Labor is a trade unionist party, not a leftist party.

New South Wales Labor is moving away from the trade union base, but otherwise Labor is very much still controlled by the trade unions. If you pay close attention to what Labor does they do actually have strong left-wing credentials. Under Labor renewables have been rolled out rapidly, world leading anti tax-avoidance policies, repealed negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount, etc.

Australia's political system favours centrism (or at least the appearance of it), but Labor's actions tell a different story.

We should also probably make some definitions to avoid confusion:

• Progressive: Supports the fair treatment of all people, regardless of race, gender, religion, or disability.
• Trade unionist: Supports workers rights and high salaries for the working class.
• Economically left-wing: Supports welfare and wealth redistribution, as well as trade unionism.
• Left-wing: All of the above.

This is straight up treasonous. Writing directly to Trump (instead of speaking to the Australian public) to say she would reverse it is a not-so-subtle plea to get America to coup Albanese like Rudd and Whitlam.

I didn't realize she was that evil. This is why we can't have nice things.

I read that as less of a "belief" and more of an "assumption". Most people don't think about paraplegic sex at any point on their life, so her assumption went unquestioned until she was prompted to by sex work.

You think choosing your Linux distro is bad, imagine having to choose your electricity, water, internet, phone, banking, and insurance provider as well as your local councillor, workplace, school, career, entertainment, childcare, car, house, food, etc.

This "love choice, hate choosing" is a really valuable thing to understand.

Please don't scare me with a title like that so soon after an election.

I'm writing materials to teach Windows 11 to someone, and I literally explain Onedrive as "a computer in America".

This is REALLY bad. It'll require your age be verified by your ISP, operating system, email, search engine, and the site you visit. Fines of up to $49.5 million if violated.

If this is real, it is straight-up totalitarian.

Fair. There's no universe in which those three companies should be foisted on passive investors at this stages.

This seems like a really stupid solution and I have no idea what the government's thinking.

Australia is very limited in how it can move away from America, because the Coalition enthusiastically sells us out to them any chance they can get.

Albanese, by repairing our relationship with China, is putting us on the right track. He can't get out of AUKUS and there may even be advantages to that such as giving Albanese Trump's ear and allowing him to potentially stop a war with China. I don't pay enough attention to what Albanese is doing behind the scenes to strengthen Australia's sovereignty.

Banning new gas installations is an easy one. We should not be pumping gas into people's homes.

Wood fireplaces is a tough one. The ACT did it, but we don't burn wood for electricity and wood isn't as prone to leaking. The problem is that wood smoke is carcinogenic.

It's not piracy to shut your ears and plug your eyes whenever an ad is playing ... at least not yet. Give the lobbyists a few weeks.

It is. EV's are just slightly less bad cars. They still cause potholes, traffic, high housing costs, noise, and pedestrian deaths.

Last I checked they were ghoulishly waiting at the prison in the hopes of watching her be sent in.

The media is garbage. We did not need this many updates on the case, and they did not need to rub it in so much (I think she obviously did it, but on the off chance she didn't they're basically bullying her at this point).

Just make me CEO of a company. Surely I can't do worse than the crop of people they're currently finding.

I read that title as "facial transplant".

I will be taking no further questions.

It's pretty damaging to your reputation to sue a rape victim for defamation. Or at least it should be.

Ballsy, especially after Republican threats. Here's hoping their idea of retaliation is cancelling AUKUS.

Per the article, without a "no religion" option people will pick the religion of their parents even if they're now atheist. This inflates the christian numbers.