Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce billed taxpayers more than $3,000 to attend fundraising and donor events on board the luxury cruise ship The World, hosted by the mining billionaire Gina Rinehart. Reporting by Sarah Martin. Read the full story. 🔗👉 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The type of enterprise the tax system should reward is not the “make a startup, sell to private equity, then buy a yacht” type but the “build something that creates employment and shared prosperity long term” type. All this CGT whinging is just amorality being treated like it’s something good.
@dontattempt.bsky.social surely 'karen' in its current usage also qualifies as an answer to yesterday's Wordwit.
This is an extraordinarily cut-through comment in the wake of the BRS charges that appeared on my Facebook page and I urge every Australian to read it. #auspol
@dontattempt.bsky.social this afternoon's New Daily headline. When an author's works become too hard to digest.
"The government might be wishing Australia taxed its LNG exports as much as the royalties on iron ore, and better still, coal. "LNG prices are soaring, but we only get 2% of that on top of the company tax, compared with 7% for iron ore and 13% for coal." 👏👏👏 @alankohler.bsky.social #auspol
Australian government backing the new world disorder.
“And for him to turn around in the last week and have a crack at David Pocock and Grace Tame, you could not be further departed from the reality of Australians to do that.” – Hannah Ferguson Read more: https://theaus.in/4sr9RQ3
This is completely untrue. He said "if there was any misinterpretation, then I certainly apologise", which is not an apology. He then went on to dissemble about what he had meant when he called her "difficult", and he offered no apology at all to Grace.
The Saturday Paper@thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 5mo agoPrime Minister Anthony Albanese has apologised for calling former Australian of the Year and sexual abuse survivor Grace Tame “difficult”. satpa.pe/rJUZ8cw
Will there be calls for a Royal Commission into Islamophobia? Will Grant Hackett get involved? Will community leaders blast the Albanese government for not listening to the Islamophobia envoy? Will Pauline Hanson be castigated by Sky for causing this, as Mehreen Faruqi was castigated over Bondi?
Rachel Withers@rachelwithers.bsky.social · 7mo agoOn Saturday, an imam and his wife were allegedly victims of a violent hate crime — forced off the road by another car, with attackers then getting out to assault the imam/threaten his wife. ANIC put out a statement on Sunday arvo, noting rising islamophobia. The media is just getting to it now.
Scary stuff - and well done @theguardian.com for exposing such a sordid, sad, dangerous business.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 9mo agoInfluencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Trump’s visit to the UK began with a scandal. Unknown individuals projected onto the walls of Windsor Castle his image alongside convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and a mugshot photo. Today, Trump will be received by King Charles III, and tomorrow he will meet with Prime Minister Starmer.
How about you replace the word Netanyahu with 'known war criminal'; residents with 'innocent people'; airstrikes with 'constant bombing'; and enclave with 'defenseless children'. Such distancing, euphemistic, bleached language.
Reuters@reuters.com · 11mo agoIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned residents of Gaza City to leave, hours after Israel said it would ramp up airstrikes on the enclave. #Netanyahu #GazaCity #evacuation #airstrike #Israel
For more info ⤵️ australiainstitute.org.au/post/big-ute...
Big ute loophole cost taxpayers over $250 million in 2023
Tax breaks for huge, American-style utes cost Australians over $250 million in foregone revenue in 2023, according to a new report from the Australia Institute.
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External journalists aren’t allowed into Gaza and the entire @aljazeera.com team in Gaza has been murdered by Israel with the killing of Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher and Mohammed Noufal today Every day they try to hide the truth of the genocide they are committing
This what Israel has done to Gaza. Forbidden pics by a Washington Post photographer whose Jordanian air crew didn't pass on Israel's order to only photograph aid being dropped. City, suburbs, schools, people: bombed to rubble. People being starved in makeshift camps on road roundabouts. #Genocide
