You can read more about it here: australiainstitute.org.au/post/actu-pl...

Analysis by The Australia Institute reveals that replacing the broken Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT) with a flat 25% tax on gas exports, as suggested by the ACTU, would raise more than $17 billion a year, enough to quadruple Commonwealth spending on housing. Read the full release below:

How is Susan Ley’s writing to the US Republicans to defy the government’s Palestine policy not treasonous?

We need to talk about Sydney’s tunnels. I keep making the mistake of using them. Designed to make the trip shorter, they regularly end up longer and even more expensive because: - the signage leading to them is confusing - GPS does not read them underground - the signage inside them is hopeless

I underestimated how much I'd like having saved posts.

A manager writes in another reply: “when we say ‘release’ we mean quietly load it onto the LeadSmart website and not tell anyone”. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

finally someone in Parliament said it. I am not the only one who noticed that Abbott-era bipartisan hysteria over Australians fighting with ISIS has until now been matched by complete crickets on Australians joining genocidal Israeli occupation forces. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

It's within the rules, but that should change - politicians receiving travel allowance to stay in homes they or their spouses own in Canberra is a very, very broken system www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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They should consider filing a police complaint too He shoved his fist into the journalist's face along with verbally threatening to punch him - absolutely actionable I've had enough of people dismissing this violent old bastard as some sort of quirky character. He's an ugly, angry old bastard

Premier League may help overcome Australia’s ‘petty’ football code wars

National childcare register, CCTV trial and mobile phone ban declared in major Australian safety reform

Thousands was spent on posters promoting 2 fruit and 5 veg with Euro centric diets Can remember a mum saying to me : “Sista Sally do you know how much a lettuce or an apple costs in Wyndham ? We have one tap for 42 people , no electricity or fridge and you want me to buy lettuces and apples ? “

Killing journalists. My @smh cartoon.

Sportsbet regulating itself is a joke. The Govt must respond to the Murphy Inquiry and ban gambling ads. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

In news that will excite funeral home embalmers, pet budgerigars and people who yell through the cash window at 7/11 employees at 2 in the morning, Chris Uhlmaan will be unzipping and getting his fully firm China out for our appreciation on Sky News next Monday. Do try to contain your excitement.

If investors are silly enough to wait tillthe end of the 5th year, then that's their problem, not a policy one. Also. So what? Someone has to buy those houses being sold... Great - more affordable housing!

Cars sold in Australia still use more petrol and emit more toxic fumes than advertised, new real-world testing shows

‘Significant legal breakthrough’ as NSW court blocks state’s largest coal expansion over emissions

Moesha Johnson wins Australia’s first 10km open-water swimming gold at world championships

I’ve been investigating this story about a #surgeon operating for years at the apex of the hospital system, the hidden story of culture that enabled him & people left behind. We’re grateful to medical professionals & patients who spoke up. Don’t miss God Complex #4corners Monday ABC TV. #medicine

Often think of Paul Keating's pitch to "pivot to Asia" in the 90's - strengthening our ties in OUR region - and lament that we kept looking to Europe and USA... what a wasted 30 years that's been.

Station to station: first look at the Metro Tunnel set to revolutionise Melbourne travel

🚨 NEW MILESTONE | Solar OVERTOOK gas as California’s largest source of electricity ☀️ In the 12 months to April 2024, solar produced 83.1 TWh of electricity — surpassing gas (81.6 TWh) for the first time 📈 ember-energy.org/dat...

Coalition happy to have quotas for Nationals on frontbench but not for female Liberal MPs, Tanya Plibersek says

i know there's a new comms minister but this has been a long time coming, and the goverment hid behind the "on-going legal action excuse". remarkable that there is nothing? not even a vague commitment to ensuring the impartiality of the abc??? (i know ed husic posted about it)

Wealth needs to be taxed more regardless of who holds it. Boomers, Gen X. We can't expect the young to keep coughing up through income tax. I'm a boomer, at the younger end, and I'm all for Chalmers having a crack at taxing wealth. Large super balances, inheritances and multi investment properties.

Paul Keating says US Aukus review could ‘save Australia from itself’ as sceptics hail chance to exit pact

The attempt to change super tax concessions has worried the extremely wealthy that people will realise just how rigged the system is in their favour. And they worry it might finally be the start of attempts to address the growing wealth inequality in this country www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

A brilliant piece: ‘The debacle has all the hallmarks of the rapacious gouging that big sports inflict on taxpayers’: the unnecessary sporting infrastructure, the support of the major parties, cost blowout, the abandonment of proper policy process, the big 4 at the trough….

🇦🇺s lobbying rules are completely broken & it’s hurting our democracy. The PM should use his huge majority to clean up our lobbying laws. Too often the major parties team up against this kind of reform me & the xbench have been pushing www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"It's like the U.S. was defeated in war and is being occupied by a hostile enemy." #ResistTrump

‘We’ll determine our defence policy’: Albanese responds to US push for huge rise in spending as it stokes China fears

What is going on with the ABC RN? There are devestating floods and rains on the East Coast, drought in many areas of three States, yet this morning we have had wall tp wall "National Party" garbage about a coalition joke based on their wages. Nothing about reality, pure hypothetical propaganda.

Good read

Over a million Aussies gave their number one vote to an independent this election. We’ve never seen anything like it. And it’s all because of your support 🩵

Independent Nicolette Boele declared provisional winner in Bradfield by 40 votes

Victoria announces free public transport for under 18s, as state’s debt projected to rise

People reacting to the She Matters mural in Hosier Lane, Melbourne. The mural contains the names & faces of 128 Australian women killed since Jan 1, 2024 This is the work of Sherele Moody of #FemicideWatch Donate: australianfemicidewatch.org/support/ Shop: australianfemicidewatch.org/shop-2/

Tony Armstrong: ‘The tone of the world shifting. The way that I’m getting spoken to is wild’

Five vice-chancellors in Victoria paid more than $1m in 2024, prompting claims of ‘largesse’

The ABC’s furore over who gets a cabinet position and who doesn’t in the Labor govt is an absolute beat up. It’s the perfect example of false balance - digging around for something negative to say about Labor. And those on here jumping on that bandwagon are just being played by the media. Wake up.

Ethical super fund says QBE ‘not joining the dots’ between fossil fuel projects and rising premiums

In New Zealand, receiving a Maori greeting is a special occasion. In Australia, receiving an Aboriginal greeting turns normally sane people into screaming racists Says something about Australians and their idea of "one"

Denied citizenship by the country he died for, this Anzac Day Aboriginal war hero Bill Allan is being honoured by France

My son, 24, started talking, yesterday, about what would happen if war and conscription came. I just said to him 'they are taking you over my dead body'. And I meant it. Never again do we send a generation of beautiful boys to a pointless death. Never.