Does Australia's culture of remembrance need updating? - ABC listen As ANZAC Day approaches, the esteemed Australian military historian Peter Stanley asks whether Australia's remembrance of war reflects the complexion of our modern society.  In Stanley's view, we need...

I found David Marr’s conversation with historian Peter Stanley about how remembrance has changed in Australia overtime. From mourning by those who had lost loved ones in war, to some sort of weird patriotic celebration with a National War Memorial funded in part by arms companies.

'Just do it and stop the crap': Ken Henry's blunt response to question of gas tax – video The former Treasury secretary Ken Henry offered his support for the proposal of a new gas tax during a parliamentary inquiry in Canberra examining the prospect.

YaY #KenHenry 👇

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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”💥

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Housing affordability is a gender issue!

ETTE-SCLUSIVE: Data exposes The Australian’s campaign against Dr Randa Abdel- Fattah A sweeping data investigation reveals what appears to be a sustained, coordinated media offensive by News Corp's The Australian targeting Palestinian-Egyptian academic and author Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah...

What I find esp. despicable about The Australian's obsessive campaign to ruin Randa Abdel-Fattah's career that it also manufactured the 'public outrage' pretext for this attack

The Oz ran 24 letters to the editor about Abdel-Fattah, cf. 5 letters to The Age & 3 to The Advertiser in the same period

Australian Values: Gout Gout, Simpson and the Nation’s Soul Australia is not and has never been a defined racial group. There is no racial purity and those who argue such are not its defenders.

Gout Gout runs 19.67 seconds — fastest Aussie ever, world record. A corner of the internet immediately asks: is he really Aussie?

John Simpson Kirkpatrick — ship deserter, Wobbly, revolutionary — never once been asked that question.

The difference isn’t birthplace

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I’ve been trying to figure out why I’ve been obsessed with the Artemis II mission — more obsessed than I usually am with NASA stuff.

This explains it!

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Fake Christians fake it till they make it 🙄

This is a remarkable judgment - but also to be expected when the legislature is pushing the courts in remarkable ways.

The Court struck the legislation down because the purpose of the law was to stop protest, which is incompatible with Aus system of democracy

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We are once again asking you to make sure the Royal Commission hears from diverse Jewish voices!

Public hearings for the Royal Commission start on the 4th of May so it's not too late to have your voice heard. Read our guide and make a submission today: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/03/ensu...

Cowardly and racist: Paul Keating assails Angus Taylor’s migration policy The former prime minister has launched a scathing attack on Angus Taylor and the Coalition’s migration policy, saying it is racist and grounded in cowardice.

What every political leader should be saying about Angus' base racism that will doom his leadership and further poison the Liberal brand.

Amazing how she’s never provided empathy for the future opportunities for Indigenous criminal rehabilitation.
Did she identify what programs the deviate has undertaken? The statement of accountability and what he will do to provide penance?
Sweet fucken FUCK ALL I’m guessing.

The thing is... it's always been like this, even since the days of Oldfield and Etteridge. They've never been close to anything other than as a vehicle for grift, so there's never been pressure to professionalise...

The amount of pain and misery that the US is heaping upon the world is staggering.
Everyone knows that fuel fertilizer food shocks are coming. While millions go hungry & governments are destabilized.
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See NASA’s Artemis II mission around the moon in 12 stunning photos The Artemis II mission's 10-day odyssey around the moon and back was captured in stunning photographs at every moment. Here are 12 of our favorite images

Now on @sciam.bsky.social: See the Artemis II mission in 12 unforgettable photos. Can't say I disagree with any of these selections!

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Israel continues its #GazaGenocide - by quieter means.

Notable that this report in an Israeli newspaper is barely covered in most western mainstream media.

How microplastics hurt the hidden helpers that keep our coasts healthy

Tiny seafloor creatures play a vital role in coastal ecosystems. New research suggests microplastics may now be interfering with that balance.

Ignore ‘self-serving’ claims from gas giants and implement 100% tax on windfall profits, Ken Henry says Former Treasury secretary says the tax rate is ‘socially optimal’ in submission to a new parliamentary inquiry

Ignore ‘self-serving’ claims from gas giants and implement 100% tax on windfall profits, Ken Henry says. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

“…if the world had gotten on with the job of the green energy transition at the pace it had agreed at Paris, rather than slowed by the #fossilfuellobby, the situation might look quite different now.”
#auspol #renewables #Far-Right #MurdochsElevatedBullying

What do you call a person or an organization that ignores concerns around sexual assault in the workplace?

#auspol #USPOL #USA #us #uspoli #poli #politics #cdnpoli #canada #MeidasMighty #communityovercapitalizm #america #history #anticapitalism #anticapitalist #capitalismkills #killCapitalism #capitalism #abolishcapitalism #fuckcapitalism #SocialJustice #ethics #ClassConsciousness #FalseConsciousness

Glad to see the Australian government on board. Massive milestone today with Bowen acknowledging EV growth is already offsetting the oil crisis. Increasing reserves while demand falls makes no sense.

Now for a solar carport mandate!

Charge baby charge. ☀️⚡ #Bettrification #EVs

It is good that Norway taxes oil+gas. But it is extremely bad that we use that cash to help expand it, often in destructive ways and at great loss to ourselves.

New post on what Australia should learn and not learn from Norway's messy relationship with oil and gas

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In Conversation: An Australian Jewish Person’s Look at the Occupation — Australian Friends of Palestine Association In Conversation: An Australian Jewish Person’s Look at the Occupation

In #Adelaide tonight - In Conversation: An Australian Jewish Person’s Look at the Occupation

Wed 15 April, 7:00 pm. Gold coin donation.
Pilgrim Church, 12 Flinders Street, Adelaide #Palestine

Emperor penguin chicks at Cape Crozier. Credit: Mary-Anne Lea.

Out today: The emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal – two of the Southern Ocean’s most iconic species – are now officially listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List.

Read more: antarctic.org.au/emperor-peng...

Segments: The Mission: Douglas Smith on Armed Transit Officers in the NT and the Impact on Aboriginal Communities — Triple R 102.7FM, Melbourne Independent Radio Mirning and Kokatha man and Guardian Australia's Indigenous affairs reporter, Douglas Smith joins host of The Mission Daniel James to discuss the NT government’s decision to arm transit officers and i...

I also spoke to Guardian Australia’s Indigenous Affairs report Douglas Smith on the NT’s plan to put armed guards on busses with little or no consultation with Aboriginal communities. www.rrr.org.au/on-demand/se...

I made a little Instagram reel about this image because it’s just so frickin’ cool

NASA APOD: Hello World From pole to pole our fair planet is captured in this snapshot from space, an evocative image from a window of the Orion spacecraft Integrity. From the spacecraft's perspective the Sun is moving behin...

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NASA astronaut and Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch peers out of one of the Orion spacecraft's main cabin windows, looking back at Earth, as the crew travels towards the Moon. Image Credit: NASA

🚨: New photo of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch observing Earth.

Image Credit: NASA

U.S. panel votes to exempt Gulf of Mexico drilling from Endangered Species Act In its first meeting in three decades, the Endangered Species Committee voted to revoke protections for the endangered Rice’s whales and sea turtles.

It's going to be impossible to regain all we have lost. Heart breaking. Gifted wapo.st/47wflRz