Shell Oil suggested they were putting $1m into the Aus Energy Producers advert campaign because its adverts need to meet "Advertising Standards" "unlike those from The Australia Institute"
So @jack-thrower.bsky.social & I decided to fact check their advert
live.thepoint.com.au
The Mandelson affair was survivable. Keir Starmer’s explanation for it may not be. It is a parable of his premiership and its wider problems- that the explanation is always process, not politics.
Piece from me on the limits of process politics
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
Did you know that 83% of Australia’s gas is used for exports?
Australia Institute research shows Australia exported enough gas in five years to supply the country for over 20 years.
✍ Sign the petition to support a 25% gas export tax: https://theaus.in/4tWQy1H
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
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
Make it make sense.
Populism isn’t being driven by rising inequality.
It’s being driven by stagnant wages and falling living standards, Michael Keating writes.
#auspol #Economy #Inequality #Wages #Politics
Headline from the AFR "Time to end welfare for the wealthy, says big business"
You mean the superannuation tax breaks? No?
You mean the CGT discount? No?
You mean the fossil fuel subsidies? No?
You mean the free gas for multinationals? No?
You mean the failure of the PRRT? No?
You mean the tax dodging trusts? No?
You mean the lack of a wealth tax? No?
No you mean the NDIS FFS
So you and I and everyone else are in effect now refunding American corporations for import tariffs, although we paid for most of them in the form of higher prices — which they won’t now lower because they have monopoly power to keep prices high.
The Art of the Deal.
Screenshot of a tweet: God Save Great Britain & @GSGB01 WOW: The NHS has ordered staff not to use the phrase 'It's raining cats & dogs' in fear of upsetting people from other cultures and religion. Britain has gone absolutely
Screenshot of a tweet: @Jenny_1884 The NHS has ordered staff not to use the term "It's raining cats & dogs" as it may offend foreigners. Tough If you don't like it jog on is what I think The NHS needs to get back to concentrating on making people better & not being more concerned about offending
For the love of God, could the "common sense" brigade PLEASE develop some actual COMMON SENSE?!
No, the NHS has not ordered staff not to use the term "it's raining cats and dogs" for fear of either upsetting or offending anyone...
Please engage your brains for a minute🙏
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What should have happened: the REIT paid no tax but the Tice companies holding shares in the REIT paid £98k tax on the dividends they received. What actually happened: none of the companies paid any tax.
Our new report: Richard Tice signed accounts wrongly claiming £98,000 of tax exemptions
A 🧵 with the evidence:
It's the opposite of his intention, but the Idiot Emperor is forcing the world off fossil fuels. This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Kos Samaras on Taylor. Angus literally thinks that dead people get a vote. open.substack.com/pub/redbridgeintel/p/cha... #auspol
Thank you to Brodie Lancaster for the nice feature in The Guardian today. Photos by the brilliant Charlie Kinross. 2 SHOWS TO GO! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/environment/.... #News #NSW #Environment
We have Fact Checked a claim by BP.
And it is my sad duty to inform you that BP is correct.
A 25% gas export tax *will* raise more tax.
Bit of a shock! @thepointau.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/factchecks/2...
I did a quick post on yesterday unemployment figures with a few graphs. One showing the unemployment rate by age and gender.
See if you can guess which group has the lowest unemployment rate...
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04... Great news,Minns gets his arse kicked. His anti protest laws have been deemed unconstitutional. Ian
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
-FDR, 1937
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
My latest piece for the Guardian.
"Reform or Plaid? Whoever is leading the Welsh Gov the country will be utterly transformed"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My column on the IMF’s latest outlook and how they continue to avoid blaming Trump.
www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
Characteristically good piece on Starmer and Brexit.
There is of course a third way – between Johnson's Brexit and a full Rejoin – in which the UK could at least be consulted on and contribute comments to upcoming EU legislation...
www.efta.int/eea-relation...
Kanye West UK ban
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
Angus Taylor falling back to the tired dog whistle tactic of claiming migrants for the system Coalition governments put in place
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
Forecast of gas consumption out to 2025. Domestic consumption is forecast to halve, all the while a shit tonne of LNG keeps getting exported.
The gas industry wants you to believe that we're about to run out of gas. Here's the forecast from last month out to 2045
substack.com/home/post/p-...
The deputy leader of Reform UK, Richard Tice, owns a property company - Quidnet REIT.
From 2020 to 2022 it paid Tice and his trust £600k in dividends. Quidnet should have paid £120k of tax on those dividends. It didn't.
A 🧵 with evidence from the company's own filings:
