The Touska Gambit: Piracy, Power, and the Theatre of Broken Promises The USS Spruance blew a hole in the engine room of the Touska and Marines rappelled onto the deck. Trump crowed on Truth Social. Iran called it piracy and cancelled the peace talks. Urban Wronski o…

The Touska Gambit: Piracy, Power, and the Theatre of Broken Promises  urbanwronski.com/2026/04/21/t...

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

I used my new smartphone exactly like my old wall-mounted landline and honestly, I don't know what all the fuss is about.

#NotmyABC

Pile of puerile nonsense. Massively annoying.

Please don't forget to mention how nice it is to not to inhale filthy toxic fumes in a petrol station.

Chart showing 2014-15: Exports $16.9bn 2024-25: Exports $64.6bn 2014-15: PRRT $1.9bn 2024-25: PRRT $1.4bn

The gas industry has chosen to focus on exports, the PRRT was set up to tax oil in the Bass Strait. It ain't working

That's why we need a 25% tax on gas exports

Konrad Benjamin on fire in today’s gas tax inquiry, says those claiming “we can’t afford anything” are full of it, we have plenty of resources to benefit from
“This gas issue is the perfect eg of how it’s a lie”
“We’ve been sold out”🔥 #auspol @punterspolitics.bsky.social @australiainstitute.org.au

ICYMI — new HUNGARY 🇭🇺 PM Magyar says Netanyahu will be arrested if he goes to Hungary

Another reason oil and gas companies are pushing back hard to preserve their cosy tax free corner in Australia 👇

The world is moving to make them accountable for their role in the runaway climate crisis.

#climatecrisis
#EndofBigOil
#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

The gas ripoff. Japan collects more on our gas than we do - Michael West The Japanese Government makes more revenue taxing its imports of Australian gas than the Australian Government does from exporters.

So cowed by the foreign gas lobby .. the failure of successive govts is so epic that the Japanese tax *our* Australian gas more than we tax the foreign multinationals which export the stuff
#auspol #TAI @kimwingerei.bsky.social
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Hey Farrer

The Griffith Candidate Forum tonight is being live-streamed

You can tune in via the Griffith Business Chamber’s Facebook page

#Farrer #FarrerByElection #FarrerVotes2026

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Gas tax fight escalates ahead of budget as inquiry begins Calls are growing for a new 25 per cent tax on gas exports to increase the petroleum resource rent tax on windfall profits, but companies have warned any changes would jeopardise Australia's energy su...

As the govt weighs options to raise revenue, balance the budget & confront the global energy crisis, one solution is staring them in the face: replace the broken PRRT with a fair tax on gas exports. It's long overdue, and has widespread support… www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Japan makes billions off the free natural gas we give them. And you wonder why Aussies are pissed off… #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

#Farrer

One Nation candidate doesn't know who is funding his campaign.

Michelle Milthorpe knows her numbers: Climate 200 donated ~2% with the rest from the electorate and across Australia.

One Nation and Michelle Milthorpe are running neck and neck.

Chip in now to help Michelle win.

#Auspol

#Farrer By-election, 9 May 2026.

One Nation and Nationals preferencing each other

Michelle Milthorpe and One Nation are neck and neck.

Chip in now to help Michelle win.

Donate, support, vote Independent.

michellemilthorpe.com.au/donate

#Auspol

If the ABC must quote Trump "Truth Social" posts (which are akin to insane ravings from an asylum) can they just do it in quotation marks and spare us this grotesque gargoyle?

Sick to death of it.
#AusPol

Farrer Michelle needs your help to win in Farrer.

Farrer latest polling: Michelle Milthorpe and One Nation at 30%! Michelle's support is increasing, she’s on track to pull ahead of One Nation.

$20,000 will keep her ads up to election day.

Chip in now, get Michelle across the line on election night!
#Auspol

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Battery tech is racing ahead - try a search on the interweb.

Here's an update on solar panels for you www.energymatters.com.au/renewable-ne...

um, had my EV for 2.5 years. I live in an inner city apartment. Power up once a week at a public charger. Costs ~AU$14.

No stench, no noise, best tech.

ICE cars are very out of date.

'A clear step change': European EV sales jump by over 50 per cent in March Over 224,000 battery EVs registered last month, as businesses and consumers respond to soaring oil prices

EVs won the war.

In a nutshell. 😊

Unreliable allies.

The Strokes end their Coachella set with a few moments in the dirty history of US imperialism.

There's enough footage for a whole set...

#NoWar
#USimperialistdogs

This is a war based on lies

Got our solar panels installed this AM. They came at 8:30am and we're gone by 1:30pm. 13 panels and 10kwh battery.

We can't export to the grid yet (the network operator has been flooded with new requests) but we charged our car with the sun this afternoon. Great feeling, strongly recommend.

Hyundai EV Orders Send EV Demand to Record Highs - UP Incredible 355% YouTube video by The Electric Viking

youtu.be/uXVKBPiB3nI?... #News #Aus #EVs I can see all EV brands struggling to keep up with orders.

Tolling the Strait. Is Iran acting with reason in a Trumpian world? - Michael West To some, it may be heresy, but charging tolls for passage through the Strait of Hormuz looks reasonable in a Trumpian world.

"America’s equivalent of the Suez Crisis"

As ceasefire deadline looms, Trump's 'off-ramp' in Iran War may be Iran tolling the Strait of Hormuz. There's precedent.
#auspol
@michaelpascoe01.bsky.social
michaelwest.com.au/tolling-the-...

"Politicians ignore this issue at their own peril"

#TaxGasProfits, #auspol

#ClimateCriminals are ripping us off while destroying our future.

@australianlabor.bsky.social