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
Funny how the law and order guys never think it applies to them 🙄
He’s again blaming the courts, the protesters and those attacked by police all for his appalling and illegal attempts to ban dissent
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TV program looking at appalling mining practices in #Congo says it is a blight on the #renewables and storage industry. But it falls over at the first fact check.
No celebration was complete without a magnum of Sparkling Bodega
Abul Rizvi, former Deputy Secretary of the Department of Immigration, has calculated that Angus Taylor’s proposed social media visa check would require 15,000 extra processing staff. Fantastic. Great move. Well done Angus 😳
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Adam Moreton, electric cars and trucks, everything the gov should be doing but isn’t
End date for petrol/diesel sales
Stop ‘fuel tax rebate scheme’
Raise cost of new petrol cars
Speed electric truck uptake
⚡️ch Infrastructure
Tighten vehicle efficiency standards
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By "man", do you mean "Hale School Old Boy"?
Has anyone heard of a man charged with mass murder been granted bail before?
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It is an iron law of Australian politics that the last resort of a bankrupt policy is “get the money from people’s super” www.afr.com/policy/forei...
We’re minutes away from the first op-ed in the Oz to call the pope an antisemite
Bail for five charges of murder.
Can’t see how this could go wrong.
#AusPol
For workers still being deliberately underpaid, it’s vital to ensure these laws are actually working.
Great win for democracy & our rights to protest!
NSW Council for Civil Liberties reports that the courts have thrown out Minns Govt draconian new laws on restricting public protest.
Public space belongs to all of us, & always was, always should be the theatre of dissent.
#publicsydney
We said this law was unconstitutional, and it was unconstitutional. Not because we're clever, you could spot the invalidity from Jupiter. Politicians make these ridiculous laws knowing they'll be struck down, as a measure of their own cowardice and lack of seriousness.
There was no good way to organise this visit and nothing gained by sending him. A severe risk to national dignity, undertaken for no advantage whatsoever.
I don't, 730, give a cube root about what's in the diseased brains of the ultra rich.
Jesus Christ and his flea circus, 730, we do not need this utter shit about the Hancock family feud.
"There are Crocs everywhere here in Melbourne since Dan vaccinated them during lockdowns. They have machetes. People have had a gut full."
screencap of a tweet with a photo at the bottom of JD Vance giving a talk, gesturing smugly with his hands Eric Daugherty • @EricLDaugh • 1h • JD VANCE RESPONDS TO POPE LEO: "When the Pope says that God is never on the side of those who wield the sword - there is more than a THOUSAND year tradition of Just war Theory." "In the same way that it's important for the vice president of the United States to be careful when I talk about matters of public policy, I think it's very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology." "And I think that one of these issues here is that there has been - if you're going to opine on matters of theology, you've got to be careful, you've got to make sure it's anchored in the truth, and that's one of the things that I try to do, and it's certainly something I would expect from the clergy, whether they're Catholic or Protestant."
I’ve given this a great deal of thought, trying to come up with the perfect joke for this moment, and this is what I have so far -
POPE LEO: our religion teaches that this war is bad
VANCE: wow, who died and made YOU head of the Catholic Church??
POPE LEO: well, you should know, you were there
The Incitec Pivot urea plant at Gibson Island in Brisbane only finally closed in December last year, though I believe it ceased urea fertiliser production in 2022.
(Urea is also used in AdBlue – lots of it. Ammonia, the intermediate product, is also used to make mining explosives.)
Playing the longer game, yes
If they want to be taken seriously as a profession, they need seek to increase the demand side, get some synergy and network with the assassins and hit people collective
Chris Rust and a smol friend.
Speaking of war/crimes & countless other atrocities, I was sad to learn of the recent death of Chris Rust.
Chris was virtually synonymous with #FoodNotBombs in Melbourne/Naarm, a co-founder of the group & its mainstay for many years.
A quiet guy who loved music & serving food to the community.
The WWI war memorial in Cudgewa Victoria. The classic plinth with a rectangular bit for the list of names then a column with a ball on top. All surrounded by a low fence. On the edge of town.
Everything I read about the half billion dollar war memorial in Canberra makes me feel angry.
This was always enough war memorial for Australians.
#AusPol
as I've said on numerous occasions, Australian political cartoonist David Rowe exceeds many expectations with his interpretations of world events - to wit...
Mural in Hosier Lane, Melbourne, on the side of The Forum showing photos of females killed by males since January 2024. Absolutely disgusting that it has been torn down.
Fuck the Forum and fuck the Marriner Group. Today they tore down the "She Matters" mural in Hosier Lane, curated by @sherelemoody.bsky.social as part of the Red Heart movement highlighting Australian femicide. What a shameful thing to do 🤬 australianfemicidewatch.org/database/
I spoke to an Australian Vietnam Veteran today about how he felt about Ben Roberts-Smith being charged with war crimes. He said that he had faith that the inquiry will find out the truth. He also said that to believe BRS accounts, you need to ignore the fact that 21 soldiers blew the whistle.
