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“When it comes to our resources and our national interest, Australia cannot be meek. “It cannot be timid. “And Australia needs to step up and do the same.” - Hon Ed Husic MP ✍️ Sign the petition to support a 25% gas export tax: https://theaus.in/4dOhNqG

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Just as was the case w/ autocrat/grifter Viktor Orban, the recently ousted PM of Hungary, Trump & his family are profiteering from Trump's presidency &, of course, his UNNECESSARY WAR with Iran. Please SHARE WIDELY, off Bsky, too. Come Nov., we need informed voters. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Here here. This is becoming a major reform issue and necessary to turn to a productive economy.

Community members have stopped the work on clearing of snow gums on Mt Macedon this morning.

Nothing the Trump regime says can be trusted -- NOTHING.

I’d missed this so thanks again to @janfran.bsky.social & @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social of @ettemedia.bsky.social for flagging this. NT compounding decades of traumatising First Peoples with an abusive response to climate collapse displacement. #Auspol lucyham29.substack.com/p/brief-clim...

New record. Latitude Financial breaks the law 2.7m times, eclipses Commbank's 57k money laundering breaches, pinged by ACMA for spam, fined $3.9m #whatsthescam #auspol @kimwingerei.bsky.social michaelwest.com.au/spam-latitud...

I also think that is the bigger issue, they will become standed assets , the dealerships will offer you nothing for them come 2028/9 so you could potentially waste thousands of euros/dollars/pounds.

Better late than never - but I genuinely think we could ban all new ICE cars by 2030. We now have enough manufacturers and models at all prices and sizes for everyone. The second hand market will still be there, but with diesel likely to €5 a litre by then, I can't think many people will buy those.

✍️ Sign the petition calling for a fair return on our gas nb.australiainstitute.org.au/gas_export_t...

We learnt nothing from robodebt, apparently, except (perhaps) how to make it harder for the poor and disadvantaged to get redress. I hope the government does the right thing here. #auspol

AU. Once a symbol of unity, equality and democratic rights, the Eureka flag is increasingly being appropriated by extremist groups seeking to legitimise racism and exclusion. Reclaiming its precious original meaning may now require protecting it from misuse. 2/

This latest L-NP policy fart is well captured here. PHON does direct its politicians’ thinking processes down the proverbial immigration drain. #LeftOverLiberals have clearly failed in their struggle to keep their head out of it. #Auspol

All he’s got. My @smh cartoon.

Economics Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald, Ross Gittins, puts it perfectly: “This (a 25% tax on gas exports) is low-hanging fruit that Albanese could pluck at no cost to voters and little, if any, threat to the gas industry.” Too right. Read more: https://theaus.in/4tRzlqE

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It is not a conspiracy anymore.

Australia's gas exports rose by $48 BILLION in a decade. In that same decade, revenue from the petroleum resources rent tax FELL by $450 million. The PRRT is broken. This is why Australia needs a 25% gas export tax. @grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol

A three-year-old and a 14-year-old were among those killed in Israel’s latest strikes on northern Gaza.

Opinion | “We’ve learned one lesson from this. The local area coordinators work to please the NDIS, not support the participants.” www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/15/n...

If we organise, the many can take on the few. We’ve seen it in New York, the UK and throughout history. With your help, we can build pressure to tax the ultra wealthy in Australia. The 1% have broken the economy, but the 99% can fix it. Change starts now: taxthe1percent.com.au

And the solutions already exist! Countries like Norway, Spain, Switzerland (and more!) raise billions by properly taxing extreme wealth. We can do it too. Right now, the 1% are running this country, while the 99% are doing all the work. It's time for change.

New @stand.earth: Microsoft's 3 new gas data centres will - Increase Microsoft's emissions 160% - Have higher emissions than power sectors of each of Greece, Ireland, Sri Lanka, NZ etc... - Have higher emissions than pwr sector of 15 lowest-emitting countries combined stand.earth/press-releas...

Gout Gout, 18, breaks Usain Bolt's under-18 200m record with 19.67 seconds - Australian sprinter from Brisbane is the new fastest teen on Earth

From a Victorian teacher’s perspective, it’s exhausting that we have to walk out again just to fight for fair pay and manageable workloads, while still showing up every day for our students despite a system that keeps pushing us to the fucking edge. #auspol

Hey @albomp.bsky.social - the Italian PM is allegedly closer to Trump and more right wing than you are. And yet seems to have far less trouble being critical of both the Trump and Netanyahu regimes, and asserting her nation's independence. Time to step up, yet? #auspol

Total stolen wages across Australia's university sector could be as high as $300 million, the NTEU estimates. www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/14/s...

This is what Israel is doing to southern Lebanon. 🇱🇧 Like Gaza, the destruction is entirely deliberate and a crime against humanity. Where’s the frigging global outrage ?🤬🤬🤬🤬🇮🇱♾️

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If you’ve got nothing to hide, you’ve got nothing to fear, eh Angus? Sort of explains why you really don’t want to entertain any questions about the Cayman Islands company you set up, and who was behind it. #auspol

“Tourists to Australia would have social media accounts vetted under Trumpian Coalition plan.” Angus Taylor does not seem to realise how much ordinary Aussies hate that America is doing this. What a daft idea. Good job he’s only in opposition. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"The first thing we need to do is be able to hear, be able to listen, and I think we need to listen to Palestinian voices.. I think if we're not able to do that as a community, we're not going to be able to move towards justice" Join Rosie & get involved: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/supporters

Unchainedatlast.org has been doing this work forever. Legislation to end child marriage exist in 17 states only!

Climate policy has a problem. The tools voters support are the opposite of the ones economists recommend. This article asks: Can education help voters think like economists? But the real question is: Can education help economists think like real people 🤔 energyathaas.wordpress.com/2026/04/13/t...

Dear Angus. The only foreigners needing more cost/benefit scrutiny are the multinationals that take our resources and don't pay any tax.

Queensland Premier David Crisafulli surreptitiously takes Newman's axe out of the display cabinet. Murri Watch has been defunded. It provides hygiene, food & medical needs to children who are detained in police watch houses. #qldpol

Israel’s death penalty shame — Omer Bartov, Israeli-American scholar and Dean’s Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University unherd.com/2026/04/isra...

I spoke to Violet Coco before she left to participate in the biggest ever flotilla attempting to break Israel's siege on the Gaza strip. “The borders are still heavily controlled by Israel, and food and medicine is still heavily controlled,” said Coco, who is one of 15 Australians participating.

David Rowe. #riffrack

yeah I agree with this. Also policing “Australian values” is as old as policing in “Australia” - hence a wealthy white male whose family has stashed millions of public dollars in off shore tax havens gets to talk this shit while police traumatise 10 year olds for alleged $3 fare evasion.

Exclusive - Two former One Nation candidates have accused party leader Pauline Hanson and chief of staff James Ashby of dismissing concerns raised internally about employing the convicted rapist and former campaign director Sean Black. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Vietnam - another Asian country embracing modern, high-speed rail Australia - still using slow train journeys 𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭? DECADES of voting for IDEOLOGY gave us the "leaders" we deserved - not the SOLUTIONS or vision we needed bsky.app/profile/gekk... We could all change that next election