Australia Institute research showed in 2023 that 69% of the inflation above the RBA's target after COVID was due to excess corporate profits. But the Reserve Bank continues to ignore profits driving inflation. #auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social
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When will sanity, logic and reality be applied by the ALP to the warped fiction of AUKUS. We hand over $Bs to the US and UK military/industrial complex, sacrifice our sovereignty and get treated as mugs. The optimal pathway becomes more flawed and unrealistic by the day!
There is zero reason for the Govt not to ban pervert glasses except for cases where they have been prescribed for medical reasons (ie assistance for those with vision impairment).
Pervert glasses should be only available in hi viz yellow so that we can easily see who’s wearing them.
"The message is simple: The Pacific wants PM Albanese to lead on climate; the youth demand it. Get on with it, or your legacy is dust." junkee.com/articles/you...
Australian Youth Climate Coalition on COP31 Climate Summit
Australian Youth Climate Coalition on COP31 Climate Summit
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There's surprisingly little out there about new Victorian Labor leader Ben Carroll. He has either done a lot of work in private or done not much work. Most of the recent bios are based on his inaugural speech to Parliament, years ago.
Labor’s discipline is an asset, but it becomes a weakness when managed unanimity replaces genuine caucus debate. MPs need to ask hard questions before governments make bad decisions, Kim Carr writes. #auspol #Labor #Democracy
“Vic Greens MP Tim Read will retire from politics at this year's election after being diagnosed with metastatic cancer—he has vowed to use his last year in parliament to fight against the state govt’s decision to close VicHealth..We save more than $10 for every dollar we spend on health promotion..”
MP battling cancer says condemned health agency could have saved him
Victorian Greens MP Tim Read reveals he will retire from politics at this year's election after he was diagnosed with metastatic cancer — but not before one last political fight.
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Amy Remeikis - “One Nation is polling in the 20s in Victoria months out from an election, without even a state political leader. It doesn’t need one.”
Time for Albanese to enter the fight against populism
There's a hunger for radical change in Australia, eventually Anthony Albanese is going to have to enter the fight.
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We need Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers to stand up to the multinationals and secure a fair return on resources that belong to all Australians. We're losing as much as $50 million a day in tax revenue. The best time to fix our broken gas tax laws was decades ago. The next best time is right now.
While Woodside makes an extra $6 billion in 3 months off the back of the war in the Middle East, our government continues to subsidise the fossil fuel and mining industries with the diesel fuel rebate, while refusing to tax our finite oil and gas resources properly.
A new report out today points to the importance of being proactive and strategic in dealing with how AI will change our workplaces. There's already anxiety in communities like Kooyong about graduate underemployment, career progression, and how AI's productivity gains will be distributed.
Where AI could reshape Australia politics
A new report released today from the University of Sydney Business School has created Australia’s first AI Exposure Index for all 150 federal electorates, revealing where AI-driven changes to work cou...
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We need an alternative to the sovereignty destroying, secretive, wasteful ,warmongering AUKUS fiasco. Labor must focus on cost of living, climate change, housing, health and education. Threatening Rex Patrick with costs in order to hide plans for a nuclear waste dump stinks!
One Nation owes 3 years worth of audited financial statements to Queensland's Office of Fair Trading. There has been no explanation so far from the party as to why it has been non-compliant with state legislation. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
One Nation asked to submit three years of missing financial statements
The Office of Fair Trading confirmed that One Nation Queensland Division Inc had until midway through next month to file audited accounts for the financial years from 2023 to 2025.
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Well, that’s a surprise. Said no one ever.
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · last wk.Pauline Hanson reveals Gina Rinehart paid for Italy flights and Dolce & Gabbana show
I’m still struggling to work out why someone should *not* suffer “reputational damage” if they’ve committed a major criminal offence. That seems like it *should* be one of the consequences. 🤯
Pouring millions into another oil refinery doesn't solve Australia's energy security. The Greens will keep fighting for a rapid transition to clean energy that cuts bills, strengthens Australia's energy security and stops taxpayers footing the bill for fossil fuel profits.
Yes Albo, the party has changed. Not for the better. No point being cohesive and united if the soul of the party is sold to militarism, US hegemony, and a craven fear of challenging genocide and Trump. Intimidating the membership into silence demonstrates weakness not strength!
Across Sydney, across the country, people are fighting off mega data centres eating their neighbourhoods and stealing their power, water, data and jobs. The Greens are with you in this fight, on council and in parliament.
Labor saddles the country with highly enriched nuclear waste makes Australia a nuclear target, cuddles up to Trump, puts militarism before hospitals, abandons our sovereignty, builds public housing for US marines and welcomes US nuclear armed subs and bombers. It is sickening!
David Speers asserts some Labor members are “anti American”. Surely he understands the difference between being anti American and opposing US warmongering, hegemony, imperialism and committing war crimes. #Insiders
Public money needs public accountability and that’s what is fundamentally missing from Defence under Labor. Letting it continue on this way further erodes public trust in government and that causes damage well beyond the defence portfolio.