It’s hard to believe that Palantir has been given so many contracts, do they hand them out without any scrutiny at all?

Utterly incomprehensible

Labor’s foreign policy no longer matches the world it faces In the second on our Rethinking Foreign Policy series Kym Davey says Labor’s foreign policy platform is out of step with current realities – clinging to US alliance settings while ignoring its own commitment to self-reliance and the opportunities of the Asia-Pacific.

Labor still frames the US as an “enduring partner” – while committing to defence self-reliance and deeper regional ties.
Those positions no longer align with reality, Kym Davey writes.
#auspol #ForeignPolicy #AUKUS #ANZUS #Geopolitics

Agree , who are ‘we defending’.
#GetOligarchsOutOfPolitics
#FascistTrump
#MAGACultMorons
Diplomacy not wars.

Who exactly are we defending ourselves from?
Why isn't this ever asked or defined?
#auspol

Manufacturing division: The misguided immigration policies of the Liberal Party From “noble migrants” to “subversive intent”: the Liberal Party is making dangerous shift towards surveillance, division and political desperation.

The Liberal Party’s approach to immigration isn’t really about the policy – it’s all about manufacturing division and political advantage.

The latest analysis from New Politics: newpolitics.com.au/p/manufactur...

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“Australia Institute research shows if Labor had introduced a 25% export tax back in 2022, we would have collected $69 billion by now, and every week we delay introducing such a tax is costing us $350 million." - Dr Richard Denniss

Read more: https://theaus.in/4cwYwYk

Single frame. Prayer session in the Oval Office. Trump’s team laying hands on Trump, as his pastor says, “O Lord, cast out those misguided religious leaders who would dare to meddle in our politics…”

Let us pray.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

“Japan, a country with no gas, oil or coal reserves of its own collected almost $40 billion over the last five years while the Australian PRRT provided only $7 billion to Australians.” - Dr Richard Denniss, co-CEO, The Australia Institute

🎧 Listen to the full interview: https://theaus.in/4sM88EC

So much for MSM-

Today the Senate committee on taxing gas is on. @amyremeikis.bsky.social and the rest of the crew will be liveblogging it on thepoint.com.au

But you can tune in at 9am and see @richarddenniss.bsky.social at 9am here www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilVp...

Wild attack on batteries and renewables by 7's Spotlight program falls over at the first fact check TV program looking at appalling mining practices in Congo says it is a blight on the renewables and storage industry. But it falls over at the first fact check.

Wild attack on batteries and renewables by 7's Spotlight program falls over at the first fact check reneweconomy.com.au/wild-attack-...

"So let’s take the hint. Let’s talk about AUKUS. Let’s talk about why every single Australian with a pulse and a pay packet should be screaming at the government to pull the ripcord on this thing before it becomes the most expensive lemon in the history of the country."

Chart showing 2014-15: Exports $16.9bn 2024-25: Exports $64.6bn 2014-15: PRRT $1.9bn 2024-25: PRRT $1.4bn

The gas industry has chosen to focus on exports, the PRRT was set up to tax oil in the Bass Strait. It ain't working

That's why we need a 25% tax on gas exports

Why Consumers are F*cked Trump's Never-ending War and Trump's Never-ending Tariffs are pushing up Never-ending price increases

Trump's Never-ending War and Trump's Never-ending Tariffs are pushing up Never-ending price increases. All of this is happening because of the unilateral decision making of one man. The question is, will he pay the price for it during the midterms?

It takes two to make alliances and the US may run away first As US commitment to alliances wavers, Australia faces urgent questions about its security, independence, and place in a rapidly shifting global order.

What happens if the US steps back from its alliances?
Australia may need to rethink its defence, alliances and independence in a rapidly changing world, Jack Waterford writes.
#auspol #AUKUS #ANZUS #Geopolitics #Defence

Submarine agency external spending hit record high amid 'secretive' culture review Ray Athwal Ray Athwal Data Journalist. Published 08 April 2026 Australia’s submarine agency is committing record funding to external firms for management and support services while maintaining a “secretive” stance on internal assessments of its own workplace culture. While AUKUS was framed as a means to establish sovereign industrial capability, an analysis of procurement contracts showed the agency has relied on a small group of private providers.

Wtf???

So, no money for NDIS but all the money for AUKUS - and they're outsourcing $$$ to external private firms?!

#AusPol

Headline from the AFR "Time to end welfare for the wealthy, says big business"

You mean the superannuation tax breaks? No?
You mean the CGT discount? No?
You mean the fossil fuel subsidies? No?
You mean the free gas for multinationals? No?
You mean the failure of the PRRT? No?
You mean the tax dodging trusts? No?
You mean the lack of a wealth tax? No?

No you mean the NDIS FFS

New detection tech could make AUKUS submarines obsolete Chinese researchers have developed a new gravity-based detector that could be used to find submarines and render the proposed AUKUS submarine redundant.

A new Chinese gravity-based detector could make stealth submarines obsolete.
That raises serious questions about the long-term viability of AUKUS, John Queripel writes.
#auspol #AUKUS #Defence #China #Geopolitics

I drove an EV for three days. It saved me money but cost me time With no end in sight to soaring fuel prices, 7.30 decided to take an EV for a test drive to see how far it could take our reporter, and if Australia's EV charging network stacks up.

This is disappointing by ABC. I’m not surprised to see 7 Spotlight bashing EVs (helping fossil fuel lobby) but expect better of the ABC. This whinge about EVs doesn’t mention $ savings from not buying petrol. Also, how about cutting emissions? Climate change? Hello?
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Cartoon by
Bruce Plante

Is the Strait of Hormuz open, asks old man out window

🤣😂

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

#NoWars
Diplomacy not #Fascism
#DumpAUKUS

The new head of the Australian military is taking his first international trip to the US as part of the $375 billion AUKUS scam.

While there, he will be the keynote speaker at a $ 5,000-a-head corporate event run by former Minister for Defence Industry Christopher Pyne.

The system is rigged.

Plan B: insulating ourselves from the US P&I today begins a major new series - rethinking Australia's foreign policy. The United States is becoming more erratic and less reliable, and Australia must respond by insulating itself – strengthening regional ties, rethinking defence settings, and reducing strategic dependence, according to John Menadue. 

The United States is becoming more unpredictable – and more dangerous.
Australia must insulate itself by strengthening regional ties and reducing dependence on US power, John Menadue writes.
#auspol #ForeignPolicy #Australia #US #Geopolitics

My recipe for AUKUS biscuits

Two weeks that pushed Trump to the edge. Is his presidency unravelling? The president has opened fissures in his base by starting a war he couldn’t finish with Iran, stoking inflation and offending Christians. Barred from running again, he may feel he has nothing to lose

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte... This is a conflict that he started that no one on his team in that cabinet knows how to get out of. I don’t know how you look at this man and not truly see him for what he is: a fraud.”

Trump post on Truth Social: Iran decided to fire bullets yesterday in the Strait of Hormuz — A Total Violation of our Ceasefire Agreement! Many of them were aimed at a French Ship, and a Freighter from the United Kingdom. That wasn't nice, was it? My Representatives are going to Islamabad, Pakistan — They will be there tomorrow evening, for Negotiations. Iran recently announced that they were closing the Strait, which is strange, because our BLOCKADE has already closed it. They're helping us without knowing, and they are the ones that lose with the closed passage, $500 Million Dollars a day! The United States loses nothing. In fact, many Ships are headed, right now, to the U.S., Texas, Louisiana, and Alaska, to load up, compliments of the IRGC, always wanting to be "the tough guy!" We're offering a very fair and reasonable DEAL, and ! hope they take it because, if they don't, the United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran. NO MORE MR. NICE GUY! They'll come down fast, they'll come down easy and, if they don't take the DEAL, it will be my Honor to do what has to be done, which should have been done to Iran, by other Presidents, for the last 47 years. IT'S TIME FOR THE IRAN KILLING MACHINE TO END! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Here we go again

Germany just activated its largest ever solar installation — one farm, 1.5 million homes, zero carbon. The #CottbusSolarPark covers 3,500 hectares and produces 2.1 tw-hours annually, replacing two coal plants that operated on this same land until 2022. #SolarPower #ActOnClimate #Renewables