Queensland to add sexual assault, stealing under 'adult crime, adult time' laws
By Alex Brewster
Further sweeping changes will be made to Queensland's youth justice laws as the state government looks to expand its flagship "adult crime, adult time" policy.
"The constitution gives the president zero power to write law.
And zero power to ignore the law.
And zero power to break the law."
#politics #USConstitution #FascistAmeriKKKa #law&order #laws #fascism #Nazis
Fahy, Romero Introduce Legislation to Renew EV Direct Sales Location Certificates, Expand EV Ownership
LOL this won't make it to Reddit.
Someone has proposed a new law called "Health & Safety Code Section 15300, to be known as the Luigi Mangioni Access to Health Care Act. "
https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/25-0002%20%28Health%20Care%29.pdf
Why do salmon eaters don’t care about Australian threatened species?
“Australia has the highest rate of mammalian extinctions in the world … The only way to protect the hundreds of threatened Australian forest species is to end native forest logging....The Maugean skate is very much at the forefront of the zero extinction target."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/29/why-does-leonardo-dicaprio-care-so-much-about-australian-wildlife
#Conservation #extinctions #Biodiversity #laws #Skate #MaugeanSkate #salmon #food #NSWLogging #koalas #OpenNetPens #SeaBased #Fish #farms #pollution
‘Authoritarian governments generally try to bolster their legitimacy by using #laws, decrees, & #court hearings to justify their actions,…creating, twisting, interpreting, or manipulating laws…to punish resistance. In this regard, the #Trump administration is operating like other authoritarian gov’ts… Respect for the #ruleoflaw has been replaced by contemptuous propaganda that judges who uphold the law are “corrupt” & lawyers who oppose his policies are “scum.”’ | SLaw https://www.slaw.ca/2025/03/25/the-us-as-an-authoritarian-state-danger-to-the-global-rule-of-law/ /2
OMG
#Trump's *#NationalSecurity* team accidentally included The Atlantic's Jeff Goldberg in a #Signal conversation about strikes on #Houthis, & they used the non-governmental platform to coordinate staffing among departments & the White House.
They absolutely broke several #laws in communicating classified detailed warplans over a nongovernmental app on their private phones.
I mean… talk about an #idiocracy & #kakistocracy.
A sharehouse was run by a 'sublandlord' company. It could be unlawful
By Adam Holmes
Hobart tenant Katie found out the "sublet agreement" she had signed with a company called Arx Pty Ltd could be invalid — and she had no tenancy rights in Tasmania.
…it was a mistake to think that even the #Nazis would entirely dispense w/normal #laws.…They had a complex, broadly #capitalist economy to maintain. “A nation of 80M people,”…needs stable rules. The trick was to find a way to keep the #law going for #Christian Germans who supported or…tolerated the Nazis, while ruthlessly executing the #führer’s directives against the state’s enemies, real & perceived. #Capitalism could jog nicely alongside the brutal suppression of #democracy, & even #genocide.
The man…was a Jewish labor lawyer named Ernst Fraenkel.He completed his manuscript…at UC, publishing it as The #DualState, w/the modest subtitle A Contribution to the Theory of #Dictatorship.The book explains how the #Nazi regime managed to keep on track a #capitalist economy governed by stable #laws—& maintain a day-to-day normalcy for many of its citizens—while at the same time establishing a domain of #lawlessness & state #violence in order to realize its terrible vision of #EthnoNationalism.
"Retired federal Judge J. Michael Luttig—who is also a #conservative—slammed #Trump for declaring “war on the rule of #law in #America.” Luttig continued, saying: “The constitutional role of the president is to faithfully execute the #laws. Needless to say, the president is doing anything but that in the moment."
...That’s why we must push back against this administration"
https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/great-news-for-us-bad-news-for-musk
'Hitting a fly with a sledgehammer': Judge blocks DOGE from accessing sensitive Social Security records
The lawsuit challenging DOGE's access was filed last month.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hitting-fly-sledgehammer-judge-blocks-doge-accessing-sensitive/story?id=120002248
"US District Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander wrote the #Trump administration never justified the need to access the #data -- which they argued was vital to identifying alleged #fraud -- and likely violated multiple federal #laws in doing so."
'I do worry about extortion': 3D printing businesses asked to make guns
By Liz Gwynn
The growing prevalence of 3D-printed weapons in the community has law enforcement agencies on edge, and printing businesses say requests for guns and parts is not uncommon.
Very super talk. Pull cursor ahead until Doctorow starts speaking. His speech is about an hour. https://vimeo.com/1059798497
#corporate #strategy #labour #tech #laws #US #Canada #humour #labor #exploitation #enshittification #Doctorow
Law changes spark fears of return to military supremacy in Indonesia
By Hellena Souisa
Indonesia's parliament passes contentious revisions to the country's military law that critics say could take the country back to the draconian "New Order" era of former strongman president Suharto.
NT parliament passes CLP government's territory coordinator bill
The Northern Territory government has passed the territory coordinator bill through parliament, giving it the power to override dozens of regulatory laws relevant to projects of "economic significance".
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-19/nt-territory-coordinator-bill-clp-government-pass-parliament/105067814
The English-only NT parliament is undermining healthy democracy by excluding Aboriginal languages
"42% of NT residents speak a non-English language at home. Only half of eligible Aboriginal residents in the NT are enrolled to vote, and voter participation is even lower. Recognition – Rejecting someone’s language means rejecting their identity. Reconciliation is not just something parliamentarians should direct others to do, it’s something that needs to happen within parliament itself."
"The NT is a rich, multilingual society. How can the Legislative Assembly claim to fully represent the breadth of NT society when it chooses to be monolingual?"
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https://theconversation.com/the-english-only-nt-parliament-is-undermining-healthy-democracy-by-excluding-aboriginal-languages-105048
#governance #EconomicSignificance #laws #regulation #conservation #language #IndigenousPeoples #participation #NT #monolingualism #language #mining #extractivism #zeitgeist
As #Trump accelerates his #authoritarianism, #USPol could lose #democracy status, says global watchdog.
It refers to ongoing events in the U.S. as unprecedented, mentioning Trump #pardoning 1,500 #criminals who supported him; #firing independent agency #watchdogs without process; #purging apolitical #police and #military brass; #ignoring #laws; and his unilaterally deleting federal programs, and even a whole organization, created by U.S. Congress
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-democracy-report-1.7486317
Rachel Laws going all Alisson Becker
#Europe #UK #Switzerland need to stay strong together more than ever.
Push innovation and sovereignty more than ever.
Resit #fascism ! Build strong local #economies ( #economy ) , strong #education , strong #laws and #justice !
It's important that we all purchase wisely, spend wisely and more important still keep sharing love and care for everyone.
Yes, including #americans , #russians, etc.
Dictators don't represent their people, they represent themselves!
Yet, this doesn't mean we don't have to tell everyone that what they are doing is not right.
More than ever, being a good person matters.
