A picture of a rather dilapidated copy of "The picture of Dorian Gray" There is visible water damage to the cover and the plastic cover is yellowing. Obviously, not evident from the picture but there is a truly foul musty smell emanating from it!

Last week, a gentleman returned this rather dilapidated copy of this famous book to us after 50 years. He had found it in his attic!
Presumably this means there is a pristine copy somewhere in our libraries....

Emails show Amazon colluding with other firms to raise prices, California authorities allege The previously redacted messages were unveiled as part of an antitrust battle with California attorney general Rob Bonta

Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online

Welcome to Blue sky. Government bodies should follow your example

Tell me again how One Nation is the party of “real Australian values.” If this is what you want to be associated with be my guest but I want nothing to do with a political party that at every turn represents the worst of us.

How to get a decent public return from Australia's gas resources — A 25% export tax? Or something else? Cameron Murray explain how a scaled variable royalty does the job of a super-profits tax while avoiding the accounting trickery in order to share risk and get a better public return from resources.

Aus owns its gas yet we see little for it even in a boom. Profit-based taxes are easy to game & a 25% levy as proposed by David Pocock is too blunt. We prefer scaled royalties: higher when prices surge, lower when they fall Cameron Murray writes: www.prosper.org.au/2026/04/how-... #auspol

Trump & Netanyahu are the most dangerous persons on the planet. US policy in the Middle East is not driven by oil. It is driven by Netanyahu. And allies in the Gulf are paying a very heavy price for allowing US bases on their soil.

22 charged for saying “From the river to the sea” in Queensland Australia YouTube video by Kangaroo Court of Australia

22 charged for saying “From the river to the sea” in Queensland Australia youtu.be/UCbfj88v_mg

25% you say, Angus? 😱

There's a 78% tax on gas profits in Norway, and they're doing just fine. But I guess their political leaders aren't captured by oligarchs ... 🙄
#auspol

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

The gas ripoff. Japan collects more on our gas than we do - Michael West The Japanese Government makes more revenue taxing its imports of Australian gas than the Australian Government does from exporters.

So cowed by the foreign gas lobby .. the failure of successive govts is so epic that the Japanese tax *our* Australian gas more than we tax the foreign multinationals which export the stuff
#auspol #TAI @kimwingerei.bsky.social
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"The price of gas paid by Japan will not increase when we impose this tax."

"The profits made by the people selling the gas will fall."

@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

New Australia Institute research shows that the Japanese Government makes more revenue taxing Australian gas than the Australian Government!

"They're taxing our gas. There's no reason we can't."
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

Kamala Harris Just Lit Trump the Fuck Up Three minutes on camera, no raised voice, full autopsy. Somebody finally said it.

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More than 4,000 artists and workers in the film industry—including actors Mark Ruffalo and Joaquin Phoenix—have signed the “Filmmakers for Palestine” pledge to boycott Israeli cultural institutions complicit in the system of apartheid.

This is One Nation’s ENTIRE health policy. Aside from 1 paragraph of whacky cooker crap & virtually no detail, there’s no commitment to Medicare or the PBS. Health is also 19th on their list of policy priorities

Share with family and friends who are thinking of voting for them

#auspol
#FarrerVotes

Where are the AUKUS nuclear waste costings (let alone the dump sites)? - Michael West Defence has to provide costings for before procurement is approved. Where are the AUKUS nuclear waste disposal costs?

At this rate, Australia will get to dump US & UK nuclear waste here under the AUKUS deal, get no submarines for $368B, and still not be told where they're dumping the waste or how much it will cost
@mrrexpatrick.bsky.social reports
#auspol
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Norway and Qatar show Australia doesn’t have to give the gas industry a free pass For decades, Australia has tolerated a rapidly growing gas industry that pays little tax and royalties, employs few people, pushes up gas and electricity prices for Australian families and businesses,...

"Norway and Qatar show Australia doesn’t have to give the gas industry a free pass" by @jack-thrower.bsky.social @thepointau.bsky.social
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You're hearing it more and more... it's time to tax gas exports!

More than 50 community organisations, including ACOSS and Oxfam, are calling for a 25% export tax.

Australians are fed up with the gas industry not paying its fair share.

✍ Sign the petition: https://theaus.in/41IwWTa

Values. Today’s Age and SMH cartoon

Very clever! I hope it got stuck right in the craw of the #Christofascist #CristaFOOLI! And a 10/10 to the Irish nurse from my town who had placards -
“From the liver to the brie,”
“Globalise the insalata,” as reported in The Guardian. While humanity still has humour and wit, there is hope.

A bunch of Queenslanders in Meeanjin of whom we can all feel mightily proud. 🙌🏻🫶🏻 #auspol #qldpol #FromTheRiverToTheSea #PalestineShallBeFree

#Auspol @albomp.bsky.social Australia needs an enquiry into pro Israel lobby groups. Are any of our Political Party's funded by Israel linked groups?

Yeah nah, get fucked!

(In case you were wondering.)

I watched Insiders on Background so you don’t have to as warmonger Kim Jong Beazley is asked about the $500 billion (that’s half a trillion) AUKUS deal & whether we’ll get the subs, to which Beazley deferred to …wait for it…prayer 🙏

That’s right…prayer 😳
Oh, and laughs

#auspol
#AUKUSwillFUKUS

Serious Danger Podcast about our broken political system & its greatest threat: the Aus Greens

I joined Tom Ballard to co-host the latest ep on his Serious Danger podcast. We talked about the war, the media coverage, and Angus Taylor's offensive new immigration policy + checked in on the charade of the safeguard mechanism.
Listen here:

‘Incomprehensible’: birds flee and hundreds of turtles left to die after government cuts water to NSW wetlands Frogs and sheep in the Gwydir wetlands near Moree have also been bogged after WaterNSW stopped environmental flows, researchers say

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An “incomprehensible” disaster is unfolding at wetlands in New South Wales after the state water agency abruptly stopped environmental flows in the state’s north-west, leading to the deaths of turtles, waterbirds, frogs and sheep.

Perhaps not fresh food?

It has now been 923 days since Israel began its 2023 genocide on the Palestinian people.