Handy guide for reporters … A claim is made about the impact of tax policy. Test: is it true (you find out). If yes: you have a story. If no: it isn’t a story. Reporting government denial of something that isn’t real … that’s also not a story.

ICYMI (and relevant to story and cartoon below)- my Saturday cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com

Oh, the irony! We direct our Defence $$$ away from fuel storage and instead towards #AUKUS subs (that won’t be delivered) so we can one day join the US in a fight against China … and then when there’s a conflict elsewhere, we have to turn to China for our fuel security. #auspol

Part 2 in "Just how big is the oil and gas industry". The private adult education sector pays almost as much in wages as does the gas industry. Profits are a tad different. live.thepoint.com.au/2026/03/the-...

The Foreign Press Association of Israel and the occupied Palestinian Territories is demanding that countries around the world step up and force Israel to let journalists into Gaza, urging supporters to sign a petition to let them in.

Hamnet (I beseech thee autocorrect NOT Hamlet) where the audience reviews on Rotten Tomatoes are superior to the critics. www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hamnet if you have a soul it will make you weep.

This Angus Taylor, ICYMI. We still don't know where that money went btw - bc Cayman Islands.

@albomp.bsky.social www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Thanks to your support, our full-page ad is in today’s Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Over 1,000 Jews and thousands of allies have signed our open letter to say that Israeli President Isaac Herzog is not welcome here. Help us spread the word!

"Where It All Went Wrong: The Case Against John Howard" by @amyremeikis.bsky.social On the thirtieth anniversary of John Howard coming to power, a searing analysis of the untouchable prime minister: how the ‘great economic manager’ sold our future. 26Feb2026 #auspol #AusHistory #politics #BookSky

I grew up in Wales, I remember that day, how we all sat glued to the TV, rescuers passing the bodies along, the waiting families, the unrelenting rain - hard to imagine a more desolate scene. And it needn't have happened. The Nation Coal Board had been warned repeatedly of the danger.

Pathetic by the National Press Club open.substack.com/pub/chrished...

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."  -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Children are bearing the brunt of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Here are some of the tragic stories of the most recent victims.

All those "mum and dad investors" making sure renters pay a premium and still find a way to negatively gear - www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Utterly moronic decision-making by BOTH duopoly parties - sacrificing the hugely important education sector when it should be thriving, all because they’re incapable of tough decisions on real estate investment rorts. Cutting students is not the solution to housing. amp.abc.net.au/article/1051...

What's going on on Parliament Hill? Check out @davidshoebridge.bsky.social in full flight #auspol #Senate #shoebridge youtu.be/wDqB0tzviqo?...

The old relationship we had with the United States is over. Subtext: Because the United States is over. That’s it. That’s the problem we are electing the next Australian government to deal with.

ICYMI

Borrowed slogans, deepfake consultants, and billionaire-backed astroturfing. The 2025 election is shaping up to be a circus of misinformation. Peter Dutton’s new love for whales? Just another plot twist. Follow the money. #AusPol #Election2025

Accused by a whistleblower of covering up an oil spill that killed dolphins and sea snakes, Santos get fined just $10k 🤯 Santos spends up to $US3.3m per year on a private jet for their executives so I don’t think AUD10k is going to hurt them. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

Great initiative by these writers to encourage reading by our representatives to inform and enhance their perspectives. I do wonder if the pandemic of busy-ness we mostly suffer is another reason we lack nuance in our thinking www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...