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Shell CEO “rejected criticism of Shell’s PRRT record … [asserting] … it was REASONABLE to recover … capital invested BEFORE paying a super-profit tax.”
Who else gets a #freepass til they get their “investment” back?

It gets worse. Pocock continues to smash Wake on Shell’s “tricky accounting”, who provides how much Shell invests, but refuses to provide revenue.
“You can’t even tell me that part of the equation, which I find very odd. You can tell me all your expenses, but not your revenue”💥

David Pocock beside himself as Shell’s Cecile Wake insists she doesn’t know Shell’s revenue, or how much gas they export, while she fronts an inquiry on Gas Exports.
Sarah Hanson-Young: “What did you think we were going to be asking you about today?” 🔥🙄 #auspol

First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels Colombia and the Netherlands will host the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels. The Conference is designed as a space for countries, subnational governments and other stakeholders...

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50 countries planning the transition away from fossil fuels…

Australia’s oldest panic is now its most expensive one The migrant cycle has run every generation since Bonegilla. In an era of Chinese trade coercion, the country can no longer afford to keep running it.

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“Every cycle we spend re-litigating whether a particular migrant cohort belongs is a cycle we don’t spend on productivity, housing supply, industrial capability or a serious regional strategy.” … on why the dog whistling on migration is madness… think #Spain

I Fucking Love Australia (@ifloz) Watch this video of Mark Carney. Watch it closely. This is the Prime Minister of Canada openly taking the piss out of Donald Trump. California wine? Nobody's buying it. Bourbon? Forget it. And the cr...

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#Canada feet on the ground. Not crossing the border.

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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“Trump …[bragged] he’d “never start a war,” [but] got rolled by a guy selling him a Middle Eastern aluminium siding deal … [Netanyahu] sips a coffee in Jerusalem and the Strait of Hormuz turns into a car park.”

Charts showing Shell's Queensland operations earned $32.292bn 2014-15 to 2022-23 and paid $0 company tax

Shell Oil now up. Telling us they are "nation building"

Tinkering with the capital gains tax discount isn’t enough. Here’s why it needs to go We don’t inflation-proof any other parts of the tax system, so why should we give special treatment to capital gains?

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$12billion….

Queensland - what you are missing…

Queensland…. #fromtheLiverTotheBrie

#Walk4Truth transition from #Wurundjeri to #Taungurung domains. The walk continues. #Truthtelling is a job for all of us. #Colonialismintended to crush First Nations. In spite of doing its worst it failed. #Invincible …

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

Author @gilduran.com was just banned from “free speech absolutist” twitter for criticizing the Palantir CEO’s manifesto— so here’s his upcoming book: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

We mostly charge at home but get 600 km from our BYD seal. When we do stop to charge during a trip we walk around, visit parks, go to the toilet, eat, read, take photos, shop, talk to each other. Most enjoyable…. And we have now done 50000 kms. Photos from some places.

From the liver to the brie - love it Qlders #FTRTTS

🔥SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “Ivanka’s husband Jared Kushner’s on the Saudi payroll for $2 BILLION— as he leads 🇺🇸 diplomacy + asks sheikhs for billions more… Never have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption. The Mar-a-Lago mafia taking corruption to spectacular new heights.”

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

Enjoy.

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

Yes. From a Queenslander …

This is mad.

#Walk4Truth - the #national one - started this morning from #Narrm

April 15, 2026 On the evening of April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln and First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln went to Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C., to see a production of the comedy Our American Cousin. The Linc...

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Then and now..

Cali Dems Need to Get Their Sh*t Together At this point, Gov. Tom Steyer might be the least bad outcome.

"What Magyar did is he explained to them that the reason your hospitals and your schools are crumbling is because these guys are stealing from you. I think that was hugely impactful."

Of course, this describes not just Hungary.

Australian federal court issues warning to lawyers over ‘unacceptable’ use of AI New guidance to legal profession ‘embraces’ use of technology but flags penalties for lawyers who ‘mislead the court’ with AI-generated errors

I've basically stopped pitching stories on when people are caught using AI in Australian courts now but a site that is tracking them says there are at least 73.

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Pauline Hanson’s One Nation banks millions in public funding. Where does all the money go? Exclusive: Former candidates accuse party of enriching itself at their expense, while insiders lift veil on chaos in Brisbane HQ – and staffers’ contempt for rank-and-file members

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Electorate funding - it comes and it goes ….