ABC Indigenous doesn’t mince words

In absolutely no way, shape or form should anything resembling or approaching a private militia be allowed to operate in Australia with any government imprimatur. This is kicked in the head by a donkey stuff www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

News out today shows big utes designed to cary cargo are better at killing pedestrians than smaller vehicles designed to cary people did you know the popularity of these behemoths is based on a range of subsidies? But the govt is inquiring into subsidies for EVs… thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

Wafaa Hamad’s life and her entire family were taken by the Netanyahu government, not lost- taken - killed.

Melia azedarach (aka white cedar) is in flower around Canberra. Find some time to stand under a tree and enjoy its beautiful scent.

This is brilliant

The Albanese govt’s first term was the second most secretive on record. Rather than changing their ways, they’re doubling down and tightening our FOI system to make it even harder to get information. Not a single expert or member of parliament outside of the Labor party has backed their new bill.

"The situation for mums, for newborns, is absolutely the worst it's ever been after two years of this." James Elder, from Unicef, tells @krishgm.bsky.social that the conditions in hospitals in Gaza are "horrific". Read and watch: www.channel4.com/news/she-die...

It’s time we had a national conversation about the US-Australia alliance, and where it goes from here.

She means you, @albomp.bsky.social .

Quite good column from Ezra Klein www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/o...

The Invisibility of Poverty | Street Art

Photo of the Day. Credit to Palestinian photographer, Saeed Jaras. Posting this here because hardly any mainstream media outlets will publish it. An ongoing genocide silenced. #Gaza

The boys are back in town… 11 Gang Gangs this morning only 2 females. And a bold crimson rosella.

If you're unclear on what's going on with gas, here's our 2-page explainer on Australia's gas policy mess. @australiainstitute.org.au

"Approval of the North West Shelf extension would be easily one of the worst decisions ever made by an Environment Minister in Australia's history," said @grogsgamut.bsky.social.

lbbonline.com/news/Warwick... everyone should watch this…..👇

Very odd to me the ABC has an entire podcast devoted to foreign affairs, hosted by two of its most prominent staff, that has not done a single episode on Gaza this year. Only reference was on the most recent episode, in the context of Trump visiting Saudi Arabia. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Historian of South Africa here. What Ray says is the simple truth. 👇🏽

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Australian Governments should be doing more to hold the Netanyahu government to account for genocide instead of trying to censor artists and writers.

We are to blame… How much blood is enough to satisfy the regime? A very powerful call

Read this and get angry: australiainstitute.org.au/report/elect...

That’s me 👇

Today drilling for gas under the Barossa project off the coast of Darwin was approved. That's 274mil tones of emissions from one of the dirtiest gas projects in the 🌏 More than 100x emissions from the 🇦🇺 electricity system. Our approvals system is broken. We need urgent reform.

PBO modelling Sen Pocock & I commissioned in April '24 shows that reforms to neg gearing could boost housing affordability rates of home ownership & deliver $16B savings to the Budget over a decade. Fixing negative gearing won't fix the housing problem but it would be a bloody good start! #auspol

Australians for Natural Gas revealed as a front for Tamboran - a foreign fracking company harming the NT water table & planning emissions equivalent to putting 30 million extra cars on the road. This is astroturfing 101: fake community, real pollution. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

The photos coming out of Gaza are a terrifying echo of all-too-familiar images of European ghettos and Nazi concentration camps in WWII. This level of dehumanization is yet another appalling warning of how far the Israeli government’s genocide of Palestinians has been permitted to escalate.

If Hamas had killed 7 Israelis inside of Israel this week, it would be one of the biggest stories in the world, & all over the US media. But Israel killed 7 HUNDRED Palestinians this week, including almost 200 children, & yet there's little outrage from our politicians or media.

No words. #UkraineWillWin 🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraini! ✊🇺🇦

“Friday, February 28, 2025, will go into the history books as one of the grimmest days in American diplomacy,” writes @RadioFreeTom. Now “Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us”: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Important to read this: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump has replaced the head of the military, FBI, stacked SCOTUS and stated “He who saves his country does not violate any law”. He’s sided with autocrats above allies and is purging the public service of non-sycophants. AUKUS? Still beyond questioning? What would it take?

The PM is making an extraordinary intervention to protect foreign-owned salmon farming companies, driving an endangered species to extinction. He's ignoring the science & torpedoing a long-awaited review of the damage being wreaked upon Macquarie Harbour. @eloise-carr.bsky.social on ABC News:

After undermining all meaningful action to protect Nature this parliament, the PM has swallowed the salmon industry’s BS hook, line and sinker 🤯😥 The industry pays little in tax & is driving species like the Maugean Skate to extinction. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

Splitting up insurance companies is all well and good. But the overriding reason housing insurance premiums are going up is climate change.

Federal Environment Minister @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social has a choice to make about South32's plan to clear 4,533ha of forest and habitat in WA's Northern Jarrah forests - the same size as her electorate! Tell her to Reject South32>>https://wafa.org.au/reject-south32/

I have worked in international development for 30 years. Govts change, priorities change. But what just happened to #USAID is beyond disgusting. You can exit gracefully or you can trash your partners. Musk/Trump chose the cruelest, most harmful way to treat communities that depended on US support.

The richest man in the world decided the poorest people in the world should be the primary focus of “govt waste”

The ongoing campaign of professional harassment delivers another scalp because Peter Lalor, a friend and former colleague, was concerned about a genocide in Gaza. www.theage.com.au/sport/cricke...

Here’s how to comment on psychopathic presidents. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Sen Katy Gallagher defended efficiency dividends today - but they have been tremendously damaging to our national cultural institutions and need urgent reform, as Josh Black, Frank Bongiorno and I wrote back in 2023: theconversation.com/australias-c...

This is some of the worst political messaging I’ve seen. John Howard was eight prime ministers and two decades ago. Who is this for??