#TonyAbbott

[sublimeobservationarcade]

Australians Are Really Dumb

Australians are really dumb if you go by their behaviour over the last 20 years. They have bought the whole anti-union narrative spruiked by conservative politicians like John Howard, Tony Abbott, Scott Morrison and their ilk. These guys demonised and attempted to criminalise unionists and their ALP mates. The whole anti-Bill Shorten campaign painted Bill as some union crook – for which there was no real evidence. Despite this voters bought it hook, line and sinker. Now, we are where we find ourselves with record low wage growth over decades. Unions stripped of power by laws. Labour hire companies ripping off workers. Workers with bugger all rights. Big companies lording it over little workers with no bargaining power.

Shabby Australians Deserve Qantas

Qantas has finally been pulled up by the High Court of Australia – after the unions took them on and fought their appeal against the wrongful dismissal of 1, 700 baggage handlers during the Covid pandemic. Australians didn’t stand up to Qantas, the Coalition government backed them with billions of tax payer’s money, whilst Virgin went down the gurgler. Australians have become pretty shabby people, sitting back and watching workers being shafted by Corporate Australia and not saying boo.

Alan Joyce has been an absolute disgrace, as Qantas CEO for years and years. Under his leadership this once great company has become a vampire for shareholders. Sucking the life out of long serving staff and treating its customers like shit. “ "It now stands their actions against these Qantas families as the largest sacking in Australian corporate history that has been found to be illegal," Transport Workers' Union national secretary, Michael Kaine said in the minutes after the landmark verdict was handed down. "These workers have been put through hell. Their families have been put through hell. Their lives have been dislocated, some of them forever … that's the consequence of this illegal decision.” - (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-14/qantas-workers-high-court-illegally-sacked-twu-compensation-bill/102848854)

Qantas flying off with your money

Joyce Took Australia On A Joy Ride At Our Expense

Australians are only just waking up to the litany of unfair and low life actions taken by the airline’s management and board. Joyce has walked away with $24 million in bonuses, after destroying the culture and reputation of a once mighty business and brand. Australians and Qantas shareholders should hang their heads in shame really. We all sat back and watched the destruction of people’s lives and livelihoods. What for? All for money, of course. We have very few standards of morality left in this nation, especially after a decade of Coalition governments under the guise of liars like Morrison and leering scumbags like Abbott.

Dirty Deeds Done In Australia Think about Robodebt and the disgraceful and unlawful scheme of these same jokers. Vulnerable people, wrongly accused of owing thousands of dollars, killed themselves. Ponder on the billions of dollars going to companies like PwC and KPMG, who have been taking the Australian people for a very expensive ride. These are Coalition initiatives and trends massaged and mined for every penny possible. Insider mates getting all the plumb jobs and big government contracts without the normal scrutiny that the public service would be under. Opaque transparency in shady town. Stuart Robert and Alan Tudge have scarpered already to avoid taking any responsibility. Marise Payne has likewise ducked out of the building, just in case people are actually held accountable. I would not hold your breath, however. Australia is a white collar crime and corruption Mecca. Only poor and powerless people get prosecuted and go to prison.

Neoliberal champions who led us where we find ourselves - ripped off by our own economy! Governments Need To Get Back In The Game Of Building Things Will Australians awake from their slumber and pay attention to WTF is going on? Neoliberalism still haunts the halls of power and politics, despite having delivered zero results for the majority of us. The ALP needs to get its head out of its arse and stop playing it safe. The ALP still sucks on the teat of neoliberalist economic beliefs. The housing crisis is a direct result of government neglect in this regard. The market will not take care of everything – that is complete bullshit. Pull your finger out Albo! The housing fund is a cocka-doodle crock of monetary madness. We need governments to get back in the game of building infrastructure – like houses where the working poor can live. It is an emergency and the market is not going to magic up a shit load of social housing.

Richard Goyder Must Go Goyder must go, as he has been the enabler in the whole Alan Joyce disaster. Qantas has been accused by the ACCC of selling seats to 10, 000 customers, which had already been cancelled. This could cost the airline a fine of $250 million. Australian must get back to holding Corporate Australia accountable for its actions. The LNP anything goes days are over. Australians would be best served to remember who has led this trashing of our standards. John Howard used to boast about making us all shareholders. Well, the vast majority of Australians are not shareholders but we have been screwed by Corporate Australia. High prices and rising inflation have been caused by a profit-price-spiral. Record profits have been announced by Qantas and the banks. The duopolies and oligopolies means that they can set the prices in most markets. The ACCC has failed us in terms of protecting competition. Our governments have been asleep at the wheel or looking the other way on the back of grift and graft. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQKnazRIEc8 Australians Are Not What They Used To Be Australians are only really arcing up right now because airfares are really expensive. Self-centred shabby Aussies did bugger all when Joyce was sacking airline staff left, right and centre. Neoliberal economics has pervaded the leadership of our nation and gutted things like mateship and social justice. People are just out for what they can get. Scumbags are the new normal downunder. You know unions have done a lot for this country over the journey. Apart from protecting the basic rights of workers, they have been involved in preserving things like our historical buildings, anti-apartheid campaigns against South Africa, fighting for equal pay for Australian women, and getting equal pay for Indigenous workers on cattle stations. “In January 1965 the North Australian Workers’ Union lodged an application with the Arbitration Commission to delete the provision of the award covering workers at cattle stations that prevented Indigenous workers from gaining equal rights. A campaign of public pressure in support of the claim for wage equality was launched across the country. The Cattle Producers Council submitted a series of racist arguments to the Commission, degrading the contribution of Indigenous workers to the industry.  In March 1966 the commission handed down its decision in favour of equal wages – but in a racist insult to Indigenous workers, deferred this equality until December 1968. Indigenous pastoral workers took action, demanding equality immediately. “ - (https://www.actu.org.au/about-the-actu/history-of-australian-unions) If you have ever lived or spent some time in regional Australia you will well know the heightened level of racism in these communities. Not everyone, of course, but far more blatant expressions of racism than in the city are frequently voiced. You have to ask yourself why is Queensland, especially in the regional parts so racist and anti-union? A history of blackbirding – the indented servitude or enslavement of First Nations people – exists there. The current folk are the descendants of such people. The Lutheran German migrants and other European migrants are well known to be anti-union on the basis of their experiences in their old countries. They hand these attitudes down to their progeny for better or worse. Interestingly the polls predict that Queensland and Tasmania will be bastions for the No vote in the October referendum on the voice to parliament for Indigenous Australians. Two states where massacres of First Nations people were prominent in our history. Robert Sudha Hamilton is the author of Money Matters: Navigating Credit, Debt, and Financial Freedom. ©WordsForWeb

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[goku20193]

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[official-auspol]

Happy 6th anniversary of this historic event everybody!!

#auspol #lnp #tonyabbott #putoutyouronions #onions

[wilrobertson]

Tony be gone.

#tonyabbott

[neoporcupine]

the identity of the directors of the entity that controls the hospitals in Australia remains a secret

Toxic governance.

#auspol #TonyAbbott #AusLiberal #ausvotes

[zanerosetta]

Well this is just terrifying... The Budgey Smuggler and Potato Boy... 😧 ... ... ... ... ... #auspol #leadershipspill #libtards #tonyabbott #peterdutton #peterduttonsucks #mrpotatohead #liberalparty #libspill (at Penrith, New South Wales) https://www.instagram.com/p/BmzEpwogeyE/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1x95esvvf8dfs

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[james-mathurin]

Seem to remember this #voteyes piece got painted over at one point. #lgbtq #Auspol #tonyabbott #urbanart #sprayart #streetart #streetartists #streetartnews #streetartglobe #urbanvibescommunity #streetartdaily #streetartphotography #streetartistry (at Redfern, New South Wales) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZN7DRvvWLY/?utm_medium=tumblr

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[kingofthenumbats]

TONY ABBOTT U CⱯNT

Local Sydney legend Danny Lim is (in)famous for his fun sandwich board messages where he calls Tony Abbott (and other PMs) ‘c∀nts’ (also his epic facial hair). He was fined in 2015 for offensive conduct, although a GoFundMe page raised the $500 in only 56 minutes. His challenge in the Local Court failed, but his appeal to the District Court overturned his conviction, as such a play on words is acceptable as freedom of political communication. Judge Andrew Scotting suggested that the word “cunt” is not always offensive and is “now more prevalent in everyday language”, particularly in Australia, when it’s not being used for its “literal significance”. He also pointed out that even Shakespeare used a pun of “cunt” in ‘Hamlet’.

So I guess you c∀n’t say that you c∀n’t say c∀nt

#legend #tonyabbott #U C∀NT #trueblue

[sublimeobservationarcade]

Robodebt

A phalanx of politicians announced the completion of the Robodebt Royal Commission and that the federal government would be accepting all its 50 something findings. This disgusting policy initiative by the previous Coalition government went after 500, 000 Australians accusing them of fraudulently taking social security money and owing the government thousands of dollars. Robodebt was wrong and illegal from its very start but the LNP ministers went on an ideological crusade to make half a million Aussies criminals and welfare cheats. This appealed to the downward envy of Australians groomed by Coalition political strategists. Tony Abbott masterminded Robodebt, Scott Morrison carried it out with gusto, Alan Tudge was complicit in it, and Stuart Robert got his hands dirty too.

Mothers lost sons!

Coalition Robocops & Robodebt

These LNP politicians bragged in the media that they were Robocops going after Australians rorting the system. It was a crusade to raise money and just as importantly to identify villains that working Australians could righteously despise. The overarching message was that folks on social welfare were second class citizens and many of them were criminals to boot. The whole thing blew up in their face eventually but not before some vulnerable Australians killed themselves in despair. A settled class action by those wrongly accused has cost the Australian tax payers $1.8 billion and counting.

Who Is Going To Pay For The Robodebt Crime? The journalists asking questions of the phalanx of ALP government ministers announcing the Robodebt findings wanted to know who is being charged over this debacle. Talk of public service disciplinary reviews was not quite what they had in mind. The investigative journalists who had followed the inquiry over many months and listened to the repeated failures of oversight and the illegality of the scheme wanted to know who would be held to account. If this Royal Commission was more than political window dressing heads would have to roll. Australians are getting sick of these high falutin inquiries resulting in nix, nothing, and zilch, when it comes to individuals being prosecuted. If lives were lost and billions of dollars wasted who is going to pay for it?

Centrelink Might Answer The Phone Yes, the Albanese government are going to add 3 000 Centrelink workers so that someone will answer the phone within a couple of hours instead of the current 4 hours, if you are lucky. This state of affairs has been in place for more than a decade, including during the Rudd and Gillard governments. Tough love has been the unspoken policy for social welfare in Australia for a long time. The economics drive the bus. The message goes out to the electorate that welfare is bad and the people on it are second class. This was one of the reasons why it was so easy for Abbott, Morrison, Payne and Co to introduce and run Robodebt. Making out that many Aussies were welfare cheats was just an extension of the messaging governments had been making for many years.

RBA Full Employment Means 500, 000 Aussies Out Of Work The Reserve Bank of Australia predicate their idea of full employment for the economy on a 4.5% unemployment rate. That is 500, 000 Australians without gainful employment. This setting is their idea of what drives the bus for low inflation and economic growth. Michelle Bullock, the new boss, has emphasised this repeatedly of late. Therefore, these folks are necessary economic scapegoats for the Australian economy to flourish. At the same time government policy has been to beat up on these people by paying them below the poverty line welfare. Plus, to infer to the media that they are dole bludgers taking the rest of us for a ride. Downward envy is an Olympic sport in Australia.

Show Us Some Blood, Cry The Media So, you can understand the media’s scepticism when it comes to grandiose statements about the Robodebt Royal Commission. Show us some real blood, some real consequences, the media pack cried out. Kathryn Campbell, the senior public servant in charge, has been suspended, but what else? Politicians don’t like to see their political opponents actually get the chop, because of an attitude of ‘there but for the grace of god go I.’ It is all play acting to a large extent. It is only the little people, like you and I, who actually suffer and literally go under. These talking heads are just that. They pander for the cameras and make speeches. It is all about political mileage. Robodebt was a crime against humanity. And we the people want to see someone go down for it. Robert Sudha Hamilton is the author of Money Matters: Navigating Credit, Debt, and Financial Freedom.  ©WordsForWeb Read the full article

#ALP #Australia #classaction #Coalition #moralfailure #politics #power #Robodebt #RoyalCommission #ScottMorrison #TonyAbbott

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[official-auspol]

#fuckTonyAbbott

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[tarunbharatmedia]

ऑस्ट्रेलियाचे माजी पंतप्रधान सुवर्ण मंदिरात अमृतसरः अमृतसरमध्ये शीख धर्माचे संस्थापक गुरु नानक देव यांच्या ५५०व्या जयंतीनिमित्त ऑस्ट्रेलियाचे माजी पंतप्रधान टोनी अ‍ॅबॉट यांनी हरमंदिर साहिब (गोल्डन टेम्पल) येथे भांडी धुऊन सेवा बजावली. Former Australian PM visits Golden Temple Amritsar: Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott washes utensil, performing 'seva', at Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple) to mark the 550th birth anniversary of Sikhism founder Guru Nanak Dev, in Amritsar. #tarunbharatnews #tbdsocialmedia #harimandirsahib #goldentemple #tonyabbott (at Golden Temple Amritsar) https://www.instagram.com/p/B49uImkhUt0/?igshid=1e06ri33t2goi

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[sydneynews]

Tony Abbott's statement on the death of Bob Hawke. His comments re a Labor heart and Liberal head has attracted some negative press despite its objective truth when compared against the current party

#tonyabbott #auspol #ozhistory #bobhawke

[strongpencil]

In honour of only just receiving my postal vote in the mail and immediately marking 'YES' to marriage equality (well, duh)...here's Tony Abbott with extra dangly, extra hairy nips. A vote for marriage equality is a vote for love, for acceptance and for the legal rights that come from sharing your life with the person you love more than anything in the world. I honestly don't understand anybody who could argue with that. #voteyes #marriageequality #plebiscite #australiasamesexmarriage #commonsense #watercolour #art #illustration #australia #tonyabbott #vintagestrongpencil #strongpencil #love❤️💛💚💙💜🌈

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[jimmyskyonline]

Don't let nobody tell you some random onion can't make your morning. . . #onion #random #parkinglot #fruit #vegetable #tonyabbott #lols #comedy #bizarre #photography https://www.instagram.com/p/BsoDurBFhOq/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1fn8t0glh9a4a

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[monkeydlawffy-blog]

He hates gays and yet his sister is gay

#onepiece #luffy #zoro #nami #usopp #sanji #chopper #robin #franky #brook #otaku #tonyabbott