“Bunnings customers don’t want to be sold timber that destroys unique forests and pushes the swift parrot to extinction.” Tell them loudly.

I spoke with Jacobin about how the RBA is a key instrument of the capitalists to keep their boots on our neck, one nation, housing and how the Labor-dominated union movement has been completely absent on housing here: jacobin.com/2026/04/aust...

Government lets slip that, yes, it’s hard at work on giving Trump access to your data www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/10/g...

This...more here....

Greens say Australia should step up pressure on Israel over ‘disastrous, illegal, immoral war’ on Lebanon

At some point the political wall of unquestioning support for Israel will start to break down in Australia as well. Israel's continuing actions render it untenable; fiction can only be sustained for so long. Labor will go first, but watch the teals too.

"Election landslides aren't legacies, but a 25% gas tax could define Albanese's" @richarddenniss.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

www.abc.net.au/news/science... “some electric trucks now have about same up-front cost as diesel equivalents, with lower ongoing costs due to fuel savings. They inc the sort of small trucks that do grocery home delivery, to heavy-duty prime movers able to tow a semitrailer 300km on a single charge

"Covid connection? 4 out of 10 Austrians can no longer taste or smell, or hardly at all." A high proportion of people in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland report loss of smell and/or taste, with prevalence around 40%, based on survey data from 2,340 participants. Source: archive.md/UVat9

(3/3) NSW COVID-19 Sewage surveillance program: 9 April 2026 Week ending 4 April 2026: 🔹Bondi: ⬇️DOWN 🔹Liverpool: ⬆️UP 🔹Quakers Hill: ⬆️UP 🔹Hunter: ➡️STABLE @NSWHealth Source: health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/c...

🧵(1/3) NSW respiratory surveillance reports: 9 April 2026 Week ending 4 April 2026: 🔸COVID positivity rate: 4.8% (+1.1%) 🔸Number of laboratories reporting COVID: 2 out of 4 🔹COVID: 975 (-7.7%) 🔹Influenza: 398 (-18.4%) 🔹RSV: 1,464 (-4.9%) Source: health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/c...

🔸NSW Covid positivity highest since August 🔸0-4 age group has most cases 🔸Cicada (BA.3.2) 40% of samples #COVID19NSW

Long COVID could cost OECD countries €116 billion a year over the next decade. "The chronic condition could cost OECD countries billions per year, with the total comparable to the annual health budgets of the Netherlands or Spain, a new report shows." #LongCOVID Source: archive.md/vEsG2

South Australia (SA) Weekly Respiratory Update: 4 Apr to 10 Apr 2026 Reported cases: 🔹COVID: 155 (-29.8%) 🔹Flu: 54 (-8.4%) 🔹RSV: 69 (Stable) 🔹Pertussis: 24 (-14.2%) Reported deaths in 2026: 🔸COVID: <5 🔸Flu: 6⚠️ 🔸RSV: 0 🔸Pertussis: 0 Source: sahealth.sa.gov.au/wps/wcm/conn...

USA: "RFK Jr’s CDC is withholding Covid vaccine report showing benefits of jab" "The research indicated that healthy adults who received the Covid vaccine reduced their risk of urgent care and emergency visits by 50% and Covid-related hospitalizations by 55%" www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

By Maria Amparo Nieto: "The pandemic is not over. What is over is public health and accurate information." Source: x.com/MariampaEc/s...

@australiainstitute.org.au is counting how much revenue Australia has missed out on by failing to tax gas exports every second. It's up to $68 billion and rising! gas.australiainstitute.org.au

As Jewish Australians, we are devastated to learn of the Israeli assault on Lebanon yesterday. We urge @albomp.bsky.social and Foreign Minister Wong to speak out against Israel's violent escalation and call on the Government to take decisive action by demanding an immediate ceasefire.

Not even naming Lebanon or Israel in the headline is diabolical at this point.

"Hey buddy, listen, war crimes are not on. Ok?" chaser.com.au/world/world-...

www.themonthly.com.au/share/b9a699... Gift link: terrific, clear piece by Karen Middleton

Another reason not to vote for them

yes Australia has some of the best political cartoonists on the planet - this from the dark twisted genius of David Rowe...

⭕ #TODAY Hundreds march through the streets of downtown #Chicago chanting, “U.S. out of the #MiddleEast!”

This is at least the 12th Al-Jazeera journalist assassinated by Israel

Australia urgently needs a debate about the damage the US is doing to us www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/09/u...

A Federal court decision that copyright resides with where something was created, not the person who created it, contradicts all accepted & precedent law. If it stands, it will alter the work & livelihoods of every journalist, writer & artist in this country. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...

Yet more institutional overreach from an Australian university: a student up for misconduct for recording a video critical of RMIT’s involvement in armaments research www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Or, construct solar, wind, battery electricity generation and electrify everything? If demand for oil is the problem, cutting demand for oil seems the obvious solution. #AusPol

Hear this, now!

When it comes to nuclear weapons, Australians have a right to know – and a right to say No. petitions.getup.org.au/petitions/no... @getup.org.au

This needs to happen👇🏼

“See What You Made Me Do can be seen as a tipping point in the recognition and visibility of abuse, assault and trauma in the lives of women who don’t necessarily have bruises on their bodies but bear scars in their minds and on their hearts.” Read more on The Point: https://theaus.in/4t3tZbG

No offence Gina Rinehart, but if prosecuting war criminals isn’t obvious to you… maybe you’re just an idiot? Best sit this one out.

www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/08/a... I don’t always agree with Keane, but this is a good piece

So the USA and Israel attacked Iran in order to replace the regime with a more hardline, anti-American one and to give Iran full control of the Strait of Hormuz, while at the same time lifting oil prices so as to increase the value of Iran's oil. A truly Trumpic victory.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa... How many in Australia and do we even know?

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Bridget McKenzie describes Ben Roberts-Smith being arrested for war crimes as a “tragedy”. 🙄 I think a real tragedy for Australia is having politicians who aren’t bothered by war crimes. #auspol

www.smh.com.au/world/middle... Good sense from Geraldine Brooks

If this is allowed to happen it will be a disaster, and yet another piece of evidence demonstrating that @albomp.bsky.social and Murray Watt have little regard for the environment and its many priceless values. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Shut Down Palentir!" Protesters STORM Palentir Offices - Mass Arrests - NYC youtu.be/wLKO7d2pkfc

Looking forward to seeing Michelle Milthorpe - candidate who completely gets #ClimateCrisis - win Farrer by election! #auspol @simonahac.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...