They say there isn’t room for safe, protected bike-lanes. They say there isn’t room for shade-creating, air cleaning street trees. Montreal shows that when you change your space priorities, you get better streets for EVERYONE. HT Dave Edwards for video

Kevin Devlin, Director Victorian Infrastructure Delivery Authority this morning on the Metro Tunnel: “I think it’s worth clarifying that the trip time [between Arden and Parkville] is categorically less than 2 minutes, to be exact we’ve had validated run times at 1min 58secs”

Streets aren’t set in stone, nor are they frozen in time. Just because they’ve looked one way for decades, it doesn't mean they can't change. Rotterdam is a perfect case study of a city designed around the car, that took back space for walking, cycling, transit, and public life.

The #Robodebt method of debt recovery used by the Department of Human Services originated in Australian Department of Veterans' Affairs, but nobody in that toxic department has ever been held to account, despite the fact we are three years into a Royal Commission into veteran suicides. These vile methods continue

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The Perfumed Warlord taking on the role of concern uncle on behalf of the LGBTQI community is really stretching even his credibility. The truth is, the Albanese govt's comms strategy is to avoid culture wars at all costs - and trans issues inflame culture wars to the Nth degree.

This tenant had a horrible experience with her real estate agency. She went to NCAT and in the conciliation proceedings received $6000. She shared her experience renting with One Agency in the Don’t Rent Me Facebook group and received the following threat. So much more needs to

Bill Shorten today “I am pleased that we bought the previous government to justice over Robodebt” I guess the reason there will never be Justice for victims of Robodebt is because those in power are gaslighting us to believe that despite no consequences, there has been Justice.

🚨The sole person responsible for policing corruption inside the National Anti-Corruption Commission is refusing to say whether any “investigation” has actually begun into the Robodebt referrals scandal. Thursday marked 3 months since the "announcement"... theklaxon.com.au/rfnl

The Dutch Grand Prix's car-free plan saw 98% of 110,000 daily attendees arrive by foot, bike, or public transport. The details are outlined in the new film, “Car-Free Grand Prix: How the Dutch Bike to Track”. Join the virtual premiere on 17 Sept at 5pm: youtu.be/erF9CJh7VuU

One of the main features of Robodebt was that the perpetrators on many occasions lied about, circumvented and misrepresented policy assessments to the extent of including purely speculative costing assumptions. Cheque please!

if you try to stop this kind of weapon being traded they will tear gas you and then call you violent on 3AW

nine times out of ten when the media won't shut up about protesters being violent towards police the protesters are either defending themselves from police violence or actually not defending themselves at all! police go to protests to crack heads. many such cases!

Just a reminder to everyone that the violence, as always, was initiated by police. Credit: Chelsea Catherine

Police just casually firing guns at peaceful protesters Credit: Chelsea Catherine

Let's break the process down: 1. Aus govt shows diplomatic support for Israel 2. Israel experiments new weapons and police tactics in their Palestine laboratory 3. Israel markets these weapons and tactics as 'battle-tested' at expos like Land Forces Defence in Melb Cont'd...

Another week goes by & no word from the NACC Inspector on her inquiry into the NACC’s decision to let the culprits of #Robodebt, the biggest & deadliest welfare scam in our history, off the hook. I’m going to send this tweet every Friday until there is an outcome. #IRemember

VicPol’s claim that protestors “threw acid” at Land Forces has been repeated by the ABC, Age, Guardian, the Herald, News, Nine, SBS, Seven, Sky, and the Oz to name a few. In reality, butyric acid is a smelly but harmless liquid found in milk, cheese and pickles 🧵 (1/12)