The @ is also being dropped and all usernames are now in the format "xXusernameXx"

I would argue that it's quite easy to judge, at any distance, the collective punishment of civilians through the withholding of the essentials of life.

We've a referendum this weekend largely on whether we're ready to confront uncomfortable and complex consequences of a history of colonial violence. What's more difficult is reconciling these sorts of statements from a government that says it is.

Troy Gray, the secretary of the Electrical Trades Union (ETU), told Guardian Australia that a campaign would be launched by an alliance of unions and outdoor recreation and hunting groups next week, urging a database of about 300,000 emails to contact their local Labor MP.

Members of the Building Industry Group of Unions, which includes the ETU as well as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union, the CFMEU and the plumbers’ union, have also committed to spending a further $2m on the campaign to “defend our rights to the great outdoors”.

If you’re a member of one of these unions it might be a good time to get in touch and ask them wtf they think they’re doing with your dues.

My experience of Epic exclusives is that most become things that are never on my radar again, even after the exclusive period.

I take it from this increase in rates that I’m far from alone in that regard.

Capitulation to fascists only emboldens them and perpetuates the problem. You protect your staff by pursuing those who threaten them by every means available to you.

Respect to the investigations team for running this.

Stop using Google services and products in general ideally. They've become a fundamental threat to a functional web.

Ask any former employee about just how much those comments were not out of context.

Horman’s been awful for years. She just decided to be publicly awful this time.

The housing policy we’ve seen from Labor has been disastrously bad.

• A refusal to invest in public housing, instead intending to repeat the “social and affordable” model that has already been a dismal failure in Victoria. …well, unless you’re a housing developer.

• Housing targets that focus on commercial builds while we’ve 40+ years of public housing deficit in every state and territory.

• And now this which sees people entering into loans they’d otherwise be told they can’t afford and literally sees the government invested in continuing capital growth of real estate prices for decades to come when the policies we need, properly implemented, would diminish or even end that growth.

Because Victoria Police will turn up to escort them.

George Pell, until Howard croaks anyway.

A reminder: never, ever, call police on someone whose welfare you care about.

Start by getting welfare above the poverty line and keeping it there. Then there’s a small matter of about 40 years worth of public housing that needs building.

Both anchor women to lethally dangerous situations and are both creating pressures that increase the rates of domestic violence in the first place.

Cis supremacists never enjoy people realising that they are, in fact, supremacists. It's all you need to know about why they find such natural allies in white supremacists.

Housing costs, rental or purchase, are only resolved by supply and ending real estate's position as an investment vehicle.

That means large scale public housing investment to the point that it actively devalues property on a capital value bases. Rental yields are already a poor investment on their own. That leaves the "just park the money" crowd with a simple choice: sell now or watch it depreciate.

Fascists like Antic aren't going to save your rights.

Thanks for getting out into the streets today if you did. Remember that win or lose there's going to be much to be done beyond October 14. Stay active, please. You'll be needed.

From 8 years ago when Labor helped pass the laws: https://www.theguardian.com/...

There’s no latitude for other choices whilst first past the post voting systems remain.

If you want minor parties in the US then your first priority must be establishing ranked choice voting. Any other approach just hands power to your opponents.

The Stage 3 tax cuts are so unaffordable in the long term that they are effectively the death knell of what was once Labor’s traditional objectives.

They need scrapping, not expanding.