🔴 Santos Limited has racked up a 10th straight year of zero corporate tax payments from $48 billion in sales. 🔴 Ichthys LNG Pty Ltd paid zero corporate tax for the 6th year running, from $43 billion in sales. Add your name to make the gas industry pay their fair share > theaus.in/fix_gas_expo...

And, I note: the lights are still on, the sky hasn’t fallen in. FANCY THAT! #auspol

I'd like to see a 5-part doco series looking at the ongoing damage caused to Australia by John Howard's policies when in Govt. The episode on housing speculation due to his changes to Capital Gains Tax (CGT) would be interesting. Okay sure, the cowardly ABC wouldn't air it. Maybe SBS? #auspol

The Coalition has always struggled to understand the difference between baseload power & firming. Dan Tehan has just returned from a "fact-finding" tour of the US & he's none the wiser. He holds Wannon on a 3.8% margin & is still pushing nuclear. #auspol reneweconomy.com.au?p=237347

Southern and Central Queensland local government areas that are now under total fire ban (toban). The area is larger than Tasmania, over 68,401 km2. About 30 fires currently with temperature & wind to increase. Take care, more info at the link. #qldpol www.fire.qld.gov.au/safety-educa...

Queensland’s biggest coal-fired power station could close six years early

Always remember - gas companies hate selling gas to Australians and none of the proposals for new gas fields (which are not needed) will be for domestic use. So do not buy any of the spin.

"And if you want to applaud, you applaud. And if you want to do anything you want, you can do anything you want. And if you don’t like what I’m saying, you can leave the room. Of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future."

23 of Qld's 77 local governments have fluoridated water. It's become so politicised since 2008 it's almost impossible to see it reversing. I was raised on a farm without town water. There are supplements but plz talk to your health & dental professional. #qldpol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Brisbane blitz Geelong to win back-to-back premierships – 2025 AFL grand final in pictures

Love this. #London

A silver lining of the Covid pandemic was the opportunity to change course in the face of a receptive mindset. Brisbane City Council missed that yawning opening, doing little to nothing and squandered it. The council is run by politicians with no intent to lead and improve. #worldcarfreeday

Coal mining industry being ‘economical with the actualité’ … Shocked 🙄 #auspol www.theguardian.com/business/202...

News Report 6Feb1939. #censorship #NaziGermany #USPolitics #fascism #JimmyKimmel #BoycottDisney

How to make an economist orgasm? Now remember - economists do it with models, so it's no easy thing. A Pigouvian tax on immobile resources! Climate change you say? Political leadership where even downsides are upsides? Good math? Let me explain....

MEDITERRANEAN HISTORIC HEAT WAVE Extraordinary hot day in #Spain 40.7 El Granado,dozens of stations >35C allover the country including the highlands. Unprecedented heat for this time of the year and next days can be even hotter. Record heat also in MOROCCO MINIMUM 30.6 Semara

What if we taxed the gas industry properly? "We're incredibly generous to the gas industry, most of which is foreign owned. "Norway taxes gas & gives their kids free education. What we do is give the gas away for free & charge our kids a fortune to go to uni." @richarddenniss.bsky.social on ABC ⤵️

I want my country back … from those who profit as public transport is run into the ground , those who get rewards for putting shit in the sea, those financiers and bankers who will destabilise a country for a quick buck, basically everyone Farage will stand up for if he wins an election

A UAE investment firm run by a member of the country’s ruling family put $2 billion into the Trump family’s crypto firm. Then the White House gave the UAE access to hundreds of thousands of powerful computer chips needed to build AI. Trump’s crypto corruption is off the charts.

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Queensland's nightly news on the Laura Gerber allegations. David Crisafulli supports his youth minister after reports she has lost 3 chiefs of staff & 8 other staffers. Accused of shouting, swearing, acting erratically & being chaotic. #qldpol

Something to remember for you all as social media is swamped by people angry over a man they've never met - especially in Australia where that American white guy's killing is being fed out and manipulated by Advance and the Atlas group. You're being played. All of it is scripted agit-prop trash.

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

I'm holding my tongue for now, but if you fuckers in the media don't stop trying to eulogize Charlie Kirk like he was Ted Kennedy or Bob Dole I am going to tell everybody what I think about that hate filled son of a........like I said I am currently holding my tongue, for now.

Charles I: "I cannot for the life of me understand how the Parliamentarians think this is some kind of winning political message. Yield man! Let the troops come into the House of Commons to arrest five members and show how crime can be reduced."

So the LNP in Queensland is changing all the government logos from QUEENSLAND MAROON to LNP blue and I reckon if they want to be New South Wales so much, they should fucken move there. (Image via Mick de Brenni on FB) #qldpol #auspol

The UK could do with dispatching Farage as Australia did with Dutton. So good we’ve got rid of “Dutton says…” Is a person spouting bollocks really news?

This'll be very telling when he comes to speak. If Farage uses his appearance in front of that committee to encourage a foreign state to bully his own country, he'll have crossed a very specific line.

Ugh, Queensland government has scrapped stage 4 of the Gold coast light rail that would connect the airport to the coast. Instead they're going to run more buses.

"With Australia’s 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

Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States is a must have. 👍🏻 And there’s a Young People’s version for the kids (link). www.zinnedproject.org/materials/yo... 🗣️@want.all.the.things (TT)

My Prospect piece yesterday set out how a illiberal radical government with a firm majority and competent advisers could easily abuse the UK constitution - and that the UK more vulnerable to this than US. But. This sort of warning is not new. It has been over a hundred years in the making. >

ATSE & Fortescue have joined the OECD in calling for an end to Australia's biggest fossil fuel subsidy, the Fuel Tax Credit Scheme. The FTCS costs over $10 bn/yr, discourages transition to cleaner fuels & overwhelmingly benefits the mining industry. ▶️ australiainstitute.org.au/post/fossil-...

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

Welch: Everybody's missing the point here. The point is, he's doing this on purpose. He's priming the public to get accustomed to having the military in the streets

Seriously flawed approach to the scourge of DV.

We've been here before with Bob Katter. They'll be feeling it again, up there. There was a real shock in Kennedy in 2018 when Katter spoke against immigration. Queensland cane farmer Abdul Ghani Mohammed has known him for 30 years & was dismayed. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08...

The current DV jurisdiction of the Magistrates Court of Queensland is already the scene of rank injustice and criminalisation of vast numbers of people. Allowing a police officer to ascribe criminal liability to everyday acts without any judicial oversight will lead to yet greater injustice. #auspol

Remember, the only use for crypto is fraud and money laundering --- Issue 91 – GDP on the blockchain "The regulator set to take on primary crypto oversight is down to a single Commissioner, and new pro-crypto PACs focus on installing more Republicans in the midterms"

Look, they cannot even do bread-and-butter cases. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... CDC erupts in chaos after ousted chief Susan Monarez refuses to resign Lawyers for Monarez say she was ‘targeted’ for ‘protecting the public’ by not endorsing ‘unscientific’ orders

The Productivity Commission talks a big about living standards… talk is all it has, tbh

The SA Energy Minister is worried that 'demonising' gas could lead to shortages and affect manufacturing. 🤔Doesn't make much sense when ❌ 80% of Australia's gas is exported ❌ More gas is used JUST to run the export terminals than by our ENTIRE manufacturing industry #auspol

Decades ago, I supported mandatory helmet laws for people riding bikes. Then I was convinced by evidence and the bigger picture that such laws are actually counter-productive in many ways. This NZ article explains some. I support helmets, but not mandatory helmet laws. Build safe infrastructure.

I wish more politicians understood how the economy is rigged against regular people the way Bill Burr does.

AEMO’s 10-year energy reliability forecast says there is enough new solar, wind and storage in the pipeline to fill the gap of retiring coal, and meet rising demand.

Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc. Via @theconversation.bsky.social

Your Comeback Guide to all the Anti-Cycling Arguments You’ll Hear This Year. momentummag.com/your-comebac...

Attorney General Bondi sent me a letter last week. It purports to notify me that Washington state “has been identified” as a “so-called sanctuary jurisdiction” — on grounds that her letter makes no effort whatsoever to explain.