Gold Coast Council found resources to keep complaints stats on the homeless & their ‘move-on’ notices. A Canadian Council had staff talk with the homeless, identify them, then manage them case by case, with great results. Dep Mayor Hammel states no interest in finding a “balance” to “help them.” Pft

Premier Crisafulli’s oil refinery fantasy would need to be supplied with overseas crude oil. Any proposed transport magic or ‘resilient’ negotiations that would allow it to avoid current disruption to supply channels / shipping channels? Simplistic solutions to complex problems belong to Populists.

Brilliant - QLD LNP Premier wants a new oil refinery, only 11 billion & (cough cough) years away. Why hasn’t someone thought of this? They have? No one has built a new oil refinery in Oz for (cough cough) years? Uneconomic? Oh, it seemed such a simple solution from a populist, oops popular Premier.

Reliable quality, Independent Oz news analysis is found:

Democracy Sausage podcast- Mark Kenny

Truth, Lies and Media podcast

The Saturday Paper

Amy Remeikis/The Point/The Australia Institute

Michael West Media

Crikey - various journo’s

The Two Barries podcast - Barrie Cassidy / Tony Barry

Daniel Bleakley, New Energy Transport:“We used 600 kilowatt hours. At 15 cents wholesale renewable energy price, that would have cost aprx $50 up & back for a 36-tonne combination.That trip normally costs around $300 in diesel, at prewar prices.” - M Seccombe, The Saturday Paper, 11/4/26. 3 of 3

“The Windrose electric truck produces 1400 horsepower – compared with 500 to 700 from a typical diesel – which enables it to maintain speed, even up steep gradients. Since it could sit at the speed limit the whole way, the trip was also 40 minutes faster than under diesel power.” 2 of 3

Windrose & Oz Co. ‘New Energy Transport’ & displayed an electric truck at Parl’t House March ‘26. In Oct 25, it completed a 480-kilometre round trip from Picton to the Hunter region on a single charge. MSM coverage? Nope, too busy promoting a war. 1 of 3

Hard to beat:

“Truth Lies and Media” podcast

with Nicole Chvastek and Denis Muller, both veteran media careers. Both linked with Centre for Advanced Journalism. It’s Media Watch with more time and more ‘bite’.

Love the Epstein reference. It fits with those who happily swallowed - with no christian objection - Trump’s previous line “ I am your Retribution.”
At least Oz citizens consistently rate highly in rejecting his .. what can you call it? Just bullshit will do.

Thanks for the prompt. Away from Briz currently and lost track of this. Now booked the good wife and I. Feel we should find a spy like password for recognition eg. The eagle only lands in May.

A bit rich Taylor even talking about Oz fuel supplies, when he as ex Energy Minister decided to place Oz oil reserves in Texas. Just dumb but it satisfied an agreement between Morrison and Trump.
LNP superior economic managers? Someone needs to remind us - how so?

Straw arguments: aren’t they where you create an argument, often tag it as belonging to others, then attack it? Taylor accuses someone, presumably the govt, of not measuring a crisis. Oh, I dunno, auditing / communicating the number of oil laden ships due in Oz and no. of days supply, looks OK here.

Good satirical work never dies - ummm, until trickle down economics dies. Oh yes purleese.

Time for the more progressive economists to discuss bottom
up boosting, and how:

“Consumer spending is the beating heart of the economy”

- Ross Gittins, Economics Editor, Sydney Morning Herald, Australia.

An oldie but a goldie, undiminished by time like good satire.Worth recirculating - thanks.

Economist J K Galbraith described trickle-down theory: “the less than elegant metaphor that if one feeds the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.”
Promoted by earnest economists, complicit financial analysts, editors, broadcasters, journalists. Who still benefits?

Weapons of mass destruction, God was on our side: two baseless arguments trotted out by warmongers AGAIN!
Met with passive treatment AGAIN! by complicit world & Oz MSM.
Again, nuclear experts say that Iran did not have weapons grade nuclear material, nor facilities nor evidence of intent. Sigh.

Hmm, so difficult - who to believe, Sky News or Laura Tingle? Trump’s rapidly thinning credibility? No contest really.

Surveys have shown Oz citizens are the highest in the world for not trusting Trump “to do the right thing.”

All the Sky News bluster and blather won’t change that.

Sky News interview for anti-renewables reporter Liam Bartlett:

Interviewer: Are you prepared to be a partisan for the fossil fuel industry, even claiming renewables have increased petrol prices? (Chokes laugh)

Bartlett: (smiling at the absurd inference) - Yes.

Interviewer: Right, you’re in!

There is something VERY Australian about drawing the far side of the moon as one big arse cleavage.
Thanks for the laugh.

Brilliant analysis by Marcia Langton, The Saturday Paper 4/4/26.

“Crisis alters the political atmosphere…produces fear, disorientation, hunger for explanations. The far right doesn’t explain crisis. It tells the anxious majority the nation has been betrayed not by structural failures/political cowardice/global disorder but by those marked as outsiders within.”

Yes, a close Greek friend said Australia was an amateur racist country compared to Greece. Lost contact but would love to know his post-Voice referendum thoughts. Many indigenous folk would enjoy presenting him with some ‘home truths’ and dismantling his argument, methinks.

Lazarou is so conceited - he doesn’t understand many people like yourself will desert his Coffee Club after his support for Hanson as PM. He, more particularly, his franchisees, will lose business. In business, you don’t create ways to alienate your customers. Total arrogance, terrible business.

Coffee Club director, John Lazarou’s support for Hanson PM reveals deep ignorance on two fronts. 1) PM’s are selected by the House of Reps govt party. 2) Arrogance, in stating your political opinions will not affect your business. Most of Oz votes elsewhere. Many will walk their business elsewhere.

Maybe this is the patient remains of the NASA crowd who hung in to see if any band members from Pink Floyd were around the dark side of the moon.

Oh, it’s a NASA crowd! A minor detail omitted made this a tad obscure - seemingly a grizzle about your crowd, somewhere and you had my sympathy. Maybe I just missed something.

Apologies to John Clarke - still missed.

A Tas logging Co. spokesman said: We clear felled forestry where 68 recordings/ observations of the swift parrot were made. We legally did this, and even if we did see the parrot, which we didn’t, we could continue to log their habitat, which it wasn’t, since we didn’t see them.

What a great caption for a great cartoon!

But Taylor stated: “If you put a tax on something, you get less of it.”

A tax on exported gas means gas producers will avoid tax as always, meaning it is more profitable for them to supply domestic demand.
This tax inhibits rising gas exports & helps meet domestic demand.

Taylor, please explain?