How can the Australian government achieve a surplus? It's not by increasing the GST It all comes back to one thing: Actually taxing our gas exports #auspol #GST #taxgas #gas www.smh.com.au/business/the...

Nobody wants to pay more tax, except me

Our tax system is designed to favour the old over the young. The young pay income tax but, for the most part, the retired don’t.

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Andrew Wilkie has also called for more respect from right wing politicians, from Angie Bell demanding the PM and Anne Aly be ‘dragged out into the village and stoned’ to One Nation labelling Andrew Hastie a traitor - completely inappropriate. Agree. Enough is enough. #auspol

Grid scale batteries are getting bigger and of longer duration squeezing #gas out of the evening peak market. #gas is a sunset industry

@climatecouncil.org.au · 5d ago

One of the world’s most powerful batteries is now fully operational in NSW. 🔋⚡ Built on the site of the former Munmorah coal-fired power station, the Waratah Super Battery can deliver 850 MW of power and store 1,680 MWh of energy.

One of the world’s most powerful batteries is now fully operational in NSW. 🔋⚡ Built on the site of the former Munmorah coal-fired power station, the Waratah Super Battery can deliver 850 MW of power and store 1,680 MWh of energy.

Imagine being such a bitter, angry, vile & pathetic human being that you make fun of a woman who has shown so much courage & bravery? Pauline Hanson is truly reprehensible. She represents the worst in our society. All my love to @jacquilambie.bsky.social I truly think you’re amazing xxx

#auspol What kind of politician won't vote to end the depraved & dangerous policy of handcuffing women to metal bars while they are labouring, giving birth and trying to hold their baby? May your pointless cruelty corrode your mental health & haunt you always. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Indigenous woman shackled to hospital bed while in labour in Queensland

Birth happens days before Labor and Coalition block bill to ban ‘barbaric practice’ of shackling incarcerated women during childbirth

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"Fanciful pipe-dream:" Queensland dumps mandate for #electric buses Queensland, in the midst of a fossil fuel price crisis, swims against the price tidal wave. The "fanciful pipe-dream" is not electric mass transport, it is cheap reliable fossil fuel. #ev #fossilfuel thedriven.io/2026/09/01/f...

"Fanciful pipe-dream:" Queensland dumps mandate for electric buses, calls them "big, expensive paperweights"

Queensland LNP government has dumped the state's electric bus mandate, saying the plans were "half-baked" and would only create "expensive paperweights" to block streets.

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New formula for fire ant baits in Queensland. It's made with cinnamaldehyde which is the organic compound that gives cinnamon its flavour & odour. The organic farms & surrounding areas will have to be treated again. Fire ants will rebuild given a chance. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

Invasive fire ants return to organic farms not treated for 14 months

Treatment on export-certified organic farms was paused in August 2025 after genetically modified ingredients were discovered in the baits used to treat nests.

abc.net.au

US tariffs on Chinese solar panels: 260% US tariffs on Russian oil: 0%

I Feel Like I'm Taking Crazy Pills Meme

ALT: I Feel Like I'm Taking Crazy Pills Meme

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Just watch the acceleration of ev adoption except in the US where it seems they love expensive gas guzzlers. Donald Trump has singularly done more for global #EV adoption than any other politician.

Michael Pascoe@michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 6d ago

via Adam Tooze, the EV is happening everywhere except the US

ok so i think im ready to move back to the city now

It's often claimed that the Greens' vote is static, not increasing. Long-term, that is incorrect; it has been rising about as rapidly as the much discussed fall in major party support. So has the right-nutter party aggregate (One Nation+Palmer etc). (As you'd expect, given it all must sum to 100.)

Glen@gergyl.bsky.social · 6d ago

And with trend lines (drawn through the election results, not the polling):

An echidna day is always a good day!

Its not the resale price of EV's that consumers should be worried about. Its the fall in the second hand market for diesel and petrol cars. The energy transition is finally reaching the transport sector. www.smh.com.au/business/con...

EV boom zaps second-hand prices for petrol and diesel cars

As Australian drivers upgrade to EVs, they’re offloading their old fuel-reliant cars en masse – and prices are falling rapidly.

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It's not the second hand EV market consumers should be worried about its the value of their second hand diesel and petrol cars! www.smh.com.au/business/con...

EV boom zaps second-hand prices for petrol and diesel cars

As Australian drivers upgrade to EVs, they’re offloading their old fuel-reliant cars en masse – and prices are falling rapidly.

smh.com.au

The erasure.

Just as relevant today as when it was made As always very funny and too true #immigration youtu.be/wOI_skq5TuM?...

Clarke and Dawe - Immigration

YouTube video by ClarkeAndDawe

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@albomp.bsky.social’s Govt has started appealing citizens’ #FOI wins to the Federal Court, a course of action that could cost FOI applicants up to $300,000. Well done to Senator Lambie 💪 for introducing a Bill into the Senate that will neutralise this transparency-chilling tactic. #auspol

ACCR’s new analysis shows that Woodside’s Browse project is not needed to secure Western Australia’s domestic gas supply. Find our press release here: www.accr.org.au/news/wa-gas-...

WA gas 'shortfall' driven by exporters' export preference, not a shortage: new ACCR analysis

Committed and uncontracted gas produced through existing domestic infrastructure can meet WA's domestic gas demand under every AEMO scenario.

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Saddened ABC finance presenter Alan Kohler has retired. Overjoyed that talented Dave Chau will succeed him. It's like when a beloved Doctor regenerates but you're equally delighted with the new incarnation. #DoctorWho #finance #journalism

Looks like the @australianlabor.bsky.social Party's #gas reservation policy has been watered down so much it's almost meaningless. High domestic gas prices will continue, manufacturing will continue to decline and electricity prices will stay higher www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

Gas shortage culprit to slip through reservation 'loopholes', say critics

Industry players say draft gas reservation plans are full of carve-outs that will let a venture many blame for rising prices off the hook.

abc.net.au

Finkel has embarrassed himself with this intervention. The judgement itself is straight statutory interpretation. The High Court hasn’t imposed anything other than what the NSW planning laws require. He also clearly hasn’t read the judgement or familiarised himself with the case history.

The LNP has no plan on climate change. Just a chainsaw. No plan.

Alan Finkel, our former chief scientist, trots out the "drug dealers defence" in attacking the High Court's seismic Mt Pleasant decision. He appears to be blissfully ignorant of the startling fact that globally we are missing the Paris targets set by his profession www.afr.com/policy/energ...

I was chief scientist. High Court’s scope 3 ruling is nonsense

The emissions from legally operating electricity generation and industrial plants are a problem for sovereign governments to solve.

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Add ON to that list. Still trying to make sense of ON Colleen Harkins side-step response into lala land when asked if she accepts the human impact on global warming Something about it being irrelevant cos minerals are dug up, shipped out, bought back, Australia not causing it 🤷🏽‍♀️

Tony Boyd winds up the criticism of the failed Firmus data centre float on the #ASX Super Funds "have proven once again with the Firmus IPO failure that they are not dummies susceptible to the latest overhyped spiel from capital-hungry chancers selling half-baked ideas" www.afr.com/policy/tax-a...

Firmus mess carries lessons for One Nation and Coalition

In rejecting the prospectus, superannuation fund managers skewered the short-sighted criticisms of compulsory savings from the right of politics.

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meanwhile the nation's richest woman gina rinehart donates millions to a nazi/zionist party to enrich herself further while tearing this country apart

Albanese weighs his post-political career opportunities at fossil fuel corps against 13-year-old Melelusi Sokotia's lament that she and her friends dream of “becoming teachers, doctors, builders” but spend their lives "wondering if their island would survive into their adult lives"

polqat@polq.at · 2w ago

Caption this: #auspol

Margaret Mead told us that we should “Never doubt a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it’s the only thing that ever has.”