Mostly everyone who can works hard - is the principal objection here more impact on one’s sense of entitlement than material impact? “There are still pretty powerful incentives…If, instead of becoming a billionaire, you make $800m, is that less incentive?” #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Our personal (and inter-personal) imaginal space needs to be our most treasured garden. ‘Today, true imagination – that is, untethered dreaming for the nourishment of the self – has become a radical act, as radical as trespass’ www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

If the US cannot land troops anywhere, perhaps they could occupy Israel, impose democracy, end the apartheid, return land and rights to Palestinians, and police the region to keep peace for the next 50 years? That would be meaningful - the rest is a cruel hoax. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

The people promulgating this violence have lost their souls. The best they can hope for is the bitter taste of endless meaningless brutality. A path of repair and love with the Palestinians is hard but surely preferable to living as a nation of cruelty. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

The harvest of US no-holds-barred capitalism and individualism, brought to us by the most reckless political party, grifters and mass of voting people in human history. Technology independence for Australia is hard but worth exploring. No to #aukus #auspol www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

India has created a zero-fee retail payments grid that has >400 mil users and moves trillions of $. This is no accident. India treats digital payments as public infrastructure, not as a premium private service. #innovation #reform #auspol www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/i...?

I asked Gemini re. the HBR article: “I can generate a response that incorporates all your specific industry details, making the advice sound highly tailored, while I am quietly steering you toward the same generic, buzzword-heavy cluster of ideas I give to everyone else. #AI hbr.org/2026/03/rese...

Author David Gillespie draws a strong line from algorithm-induced addiction to prescribed attention settling drugs, and soaring meth rates in Australia: 530 million doses per year and growing fast #auspol open.substack.com/pub/dgillesp...

Government departments struggle and often fail to ‘own’ their own capabilities. Robodebt taught Australia that services must remain human-centred and human-accountable, flipping to fully autonomous decision-making algorithms is not the answer. #auspol www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/u...

GPT-type AI’s strength may be its major economic weakness: non-determinism requires fact checking and supervision of everything of consequence. Machines can pump endlessly, but there’s a big bottleneck with available human specialists to check and verify. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

Vale David Malouf, a beautiful writer, thinker and spirit. A wonderfully creative man, a towering talent in Australian cultural life. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

“If we had not got rid of Mossadegh, Iran today would be a good member of the family of nations, a socialist democratic country,” former CIA spymaster on US and UK catastrophic undermining of world democracies, begetting the ayatollahs and worse #auspol www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

France starts moving government systems from Windows to Linux France is ditching US software for homegrown alternatives of Google Docs, Microsoft Office, Zoom, and Telegram Libre Office is very good. www.techspot.com/news/112032-...

The best European political news in years! Who knows what the new mob will be like, but it is great that Hungarians choose a democratic future and with the EU — and Orban, as orful as he has seemed - has the grace to concede defeat. #auspol #europol www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Just sheer murder “Israel insisted it was targeting Hezbollah, Israeli defence minister saying, w/out providing evidence, 200 "terrorists" were killed on Wed. But a list of the dead, released by the health ministry on Thurs, included 30 children and 71 women” #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

The dark side of the moon.

‘Solidarity across difference’ or ethno/religious-nationalism that always seems to end in savagery: ‘The Bundists dreamed of deliverance without exodus; the liberation of the Jews in concert with the liberation of their neighbors.’ #union #auspol www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

“the truth is that Western corporations didn’t lose to China; they sold out to China. They offshored jobs, gutted trade unions, and handed over their IP for a quick buck” #auspol www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/c...

Who finds peace by inflicting such violence? We mustn’t support it: “In the past, the refugees were allowed to return to their villages…Now, for the next weeks and months, and maybe years, they will not be allowed to return. This is why it is ethnic cleansing.” #auspol www.smh.com.au/world/middle...

A history of the top marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans: 1940: 81% 1950: 84% 1960: 91% 1970: 72% 1980: 70% 1990: 28% 2000: 40% 2010: 35% For 50 years, corporate backed politicians in Congress have slashed taxes to line the pockets of their wealthy donors.

“Nations that once bandwagoned with the US will now remain aloof or align against it—not because they want to, but because the United States leaves them no choice, because it will neither protect them nor refrain from exploiting them.” #auspol No to #aukus www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Eight armed and disguised officers, at dawn, to arrest a woman alleged to have thrown a water bottle at someone. Did they think she was Trinity from the Matrix? As good as it gets in NSW @australianlabour.bsky.social? #auspol www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

For the global historical record. Oslo Davis cartoon, March 21, 2026 www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/cart... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

“The problem with the public conversation we are *not* having is that people who believe – as I and thousands of other Jewish Australians do – that Jewish safety is inseparable from Palestinian safety are not being heard enough.” #auspol @australianunions.bsky.social www.smh.com.au/national/yes...

Royal Commission into the Killing of Australian Women and Girls - Sign the Petition! c.org/ZBDCS2ZRZJ via @ChangeAUS

We are being ripped off big and long time - in 1998 tax from companies extracting and selling Australian gas was approx. same as now - but now these companies make 25 x more $$ selling Australian gas, AND our home prices are being pegged at global prices. #auspol www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

“It was clear that the CGT concession funnelled billions of dollars every year into the wealthiest parts of the country.” Wentworth alone got $1.75B in property investment tax breaks. They don’t need it. The money should be going to public housing #auspol www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Is Australia at war?! No! Our bombs and planes are being used in a war-adjacent manner | First Dog on the Moon #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How do we end up betraying ourselves, and so badly? ‘Australia Institute data finds state and federal subsidies for coal, gas and oil products increased 10% in past year, growing at a faster pace than funding to NDIS’ #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Gen Z earthquake. #auspol www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Independent Senator for the ACT David Pocock has called for an inquiry into why gas companies pay less for gas exports than Australians pay in the beer excise. thepoint.com.au/news/260303-...

“It seems that too many of our major institutions are run by out-of-touch suits who consider art a kind of luxury widget created by especially colourful employees.” The politics, of course, nowhere so interesting as the art itself #ausart #art www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22721/...

The hardest part of a limited two-week military action is the first several years. Just ask Putin.

Those with moral courage lead and can build health and prosperity lasting for generations. Those that force respect from their bombs lose that respect as soon as they stop bombing. They leave nothing but rubble, death and poverty behind. No to #aukus #auspol www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Coming from a consistent, coherent moral position, this senator shows a steadier heart and spirit than most in the major parties, and he has the courage to speak out. A chance to have a reasoned argument about something instead of jumping at every shadow. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Trump’s war may last years, as per Iraq, at horrifying cost to the Iranian people - in whose name the war is almost certainly not. The Aus Gov and her advisors appear to have pulled out the 2003 playbook. So…don’t expect sanity anytime soon #auspol www.smh.com.au/world/middle...

“As AI severs the link between time and output, and the foundation of modern labor contracts starts to give way…We are entering the first open conflict over the meaning of time since the Industrial Revolution” @australianunions.bsky.social #auspol www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/how-...

“As if the illusion of home ownership, the destruction of the planet and the enormity of public and private debt were not enough of a burden to leave for the next generation” — an earthquake of political change coming too… #auspol www.smh.com.au/national/wha...

Inspiration all round in the UK! #auspol www.smh.com.au/world/europe...

“This FY, taxpayers will hand over nearly $10.8bn to make it cheaper to use diesel and petrol…it is a clear fossil fuel subsidy and should be wound back, if not outright abolished, in this term of parliament.” Aus. Institute #auspol #envirinoment #climateheating www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control.

This article may suffer an excess of intelligent reasoning. Could it have looked a step further at an economic system that relies on breaking solidarity to squeeze advantage out of workers, and at the formation of political parties for that express purpose? Who can say? #auspol url-shortener.me/D0G6

This scary article referenced by Alan Kohler today ignores multiple obstacles to AI dominance: values, intent/meaning, complexities of human existence and experience not expressed as data, resources required for its current brute computing approach. #auspol #union shumer.dev/something-bi...

The beauty of this story is as unfathomable as the mysteries running through every nook of our lives. Would the universe exist without love? What class of particles would that be? #love #bestfriends #physics www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Beating the crap out of protestors calling for the same rights for Palestinians and Israelis is not OK. This is a complete failure @australianlabor.bsky.social @australianunions.bsky.social #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Mamdani read @pookleblinky.bsky.social and was like "OK let's try some more of that"

“Love, sadly, cannot be legislated.” #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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