“In Australia, we subsidize the fossil fuel industry, and we charge our kids a fortune to go to uni.” - Australia Institute co-CEO Richard Denniss.
Add your name to the call and demand the gas industry pays its fair share: https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/increase_the_prrt
"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'.
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If journalists had any integrity and courage, they would boycott the White House Correspondents Dinner. It should be as empty as a TPUSA event.
There should be a law passed, and enforced, that we will no longer have for profit prisons of any kind! Ever again! Incentivized incarceration should be a crime against humanity and should be retroactively enforced! They know what they are doing is wrong!
Not a dime of taxpayer money should go to a nation that commits Genocide
content warning - precise and devastating account of the huge number of abusers who target children.
Things are finally changing. Let's keep pushing and push harder. And let's also not miss the fact that it took a horrific genocide and a disastrous war for so many of our neighbors to start dealing with reality.
...and busy making Lebanon into the next Gaza while people are distracted by fuel prices.
“If you made them pay for the value of the resources and you made them pay their fair share of taxes.
“You wouldn’t have the problems that you have today.”
- Joseph Stiglitz
✍️ Sign the petition to hold our government accountable and back a 25% gas export tax: https://theaus.in/3O9TdpL
Disney's new CEO, whose pay package is worth nearly $45M, just announced 1,000 layoffs.
Reminder that Disney paid an effective federal income tax rate of ZERO in 2025 and aims to buy back $7B of its own stock in 2026.
This is what corporate greed looks like.
BERNIE: “The time is long overdue for members of Congress to listen to the American people and end US military aid to the extremist Netanyahu government.”
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Street artist goes to town in Newtown, Sydney
Angus Taylor falling back to the tired dog whistle tactic of claiming migrants for the system Coalition governments put in place
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“Between being told we should get back to work while a coworker is getting CPR and being told not to help, I just can’t support a corporation like that.”—anonymous employee, regarding an employee falling out and dying at work.
#ProudBlue #AmazonDeath
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Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune and Pope Leo XIV issued a joint call urging the international community to act urgently to achieve justice for the Palestinian people and support their right to establish an independent state.
Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260414-alg...
In the end, the current American and Israeli wars boil down to thousands of people being g slaughtered just so 2 men don’t have to face accountability.
Amazon warehouse workers have been trying to unionize for years, largely in response to the corporation's well-documented unsafe working conditions.
But Amazon continues to squash organizing.
Every worker deserves to be safe on the job.
The Murdoch Press has singled out the Australia Institute in a direct attack to discredit The Australia Institute & its supporters – a familiar gas lobby tactic when it can’t dispute the facts.
🛑ℹ️ Facts like this: a 25% gas export tax could fund free university or free childcare nationwide.
Ignore ‘self-serving’ claims from gas giants and implement 100% tax on windfall profits, Ken Henry says
KPMG Australia’s two most senior executives have been warned by a powerful parliamentary committee that their handling of whistleblower allegations is now under formal scrutiny, Jason Koutsoukis reports. satpa.pe/sRNkpI2
Meanwhile, the typical American will pay a federal income tax rate of 14.5%
This is what a rigged system looks like.
[Via @itep.org]
Huge -- the High Court has struck down a big loophole for the major parties in Victoria's donation laws.
The "nominated entities" loophole let the major parties receive uncapped donations from their fundraising vehicles, while everyone else was strictly limited.
If corporations are legally persons why don’t they face the same kind of punishment when they commit crimes?
Gee I wonder how a Trumpesque policy by the Libs will go. If only we had a recent example of an election to test this against
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A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week.
For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead.
One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.
“A Coalition government would end Australia’s non-discriminatory immigration program and introduce Trump-style social media vetting for visa applicants.”
#auspol
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May Victor Orbán simply be the first in a string of countries engaging in overdue housecleaning by kicking their authoritarian leaders to the curb.
