“We’re helping too many people with disabilities” is a hell of a line from a Labor government

ALP too scared to take on the gas industry that strips billions from our country each year; but not shy about kicking the crutches out from under hundreds of thousands of disabled Australians. So gutsy Albo.

We must require ALL data centers and other extremely large corporate users of electricity to generate their own electricity at their own expense If we don't do this, we are either idiots and/or masochists.

This is cool as hell.

The mass drowning of emperor penguin chicks as sea ice is melted by the climate crisis has led the International Union for Conservation of Nature to declare the species officially in danger of extinction.

Reporting by Damian Carrington, environment editor. 🔗👉 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Greens say Australia should step up pressure on Israel over ‘disastrous, illegal, immoral war’ on Lebanon Call comes on same day former prime minister Tony Abbott said Australia should send troops to fight alongside US forces in the Middle East * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Greens want the federal government to put direct pressure on Israel to stop its deadly strikes on Lebanon, including cancelling weapons contracts to protest against the “disastrous, illegal, immoral war”. Prime minister, Anthony Albanese, and the foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, have insisted southern Lebanon should be included in the fledgling ceasefire agreement negotiated between the US and Iran in recent days. Continue reading...

Greens say Australia should step up pressure on Israel over ‘disastrous, illegal, immoral war’ on Lebanon

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

"A subscription shouldn't be a trap. That’s why we're banning subscriptions that lock you in because they're too hard to cancel."
— AUS PM @albomp.bsky.social

So, ... we're cancelling #AUKUS? 😏 #auspol #USPolitics

Headline: Gina Rinehart says I don't understand arrest of BRS over alleged war crimes.

Also has trouble with fair pay and poetry

Coal to liquids: Coalition's latest energy brain-fart is their craziest yet, and that takes some doing Coalition's proposed solution to the fossil fuel crisis is its craziest yet. Meanwhile, credible solutions - cleaner, quicker and cheaper - are right in front of us.

Coal to oil: the Coalition’s nuttiest idea yet reneweconomy.com.au/coal-to-liqu...

Wanna know WHY a Seven journalist is pretending that renewables are pushing up energy prices? Oh that’s right… Seven Group own fossil fuel assets and want to exploit more of them.

Has Penny Wong expressed her concern yet? Has Marles talked about our shared values?

Every time they get asked about AUKUS they talk about the alliance.

Well this is the alliance.

Always enjoy centrists believing despite it all we can’t do anything to hurt our alliance with the USA, as if it is actually in our interests to be a US marine and sub base, as if that is a cheap form of our defence, as if that makes us safer.

It stopped being 1942 a long time ago.

The difficult path to a gas tax As multinational gas companies reap huge profits from the Iran war, parliamentarians are pressing the treasurer to overhaul LNG taxes in the May budget.

“The oil and gas industry told the Norwegian government that if you tax us, we won't invest," says David Pocock. "Guess what? They've still invested. Norway has a $3 trillion sovereign wealth fund now.” satpa.pe/ZLpNpbk

We cannot celebrate tinkering when it comes to gambling reform. Labor’s response falls tragically short | David Pocock What the Albanese government is proposing is not evidence-based, and it will not reverse the normalisation of gambling among young people After more than 1,000 days without a response to the landmark Murphy report into the harms of online gambling, and growing pressure from advocates, experts, the crossbench and from within his own caucus, Anthony Albanese last week released his government’s response. The prime minister’s response falls tragically short of the suite of measures Peta Murphy and her multi-party committee identified. These measures, implemented in full, could genuinely stop the harm that a deluge of gambling advertising is having, especially on children and young men. That is not what Albanese has announced. Continue reading...

We cannot celebrate tinkering when it comes to gambling reform. Labor’s response falls tragically short | David Pocock

In the middle of a fossil fuel crisis, it’s time to shout the clean energy message loud and clear | Zoe Daniel The case for renewables is clear. Every extra EV on an Australian road is litres of petrol saved, every home battery means less gas used and a more resilient electricity grid * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Dear clean energy industry, this is your moment. Cease your frowning at the roadblocks that have been put in your way. Continue reading...

In the middle of a fossil fuel crisis, it’s time to shout the clean energy message loud and clear | Zoe Daniel

How to deal with the oil price shock

“During the Yom Kippur War in 1973, major Arab oil nations refused to sell to countries supporting Israel. Oil prices almost quadrupled, inflation reached 18 per cent and unemployment 10 per cent. The current crisis is likely to be worse.” satpa.pe/qQGVwFH

We've built a fuel tracker to watch the impact of the excise cut on prices -- and prices have come down much faster than the industry suggested they would www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Israel is evil and only exists to perpetrate evil

Not sure why we’d be in a rush to get a religious conservative, anti-climate change, anti-marriage equality, Enoch Powell quoting, pro-white South African farmers bloke in power. But some journos get seduced, I guess.

Screenshot of the Australia's Gas Giveaway counter We have so far missed out on $68,183,006,739.12 dollars in revenue had the Albanese govt put in place a 25% gas export tax when it came to office in 2022

If the govt had brought in a 25% tax on gas exports when it came to power in 2022 it would have raised $68bn by now and the missed revenue is growing every second.

Check out our gas tracker
gas.australiainstitute.org.au

Kylie Minogue to perform at AFL grand final: ‘as a Melburnian, I’m so excited’ After years of trying, the AFL has locked in Minogue as pre-game entertainment for 2026 event

Oh there's going to be football at the Kylie concert www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

This is not the time to power down on EVs

"The choices before the government are not between spending and saving; they are between spending that accelerates the future we need and spending that subsidises a past we can no longer afford," writes Monique Ryan.
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He's so good at this. Making it cool to care about fixing things, even small things, is a version of leadership we need to see more of these days.

I have one word: Finally.
#auspol #auslaw #racism #justice

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A billionaire can get what they want with one donation to a political party. The rest of us must fight for years to get even the most basic rights recognised. Money destroys democracy, more than any other cause. The first step towards a better world is to stop the rich buying political outcomes.

When I was growing up, I remember my parents scraping together $5 for fuel to make it to work. We couldn't go to friend's houses because we couldn't spare the fuel, and every trip needed to be accounted and planned for. If the petrol price went up, we stayed home. (No public transport) (cont)

History-making jockey Michelle Payne honoured with statue at Flemington Australian horse racing trailblazer Michelle Payne, the first woman to win the Melbourne Cup, has been honoured with a statue unveiled today.

Australian horse racing trailblazer Michelle Payne, the first woman to win the Melbourne Cup, has been honoured with a statue unveiled today.

'Accountability has arrived': Meta and Google found liable in landmark social media addiction lawsuit The case was brought on by a 20-year-old woman who accused the tech companies of causing harm by deliberately designing addictive platforms which worsened her mental health.

The case was brought on by a 20-year-old woman who accused the tech companies of causing harm by deliberately designing addictive platforms which worsened her mental health.