They could start by funding services for homeless people.

Sydney business body calls for action on homelessness after ‘disturbingly lonely and tragic death’ Bikram Lama’s body lay undiscovered for up to a week in one of city’s busiest parks, prompting business lobby to call for greater welfare monitoring * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Sydney’s peak business group has called for the urgent establishment of a safety taskforce to help rough sleepers in the central business district after the disturbing death of a young Nepali man in Hyde Park. Guardian Australia revealed this week that Bikram Lama, 32, had died where he was sleeping in bushes near the entrance to St James tunnel, a busy thoroughfare used by thousands of commuters. Continue reading...

Sydney business body calls for action on homelessness after ‘disturbingly lonely and tragic death’

Solidarity with Jazz Money, Evelyn Araluen: 'We have an obligation to stand against genocide' Writer Claire G Coleman watches in horror as UQP pulps a children's book by a First Nations writer.

Me: "No author should have their work cancelled because of their opinion or because of the right wing press’ perceptions of their opinion. We have the right to speak and the obligation to stand against genocide."
www.artshub.com.au/news/opinion...

Since the early 1980 many major economies have seen measures of inequality rise. In my lifetime I've seen the post-WWII middle classes in Germany, the US, and Australia decline. Source: buff.ly/lyAIuoo

We are currently on holidays in France. The hotels we're staying at not only have EV chargers in their carparks, but they absorb the cost into the tariff.

When we're travelling long distances, we stop for lunch while charging to 80% and be back on our merry way.

I could be wrong but I suspect the widespread anger over gas companies profiteering at the expense of the Australian taxpayer may see the Labor government finally do *something* about it. A half -arsed measure like their gambling ad reforms, but enough to say to voters they did *something*

More on Ben Gurion's extremism, here, in this most excellent article from Tel Aviv paper Haaretz. It documents Ben Gurion's atrocities.

Israel is destroying the public record in very Orwellian fashion.

archive.ph/XUSpz

Non-discrimination is a core Australian value. We must defend it Policies which link migration to “values” undermine a fundamental principle of Australia’s immigration system – fairness without discrimination.

Non-discrimination is a core Australian value. We must defend it preview.johnmenadue.com/post/2026/04/non-discrim... #Auspol

AOC represents EVERY WOMAN in America right now who is sick and tired of misogyny & misinformation.

She represents us and the rage we feel.

Ina de Bree:

‘There is music in the sighing of a reed; There’s music in the gushing of a rill; There’s music in all thing, if men had ears …’
Lord Byron - Don Juan (1819 -1824)
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Anne Kinnunen, ph.

Israeli historian and academic Avi Shlaim argues that today's Israel does not reflect the real values of Judaism.

IG: novaramedia

Is the Iran War America’s Suez or Its Gallipoli? Yanis Varoufakis argues that the United States is in a better position than Britain was in 1956, but not than it was in 1915.

Is the Iran War America’s Suez or Its Gallipoli? by Yanis Varoufakis www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

She’s bloody sick of this shit guys

It can take months, sometimes years, to truly see and understand a person, a place or a culture at depth. There are no shortcuts without immersion — the more intimate and consistent your entanglement, the sooner patterns appear.

I can’t find the CPG narrative about Gina’s money following Joyce. They know, right?

Truth

Jewish man among first charged in pro-Palestinian slogan crackdown that reminds some of 1970s Queensland Stephen Heydt says he spoke in a custom-made T-shirt and was ‘charged with two offences: one for the shirt, one for the chanting’

A Jewish man is among the first charged in Australia's Queensland for wearing a t-shirt with and chanting the prohibited slogan, "from the river to the sea" -- a ridiculous effort to defend Israel's endless occupation, apartheid, and genocide.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

There really is no such thing as race. We all came from Africa. We are all of the same stardust. We are all going to live and die on the same planet, a Pale Blue Dot in the vastness of space. We have to work together.
— Bill Nye

Did you know?
Barnaby Joyce — who insists unremorseful convicted r*pist Sean Black deserves a “second chance” — was Black’s MC at his wedding in 2010.

Clive Palmer and James Ashby also attended the same wedding.

Chris Bowen reminds the media it was Labor in 2023 who put the law in place for fuel reserves to be kept in Australia after “4 refineries closed” under the Coalition.
“It hadn’t happened until then”
“If I was the Liberal Party, I’d stay pretty quiet about these matters.”🔥 #auspol

Mehreen Faruqi has called on the government to cut ties with “bloodthirsty countries” the US and Israel, says our relationship can and should “never be the same.”

Woolworths engaged in ‘marketing magic’ to trick customers, consumer watchdog tells court The trial between the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and the supermarket giant began in the federal court in Sydney on Tuesday

This fake ‘on special’ pricing yo-yo bullshit by supermarkets needs to be stopped.
If the can sell it at the ‘on special’ they can sell at that price all the time

Woolworths engaged in ‘marketing magic’ to trick customers, consumer watchdog tells court www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Larissa Waters asks former Treasury chief Ken Henry if it’s too simplistic to say wartime gas profits from the war on Iran can either go to Australians, or to overseas investors & shareholders.
Henry “That’s not simplistic, that’s how it is!” “It is as simple as that.” 💥 #auspol

What went wrong in Israel? A genocide scholar examines ‘what Zionism became’ In his new book, Omer Bartov tracks how a liberatory strand of Zionism transformed into an extremist ideology that he sees as responsible for genocide in Gaza

Israeli genocide scholar Omer Bartov will have his book on Zionism and genocide translated into 9-10 languages, but not Hebrew. He even offered to translate it himself, but not a single Israeli publisher would go near it. Not even the ‘leftwing’ ones.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...