Labor under internal pressure on gas tax as influencer says government ‘stopped working for the punters’ Party’s environment action network tells parliamentary inquiry into gas export tax to consider ‘very substantial’ levy on windfall profits * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Albanese government is facing internal pressure to raise taxes on gas companies as a prominent social media influencer warns Labor not to underestimate the scale of public outrage about the existing regime. Labor’s environment action network (LEAN) used evidence to a parliamentary inquiry into the tax settings for the gas sector to encourage the government to consider a “very substantial tax” on windfall profits. Continue reading...

Labor under internal pressure on gas tax as influencer says government ‘stopped working for the punters’

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?

Tinkering with the capital gains tax discount isn’t enough. Here’s why it needs to go
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The Sound Of Music 🎥🎬🍿

25% you say, Angus? 😱

There's a 78% tax on gas profits in Norway, and they're doing just fine. But I guess their political leaders aren't captured by oligarchs ... 🙄
#auspol

If you can't lead or manage your own party - you don't deserve to lead or manage anything.

Campaign committee collapses following in fighting, Hitler allegations and ongoing rapist scandal.

'We've been sold out': Punters Politics fronts inquiry into gas export tax YouTube video by Guardian Australia

Gas export tax … the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth … at last!!! 👏👏👏
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on the assumption, of course, that there will be MidTerms. 😐

I did try to watch that ‘don’t mention the genocide’ program on the night but could only stomach 20 mins or so! I find that over the last 7 yrs I watch very little abc … and then only on iview if a program has been well received … rare as hens teeth these days! Thank goodness for independent media👏

Have they kept doing that rebooted version of Q&A with David Speers? Or did they just do that one episode on how Israel should be not critcised for genocide and leave it at that?

FMD! ABC 7:30 has an item tonight (on the ABC News website now) about driving EVs. The reporter has NEVER driven one before, doesn't know how to charge, is scared of the technology, so guess what, his experience was less than perfect. A disgraceful hatchet job on EVs by the tabloid ABC. #auspol

This illustrates the need for broad and comprehensive reforms with money in politics. We need an international “No Dictators Day” before he steps up his attack on the nation he was supposed to govern, not humiliate. 😱🤬

This man is our nation’s enemy. He must be impeached. The world is watching.. 🤺🇺🇸

Where does the $5000 per ticket go? To LNP coffers?

Alarm bells are ringing loud and clear but nobody hears them! Wake up Australians! #auspol
#aukus #DefenceIndustryLobbyGroups🤬

The new head of the Australian military is taking his first international trip to the US as part of the $375 billion AUKUS scam.

While there, he will be the keynote speaker at a $ 5,000-a-head corporate event run by former Minister for Defence Industry Christopher Pyne.

The system is rigged.

On the right is someone NFL doctors say is 6’3, 230 lbs with 5% body fat

On the left is someone White House doctors say is 6’3, 224 lbs with 4.8% body fat

If the White House is THAT dishonest about something so clear, why should we believe anything they say about anything?

Plan B: insulating ourselves from the US P&I today begins a major new series - rethinking Australia's foreign policy. The United States is becoming more erratic and less reliable, and Australia must respond by insulating itself – strengthening regional ties, rethinking defence settings, and reducing strategic dependence, according to John Menadue. 

The United States is becoming more unpredictable – and more dangerous.
Australia must insulate itself by strengthening regional ties and reducing dependence on US power, John Menadue writes.
#auspol #ForeignPolicy #Australia #US #Geopolitics

“Israel was here”

5 scenes from South Lebanon

Schools, bridges, homes - Israel doing what it knows best: destroying communities

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I wish I enjoyed Dave Matthews Band music as much as their politics. But one outta two ain’t bad

truth from marj , staggering

Antisemitism or anti-Zionism? Sydney Uni pressure to silence Israel, apartheid critics - Michael West University of Sydney’s appointment of pro-Israel academic Michael Abrahams-Sprod as antisemitism adviser threatens freedom of speech

".. coordinated efforts to silence critics of Israel across Australia’s university campuses"

Wendy Bacon on money trail, conflicts, censorship, Segal links behind Sydney Uni antisemitism envoy appointment
#auspol
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‘Independent’ group Energy for Australians that ran anti-Labor ads received more than $1m from coal lobby Coal Australia denies its donations to the ‘community-driven association’ amount to astroturfing, but critics accuse the group of misleading the public

There should be dire consequences for organisations, and individuals within those organisations, who further threaten the lives, health and well-being of our grandchildren! 🤬🤬🤬
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Facts, according to Pete 😳😳😳😡

How the Greens could win 25 per cent of the vote The Greens need to get out of their own bubble and do some very serious soul searching if they are ever to have broad appeal, argues a co-founder of the Queensland and Australian Greens, Drew Hutton.

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If you think someone quoting a made up Bible verse understands what he’s doing in the Persian Gulf, think again, says former Navy Commander and MeidasTouch Host Bobby Jones.

Ben Pennings Facebook - screenshot as described

Thanks to this elderly Jewish man for his courage, and for Ben Pennings climbing a tree to get the footage. This is how many cops Queensland sent to arrest a Jewish man for wearing a “river to the sea” tshirt. No police state for 🇮🇱
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Environment: Class and race fuel climate collapse in Northern Territory From devastating floods in the Northern Territory to the global failure to curb fossil fuels and the human cost of shipbreaking, environmental damage is accelerating – and hitting the most vulnerable hardest.

Climate damage is already here – and inequality is shaping who bears the cost.
From NT floods to fossil fuel growth and toxic shipbreaking, the impacts are immediate and uneven, Peter Sainsbury writes.
#auspol #Climate #Environment #Energy

Walking for truth: Travis Lovett’s 500km journey to remind Albanese of his promise to create a First Nations truth-telling commission Former Yoorrook justice commissioner says he wants to start a national discussion on a subject that is often misunderstood by the wider public

“Truth is not about blame, it’s about healing” ❤️💛🖤
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Israel tried to assassinate British journalist Steve Sweeney while he was reporting from Southern Lebanon.

As you can see there is complete flattening behind him so he was the target.

When any politician says they’ll be “tough on” anything you can be sure they’re selling a scare campaign and trying to create a “them” for “us” to despise.

Ignorant people love a “tough on” statement. It outsources the bullying they lack the courage to deliver themselves.

Food banks are not part of a safety net. they are proof we do not have a safety net.