What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy. Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc. Some call it the "Network State."

I grew up inland on a river, I’m no maritime warfare expert, but surely CSIRO & our Group of 7 Unis can be given $10B to develop our own silent sub drones within a decade, as Ukraine developed their drone industry from scratch that’s hammered Russia’s ‘superior’ weaponry? #730 @abcnews @pgarrett

Let’s have a register of politicians who benefited from Gough’s free tertiary education, introduction of TAFE, and reaped the benefits of house prices before Howard’s CGT and Negative Gearing, and how they vote to make a more equitable future for our youth #Insiders #BoomerGreed #LetThemEatCake

Tony Abbott, filling the pockets of the proletariat with cash & ears with what sounded right, means we are now paying the price with tax reform & infrastructure for a carbon free economy. For him it’s about winning & maintaining power not using it for greater good #insiders

Home owners have had a dream run on house prices for decades to the detriment of their children and grandchildren. @AlanKohler says prices have to freeze for 27 years to return av house price to av wage ratio to 3:1 not 9:1 as it is now. #GetAGrip #GreedIsGood #Insiders #AusPol

1/2 Look, business, lobbyists & politicians asking for a patch over a change over a loophole is all bullshit. The #HenryTaxReview in 2010 had 138 reforms to make our not- fit-for-purpose tax & transfer system fairer & functional for the 21st century #Insiders #taxreform #AusPol

South Australian Liberals say voting for an independent like McBride, Bell, Cregan or Speirs is is an "unlucky dip" because you don't know what you're getting ... Very funny when it's the Liberals who preselected every one of those indies. (They're all party defectors.)

Just a reminder - while NDIS subsidies are allegedly 'unsustainable' fossil fuel subsidies grew by 9.6% in the last year to $16.3bn. thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

Governments are spending over $30k a minute subsidising the fossil fuel industry thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

To get a gun licence in Australia, applicants must provide a “genuine reason.” In NSW alone, up to 253,670 gun licences list sports shooting or recreational hunting as a genuine reason, but only 36,000 people actually participate in either activity. @rodcampbell.bsky.social #auspol

“The Australia Institute has published our annual tally of subsidies, concessions and tax breaks to major fossil fuel users and producers . . . Our estimate is $16.3 billion in 2025-26,” writes Rod Campbell. Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4sOBl23

So Angus Taylor says the coalition can build a nuclear electricity system 44% lower than what current market operators can with renewables? I bet the #EnergyInsiders podcast will be fascinated to see their numbers #Insiders

Everyone together now!

Land doesn’t vote. Stop pretending it does.

This is going to make your blood boil because we know it’s coming: “You know Donald Trump is going to walk in and be able to take credit for all of these factories, actually appearing, even though they happened under the Inflation Reduction Act passed by Joe Biden.” Jennifer Granholm

@greens.org.au no posts? 😇🥹😳