Working class people are going through some insane and scary times in your country. I wish for you that you truly become united and change the power structure to real representation and a real government of the people that restores your education, health and other essential services. The Australian working class is not as badly abused as in your country but we're moving in that direction. Stay strong!
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Also Sarah Hanson-Young gives an excellent, spirited speech mentioning the role of the media moguls and others, the effect on everyday people and businesses here and overseas and the pro-war stance of all the other parties in Parliament: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfxDJan32U8
Globally? Wow that's big but perhaps not accurate. In Australia there is plenty of wealth transfer going on. Please stop believing these facile statements that divide people. We need to work together. https://www.9news.com.au/national/baby-boomer-major-wealth-transfer-inheritance-looming/bd9714b3-a44c-401c-88c3-36c3ee277a28
The article does not explain why "at least 50,000 tonnes of beef are required to be in line with EU competitors, instead of the 30,600 on offer" but I for one, am happy there is less demand for beef. The whole world should be transitioning away from so much meat consumption for climate and ecological reasons (and animal welfare).
As a boomer, I agree with much of what younger generations say. I'd also like to remind you that it was the Boomer generation who advanced a number of movements that questioned 'the establishment' and made the world less constricting: feminism, gay rights, civil rights, indigenous land rights, the Green movement and environment protection laws, broader access to higher education, to name just some. Not all people of my generation are selfish old farts. I'd say the old farts at the top of the economic ladder ARE selfish (to be polite) and I'd also add that the younger farts that lick their boots are just as selfish and seek to be where their bosses are. I'd like you to picture, for example, the potus and his band of merry warmongers and environment destroyers and you will see that most are Gen X & Y. Ditto for most big industry. Hey, just remember the Tech bros and their energy-guzzling projects, like the Data Centres and what they are costing the Earth.
Everyday people did not understand (and many still don't) that they were causing climate change. They just swallowed the consumer narrative very adeptly churned out by big polluting and health-poisoning industry and their political counterparts. I could almost guarantee that if younger generations had been born when Boomers were born, you would have done what they did.
Being a generational 'racist' does not help any of us to change this deranged, exploitative system. We must work together as much as we can for the sake of not just you but of your children who are going to face an even worse situation and for Nature which is struggling to keep the place, our home, liveable.
I don't know. Why don't you put up a post and see what people say?
And those who don't care are mostly those who have not been exposed to thinking about the world and the economy in ways other than the constant mainstream narrative which is about consumption and self-centredness, about competition and lack. Look at the world situation right now. It's a result of that mindset taken to the max. Those of us who do care must keep up the message that a saner society is possible. Perhaps what we're going have to face in the next few years will teach our wasteful societies a lesson.
I'd say that many people don't.
Totally agree. Unfortunately under our current system they are unlikely to close commercial child care centres. They were supposed to better regulate them. I hope parents are making sure their MPs don't forget and also keep advocating for more support for community-run ones.
The photo doesn't come up blurry on my laptop. I'm not techie at all so I'm sorry I don't know why it's blurry on your device.
Congratulations on your garden work. I am doing something similar and have seen the wildlife diversity increase and I will keep on planting. It's a joy. I'll put up more native gardening posts up if there is an interest here.
We need to remind other Labor premiers in Oz that making public education funded properly as in SA can be done and we need public education workers and parents to get loud.