Auspol tragic, dog lover and panic merchant for the next generation.
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They banned plastic straws to save the turtles, and then quietly approved seven major coal mine expansions in just 90 days, locking in enough carbon to double Australiaâs annual emissions. Thatâs like quitting heroin⌠and replacing it with a full-blown meth habit. #auspol #ClimateCrisis
6. âElections are won from the centreâ is a mantra used to try to block challenges from the left. It says âyou canât win if you want to change the systemâ. It ignores the fact that first the neoliberals and now the far right have completely transformed â in some respects replaced - the system.
There's a giant gas tank leaking methane in Darwin and the regulators all know but have kept it secret and now won't do anything to make Santos repair it. Oh and CSIRO knew too but didn't tell anyone. STRAYA www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
When reporting on racist rallies, itâs important the media donât fall for the shadowy language used by organisers.
As everyone waits with bated breath for some announcement from the White House that may or may not be very significant, I am reminded of something @sarahkendzior.bsky.social wrote in a post a few days ago: "Do not let Donald Trump be the most important person in your life."
Australia's Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal has said nothing about the neo-Nazis' "March for Australia" anti-immigrant rallies, or their speeches promoting white supremacy and a white Australia. Meanwhile her husband donates $50k to the people promoting the marches. đ¤ #auspol #NoRoomForRacism
Definitely this. Fox News should be an object lesson, a slow poison that nevertheless killed us because we never sought treatment.
The special envoy role is transparently 100% an Israel war crime protection racket, but still crazy you wouldn't bump out a token two-line statement saying it is also bad when neo-nazis lead marches and violently assault women
Wealth taxes NOW. Itâs patriotic to do your part and fund society for the workers you exploit in order to get this rich. #taxtherich
. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . âŹď¸ âŹď¸ âŹď¸ .
Government secrecy and obfuscation was one of the key reasons we chucked out Morrison and his putrid pals. What the hell is the former Minister for Gambling doing now? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
"normal people" ??
It's the "culture of secrecy". @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social in court fighting an FOI today (govt appealed & has a silk on it) as govt leaks latest secrecy move to Newscorp plus ca change. @kimwingerei.bsky.social #whatsthescam #auspol michaelwest.com.au/labors-fight...
âBowen says waiting to hear from experts about methane leak Santos Darwin. Monique Ryan asks energy minister if he will deny gas company Santos any further approvals, Santosâ Darwin LNG facility has been leaking massive methane for almost 20 years.â www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
New Australia Institute research reveals that the failures in Australiaâs freedom of information (FOI) scheme lie with the government, not with applicants. The governmentâs proposal to limit FOI requests by charging fees instead of fixing the broken system misdiagnoses the problem. Read â¤ľď¸ #auspol
A 25% tax on gas exports, as called for by @australianunions.bsky.social, could fund significant improvements to housing or education in Australia, or reduce the cost of living by making childcare or medicine significantly cheaper. Add your name to the petition > theaus.in/fix_gas_expo...
maybe we shouldn't run "neo-nazi does [anything]" as the top story on national news websites unless it's meaningfully newsworthy/impactful? these are people who want to exterminate australians + are actively trying to get attention. we can't treat them as normal political players
The first story I did for Crikey back in 2021 was reporting on a leaked neo-nazi manual showing how "media baiting" â aka tricking journalists into writing about them â was a major strategy for them. www.crikey.com.au/20...
The Albanese Government wants to charge Australians for making a freedom of information request. Makes dubious claims about tech being used to overwhelm the system. In truth? Govt workload one of the lowest in the last 20 years.
You didn't like it when Trump said it, now be consistent and condemn this cowardly fence sitter of a PM presently trying not to lose all the Nazi votes. Did you vote for this appeasement shit? If you march alongside a Nazi, you legitimise them. You enable them. Good people don't do that.
Leading genocide scholars formally declare that Israelâs war on Gaza meets the UNâs definition of genocide.
Corporations can not be trusted. Fossil fuel corporations especially.
CEOs are trying to convince you that quiet quitting is worse than wage theft, while they plan on replacing you with a robot. Unions know better. Happy Labor Day Weekend.
remembering all the journalists in Australia who kept insisting we should having polite cups of tea with racists and hearing them out www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
It would be a massive mistake for progressive folk to convince themselves the March for Australia was a bust, or can safely be ridiculed. It was an alarming escalation of far-right action, and we need to reckon with it. More thoughts (un-paywalled) here: www.lamestream.com.au/how-mainstre...
This is so, so cooked. âThe decision whether to repair the leak is a commercial decision made by Santos,â NT Environment Protection Authority says. In a statement, Santos says the tank âremains fit and safe for service for the life of the Barossa gas projectâ. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Anti-immigration rallies across Australia are the culmination of years of political scaremongering. But better immigration messaging could change the trajectory.
Anyone talking about housing affordability not mentioning the capital gains tax discount is not talking about housing affordability.
"The minute climate change affects your suburb, the minute that damage is likely, now you can't get insurance." The Federal Government needs to release the National Climate Risk Assessment, which contains vital information about future climate change disasters. #auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social
"With Australiaâs transport emissions at a near-record high, the Productivity Commission is more worried about subsidies for electric vehicles that are just 1% of the cars on our roads, than it is about subsidies for enormous 4WDs that now dominate suburban streets." @richarddenniss.bsky.social
A group of white people from immigrant backgrounds have demanded that people like them should "go back to where they came from" chaser.com.au/general-news...
If we have special envoys to tackle racism for specific races and cultures who experience racism, why is there no special envoy to tackle racism against First Nations people? #campsovereignty
The nazis & their flagwit followers pretty much had the run of (the March for White Australia in) Melbourne/Naarm today.
This is what I mean when I talk about how Google is actively deciding to bake energy-intensive text generation into the basic infrastructure of the internet. They are *choosing* to make the digital world absurdly, eye-wateringly more energy hungry whether you request it or not. And it'll get worse
There have been 33 climate-related private memberâs bills since the start of the 44th parliament. None was given time to debate. So why did the government give âunprecedentedâ time to Barnaby Joyceâs net zero bill? satpa.pe/Q3rRIEp
Albanese govtâs malign neglect towards Australian arts and culture is a disgrace
Fancy being so reviled worldwide that people look forward to your demise!!
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
He also said he had "lots of on the job training". Must be getting ready for all the golfing he might need to do as President.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... There's always enough money to push people down. There's never enough to lift people up. #AusPol
Big props to whoever came up with the idea of calling Trump âMetamuciliniâ
David Pocock: âLike many Australians I was frustrated & angry about many decisions government made that clearly werenât evidence-based or in best interests of Australians. Iâve come to see why: a lack of transparency and broken lobbying rules.â www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/21450/...
If the Productivity Commission was as interested in productivity as it is in ideology it would be pushing for much tougher efficiency standards for cars, houses and commercial buildingsâŚbut noâŚit wants market forces to fix market failure..FFSâŚmy op-ed #climate www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
A year ago today, Trump threatened to jail Zuckerberg for the rest of his life. Today, Trump is helping Meta win regulatory battles around the world. I wrote about everything that Zuckerberg has gotten from Trump 2.0 so far: www.platformer.news/trump-zucker...
Interesting that Mehreen Faruqi was immediately sanctioned for holding up a sign in parliament supporting Gaza but Bob Katter threatens violence against a journalist who is simply doing his job and asking an MP a question - and has so far received no parliamentary censure.
theyâll just move him to a different parish and heâll do it again
More supporting evidence for loosening NSW gun laws. By the way, how do we stop NSW guns travelling interstate? #AusPol
Hi, immunologist here: (a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes) RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can âsee in kids faces that they have inflammationâ Thatâs NOT how immunology works. He is an anti-science profiteer. Start calling him such.
Always enough $ to prop up corporate welfare.
Carbon capture and storage is an expensive fraud, that's barely putting a dent in emissions. Moomba, one of Australia's biggest CCS facilities, captured 0.5 megatons in a year. Roughly the same amount Australia's fossil fuel industry will emit in 1.6 days. @ketanjoshi.co #auspol
Every accusation was indeed a confession.
Seen elsewhere. đ I like it... a lot. đ
"Scare campaigns about immigration are as old as history. But the latest version of them falls apart when subject to the evidence." Interesting to look at what the data actually exposes.
Nicky Hurley: âA new report highlights the staggering truth about wage inequality in Australia. Hereâs what we need to do better Nicki Hutley This is a lucky country for many, with enviable living standards. But our wealth is not shared equally.â www.theguardian.com/commentisfre....
Little kids are having to use their bodies to shield friends from gunfire while armed soldiers are busy picking up trash.
And you wonder why we have such little trust in governmentâŚ. My Clean Up Politics Act would regulate lobbyistsâ activities, but I canât clean up the Liberal Party - thatâs over to you.
This is so depressing. Environmental NGO has to pay for access to ministers bc clearly nothing else is working.
This brilliantly researched article by ABC verify outlines the real agenda of those organising the so called âMarch for Australiaâ this Sunday. Much like the UK - where Farage has convinced a nation to rise up against immigration - this is frightening.. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Those who have the power to stop mass shootings can go to hell with their "thoughts and prayers." Do something about it, you evil bastards.
If only someone in a position of power had done something to curb gun ownership.
Having spent years milking cookers for culture points, the dawn cometh.
Baptist minister James Grote was arrested outside his church in London for holding a sign that read "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action." As he was led away, he declared "I'm doing this for the people of Gaza. Palestine Action is not a terrorist organisation." #UKlaw #GazaGenocide
They were expecting a $2900 rental return a week for one or both? That's a hefty rental return. Take private interest out of public housing.
The Western world needs therapy. It does not know itself. Routinely "appalled" and "concerned" about the war crimes it arms, pays for, and covers up politically. It asks us to sever ourselves from reality in order to cope. On an individual level, this is unhealthy. On a societal level, it's suicidal
53 cities in Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia had higher crime rates than D.C. in 2024. Despite this, these states deployed their own National Guard troops to help address D.C.'s newly declared "crime emergency."
I've no doubt that the push to weaken our gun laws is influenced by foreign (US) interference. Also, when the family members of politicians run weapons import companies, there's bound to be an unfair push to allow more weapons into Australia. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
When Norway was planning all this, Hawke and Keating were PMs.
There it is folks: the betrayal (resources sell out) of the Australian people. Lucianne Tontiâs Norway comparisons are instructive. đđ
Retailers warned that raising wages would "force" them to raise prices and to use automated checkout. Fed min wage remained flat, but they raised prices & used automated checkout anyway. Result: Workers got even poorer as customer service plummeted while prices & profits soared.
"Despite decades of taking the advice of orgs such as the Productivity Commission, resulting in decades of deregulation, privatisation and tax cuts, Australia has witnessed a collapse in productivity growth," writes @richarddenniss.bsky.social.
Jordon Steele-John has slammed the governmentâs Defence Housing bill which slugs taxpayers to build houses for US troops in Australia. âYou should take a long, hard look in the mirror, the lot of you. and study the reflection that you find there.âđĽ #Senate
Just maybe we need a campaign to reform education. At a time when we all face a huge social upheaval to #transition the #economy, trashing the arts and social sciences and making them inaccessible will only benefit Shell, Santos and Woodside as a delaying tactic. #auspol @jasonclaremp.bsky.social
Yes, it's about climate but "this data is used by everyone from scientists to farmers to oil and gas companies". It isn't policy. It is totally irrational. And it affects the world. So many non-profit data centres are based in the US. #USPolitics #NASA #data
They want us fighting so we never notice who is stealing from us all. Donât get lost in the circus.
Gavin Newsom is parodying Donald Trump onlineâand the reaction from Trumpâs supporters is proof that Newson is on to something, @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues.
"Israelâs control over Palestinian aquifers and its systematic restriction of water access in Gaza and the West Bank is a striking example of how resource management is turned into an instrument of collective punishment." johnmenadue.com/post/2025/08...
Nowhere near enough is being made of Google taking a clear, intentional and planned step into the techno-fascist position on energy and climate It literally came with its own PDF white paper. This is clear and intentional and thought-through. www.desmog.com/2025/08/19/g...
It was so big in Melbourne that you could not physically exit the Melbourne central mall onto the street
"Scientific evidence continues to show that human activities (primarily the human burning of fossil fuels) have warmed Earthâs surface & its ocean basins, which in turn have continued to impact Earthâs climate. This is based on over a century of scientific evidence." science.nasa.gov/climate-chan...
They say 'the machines of the future' will be as smart as people... OK, but WHICH people? Because it kinda matters quite a bit.
None of this is about developing nuclear electricity generation. None of this is about reducing our electricity bills. All of this is about extending the profitability of the fossil fuel industry by delaying renewable generation. Itâs cynical, self serving and corrupt. #AusPol
In the fight against slavery abolitionists eventually prevailed over slave owners. The fight wasnt won in the sensible centre but by âextremistsâ who risked everything to save the lives of others. It scares me to think how the ABC would cover such a debate today. theconversation.com/friday-essay...
I think it was when we changed the tax system and halved the tax on capital gainâŚimagine taxing passive income from investing at half the rate we tax wages and salaries⌠And all those rich kids inheriting all those multimillion super balances rather than working to earn their own money⌠bludgers!
#Albo rebuilds trust with the Australian people by promising to do almost nothing and delivering less than nothing #auspol
Why are productivity gains considered so important when the rewards from the gains end up in the pockets of the rich and powerful who clearly dont need them?
"Without either a Productivity Commission or its neoliberal agenda, the Nordic countries have managed to drive much stronger productivity growth than Australia. Those countries have also delivered stronger wage growth and better quality of life, and managed to tax their fossil fuel industries"
The Productivity Commission talks a big about living standards⌠talk is all it has, tbh
@RonniSalt so often wipes the insects off the national windscreen and tells us exactly what's going on.
No, we are not. Bolton said Trump was the better choice than any democrat. Thoughts and prayers to that coward. And karma IS a bitch. đ¤¨
They only care when it affects them.
Do you know how insane and infuriating it is to live in a country where one party claims, with media and public support, the mantle of being the âtough on crimeâ party while its leader openly calls for convicted criminals to be released from prison âor elseâ?
Why are 90% of op-eds scolding liberals for the way they talk about threats to democracy rather than scolding conservatives for threatening democracy
Employees âwill not make any public comment that undermines your perceived or actual ability to perform your role..." Perceived by who? The shadowy groups who lobby for a foreign power by swamping the Board Chair & MD with emails and calls? The ABC's reputational problem is management, not staff.
According to the Australian, businesses have donated $8800 for 15-minute meetings with Crisafulli government ministers. In my day, we called that bribery.
Just how many more people are we going to see punished for daring to voice their opposition to Israel's genocide of the people of Palestine? While you do NOTHING to stop the actual GENOCIDE, @albomp.bsky.social, maybe DO SOMETHING to put a stop to this? #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
This is such an insane statistic that it's hard to understand. 40% of what is shipped is fossil fuels -- not 40% of things are shipped *by* fossil fuels. 40% of *what is being carried* is the fossil fuels themselves.
If, like me, you care about our ABC Please Sign the petition I want to see more original Australian content on the ABCâs platforms. I call on the Federal government to fully fund the ABC and support Australian culture. Sign here: www.abcfriends.net.au/content?recr...
Great story from @danielhurst.bsky.social on AUKUS payment secrecy. Why could Marles announce first payment in February but release under FOI somehow harms relations?? www.deepcutnews.com/p/australia-...
"What an educated Australia should look like", now there's a thought worth thinking about. But the question is, is our Government capable of visionary thinking @jasonclaremp.bsky.social?