Not surprising, but dissapointing. They've chosen the side of weapons manufacturing.
City of Sydney have been doing alright on that front, at least from what I've seen. Their recent council newsletter didn't just list numbers and policy changes for bragging points, but made a point of emphasising that gas fuel is a health hazard and an avoidable utility cost to residents, felt to me at least like a 'hint hint replace your gas stove' message. I forget where but I'm pretty sure the word 'unanimous' came up, even with a Liberal seat on the council. I don't know if that should be surprising, but I'm so used to them being the first corpo mouthpiece that I was surprised.
You passed stingy bois ocular patdown.
It's good to be hesitant about -isms and racism doesn't explain the whole story (imperialism has economic and therefore political implications, the Zionist Regime has played an important imperial role for the US and its allies in the region) but it's absolutely an aspect at play.
Growing up, I only really remember SBS talking about the Middle East bombings most years unless something truly exceptional happened. Not to trivialise it in any way, but when the Ukraine invasion happened, the reactions of a lot of Australians around me really showed that wars are far more important when White peoples are involved, despite being on the other side of the world, further away. Barely a peep about New Caledonia or West Papua. And to be fair, when I say "racism" I'm also talking about a casual environment of it, not any conscious discrimination. Most of Colonial Australia has a real and significant social link to Europe and the US, we see it as more relevant to our own situation than South East Asian countries, for example.
But, as you mentioned, there's also the Islamophobia and overt racism. There's absolutely an assumption or framing that this is a religious conflict and the evil Muslims want to kill those in the Zionist Regime simply because of "uncivilized" religious differences.
Yeah I think so too, I got the joke, I'm just emphasizing that this isn't some spooky "socialism for the rich", it's literally just capitalists doing capitalism in a very capital way.
That's just regular old market economics.
Cool, how long ago was this? It seems like there will be a fair bit of time between strange mince and familiar steak. The exotic faux gras is a smart move in this early game if they can pull it off, because the texture doesn't have to match a structured muscle.
Same as what @catloaf said. Images are just inconvenient (and sometimes inaccessible) for the reader and lazy posting.
Sorry for late reply:
They can’t form a political party. Right?
All I really know is it's their stated aim.
Plenty of their spokespeople are capable of being careful with their words, and they have lots of experience with woof-whistling. So it might not be nazi in name, just platforming the same policies. But, on the other hand, we have had Nazi electoral parties before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Party_of_Australia , and we have white nationalist parties still existing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_First_Party
It's legal to be a complete piece of shit if you're calm and smart with your words. Hate speech laws can only do so much.
You know that saying, two is better than one.