Are you getting diddled at the spigot? How would you even know?! Read this cartoon! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🚨Three months after police were filmed brutalising anti-Herzog protestors not one has faced any action. Yet NSW Police have charged at least 26 people. Including a woman who threw a water bottle, whose home was raided by 8 police in tactical gear... theklaxon.com.au/s3ol

Meanwhile, neither Albo nor Penny Wong have deigned to even put out a press release condemning the kidnapping of Australians in international waters.

Outstanding submission by the Canadian Association of Professional Employees, representing 27,000+ members, to the Auditor General - no head-in-the-sand here; this union is clear that COVID-19 remains a threat to employees (w & w-out disability) & they want action! www.acep-cape.ca/en/news/subm...

🧵. "What kind of country are we if we don’t act to protect those fighting for the last shards of humanity?" #auspol

In an unprecedented intervention, the higher education regulator will direct ANU on the selection of its next chancellor, replacing Julie Bishop. It speaks to a serious loss of trust in ANU’s governance. www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/29/a...

This is unprecedented. The regulator clearly does not trust ANU Council to pick Julie Bishop's successor, but the question remains - if ANU Council can't be trusted, why are the appointed members still there? @nteunion.bsky.social wants stronger #ANU governance.

In a cost of living crisis this amount of money wasted is worse than obscene.

#Covid #BA.3.2 Confirmation by New Zealand's PHF Science: BA.3.2 is more frequent in children. bsky.app/profile/domi...

Second day of hearings in Darwin for the youth justice inquiry today - Worth noting it's also second day of the NT Government refusing the front up! We finish early to head to Groote Eylandt where we will be visiting youth programs that are having extraordinary positive impact.

No vaccine available for hep c, but QLD should consider opening up free hep b vaccination to the entire population

Speaking in Nightcliff about the dangers of AUKUS and how it puts a big red target on Darwin - spend the $1 million an hour on something people actually need!

Visits to Hoops 4 Health and Brother to Another in Darwin this afternoon to hear about programs working with young people through sport and culture for healing and employment 🏀

I joined the ANU National Security College conference recently to discuss how Australia can be prepared for more frequent & intense climate disasters (without falling back on the ADF every time) Short version: we need a National Disaster Reserves youtu.be/pvQ79D26ETI?...

The Larrakia Nation turned up today to the hearing into youth justice but the NT Government (who are the ones responsible for the harms kids are facing in the NT) has refused to come. I agree with Uncle Eric Fejo that it's an absolute disgrace.

This is about choices & the Labor Government is choosing to subsidise fossil fuel companies in the midst of a climate crisis over ensuring our nation’s resilience and sovereign capability through essential science.

The Greens are urging the Government to reverse all funding and staffing cuts, commit to increased and ongoing funding for “public good” science, and urgently establish an audit of CSIRO facilities to ensure its sustainability and viability.

Sustained underfunding of CSIRO is degrading Australia’s scientific workforce & sovereign capability. CSIRO workers are highly skilled & essential. Specialised scientific expertise takes years, often decades, to build. Losing their expertise would be a serious blow.

Final report from inquiry into job & program cuts at CSIRO shows a deliberate shift away from public good science. CSIRO is suffering chronic underfunding masked as strategic reform, causing workforce destruction, loss of sovereign capability & subversion of climate science.

“One thing that has made it very hard for what, in my opinion, is an extremely strong [climate] movement, is that federal Labor has mastered the art of political greenwashing" says Dr Robyn Gulliver, a UQ honorary research fellow who studies environmental and pro-democracy activism. #auspol #climate

🚨 Yesterday the Albanese government opened a huge new area of Victoria and Lutruwita / Tasmania’s oceans to seismic blasting & gas drilling—right next to World Heritage coastline. 🔥 New gas is a climate disaster. Next to World Heritage coastline it’s a double disaster. #oilandgas #auspol #climate

Former Treasury boss Ken Henry says the under-taxed resources sector has hollowed out Australia's economy, and raising more revenue from the sale of LNG resources was in the national interest.

According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Israel Defense Forces have committed more targeted killings of journalists than any other government's military since 1992.

Kitchen prep for Anzac Day

David Pocock asking Chevron how much they pay for the gas they use to convert gas to LNG. The answer is $0, but they want to say they pay for it by the investment they make. But IT IS NOT THEIR GAS IT IS AUSTRALIANS AND THEY GET IT FOR FREE! live.thepoint.com.au

QUT seizing the moment to catapult over UQ with some publishing news.

Be interested to know what value UQP brought to UQ and whether the university willingly blew up the publishing house for political expediency. Cos it sure looks that way.

#australia 🇦🇺Authors have cut ties with the University of Queensland after the UQ Press decided to pulp the publication of the book Bila over the illustrator's past comments. Prominent writers have protested the last minute decision. 🔗 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04... #auspol

The Government is planning to cut more than $35 billion from the NDIS. This cut will see over 160,000 people kicked off the NDIS. $35 billion also equates to roughly two-thirds of the cost of one AUKUS submarine.

#auspol I've got to repost this cartoon because it hits the nail on the head! Not only is the gas lobby in Albo's head, when he gives reasons why his Govt won't tax gas exports he sounds like the gas lobby has told him what to say!!!!

Appalled but not surprised to see govt caving to the gas companies. This just makes me more determined to go harder on our campaign to get a fair return on our gas through a 25% tax on gas export revenue. Head to ourgas.com.au to add your voice. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Steve James said he was given the choice between surrendering his dog or continuing to be homeless.

Here’s a plan to fully fund the NDIS, cancel AUKUS! That will free up $100 billion over the next decade to give people with disability the support they need.

The rental market is already cooked which is why it's particularly predatory for companies to force applicants to provide excessive personal and private information on applications - with all the security risks this also entails. We need better privacy laws to ban this from the outset!

Australia should be using this program as the base model for a changed approach to housing afaics paired with matched TAFE programs including work experience in these housing factories & onsite installs. #auspol www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...

'Highly vulnerable': Could Queensland's controversial hate speech laws be quashed in court?

Shonky providers and issues in - childcare - aged care - housing - 'job delivery' - transport etc All down to the concentration on deregulation and the profit motive, rather than protecting the vulnerable. #AusPol

ATO asked to comment on the line from 2019 that oil and gas were "systemic non-payers of tax". The ATO repeats the line that oil and gas were among the small number of firms that they said in 2019 were "systemic non payers" So yeah. They said it. Fact check that, Shell Oil live.thepoint.com.au

The Greens are calling on the PM to use today's National Cabinet to coordinate a nationwide rent freeze and eviction moratorium during the fuel crisis.

Ken Henry: “There is no reason that I can understand as to why Australians should not receive 100 per cent of the windfall gains" thepoint.com.au/news/260422-...

“Just do it, and stop the crap.” 💥🔥 You can see why gas giants are worried. When the guy who wrote the book on Australian tax reform calls for a 25% gas export tax this bluntly, it would be gross negligence for the government to ignore it. Thank you, Ken Henry. #auspol

Invisible things. My @smh @ theage cartoon.

Wait what? #Auspol

This part.

The I-CAN Support Needs Asssessment tool has been selected for use in the NDIS theconversation.com/tightened-el...

I think the headline should be "A third of Australians seeking food relief are doing so for the first time" but this jump in numbers captures what is happening in our unfunded volunteer run food pantry in central vic - jumped from 65-75 weekly to 100+ since February

The Toprain Farming Collective is calling for greater protection of strategic cropping land in central Queensland, as Comet Ridge proposes an expansion and further development of the Mahalo Gas Hub.

More than a third of Australians are seeking food relief for the first time, new survey finds www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Our system of care is being diminished, while Labor wastes billions on AUKUS and let the 1% opt out of paying their fair share. The Greens will not support Labor trying to balance the budget off the back of disabled people.

Taking from disabled people to give to people in aged care is a cynical political exercise from Labor. Pitting people who genuinely need care against each other while leaving $17 billion in the pockets of gas corporations they’re too cowardly to tax is shameful.