"It’s important to put these numbers in context. On average, property prices in Australia’s eight capital cities are still up by 47.7% from their lows in the early stages of the pandemic, by 144% from their lows during the global financial crisis of 2008-09, by 365% since the turn of the century,.."

Homes in Australia are now cheaper – why can’t the government sell this good news story? | Saul Eslake

Ministers love to claim credit for things like cheaper petrol and cheaper pharmaceuticals – why not cheaper housing?

theguardian.com

"About 50 million people are likely to be pushed into acute hunger before the end of next year by the rapidly developing El Niño weather system, according to forecasting."

El Niño could push 50m people into acute hunger before end of next year

UN forecasters warn of worsening conditions in 45 countries currently experiencing severe food insecurity

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"For consumers looking for a detergent that knocks their socks off, the Aldi Trimat Advanced Laundry Powder Concentrate was the best value, with a price tag of $10.49 for a 2kg box or 44c per wash."

"This is a man who has boasted that he will “literally eat anything” because he doesn’t “have a gag reflex”. A man who has had to publicly clarify that the skeleton he was gnawing in a viral photo belonged to a goat and not a barbecued dog. "

RFK Jr has a new cooking show. Are any Trump officials doing their actual jobs? | Arwa Mahdawi

Shouldn’t the health secretary have his hands full with the cyclosporiasis outbreak, measles or rabbit fever? Not when there are crispy salmon cakes to prepare, writes Arwa Mahdawi

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Nine.com.au 10h The protest, dubbed “Students Say No To Hanson”, has been organised by several university and high school student groups in Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide who are concerned about Hanson’s rise in popularity. Read more: nine.social/19nJ

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Another Qld Minister, paid by the public purse, being flippant, arrogant and evasive with certain parts of the media. Since when does Gina Rinehart show an interest in the "climate"? Getting rid of "net zero" perhaps

A "naughty boy"? Unfortunate "label" from the opposition considering their former leader? At least Andrews did not have lobster with a mobster👇

Daniel Andrews defends actions as opposition labels Labor ‘a gangster government’ after Ibac report released

Victorian corruption watchdog finds ‘serious and concerning’ conduct by senior Andrews government members in dealings with union boss

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"I drew two conclusions from his graphs of unemployment, inflation, government debt and home ownership. First, most of the big knocks to our economy come from overseas and so are beyond our control. The question is how well we responded to the hit."

Stop complaining. Australia’s in good economic shape (mostly)

Australia has existed as a federation for one-and-a-quarter centuries. And on the economic front, things are not as bad as they seem.

theage.com.au

"If the NSW Liberal Party has its own faceless men, one is surely Damien Tudehope, the MP questioned by the Independent Commission Against Corruption on Tuesday over his close associations with six people at the heart of its latest inquiry. His appearance did not go well."

Leaks, lies and Liberals: The closing minutes of Damien Tudehope’s ICAC evidence were a disaster

Opposition Leader Kellie Sloane surely won’t want one of the Liberal Party’s faceless men showing his face any time soon.

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Brilliant - see link for complete cartoon

"Can’t you leftists understand? Mass death is good for you. Reject the woke love of life! Welcome civilisational collapse! Watch it all burn, then dance in the ashes! "

Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot

As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Democracy’s lifeblood is information. But like any bloodstream, the more gunk that flows through it, the less healthy the system. For public debate to work, we all need reliable information grounded in facts and ethics, and the way we’ve done that for almost two centuries is through good journalism

Pauline Hanson has knocked another brick out of our creaky political system. It’s not good for anybody | Peter Greste

By deciding who gets to ask questions and who is barred, the One Nation leader is upending the democratic role that journalists are supposed to occupy

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"In the face of a clear and present danger to press freedom and Australian democracy, two of the most important newspapers in the country cannot find it in themselves to call One Nation’s behaviour what it is: tyrannical."

Media and political complacency is letting Pauline Hanson re-write the rules on accountability

The media have the power to make Hanson’s tyrannical attitudes and behaviour a central issue, and their failure to use this power has only emboldened her.

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bystander1.bsky.social@bystander1.bsky.social · 3d ago

"Hanson responded: “We’ve got Rebel News here, I am happy with them...Rebel News Australia is run by Avi Yemini, a former Israeli soldier and self-styled investigative journalist." She's happy with Avi Yemini 😱 major red flag IMHO.

"“People have had a gutful of these dinosaurs, these 70-year-old elites in the major political parties that are still pulling the strings,” Pickering told the Carly Unfiltered podcast in April 2025."

‘Won’t happen’: One Nation Victoria leader’s comments raise questions about Hanson’s mass deportations policy

Exclusive: Warren Pickering told 2025 podcast mass deportations ‘not a reality’ in Australia and suggested politicians over 55 should ‘handball it to the next generation’

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Just what is needed in Victoria 🙄 "Although the One Nation brand is closely associated with Hanson’s anti-immigration and xenophobic views, Pickering’s elevation underscores the influence of the anti-lockdown and anti-vaccination “freedom movement” on the party’s local arm."

Inside the world of the self-described conspiracy theorist anointed One Nation’s Victorian leader

Warren Pickering, the man anointed by Pauline Hanson to lead One Nation in Victoria, is a former brickie and combat engineer – and a self-described conspiracy theorist.

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bystander1.bsky.social@bystander1.bsky.social · 2d ago

Looks like the Nine media maybe the latest media company to be banned by Pauline - a very detailed account of her financial dealings, non disclosures, etc.

"The NHS’s contract with Palantir is controversial for a number of reasons – not least because the US spy-tech company is supporting Israel’s genocide. Another issue with the contract is that the technology Palantir provides may not actually produce any benefits"

NHS to reevaluate Palantir effectiveness following pushback

Voters want Palantir out of the NHS, and ministers may have a good excuse to make that happen in the next 12 months

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Liberal powerbroker shocks at Pauline Hanson’s party "Yet, there’s still one man whose blood runs so Liberal Party blue that even we were surprised to see him pop up at a One Nation fundraiser in Hawthorn East on Monday night. That would be Andrew Abercrombie who was not .."

" A major US trade body has rubbished the Albanese government’s plan to make more big tech platforms pay for Australian journalism, issuing a veiled warning about how Donald Trump may respond to the “deteriorating trend”."

Trump wants ‘fair treatment’ in fight over Labor’s levy on tech giants to pay for news, US trade group warns

National Foreign Trade Council ‘disappointed’ at move to expand News Bargaining Incentive but Australian experts say government is not going far enough

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"Trump criticised oil company profits weeks after warning energy retailers to cut their prices as he nears the November midterm elections with flagging approval ratings." 👆🙄🙄🙄👆

Trump accuses oil companies of ‘making too much money’ from his war on Iran

US president hits out at ExxonMobil and Chevron, saying they should ‘give some of that back to the public’

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"Former prime minister Kevin Rudd says One Nation leader Pauline Hanson would have no concept of how to govern Australia and is merely trading off the politics of division." He's got that right "no concept of how to govern"

'Zip': Hanson has no answers for challenges facing Australia, says Rudd

Former prime minister Kevin Rudd says One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has no real answers for the issues facing Australians but he does believe AUKUS submarines are a good thing for the nation.

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"The International Criminal Court (ICC) was established to act as a court of last resort, trying individuals charged with genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and aggression. Back in 1998, the United States was one of seven countries that voted against its foundation"

US vow to dismantle the International Criminal Court labelled 'very worrying'

The Trump administration has vowed to dismantle the International Criminal Court "brick by brick", but analysts warn it's a move that has more to do with local politics than genuine concerns about the...

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"Over the last week, a string of articles, mostly in the Telegraph, suggested that Britain should give up on net zero and learn to live with its newly Mediterranean climate; that wildfires had been exacerbated by environmental groups..

Tuesday briefing: Inside the right’s heated climate-denial debate

In today’s newsletter: A small chorus of right-leaning critics are trying to convince politicians that climate action is deeply unpopular, downplaying its seriousness in the process

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"Since mid-July, 10 of the 16 lions in Tama zoological park have suffered from “loss of appetite and decreased activity”, and three lionesses had died, the zoo said in a statement. One lioness died on Tuesday, another Friday, and the third on Sunday, it said."😢

Three lions die of suspected heatstroke at Tokyo zoo as Japan swelters

Most of the zoo’s 16 lions have struggled to cope with high humidity this summer

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Farage deflecting from his own "donations scandal" issues, pulls out an "idea" from Tony Abbott's bottom draw and produces a plan/brochure, OPERATION FORTRESS - STOP THE BOATS - YAY!!!

‘Biggest since WWII’: Farage claims Australian plan to stop the boats

The populist UK leader unveiled a plan, if elected, to halt asylum seekers crossing the English Channel in the biggest military operation in decades.

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"Decency means many things and this exchange is just one example. The lack of decency in right-wing politics is related to their lack of honesty. Their lack of empathy. Their complete and utter disregard for the public good."

It's Right to say a decency deficit is poisoning democracy

Political dysfunction is not a “both sides” problem; it is the result of a right-wing culture that has currently abandoned decency and democratic norms,

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"Aspiring autocrats operate differently in the 21st century; in previous eras, they had little hesitation about unleashing violence and committing massive human rights violations. Today, they try to fool both domestic and international.."

Are Trump’s most blatant authoritarian moves backfiring? | Jan-Werner Müller

The president’s methods, from ‘flooding the zone’ with scandals to prioritizing loyalty over competence, could ultimately weaken rather than strengthen him

theguardian.com

"None of this is to suggest that Gina Rinehart should be exempt from satire. Of course she shouldn’t. Rinehart has played a prominent and controversial role in Australian cultural and political life, most recently in funding Senator Pauline Hanson’s trip to Europe. "

Gina Rinehart and the politics of satire: What to make of the Race Around the World controversy? - ABC Religion & Ethics

An ABC documentary series recently featured a short video by artist Kate McGuinness, which concluded with a reverie about impaling mining magnate Gina Rinehart — does calling the video ‘satirical’ all...

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"The Australian property market appears to be on the cusp of a prolonged downturn, the first since 2017."

Billion-dollar property collapse highlights private credit danger

Examinations of the downfall of Jon Adgemis's property empire may well shed light on the extent to which private credit firms, essentially a shadow banking industry with little or no regulation, have ...

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"As outlined in the dossier, the pair was alleged to have approached a Sydney businessman and Liberal Party member, Frits Mare, and asked him for $50,000 to bankroll branch stacking in the Hills district." ... and remove sitting MP Alex Hawke ABC 4Corners 2022 investigation linked below

Looks like the Nine media maybe the latest media company to be banned by Pauline - a very detailed account of her financial dealings, non disclosures, etc.

Dinners at Rinehart’s mansion, Hanson loans, an offensive film: One Nation’s sources of cash

The mining billionaire is sometimes a late withdrawal from the $10,000-a-ticket dinners. But guests can still enjoy the sweeping river views with Pauline Hanson.

theage.com.au