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Interested in Australian political posts, detest Regressives. Politicised by Vietnam War, Pentagon Papers, Watergate, Kerr’s Coup. After war, LNP’s Robodebt worst. Didn’t mellow with age. Let out on special occasions. Forever topping up the optimism moat.
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Stop the closure of Aboriginal community-controlled YiSSA Housing
The Northern Territory already has the highest rates of homelessness in the country, at almost 12 times the national average. The Territory and Federal Government cannot continue to allow this widenin...
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Peter Hartcher asks All-Tip-No-Iceberg Peter Costello should the ALP Govt eliminate the deficit by raising taxes? Costello: (Taxation) “Revenue is maxxed out. It has to be ..cut spending.” “To reach the OECD average tax rate, we need to tax an extra 100 BILLION pr yr! -Richard Dennis, Oz Institute
Are you a grown adult with an embarrassing problem? Do you get irrationally angry & need to yell at a political party that holds only 12% of the vote but the key to a liveable planet? Luckily there's now a number you can call! The Greens Political Party Helpline is here to tolerate you… #auspol
Experts agree that studies show partial bans on gambling advertising don’t work. Polls show massive public support for banning gambling - well above 70%. Suicides, financial stress, mental health, destroyed families/individuals. What stops the ALP? Vested monied interests with media megaphones.
Andrew Wilkie MP@andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe Govt's gambling "reforms" arrived today. They're useless. The PM should personally explain why protecting gambling companies, media companies and the major sporting codes is more important to his Govt than protecting the interests, and lives, of Australians. #auspol #politas
As Alan Kohler said: Howard & Costello, via their intro of negative gearing and 50% discount of the CGT, made houses an investment asset, not a home. “Howard’s Battlers” were young first home buyers, battling against a tax system supported investors. Our MSM dutifully avoided their gaze.
PlsUseYourBrain@useyourbrain.bsky.social · 5mo ago"In 1999, John Howard and Peter Costello ... handed the investor class a 50 per cent discount on capital gains tax. ... an open invite to turn the housing market into a national blood sport based on the conviction that if you had a lot of money, you deserved more money." @birmo.bsky.social #AusPol
“Alcoa yesterday (18/2/26) agreed to pay $55 million for clearing parts of a native forest in WA to mine bauxite without approval between 2019 and 2025.” - ABC online. It’s JARRAH forest, unique to Oz, harbouring many endangered/rare animals. Minster Watt approved - keep going while we assess! Pffft
Suchita V Smith@suchitavsmith.bsky.social · 8mo agoWow, Alcoa has been naughty enough for the WA Premier to criticise them! This makes me so angry. A measly fine! This destruction is not reversible, rehab of rare jarrah forest IS NOT POSSIBLE! Yet, carry on chaps, keep up the destruction. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
In Australia, national electricity grid manager AEMO, announced renewables contributed 46% to the energy grid demand during peak summer heatwave months - Jan - Mar 2026. Highest ever, least ever coal fired power and gas. MSM? Newsworthy? 0nly ABC online, govt entities & Guardian Oz reported it.
55% of gas exported is free of state royalties and federal PRRT - Tax free! We gift it to multinationals! Oh, LNG producers are the largest users in Oz of LNG, to process it. Their onsite gas powering their production is gifted to them also. - The Australian Institute Free! Aren’t we generous!
Matt Golding@goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe elephant in the room on budget night – the gas tax. Tommy Puckett, Ashgrove @theageaustralia.bsky.social letters
Good satirical work never dies - ummm, until trickle down economics dies. Oh yes purleese. Time for the more progressive economists to discuss bottom up boosting, and how: “Consumer spending is the beating heart of the economy” - Ross Gittins, Economics Editor, Sydney Morning Herald, Australia.
Reuven in Maine ראובן במאיין 🦋 🇺🇸🇺🇦@reuveninmaine.bsky.social · 6mo agoOld, but true.
MSM stenographers blandly repeat without question Iraq war statements from Israel and USA - statements that scream to be challenged by journo’s who know how war propaganda plays out. Confident Truth Lies and Media podcast will analyse, dissect and define the absolute BS that MSM avoids. Thanks.
Sunday: Pentagon briefers told congressional staff that US would only FOLLOW Israel to war. (No wait) Saturday: Govt stated Iran was going to strike US interests, pre-emptive strikes req’d. - CNN. (No wait) The excuse for war is nuclear ..ummm, unclear. They didn’t bother to organise an excuse.
Fortunately, America does always know what's best for brown people, so much better than they think they know themselves
An oldie but still so current: “Working class people around the world have no innate desire to go to war with each other. They have to be conned in to it by the sociopaths who will profit from it.” - John Lennon.
War Memorial opening 1941, Oz GG: “not only be a record of heroic deeds” but also "a reminder for future generations of the brutality / utter futility of modern war…if fallen were not to have died in vain..all who gaze on this monument will declare in no uncertain voice: 'Never again, never again'.
Trump said Iran’s nuclear program was “obliterated” - June ‘25. 8 mths later: “They are probably a week away from having industrial-grade bomb-making material.” -Steve Witkoff. That’s it? Justification for US to support Israel attacking Iran? US Intelligence based, like Iraq WMD’s? Oh, purleese!
“The spread of white supremacist, climate denying narratives into news feeds is normalising dangerous, racist, democracy-destroying ideas…planned. Why won’t the media report on the Senate inquiry which is revealing the dark forces behind this toxic disinfo’n machinery?” -Truth, Lies & Media, 2 of 2
The Senate Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change & Energy, inquired into “prevalence & impacts of misinfo’n & disinfo’n which relates to climate change & energy.” Hearings held Feb 2026, high profile attendees/submissions. MSM? Almost totally silent. Why? Not newsworthy? 1 of 2
Tired of conservative journo dross? Bored with gloss over media & weasel words? Try Truth Lies & Media podcast - now with added bite! Two veteran hosts, fresh from the Centre of Advanced Journalism & lecturing on media ethics, dissect reporting. An extended ‘Media Watch’ with more punch & substance.
Nicole Chvastek@nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 8mo agoDoes anyone recall Howard/any LNP politician saying privatisation would involve shovelling out BILLIONS of taxpayers money PER YEAR to companies operating in the privatised sectors? Aged Care 2023/24: budget allocation was $36 Billion, $21 Billion of that to residential care operators. Since 1997?
Control the language, control the argument. Time someone replaced government “spending” with “INVESTING” to change the argument. Even Liberal Party members understand a ‘return on investment’ ROI argument. Then their brain cells need to overcome their prejudice. Hmmm, suggestions welcome
$12 BILLION to upgrade the WA Henderson naval base! COVID spending proved the federal govt can overnight announce billions of spending that was not budgeted. Can people now see ANY spending on ANY, not every, program is possible? It is just a matter of priorities. “We couldn’t do it this budget?” ?
“Gas from offshore fields in Comm’th waters is a fed’l govt responsibility. They impose a petroleum resource rent tax on the exporters’ profits in lieu of (state) royalty. Trouble is, the poor design of the resource rent tax has meant little or no money has been collected.” -Gittins, 13/8/25, 1 of 3
The RBA has “a pro-biz bias…reinforced by having a board stacked with business people -at best, only one person from the employees’ perspective. The RBA consults extensively with biz’s, not bothering to talk to the union side. Little wonder forecasts for wage growth are consistently wrong.”- Gittins
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Journalists continuing to seek the LNP’s irrelevant opinion for “balance” is akin to seeking a Flat Earther’s opinion after it was accepted that the earth is round.
QANTAS were fined $90 million for illegally sacking 1820 baggage handlers/ground staff - the largest fine & largest breach of industrial law EVER since the first Conciliation & Arbitration Court was established in 1904. Congrats QANTAS - worst in 121 years! Did MSM harass the CEO/Board members? Nope
“The new QLD LNP Govt ‘stands out as an example of wilful obstructionism. QLD was a bright spot for renewables investment until the last state election -hands down the favoured location for investment in renewables -generally, it had a receptive planning regime’ - a senior industry source.” 1 of 2
“Current world investment in CCS is aprx $4 billion p.a. -it needs to be $4 trillion p.a. to cover emissions from fossil fuel use.” IEA’s Fatih Birol labelled this “implausible”. AFR 10/5/24. CCS is a fossil fuel fantasy, not a “vital technology” as Madeleine King, Resources minister said. 3 of 3
The Gorgon Gas CCS project has had tens of billions of investment & cost blowouts, years of engineering delays resulted in abysmal failure. IEA chief Fatih Birol, said CCS technology will never scale up to cover the emissions of the oil & gas sector - “It’s a fantasy.” -AFR 10/5/24 2 of 3
