"Why does the NDIS get such detailed media & govt scrutiny, when Defence - also large and growing just as rapidly - suffers far worse rorting and incompetence and gets rewarded with billions in extral funding?" asks @keanebernard.bsky.social of @crikey.com.au www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/23/l...
Any "extraordinarily brilliant person" would know his presidency is in free-fall after his disastrous decision to enter another endless war-of-choice in the Middle East & that on November 3rd accountability is coming for the most corrupt criminal Administration in U.S. History.
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Fin Review whitewashing more fascist bullshit
Her plan to 'knit the country back together' is banning peacful slogans, silencing anti-genocide sentiment, and overhauling our education system with *somehow* even more ahistorical genocide justification.
Tl;dr = Thought control and fascism
You're not alone in that. I can't stand the stuff 🤮
DEVELOPING: Trump's DOJ is targeting the Southern Poverty Law Center. The 55 year old civil rights organization has been charged with 11 counts of fraud.
Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
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The Senate’s Select Committee on the Taxation of Gas Resources will today hear from the members and friends of gas industry on why paying something to us for our gas will have a devastating effect on the cartel’s executive bonus scheme. I have my tissue box at the ready. #auspol
Australia and Norway both have highly profitable resource industries.
Norway taxes oil and gas at 78% and has used that revenue to build the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund.
The comparison highlights the massive opportunity Australia has missed.
Read more: https://theaus.in/4sHQcex
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Iran war prompts biggest energy crisis in history: IEA; Israeli convoy kills West Bank teen biking to school; UK universities paid to surveil student protestors
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Ukraine’s Permanent Representative to the UN,Andrii Melnyk:
No army since World War I has paid such an astronomical death toll for such negligible territorial gains as Russia
According to battlefield assessments,Russia is currently losing…254 soldiers for every square km of Ukrainian territory⤵️
The Brits appear ready to shame the US news media into covering this, distracted as they are by gazing at their own navels ...
#Ukraine’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Andrii Melnyk:
Thirty-five million Russians have no toilet at home.
On the one hand, Russia demands recognition as a "great superpower," claiming the right to redraw state borders by force and impose a new sphere of influence⤵️
#OtD 16 Apr 1970 a white foreman at a Chrysler plant in Detroit threatened to murder a Black worker. When the worker complained, he was sacked. 1000 workers, Black & white, went on strike in protest until management backed down. More in our pod: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e61-...
Israeli soldiers and settlers kill 11 Palestinians across Gaza/West Bank
Israeli soldiers and settlers kill 11 Palestinians across Gaza/West Bank https://aje.news/ngyuez
Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
“Lethal kinetic strike” is Trump regime code for cold-blooded murder.
“Three male narco-terrorists” is Trump regime code for
‘We have no idea who they were or what they were doing. But we murdered them anyway to make it look like we can get something right after fucking up the Middle East.’
Aerial view of large scale devastation inflicted on the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, with an Israeli tank parked in the center of the photo.
This is what Israel has done to Bint Jbeil, my hometown in southern Lebanon
Israeli soldiers are detonating entire villages in South Lebanon while taking selfies. Ancient mosques, churches, cemeteries, schools, hospitals - all being obliterated by the genocidal regime
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“No More Mr Nice Guy ”says the dangerous disgusting autocrat Trump. He is more a psychopathic gangster than a “ leader of the free world”.
Our politicians must stop appeasing this danger to humanity. Grow a backbone and call him and his regime out!
Wonder what the State Department’s genocide lawyer does these days.
New euphemism for "pure, unadulterated horseshit" just dropped
Pope Leo is everything that Trump wishes he were: fearless, highly respected, credible, intelligent, beloved. And popular.
This may be a good explanation for Trump's continual, puerile tirade against the Pope and why he is failing miserably.
You really think banning gambling ads is "extreme"? The amount of money wasted on gambling in Australia is at an all time high and young people are taking it up at an alarming rate. What more evidence do you need? This is not being "rational", it's political cowardice at its most blatant.
I think the "derangement" is with rusted on ALP voters who can't bear any criticism of a weak leader who puts himself and party before the common good. For example, he won't endorse a full ban on harmful gambling ads. Why? because it will upset his donors in the gambling lobby. It's just pathetic.
Sean Hannity, the Fred Flintstone of shameless propaganda, has declared he will no longer be a Catholic because he worships Donald Trump—and the money it brings in—more.
Sean had to declare publicly that he will no longer be following his faith—because how else would anyone be able to tell?
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Unlike you, I don't get "starry eyed" about politicians and btw you haven't answered my question. I volunteer at a community centre and talk to people facing poverty and homelessness all the time. Many have to decide whether to pay rent or buy food. This should not be happening under a Labor govt
