Angus Taylor’s ‘Australian values’ immigration policy is a racist dog whistle Jacob Andrewartha argues that Angus Taylor’s “values-based” migration scheme is the latest example of the ruling class’ bid to ramp up racism and distract people from government failures in a worsening cost-of-living crisis.

Angus Taylor’s ‘Australian values’ immigration policy is a racist dog whistle www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1452/analysis/angus... #Auspol

#auspol @albomp.bsky.social & @jimchalmers.bsky.social , I think Ken Henry has a point:
“Just do it. In the national interest, just do it and stop the crap the Australian public has put up with for decades now in respect of the taxation of Australia’s finite natural resources.”

What do you think?

The diesel shock shows why government must help freight electrify As diesel prices surge, freight operators face mounting pressure, highlighting the urgent need for immediate support and a longer-term shift to electrified transport.

The diesel shock shows why government must help freight electrify preview.johnmenadue.com/post/2026/04/the-diesel-... #Auspol

Energy giants spending millions of dollars on advertising blitz to fight gas export tax, inquiry told Shell Australia says campaign needed to ‘counter-balance’ claims by levy advocates – but Ed Husic urges industry ‘do not spend millions defending the indefensible’ The gas giants are mounting a multi-million dollar advertising campaign to fight against a new export tax, prompting Labor MP Ed Husic to accuse the industry of “defending the indefensible”. Shell Australia is among half-a-dozen oil and gas companies contributing around $1m to an Australian Energy Producers (AEP) campaign that attempts to justify the amount of tax the industry pays, a parliamentary inquiry heard on Wednesday. Continue reading...

Energy giants spending millions of dollars on advertising blitz to fight gas export tax, inquiry told

Germany news: Lufthansa scraps 20,000 flights As Frankfurt Airport opens a new terminal, Lufthansa has scrapped 20,000 flights due to soaring fuel prices. Meanwhile, the Economy Ministry has reduced its forecast growth down to 0.5%. DW has more.

Lufthansa scraps 20,000 #flights due to #USIsraeliWar
#auspol #Uspolitics #UKpol

As Frankfurt Airport opens a new terminal, Lufthansa has scrapped 20,000 flights due to soaring fuel prices. Meanwhile, the Economy Ministry has reduced its forecast #growth down to 0.5%. .
www.dw.com/en/germany-n...

Senator David Pocock speaks in parliament NEW EPISODE | David Pocock on getting a fair return for Australian gas Listen to Follow the Money now via the link or wherever you get your podcasts

Australia is one of the largest gas exporters in the world, but Australians don't get a fair return for this finite resource.

@davidpocock.bsky.social joins @richarddenniss.bsky.social & @leanneminshull.bsky.social to discuss the case for a 25% gas export tax. #auspol

🎧 theaus.in/4mOkQ4v

Newsletter — Green Energy Statecraft Project

Green Energy Statecraft project now has a newsletter

#GreenEnergyStatecraft #RenewableEnergy #Politics #AusPol

www.greenenergystatecraft.org/newsletter

How One Nation and the Coalition sold out Australians | The West Report YouTube video by The West Report

Are Angus Taylor and Pauline Hanson #unaustralian ? Why do they prefer the profits of a foreign cartel over gas revenues for Australians?

Follow the money
#murdoch #newscorp #auspol #ABC

also debunking the 'defund the ABC' furphy
youtu.be/3GMIfOJMX4U?...

Channel Seven’s Spotlight digging for dirt on clean energy ignores fundamental facts and basic journalistic standards | Temperature Check Program portrayed efforts to wean Australia off fossil fuels as morally bankrupt, trashing rainforests and enslaving Australia to China

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Lies and omissions at Channel 7 #auspol

If you care at all about Australian journalism you've already signed this but just in case I'm gonna keep posting.
#auspol

Setting sail for Gaza. Australian activists joining largest ever flotilla Seventeen Australian activists are set to join a flotilla attempting to break Israel's siege and deliver food and medical aid to the suffering people of Gaza.

Setting sail for Gaza. Australian activists joining largest ever flotilla michaelwest.com.au/setting-sail-for-gaza-au... #Auspol

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez questions Robert F Kennedy Jr.

It's 2026: Intelligent, articulate, principled women are STILL having to deal with ignorant, incoherent, incompetent men in power. #USPolitics #healthcare #RFKjr #AOC #AlexandriaOcasioCortez

New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

New gas-powered data center projects linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI could emit more greenhouse gases than entire nations, according to a @wired.com investigation from @mollytaft.com --

happy earth day, don't miss this one!

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...

Electric car sales soar 51% in mainland Europe as Iran war drives up fuel prices Data shows 224,000 new EVs were registered in March, with Norway leading way in terms of switching

“March’s surge in electric car sales is one of Europe’s biggest recent gains in energy security, in a month when oil dependence has become a real vulnerability.”
– Chris Heron, E-Mobility Europe
#GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Vaccines work

Science is real

Vaccines save lives

Why is this hard?

First turbine of wind farm off Suffolk has record-breaking blades One revolution will generate enough electricity to charge 1,700 mobile phones, says a power company.

Fun fact: the under-construction East Anglia Three offshore wind farm is being fitted with the longest blades yet used in UK waters.

Each blade (manufactured in Hull) is longer than a football field. The rotor diameter is 236 m – it's hard to understand the scale of these machines!

Foreign companies are making billions off Australia’s gas. It’s time that changed Politicians and environmental groups are renewing calls for a 25% tax on Australia’s gas exports. An energy law expert explains how it would work.

Actually long past time:
Foreign companies are making billions off Australia’s gas. It’s time that changed
theconversation.com/foreign-comp...

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did on J6 🩸🩸🩸

THIS IS WHAT AN INSURRECTION LOOKS LIKE ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Flagjacking:

When Americans wear Canadian flags abroad because they refuse to own their country’s failings.

America is witnessing firsthand how Trump bankrupted so many of his own companies.

Free plug-in solar panels to be rolled out to some households The technology is designed to be a simpler and more affordable way of benefiting from renewable energy

"Low-income households will get [free] plug-in solar panels to cut their energy bills, the Government has announced."

This is how you do a just transition.
inews.co.uk/news/politic...

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

She represents us and the rage we feel.

It’s official - VICTORY in Virginia as voters approve new redistricting plan with a 10-1 Democratic advantage

This could mean up to FOUR more seats for Dems in House this November

Mike Johnson, consider yourself on notice - the American people are about to FIRE you

PV providing 589 watts, 345 baseload usage, battery charging at 244 watts.

By 8:15am today solar was generating 70% more than our baseload usage.

On a cloudy day, in England, in April!

Volvo electric semi scores another real-world win with Coca-Cola Pepsi may grab headlines with their Tesla tie-in, but arch rival Coca-Cola is quietly building an electric semi truck fleet of its own.

So China & Tesla don’t steal all the headlines, Volvo Trucks (Volvo Group) quietly put 5,000+ electric trucks into real-world deployment, logging 100+ million zero-emission miles over the past five years.

Not under Geely. Not hype. This is happening. EV trucks are scaling everywhere, all at once.

And the do nothing GOP Congress continues to enable their clearly mentally ill leader to the detriment of not only the US, but the world!

The world is embracing offshore wind — even as the US retreats Over 9 GW of new offshore wind projects came online last year. The sector is set to grow even more as nations in Europe and Asia seek out domestic clean…

American exceptionalism.

So the Liberal Party is preferencing One Nation in Farrer - and attacking them at the same time?

What?? #auspol