'The People's Economist' Gary Stevenson urges Australia to tax wealth properly, or wealth inequality will only worsen. Listen to Follow the Money for more from Gary: https://theaus.in/4rM2fYh

Leave the sharks alone. Instead, how about a cull of these big apes that torture and kill higher vertebrate wildlife with long metal thingies? Well, at least a ban. We ban other outright dangerous and destructive activities.

You see things that are historically considered bad industry practice—onsite gas turbines, evaporative cooling—because the goal is to cram as much power per square meter as possible and get it to market as fast as possible. It's a gold rush, and that's going to inherently drive reckless behavior.

We still all good with importing US beef? (AFAIK we actually don't, but our Trumpian Labor response earlier in the year seemed to be 'yeah, all good forget quarantine'.)

"Why I call the below the most important story in markets / geopolitics? 1) without China importing far less, oil would be way, way above $100 2) Fed would be forced to hike rates, crashing Wall Street 3) Trump would be against the clock in negotiations with Iran" - @javierblas.bsky.social

Not awoke.

"The future of transport should not only be electric. It should be lighter, healthier, more affordable and less car dependent."

Chinese potato scallops (no correspondence will be entered into).

And shouldn't withstand court challenge, but in the US, probably will.

Nearly two dozen Epstein accusers told Reuters that speaking out sparked threats and relentless harassment, in some cases after Justice Department files exposed their identities. Some now carry weapons and live in constant fear reut.rs/4xeaIXB

Footage of IDF strikes across Iran.

This is what we're working hard to further align our strategic and defence interests with. Why would anyone do that? Because that's a long-term project, and he is temporary, won't last? Correct. But why do we think the next, and the one after that, will be different, better? Because we're idiots.

“His is a special kind of loathsomeness: a blend of historical deafness, grotesque stupidity, and comically ludicrous self-importance. As if the little people’s rage against immigration somehow is superior to the war with the Third Reich and entitles this comic-book nobody to lecture actual heroes.”

China motorway tolling really is archaic for a technically sophisticated country. It still has toll booths and boom gates, though nearly all without people in them. Works by reading a windscreen transponder tag, which nearly everyone has, so ought to be highway-speed capable.

This is what your great Labor government supports – the mass destruction / mass murder state of Israel.

"Any independent sovereign country has to defend itself" The former PM of Israel, which is occupying parts of Lebanon & Syria, launched an unprovoked war on Iran & has been engaged in a brutal occupation of Palestine for decades.

In China, even the tourist pics have powerlines. If this is electrification, no thanks. We need way way way better controls.

Really?

#Newspoll federal poll. Here is the table graphic as it appears on page 6 of The Australian, 8 June 2026, including primary votes, leader approval ratings, and two supplementary questions. No TPP is given. The poll was of 1240 voters, taken 1-4 June. #auspol

“Iran launched at least three waves of missiles at northern Israel - putting even more pressure on the already fragile ceasefire” Israel has been bombing Lebanon constantly. Iran called them out, and warned them.

May persist with 'Turmp'. Works.

I think "Middle East war" (note capitalisation) is ok; better than some choices.

Going through a box of old slides I found this view of the Mer de Glace taken from the terrace at Montenvers on a family holiday in August 1976. I'm the teenager by the railing carrying a small backpack. I had no idea of the amount of change that would take place here in my lifetime.

Except that western music uses a scale based in clumsy approximation, which most humans are not equipped to notice. But a pitch-aware alien? Might they not just go, WTF is this?

This is Sam Fahd Abu Haikal. A 7-month-old Palestinian baby killed by Israel. If this were an Israeli baby or a Western baby, his face would be splashed across front pages. Western leaders would condemn the perpetrator's evil. Here? Silence.

#classic100 youtu.be/J6ftbs0CgZo?...

FFS.

ABC News reported this as 'hundreds of people protested'...

Yangqu Dam has quite a hype. It's concrete faced rockfill, a type China doesn't do, and reportedly built by robot equipment with 'AI control', though details of that are scant. There's very few construction photos online. This is near completion, upstream face: www.ecns.cn/m/hd/2023-12...

Sound familiar, Mr Morrison.

There's well over a thousand turbines in this valley.

Seems Chinese truck drivers avoid motorway tolls like everywhere else in the world. They're all driving the parallel service road.

Joe Aston🔥 'Twiggy..wants global acclaim, he wants world peace, he wants the lot because he’s f---ing mad. So, he’s ending slavery, saving the ocean, building happy abattoirs, being the King of Davos. There is no lane left for him to stay...

Here's @boganintel.bsky.social. "Send in the clowns"

Charlie Pickering will be watching his news, so we don't have to

instead of giving her hot water so she could eat, the Countrylink staff insisted this ~ particular ~ hot water is a safety problem - as she watched them serve cups of tea to paying customers. They forced her off the train under threat of calling police. There is no law against asking for hot water.

What a dickhead. There exist permanent residents who've lived most of their lives in Australia. Why persecute? For what?

"Former Murdoch stars like Patricia Karvelas, Clare Armstrong and David Speers recycle the same Samantha Maiden opinions across multiple shows while Grace Tame doing a four-part podcast series on neurodivergence is somehow 'problematic'? Way to treat a new hire."

'Hurting the fertility rate'.

"Must..."

Sound up.

New review article on climate impacts of hydrogen emissions by @mariasand.bsky.social et. al. published in @natrevearthenviron.nature.com. Read it here: rdcu.be/flO6H

How many mobile towers are there in China? This say over 2 million: www.rcrwireless.com/20250806/5g/.... It's the scale. No one seems to get the scale.

"Charlie is a seasoned media professional. He would know exactly who Avi Yemini is. He didn't have to engage with him … he made a direct choice to cosy up to a man found guilty of abusing his wife, while denouncing me as ignorant. Surely I needn’t point out the irony here." - Grace Tame

The Govt has committed to buying 3 US Virginia Class subs, without first negotiating a price🤦‍♂️. Yesterday it was revealed they also haven't negotiated a warranty for the second-hand subs🤦‍♂️. Would officials personally buy a car like that? No! #dumb #OnlyYOURMoney #AUKUS #auspol

Oh ffs. She's completely useless.

Explosive. Was Massad present with Herzog in ASIO visit? youtu.be/zOb6IZrSudQ?...

Why torturing large numbers of large vertebrate wildlife in a NT river constitutes a 'competition' is not explained, or, seems, even to be discussed.

Wot.