gardenmuser
@gardenmuser1.bsky.social
Concerned citizen and planet lover. Formerly health and education. Now painting, planting and pondering: how to bequeath a fairer, kinder world to my grandkids. Transferring from Twitter.
#auspol #homes #homeless #humandignity #propertymarket #speculation
gardenmuser@gardenmuser1.bsky.social · yesterday"Solving the housing crisis will require more than change to the tax laws. It will require us to buy into a different narrative...in which houses (are) homes, not positional goods or investment vehicles." #auspol thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/economy...
"Solving the housing crisis will require more than change to the tax laws. It will require us to buy into a different narrative...in which houses (are) homes, not positional goods or investment vehicles." #auspol thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/economy...
Are Labor’s housing reforms working?
In a welcome sign for first-home buyers, Labor’s tax reforms are already helping to drive prices lower, but the government won’t be touting its success.
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So true. Many sanctimonious people make a virtue of being uninformed. #auspol open.substack.com/pub/caitlinj...
"I'm Not Political" Just Means "I Support The Status Quo"
Reading by Tim Foley:
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"A dangerous gamble with our national security." Time to abandon ship. #auspol #AUKUS pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/08...
AUKUS Infrastructure, part 6: It is not too late to change course
In the final part of a six-part series on AUKUS infrastructure, Peter Briggs argues that Pillar 1 cannot deliver on schedule or budget, and that Australia should pause its HEU pathway and assess prove...
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“…Adani will pay no company tax despite generating almost $1bn in revenue from coal mining in Queensland over the past year www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Adani to pay no company tax despite $1bn revenue from Queensland coalmine
Indian conglomerate offsets earnings from Carmichael mine to report $340.6m loss, after promising billions in taxes and royalties
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Ditto in NSW. I'm from Newcastle, "safe Labor seat" for far too long. Hunter Valley, Newcastle Port exploited for decades as the State's money pit but little of the windfall returned this way. Minns panders to Zionist lobby. Their reckoning is coming. #auspol pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/08...
Strangers in their own land: Victorian Labor forgot the suburbs that made it
Victorian Labor’s crisis is not just about leadership, but a decade of governing as though its western and north-western heartland would remain loyal while investment flowed elsewhere. Changing the le...
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Compulsory reading. We are just more collateral damage to the US, their next Hiroshima. Wake up, Australia! #auspol pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/07...
The myth of a joint Pine Gap
While Washington sets the priorities and commands decision-making, Australian operational staff at the base are outnumbered by Australian 'guards and gardeners'.
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The Labor Party is getting too comfortable. Keeping all the "Labor issues' raised by the rank and file hidden behind a few 'yes Ministers'.
gardenmuser@gardenmuser1.bsky.social · 2w agoNo amount of window dressing at the Labor National Conference will dissuade an electorate who have lost respect. Shame on you, ALP. #auspol pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/07...
Wondering how many Ukraine-type drones Australia could buy for $400Bn?
Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · 2w agoA global threat for millennia: experts warn Australia’s nuclear submarine legacy will be weapons-usable uranium cache
This spineless Labor government doesn't have the gumption to stand up to the US for our national interest. On so many fronts they have lost our respect - on AUKUS, on Israel/Gaza tragedy, on NACC, on gambling reform, on gas tax. #auspol The case against AUKUS thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/defe...
The case against AUKUS
As this week’s ALP National Conference will confirm, the Albanese government remains strongly wedded to the AUKUS nuclear-propelled submarine project. But the project was misconceived from the outset ...
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@kossamaras.bsky.social explaining clearly why One Nation is surging and how Labor can wrest back disillusioned GenX and Millenial voters. But is Labor listening? We need change at the helm. #auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2026...
Hanson's half-empty hall and how gen X broke Australian politics
For most of their voting lives, gen X were the ballast of Australian politics. Now they're driving a fundamental and lasting change.
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No amount of window dressing at the Labor National Conference will dissuade an electorate who have lost respect. Shame on you, ALP. #auspol pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/07...
Genocide, the word Albanese and Wong will never utter
By refusing to name genocide in Gaza, the Labor government avoids the legal and moral obligations that would follow – but not the shame of complicity.
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The fight to end the US military occupation of Australia (and the entire world) theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
The fight to end the US military occupation of Australia (and the entire world) - The Shot
For 64 years – an insignificant speck of time under a sky this large – from a stolen, sacred site...
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"The party of Hawke and Keating has turned into the party of Richard Marles.....Albanese and his cabinet are managers, not leaders, and not good managers either." Hope those newly elected Labor politicians have a good hard look at what they're now party to. #auspol www.crikey.com.au/2026/07/23/l...
In government but not in power: Something has gone badly wrong for Labor
While it is electorally dominant, there's a cloud over Labor as the faithful gather in Adelaide for its annual conference. The party of Hawke and Keating has turned into the party of Richard Marles.
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Why Spain’s World Cup win felt like a victory for Gaza
Gaza has rearranged the world's moral geography. Once-distant countries feel close because they have spoken when others are silent. At the World Cup final, that moral geography was evident in the foot...
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America HATES democracy. USA companies want to profit even when that means others suffer. So, after Whitlam introduced free education and universal healthcare and questioned the US base in Australia, the USA overthrew Australia’s democratically-elected govt. November 1975. Never forget.
gardenmuser@gardenmuser1.bsky.social · 2w agoThanks @ronnisalt.bsky.social for giving it some back. Albo was bludgeoned into it and it's doing way more harm than good for social cohesion. If people weren't antisemitic beforehand, this farce is enough to turn them. #auspol theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
The Israel lobby gets the royal treatment - The Shot
We cross this week to the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion and other assorted grievances, but before we...
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Norway has used its resources industry to provide free university and build a $3 trillion sovereign wealth fund. Our politicians, of either stripe, line their own pockets and sell out the rest of us. #auspol Can Anthony Albanese be trusted to negotiate on AI? thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/poli...
Can Anthony Albanese be trusted to negotiate on AI?
To understand Australia’s approach to artificial intelligence, you have to understand the colonial mindset that enfeebles Australian politicians.
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"She has the wealth and fragility of a mad king. She has her staff quietly correct her image, as if all the mirrors in the palace could be taken down." No amount of media massaging will work, Gina. #auspol thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/edit...
The Rinehart emails
The Saturday Paper is a quality weekly newspaper, dedicated to narrative long-form journalism.
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Antony Green is retiring – sign his retirement card! getup.to/KNA31YH5CQqnSG
Thank you Antony Green!
Antony Green is retiring from the ABC – sign his thank you card!
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Hear, hear: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
ABC and SBS coverage of the Middle East isn’t perfect – but the proposed solutions are ill-conceived and dangerous
After 40 years at the public broadcasters I know they must be accountable to all of the public and for editorial decisions they make, not ones imposed on them
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I think the change you speak of may be too late, the rot is there! This @australianlabor.bsky.social govt. is going to get handed it arse next election & it will be all at the feet of its “blanc mange” PM. They may not actually lose govt. but it will be a drubbing none the less. #auspol
Self interest, not the national interest, is what drives the current Labor leadership. We need a new team at the top or they're in for a terrible drubbing. #auspol pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/07...
Getting the Labor Government back in line with Labor history
Labor's great foreign policy leaders put Australian sovereignty first. The ALP National Conference is a chance to revive that tradition and confront AUKUS.
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Thanks @kossamaras.bsky.social for your enlightening analysis in P & I this morning. I'll spell your name correctly from here on!🤞
