Chart showing gas exports and PRRT: 2014-15: Exports $16.9bn PRRT $1.9bn 2024-25: Exports $64.6bn PRRT $1.4bn
Just in case you're wondering why the gas industry hates the idea of a 25% gas export tax and wants to keep the PRRT
In Turkey, an elderly man who earns his living by shining shoes is visited every morning at the same time by a cat that asks to have its fur brushed. The man never turns down this little friend.😍👍💙
And because the outpatient waitlist is only counted from date of allocation to seeing the specialist, that year you wait without an appointment date isn’t included in the stats
Iran Deal By Obama:
•Strait of Hormuz open for free
•Iran limits Uranium enrichment
•Iran agrees to make no nuclear weapons
•Iran allows Int'l inspectors to ensure compliance
•Inspectors confirm Iran's full compliance
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"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.
France has sold off the last of its gold held in the US Federal Reserve and now holds all its gold in Paris.
German groups are now pressuring the government to repatriate its own gold.
The warm milo my midwife made me after I gave birth remains the best thing I have ever tasted.
At this stage, probably worth a try...
#illegalwar #presidentmoron
Albo’s address had big ‘kid who did no work on the group project and now has to give a speech’ energy
What sort of a press club welcomes murderers of journalists?
Israel just passed a law mandating death by hanging for Palestinians in rigged military trials voting 62-48 in the Knesset. Netanyahu turned up in person to vote yes. Ben-Gvir wore a metal noose pin on his lapel while the chamber erupted in cheers at the prospect of killing more Palestinians.
A statement on behalf of the Australian Cartoonists Association regarding James Hillier aka Nordacious and the QLD Government:
And I am so, so, so angry at the stupid culture wars and deliberate blocks put in place to the nation being able to have energy sovereignty. That any chance we had of transitioning the energy economy was derailed decades ago by fu*kers simping for fossil fuel. Energy security IS national security
Grateful In my 8th decade— not perfect, but enough to rise, to walk, to notice morning. A few parts creak, some signals misfire, yet the whole carries on with quiet competence. I ask for no more— just this: another day granted, and the sense to be grateful.
@mwplovesmusic.bsky.social
#Emoetry prompt for 3/26 is #grateful
Grateful not for perfection, but for continuation—another day the body holds, and I have the sense to notice.
#writingcommunity #poetry #blueskypoets #freeverse
I feel a lot of moral injury with paying my taxes this year.
I feel privileged to pay taxes. I want accessible healthcare, good schools, and good roads. I am not happy with my money going to the orange turd and his cronies. I feel as if I am paying to destroy everything.
BREAKING Just launched a formal inquiry into the NACC's performance. Australians have been watching the NACC operate in the shadows for years and it's time to drag this body into the light. I know you will have thoughts to submit before 26 May 👇
Rahm Emanuel, a potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidate, is proposing a far-reaching ban on betting in prediction markets by federal employees and their families.
Deepcut broke this story - Barest journalistic courtesy would have been for any of the outlets who followed, to credit the original reporting.
www.deepcutnews.com/p/exclusive-...
New, from me: The federal government is required to track job satisfaction among its employees.
The Trump admin stopped collecting the data, so a nonprofit stepped in.
The results show that a collapse in morale and zero trust in Trump agency leaders. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/federal-em...
the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes
👇🏽 We’ve had two generations - boomers and gen X, where this obscene inequality was broken but now we are rapidly returning to Edwardian times. Pox on all pollies who have created and maintained this policy environment despite most of them benefiting from its previous inequality breakdown.
Three horizontal frames. 1. Trump stands at one end of a long table set with tablecloth, food, plates, cutlery, wine, glasses. Netanyahu sits smiling at other end holding a glass of wine. Trump holding the tablecloth says, “Aaaand…” 2. Same set up, Trump has whipped the tablecloth out from under setting - sending the whole lot flying. “PRESTO!” Netanyahu still smiling. 3. Same scene but all the table setting has landed broken on the floor. Trump calls offstage “SOMEBODY COME AND CLEAN UP THIS MESS.” Netanyahu drinks his wine.
Party trick.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
Just a reminder - while NDIS subsidies are allegedly 'unsustainable' fossil fuel subsidies grew by 9.6% in the last year to $16.3bn. thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
This is even more egregious when you consider that Labor made substantial changes to NDIS support for children with autism, with no clear planning & using deeply hurtful language, and justified it purely on the basis of the COST. I mean, they implied it was the fault of the families FFS. #auspol
I feel like it should be more widely unpopular that in the past year we’ve witnessed the creation of an American Stasi required to meet arrest quotas who utilize an AI technology created by a company run by a sweaty raisin of a billionaire who thinks Greta Thunberg is the antichrist.
Excellent article in @thepointau.bsky.social by @squigglyrick.bsky.social
"What if we just gave people money? The economics of time and freedom"
thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
i feel like if i was tasked with not starting a war and bringing back US manufacturing jobs, i could have done a better job than this
Single frame. Title: “Meanwhile, in a Syrian refugee camp”. Scene is refugee camp in washed out colour with tents, adult and child carrying babs in background. Foreground: woman in robe and hijab holding a soccer ball speaks to three young children saying, “Pay attention kids. This could be our only hope.”
Game of hope.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
I’ll always trust the findings on Robodebt from Commissioner Catherine Holmes, who led a commission of integrity, who didn’t hold hearings in secret, over & above the findings of the NACC, led by Paul Brereton who works in the shadows with conflicts running through his veins.
