Do you know how Herbert Hoover made the Great Depression worse? Because he didn’t understand, most didn’t, that taking government money out of the economy & increasing taxes was disinflationary, which on top of the market melt down, meant no money being spent So if we increase taxes we can…?

Every 0.5% increase in unemployment is AT LEAST 80,000 people who have their jobs destroyed Estimated cost difference between CPI at 3.4% (current) & 2.5% (target) is $857 a year/house RBA wants $9.3B taken out of the economy Reducing CGT discount to 25% raises $6.5b & 10% gas export levy $4-$6B

Coalition voted against tax cuts for workers Their leader promised to repeal tax cuts for workers Their shadow treasurer has done everything he can to protect ‘advisors’, capital hoarders & unearned tax loopholes Their social policy is 40yrs out of date & so’s their tax policy

Real measures that show Australia is doing well -Unemployment 4.1% -Non-performing mortgages 1.04% -Inflation 3.4% -Wage growth 3.4% -Avg super balance growth 9.3% -Homelessness down from 117.4 per 10,000 to 106.3 per 10,000 -Household savings 6.4% vs 3.5% in 2018 Don’t let the grifters depress you

This Liberal Party happy snap is giving real vibes of: “We’ve decided to all be a happy family, it’s just that your dad here is going to live in the city apartment while we live in the house with all of our things.” Worst. Leadership. “Team”. Ever.

We are living in the age of the pedopetrotechbroligarch

Remember when the United States flooded war materials into the UK & Soviet Union to fight fascism? And remember when the fascists decided to team up against the USA so this guy was sent to end them? That’s the USA the world respected.

“We’re drowning in these unskilled people” says unqualified high school dropout who uses the inherited wealth of a uni dropout to maintain her own seat in the senate. Hanson makes a point, just not the one she thinks she’s making…

Let's get this straight. Adani donates $600k the Qld LNP before election. After the election, Qld LNP ends legal action over $400 MILLION in unpaid royalties. Dodgy, dodgy, dodgy. Thread. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

And here is me writing about Clive Palmer’s data-harvesting “game” back in 2019, after the “death tax” hoax and do you know who else pioneered backdoor data harvesting as an electoral tactic? Why, Steve Bannon! What an AMAZING coincidence, #auspol! www.facebook.com/share/188VR3...

The United States far right interfered in the 2019 election Just as @vanbadham.bsky.social & I suggested during our podcasts There were ads about “death taxes” taken from Bannon run Florida campaigns that only had the party or candidate names changed www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Can we please not unleash a deadly ancient plague by digging up Millenia old mass graves?

David Pope in Canberra Times

“Musk’s chatbot appeared this week to make the world less safe, less fair & perhaps even as unpleasant as a fascist-styled, ketamine-addled rich-kid dipshit in cheese hat dancing while the world burns, if one could imagine such an awful thing” @vanbadham.bsky.social

Seeing “the left” snatch defeat from the jaws of victory was something I’d really hoped I wouldn’t have to watch anymore but I guess none of us are without naivety…

This is what happens in a police state.

This is a genuine @financialtimes.com article. It’d be great to see the Bosses Pamphlet in Australia have this level of journalistic integrity www.ft.com/content/ad94... Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter

Exxon & Chevron must be so relieved to not have to worry about all the trouble and expense that the East India Company used to have maintaining their own military. Having taxpayer funded “Presidents” take care of it all for them, even doing the PR bit, makes their margins so much better.

People who’ve opposed every Labor policy since they were old enough to talk don’t get to tell Labor governments how to govern. I shouldn’t really need to say that but apparently the bosses pamphlet needed it said.

Australia’s gun laws are why there weren’t hundreds of victims at the Bondi shooting Australia’s gun laws are why this horror is so rare here Australia’s gun laws are why our public schools don’t know what an “active shooter drill” is let alone how to do one It’s the only good thing Howard did

Genuinely have zero chill for Bibi and Baby JD weighing into what Australia should or shouldn’t do to keep our people safe Those two have a daily blood bath between school shootings, terror attacks, base attacks, settler “skirmishes” & violence against their own citizens Keep your hate out of Oz

Instead of responding only with thoughts and prayers, Australia will respond with laws and regulations. Because, unlike the United States, it values the lives of its citizens over any sick adulation of firearms. The 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to immediate, sweeping, bipartisan gun law reforms.

The Bondi shooting is horrendous. This anti-Semitic attack is unacceptable. All Australians, of any faith, of any background, should be able to enjoy a public park without fear. We must reject the disgusting attempts, both from here & overseas, to divide Australians.

If I were a person not from Australia, I would also refrain from giving opinions based on potential disinformation on tragic events happening in Australia. If you need to say something, you could express sympathy and sadness. Your political take is not helpful.

At this stage no one has actually shown that Anika Wells has done anything wrong but the savagery of the media pile on is enough for some loons to justify horrendous, and potentially dangerous, attacks on one of our democratically elected representatives. Totally disgraceful.

Trump has learnt that he has the power of an Imperial Presidency He uses it to remake Rush Hour films, build a ballroom & to squeeze a few hundred million into his family trust (which given his age he won’t ever use) Meanwhile others use him to oppress women, migrants, workers & kids What a deal

I think it’s weird that we begrudge our elected representatives their salary, their travel, their staff & pensions, all of which is BELOW “market level”, when we should be making them regulate multi-million $ executive “REM”, private jets, bonuses paid out while sacking workers & marble CEO offices!

I hope you enjoy this artwork as much as I did. Arcangelo Sassolino’s “in the end, the beginning” is truly spectacular. Currently on display at MONA.

The era we are living in offers too many illustrations of greed, narcissism, and hatefulness. But I still believe we can recommit ourselves to serving the common good of all Americans. [Artwork by Jennifer Bloomer]

I’m over delusional “free market” Americans claiming “capitalism is the only political ideology that doesn’t kill people!” Comrade, your capitalism is killing 45,000 citizens every year just to allow corporations to profit from medical treatments Who knows how many die for profit in other areas?

James Packer - he’s filthy rich and still filthy on Dan Andrews for daring to tax the money laundering Crown Casino when Packer was at the helm. We venture inside the head of the billionaire ex media mogul this week on “Truth Lies & Media!”💥 Apple & Spotify 🎙️ Promo Match Frame Editing #auspol

I’m serving classic Hoodoos today and you really should leave this record lying around for your teenagers to discover, it will get them through a lot. Brilliant reappraisal of the amazing “Stoneage Romeos” here: www.theguardian.com/music/articl... #ausmusictshirtday

Xania Monet’s music is the stuff of nightmares. Thankfully her AI ‘clankers’ will be limited to this cultural moment | Van Badham https://www.europesays.com/uk/583687/ Xania Monet is the latest digital nightmare to emerge from a hellscape of AI content production. No wonder…

👇🏻Van Badham, right on the money as usual

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Westpac’s work-from-home complaint was a cultural miff that doesn’t resonate in today’s Australia | Van Badham

America! Your expats and your friends are *always* with you! Sending you love and courage and #NoKings solidarity and frog costumes from Melbourne, Australia. Make fascism history again!

Authoritarians fear only one thing: DEFIANCE‼️ (Downtown Portland)

This doesn’t even include the ones who had pending case but he had their charges dropped.

Is anyone else getting pitched lots of “Putin is kind to dogs” vids in their other feeds/timelines? Do the bots think I’ll trade basic democracy for more dogs? Because if that’s their offer then they can…get out of my dream journal.

Judith from Mosman is spending $500k to stop four-storey apartments near public transport. Not to fix the housing crisis, just to keep it out of her postcode. The problem isn’t migrants. It’s people like Judith deciding who gets to live near a train and who gets to commute for two hours.

Having dealt with Americans on planes before I cannot see how this is a remotely good idea

Instead of this Howard gave our mineral wealth to Gina & Clive who used that wealth to pay for right wing political campaigns & animatronic dinosaurs And they still want Australians to work on “African wages” & be able to deny workers their entitlements This 👇is soooo much better

Believe it or not this is an improvement from where it was under former Coalition Energy Minister, Angus Taylor, who allowed us to have as little as “19 to 24” days of petrol while outsourcing our strategic reserves to THE UNITED STATES Literally half a world away, on the other side of the PACIFIC!

Super is about making sure retirement is super for everyone. And sustainable economic development means Australians have a stable democracy while working and in retirement. Unionised workers delivering the goods once again….

The only surprise is that it’s taken this long for the UK to begin raising taxes after Brexit TBF the Tory Party was never going to raise taxes after promising Brexit would lower taxes (which was a total lie)

People say Australia has a “productivity problem” when in reality we have “mining dependency” A simple Google search returned the below information We have a problem with capital not being invested in the diversity of industries needed to weather downturns in mining demand Tariffs haven’t helped…

It’s pronounced cyclist.