Woodlea is a rapidly growing community with many families, children and working residents who rely on local healthcare. When GP appointments are difficult to access or require waiting several days, it can be challenging to receive timely medical care, especially when someone is unwell or needs urgent advice. Better weekday and weekend appointment availability would make a significant difference to the health and wellbeing of our local community.

This matters because it's happening quietly, one contract at a time, in workplaces most people don't think to question. Surveillance technology built for policing and war is being rebranded as "workplace safety" and rolled out onto retail staff with no public policy, no independent oversight, and often no real choice for workers. This is the pattern George Orwell warned about in 1984, not a single dramatic moment, but the slow creep of normalization: introduce the tool for one narrow purpose ("safety," "efficiency"), expand its use once it's accepted, and by the time people question it, it's already everywhere. Retail workers today, another workforce tomorrow. Orwell wrote 1984 as a warning, not a playbook, and once this kind of infrastructure is normalized in one industry, it rarely stays contained to just that industry. If this expands unchecked, the next workplace could be yours, regardless of what industry you're in. The time to push back is before it becomes standard practice everywhere, not after. Join this campaign if you believe workers deserve to know what's being used to monitor them, and that "it's for safety" shouldn't be enough to justify handing law enforcement grade surveillance tools to employers with zero public accountability.

For parents and caregivers Losing qualified school library teaching staff directly impacts the quality of education their children receive. Decades of evidence show a clear link between qualified Teacher Librarians and literacy rates. Parents who want their children to develop strong reading habits and research skills have a stake in protecting these roles. For many parents (especially those with neurodivergent children or quiet students) the library is a safe, inclusive sanctuary during breaks. For classroom teachers Teacher Librarians lighten the load for classroom teachers by helping curate resources, co-planning research units, and integrating digital literacy across subjects. Cuts to one specialised teaching role establish a troubling precedent for broader staffing reductions across the diocese. Teachers understand that removing specialists puts more pressure on the remaining staff. For our students They face an overwhelming digital landscape filled with social media algorithms, online misinformation, and emerging AI tools. Teacher Librarians teach them how to evaluate sources critically and navigate the digital world safely. Students rely on dedicated library staff to help them find books they love, navigate database research for assessment tasks, and access engaging spaces (and the list goes on)  Catholic education promises a holistic, value-rich development of the person. Stripping away core educational staff undermines that promise. 

Why this matters Helplines are not enough, especially during emergencies. Carers can wait hours or days for support when urgent situations occur. Dedicated workers understand our individual circumstances and can provide appropriate advice. They advocate for carers when our concerns need to be heard. They support us through difficult situations and help us understand our legal responsibilities. They help maintain stability for carers and children. Without adequate support, carers may leave the system or stop fostering. We are also concerned that if children's case workers are expected to take on additional carer support, their already high workloads could become unmanageable. This could increase stress and burnout and potentially result in more workers leaving — creating even greater instability for children. Our children deserve stability. Our carers deserve support. Foster carers open their homes to vulnerable children and young people. We cannot continue to provide safe and stable care if the support around us is removed. We are asking the NSW Government to: ✊ Keep dedicated case workers for foster carers. ✊ Provide timely support during emergencies. ✊ Listen to and advocate for foster carers. ✊ Protect children's case workers from unmanageable workloads. ✊ Consult foster carers before making these  Supporting foster carers means supporting children.

THE THREAT: HUMAN CONTROL CAN BE LOST ONE DELEGATION AT A TIME AI development is moving beyond assistance toward delegated AI agency and increasing autonomy. A person may first ask AI for an answer. Later, that person may authorise an AI agent to carry out a task. Increasingly autonomous systems can then plan, sequence actions, use other software and act with less contemporaneous human direction.   HELPING AGENT  →  DELEGATED AGENCY  →  AUTONOMY The danger does not require a dramatic 'AI takeover'. Human agency can be eroded incrementally: one decision is delegated, then another, then a process, then an organisational function. The human may remain formally responsible while practical authority has migrated to the system. This is an emerging and increasingly important public-interest risk. The fact that today's AI is useful and generally user-directed must not obscure the consequences of tomorrow's more autonomous systems. WHAT IS HUMAN AGENCY BY DESIGN? Human Agency by Design means treating human authority as an intentional, protected property of every consequential AI-enabled system — not as an optional ethical feature added after the technology has been built. It has two inseparable dimensions: • Governance intention — society and government establish who may delegate authority to AI, what limits apply, who remains accountable, how people can challenge decisions, and when human intervention is mandatory. • Architectural intention — those requirements are built into identities, permissions, credentials, data, APIs, workflows, agent frameworks, audit trails, intervention mechanisms and the underlying software infrastructure. The principle is simple: increasing machine capability must not automatically become increasing machine authority. WHY ACT NOW? Once organisations and governments become dependent upon autonomous systems, restoring human control may be technically, economically and institutionally difficult. The opportunity to establish the boundary is greatest while humans still determine how AI is incorporated into the digital infrastructure of society. History provides a warning. Robodebt and the Post Office Horizon scandal demonstrate the human and institutional cost that can arise when automated system outputs acquire authority while affected people lack effective means to understand, challenge or correct decisions. AI could magnify such risks through greater scale, speed, complexity and delegation. The objective is therefore preventive: protect human agency before it becomes difficult to recover.

Melbourne is Victoria’s capital city. Its council elections should be fair, transparent and democratic. But right now, City of Melbourne elections are run under special rules that give some interests more voting power than ordinary residents. Businesses and non-resident property interests can have voting power that ordinary residents do not. Residents can be outnumbered on the electoral roll. Voters can be pushed into preference deals they did not choose. Campaign donations may not be revealed until after people have already voted. That is not good enough for the heart of Victoria. This is not about left or right. It is about a basic democratic principle: one vote should mean one vote. The City of Melbourne itself has called for a review of the electoral system. Now the community is backing that call. We call on the Victorian Government and all parties contesting the next state election to commit to an independent public review of the City of Melbourne Act and electoral system, with genuine community consultation and reforms in place before the next council election. The review should consider reforms that: ·         make voting power fair; ·         ensure voters control their own preferences; ·         require campaign donations to be disclosed before people vote; ·         protect council decisions from conflicts of interest; ·         and respect Melbourne’s role as a capital city while upholding democratic equality. Melbourne should lead on democracy, not lag behind. One vote should mean one vote. Sign to fix Melbourne’s election rules

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Thousands of Australia's heritage wild horses are being killed in Kosciuszko National Park, including by aerial shooting, while serious questions remain about the accuracy, uncertainty and interpretation of the population data being used to justify this program. The NSW Government's own published horse estimates have varied dramatically between survey years. There are also important questions about survey coverage, horse detection and movement, and how population estimates are derived from aerial observations. These issues matter because decisions based on uncertain numbers are resulting in the deaths of thousands of animals. This is not an argument against protecting Australia's national parks or managing genuine environmental impacts. It is a demand for transparent, independently verifiable science and humane management. The Australian public should be able to see the evidence behind decisions to kill thousands of animals. Independent experts should be able to reproduce the analysis, scrutinise the assumptions and investigate significant discrepancies in population estimates. There is also a heritage issue. Australia's wild horses have a long association with the Australian Alps and have been recognised in NSW law as having heritage value. The repeal of the Kosciuszko Wild Horse Heritage Act has removed that specific statutory protection. We believe Australia should establish protected Wild Horse Heritage Sanctuary areas where sustainable populations can be preserved, independently monitored and managed humanely, while environmental impacts outside sanctuary areas continue to be responsibly addressed. This campaign is about more than brumbies. It is about government accountability, scientific integrity, animal welfare and Australia's cultural heritage. Before another horse is shot from a helicopter, Australians deserve reliable evidence about how many horses actually exist, where they are, how the numbers were calculated and whether humane alternatives have been properly considered.

The average cost of a funeral in Australia is $4,000–$15,000 per funeral, plus the cost of burials, gravestones, and the plot for the body. If you go the cremation route, you still have to pay for the cremation and urn. The costs for all of this have ballooned and led to a society in Australia where you have to pay to die. The government has allowed funeral companies to profit off grieving families, and the exploitative industry charges hundreds for even the cheapest coffins. Even if you go for the cheapest option, companies will try to guilt-trip you into spending thousands more while you are mourning the death of a loved one. This leads to people in Australia taking money out of their super to make sure their family does not have to suffer through the costs—money that should be used to enjoy their limited time in this wonderful country of ours. And because death is incredibly unpredictable, families can also be stuck with the cost, putting people in debt and making those who are already mourning the loss of a loved one suffer even more by having to worry about how the hell they are going to afford this. During this, we are not hearing ANYTHING from politicians. I have not heard a single policy or even acknowledgement that there is a problem. The truth is that this affects everyone in this country, whether you are rich or poor or you are a working person who is just trying to get by. Everyone in their life will eventually have to experience the cost of a funeral or be the one that funeral is for. This petition is calling for the following policies to be put into action ASAP: The abolishment of the funeral industry and its replacement with a government-owned funeral system, where the government covers the full cost of funerals and cremations/burials, as well as the cost of any coffins/urns, the plot of land, and the gravestone the person may want. A government fund to give mourning families financial assistance, depending on their financial situation, to help them get through the hard times, as well as cover the costs of anything that would not be covered, such as any repast and venues for a repast. The government to also create a new manufacturing company to build coffins and gravestones at low cost with high-quality materials to ensure the government would not need to spend too much money on these measures. The benefits of all this would allow people to mourn the loss of a loved one without having to worry about the costs that may come with it. It would also encourage the government to improve the healthcare system and do more to reduce suicide rates, as well as improve safety in our day-to-day lives—therefore increasing the average life expectancy in Australia. Additionally, it would encourage the government to close the gap for First Nations people and improve life expectancy for all people, whether white, Black, or part of the LGBTQIA+ community, as well as improve overall happiness. All of this would be encouraged because of the cost of funerals. If the cost of covering funerals gets too high, that would indicate to the government the need to improve safety.

We need to respect the right of news outlets to report as they see fit . As a nation of many cultures , we loose nothing from allowing news in many languages and SBS reports on local news . We risk loosing both the ABC and SBS if support is not shown challenging the notion they are irrelevant and not needed . The ABC is also extremely important in regional and remote area with less coverage of local news

In today's age where information flows freely, it is crucial that the details of convicted sex offenders, including their names and addresses, are made legally available for public access. This will empower individuals to make informed decisions about their safety and the safety of their families. Currently, in many regions around the world, individuals are left in the dark about the potential threats lurking within their own neighborhoods. By making such crucial information accessible, we can prevent further trauma and foster trust within our communities.

NEPT is essential. It safely transports patients who still need clinical support but don’t require an emergency ambulance. If it’s privatised further, we’ll see: ❌ Loss of experienced NEPT staff ❌ More pressure on emergency ambulances ❌ Longer wait times for vulnerable patients ❌ Reduced accountability and inconsistent care ❌ More strain on an already struggling health system Privatisation might look like a cost‑saving measure, but the real cost will be paid by patients and frontline workers. Victoria deserves a safe, reliable, publicly accountable NEPT system. 👉