Apparently the capital gains changes are going to hurt young people. Sure, Jan (or Angus, or Pauline, or Timmy) www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

Weird how every time taxes are raised on the wealthy, they threaten to move. And then they don't. It seems their low-taxing idyllic jurisdictions actually suck as places to live. 🤔 www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

A bit happening in the old #auspol so best go read @amyremeikis.bsky.social to find out what you need to know #PointLive live.thepoint.com.au

“He was dressed up as the ghost of Abraham Lincoln and he would’ve gotten away with it if it wasn’t for this meddling president”

Trump: "Grass has a life just like people have a life"

totally normal. nothing to see here. just extra handshaking at the lunch probably. (Saul Loeb/AFP and Kevin Dietsch/Getty)

It's hard to get everything into an 800-word piece. One thing that got left on the editing floor is duck hunting. It reduces waterbird numbers, stresses birds which compromises their immune function and health, and brings waterbirds, hunters and hunting dogs into close proximity. Very bad idea.

How might H5N1 (bird flu)—now in at least two Australian states—affect native wildlife and ecosystems, and compound Australia's extinction crisis? Some thoughts from me 👉 theconversation.com/bird-flu-has...

I've been through the system and can attest that it is less than useless. It now seems it's a scam. #Auspol "The result is a system where people become revenue streams. Government has created an entire industry that now lobbies for its own continued existence." thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

Parks and Reich

Watching this clip of Neera Tanden on CNN last night, and I just think this is such a consultant-brained outlook to have about the purpose of primaries.

again, if this is the heavy-handed manipulation they are doing to Grok, what do you think they are doing to the algorithm which chooses which posts to show you (and which of your posts are shown to others) over there?

My column on the the tax changes already working and the data showing who gets most of the capital gains www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

in addition to every other problem here, mamdani spends the vast majority of his time in the public eye speaking about hyper-local new york city governance issues. the idea that he is preoccupied with israel at all times is based on nothing other than the fact that he is muslim

Nazi is as Nazi does

Scientific American is 180 years old. The most eminent science magazine for the general public. And today, sold off as scrap to stop the staff from unionizing. Many top editors I've worked with for a decade on several articles have been fired. What a disgrace @sciam.bsky.social

Watching BBC News and they just did 5 minutes with a doctor about how this heatwave is life threatening and the interviewer closed it with "well, it's just an opportunity to have ice cream for breakfast!!". Amazing clip of how the BBC seems just blissfully unaware of what is happening

Tend to agree with the theory that he's trying to get fired by Nine for the complete "I've been cancelled" pipeline. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

"t seems it’s out with the old and in with the old." Succinctly put by @zackpolanski.bsky.social Northern Starmer might even turn out to be WORSE than southern Starmer. Labour is changing the wrapper nothing else.

Gina will be pleased 😱🤣 "Canavan demanded on Wednesday that Hanson declare her party’s position on the fuel tax credit scheme after Farley supported an independent-led push on Tuesday to cap the benefit for the wealthiest mining companies, and to redirect the savings to renewable energy projects."

Really annoyed with the #Lowy Institute. For the second time, they’ve asked Australians whether we should seek a nuclear-powered submarine, then reported the answer as “support for #AUKUS”. I wrote and complained last time and they said they would fix it, but they haven’t.

Meet James Purnell. Andy Burnham's chief of staff. In earlier incarnation, he supported the Iraq invasion; was chairman of Labour Friends of Israel; said that Winter Fuel Allowance and free bus passes should not be sacred; supported PFI, lie-detector tests for benefit claimants. What next?

The reflecting pool debacle is the perfect visual metaphor for the Trump Administration - superficial approaches to complex problems leading to worse outcomes than if he had done nothing.

Reminder: -Our farms are no longer yielding -Heatwaves -Advancement of desert is alarming -Our rivers are drying -Proliferation of pest and pathogens -Development of tropical diseases. -Our crop are dieing out. Climate change is a reality we must fight.

Victorian state Liberal MP denies assault on fellow Lib MP amid police probe over dinner ‘incident’ www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victori... #springst #auslaw archive version: archive.is/uPTKa

Trump literally drove a presidential motorcade through the reflecting pool while it was still being refurbished & before the new liner even dried properly. if you drift a bunch of armored SUVs around inside of a dry pool, it damages the liner. it isn’t difficult to figure out what happened.

Just when you think it can’t get more weird….. Fencing going up around Reflecting Pool

AOC on the Reflecting Pool: They talked a bunch of smack. They said they had to repaint the pool, and now they’ve turned it into an actual swamp.

Step 1: Guardsmen around the Reflecting Pool Step 2: Fence around the Reflecting Pool Step 3: Tarp around the Reflecting Pool Step 4: Ballroom around the Reflecting Pool

“I will be one of the Jewish members of Congress most willing to stand up for Palestinian human rights. And I will stand firmly against bigotry aimed at Jews. Those are not two different jobs. They are the same job,” Brad Lander said.

You have to wonder: if Nine is worth $2.8m a year to him (and just let that sit with you for a bit...), and he's either trying to get himself sacked or doesn't care if he is - what else has he been offered, and by whom? The Oz RW media griftosphere alone isn't going to pay that sort of compensation.

Hmm. Newly arrived, don't speak the language, immediately given housing and food and provided with all their needs... are babies the real immigrants we need to fear?

NY-10, my district, is the most Jewish congressional district in the country, w/about 25% of voters identifying as Jewish. And yet tonight the district threw out pro-Israel Rep. Dan Goldman, and elected Brad Lander, who calls Gaza a genocide and favors an cut-off of weapons to Israel, by 30+ pts. 1/

New figures out today show 27% of women who would like to work but don't, cite child care as the main barrier. 2% of men cite child care. live.thepoint.com.au

"Political operatives are trying to intimidate me. It's not going to work". Fucking brilliant stuff by @amyremeikis.bsky.social www.deepcutnews.com/p/political-...

Absolutely superb work by @skyelark.bsky.social: Hanson's massive non-English speaking figure includes 100,000 babies. Yes, really. thepoint.com.au/factchecks/2...

So many years of him not understanding what an asylum seeker is.

“Raised doubts” FFS.

It’s cold and foggy in Canberra, but @amyremeikis.bsky.social is up and blogging #PointLive live.thepoint.com.au

It's the 10th anniversary of the dumbest moment in modern British history so let's celebrate some of the idiots who made it happen. First up ... Jacob Rees-Mogg and his promise of cheap food and wine... In fact food prices have increased some 12% as a direct result of Brexit (LSE) 1/5

Whinge Nation encapsulates everything they are

"It is an admirable idea that these awful allegations are fully investigated by our own authorities, independently of political influence. But nobody should expect the outcome of this investigation to lead to anything." @marquelawyers.com.au #auspol www.crikey.com.au/2026/06/23/g...

Pauline Hanson confirms she wants to end maternity leave, claiming it forces businesses to “fold” Clearly just rubbish. And clearly One Nation want to force women to choose b/w having kids & having a job. Not a policy, a dangerous misinformation campaign. #auspol

“The safeguard mechanism is failing.” – Fergus Green, Associate Professor, University College London Read more ➡️ https://theaus.in/4uOVh5G

The same day top mining lobbyist Tania Constable claimed @australiainstitute.org.au criticisms of the government’s safeguard mechanism were “ridiculous" ....turns out the government paid foreign owned gas exporter/ tax cheat - Shell $90m free carbon offsets despite INCREASING it’s emissions

Cost of living is rising in Australia – but migrants are not the cause. “People have really felt the squeeze, but migration isn't the issue here and blaming migrants is not going to fix the problem.” – Matt Grudnoff, Senior Economist For more info 👇 https://theaus.in/3SVnxWS

Still thinking of ways to build community (you know, before the pogroms) and have met some very thoughtful and concerned people looking for the same answers. And it is also clear that there is a big difference between attending an event and building community.

“If the government is serious about reducing emissions, it should be serious about getting rid of fossil fuel subsidies and serious about putting binding targets on major polluters like the mining industry.” – co-CEO Dr Richard Denniss Read more ➡️ https://theaus.in/4eBVdQv

We really don't need them

The Safeguard Mechanism is failing to drive real emissions reductions across Australian industry because it enables polluters to rely on unlimited amounts of so-called “offsets”. Read the full report 👇 https://theaus.in/3SffmEO