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After a month-long vitriolic campaign against the Palestine movement, the Labor government and the right to protest, the Greens have followed Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in capitulating to the ruling-class demand for a federal inquiry.

After a month-long vitriolic campaign against the Palestine movement, the Labor government and the right to protest, the Greens have followed Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in capitulating to the ruling-class demand for a federal inquiry.

  • Zagorath@quokk.auEnglish
    4·
    16 days ago

    Damn, this is mega disappointing. I’ve moved so my local MP is no longer Greens, but I haven’t updated my address on the electoral roll so I might write to her, and to the Greens Senators, to express my disappointment at this.

    I’ll also just re-share here the text of a fantastic Facebook post that came out a week ago, before Albo capitulated:

    A Royal Commission is for systemic, nationwide failure not a single criminal act like the Bondi Shooting

    Australia only uses Royal Commissions when normal oversight has completely failed, causing widespread harm over years not localised to one region, city or state.

    Examples:

    • Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse

      • Most expensive ever (~$535 million)
      • Decades of abuse across churches, schools, state institutions

    • Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability

      • ~$300–350 million
      • Widespread abuse and neglect across care, health, justice, NDIS

    • Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety
      – ~$110–120 million
      – System found to be unsafe, neglectful, and failing nationally

    • Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme
      – ~$60 million
      – An unlawful government scheme that harmed hundreds of thousands

    The Bondi attack was a single act of violence by an individual.

    It is already subject to:

    • Police investigation
    • Coroner’s inquest
    • Independent reviews

    Unless evidence shows repeated ignored warnings, systemic government failure, or nationwide negligence, a Royal Commission is not justified.

    Calling one without proof of systemic failure is political theatre, wastes public money, and retraumatises families.

    Facts first. Evidence first. Accountability where it belongs.

    • Deceptichum@quokk.auOPMEnglish
      3·
      16 days ago

      I know right, I’m in Lab land although Greens came close second. If you end up writing something, feel free to send me a copy and I’ll send it my local as well.

      Also worth noting, no royal comish into Port Arthur despite being over twice as deadly.

      IMO it’s being done as political theatre, spurned on by Zionist lobbying. They’ll probably recommend some more draconian state overreach as the solution to avoid this one off incident from happening again.

      • Zagorath@quokk.auEnglish
        2·
        11 days ago

        I was gonna spend the time this evening or over the weekend writing it, since I’ve been pretty hectic this week. But since the Greens have seemingly already gotten the message and are opposing it in its current form for pretty much the reasons I would have been listing, I don’t think it necessary anymore.