Shell Oil suggested they were putting $1m into the Aus Energy Producers advert campaign because its adverts need to meet "Advertising Standards" "unlike those from The Australia Institute"
So @jack-thrower.bsky.social & I decided to fact check their advert
live.thepoint.com.au
"Stop sucking up to America" is also sound advice for the Albanese government. #auspol
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The NSW Premier ignoring the courts would be in line with his authoritarian role model Netanyahu, who has been pushing to undermine the separation of powers in Israel.
Minns must publicly accept and uphold the court's decision.
If he does not, he is unfit to hold office. #nswpol
In 2003, before he held any significant office, Minns was selected for the AIJAC Rambam Israel Fellowship – an all-expenses-paid program with one purpose: take promising Australian political figures to Israel, immerse them, and bind them.
Not bribe them. Bind them. michaelwest.com.au/groomed-capt...
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
It's not just the turtles in trouble. The Gwydir Wetlands should be teeming with life right now, including with more than 100 different bird species such as the endangered Australian Painted Snipe, one of the rarest birds in Australia. There may be just a few hundred Painted Snipes left in the wild.
Sarah Hanson-Young shreds the QLD Resources Council for recycling the same old arguments against a Tax on Gas that they used against QLD Labor’s Coal royalties in 2022, revealing there’s “more” Coal mines now than in 2022
SHY: “In 2022 there were 52, there’s now 58!”💥 #auspol
The Labor Government need to save money.
Like you,I have been told to 'tighten my belt' for 50 fucking years and then I have to read that 150,000 disabled people can verily get fucked but we will give a rogue fascist nation between $268 billion and $368 billion for imaginary subs
#auspol
The thing about Palantir’s cultural chauvinism is also the thing about the anti-woke rejection of the effects of explicit racism. In each case, the victors often cheated — and not even a lifetime ago.
Gift link:
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This is how you do it
Senator Ralph Babet is a single, childless, 43-year-old immigrant.
The Iranians are saying “we’re not going to negotiate with a liar who changes his position every twelve hours”, and the Americans are like “we can’t stop him doing that”.
So yes, it’s all going great for the global economy.
Why does Japanese gov have the right to block Australia’s carbon transition? To threaten #auspol if we tax gas exports, but charge import tax on them for 🇯🇵 plus profit on sales? Why does Trump threaten us with astronomic 💊 price rises?
Why does Albo feel powerless?
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BREAKING: "WE WERE TERRIFIED THEY WER GOING TO KILL US!" INNOCENT ECUADORIAN FISHERMEN SPEAK OUT ABOUT HOW PETE HEGSETH'S GOONS BOMBED THEIR BOAT, ARRESTED THEM AT GUNPOINT, STOLE ALL THEIR FOOD, AND THEN DUMPED THEM IN ANOTHER COUNTRY WITH NO EXPLANATION! WHILE TRUMP AND HEGSETH HAVE BEEN BUSY COMMITTING WAR CRIMES IN THE MIDDLE EAST, THEIR ILLEGAL STRIKES ON CARIBBEAN FISHING BOATS HAVE CONTINUE UNABATED, AS PART OF AN OSTENSIBLE WAI AGAINST "NARCOTERRORISTS" DESPITE NEVER PROVIDING ANY EVIDENCE THAT THEIR VICTIMS ARE GUILTY OF ANY CRIME.
#ProudBlue #Voices4Victory
We’re breathing, eating & drinking microplastics.
Committing $144M to study microplastics while subsidizing fossil fuels by nearly $131B yr is like trying to clean up an oil spill with a spoon while the tanker is still spewing.
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I love the new title edge that Paul gave to Captain Shitinbritches 👍
This isn’t an academic threat to democracy, social inclusion and genuinely liberal values where people are all valued equally. It is a clear and present fascist program attached to a military political project that stifles dissent at home and kills “adversaries” abroad.
Palantir wants a remilitarised West locked into a civilisational contest against its enemies. Sound familiar? This is exactly the logic driving AUKUS. We're not just buying nuclear submarines, we're buying into someone else's war with our neighbours.
Palantir is embedding itself in other Australian institutions from Coles, to Rio Tinto. Westpac, our military cyber unit, the Australian Signals Directorate, the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission and AUSTRAC, which handles Aussies’ sensitive financial information.
Palantir is a cancer we should be cutting out of our Government agencies and institutions. Instead the Albanese Government and big corporations here are keen to use their mass surveillance and deeply unethical business practices for their own ends, regardless of the dangers.
Palantir is known to have provided technology that facilitated the Gaza genocide. They are facilitating mass ICE kidnappings in the US. These actions alone should trigger a review of Australian contracts. This latest manifesto only adds to the concern.
Don’t forget we just gave them top secret clearance
The Australian Greens are calling on the government to audit every Palantir contract across Government and particularly in Defence, Home Affairs and intelligence agencies and table the findings in Parliament. The public has a right to know the full scale of the risks and the sell out.
Le Carré has described British public school as a “deliberately brutalising process” that severed boys from their families and instilled a lasting sense of elitism, leaving them, as he put it, with “your heart frozen.”
