The fact that one of our leaders expects to get away with pissing all over 160,000 people with disability is a pretty stinging indictment of Australia’s political culture imho

Kindof a compliment that Shell Oil is helping fund a (disinformation) advertising campaign in response to @australiainstitute.org.au ’s campaigning for a tax. It suggests Shell’s research is showing that the campaign is ‘cutting through’ with punters.

No doubt many sectors and programs need to be re-structured for better efficiency and service for the end user - but cutting the NDIS under the backdrop of increasing defence spending by multiple of billions of dollars to placate the US - is shameful #npc #auspol

On journalism, and connections between increasing global temperatures and violence: "Extreme heat makes it more difficult to process new information, manage emotions, and control impulses, priming people to act more aggressively when temperatures rise"
shorturl.at/GDUIP
via @coveringclimatenow.org

As a former tenant & so a user of 2Apply, I’m glad to see this decision. I paid for an extra credit check thru the system as the form suggested that’d help with ‘quicker approval’ & then at the open inspection the agent said it wasn’t needed & they knew the platform asked for it anyway. #auspol

Nice read for us non-economists.
#auspol

Without stating your age, post a movie that was released when you turned 18.

Without stating your age, post a movie that was released when you turned 18.

Won’t someone think of the gas companies

Urgh, just worked out that ICE in this context means ‘internal combustion engine’ not the other ICE (I’ve been so confused).

Would be great to see in Australia #auspol

‘A white man’s fantasy’: if we want to rebuild social cohesion, we need to acknowledge where it all started to unravel Australia has a serious problem with social cohesion, but it’s no good pretending it’s recent. Koori civilisation has been torn asunder ever since the convict ships dropped anchor

A must-read for Australians from Melissa Lucashenko on the definition of 'social cohesion' & more. www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

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

Every time I read an academic who has interesting things to say on issues of morality, and whom I might quote, I have to search them to see if they've been forced to resign because of harassment, sexual misconduct, or similar.

That's twice now.

Konrad Benjamin nails the root of the problem: to stop large industries from ripping us all off, politicians need to stop “going to work in the industries that they literally wrote the rules for”🔥
Rules that as Dr Denniss points out, see gas co’s “pay more in PR than PRRT”💥

The Point Live: Gas, politics and the coming budget. All the day's events, live Welcome to a special edition of The Point Live, as we cover off the first day of the Senate’s Select Committee on the Taxation of Gas Resources, as well as take a look at what is shaping up in the bud...

Susan McDonald had a bit of a cry for the gas companies saying that they really do pay a lot of tax. I decided to have a bit of a fact check on that
live.thepoint.com.au

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’

"Heydt fled apartheid-era South Africa and has worked treating people with trauma and disability in Gaza and the West Bank through three Israeli wars in the 2000s.
'I believe [the phrase] is about people’s inalienable right to be free'.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

NDIS infiltrated by organised crime gangs using intimidation and threats of violence against Australians Review recommends better use of NDIS data to identify repeat rorters and a requirement for providers to register with the government

Australian politicians love to claim welfare programs are beset with fraud, even if there's very little evidence, because it justifies cutting welfare spending www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

‘Honest Govt advert': enriching the Japanese people is more important than enriching Australians, so we can’t possibly add an export-only tax, otherwise the gas industry’s bluff about withdrawing investments won’t work! #auspol
@thejuicemedia.com

Say what? The Japanese govt earns more in tax on-selling Australian gas than the Australian govt gets from taxing the same gas? Explain it me like I’m 5.

Yes, we should be transitioning away from gas, but in the meantime, we should be ‘milking it’ (and other fossil fuel exports).
#auspol

Konrad Benjamin on fire in today’s gas tax inquiry, says those claiming “we can’t afford anything” are full of it, we have plenty of resources to benefit from
“This gas issue is the perfect eg of how it’s a lie”
“We’ve been sold out”🔥 #auspol @punterspolitics.bsky.social @australiainstitute.org.au

Damage control at CSIRO’s Geelong biosecurity facility The Geelong facility that stores some of the world’s most lethal diseases is long overdue an upgrade, with staff saying CSIRO funding shortages have delayed repairs planned a decade ago.

Australia’s highly complex scientific infrastructure – whether it’s Canberra’s super computer or the ACDP – is too often the casualty of political myopia, or short-termism, scientists say. satpa.pe/P1YEpOH

“If we’re going 2 maintain a system that deliberately creates unemployment, the least we shld do 4 those who bear the cost is income support that’s above the poverty line & services that genuinely help. The current system is both ineffective & unnecessarily cruel.”

@grogsgamut.bsky.social

Evangelicals think theocracy is democracy

Billionaires think plutocracy is democracy

Magas think kakistrocracy is democracy

Trump thinks kleptocracy is democracy

GOP thinks fascism is democracy

Democrats think elections are democracy

ALL ARE WRONG

& we are the victims of their ignorance

Kimberley diphtheria rates more than triple in a month after 50-year eradication An outbreak of the long-dormant, highly contagious bacterial infection diphtheria in Western Australia's north is raising alarm among government officials and experts.

“Diphtheria is one of those diseases that had effectively been eradicated in Australia," he said. “In the last 12 months, cases have appeared in the Northern Territory & this year have now spread into the Kimberley so it's somewhat unprecedented & a concern to us."

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

‘Independent’ group Energy for Australians that ran anti-Labor ads received more than $1m from coal lobby Coal Australia denies its donations to the ‘community-driven association’ amount to astroturfing, but critics accuse the group of misleading the public

Perpetrators of this type of fraud, donors to it, and all their minions should face jail and astronomical fines for astroturfing. It is an affront to democracy, reason and decency, and is an entirely misanthropic endeavour.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

An Australian horror story:

- Bunnings snags went up in price

- Rail Replacement Bus

- You have a new message in your myGov Inbox

Best thing I ever did was NOT get married.

If marriage benefited women, governments would try to limit our access to it, not encourage it.

NASA just dropped the closest image ever taken of Jupiter...

two laughing kookaburras sitting on a fence while fencing beaks

two laughing kookaburras sitting on a fence while fencing beaks

two laughing kookaburras sitting on a fence while fencing beaks

An impatient juvenile Laughing #Kookaburra (right) pesters an adult for a meal.

#kingfisher #australianbirds #birdphotography #wildbirds #australia #australianbirds