Creative Catjk

This was an interesting, perplexing read.

International Women's Day. Never closer to equality, nor closer to losing it. - Michael West Women's rights are rolling back at the exact moment women are being pushed closer to war, poverty and public violence. IWD

"Women's rights are rolling back at the exact moment women are being pushed closer to war, poverty and public violence. This is not drift. It is design"

#IWD is tomorrow.

Very good analysis by Aleta Moriarty
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/internationa...

@australianlabor.bsky.social supported AUKUS in opposition when Morrison brainfarted it, they’ve since taken it to two elections as policy.

We won’t see a defence policy that reflects what Australians want unless we cease voting for the major parties.

#AusPol

#CancelAUKUS

You guys have all the sun.

In Iraq, in Afghanistan, we didn't bring freedom and liberty and stability. We *did* abandon a whole lot of interpreters and broke promises to the people we said we were protecting.

Iran isn't going to be any different. Let's just not pretend. No to war.

bsky.app/profile/grog... I think this is more the issue. We are #complicit

I'm pretty sure there was a risk matrix somewhere about embedding Australians on a US submarine. I'm not interested in the individuals, but government choices and responses seem poor all round.

Just as a thought... I don't think that *most* people are really thinking that the Australians on the submarines are to blame, but more the... government... that put them there?

Of course, I speak only about the people who think that bombing children, or letting sailors drown, aren't good things.

That just sounds soooo like my day in every way.

Coffee, straight out of my nose.

When in doubt, look to the cartoons. They are, essentially, the tools for making you laugh so you do not cry.

(though occasionally you still end up doing both at the same time)

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

I've tried turning it off and back on again (nap). It's too early to try scotch. I sat in the sun with coffee, but that just made me feel tired somehow.

What do we do with today? It's broken.

Does Trump really know what he’s doing in Iran? | Fiona Katauskas He’s got a three point plan

The Plan.
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“Independent Senator for ACT David Pocock has called for an inquiry into why gas companies pay less for gas exports than Australians pay in beer excise.

It comes week after he added his voice to calls for 25% tax on gas exports, an idea raised by the Australian Council of Trade Unions last year.”

You can tell how much Labor and the Coalition care about the poor Iranians by the way they hastily built a series of offshore concentration camps to imprison Iranian refugees *forever* when they tried to escape the regime.

David Pope cartoon.

David Pope.

Muslims 'should not be forced to beg' for protection, Labor MP says Labor backbencher Ed Husic says Islamophobia should be examined as part of Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion.

“The royal commission is about both antisemitism and social cohesion, and if there is not going to be an examination of Islamophobia, that is really concerning," he told the ABC.

"Muslim Australians should not feel [like] they have to beg for protection."

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Lordy!

Strengthen public education to boost social cohesion Australia has long been regarded as a successful multicultural society, integrating people from many different social and cultural backgrounds. Now, however, the sense of shared community that underpi...

Increasing social segregation in our school system. Except when it comes to poorly supported integration agendas for students with disabilities. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...

No. He's one nation po-lite.
Exactly the same attitudes, just fancier vocabulary and dog-whistling.

"They watched their American co-crew members torpedo a ship, killing more than 80 people, and watched them as they left the rest to drown?"

#complicit #auspol

This.


The image is of graves being dug for the girls killed when the U.S. bombed their school.

Fortnightly food budgets disappear in a day, with salad packs costing $20 The head of Australia's biggest independent remote grocery stores network says in 30 years, he's never seen Indigenous communities struggle so much to afford enough food.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03... People can't afford to eat

No royal commission into Murdoch
Not standing up to Trump on tariffs
Blindly supporting US foreign policy
The youth social media ban
No dental in Medicare
The aged care funding reforms
Centrelink is still Centrelink
Outsourced tax debt collection and data matching
The Grace Tame comments

Housing is still expensive
Workers still don't have the right to strike outside EBA negotiations
New gas projects approved
AUKUS hasn't been cancelled
Inadequate response to Colesworths' price gouging
Apprentices still get paid as little as $13 an hour plus carry trades training loans

Fortnightly food budgets disappear in a day, with salad packs costing $20 The head of Australia's biggest independent remote grocery stores network says in 30 years, he's never seen Indigenous communities struggle so much to afford enough food.

Residents in remote NT communities say food prices are now so high, many families are struggling to afford enough to eat. That's despite half of Australia's Indigenous communities benefiting from the govt’s remote grocery subsidy scheme, rolled out last July

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

I already tried that one today. And the fact that it's only 10.30am is killing me.

I am with you. My week was definitely on the 'scotch o'clock' spectrum of awfulness.

The step-son of the NT attorney-general’s sister!doesn’t even lose his license after hitting two Aboriginal pedestrians with his car, killing one, calling them “dogs” and “oxygen thieves”. Serving time in home detention. Australia in 2026.