Translation from Butler's NPC address: Yes you are going to be treated like crap,and no you have no choice and no you wont get your services because we want money for American subs.
#GoFuckYourselfLabor
#AllOfASuddenTheyAreBeingResponsible
#NDIS
#auspol

Will Labor announce a 25% Gas export tax in the upcoming budget?
Yes.
No.
Maybe.
I say maybe, and if they do, it will be piss weak, like 10% or less, and won't come in for 2 years.
That seems to be their form these days.
#auspol

No doubt many sectors and programs need to be re-structured for better efficiency and service for the end user - but cutting the NDIS under the backdrop of increasing defence spending by multiple of billions of dollars to placate the US - is shameful #npc #auspol

This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement. Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
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Australians are being played by Rinehart and Hanson, and the media is helping – Amy Remeikis Legacy media's refusal to scrutinise One Nation is going to hurt the country

#auspol

#Auspol Key Ex-Politicians in Defence/AUKUS roles:
Christopher Pyne: Former Defence Industry/Defence Minister; established Pyne and Partners, a consulting firm representing numerous defence companies.

I'm in the same boat. Not only angry, but feel entirely betrayed. The Australian parliament is just an employment agency for the Mining, Fossil Fuel and Defence industries.

This 👇🏽

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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🎶It's just another Taco Tuesday
Wish it was Sunday
Cause that's his golf day
His I don't have to run day
It's just another Taco Tuesday...🎶

Government to pay for showers for at-home aged care recipients The decision to scrap the plan to charge older Australians $50/hour for showers was made after months of sustained criticism, including warnings that people were forgoing other care to afford the serv...

So the government will take funds from one vulnerable cohort, those on the NDIS, to give to another vulnerable cohort, the elderly. We could tax gas exports, of course. Then there'd be money for both. #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

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

Pauline Hanson has a rant about Schrödinger's immigrant…

Because that answer doesn't stand up under scrutiny - so the question remains.
Who exactly are we defending ourselves from? - and spending billions in doing so - at the expense of essential services for all Australians #auspol

The same ones we've defended ourselves from since WWII, whoever the Yanks tell us. This time around they've nominated China. Oh, and of course those pesky Muslims thousands of kilometres away.

a kangaroo is looking at the camera with its eyes closed and a blue sky in the background . Alt: a kangaroo is looking at the camera with its eyes closed and a blue sky in the background .

"When bombing began in the Middle East"

Who started the bombing? Hmm???

*glares in Australian*

Wild attack on batteries and renewables by 7's Spotlight program falls over at the first fact check 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.

Wild attack on batteries and renewables by 7's Spotlight program falls over at the first fact check reneweconomy.com.au/wild-attack-...

I am sure this has been around the block a few times but certainly worth reposting here.

Seems pretty accurate to me.

I give short shrift to news about budget cuts when:
1) consumer prices are climbing, still
2) you're announcing mass expenditure on last century military assets that a small fleet of drones could destroy in mere minutes
3) you're still planning to buy the US' nuclear waste subs.

#auspol

EU: The European Union will require sale of mobile phones with “user-replaceable and longer-lasting batteries” starting in 2027.

The regulation demands “availability of spare parts and manuals for 10 years to curb planned obsolescence”.

That's the plan. He wants the case to collapse like it did for Lehrmann.

See Jim tinker. Tinker Jim tinker. #TinkeringJim. #Auspol.

Chalmers was another one I had high hopes for, but he's dissolving before our eyes just like his boss.
#auspol

He's dissolving right before our eyes!

"I wasn't particuarly close to my dad before he died."
"Which was lucky really, because he got hit by a bus."

How the Iran war exposed Australia's energy mistakes | If You're Listening YouTube video by ABC News In-depth

I am fairly certain we have never made an episode of If You’re Listening that has made more people more angry than this one youtu.be/lxwXKkHcgwM?...

I thought so too!

Friday: "extraordinary pretrial publicity" means a fair trial likely “not possible”, may never go ahead.

Monday: #BRS runs to #NewsCorpse, generating more "extraordinary pretrial publicity". 👇

Where's the gag order, DPP/AFP? You're not trying to screw this up like Bruce Lehrmann's trial, are you?