Turns out Birmingham & the Big4 banks skipped out on the Capital Gains Tax inquiry, despite being in the building.🙄 Australia Institute Economist @mattgrudnoff.bsky.social gives a clue as to why: Bcoz the CGT discount pushes up houses prices, banks lend more, & make more money💰 #auspol

“I will always jump at the chance to party with teens on an island,” said President Trump. chaser.com.au/business/tru...

The duopoly outsource critical government functions to offshore companies - including SERCO, known for running prisons Every Australian knows that there will be no accountability That's the purpose We saw outsourcing ROBODEBT to algorithms was wrong too www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The US repatriated all their citizens & has offered countries aircraft to repatriate. The Netherlands Germany & France have. There is no coherent reason for Australia not to organise repatriation of their citizens #auspol womensagenda.com.au/latest/austr...

"Moreover, the desire to support writers over key institutions is short-sighted: literary institutions are important because they outlast individuals & establish cultures of achievement that persist over time." Good this by @emmettstinson.bsky.social on Writers Vic www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/24/w...

'But you know what they did manage to cut out of the broadcast? Akinola Davies Jr. saying “Free Palestine” during his speech for winning outstanding British debut for “My Father’s Shadow.”'

Opinion |  "Australian literary culture needs funding that will enable organisations to make truly long-term plans, rather than going through bouts of feast and famine," @emmettstinson.bsky.social writes.

“The gas export industry already gets most of its gas for free. This conference is gas companies saying they want publicly-subsidised infrastructure as well,” said Rod Campbell, Research Director at The Australia Institute. Read more: https://theaus.in/4cahXYz

Supporting removing Prince Andrew from the line of succession is good but what would be better is removing Australia from an inherited dynasty of wealth and privilege that protected him and his class for far too long

Premier Jacinta Allan on our #4Corners: “I’ve also referred these allegations to Victoria Police. Without commenting on specific case, let me be clear: Performing unnecessary surgery is a crime, removing a woman's organs without a clinical need is a crime, & assisting in that conduct is a crime."

“Dropped the ball”. Medical regulator sought no expert opinion in knocking back women’s complaints about Dr Simon Gordon going back years. & hospital told nurses who wanted to complain to AHPRA to go through its lawyers so would be legally privileged (hence secret). www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

A Giant Kelp Holdfast growing down from a kelp base. Holdfasts are homes for 100s of species. Brittle stars gather near the edges filtering food out of the water. Juvenile crustaceans find shelter inside the maze. Bacteria settles out on anything new that's growing & that encourages more arrivals.

WOW! As of this morning only about 350 letters had been sent out urging our Delegates to hold data centers accountable and lower our energy costs. BUT after we blasted this call to action, we hit our goal of sending over 1,000 letters to our Delegates. Keep going! actionnetwork.org/letters/shif...

On another aspect of logistics, Home Depot has invested heavy into AI. Days ahead of both of the last snowstorms, my local Home Depot was sold out of snow shovels and salt / salt alternatives. This time it was also sold out of snowblowers and firewood.

And given that the UK and Australia are also contracting Palantir for government work, the risk is far wider than just the US.

Here is a cartoon about how some Guardian readers have tiny things! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Cockatoos! I hate property developers because they will not leave the cockatoos alone. I hate them with my life. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Shadow minister for immigration.

Great cartoon

Australia Post doing NFTs while arguing delivering the mail is becoming too expensive.

We’re trying to send 1,000 letters to our members of the Virginia House of Delegates by the end of the day urging them to lower our energy costs, hold data centers accountable, and protect our environment. PASS SB339 AND SB619! Take Action ⬇️ actionnetwork.org/letters/shif...

If there is a plain of concentration camps…Auschwitz is this tower that kind of looms above all of them...it is critical that we keep that in mind because that shows us where it’s possible to go “How did we get to that point and how do we keep from returning to it?” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/o...

"Always, always, always concentration camps are an end run around the existing legal system. These people that are getting rounded up because whoever’s in power wants to do something that they can’t do using the letter of the law..." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/o...

"The graveyard of modern political history is full of new parties that promised to do things differently. Does anyone remember the Nick Xenophon Team, Cory Bernardi’s Australian Conservatives and Gerard Rennick’s People First?" satpa.pe/N3AeMDa

“If countries choose to not reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with previous Paris climate agreement commitments, we can expect to lose many of the ecosystem services coral reefs provide.” – Professor Scott Heron, James Cook University Read more on the Point: https://theaus.in/46kFNgm

Billions of your tax dollars are going to Palantir — and the police state it's helping Trump build could soon be used against you.

Simon Gordon's practices were an open secret in Australian gynaecology and gynaecologists interviewed by the program have expressed their dismay.

It breaks my brain how depraved this is and how this psycho was enabled to get away with it

Yanis Varoufakis youtube.com/shorts/VwrTY...

Greenland, Denmark says 'no thanks' to Trump's hospital ship offer: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-23/denmark-greenland-reject-trump-offer-naval-hospital-ship/106376252

London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

Please explain www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

PayPal Confirms Data Breach — Money Stolen, Passwords Reset

Gisele Pelicot’s husband drugged her for a decade & invited men to rape her A man in the UK drugged his wife for 20 years & invited men to rape her. This man drugged 248 women at job interviews. He gave them something to make them urinate on themselves We aren’t angry enough

If a child says, ‘I won’t’, don’t reach for a label

Farah fled Morocco because it’s a crime to be homosexual She applied for asylum in the US but rather than finding safety, she was thrown in a camp for a year. A judge ruled she couldn’t be sent back to Morocco, so the regime sent her to Cameroon. It’s illegal to be gay there too:

Why does the Australian Future Fund hold a $100 million stake in Palantir? www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/20/c...

A landmark study finds 95 per cent of Australian enterprise agreements fail to address workplace surveillance www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/just-...

Reducing human value to what we can be trained to do is straight up technofascism. Every fascism has its suhumans. To technofascists, humans are the subhumans.

Yachts are rich people's carbon bombs. Yachts are a policy failure. We should put a 100% luxury tax on yachts, and put the money into green infrastructure that cuts carbon pollution and protects coastal communities from floods.

Politicians are outnumbered by lobbyists in Parliament House 15 to one; on sitting days hundreds of lobbyists roam the halls in Canberra, meeting with Ministers to influence government policies. My Clean Up Politics Act would shine a light on lobbyists’ activities.

So, like some kind of voice to parliament? Without referendum?

Gisèle Pelicot graces the cover of vogue germany, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

This should make your blood boil. But coming from a small country town, it is not at all surprising.

I’ve been listening to the ABC’s Background Briefing podcast, Hometown Boys, about a small, footy obsessed town that has a rape culture that is protected by this local community, because those that play for the Harrow Balmoral Football Club are considered rock stars. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

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