Won't somebody please think of the children, and the 50% discount they need on their taxable gains when they sell their lemonade stands at a large profit!!!!!!!

“An assault on aspiration” = Rich people should aspire to a tax-subsidised investment portfolio. "Broken promise" = How dare you try to alter the status quo! "Death tax" = Labor better not even THINK about implementing actual inheritance taxes...

"one of the main proponents of the social media campaign, startup founder Frank Greeff, admitted that it favoured attention over accuracy." Always incredible how the rich/business/conservatives are allowed to lie and the media writes it up as a minor point www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

This has all been pretty stupid hey. I broke down some of the more hysterical language being thrown at Labor’s tax changes, and what the right really means when they treat the reforms as an "assault". Because when you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression...

The Coalition would have young people believe it is sticking up for *them* in opposing Labor's tax reforms — rather than, say, the richest 10% of Australians, who receive the vast majority of the tax deduction benefits 🙃 www.crikey.com.au/2026/05/14/2...

The Coalition reckons young people are just temporarily embarrassed landlords. But you do have to wonder whether most young adults — who’ve experienced the pain of a market that treats housing as a wealth creation tool — will want to turn around and do the same to the next generation.

Opinion | At the end of the day, these tax changes aren’t about generational warfare. They’re about class warfare, @rachelwithers.bsky.social writes. www.crikey.com.au/2026/05/14/2...

Former Lambie Network senator Tammy Tyrrell has updated her instagram bio after joining Labor, but looks like Google hasn't got the memo yet 😏

Unemployment is *built into this system*, so the idea that everyone’ll be employed is insulting nonsense. Aspirational propaganda. Raise the rate. Do some good.

Every millennial I know seeing that Jim Chalmers' Daily Telegraph hammer and sickle frontpage:

Opinion | Tim Wilson continues to be utterly baffled by how to fix the problems facing the Liberal Party. And, as shadow treasurer, he remains blithely ignorant of the economic woes fuelling disaffection in the electorate, @rachelwithers.bsky.social writes. www.crikey.com.au/2026/05/12/t...

No one in govt is talking about before the budget, but just FYI, the level of Jobseeker is now 42% below the poverty line - worse than it was during the Howard years... live.thepoint.com.au

Everything you need to know about Anthony Albanese's attitude towards the Greens. The Greens, despite their apparently major role in getting Labor to act on CGT and negative gearing, are not mentioned again. www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

I discovered @3rrrfm.bsky.social bc of hosts @jessielilley.bsky.social @theshufflediary.bsky.social and @rachelwithers.bsky.social stellar #SpinCycle news commentary program (Thurs 7pm-8pm). Now a subscriber and listening to so many other superb programs. Highly recommend this radio station. 📻 #3RRR

Just looking at the week's frontpages for a "headline of the week" choice, and um, what the fuck is this?

Tonight on Spin Cycle we're delighted to welcome Walkley award-winning journalist, social commentator and co-host of We Used to be Journos @janfran.bsky.social. Plus, the first ABC strikes in two decades and much more. On @3rrrfm.bsky.social from 7 with me and @rachelwithers.bsky.social

Spin Cycle ft Jan Fran* starting 7pm/now: www.rrr.org.au *Jan not pictured, but she was here for a pre-record and it was excellent

Ed Husic was unceremoniously dumped from Labor’s frontbench last year — and he did not go quietly. His anger has faded, but he still won’t be shutting up any time soon, @rachelwithers.bsky.social writes. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/25/e...

Everytime I read this headline (which I did propose) I hear “Not Ready to Make Nice” by The Chicks. Anywhere here's my chat with Ed Husic.

Is this anything

We love to see it. ⚰️

Will Anthony Albanese muster the courage to take on the capital gains tax discount? He'll have to go through these four influential groups first, @rachelwithers.bsky.social writes. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/03/c...

A loud minority made submissions to the CGT Senate inquiry claiming changes would see the sky fall in. Economists, think tanks, housing groups, unions, and even the Mathias Cormann-led OECD say otherwise, arguing the regressive tax discount entrenches inequality, rewarding wealth over work.

It’s not just an illegal war. That would be bad enough. Today, the Albanese government clearly admitted they gave our support to a war, without even knowing why it was launched. From us: www.lamestream.com.au/albanese-sup...

"the Liberals’ women problem can be traced to the Howard govt’s neoliberal agenda, which sidelined moderates and 'ignored the social conditions & structural origins that create inequalities' — including those faced by, you know, *women*." @rachelwithers.bsky.social www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/16/a...

The Liberal Party is chasing right-wing voters off a right-wing cliff, failing to even try to win back the urban, educated women who have locked them out of the cities until further notice.

Opinion | The Liberals need to win back all sorts of voters. But they especially needs to win back professional, urban women — and Angus Taylor is unlikely to help there, @rachelwithers.bsky.social writes.

The Liberals have an ongoing, existential issue with women — one that far predates the recent rise of One Nation, and which has seen the share of Coalition-voting women reach increasingly new lows.

"Our focus is on reducing women in the House of Reps, but we're on track also reduce our female vote to zero too." chaser.com.au/national/ang...

Jane Hume using her opening remarks as deputy to attack Labor for only being focused on politics. Irony is as dead as the Liberal Party.

They've only gone and done it. 🤣 youtu.be/vAiT5MXlitA?...

Kiss of death. #auspol www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5Nh...

Dan Tehan on ABC incapable of articulating why he backed a change in leader this morning. Keeps saying "we'll hear from Angus soon", unable to say what "values" or "vision" he was backing. A little glimpse into how incoherent a Taylor-Tehan leadership team would have been.

If the cap fits. My @smh @theage cartoon.

"I have no interest in the Deputy Leadership." Do not discount the chances of this man coming out of this as leader.

Maybe next they could do a video analysis of Gaza footage to see whether its population has been impacted by the genocide.

Tonight on Spin Cycle on @3rrrfm.bsky.social we are joined by @daanysaeed.bsky.social to describe what he saw at the Herzog protests in Sydney and the media response. Plus Libs keep holding each other’s beer and more. With @rachelwithers.bsky.social and @theshufflediary.bsky.social at 7pm

What in the numerology is going on in Sussan Ley's comms team rn? All of these have been posted in the last 5 hours - on Facebook, insta, x and LinkedIn 😂

Fabulous opening from @rachelwithers.bsky.social: "The Coalition’s achingly slow drip feed of a spill finally started flowing overnight, with Angus Taylor resigning from whatever role it was he held in shadow cabinet to spend more time counting the numbers." www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/12/f...

How's the social cohesion

#EXCLUSIVE: The brother of an Australian aid worker who was killed in an Israeli drone strike in Gaza is urging the prime minister to press for more action on her case during the Israeli President Isaac Herzog's state visit. #auspol www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

I truly doubt Albanese is going to tackle our broken tax system — at least not without mollifying the changes to the point of uselessness. I'd love to be wrong though!!!!

Opinion | There's never been a better time for Anthony Albanese to address the inequality caused by capital gains. But @rachelwithers.bsky.social isn't holding her breath.

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If the NSW government has any interest in maintaining faith with its own public, it will ask the DPP to investigate police actions on Monday night without NSW Police involvement, with a view to prosecuting the cops who committed assaults. Or it can carry on blaming the victims; Minns' choice.

I’d lost faith in Anthony Albanese’s willingness to meaningfully address intergenerational inequality. I’m prepared to eat my words — assuming he follows through.

"Social cohesion is a scam, a strategy employed by the powerful to delegitimise and suppress the voices of the less powerful... If you are othered by powerful groups, you become the victim of cohesion, not the beneficiary; what you get from social cohesion is a punch from an armed official."

Yes yes, but did you hear Sydneysiders attempted to protest?? After the government asked them kindly *not to*???

6/ 'The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, said he was “devastated” by the scenes but said they had “undermined” the protesters’ cause and the Israeli president’s visit was appropriate.' If it wasn't already obvious, both Minns & AbL0 are products of the Sussex Street sausage-making machine.

Illustrative, from a very smart friend: