@alanatshipley@SketchesbyBoze I picked up the story somewhere that public libraries were a liberal response to the popularity and political radicalism of mechanics Institutes but i've never found any details of that history.
@withMEAA As it is, most of the ABC audience still think the death toll sits at 40,000. Why can’t we rely on our union to push back against conservative attempts to control the our media?
@withMEAA Why has the MEAA finally started using this kind of language re: the ABC? The institutional racism, the pro-Zionist bias, and lack of proper process was completely apparent at the time.
@withMEAA Stronger action in favour of truth from the MEAA in December 2023 might have actually prevented the systemic bias we’ve seen in ABC reporting, and helped sway public opinion in Australia which, it is not inconceivable, might have prevented some of the violence in Gaza.
@maximumwelfare It's wild that this isn't in the news every single day until fixed. It's so blatant, and people look at you like you're a conspiracy theorist if you mention it because if it's a real thing how come it isn't in the news.
@LilahTheyPG Or honestly, just an increase in Jobseeker payments and lower rents. Social security is the best arts funding. Dedicated arts funding often just ends up going to people educated and neurotypical enough to write grant applications.
@declanmartin75 Presumably we’ve lost them because not enough people were using them, and they’re not using them because they’re too expensive. We should be halving the price of them and doubling the number of sleeper carriages.
@declanmartin75 …because if they weren’t 3x the price of a flight, an overnight sleeper would be genuinely good option for traveling to Sydney. I bet they’re only that expensive because they’re luxury-priced far above what they cost as point of difference to those who want to signal wealth
@criprights I mean, one of the things that would happen is greens would receive donor money from the big end of town and would end up just as corrupted as the labor party is. The greens being basically what the labor party was in the 70’s and labor what the the LNP was.