I wonder if the fact that they get donations from the gas industry might be related?

The Point Live: Gas, politics and the coming budget. All the day's events, live Welcome to a special edition of The Point Live, as we cover off the first day of the Senate’s Select Committee on the Taxation of Gas Resources, as well as take a look at what is shaping up in the bud...

The govt right now is in full “what can we do to look like we’re doing something” mode.

They remain more worried about gas companies than they are voters.

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Japan raises more tax revenue from Australian gas exports than Australia does.

Japan has a tax on gas and coal imports that raises more money than Aus PRRT.

Great new research out today @australiainstitute.org.au @richarddenniss.bsky.social

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The Point Live: Gas, politics and the coming budget. All the day's events, live Welcome to a special edition of The Point Live, as we cover off the first day of the Senate’s Select Committee on the Taxation of Gas Resources, as well as take a look at what is shaping up in the bud...

Susan McDonald had a bit of a cry for the gas companies saying that they really do pay a lot of tax. I decided to have a bit of a fact check on that
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The Point Live: Gas, politics and the coming budget. All the day's events, live Welcome to a special edition of The Point Live, as we cover off the first day of the Senate’s Select Committee on the Taxation of Gas Resources, as well as take a look at what is shaping up in the bud...

I'm not saying the PointLive today is an absolute delightful trashing of Susan McDonald's lobbying on behalf of the gas industry, but I'm not not saying that

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My favourite line so far from the Gas Tax committee is Susan McDonald "I probably know more than 20,000 people who work directly and fairly closely directly with the gas industry."

C'mon Susan, the Santos corporate box for the Wallabies vs Argentina Rugby Test Match wasn't that big

Tesla saved $400 million on its federal taxes by shifting billions of its U.S. profits to countries with lower tax rates.

Yes: While you paid your taxes in full, giant corporations maneuvered to pay as little as possible — and it’s all perfectly legal for them.

The system is rigged.

Monday vibe. Always nice to come out to a charged vehicle. Can you imagine having a gas pump at home that only costs 30 cents per gallon? ⛽️⚡️🔌

#monday #ev #electriccar #commute

The Infowars news is funny, yes. But more importantly, it is an outright rebuke of Alex Jones' evil.

It's testament to the strength and resilience of the Sandy Hook families who survived this bullshit for more than a decade as well as the Onion, which didn't give up on this for the last 18 months.

Tim Cook donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration.

He fawned over Trump and gifted him a 24-karat gold plaque (as Apple lobbied for tariff exemptions).

Apple donated to Trump’s White House ballroom.

And it removed ICE tracking apps from its stores following a demand from the DOJ.

Remember this.

5 mins later I'm up here ( previous photo taken on the beach in the background).

EV sales surged everywhere apart from the US, rising more than 20% globally in 2025

* EVs were half of Chinese sales and electric truck sales in China tripled
* EV sales outside CN/Eu/US grew 80% (!)

10/10

Global energy-related CO2 emissions reached a new record high, but growth nearly ground to a halt (+0.5%)

CO2 fell in China, India and the EU, while rising in the US

7/10

THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026

* CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt
* Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2
* Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse
* Age of Electricity "confirmed"
* "Extraordinary" solar growth
* Batteries up 40%
* EVs up 20%
1/10

Laura’s 7yo places books in a little free library. A pile of books remain inside the Bunch bike parked nearby

Day 19 of #30DaysOfBiking

I helped the kids clean out their bookshelves this weekend & today we rode around, dropping off about 75 books they don’t read anymore into Little Free Libraries across the neighborhood.

🚲 ❤️ 📖

as historical parallels go you can do a lot worse than comparison of Trump to Napoleon (the first one), minus the genius or the winning of course

Hey, USA,
It'd be great if we could have a president again who *didn't* threaten (or commit) war crimes every few days, don't ya think?
Me

Oh, what happened?

The burning refinery in Tuapse, Russia, in the morning. You can really call it a volcano.

It kills me how actually decent and incredibly talented people who contribute so much to society and their communities struggle to find work, while the worst people to ever breathe who demonstrate incompetence several times daily, remain gainfully employed. some at the highest levels of government

I reckon the normal speed of permafrost thawing is very dangerous already...

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

Ossoff: "How does American politics really work? It's coin operated. Money goes in, favors come out. It's been running on secret money, corporate money, billionaire money ... all of this gave rise to a depraved president who exploits this rot to empower and enrich himself"

2 days ago.

If (admittedly big if) Mythos really can rapidly develop novel exploits with very little human skill required to use it, then you have a tool that any organisation *must* deploy. Because if it doesn't then it will be vulnerable to anyone else pointing Mythos at it systems. 8/9

It's a long time ago now, but I used to work in information security. I was a so-called 'ethical hacker'. Let me tell you how it worked and what this latest news about Anthropic's 'super hacker' means (IMHO) 1/9

Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed.

We must get rid of Palantir altogether.

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The Decline of Britain's FAILED Hitler YouTube video by JimmyTheGiant

One of the more insane facts about palantir is Louis Mosley the grandson of wannabe British hitler Oswald Mosley, is the head of palantir's UK branch. youtu.be/IOekgrWfJxE?...

BERNIE SANDERS: Americans do not want us to continue spending billions of taxpayer dollars in support of the illegal, horrific war policies of Netanyahu

NEWSMAX: Your reaction?

REP. JOHN ROSE: As I listen to Sanders's comments, they border on being antisemitic

The Pope reckoning