Rex Patrick - Fuel Gouging (13/04/26) - Tim Webster for Breakfast Former Senator Rex Patrick returns to the program as we have been following the fuel crisis since January. In recent weeks it has pushed the ACCC to crack down on fuel price gouging.

This morning on 2SM I discussed fuel price gouging and the deceit engaged in by the Govt, telling everyone the ACCC was onto it. Price gouging is not illegal in Australia - there’s nothing the ACCC can do unless collusion is happening. #auspol

"Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead."

-- Kurt Vonnegut, who died #OTD 2007

Back to an old idea - #Albo needs an progressive independent challenger. I get more progressive ideas from Allegra in Wentworth than I do from the PM here in #Grayndler. An effective independent might help Albo rediscover his Labor roots.
#auspol

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This is a hideous, unacceptable fact. #FreePalestine

They Got away with Australia's own Watergate | The West Report YouTube video by The West Report

Thank you Michael West. 7, 9 ABC and Albo see nothing here. That's a crisis for democracy. Albo's gotta go. Grayndler needs an aggressive (committed) progressive.
#auspol #media

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Australia is vulnerable. That’s not in doubt. Can our leaders keep us secure? We’re about to find out Call it nonchalance, call it inertia, call it amnesia, but the complacency of governments Liberal and Labor has left us dangerously exposed to global crises.

The graphic should also include shots of Hartcher (author), Sheridan, Murdoch and the foreign policy intelligentsia - all blinded by Aukus and anti-Chinaism (the grants and professional comfort they bestow) They missed the biggest story.
#auspol #security

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Well Done Angus reckons the solution to being reliant on oil is to magically produce more oil.

Electricity produced by renewables seems beyond his understanding, or beyond the parameters of his corporate owners.

#AusPol

Labor Rejects Amendment on Charities Funding illegal Settlements | Michael West Media YouTube video by The West Report

Albo and co. just waved through tax deductions for charities driving dispossession and violence in the West Bank.

Grayndler stand up - Albo thinks we're idiots.

#auspol #grayndlerstandup #genocide

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Australia’s gas resources belong to Australians, not the gas companies. A minimum 25% gas export tax is only fair. It means Australians get a return on the extraction of our resources and we can fund public programs for the benefit of all. 📷 Credit: Mike Bowers #auspol #politas

6. China enriched, empowered, emboldened.
7. Australia's post-1788 security assumptions smashed (distant great power protector).

Australia’s Fuel Crisis: The problem nobody wanted to fix YouTube video by Swollen Pickles

Another small indie player doing hard work our MSM no longer does. Thanks and well done!
#auspol #media

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How the Middle East war plays into China's hands | Alan Kohler | ABC NEWS YouTube video by ABC News (Australia)

The strategic morons running the world's most powerful nation.
#maga #trump #energy #china

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Amy Remeikis bursts the John Howard myth in Tony Abbott's old territory. Delicious. Great book. Great speaker. Courageous truthteller.
#auspol #manlywritersfestival #manly #amyremeikis

The headline missed the key point "and no longer surprising given that lazy pathetic journalists (like me) spend no time on policy, informing, analysis and investigation".
#auspol

The winner of Bush's Iraq War? US enemies especially Iran. The winner of the Iran War? US enemies, especially Russia. Putin - forever in MAGA's heart.
#trump #maga #putin #war #trump

Dear @meganjherbert.bsky.social
Thank you! THIS is outstanding! 🎨
#war #oil #Israel #USA #Iran #IranWar

Yesterday morning as we looked over Sydney Harbour, discussing the 1942 attack on Sydney by Japanese midget subs, this small sub popped up. I don't think I've ever seen one openly roaming the harbour before? I hope it was one of ours 🙂 Don't think i've seen this before?
#sydney #auspol

You might find some ideas here too -
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Check out the Old Compass Cafe(more wine, coffee than cocktails), Snuffbox and IronBank. This Ranter cofounded Old Compass - ask for Ms Duong. Enjoy!

Love the black clouds behind the city skyline. Renzo Piano's building ageing well. Didn't even get drenched.
#sydney #architecture #clouds

Angus Taylor snaps at journalist as Liberals ramp up rhetoric against Australian children in Syrian camp Opposition leader suggests 23 children and 11 women attempting to leave al-Roj are ‘Isis sympathisers’

Australia shouldn't admit or tolerate people who wilfully distort facts, bullies who see opportunity in the pain of children, those who sow hate in our communities. I'm afraid you've gotta go Angus
#auspol #socialcohesion

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Reminder from Thomas Mayo of the Australian sore that won't heal.
#auspol #history

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The government’s student visa rort While the government reaps the non-refundable fees of students applying to study in Australia, soaring rejection rates are raising alarm in the tertiary sector.

ALP's solution to international student scamming? Scam them first. Scam them harder.... Sounds like a Dutton, Scomo, Abbott policy. Shameful and shockingly harmful to our reputation in our neighbourhood.
#auspol #scams #education

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22694/...

Yeah. Nothing to see here. Happens all the time right? 👍

Green party wins Gorton and Denton byelection, pushing Labour to third place in blow to Keir Starmer Hannah Spencer elected as party’s first MP in northern England, as Labour sees a 25.3% drop in vote compared to 2024

Albo may be a tiny improvement on Starmer but the need for a more credible and aggressive progressivism is desperate here too. Grayndler deserves better than Albo.

#Auspol #albo #alp

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Jack Dorsey's Block cuts thousands of roles as it embraces AI The Twitter co-founder says artificial intelligence "fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company."

Here we go.... I wonder when Australian politics will include a serious conversation about the next upheaval? I hear our leading futurists, Pauline, Barnaby, the IPA, Tony Abbott and John Howard are finalising strategies with Newscorp execs.

#auspol #ai #economy

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Is this the direction we're headed as a country?
Will Angus start up our very own ICE, and recruit thugs from the now-disbanded National Socialist Network?

I hear Thomas Sewell is champing at the bit for some action ... 👀
#auspol

This disgraceful man, former Deputy PM, Kings School boy, dripping in aristocratic privilege, is where Pauline gets most of her bigoted lines. His YouTube channel is a well-funded, widely watched, punch-down hate factory with direct lines to MAGA, Peter Thiel and Heritage Foundation.
#auspol #maga

Juvenile Justice. Caging children while corporate criminals go free - Michael West In Australia, children as young as ten can go to prison, while an executive responsible for multimillion-dollar bribery gets away with a fine

The most shameful of Australian stories?
#auspol #incarceration

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Hanson said the quiet bit out loud. Abbott, John Anderson Advance ARC and Sky have been spewing Islamophobia for years. Still waiting for someone to note that our mighty northern neighbour is the world's biggest Muslim nation. Gratuitous provocation is a threat to our security.
#auspol