The “mental health crisis” is intricately linked to cost of living crisis and housing crisis. You could throw millions at Kerferd (the Wangaratta psych ward) and they will still be exiting clients into homelessness
Scott McWhirter
@scottmcwhirter.bsky.social
Living on Darug lands. Work in Higher Ed, but views are entirely my own fault. Daily fails and passing fancies a specialty.
Sponsored secretly for decades by Shell, BP, Exxon etc, IEA is the prototype neoliberal thinktank pushing right wing propaganda & climate denial. Coalmine heir Antony Fisher later founded the Atlas Economic Research Foundation (USA) to mass produce then. #AtlasNetwork now 550+ orgs in 100 nations.
paulusthewoodgnome@paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 2d agoThe the Institute of Economic Affairs is an anonymously-funded neoliberal think tank whose alumni appear on the BBC virtually every day of the week without viewers having a clue whose interests they represent, in flagrant violation of the BBC's own editorial guidelines. #PoliticsLive
This is terrible
Raimo Kangasniemi@rk70534.bsky.social · 2d ago"The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) says funding shortages have forced it to cut food assistance to around 500,000 Palestinians in #Gaza... The agency says it is halving food rations, reducing cash assistance and providing fewer cooked meals..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7PD... #Israel
A contemptuous decision by idiot NSW premier Chris Minns to alter state laws reversing high court coal mine expansion decision. Sue Higginson: one thing is clear, under Labor the coal mining giants are writing the laws reneweconomy.com.au/coal-lobby-a...
NSW Council for Civil Liberties again super critical of repressive NSW Government under Minns. No excuse for such aggressive & flawed laws - #minnsmustgo
As an Aussie observer of #AoNZpol it’s classic the election moral panic is always ‘geng petches’. Dep board chair of #AtlasNetwork NZI Barbie Chapman is chair of petrol corp Genesis Energy (freed from climate liability by scuttling of Smith Vs Fonterra) AND dir. of NZME: which owns shitty NzHerald?🤯
Watershitdown@watershitdown.bsky.social · 6d agoSo by this logic has National / Labour condemned all drug rehab schemes in prison.. the faux outrage on the greens dealing with reality is just a diversion away from their own pathetic do nothing losing campaigns. #nzpol
“This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance." Philip K. Dick
the unions could also join this campaign to stop prison guards from shackling women during childbirth. If prison guards wanted to refuse, they could make some noise. Same with strip searching. And solitary confinement of children. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Labor and Coalition block bill that would ban incarcerated women being shackled in childbirth
Liberal Paul Scarr breaks ranks to condemn major parties, saying he will write to Queensland attorney general
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Good. The Greens should do - what they’ve always been entitled to do in the Senate #auspol - reform bad legislation The government doesn’t pander to those on below poverty level Centrelink payments. Private schools have had grotesque amounts of public funding for too long. They’re owed nothing
InSnip News (AU)@insnip.bsky.social · last wk.The Greens will block Labor's 30 per cent minimum tax on discretionary trusts unless an exemption for private school fees is removed. insnip.com #ausbiz
Guess what the Australian gov says #auspol ? 2.7 - 3.0 by the year 2100. And they don’t allow the public to read dire risk report impacts of that Unless we rapidly reduce real emissions, we’ll be near +3.0C by 2050. Much of Australia will be desertifying. The M. D. Basin will have fully collapsed
Prof Bill McGuire@profbillmcguire.bsky.social · last wk.With the planet now heating at 0.4C a decade, the idea the world will be just 2.7C hotter by 2100 is pure fantasy Like 1.5C before it, the 2.7C figure is being used to massively underestimate the dire straits we are in, and to play down the desperate need for action NOW
Kerry Stokes and Gina Rinehart’s motivation for controlling media in Australia is not for the benefit of the Australian public. Their motivation is because they are 2 of the biggest beneficiaries of government welfare the country has ever seen, and they want to keep it that way.
Billionaires Kerry Stokes and Gina Rinehart take control of Seven with only 33% of shares
Billionaires Kerry Stokes and Gina Rinehart now control Southern Cross Media, which owns the Seven Network, Triple M radio network and The West Australian newspaper, with only 33% of shares. It is […]
kangaroocourtofaustralia.com
"Ukrainian soldiers in combat have suddenly had their access to Starlink satellite internet terminals restricted as the Trump administration has increased pressure on Ukraine to halt long-range strikes on Russia’s oil industry immediately." Shameful behaviour. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
Ukrainian soldiers in combat have access to Starlink satellite internet restricted
Outage of terminals managed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX comes as Russia launches ballistic missiles at Ukraine without any advance warning from US
theguardian.com
You know the liberals are cooked when their annual answer to lack of relevance is to feed warm stories about a polly that lost his seat, agitated against his states interests during a pandemic & raised eyebrows over his governance of financial institution investigations. Also defends Israel. #auspol
Had this to say about Josh Frydenberg today and I think I may have been a bit too kind to him. #pfffft
Never forget Joshie's greatest heist.... A half billion dollar progaganda campaign for tax dodging fossil fuel MNCs aimed at and paid for by the taxpayers.
Dr Jeremy Walker@jeremywalker.bsky.social · last wk."Just days before the Great Barrier Reef Foundation [chair ex-ExxonMobil Aust. CEO John Schubert] received .. $443.4 million funding, the organisation was in talks with then environment minister Josh Frydenberg's office for a grant of just $5 million." www.smh.com.au/national/how...
The private school club is self perpetuating. #AusPol
Greens warn of private school fees loophole in Labor's trust tax
Treasurer Jim Chalmers is preparing to introduce legislation for a 30 per cent tax on discretionary trusts on Wednesday amid fierce business opposition, but has been presented with another obstacle fr...
abc.net.au
Note the exploding wind turbines, the destruction of which is the whole reason why big fossil is pushing fascist parties around the world, no accident they’re all aligned with the #atlasnetwork science denial/book burning campaign. It’s why IPA and Advance have been paving the PHON path to power.
Chris Pomfret@chrispomfret.bsky.social · 2w agoWhoa! One Nation’s campaign launch video showed Ai generated immigrants wielding machetes & wearing bomb vests in the most vile, racist, bigoted, hate speech filled political video I’ve ever seen let alone from an actual political party that could form Government. Ring the alarms!!!
Everyone need to read this…. The horrors of GIna’s gas, coal and mining empire and so very very good to see The Age / SMH doing detailed rigorous long form international investigative journalism in The public interest!
Loony Left Media 🚨#TaxTheGas + CancelAUKUS@loonyleftmedia.bsky.social · 2w agoDid anyone catch this epic investigative piece in yesterday’s Age on Evil Gina’s mining / corruption / thuggery / environmental vandalism shitfuckery in Ecuador 🇪🇨 Well today there’s a part ll which is in the comments along with paywall free links 🔗 so please read and share wildly
Nothing more dangerous to us all than #AtlasNetwork running our governments for the oil billionaires who literally don’t care if you or the oceans or the whole earth dies. #EndTimesFossilFascism
💚🇵🇸What The Fukc Is Happening?🇵🇸💚@dudeseriouslywtf.bsky.social · last wk.Headline after Headline about this man's threat to #Aotearoa. He even said it himself: #DavidSeymour is Dangerous to #NZ. He cannot be re-elected. #ActPartyNZ #nzpol
Ridiculous.. Chris Bowens office: ‘No decisions have been made to change current settings and our department is engaging with stakeholders to hear their views’ Amanda Mckenzie: ‘finding ways for mines to expand is nonsensical’ #climate #RealEmissions #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
Loophole allowing new coal and gas to avoid stricter climate laws
The Climate Council says coal and gas mines are using a "loophole" to expand operations and add new emissions while avoiding stricter emissions laws for new coal and gas.
abc.net.au
International students are not simply migration numbers. Families across South Asia are asking whether Australia is still a reliable place to study, and repeated policy changes risk damaging trust that took decades to build, Mukesh Dhamala writes. #auspol #InternationalStudents
Seven of nine planetary boundaries have now been crossed, yet Australia still expands coal and gas while talking up its climate credentials. Humanity’s safe operating space is shrinking fast, Peter Sainsbury writes. #Climate #Environment #auspol
How Long Will the Antisemitism Envoy Be Permitted to Reshape Australia in Israel’s Vision? www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/how-lon... How long is a piece of string? www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/nsw-pol...
How Long Will the Antisemitism Envoy Be Permitted to Reshape Australia in Israel’s Vision?
Unelected antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal is continuing with her plan to combat antisemitism, which consists of preventing Australian workers from speaking out against Israel.
sydneycriminallawyers.com.au
Global aid is collapsing and Australia remains one of the weaker donors among wealthy nations. Its support for Palestinian statehood is not matched by the scale of its response to Gaza, Helen McCue writes. #auspol #Gaza #ForeignAid
I suppose it’s too much to hope for that aus v SA is on free to air because sport is $. #auspol.
Soooo, the Labor Government knew that so many older Australians living in poverty would be affected badly by this and went ahead anyway????😡😡😡
Dr Monique Ryan@mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 2w agoThe government's plan to drop the private insurance rebate for over Australians aged over 65 will remove supports for over 2 million Australians with incomes less than $37,000 a year.
Josh Frydenberg *again* in headlines over a “comeback”. It’s (again) worth remembering that as Treasurer he secretly deleted the key findings of a probe into corruption at the top of the corporate regulator. Surely that excludes one from politics? (ICYMI): theklaxon.com.au/frydenberg-d...
***SCOOP*** Frydenberg abandoned amid ASIC salary cap scandal - The Klaxon
Key government officials, including Treasury Secretary Stephen Kennedy, refuse to back Treasurer Frydenberg’s unsubstantiated claims that the ASIC corruption review found no wrongdoing.
theklaxon.com.au