Sarah Ferguson asks if we should ‘give something back’ to gas giants in exchange for a tax.
David Pocock “why we bargain with them?”
“I don’t think we need to give anything back. We just want a return for our gas!” 🔥 #auspol
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
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”💥
Susan McDonald went on to ask Dr Denniss if he is trying to kill off the fossil fuel industry.
Denniss “No, I want to milk it!”💥
Dr Richard Denniss dismantles the gas industry’s favorite threat.
If taxes kill investment, why is the gas industry rushing to Norway to pay 78%? 🙄
“They are playing us for fools.” 🔥
Nationals’ Susan McDonald has no rebuttal & scrambles to change the subject. #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
PK asks Barnaby Joyce if hiring a convicted rapist proves One Nation has a “credibility problem” - who then insists he no longer works for them but then can’t say whether he’s still “on the payroll” 🙄
There’s your answer PK #auspol
Andrew Bragg gets brutally ‘fact-checked’ after claiming the Coalition wants to unwind the govt’s new environmental laws, bcoz they’ve “already failed.”
PK: “The laws haven’t even started”
“I’ll fact-check you at least on that.”💥🙄 #auspol
The honeymoon is over.
A party with no plan during a fuel crisis, with a blind devotion to the man driving it: Trump. And with a leader believing convicted rapists deserve a "second chance" in her office.
The One Nation bubble hasn't just leaked—it’s burst. #auspol
NSW Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon says he’s “reviewing” charges from the unwelcome Herzog visit after the court ruled his anti-protest laws unconstitutional.
Save the taxpayers' money and drop them now, Mal. The court has spoken. #auspol #nswpol
Jim Chalmers says there was “frustration” in the room after meeting US Treasury officials in DC saying he & his G20 counterparts are losing patience with the US as their war on Iran continues “dragging out” #auspol
Finally a political ad that provides facts not spin & that Australians can actually get behind. Thank you @davidpocock.bsky.social
#auspol #GasTax
Friday, Brisbane protesters sing & dance to John Farnham’s Two Strong Hearts - ‘River to the Sea’
Saturday, 20 arrested for saying the exact same words in a chant.
So if you wear a wig & dance you won’t be arrested. The inconsistency is utterly humiliating for David Crisafulli.
Travis starts at the Victorian Parliament tomorrow (Sunday) at 8:30am, arriving in Canberra on May 27.
Full details on the walk and the call for the PM to fulfill the commitment to the Uluru Statement:
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
Travis Lovett is walking from Melbourne to Canberra for one reason: Truth.
This is a call on the government to fulfil its promise to implement a National Truth-Telling process.
Let’s show our support for Travis and the National Walk for Truth.
#WalkForTruth #auspol
While Ben Roberts-Smith with 5 counts of war crime murder allegations, a man bankrolled by billionaires, gets bail to head home, another Aussie Dan Duggan remains in a high-security prison with zero charges.
Dan should be released & let home to his family.
#auspol #FreeDanDuggan
Politicians, media hacks & anyone claiming AFP "overstepped" got a reality check today. Court heard evidence BRS had “advanced plans” to scuttle overseas & made a “deliberate decision” to hide this from authorities.
Time to stop making excuses for the elite.
#auspol
Pauline Hanson explodes on Sky After Dark in an embarrassing defence of convicted Rapist Sean Black who she now frames as a victim of a ‘witch hunt” - even tho she sacked him.🤦♂️
Insists all rapists deserve a ‘second chance’ 😳
How can anyone vote for this trash? #auspol
The PM was standing in front of the flag all along. Is Canavan lying? Or just stupid?
Not sure what’s worse, Matt Canavan claiming he “wasn’t listening” to Qs on party donor Gina Rinehart flying his political opponents O/Nation to fundraisers - coz he’s busy “tweeting”
or that he’s tweeting about a non-existent flag controversy
Totally unfit to be leader. #auspol
According to Melissa McIntosh, domestic abuse is only "abhorrent" if the perpetrator is a migrant.
A weird way to admit you think some abusers deserve more rights than others.
Straight out of the Trump playbook, from the party with a history of undermining women, gutter hypocrisy.
Jim Chalmers calls out Angus Taylor for ‘plagiarising’ the racist rhetoric of other countries (USA) with his new & extreme migration plan, saying it’s got nothing to do with national interest, but coz
“he’s playing to the 3 RW parties in the context of a by-election in Farrer”💥
Abul Rizvi on ABC yesterday exposed a big flaw in LNP’s new migration plan.
If migrants disrespect the rule of law & say the law should not apply to alleged war crim Ben Roberts-Smith, like Pauline Hanson & Gina Rinehart, is that a breach of "values" just for migrants? 🤔
Jane Hume confirms the Liberals new
migration policy will include a ‘Safe Country list’ for nations like “Israel” - bcoz apparently ppl from the IDF have a higher standard than the Palestinians they like to murder? 🙄 #auspol
Vic Premier Jacinta Allan has unloaded on Angus Taylor and his new & “extreme” racist migration policy saying it’s “straight out of the Donald Trump playbook” & a sign he is “too weak to stand up to Pauline Hanson and One Nation”🔥 #auspol
Did you know?
Barnaby Joyce — who insists unremorseful convicted r*pist Sean Black deserves a “second chance” — was Black’s MC at his wedding in 2010.
Clive Palmer and James Ashby also attended the same wedding.
Despite that it is an alternative workplace for rapists.
During his trial in 2018, Sean Black unsuccessfully tried convince court his ex wife was making it all up.
Before she went to police, Black threatened her:
“if this ever goes to court, I will kill you”
When Hanson was asked to explain, she said “It’s my decision. End of story”
Pauline Hanson’s ‘Hiring a Rapist Scandal’ has boiled over as former ON candidates reveal they warned Hanson about Sean Black’s sex crimes, but were told to “stay in their lane”
In court, judge slammed Black for showing “no remorse” - Hanson knew this & kept him anyway.🚩 #auspol
