Welcome to the 10 September 2023 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues.

#AusPol #NSWPol #SpringSt #WAPol #SAParli #QLDPol #TasPol #ACTPol #NTPol #ChurchState #Secularism

https://www.nsl.org.au/columns/weekend-wrap-for-10-september-2023/

Family of unarmed man tasered by #police seeks compensation

https://youtu.be/jwWxWymW6xw?feature=shared

:acab: :acab2: :acabkitty: :clowncop: :nocops: :pig_cop: :txt_eff_the_cops:

#wapol #wagov #kevinspratt #westernaustralia #australia #ausgov #auspol #tasgov #taspol #politas #kkkop #kkkops #copsandklangohandinhand #acab

Welcome to the 3 September 2023 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues.

#AusPol #NSWPol #SpringSt #WAPol #SAParli #QLDPol #TasPol #ACTPol #NTPol #ChurchState #Secularism

https://www.nsl.org.au/columns/weekend-wrap-for-3-september-2023/

Welcome to the 27 August 2023 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues.

#AusPol #NSWPol #SpringSt #WAPol #SAParli #QLDPol #TasPol #ACTPol #NTPol #ChurchState #Secularism

https://www.nsl.org.au/columns/weekend-wrap-for-27-august-2023/

Last night Spokane Mayor Nadine Woodward appeared on stage to receive a blessing from white Christian nationalist Matt Shea at their Klan tent revival (or whatever).

I saw video from tonight’s city council meeting of a pastor calling for her to be censured or removed. (It also included shouting from the local city council crazy “Hot Pizza”.)

#wapol #spokane

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2023/aug/21/mayor-woodward-faces-condemnation-after-appearing-/

Probability of another angry summer?

"Until we start driving emissions down and until we stop approving oil and gas exploration and developments, we are going to have to live with this.

"So everybody has to be enlisted in this fight." - Major General Peter Dunn, as member of Emergency Leaders for Climate Action

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/after-maui-and-canada-can-australia-avoid-another-black-summer-bushfire-event/v0bwdd97l

#AusPol #QldPol #NSWPol #ACTPol #VicPol #TasPol #SAPol #NTPol #WAPol #AusBiz

Welcome to the 20 August 2023 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues.

#AusPol #NSWPol #SpringSt #WAPol #SAParli #QLDPol #TasPol #ACTPol #NTPol #ChurchState #Secularism

https://www.nsl.org.au/columns/weekend-wrap-for-20-august-2023/

Australia has reached a point in the clean energy transformation where governments will have to decide to keep coal burning longer or stick to the closure plan. In WA, shutdown of Muja 6 has been pushed back from October, 2024 to March, 2025. #wapol #auspol
https://reneweconomy.com.au/race-to-renewables-wa-delays-closure-of-coal-unit-will-nsw-follow-suit-at-eraring/

Western Australia's Muja 6 coal-fired power plant was due to close in October 2024 but that will now be delayed until April 2025. #wapol https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-17/wa-electricity-gas-energy-shortage-muja-coal-extension/102740940

Welcome to the 13 August 2023 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues.

#AusPol #NSWPol #SpringSt #WAPol #SAParli #QLDPol #TasPol #ACTPol #NTPol #ChurchState #Secularism

https://www.nsl.org.au/columns/weekend-wrap-for-13-august-2023/

https://www.opb.org/article/2023/08/09/multnomah-county-jail-deaths/

The absolute shrugging of this article is wild. Suicides in jail are on a native upswing in the PNW, with half of them being suicides. The solution? The cops got this. Fucking wild logic. #ACAB #1312Always #ORPol #WAPol #PNW #Goldbricking

Menang woman Megan Krakouer was a leading No campaigner against the First Nations Voice in WA. She's changed to Yes after giving it further consideration. While she says it's not perfect, it's a start and the way forward. #wapol #auspol https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-04/megan-krakouer-voice-activist-changes-mind-on-voting-no/102685454

Why was so much counter-terrorism police resources used to intervene on a peaceful protest?

Why is the phrase 'extremism' being thrown about, trivialising real 'extremism' which is a genuine threat to life and destruction of property by terrorist groups?

Why is the WA Premier throwing about accusations at Journalists - disproven within the hour?

Why is The West Australian so adamant at embroiling the ABC?

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/03/activist-says-woodside-ceos-safety-was-never-under-threat-by-protest-at-her-perth-home
#WAPol #WALaw

@slen10 can her reputation sink any lower? She had her partner sit at the back of a trial where she was to give evidence. Disgusting.

She is obsessed. If I were Brittany I'd find her stalking creepy and go to the police.

#Auspol #LindaReynolds #WAPol

ABC Statement:

A Four Corners team attended the protest action to gather material for a potential report later this year.

Just prior to the action the team received a tip to go to an address, they had no knowledge what was at the address or that it was someone’s house.

They had no knowledge of what action was going to occur there.

Read in full
https://about.abc.net.au/statements/abc-statement-on-woodside-protest-action/
#Journalism #WAPol

WA Premier evidently also likes leaping to conclusions:

"During this event, they clearly had prior notice, and understood that these people were going to the CEOs house, her personal home, to take this [alleged] action," he said at a press conference on Wednesday morning.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-02/woodside-protest-meg-oneill-men-arrested-/102679982
#Journalism #WAPol

So just imagine we let one man, and his company, buy most of the papers in our regional cities and small towns.

And that man was named Rupert Murdoch.

And that man decided to shut down the print editions, and instead put those papers behind the paywalls of his big right-wing metropolitan tabloids.

Want to read the local newspaper in Lismore? It's now behind the Daily Telegraph paywall.

And then that man gutted the editorial team for each online newspaper to just one person.

And then used generative AI to centrally churn out 3000 local news articles per week across all his local publications, overseen by four human journalists.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/aug/01/news-corp-ai-chat-gpt-stories

#auspol #NewsCorp #murdoch #vicpol #nswpol #qldpol #sapol #wapol @australia

WHEN?
When will we BEGIN to act with anything like the urgency that saving our world needs? #ClimateCrisis #AusPol #TasPol #VicPol #NTPol #WAPol #QLDPol #SAPol

The lesson from the Greece wildfires? The climate crisis is coming for us all https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/31/greece-wildfires-climate-crisis-developed-world?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

https://www.opb.org/article/2023/07/27/vancouver-police-taser-washington-violence-crime-shoplifting-officer/

Pigs are fucking scum. There is only one way to deal with them. #ACAB #1312Always #ORPol #WAPol #Cascadia #PigShit

https://kevinbonham.blogspot.com/2023/07/rockingham-by-election-2023-how-big.html Rockingham By-Election 2023: How Big A Swing Is Too Big?

A background post, with some live commentary tomorrow evening.

#wapol