This Australian commentator gets it:

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“The American age is coming to an end after 80 years and nine months and will be replaced by something that may be better.”

“ Perhaps Liberation Day can be seen as the world being liberated from America.”
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#uspol #auspol

abc.net.au/news/2025-04-07/tar…

America is having a break with reality on tariffs. The world will move on to a new order

The Australian government after May 3 will no doubt want to try to negotiate with the Trump administration about our 10 per cent tariff, but they might be better off to just work around it and move on. 

^{Alan Kohler (ABC News)}

Following the man-baby’s Tariff announcement, I think the rest of the world should immediately:
* start a consumer boycott of anything American;
* move their exports from America to other nations (with Government assistance);
* start making new trade agreements in Euro rather than $US;
* uninvite the man-baby and his various toadies from all future international meetings; and
* stop passing all forms of intelligence to the USA.

This is the moment to cross our arms and turn our backs on the USA - show them there is a real cost to voting a man-baby into office and sit back and watch them tear themselves apart.

#auspol
#uspol
#worldpol
#CallToAction

Refugee status requires you to prove the following things:

1. A well founded fear of persecution. Considering that people are already being disappeared it might be sooner than later. Any documentation that you’ve been targeted for a disappearance or people in your community are being picked off will probably be enough, but keep documentation! A collection of threats sent to you will help make your case.
2. Membership of a particular social group. LGBTQI+ meets the threshold.
3. Persecution involves serious harm. Threat to your liberty, physical harm or forced detransition would meet the standard.
4. Real chance of persecution. This includes the likelihood of something happening in the immediate future.
5. You can’t have citizenship to another country where you could seek refuge.

#USPOL #LGTQI #Refugee #Auspol

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Please share for visibility.

Hey USA LGBTQI+ people,

In the event that you need to leave the country to seek asylum you might want to start planning now.

If you want to apply for refugee status in Australia you will need a few things.

1. A passport (and as much ID as you can bring)
2. A visa to get into the country - you can come as a tourist and apply for refugee status on arrival. A tourist visa costs AUD$20. The visa is automatic for USA and lasts 12 months.
3. A ticket to get to Australia.

Explore visa options here: immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/…

#USPOL #LGTQI #Refugee #Auspol

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So well put by George Monbiot. Applies to our tepid Labor government here in Australia too. People don’t want to be regarded only as economic units, and if you block leftist reform they reach for hard-right chaos.

"The democratic recession does not begin when a far-right party takes office. It begins when a centrist party crushes hope in democracy. When Keir Starmer’s government takes a chainsaw to people’s aspirations for a fairer, greener, kinder country, he cuts off not just faith in the Labour party but faith in politics itself. The almost inevitable result, as countries from the US to the Netherlands, Argentina to Austria, Italy to Sweden show, is to let the far right in."

#UKpol #USpol #auspol theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

How has fascism in Britain got this far? Neoliberalism has opened the door for it

We need a new politics of belonging, not Labour’s craven appeasement of capital, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

^{George Monbiot (The Guardian)}

PSA: in Australia, ABC News has a ton of RSS feeds (but they don't link to them anywhere, and I've found at least one page that wants us to think they don't have any).

Anyway, here's a list. And a way to find more.

#auspol #australia #abcnews

james.cridland.net/blog/2025/a…

ABC News RSS feeds - Australia - here's a list

And a way for you to work out more of them

^{James Cridland - radio futurologist}

Fair enough, can't expect a hostile power to fund our research.

But we can offer their best and brightest fast tracked visas. Our very own Operation Paperclip.

abc.net.au/news/2025-03-14/tru…

#auspol

Trump administration asked to explain after Australian universities told to justify US-funded research grants

The Australian government is seeking answers after universities were sent a questionnaire the tertiary education union is calling "blatant political interference".

^{Stephen Dziedzic (ABC News)}

#Auspol #Australia #Aukus #NuclearWaste #MWM

What to do with the nuclear waste - from #RexPatrick

michaelwest.com.au/aukus-agenc…

Nuclear waste. AUKUS agency's reckless indifference - Michael West

AUKUS Agency deals with high-level Defence secrets and fissile material, caught ignoring security obligations with reckless indifference

^{Rex Patrick (Michael West)}

The #NewYorkTimes has been sane-washing pathological fascists for 100 years.

#journalism #fascism #Trump #Hitler #Nazis #misinformation #auspol

'Trump wants people to suck up to him and be sycophantic ... a conga-line of sycophants, it's ludicrous.'

Oh, yeah.

Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's doubling down and picking fights with Trump live.

Don't like him particularly, but has more courage than anyone holding office. Fucking get that piece of shit, 'Trumble'.

#auspol #uspol

Dutton keeps parroting some line in press conferences that '27,000 small businesses have closed in the last two years.' And never gets pulled up.

Takes two seconds to go the ABS and find total businesses have increased year on year over the same period ... in fact there's been a net increase every year, for years. And every year a ton close.

Fuck you're lazy, old media. Do better.

#auspol

abs.gov.au/statistics/economy/…