Now that’s leadership @albomp.bsky.social not promoting them as you did.

#auspol #25%GasTax #DitchAUKUS

Israel has killed more than 700 people in Gaza since last year's US-brokered 'ceasefire'

Israel has killed more than 700 people in Gaza since last year's US-brokered 'ceasefire' https://aje.news/niqwe0

AUKUS. Who's who? Foreign interference?
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Single frame. Prayer session in the Oval Office. Trump’s team laying hands on Trump, as his pastor says, “O Lord, cast out those misguided religious leaders who would dare to meddle in our politics…”

Let us pray.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Tolling the Strait. Is Iran acting with reason in a Trumpian world? - Michael West To some, it may be heresy, but charging tolls for passage through the Strait of Hormuz looks reasonable in a Trumpian world.

"America’s equivalent of the Suez Crisis"

As ceasefire deadline looms, Trump's 'off-ramp' in Iran War may be Iran tolling the Strait of Hormuz. There's precedent.
#auspol
@michaelpascoe01.bsky.social
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Headline from the AFR "Time to end welfare for the wealthy, says big business"

You mean the superannuation tax breaks? No?
You mean the CGT discount? No?
You mean the fossil fuel subsidies? No?
You mean the free gas for multinationals? No?
You mean the failure of the PRRT? No?
You mean the tax dodging trusts? No?
You mean the lack of a wealth tax? No?

No you mean the NDIS FFS

Ghost driving a meat coated skeleton fear nothing quote

Just in case anyone needs the reminder

Overheated cows, flooded highways, and now a fuel crisis: why Australia’s food system is in big trouble Australia produces enough food for 75 million people. But intensifying heat and natural disasters and competition for water are eroding food security.

I'm reminded of Donald Horne's "The Lucky Country" observation. It's worse now. In the past, our govts were incompetent but now the duopoly is so corrupt.

How appalling that we don't have strong food security? Where everyone has the right to access safe & nutritious food & a sustainable food system

Happy 170th Anniversary to the Eight-Hour Day!

170 years ago today, on April 21, 1856, Melbourne stonemasons made history.

Fed up with grueling work hours, they downed tools at the University of Melbourne and marched to Parliament House. Their demand was simple but revolutionary.

So true.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

So much avoidable suffering.

@thewaroncars.bsky.social
Wow… this really cuts to the heart of a great deal of things

The RBA’s policy deliberately creates unemployment. So why do we treat the jobless so badly? The way we deal with rising inflation is highly problematic.

The RBA deliberately creates #unemployment to control inflation. Then our employment services system treats the jobless as if they caused their own predicament and don't want to work.

Unfair and unnecessarily cruel. My latest in @aunz.theconversation.com: theconversation.com/the-rbas-pol...

Yep. People need to stop voting for the duopoly.

When I did my MBA at Melbourne Uni in the late 80's, I was surprised at how disconnected macroeconomics was from reality.

More shocking - neoliberal is still dominant.

The RBA’s policy deliberately creates unemployment. So why do we treat the jobless so badly? The way we deal with rising inflation is highly problematic.

At the heart of the RBA’s framework is a concept only an economist could come up with: the Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment, or NAIRU.

The NAIRU is one of various theoretical bullshit models in neoliberal economics.

Post-consumer plastics recycling is a packaging industry con, hatched over 50 years ago. Brilliantly designed to exploit human emotional responses, it worked a treat. Still does.

The new head of the Australian military is taking his first international trip to the US as part of the $375 billion AUKUS scam.

While there, he will be the keynote speaker at a $ 5,000-a-head corporate event run by former Minister for Defence Industry Christopher Pyne.

The system is rigged.

Part 2: Why the nicest people at church vote for the cruelest policies. 📚 #psychology #sociology #religion #society #chat TikTok video by Erika Jordan

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The government is looking for cuts and thinks it has found its target For the first time in this survey, more Australians are dissatisfied with the direction of the country than satisfied. The conflict between the US/Israel and Iran has delivered more than geopolitical ...

Just another article totally ignoring the elephant in the room. Neoliberal ideology.

When the market is king, inequality follows & will worsen. Big business makes all the decisions.

It should be no surprise that the NDIS is not great value for money

That's a feature, not a bug of privatisation.

20 years of pickup truck design progress in one photo