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Without knowing about how things are set up in your local co-op, maybe you could investigate setting up a two-stream system of ‘budget’ and ‘organic’. Or you could just set up an entirely separate co-op.
Without knowing about how things are set up in your local co-op, maybe you could investigate setting up a two-stream system of ‘budget’ and ‘organic’. Or you could just set up an entirely separate co-op.
Death, incapacitation, and unforced resignation don’t count 😆
There’s no place in the Labor caucus for someone who acts in accordance with their principles!
🎵 … is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo? 🎵
The Greens have always been against prohibition more broadly, but they can articulate their reasoning better than I can: https://greens.org.au/news/media-release/greens-secure-amendments-vaping-legislation-and-will-support-passage-through
Yeah, I don’t see why they shouldn’t be treated exactly like cigarettes.
From October that’ll pretty much be the case, except only purchasable at a pharmacy. I can’t see why they shouldn’t be sold at servos, etc., but I don’t think it’s a massive problem in terms of personal freedoms. It’ll give pharmacies a cash boost, and maybe even cause expansion of their opening hours in some cases, which could be helpful.
In any case, I think that the deal the Greens got is probably the best one Labor were ever going to give.
This is definitely a step in the right direction.
It seems likely, though, that they’ll end up with something like the ‘Super PACs’ (Political Action Committees) they use as a workaround in the US.
Nice to be noticed! Thanks for moderating ♥️
Shortly after, Mr Dreyfus spoke on the ABC’s Afternoon Briefing where he directed his anger about the issue towards the Greens leader.
“I think that the Greens political party and particularly the leader of the Greens political party have got something to answer for here in the way that they have been encouraging criminal damage of MPs electorate offices, encouraging really riotous behaviour, sometimes violent behaviour, that has been occurring outside electorate offices,” Mr Dreyfus said on the program.
Yeah, that does seem pretty defamatory. Maybe the meaning of ‘encourage’ could be weaseled about by the defence if it does go to court, but “they have been encouraging criminal damage” doesn’t seem very ambiguous. If he’d said ‘they have been encouraging protests resulting in criminal damage’ he might have more of a leg to stand on.
If you want scientists to be able to do science, they need support from admin staff doing admin.
About 65% felt the job cuts would impact CSIRO’s ability to put out good research and support Australian industries.
“Less support staff means more work for an already stretched research workforce,” one anonymised respondent wrote.
He can’t claim ignorance 😠
The high quality zingers we’ve come to expect from Shorten don’t come cheap!
Tingle wasn’t talking about that in her original remarks. The bit about The Australian’s considerable coverage on supposed anti-semitism was just meant to illustrate the Murdoch papers’ rank hypocrisy in their beat-up around her remarks.
Half the independents got in on a campaign that they would basically be Liberals except giving a shit about climate change, so we shouldn’t really be surprised. Allegra Spender was out there the other day calling the uni encampments anti-semitic 🙄
UPDATE
In case anyone was wondering, students voted to move the location of the encampment so that ANU management can’t use the emergency assembly point thing as an excuse to break up the encampment anymore. Post about it here: https://www.instagram.com/p/C7fgCS8Ph-o/
Students are calling on community members to help defend the encampment from police at 10:30am tomorrow (Tues 28th May): https://www.instagram.com/p/C7di8UwBpyb/
I hope they never stop using that picture of the time this idiot turned up wearing the shop uniform. Him and his PR advisors should never live it down 😆
I fucking love Hatari in general.
They went on to collaborate with Palestinian musician Bashar Murad: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xy84LnL_ghA
Bashar Murad actually competed to represent Iceland this year, but came runner-up.
Well you can ask them if it’s fully remote forever, and then don’t sign a contract unless it also states that.
Yeah, fair enough. I don’t have any first-hand experience, but advice I’ve heard is that if you can get just one other committed person on board, you’re halfway there.
If you’ve got a local Food Not Bombs group, that’s a good place to find people that are into cooperation. There’s other community groups around that might have people who are interested or that are willing to provide infrastructure of some kind - men’s sheds come to mind. Otherwise, it’s worth a try posting on local Facebook groups.
There’s probably a guide or blog written around getting something like this set up. I should have a dig around.