This Is The Way Of It

 


Ciu bono? Who benefits?

The game was rigged, and not for our benefit. 

They leapt off cliffs; they soared in the fetid air. Everything was overheating. They lived in tremulous, tumultuous times. Humans were a flick in the history of the world. 

Everyone knew. No one explained to the herd what was happening to them. We lived, well, they lived, in a kind of peaceful, guttered, narrow range of options, and had no idea of the world that swirled around them; pinned to a time and place as if it mattered. 

No one informed them of the truth.

This realm, this not very tidy realm, was in an upheaval unlike any in its long history; and the humans of that era, some knew of the cataclysm about to overtake them, but many did not. 

We lived tiny lives. We paid onerous taxes. We struggled even to maintain a lower working class style of living; for everything now cost a fortune, and those who had engineered this recession moving rapidly into another Great Depression, those ignorant over-educated apparatchiks and useful fools, useful tools, championed their social justice issues, thought they were social justice warriors, and destroyed the society and the culture and the communities which had gone before them, all in the name of self-preening progress.

They would be swept aside, just like the species itself. Not even worthy of a cage in a zoo.


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Australia's Digital Duty of Care Bill Faces Free Speech Backlash
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The proposed Online Safety Amendment (Digital Duty of Care) Bill 2026 requires platforms, AI chatbots, and apps to prevent harms like child abuse, terrorism, and for under-16s, issues including pornography and cyberbullying, with fines up to $109 million for failures. Opponents, including Coalition Shadow Minister Sarah Henderson, call it a dangerous power grab lacking free speech safeguards, especially after the eSafety Commissioner tried to censor a U.S. journalist's Substack article on a medical staffer's online posts. Government officials insist the rules target real threats, with ministerial powers checked by parliament and expert advice, as consultation ends September 22.
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https://x.com/ctindale/status/2098530893426205049

You can’t make this stuff up . E -Safety commissioner takes a journalist to court to stop them telling the public that the Australian Medical Association hired a trans pornstar to promote gender affirming care to pre teens to Australian doctors . That’s the protection the e Safety commissioner is providing to our children . I don’t normally worry about this category of stuff but it’s become next level loony .
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https://x.com/ctindale/status/2098644496988959021

Correction: the eSafety Commissioner didn’t take anyone to court. That’s the problem. She didn’t need a judge, the Prime Minister, or a cabinet sign-off. Under the Online Safety Act her office can issue a removal notice to X and treat an Australian geo-block as compliance. That’s what happened to Genevieve Gluck’s 2024 investigation into an AMA Victoria liaison’s public porn accounts. Gluck wasn’t even told. She found out when X forwarded the notice. The penalty threat up to $910,000 was against the platform, not her. She is only in the tribunal now because she appealed after the block. One statutory office can suppress journalism in Australia first and make the writer fight it afterwards.

Anthony Albanese’s Labor government, which won a landslide 94-seat majority in the May 2025 federal election, is now in a difficult mid-term position marked by broken promises, personal gaffes, pork-barrelling claims, and slumping approval. Pauline Hanson’s One Nation has surged on primary-vote polling and scored a notable by-election win, while the government’s expanding online-safety rules have drawn free-speech and overreach criticism. Prime Minister’s setbacksAlbanese’s personal ratings have been consistently poor through 2026, often in net-negative territory around -15 to -25, even as Labor retains a two-party-preferred edge thanks to preferences. Cost-of-living pressures, housing, and migration remain flashpoints. A May 2026 budget that altered negative gearing and capital-gains settings was widely seen as breaking an election promise; Albanese faced “out of touch” and “liar” attacks on breakfast television and from Hanson. “Melon-gate” in August 2026 became a prolonged embarrassment. On a podcast Albanese mocked Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s gift of crown melons with a crude gesture. He was slow to apologise, drawing criticism from Japan’s former ambassador, Labor colleagues worried about the bilateral relationship, and commentators who called it evidence of stubbornness. A $6 million infrastructure grant to a golf club in his electorate—where he is an honorary member—sparked pork-barrelling accusations. Albanese refused to apologise, saying the money prevented sewage runoff. Relations with NSW Labor Premier Chris Minns have also deteriorated. Labor lost the Secret Harbour by-election in Western Australia in late August 2026, a seat it had held, after a massive swing to One Nation. Albanese did not campaign there. Hanson later drew fire for comments about Albanese’s late mother. Rise of One NationOne Nation’s primary vote has frequently sat in the mid-to-high 20s and occasionally topped 30 per cent in 2026 polls (YouGov, Roy Morgan, Redbridge), sometimes ahead of Labor and well ahead of a Coalition that has collapsed into the high teens. The party draws heavily from working-class and regional voters who previously backed Labor. Two-party-preferred figures still favour Labor because of preference flows. The Secret Harbour win—One Nation’s first lower-house seat in WA, with a 30-plus-point primary swing—gave the party a tangible breakthrough and publicity. Hanson has framed Albanese as a promise-breaker; Labor has responded by branding One Nation “downright dishonest” and calling for its defeat. Some analyses note a polling feedback loop that has amplified the surge. Censorship and online-regulation controversyAustralia’s under-16 social-media ban (in force since December 2025) has been tightened. In June 2026 the government doubled maximum fines to A$99 million and expanded eSafety Commissioner information-gathering powers after evidence that many under-16s still accessed platforms via workarounds. Five major platforms remain under investigation. Reddit is challenging the ban in the High Court on free-speech grounds. In September 2026 the government released a draft “Digital Duty of Care” bill, branded “My Feed, My Way.” Platforms would have to offer users an algorithm opt-out, conduct harm-risk assessments, and face penalties up to A$109 million. Albanese and Communications Minister Anika Wells described it as user control and a “global reckoning” for Big Tech, not censorship. The Coalition has been sceptical; the Trump administration warned against targeting US companies and called aspects “extortion.” Critics argue the measures, combined with earlier misinformation debates and eSafety takedown powers, risk overreach. Some public servants have even floated restrictions on circulating parliamentary clips on social media. Overall, Albanese’s government remains electorally viable on two-party metrics but is politically battered, while One Nation has converted discontent into polling strength and a high-profile by-election victory. The online-safety push is presented as child protection and user empowerment but is contested as heavy-handed regulation.


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