I know there's a lot going on But what the US is doing to Cuba is unconscionable

This statement by Madeleine King is just jaw-dropping. "We" *need* gas to be supplied to other nations because Australia is not big enough to use it all. Who is the "we" in "We need those international investments to get the benefit"?????

✋ #PresidentPedoPutinPuppet

hearing the Aust business lobby wants the public to give them money via government to subsidise the cost of business stealing from the public via price gouging and excessive profit trousering - by business.

For every action there’s an (not so) equal and opposite reaction.

Staggering how racist the ALP is today

The Northern Territory's health department has declared an outbreak of respiratory diphtheria in the Top End.

Penny Wong tells Greens Senator that even if they disagree with the illegal war on Iran, they can “at least call on Iran to deescalate.” Has Penny called on Israel or the US to deescalate? #auspol

The Greens sometimes cop flak for saying there's no meaningful difference between Labor and the Libs. Well here they are voting - together- against lifting welfare payments above the poverty line and abolishing the parental and partner income tests. Maybe we're onto something?

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If gas prices stay at current levels, a 25% gas export tax could cover the cost of free uni and TAFE! "Australia's natural gas resource belongs to all Australians. So it should only be exploited if the community benefits in a very tangible and material way." @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social #auspol

Our 7 day critical appeal to combat racism and hate together, ends Friday. We’re at $134,565 of our $220,000 target! Donate to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre here to make it happen: donate.asrc.org.au/together-aga...

Dr Assal Rad— "They’re not even subtle."

Absolutely perfect juxtaposition on the SMH front page

Suddenly. Leaders of many countries have now come out to declare "We must electrified our industry and transportation". Fuck if only they had listened & learned from China. Rather than sneering at China that it's run by an authoritarian Communist Regime

Australia’s gas resources belong to Australians, not the gas companies. A minimum 25% gas export tax is only fair. It means Australians get a return on the extraction of our resources and we can fund public programs for the benefit of all. 📷 Credit: Mike Bowers #auspol #politas

This is automation of disability support decisions that’s making wrong cruel stupid decisions with human involvement in the process cut out. Its a gross misuse of automation just like in #robodebt. @albomp.bsky.social why is Govt accepting such cruel inefficient govt business process advice? #auspol

Shut up Sarah

Donny’s friend. My @smh @theage cartoon.

really captured the look my two year old used to give me when she was shitting herself

It ain’t easy being Lebanesey 🌲

"When will the ABC learn that the obligation of good journalism, especially public journalism, is not just to present all ‘sides’, but to get at the truth?" johnmenadue.com/post/2026/03... #AusPol #media

Australia will run out of fuel. No farming, no groceries, no holidays in the caravan. We have 3 former PMs spruiking for foreign countries & companies. With the current gov. they are all responsible So, @albomp.bsky.social & Labor have passed the fiddle to someone else to play while Rome burns?

Mr President you must go to iran personally sir. You are the only one who can do the art of the deal. This is a situation that calls for the personal touch of a man who got a nobel peace prize at a garage sale or whatever

If these current conflicts illustrate nothing else, Australia - one of the windiest & sunniest countries on the planet - is a fucking stupid country.

How do I turn off iCloud I don't want my life on a remote server accessible by anyone

Private health insurance isn’t working – and the numbers show it https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/03/private-health-insurance-isnt-working-and-the-numbers-show-it #auspol

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention stated more than a week ago: "the Gaza scenario is unfolding before our eyes". But still western media fails to report this. And most nations do nothing.

They use the same lies in Australia

A bit like Israel still killing kids in palestine, and settlers shooting farmers to steal their land. These "settlers" will never be prosecuted either.

What? And have @albomp.bsky.social's pseudo-Labor party lose all those fossil fuel 'donors' money & post-politics sinecures now that it's their turn in government? www.theguardian.com/business/gro... @australianlabor.bsky.social #auspol

Morning. ☕️

The primary cause of the national debt is that the very wealthy don’t pay taxes. Migrants pay their share. The oligarchs Miller fronts for do not.

The housing affordability crisis isn’t due to a lack of homes, but who is buying them all up. Research by The Australia Institute found that the 50% CGT discount has introduced a distortion to the tax system that favours the wealthy and increases inequality. Read more: https://theaus.in/4bAm26m

My column on Albanese needing to tax gas exports. www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

What percentage of Australia’s toilet paper supply is shipped through the Strait of Hormuz? Colin Nicholson, Brunswick West The Age, letters

I feel so proud of myself! I navigated MyGov - such an ugly application, very confusing with lots of built-in redundancy Obviously built by Accenture. No one removed redundant code making it a horrible user experience that every Australian resident over 16 must endure

I haven't posted a fairywren for a while and I've just noticed it's Wednesday - so here's a superb fairywren for Wrensday Wednesday! #wrensday

Fossil fuel subsidies are growing faster than spending on the NDIS. @rodcampbell.bsky.social says it’s time to call out the idea that governments can’t afford to support Australians in need, yet can dish out $31,020 per minute on climate-destroying subsidies. #auspol 🎧 theaus.in/3PHIcMu

2/2. His weakness is something negative, gravitational, so deep that it can draw in a whole country. But only if we fail to see it. Only if we let it.

1/2. He took the greatest military force in history, lost a war to a middle power in a week, begged the world to save him, & demanded the media lie about this & everything else. I try, but at a simple human level I do not see how anyone mistakes this man’s almost supernatural weakness for strength.

He was certainly afraid of Vietnam-style combat in Vietnam.

We’re begging China now. That’s where we’re at. bsky.app/profile/atru...

The Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia learnt about a key government decision impacting on his work by reading it in the media, says @deepcutnews.bsky.social. Meanwhile, the Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism is writing government policy. #auspol www.deepcutnews.com/p/government...

Dr Assal Rad— “𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦… 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘣𝘦 “Over two years of witnessing the most brazen war crimes in real time and they’re still trying to water down the story.”

Ted Lieu: “Undocumented immigrants voting in elections is an infinitesimal problem — to vote, you have to first register — how many undocumented are going to go, ‘yes, I'm going to give all my info to the govt that's trying to maybe deport me.’ No way — so this is a problem that doesn't even exist”