One Nation themselves are racist. They barely have a policy in the first place, but as individuals they are overwhelmingly racist people.

You’re clearly someone who knows nothing about Pauline Hanson other than that she wants lower immigration.

Racism = racism though.

You must be a lot of fun at parties.

My tone was probably a bit harsh because I was getting frustrated with how dogmatic the “trans women are women” crowd is. Yes we should individually treat them as such, the law should also treat them as such, but drawing a legal line that they should be treated as such is a step too far.

The needs to trans people should be accommodated. But the preferences of the more dogmatic trans people should not be respected at any cost, there has to be room for another’s comfort.

I did not. I was referred to cis men in that sentence, to explain why the term bigotry doesn’t apply to matters of privacy. Either way treating that as some kind of gotcha is so very expected.

It’s not bigotry for women to be uncomfortable around men in women only space. While I try my best to treat trans women as women, it’s not right to demand that women feel as comfortable around trans women as they do around cis women.

The racial analogue doesn’t fit. The existence of women-only spaces isn’t meant to discriminate against men because men are provided comparable alternatives, and they’re only discriminatory against trans women because they’re not provided an alternative.

Trans women are women, but forcing women to emotionally react to trans women as if they were cis women is not a decision we can or should make for them. Feelings don’t care about your facts.

I’ll try to come up with some conflicts of interest of the top of my head:

• Women generally prefer restrooms to be gender segregated as a matter of privacy. Trans women who don’t have the same eldritch horrors of bodies likely don’t fall under the same privacy grouping. Some places have taken the step of making all restrooms unisex but women often don’t like it when that happens.
• Lesbian romantic events exist for women to meet other women, and while generally we should treat trans women as women, in no universe can or should we impose that onto people’s sexuality.
• Someone who’s had a traumatic experience with men and goes to a women-only space, only to discover that someone they’ve been talking to has been AMAB all along. It could be a healing or re-traumatizing experience, but it shouldn’t be imposed upon them as a matter of trans inclusion.
• While trans women aren’t necessarily better at sports than cis women, when they are it’s reasonable to think their birth sex might play a part (whether right or wrong). That thought alone discourages participation in women’s sports.

The court ruling sounds reasonable. Cis women might not be comfortable around trans women in female only spaces and saying “just get over it” isn’t really progressive. Denial that there is a genuine conflict of interest here is also counterproductive.

We also need to recognize that the median voter is supportive of trans rights in general but tends not to be on specific issues. Trying to brute force it with government policy will likely have the opposite effect.

The concern is if this ends up extending the ability to exclude trans women from women-only spaces to places which are “generally” gender segregated like bathrooms or team sports. If we end up without measures that protect the right of trans women to participate in society then that would be unacceptable.

Scientology has qualities that make it, specifically, a target. They’re secretive, cultish, and litigious.

“Do you guys not have phones?”

NextDNS doesn’t allow me to do that. Really for such an aggressive filter I should probably configure it to be at the browser level rather than the DNS level.

I have blocked the .xyz and .ru TLD’s (because they’re riddled with malware) so every image in this community is blank and the link is dead.

2022 election: Labor vs. Scott Morrison. 2025 election: Labor vs. Peter Dutton.

That’s why Labor won. They had an incompetent opposition. Also in 2022 there was a sense in the press that they wanted the LNP gone so they started accurately representing the choices. Labor needs to be on edge because if the LNP find someone competent to lead them then they’ll be on the ropes going forwards (probably won’t lose the next election though).

And the NDIS reforms aren’t really them being right-wing, it’s them being competent. The NDIS is growing in cost ludicrously, and has become a haven for fraudulent service providers. It needs urgent reform, even if it pisses off Labor’s left flank.

The second is proof that when Labor decides to act on something and get it done, it can.

Getting a supply of petrol is a skill issue. Labor wins 10 times out of 10 on skill issues. A gas export tax, fixing the housing crisis, gambling reforms, and Israel are political issues. Labor, with so much of the country rigged against them, almost always loses when it comes to political issues.

That’s a nightmare to maintain. The electricians would need to get hazard pay for the risk of falling and the risk of drowning.

Don’t put them over car parks, put them anywhere and everywhere. It’s far more expensive to build both roofs and solar panels.

The field in question is probably being used to crow ethanol so replacing it with solar panels is an improvement if anything.

Because it takes time for an air conditioner to cool down the place, and it wastes energy to keep it running for 8 hours while you’re at work.

Well, then do that.

Those tools cost money.

We have 100,000 Jewish people in Australia, a significant portion of which consider themselves Zionists. Anti-Zionist slogans are something the Jewish population (wrongly) finds threatening and Labor doesn’t have the political space to take the progressive side in every culture war.