A question to Australia? Have you turned up to vote in a state or federal election and been told that you are not registered to vote even if you know you are? #auspoll
#Robodebt If the system is so good at recovering outstanding debts from people and doesn't have a duty of care, then it should be applied to all politician's and public servants with the same level of enforcement.
@SenatorMcGrath Are you suggesting that the people at GoFundMe are stealing oxygen and don't have the right to breath because you disagree with there decision. "Oxygen Thieves", sounds like hate speech to me.
Australian authorities raided the home of a journalist one day, and a newsroom the next. These incidents are the latest in a string of instances by governments that claim to value press freedom targeting journalists for their reporting. https://t.co/rHf00Z1lFO
This affects all of us. AFP destroying & erasing evidence is right up there with the kind of Stalinist Revisionist burying of truth we see in #ChernobylHBO How can we stop cover ups, lack of accountability, corruption? Great convo @ABCthedrum#auspol
Investigative journalism is under threat:
@ABCNews raided for exposing alleged murders by Australian army
#Myanmar jailed journalists for exposing massacre of civilians
#Assange faces life in jail for exposing US "collateral murder"
Exposing war crimes is a duty, not a crime!
@Politics_SMHAGE@Sandra_Sully @BevanShields As usual Australians are asleep at the wheel, politicians may come and go but the real power is in the hands of the senior public servants who run the show in the background. They are the ones who inititiated the complaint/raids and who want to stop whistleblowers exposing them.
ABC Chair Ita Buttrose: "As ABC Chair, I will fight any attempts to muzzle the national broadcaster or interfere with its obligations to the Australian public. Independence is not exercised by degrees. It is absolute" @abcnews#auspol
AFP: I’m still staggered by the power of this warrant. It allows the AFP to “add, copy, delete or alter” material in the ABC’s computers. All Australians, please think about that: as of this moment, the AFP has the power to delete material in the ABC’s computers. Australia 2019.
Today the AFP raided the ABC. Yesterday the home of a journalist. I guess it's a good day to re-post this Honest Government Ad. #AFPRaids#auspol
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