@shojiwax Amid revelations of Isaac Herzog’s association with Jeffrey Epstein, the government and media have entirely lost control of the narrative.... WTF #auspol
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THIS 👇is why I feel compelled to participate in protest action later today.
https://michaelwest.com.au/island-visits-herzog-backlash-crushes-albos-social-cohesion/
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Hard disagree. Angus Taylor as an alternative would genuinely be worse than Ley - and that's saying something given her track record.
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Australia in danger of becoming an ‘artless country’ as enrolments in creative courses collapse
Research suggests surging costs under Morrison government’s job-ready graduate scheme and axing of dozens of subjects largely to blame
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/feb/09/australia-in-danger-of-becoming-an-artless-country-as-enrolments-in-creative-courses-collapse
@Bot4Sale @ApaulD Old but still eye-opening read (from 2018): Over 180 cases of senior Australian public servants, pollies & staffers swapping sides with fossil fuel/mining lobbyists in just a decade. The 'golden escalator' undermining climate policy? Revolving door alive & well?
The Aral Sea catastrophe remains one of history's most devastating environmental disasters.
Once Earth's 4th-largest lake, Soviet irrigation projects diverted its rivers for cotton farming—draining an entire sea within decades.
The cost? Collapsed ecosystems, destroyed communities, severe health crises, and a legacy of damage spanning generations.
A stark reminder that nature cannot be "controlled" without consequences.
#AralSea #EnvironmentalDisaster #ClimateHistory #WaterCrisis #Sustainability #Engineering #CentralAsia
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Isaac Herzog is accused of inciting genocide in Gaza. He shouldn’t be welcomed to Australia https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02/isaac-herzog-is-accused-of-inciting-genocide-in-gaza-he-shouldnt-be-welcomed-to-australia #Auspol
@Old_IT_geek Respect for voting for Shorten's reforms even though you'd cop a hit — that's rare integrity in this game.
Totally agree: ditch the 50% CGT discount on investment properties (speculative hoarding, not productive), and scale back franking credits that let companies dodge tax while starving reinvestment.
But let's be real: very little chance the property-rich pollies in Canberra will actually change anything meaningful. Over half of federal MPs own multiple properties (some 5–7+ investments), averaging ~2 per person — way above the average Aussie household. They're literally legislating their own tax perks.
No wonder the rort survives. We need outsiders pushing harder.
#AusPol #HousingCrisis #TaxTheRich #PropertyRort #NegativeGearing
@ApaulD Absolutely infuriating. While Norway built a $350B sovereign wealth fund by taxing gas at 78%, we let Inpex extract $36 billion in revenue and pay basically nothing. They literally admitted to "optimising" tax through corporate restructuring—ie, deliberately dodging obligations—while we subsidised their infrastructure with billions in public money.
This is extractive capitalism at its worst: socialise the risk and costs, privatise the profits, export the resources that belong to all of us, and leave Australians with crumbs. The PRRT is a complete joke—no gas company has ever paid it on exported gas.
We desperately need a resource super profits tax modeled on Norway, not this neoliberal giveaway to foreign multinationals.
#auspol #taxjustice #corporategreed #gascartel #extractivecapitalism #prrt #inpex #norway #resourcetax #australia #multinationaltax #anticapitalism
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The money the industry pays for influence is a pittance against their profits.
https://michaelwest.com.au/inpex-and-australias-gas-rip-off-billions-in-revenue-crumbs-in-tax/
Once again, we see the same playbook: when "fiscal responsibility" is needed, it's always education, healthcare, and social services on the chopping block. Never corporate subsidies. Never tax loopholes for the wealthy. Never the billions in concessions to mining companies.
Liberals talk about "tough choices" while protecting the comfortable and squeezing the vulnerable. The pattern is crystal clear—austerity for the many, prosperity for the few.
#Auspol #Austerity #ClassWarfare #EatTheRich #LnpFail
https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/pressure-chalmers-over-inflation-193631907.html
@RHW @ApaulD Couldn't agree more—this editorial nails the obscene reality: fossil fuel giants spend peanuts (under $4M total) to buy decades of destruction. Woodside gets a 40-year North West Shelf lifeline (10 years' worth of national emissions) right after donating to Labor; Bravus scores royalty breaks after funding the LNP/QLD govt. It's textbook corporate capture—both sides of politics trading our livable planet for corporate kickbacks.
These aren't 'donations'; they're bribes that lock in climate catastrophe while the rich get richer and communities suffer. Ban fossil fuel money to parties AND their lobby proxies like Advance NOW. No more selling out workers, First Nations lands, and the young for profit.
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“It is very obvious that donations from fossil fuel companies should be banned. They should also be prevented from giving to lobby groups such as Advance, which took $895,000 from Gina Rinehart’s company before the last election. The decisions that flow from these donations are monstrous. They serve no interest but profit. They will destroy the world through disease and famine and natural disasters.”
#auspol #politics #AtlasNetwork #australia
Even the AFR (yes, Murdoch’s Financial Review) can’t hide it: Howard & Costello are out swinging against any trim to their beloved 50% CGT discount, calling it a ‘tax slug’ on the aspirational middle class, never mind the homeless !
Howard: ‘Yet another tax slug by the Albanese government which lazily leans on the [Australian taxpayer]’.
Costello piling on that it’d fund ‘uncontrolled spending’.
Classic: the architects of the 1999 rort that supercharged property speculation and house prices now defending it tooth & nail.
Meanwhile, ex-RBA governor Bernie Fraser backs paring it back — especially for investment properties — to fix intergenerational inequity & housing affordability.
Who are they really protecting? Not young renters or first-home buyers getting priced out forever. It’s the high-wealth investors and retirees who’ve already cashed in on the bubble they helped inflate.
Time to tax wealth hoarders properly, not slap young people with forever renting. Scrap the discount giveaway.
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Australian Winter Olympic athletes wearing an N95 mask as they boarded the bus to head to the Opening Ceremony
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Here's to remembering the courageous journalist who died for it, Daphne Caruana Galizia.
Malta car bomb kills Panama Papers journalist | Malta | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/16/malta-car-bomb-kills-panama-papers-journalist
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Too hot to work
"It was the hottest day of December 2025...A young, fit, healthy woman, ..Tiffani Phelps de Wildt died after collapsing on the hottest day of December 2025."
"This is a classic case of somebody who was working in a very, very hot environment; they were displaying signs and symptoms of heat-related illness...WorkSafe is investigating the incident, a process that can take up to two years." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-07/tiffani-phelps-de-wildt-suspected-heat-death-remote-australia/106301164
#heatstroke #heatwaves #outdoors #FossilFuels #work #WorkSafe #OHS #pastoralism #habitability #climate
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