They ought to join their union, though I wonder if NTEU will backup their words with strikes in solidarity if these changes aren't reversed:
https://www.nteu.au/News_Articles/National/NTEU_Statement_on_Israel_and_Palestine.aspx
MisterFrog
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Any educator who doesn't leave over this is unworthy of being an educator
It's been enshittified by capitalism
I think this is unfair, because as you say, we live under capitalism. What do you expect educators to do, be unemployed? Under capitalism, this is not a very enticing prospect.
Staff themselves ought not to be blamed on the decisions of admin.
It's not like they get a vote (though, in my opinion, they should get to vote on top administrative positions, as should every workplace)
It's so transparent it's almost laughable.
What gets me about the Nationals, is they barely advocate for the region's interests at all.
Climate change has, and is going to keep increasing the frequency and severity of droughts.
If I recall correctly, droughts in this country are strongly correlated with an increased rate of suicides of farmers, for fairly obvious reasons.
The Nationals ought to be on the "hey, how about we mitigate climate change" bandwagon.
But they're so captured by Gina Rhinehart and other moneyed interests and apparently the voters in rural areas don't care.
I don't get it, honestly.
As much as I hate the Liberals, if it effectively shifts the Overton Window left, I'll call the Liberals working with Labor in the senate a win
If he did, his scheme cooked up by his donors to delay clean energy would be revealed.
This travesty is that he's not been prosecuted for murdering people/war crimes (allegedly)
Yeah I agree, it's definitely on NSW to reform, not everyone else...
Wait NSW uses first past the post in state and local elections?
A search later: it's preferential, but optionally so. https://elections.nsw.gov.au/candidate-handbook-nsw-state-by-elections/counting-and-results/legislative-assembly-voting-and-counting/examples-of-ballot-papers
I dunno if I'm a fan of less than 5 preferences being mandatory.
We must resist first past the post voting at all costs.
I think the other guy was a former pollster for the liberals, who along with the guy sitting next to him (former pollster for the Labor party) both work for the ABC now.
That was my recollection anyway
Unless Australians are comfortable with sending a much larger number of lower house members, that would make the electorates get much bigger than they currently are, and I would guess removing local representatives would not be a popular move.
I'm not entirely convinced that 1 liberal and 1 Labor would be locked in everywhere. I think the change in electoral system would produce governments much more representative of how people vote. It would change us to a system where forming a coalition is practically expected.
5 does seem like a reasonable working number of members to send as a combined "delegation" from an electorate, but that'd be the maximum desirable, in my view.
With 225 members and sending 5 from each electorate, that would reduce the number to only 45 electorates in the whole country.
Something, I'm totally fine with, I think federal electorates ought to be much larger than state or local electorates, but it would probably be a hard sell to many people.
Really appreciate you sharing your thoughts on this :)
The lower house single-member electorate voting system does still favour larger parties, it's just way, way, better than FPTP.
https://oercollective.caul.edu.au/aust-politics-policy/chapter/electoral-systems/
Relevant part starts at "Majoritarian (or ‘winner takes all’) systems" about a third of the way down.
Because of when I grew up, my mind simply doesn't register this as an ableist slur, even though intellectually I know it is. It's like the greens don't know that trying to smear their defector doesn't actually make them look good.
I tire of how bad at politics the greens are. Since they're the furthest left party with any seats currently, it would be nice if they knew how to play the game better.
If they took her defection in stride, simply pointing out that she must not really have the same values, could have come across a lot better.