On immigration, we’ve heard this before – and we were wrong then too Warnings about immigration echo almost word for word the fears once directed at post-war arrivals – fears history has already discredited.

Australia’s immigration debate is echoing the same fears heard in the 1940s.
History shows how wrong those claims were then – and why they matter now, Desmond Manderson writes.
#auspol #Immigration #Australia #Politics

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?

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Chuckle, cry, chuckle!

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ABC News shows images of car up on the kerb and crashed into a fence at the Melbourne Showgrounds.

The voice over “a car that allegedly jumped a kerb and crashed into a fence”

It is not alleged, you just showed that it happened. The evidence is in front of your face. Journalism is dead.

Sunday service

I'm tired if this "Iran is the bad guy" narrative, @australia.theguardian.com.

The Strait of Hormuz is closed BECAUSE ISRAEL AND THE USA STARTED AN UNPROVOKED, ILLEGAL WAR AGAINST IRAN. #SolidarityWithIran #ViveLaResistance

A bunch of Queenslanders in Meeanjin of whom we can all feel mightily proud. 🙌🏻🫶🏻 #auspol #qldpol #FromTheRiverToTheSea #PalestineShallBeFree

Iran is a country run by religious fanatics.

Meanwhile: Trump’s spiritual advisor. 👇

Because Australia gives so much of our gas away for free, Japan gets it so cheap that it makes a profit selling it on to other countries!

Add your name to the call to impose royalties on all gas exported from Australia ✍️ nb.australiainstitute.org.au/collect_gas_royalties

This is excellent. Farnsy flashmob in Brisbane in response to new Queensland hate speech laws which outlaw the phrase ‘From the river to the sea’.

When I hear an Australian politician announce a tough new immigration policy, I think dystopia | Yumna Kassab Sorting migrants into good and bad is a lot easier than affording people human rights, dignity and freedom

When I hear an Australian politician announce a tough new immigration policy, I think dystopia | Yumna Kassab www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Dear Media:

Blindly quoting the President without fact-checking or context is just misinformation with a press pass.

We don’t need stenographers; we need journalists. Do your job.

Richard Marles' deeply delusional, unserious defence speech points to bleak times for taxpayers Richard Marles' speech on our new defence strategy was completely delusional about what the US has done to the world — and promises billions in wasted, borrowed money.

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“Indonesian fisher people”??!! “Delusional” is right….

Ham-fisted embrace of 'Australian values' exposes a hollowness Angus Taylor’s latest attempt to grasp any sort of relevance has laid bare the raw politics at the heart of Australia’s conservative movement

Good list here for #Anus to trot out at a presser for the sheep in #MSM #Auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

Chris Minns is a constitutional vandal. He must apologise for NSW protest laws or resign NSW Premier Chris Minns' protest laws have been ruled unconstitutional. He shouldn't just be 'disappointed', he should hang his head in shame.

"These politicians demonstrated that it is they who are incompatible with the system of representative and responsible government entrenched by the constitution. They should admit it, apologise, and do better, or join their stupid law in the bin."

Angus Taylor and the Liberal Party’s moral decline Paul Keating says Angus Taylor’s embrace of “values” politics marks a return to racism, abandoning the Liberal Party’s traditions in favour of base political appeal.

The Liberal Party is again turning to racism as a political strategy.
In chasing One Nation, it is abandoning the principles that once defined it, Paul Keating writes.
#auspol #Politics #Immigration #LiberalParty

Keep it up, Mehdi!!
He’s one of the best educated debaters…👏👏👏

Dan Duggan is being extradited to the US for conduct that wasn’t an offence here. That should trouble every Australian, regardless of what they think of the underlying allegations. It's a scary sign of the price of our compliance with the USA.

😢 But what a gem 💎 ✨️

Taylor has only ‘vibes and fumes’, no answers on migration The world is on fire and still the Liberal Party has next to nothing. A policy without numbers, data, statistics, but “observations” on how the Coalition, under Angus Taylor, can continue to stoke a c...

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The Coalition
-changed migration law to allow students to apply for permanent residency from within Australia
-expanded the system to allow temporary visa-holders to stay past their studies
- brought in the post-study work visa to boost migration levels

Angus Taylor,
My mother is rapidly approaching the end of her life, in aged care. This awful time is being made easier by the tender, thoughtful care by people from Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Australia. How dare you talk about ‘Australian Values’ & reboot One Nation/Trump bs about migrants.

That is gorgeous- great photo!

So, have I got this right? The Liberals are deliberately creating doubt about fuel supply to hurt Labor, when the truth is the fuel supply crisis has been caused by the Liberals’ MAGA mate Trump? Shame on the Liberals and Nationals for trying to make the crisis worse to score political points.

More work for company behind BOM website fiasco - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia A Campbelltown mayoral candidate's social media campaign is being targeted by racist comments but the current mayor has criticised the victim

www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in... 🙄😱

Thanks for sharing… 🎯

Never mind the fossil "sideshow," renewables have won: Electrification is the new policy battlefront A coalition of energy and consumer groups is urging federal government to seize the global geopolitical moment and fast-track the switch to efficient electric technologies across the economy.

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We don’t have the oil, but we do have plenty of FREE wind and sunshine. No one can stop us accessing them. Or charge us for them.

Reminder: An oil spill is an environmental disaster.

A solar spill is called a nice day.

Running on empty: Australia’s hard truths on security Energy security is national security. And for all the posturing from conservatives about “seeing Mad Max levels around the country right now” (whatever that means, the LNP’s Phil Thompson), they did t...

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“Buried within the text is a key detail: support for One Nation has, in fact, “slipped slightly.” Not surged. Not climbed. Slipped.”

Please read Rick Morton’s @squigglyrick.bsky.social article in Crikey and subscribe to his newsletter Nervous Laughter . Rick has been at the RC every day during the public hearings and has written the award winning book Mean Streak . His latest about NACC Deputy Kylie Kilgours report is must read.