Coverage of the recent Federal Budget proves standards of economic reporting are at an all-time low. Australia now has best-ever economy and worst-ever reporters ~ @alanaustin.bsky.social

Helpful. #auspol

The worst thing this government can do is deliver more of the same www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

Paul Keating with a strong support for the CGT changes and rips into Howard and Costello along the way thepoint.com.au/news/260521-...

My column calling bullshit on the lies www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Saul Eslake pours some much needed cold water on the hysteria around the reforms in the Federal budget #auspol

Bit worrying that a state premier does not understand how income tax works.

#giro #WACup

"Straight out of Mad as Hell". Former submariner @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social on the eye-watering cost of extending Collins subs #auspol #AUKUS michaelwest.com.au/enhanced-sus...

Here's @ronnisalt.bsky.social. "Where One Nation lies".

The neverending story of Nigel, his house and money: 💩Said he bought his Clacton house himself 💩Then said he didn't need to do constituency work because security services told him not to 💩Then claimed his partner bought the house

That's the polite take. More accurately: 'Liberals' migration claims rely on racist lies, designed to inflame division and appeal to One Nation voters'. #auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

Toothbrushes, ice-cream and frozen pizza: data reveals how Coles and Woolworths switch promotions in sync

it's real support from actual racists

Yes, helmets really are important. As busy as your brain cells are, they are also incredibly soft and squishy. In fact, your brain has the consistency of jello. And like jello, it is very vulnerable, especially to physical forces, such as a fall or a sudden jolt.

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

Angus Hanson. Superb from David Pope. #auspol

100 years of David Attenborough From the new Private Eye, out now.

Angus Taylor''s plan to bar migrants from accessing welfare until they become citizens ignores the fact that the vast majority of those people already face up to decades-long waits to access welfare. "It's just another bomb in the culture war." @amyremeikis.bsky.social #auspol

He did. I suggest following Kos Samaras. He's usually right on target. --->>> redbridgeintel.substack.com/p/the-second... #auspol

My wrap of the week: Budget 2026: Celebrate the wins – but keep fighting thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

Great article (particularly for those of us who only did high school economics) #auspol

One of social media's new favourite thought games and what that tells us about ourselves: www.thenewdaily.com.au/finance/news...

Chalmers has been talking up trying to reduce the difference between how much wage earners and investors pay in tax. The Treasury did some research to show just how big the difference is. I cover it in my column www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

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Well, that Express headline was always going to raise a few eyebrows!😳 Starmer is responsible for embracing polygamy to appease Muslims, and so he's increasing their benefits?? That's the implication. After all, this "started in April", right? Wrong! 🧵1/25

Jim Chalmers’ budget doesn’t fix everything – but it’s an overdue first payment to future generations | Ken Henry

Budget 2026 terminology @theageaustralia.bsky.social

My column for DeepCut on the Budget open.substack.com/pub/deepcutn...

My annual graphy column on the budget www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Chalmers' budget aims to level housing playing field, takes investor froth out of investment property market. Harry Chemay reports #auspol #negativegearing #CGT michaelwest.com.au/chalmers-bud...

Trump’s looming defeat in Iran is a personal and political crisis. My latest for The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/08/trump-iran-defeat-personal-political-crisis

I wrote a Substack on it too. “Heart of Europe” means something to pro-Europeans, because it’s *our* phrase. Starmer had better not be nicking our rejoin line in order to keep us outside the EU… …in doing so he’d be aggravating the very base he’s trying to appeal to in order to save himself.

Woeful rabble v flag contenders: a tale of two AFL clubs in Western Australia

🧵 A postcard from the country that already crashed the car, sent with love and a small amount of nausea, to the cousins who are about to crash a bigger one. — @therickwilson.bsky.social's warning from America 🇺🇸➡️🇬🇧 bylinetimes.com/2026/05/08/r... 1/12

The great irony of the Welsh success of Reform, run by millionaire ex-public schoolboys, is that one the greatest Welshmen, & founder of the NHS, warned of this “How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies whole art of Tory politics” Aneurin Bevan

The Fix is In

“The old duopoly is dying before our eyes: these were bad results for the Conservatives as well as Labour. We are now in the era of seven-party politics, saddled with an electoral system designed for no such thing” says @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Yup

Heave Ho ⚓️

Sorry ABC - 8m are not on "income support". My fact check for @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/factchecks/2...

No one expected Keir Starmer to solve our pressing problems overnight. But what we did expect – and had every right to expect – was that he would lay out a clear vision and roadmap for doing so. Instead, we’ve had drift, appeasement and a startling absence of ideas, values and ambition. 🧵1/6

Neither Labor nor a Coalition Govt could have prevented ISIS brides & their children from returning. None of the 3 options for preventing return would have worked. Pretending otherwise is just playing politics. johnmenadue.com/post/2026/05... %26 Irritations

"A tragic birth, and death, in a tent – and still our poorest must pay" @amyremeikis.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

neither here nor there but i keep hearing this dude’s name to the tune of 🎶Jason Derulo🎶 and that’s about the best to be said of his contributions, of which I have more to say here rick-morton.ghost.io/immoral-rear...

Rumours that the govt are about to to target family discretionary trusts in the Budget is a very good thing. My column www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

The media forensically dissects the pasts of people who challenge the status quo, such as Polanski and Corbyn. Fair enough, up to a point: we should know about our representatives. But it's far less inquisitive about those who defend power, however great their misdeeds, such as Nigel Farage.🧵

In which I have a fricken, off the long run, coming in steaming, rant about the RBA @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...