Particularly if you watched SBS Insight tonight and heard the harrowing testimony of how the Catholic Church treated someone who had been abused by a pedophile priest. Absolutely evil!
You’re not supposed to say this, but the torrent of adulation for the late Pope is ridiculous.
Good bit of reporting, this. Advance portrays itself as a grassroots outfit, but it’s actually a front for some singularly unpleasant oligarchs and their nasty mates.
‘Copied the MAGA model’: The ‘grassroots’ lobby group funded by some of Australia’s richest
The Advance propaganda machine is aimed at ordinary Australians but backed by some of our wealthiest – and has links to a right-wing US foundation.
Hang on. The Orange Oaf said he’d end the war within 24 hours of getting back in the White House.
‘Get it done’: Trump threatens to abandon Russia-Ukraine peace efforts
Over the past few weeks, US officials have acknowledged privately that the chances of a quick peace deal in Ukraine have grown elusive.
The hatred against trans women probably makes me as sad as anything else happening in this world.
Have never encountered a transphobe who doesn’t also reveal their homophobia and racism with the slightest scratch.
Transphobes devote their lives to hatred. My contempt for them is total.
Pure evil!
Fatima Hassona, a Palestinian photojournalist who's stars in a documentary to be screened at Cannes next month, has been killed in an Israeli air strike on her home in Gaza.
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) estimates that at least 157 journalists & media workers have been killed.
Arguably, the worst thing a political leader can do is to beat up a national security threat. Dutton is dangerous.
Mike. I followed Indonesian news in Bahasa media everyday closely. And in direct contact with a prominent politician. There was not a single news item being reported on Russia seeking access to Indonesian military base. It was truly a fake news by Australia media and Komandant SS Spud
Alan Kohler nails it: America is becoming a gangster state. Australia should rethink its relationship because alliance will turn into obeisance.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
Trump's order on showerheads seems trivial but it's a subtle power grab
It seems only a matter of time before Donald Trump uses a crisis and the National Emergencies Act to bring about a revolution in the United States.
When election time rolls around we don't discuss the big issues such as taxation reform & how it would assist young Australians.
Dr Ken Henry has been talking about it for years.
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'The rental property sector in Australia is not a net taxpayer'. Former Treasury boss Ken Henry says that needs to change
Australia's tax system is stacked so heavily against younger people that it's threatening the social compact, former Treasury secretary Ken Henry has warned.
Here's me. 'On doing the same inadequate shit over and over again until the end of democracy'
On doing the same inadequate shit over and over again until the end of democracy - The Shot
The consequence of not good enough, as evidenced in the United States right now, is that you inevitably get much, much worse.
Dumping this policy will make Australia the dumping ground for shitty cheap obsolete cars the manufacturers can't sell anywhere else. Under the Libs Australia will go from car manufacturer to the global reject shop car yard.
#auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
Coalition to abolish 'ute tax' fuel efficiency standards
Peter Dutton says a scheme to cut the emissions of cars and encourage electric vehicle uptake will be abolished under a Coalition government.
Successive governments have reviewed the deal to lease the port to a Chinese company and found no cause for concern. Both major parties have made a sudden about-face.
‘Alarmist nonsense’: Labor and Coalition dismissed security risks over the Port of Darwin for years. What’s changed?
Australia's future must be funded by those who can most afford to pay
New tool to track good taxpayers & worst corporate tax avoiders in Australia
#infotax
#auspol
@jasonward-cictar.bsky.social @taxjustice.net Roman Lanis & Mikhail Shashnov
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Corporate tax avoidance. Who helps fund Australia, and who doesn't? - Michael West
With the election looming, the promises of the major parties can only be kept if enough tax is collected to pay for them.
It was a terrible cave-in. The cost of it continues to grow as Australia allows its resources to be plundered!
Gina made a lot of money out of that $20 million investment.
But the ALP were weak, they never should have rolled Rudd.
Never forgave Gillard for that, never liked her.
Thuggery!
Donald Trump signing an executive order targeting Susman Godfrey, the law firm that represented Dominion Voting Systems in its $787 million settlement with Fox News for lies about the 2020 election, is a warning shot…
This is beyond even Putin’s wildest dreams: Trump has destroyed the foundations of US economic exceptionalism. Its ’safe haven’ status is over.
The big lesson from America: Never let a thug near the leadership of your country.
Petition to stop Sky News from hosting economic debates
I cannot overstate the importance of reading books, particularly novels by respected authors, for critical thinking skills and reading comprehension. If the big gun novelists don't interest you, start small and work your way up. Or read whatever interests you. Just read. Or listen. It's all books.
Yes, the self-serving war criminal, Netanyahu, is manipulating The Mad King into a war with Iran.
Very suspicious that Trump announced nuclear talks with Iran during Netanyahu’s visit. Could be setting up a pretext to launch strikes on Iran when talks “break down”.
Very suspicious that Trump announced nuclear talks with Iran during Netanyahu’s visit. Could be setting up a pretext to launch strikes on Iran when talks “break down”.
Trump met his master Netanyahu in the White House and once again held his chair out for him like a loyal servant. I’m unclear if he gave the Israeli PM a shoulder rub, but I’m told Trump received his orders to bomb Iran. If you can’t afford healthcare, war with Iran is the next best thing, right?
The Liberal Party has gone rogue.
This is policy on the run. An Opposition scrambling not an alternative government ready for office. A coalition victory would be a disaster for Australia.
Malcolm Turnbull was right about Peter Dutton.
Yes, Dutton's not fit to lead anything.
This Lutnick character is a Real Estate spiv from New York, a property developer mate of Trump. Count your fingers after you’ve shaken hands.
Lutnick calls Australian biosecurity rules ‘nonsense’, says Trump won’t back off
As global markets roiled from the US president’s tariff overhaul, his commerce secretary said the time for negotiation was over and other countries had to “change their ways”.
They hate the ABC. They’ll obey their Murdoch masters and take a chainsaw to the place if they get in.
Dutton tells ABC to show ‘excellence’ or he won’t ‘support the waste’
The opposition leader told ABC radio that taxpayers would not expect the government to support waste at the national broadcaster.
The coalition is not just chock full of dead wood from the Morrison era. It is a veritable petrified forest. I give you Exhibit A; sports-rorter
#BridgetMckenzie. Unfit to to govern. indeed, unfit for public office. Vote wisely.
#auspolBut he's not copying Trump
Alas, while Trump is abhorrent, he is not an aberration. His administration is the fulfilment of conservative America’s drift further and further right into populist nationalism and isolationism. It is not coming back.
Peter Dutton is painting a grim picture of the past three years. How do his claims stack up?
Peter Dutton is painting a grim picture of the past three years. How do his claims stack up?
The opposition leader’s election pitch maintains Labor has presided over a litany of price rises – but experts say some problems began on Coalition’s watch
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The alternative prime minister boldly declared the 2025 federal election was a “sliding doors moment” for the nation.
Peter Dutton’s budget reply speech on Thursday evening was filled with facts and figures to paint Labor as hopeless at managing Australia’s best interests.
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Worth a read. Hillary on Dumb and Dumber…
Opinion | Hillary Clinton: This Is Just Dumb
The Signal group chat is only the latest in a string of self-inflicted wounds by the new administration.
The authoritarian’s friend!
Naturally, Elon Musk is siding with the violent police state in Turkey.
#OpTurkey
Not content with Labor’s pre-election budget increasing fossil fuel subsidies to their highest ever level, Peter Dutton is pledging to increase them further!
Hot on the heels of another climate disaster, this is where Australian politics is at.
We have to end politics-as-usual before it ends us
Coalition promises to halve fuel excise, shaving 25c off a litre of petrol
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton will promise to halve the tax on fuel for 12 months in his budget reply on Thursday, which the Coalition says would save a two-car household roughly $28 a week on averag...
I’ve seen a Palestinian father tenderly cradle and stroke the decapitated head of his toddler through my screen this morning while blogging about tax cuts and Australian politics and I’m not sure I’ve ever been more outside my body.
How can anyone still defend what Israel is doing? How???
Why 40,000? How was this number determined? What is evidence on which this number was chosen? Where would these job losses take place. Important questions journalists should be asking.
Dutton plans to cut 40,000 jobs from health, education and veterans' affairs depts! Under the previous Coalition Govt, there was a backlog of 40,000+ veterans' compensation claims that the Labor Govt finally cleared by Feb24. Dutton's contempt for veterans is obscene.
#auspol #AusVotes25 #defence
The Senate is now back debating legislation to utterly gut the environmental laws. A shameful act that will hang like a rotting carcass for all time around all members and Senators of the ALP who voted in favour of it.
Utterly pathetic. A party stinking of salmon sh*t
The Israelis still murdering journalists, I see.
‘If you’re reading this, it means I have been killed’: The final words of a young Palestinian reporter
The UN will start pulling its workers out of Gaza as the conflict claims a growing number of aid workers, medical personnel and journalists.
Devout Christian!
The dead children of Gaza are thrilled to hear Greg has satisfied himself about the morality of their slaughter.
GDP per capita is nice but suggesting we are worse off because a student with a low income comes here and we are worse off because that lowers *average* GDP is pretty dumb.
Yes, let’s abandon net zero!
Let’s give lots more exploration licences to fossil fuel companies! Let’s dig up more coal. Let’s stop development of those ugly wind farms and solar panels.
Let’s tell our children and grandchildren “you deal with it!”
And a Saturday update to the above forecast 👇
What sort of lunatic would want to move to the US model of private health insurance??
"If your economy is not values-based,
what is the point of your economy?"
bsky.app/profile/prof...
Not even going to bother with the link but a News Corpse headline came up on my news feed saying that millions of Aussies are in for darker nights as daylight savings ends. Cutting edge stuff eh.
Admiral Barrie is a top man, knows what he’s talking about.
‘Vandals in the White House’ no longer reliable allies of Australia, former defence force chief says
Chris Barrie says it’s too soon to say whether we should end our Aukus partnership, but called Donald Trump in his second term ‘irrecoverable’
Trump, the Orange Oaf, thinks he’s a great dealmaker. But it’s becoming increasingly clear that the war criminals Putin and Netanyahu have both walked all over him. Got everything they wanted.
#4corners is showing us the consequences of major parties making decisions for their donors and themselves instead of us.
They privatised a sector which should never have been privatised - and now turn a blind eye to the systemic changes & regulations required
#auspol What Peter Dutton is suggesting is crawling on our hands and knees to Donald Trump and begging for favourable treatment. Does he have any pride about Australia?
The complete unseriousness of Dutton criticising Albanese for not ‘lobbying Trump in person’ after spending much of the term calling Albanese ‘Airbus Albo’. There is no universe where the Coalition wouldn’t have criticised Albanese for heading to the US this close to an election
The FTA was always more about politics than trade!
Trump’s 25% tariff on Australia’s steel and aluminium to apply from March 12 unless Ambassador Rudd can persuade Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to to recommend/grant an exemption. So much for our long standing “free trade” agreement.
It doesn’t matter one tiny bit if Albanese and Dutton are not in SE Queensland for the cyclone. But it does excite the small minds of the Canberra press gallery.
Is this a war crime? It is certainly evil!
Trump is forcing a massive diversion of wealth away from the poor to the rich around the globe as spending on defence surges and aid is slashed. Trump is a curse on the poor!
It’s so similar to 1930s Germany. Now the villain is immigrants, not Jews.
It’s happening here too
At Adelaide Writers Week German author Tobias Buck warns that the German lesson is that fascism is a creeping disease which must be stopped early and says he hopes it is not already too late!
Is it?
At Adelaide Writers Week German author Tobias Buck warns that the German lesson is that fascism is a creeping disease which must be stopped early and says he hopes it is not already too late!
Is it?
Adelaide Writers Week. Standing room only, in the sun. Fabulous event 😊
The elephant in the room that so many journalists seem intimidated into not seeing. It’s like witnessing a crime being committed but deciding not to report it because it might upset people!
Stellar work by ABC's 730 to do a story on the rising premiums of housing insurance in Brisbane and not once mention the reason
But it’s the fossil fuel party, not the farmers’ party.
Regional mobile reception throughout Australia is poor. The National Party has not used its leverage in coalition negotiations with the Libs to make telecommunications for the bush a top priority. Only interested in getting their snouts in ministerial troughs.
"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
“Declines to apologise”. 🤮
Hey Rupert .. you silly old bugger. You, Fox/NewsCorp and your mate Trump, have just sold out Western civilisation and Ukraine to Putin. Power .. without glory (principle).
Tony Abbott’s Anglosphere dream - of which the US would be the centre and the 5 eyes intelligence sharing would be integral - is looking a bit tattered. Trump’s MAGA agenda cares not a jot for long term US allies.
If it's good enough for Canada...
A famous, brave newspaper now a billionaire’s propaganda sheet!! The autocracy grows ever stronger as democracy withers!
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/f...
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Washington Post opinion editor departs as Bezos pushes to promote ‘personal liberties and free markets’
Opinion editor leaves as Amazon executive and newspaper owner says ‘viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others’
How is it possible that, as the impacts of climate change become ever more apparent,
the fossil fuel industry’s army of political and media denialists get ever louder in defence of their profits. Why do they care more for money than for their grandchildren?
Peter Dutton will abandon action on climate change.
He will give a green light to big polluters.
He will take a sledgehammer to Australia’s climate progress.
How long before Dutton claims African gangs are eating the pets of the people in Melbourne?
#racism #auspol #AusVotes2025Shoot the messenger. So Trumpian!
Threatening to sack the Chair of an independent authority because you don’t like a report he’s released is Trumpian.
It’s so important we don’t go down that road. Really irresponsible behaviour from the Liberal Party.
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Matt Kean says suggestion Coalition could sack him if it wins election is ‘concerning threat’
Climate Change Authority chair says his job is to provide ‘frank and fearless advice’ after he criticised opposition’s nuclear energy proposal
The Liberal Party now almost the mirror opposite of the party which once preached integrity in public service. John Howard started the rot.
I have been saying for ages that intergenerational inequality is likely the biggest issue, outside of climate change, of the next half century.
This is a good reminder.
(The other thing we need to do is a Sovereign Wealth Fund to preserve value for future generations)
#auspolUK Pm Starmer says Uk will cut foreign aid budget 40 per cent to fund defence surge. Trump has frozen and is slashing US aid. So the gulf between rich and poor nations grows rapidly wider because of Ttump. As with US poor, he shows he doesn’t give a shit.
What a world we are now entering!
There are men running commercial radio stations who think & say privately that the boofhead brand of auto-extruded shite is ‘great radio’. They love a ‘battle of the sexes’; free publicity; people giggling at vile comments. They purpose-build on-air teams to do it; they pay millions for it.
And this tbh is the best outcome - using Trusts, companies and superannuation can *really* muddy the waters on how much tax he might have paid.
Proud to be one of 500+ Jewish Australians signed on to this open letter published in today’s Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age, saying
#OzJewsSayNO #No2ethniccleansing #NO2TrumpsGazaPlan
It feels like there is the inkling of a shift in our community
This is so good: a refreshing change from the mouthy bullies and cancellers of the Zionist/Likud lobby.
Just heard ABC News giving a platform for disgraced Mike Pezzullo to run his extreme China fear campaign re Chinese navy ships. Staggeringly irresponsible of the ABC!!
Staggering how little the coalition cares about future generations. Today’s wealthy beneficiaries of the fossil fuel industries are far more important! It’s an Intergenerational crime! Our grandchildren will bear a terrible burden!
Can’t say we weren’t warned people
#LNPLies
#AusVotes25
#ElectionAus
#Auspol
Allan Moir . . . . .
Tony Abbott, former Aus PM, in a disgraceful pro-Trump article for News Ltd, uses Trump’s $350 b figure for US aid to Kiev. He abuses Europe for not doing enough. The actual figures are US $125 b and $250b for Europe. He could have checked the figure. What a disgrace he is’
As the world fills with lies, Australia silences those who make us question
It’s a topsy-turvy moment when we are being told to treat Donald Trump’s words without seriousness but to read art at its most superficial level.
How the Mandarin Mussolini lies and lies and lies…and gets away with it.
Trump Uses Lies to Lay the Groundwork for Radical Change
Condoms for Gaza? Ukraine started the war with Russia? The president’s manipulations of the truth lay the groundwork for radical change.
Just a little reminder that as Germany (the largest economy in EU) heads to the polls there’s almost no chance of a ‘majority government’
Indeed they almost never have ‘majority governments’…power sharing parliaments are the norm in so many counties…just sayin
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
German election live updates: Voting begins after final poll predicts gains for AfD
Germany heads to the polls for the fourth snap election in its history
Young men. smdh.
This. Is. Not. News. Why the fuck does the ABC pretend it is ?
Live: Barnaby Joyce likens Labor's Medicare campaign to the 'Loch Ness monster'
Barnaby Joyce has likened Labor's attempt to drag the Coalition to a fight on health care as government crying that they've seen the "Loch Ness monster". Follow live.
Straight from the Trump playbook! When is the media going to call this out?
Even though this false claim of Peter Dutton was factchecked in July 2024, he's just repeated it from Adelaide on ABC News this afternoon. The lie is broadcast yet again over fact. People heard him say it on the ABC so he must be correct?
#auspol www.aap.com.au/factcheck/du...
Dutton's claim about G20 nuclear energy use doesn't add up | AAP
Sees dictators everywhere, except the one right in front of her: the duplicity and dishonesty of Fox News is a threat to the world!
Just to clarify: The “dictators” she’s talking about are the leaders of the country that got invaded and our NATO allies. Not the actual dictator who invaded a country and murders critics at home. Courageous stuff.
Peter Dutton says Trump is an original thinker. Not really. His thoughts were Putin’s thoughts first.
Just had important day surgery. Surgeon’s fee $3600.
Medicare ($700) health fund ($180) rebates. Out of pocket $2700. I can pay it. A lot of people couldn’t! This is the result of years of degrading Medicare. Peter Dutton wants to go further. Beware Australia!
AUKUS will be used for generations as an example of the perfect meeting of dumb policy and dumb politics.
