auslaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>auslaw</span></a></p>
Independent Media Australia.<p>Cyclone Alfred: latest rain bomb from climate inaction’s production line <a href="https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/cyclone-alfred-latest-rain-bomb-climate-inactions-production-line" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">greenleft.org.au/content/cyclo</span><span class="invisible">ne-alfred-latest-rain-bomb-climate-inactions-production-line</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Auspol</span></a></p>
Alex von Kitchen<p>Border farce being horrible <br><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-17/nsw-sydney-villawood-immigration-detention-centre-hotel/104993756" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc.net.au/news/2025-03-17/nsw</span><span class="invisible">-sydney-villawood-immigration-detention-centre-hotel/104993756</span></a></p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>auspol</span></a></p>

Climate activists to plead not guilty en masse under NSW’s controversial anti-protest laws theguardian.com/environment/20
Rising Tide campaigners were arrested at Newcastle’s coal port in late 2024 after using kayaks and rafts to protest at facility. #auspol #auslaw #climate #activism #protest

The Guardian · Climate activists to plead not guilty en masse under NSW’s controversial anti-protest lawsBy Jordyn Beazley

Ex-naval submariner, ex Senator Rex Patrick well worth reading: "Australia does have Trump cards; North West Cape, Pine Gap, US Marine Rotational forces in Darwin, AUKUS and/or critical minerals that the US needs." Also "the traitorous quantum computing development contract given to a US Company" says @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social
#Auspol #Australia
michaelwest.com.au/tariffs-aus

Michael West · Australia's Trump cards - Michael WestAnthony Albanese has it wrong, writes former submariner Rex Patrick. He’s trying to bribe Trump with sweeteners in response to trade tariffs

Living Standards in Crisis: A Decade of Stagnation.
Over the past 10 years, living standards in Australia have taken a massive hit. Disposable incomes per person have grown by a mere 0.15% annually—one of the weakest performances in the developed world.
This isn’t just a number—it’s a reflection of the struggles families face every day. It’s time to ask: why are we falling behind, and what can be done to turn this around?

#LivingStandards #EconomicCrisis #Australia #IncomeGrowth #BetterNotBigger #Auspol macrobusiness.com.au/2025/03/l

MacroBusiness · Living standards collapsed under Labor and CoalitionI reported last week how Australian households have endured the largest decline in real per capita disposable incomes on record after falling by around 8% from their mid-2022 peak. Australia’s decline in real per capita household disposable incomes has also been the largest in the OECD since the beginning of the pandemic. Analysis of the

Juice Media: "Minority government"

Australia's preferential system enables voters to number their favourite parties in order on their ballot and put autocratic parties last.

If a voter's Number 1 party doesn't win, that vote passes to their 2nd choice. In other words, voters" choices are not "wasted".

"Thanks to our awesome preferential voting system"

youtube.com/watch?v=-xUFUXMiaDs

#AusPol #USPol #AustralianElection #MultiPartyGovernment #MinorityGovernment #PreferentialVoting .