On Budget night tonight, an exclusive group of Australia’s 1% will pay $110,000 to dine with Labor’s inner circle. The 1% pay a worker’s annual wage to sip champagne with the PM, while you read the news about NDIS cuts that pay for increased defence spending. It’s cooked.

One Nation’s win in Farrer didn't happen in a vacuum - it happened because the major parties have left people behind. It is getting harder to get by, and people are right to be angry. Politics should work for people, but right now the only ones benefiting are the 1%.

This Mother's Day, Australia's billionaires will make another $29 million in a single day. Meanwhile, mums across the country are making impossible choices.

"The tax system makes it easier for a professional property investor to buy their 60th house than it does for someone to buy their first. "That is so obscene." @larissawaters.bsky.social joins @ebonybennett.bsky.social to discuss Australia's housing crisis & taxing the 1%. 🎧 theaus.in/4tB6M0C

As stretched Australian mortgage-holders brace for yet another rate rise today, the big banks are seeing dollar signs. While you’re being smashed for an inflation problem you didn’t cause - the banks win. Labor could make the 1% pay their fair share, but they won’t.

CW: Post discusses the death of a First Nations child My heart aches for the family of Kumanjayi Little Baby and their community. Violence against First Nations women and children is an epidemic that we must work in solidarity with First Nations women to address.

In attempt to prolong its genocide in Gaza, Israel has seemingly kidnapped Australian citizens in international waters. This is yet another shocking breach of international law by Israel.

Speaking at an industry event this morning, it's clear the PM is trying to dampen expectations of a gax export tax, claiming "no surprises" in the upcoming budget. But he's stopped short of ruling one out. It's clear that he's feeling the heat.

Booing at Anzac Day ceremonies across the country was a coordinated campaign by the far-right. They have openly bragged about it. Angus Taylor and Barnaby Joyce backing in these nonsense attacks on Welcome to Country just gives those booing what they wanted.

I'll be doing a Reddit AMA on /r/australia this afternoon - talking about economic inequality, the upcoming budget, and the Greens fight for the top 1% to pay their fair share. Hope to see you there!

Coordination by the far-right to boo the Welcome to Country at Dawn services was utterly disgraceful. Many First Nations people served Australia when they weren’t recognised as citizens of this country. They deserve respect, but that doesn’t fit far-right racist ideology.

The PM wants you to know it's a difficult and uncertain time… for gas giants. Give me a break. Do you know who it's actually a difficult and uncertain time for? Us. Everyday Australians are currently being taxed more heavily than the greedy gas corporations.

Renters are facing some of the worst housing insecurity in living memory, and the fuel crisis is making it worse. The PM must use National Cabinet today to coordinate a nationwide rent freeze and ban on evictions, just like Vic did during COVID. The only barrier is political will.

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.

This is an opportunity for bold generational reform, not tinkering around the edges. Momentum is growing for significant tax reform in the May budget. Dozens of groups are today calling for a tax on gas exports of at least 25% - a move that would raise $17 billion each year.

Australia needs an independent defence policy that makes us safer, not one that ties us closer to unhinged billionaires like Trump. We should not be locking ourselves deeper into US weapons systems and dependence on a country whose politics can shift overnight.

Today marks 35 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody made 339 recommendations to address systemic racism and over-incarceration of First Nations people. Since then, more than 630 First Nations people have died in custody, including 12 so far in 2026.

While you work harder than ever to get ahead, the 1% make money in their sleep and big corporations make massive profits. And it's getting worse. But here’s the kicker: while your wages are taxed heavily, the wealth of the top 1% is not. It's unfair.

A warm welcome to Vanessa Bleyer who has been elected by Tasmanian Greens members as our newest Senator for lutruwita/Tasmania. Vanessa will join our team later this year when Senator Peter Whish-Wilson steps down after more than a decade in parliament.

Angus Taylor’s announcement is a desperate Coalition attempt to win back One Nation voters hellbent on blaming migrants instead of the billionaires who are actually fanning the flames of inequality. Instead of coming up with any new ideas, they turn to racist dog whistling.

Right now, Labor is gearing up to rip funding from the NDIS in the upcoming budget. There's always money for war but right when people are doing it the toughest, the NDIS and the people it supports are facing cuts.

The Greens back the ACTU call for the ban on supermarket price gouging to start early. People can’t wait for July 1 while they’re getting ripped off right now. The Gov must make price gouging illegal economy-wide - not just at supermarkets - but on fuel, power bills, all of it.

While politicians try to look busy on the fuel crisis, millions of renters feel forgotten yet again. War inflation has joined with rich property investor tax breaks to push house prices even further out of reach. Yet again: the ultra rich keep winning, while everyone else hurts.

BREAKING: The Senate just set up a Greens-led inquiry into a 25% gas export tax. Big gas corporations are ripping us all off, paying almost no tax while people are hurting. This inquiry will expose gas corp greed, pushing govt for fairer tax & cost of living help in the budget.

Everything is impossible until it’s not. The Greens have led the calls to make public transport free nationally; it’s great to see Victoria get onboard this morning. Albanese must use national cabinet tomorrow to make it happen everywhere.

"These greedy gas corporations are taking the piss." "They've been price-gouging Australians for far too long, and it's time our government placed a minimum 25% gas export levy to use that revenue to help people." @larissawaters.bsky.social 👏👏👏 #auspol

South Australians head to the polls this weekend, and the SA Greens have rolled out their biggest campaign yet! The SA Labor government - like the federal Labor government - is choosing to tinker around the edges on cost-of-living, housing, the climate crisis. But we can do better.

Today is International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, but here in Australia racism isn’t being eliminated, it is rising. Unchallenged hate leads to devastating consequences. There are ways to confront and tackle systemic racism - but so far Labor is ignoring them.

I've written to the PM offering to pass a 25% gas export tax in the next two weeks. Rich gas corps are making billions off this war, get gas for free, and pay almost no tax. That's money better spent helping people. No more free ride for gas corps while people go backwards.

Thinking of everyone in FNQ as Cyclone Narelle tracks toward the coast. Authorities warn it could be the biggest system in living memory. Please keep checking official warnings, prepare your home and kit, and follow any advice from local authorities without delay.

Making public transport free, for as long as this crisis goes on for, must be on the table at National Cabinet today. This would be immediate cost-of-living relief, and take the pressure off fuel supplies. Billionaires took us to war, and the rest of us are paying for it.

Tomorrow the PM is meeting state and territory leaders about the fuel crisis. They should discuss making public transport free for as long as the crisis goes on for. And as the federal government is backing the war, they should pick up the tab.

Victim-survivors of family, domestic and sexual violence must feel safe to seek support. Having their private conversations with 1800 RESPECT handed over to their perpetrators, does not provide that safety. It just adds to the trauma they’ve already experienced.

While Trump and Netanyahu’s chaos in the Middle East unleashes great human suffering, fossil fuel corporations are making massive profits. Australian gas companies profited roughly $100 billion when Russia invaded Ukraine. We can’t allow the same profiting from war again.

Today, on the International Day to Combat Islamophobia, we remind the government that it’s been 16 months since the Race Discrimination Commissioner released the National Anti-Racism Framework, a roadmap to combat racism in Australia, and Labor is letting it gather dust.

My heart is with everyone facing floods up north. In Bundaberg it's the worst in 10 years, in Katherine the worst in decades. And more rain is possible. Rolling disasters will keep devastating Northern Australian communities as governments make the climate crisis worse.

Labor has so many reasons to get Australia out of AUKUS. Canada sees it’s a dud deal and doesn’t want to join any more. There’s another illegal Trump & Netanyahu war in the Middle East that Australia should not be supporting.

We all deserve support when we need it - and we deserve it without having to wait weeks or months for it, especially when that wait could be deadly. Add your name to the call to governments to fund women's safety: www.fairagenda.org/fund_womens_...

Funding for frontline FDSV services is still only 80% of what the sector has spent a decade calling for. That's 1 in 5 women being turned away. If this government can afford to hand $368b to Trump for AUKUS submarines, why can’t they afford to fully fund women and children’s safety?

In war, civilians suffer, while the rich line their pockets. Oil profits are up. Weapons companies are booming. Meanwhile, schools and hospitals get bombed, and thousands die. War makes billionaires and their corporations even richer. It’s just another business model for them.

You cannot bomb your way to peace. Labor must immediately rule out further Australian support for Trump and Netanyahu’s illegal war in Iran.

Israel’s endless war continues with more bombing of Iran and the Iranian people. Whether Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Yemen or Lebanon the region has experienced repeated Israeli and western killings and invasions and it always pushes peace away. The world must act to end the killing, stop the bombing.

Big love to everyone headed to Mardi Gras in Sydney this weekend. Now more than ever, spaces that celebrate queer joy and community must be protected. The Greens are proud to join LGBTQIA+ people in solidarity this weekend, and all year round.

Big news. Negative Gearing changes are back on the table following our campaign to end investor handouts. Unfair tax discounts just make housing more expensive, and give billions to super-wealthy property investors. Ending them will help everyone have a home to call their own.

You can’t afford to put food on the table while Coles & Woolies use fake discount claims to rake in mega profits. Two weeks ago Labor, the Liberals & One Nation all voted against the Greens Bill to make price gouging illegal. Still think they’re fighting for you?

The PM calling Grace Tame, a woman fighting for the safety of children, “difficult” is completely unwarranted.  Labelling women as difficult won’t silence us. It won’t stop us speaking truth to power.  Next time try “unbreakable” or “warrior” or “fierce”, Prime Minister.

Social cohesion doesn’t look like appointing an NT administrator who has mocked First Nations peoples, made sexist & transphobic comments, and “jokes” about family violence. Listening to First Nations communities doesn’t look like ignoring their concerns and emboldening racists.

The Prime Minister being evacuated from his residence in Canberra due to a bomb threat overnight is shocking, I am glad he is safe and well. The recent escalation of threats against parliamentarians must be called out. Violence has no place in our democracy.

Next time you’re told there’s no money for mental health or affordable housing, remember Peter Mandelson — former UK Ambassador to the US, “best friend” of Jeffrey Epstein, and now arrested for misconduct in public office.

I have written to the Ministers ahead of today’s Women’s Safety meeting: stop the murders with funding, not more talk.  We need immediate, funded action on housing, policing, alcohol and gambling, and national data.