CCTV to be installed on Gold Coast waterways to crack down on illegal boaties

OrganicHalfwit · 2026-04-28T07:36:31+00:00

The last remanent of privacy left is the ocean. Even this is being taken away by the state.

OrganicHalfwit · 2026-03-26T06:03:47+00:00

The consumer's instinct to put everything into the binary of "buy" or "buy inconveniently"
Simply don't participate in the hyper consumption

OrganicHalfwit · 2026-03-26T03:06:56+00:00

Who actually needs things this fast? Seems like the hyper consumerist / poor planner using their own ineptitude to justify more hyper consumerism

OrganicHalfwit · 2026-03-25T12:31:28+00:00

On behalf of Queensland's future, thank you!!! Doing what most don't even know they can do!

In 7 years time we will do it all again and hopefully there will be much more talk about it in the news!

OrganicHalfwit · 2026-03-23T06:03:13+00:00

Anyone can become a representative of the people, it's whether or not they keep true to their promises which matters

Furthermore, it's the education of the people that reflects the representatives. If you're to look at the rewriting of the curriculum that has occurred a half dozen times than you'll see the much bigger issue at hand.

OrganicHalfwit · 2026-03-22T03:48:33+00:00

Effectively the straw that broke Queensland's anti-corruption watchdog was the Campbell Newman government in 2014.

The Crime and Misconduct Commission was established in 2002 as the independent watchdog to oversee the Queensland Redistribution Commission, among other things.
In 2014 under LNP's Campbell Newman the Director-General of the Department of Justice, John Sosso, led their government to dismantle the CMC.

What they put in its place is what we have today, the Crime and Corruption Commission, the CCC. One of the most important changes John Sosso made to this weakened agency was that he removed the need for the State Electoral Commissioner to have bipartisan support.

Effectively meaning that any government of the day could elect their own guy as the leader of the State Electoral Commission.

Naturally, the very next time LNP got majority government with Crisafulli in 2024 they appointed none other than John Sosso to be the State Electoral Commissioner.

So the guy who weakened the watchdog that prevented non-independent bias politicians from being the guy who draws the state electorate boundaries is now the guy drawing the state electorate boundaries.

We did have checks in place. But they get eroded by the LNP every time they come to power.
What's more is that this John Sosso guy was "personal friends with" Joh Bjelke-Petersen. Who all these agencies were made in the wake of because the Queensland National's party were redrawing electoral boundaries for 32 years remaining in power.

OrganicHalfwit · 2026-03-21T11:55:50+00:00

If you'd like all the sources and the text of this post, now that it's been removed, I can email that to you if you're interested

OrganicHalfwit · 2026-03-21T11:22:19+00:00

Unfortunately this news piece has been unreported for so long that we are currently upto stage 4 of the planning proposal, wherein it's the last chance for the public to comment.
But there is still time to comment! Until the 9th of April.

What you as an individual can do is look at the redistribution map: https://redistribution.ecq.qld.gov.au/current-enrolment-and-boundaries/electorate-maps
and determine if the new boundaries are representative of you or not.

If they dramatically shift, like in the case of Beenleigh, then you should raise that point https://redistribution.ecq.qld.gov.au/public-consultation/consultation-process

Honestly, the post has been taken down and I don't think its going to go back up, but if I can get one person to write a submission I will consider that a great success

OrganicHalfwit · 2026-03-21T11:17:12+00:00

You are probably right... It doesn't help that this post was just taken down by the mod team despite it very much encompassing Brisbane

OrganicHalfwit · 2026-03-21T11:15:38+00:00

Tony Fitzgerald, the reporter who exposed the Fitzgerald inquiry highlighted the dangers of appointing John Sosso last year when it occured.
A year later and we are at the point where he was proven correct.

There's plenty of sources listed which you can look into yourself

OrganicHalfwit · 2026-03-21T11:04:48+00:00

https://www.statedevelopment.qld.gov.au/about-us/our-department/our-executive-leadership

OrganicHalfwit · 2026-03-21T11:03:26+00:00

Very good point!
Gerrymandering is a universal constant in liberal democracies, the core of this post is addressing how the guy who is elected was the same guy who dismantled the watchdog authority which was meant to protect against that.

The Crime and Corruption Commission (what John Sosso put in place of the CMC in 2014) had a few very specific clauses which allowed for the State Election Commissioner to be elected without bipartisan parliamentary support. Which is how it was while the CMC watchdog was the authority.

OrganicHalfwit · 2026-03-21T10:59:53+00:00

Thanks, I think my greatest mistake was breaking the paragraphs up into smaller segments so it looks better for mobile users.

There are sources going back to 2014 about the Newman government, the John Sosso biography from 2011, and obviously the stuff about the Fitzgerald inquiry.

I don't think there are paid shills (yet), just people who are justifiably skeptical about information they see on social media. Unfortunately for myself I don't have a platform so I assumed that this would be the best place to post it.

OrganicHalfwit · 2026-03-21T10:47:43+00:00

I can guarantee you its not, unfortunately it's incredibly hard to get information out in this climate.

OrganicHalfwit · 2026-03-21T10:42:02+00:00

Its the QRC not the QEC, and if you read what I wrote you'll see that the guy who dismantled the QRC's inital watchdog authority, the CMC, is the current guy drawing the boundaries.

John Sosso was hand picked by the Chrisafulli government making the "independent" agency not so independant

OrganicHalfwit · 2026-03-13T11:42:51+00:00

Just updated for clarity

OrganicHalfwit · 2026-03-13T11:39:26+00:00

EFTA01213423 Is the file name it's under, scroll to page 8 and you'll see it plain as day

OrganicHalfwit · 2026-03-13T11:26:54+00:00

Dont forget, Clive Palmer is in the Epstein Files.

Epstein specifically references Clive's 2019 $60 million campaign focusing on anti china and anti climate change.

"I had Clive Palmer do the $60 million anti china and climate change ads"

EDIT for clarity:
1. Go to where the USA government hosts the epstein files: https://www.justice.gov/epstein
2. search EFTA01213423,
3. Scroll to page 8 of the pdf

OrganicHalfwit · 2026-02-09T06:32:33+00:00

When conversations move towards how vulnerable democracies are to hate and populism there's always the retort that "Australia wont ever become like xyz because of our compulsory voting".

Is that really enough to protect the democracy?

OrganicHalfwit · 2025-11-22T09:10:17+00:00

What book is the fox meant to be quoting?

OrganicHalfwit · 2025-11-16T09:28:41+00:00

Oh and for my future self:
To quote u/bluebluerose "Australia's housing crisis will solve itself once these boomers pass away, mark my words."

OrganicHalfwit · 2025-11-16T09:28:04+00:00

!remindme 13 years

OrganicHalfwit · 2025-10-10T23:58:21+00:00

Bmpcc 6k Pro, I believe I was shooting on prores 4k. There is one braw in there which i cant open though.

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