Excellent. And don’t come back. #AusPol

The new normal :( www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

If one does not want to be eaten by a shark, one should not go and swim with a shark. The ocean is their home. Stay away from it. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Albanese would win a competition for being the best croissant: he can fold as many times as you want, mostly empty inside, and always comes out flaky.

A mote: we are the ones voting for this crap.

I never thought I would be in this camp, and it even pains to type this, but there is no point left in publicly funding the ABC.

Why are we, human beings, so utterly stupid?

No, they won't .

I see people jumping onto the trope of empathising with ON voters. This is condescending crap. I don’t give up on the principle that everyone has their own agency. If you vote for racist shit, you are one. This “left behind” bullshit is what elected Trump.

Either The Age do not understand how budgets are reported (even by private companies) or they are engaged in political messaging. As @grogsgamut.bsky.social explained in 2024, this type of reporting is dumb: australiainstitute.org.au/post/sorry-m...

No shit. Why is he doing the opposite then?

We've made our assessment already: you are a waste of space.

I would argue that Albanese is even worse than Morrison because he can get away with it.

Opinion | Grace Tame: "We’ve got plenty of taxpayer dollars for senseless wars that kill and maim innocent foreign civilians en masse, but can’t front up the money to support vulnerable, marginalised citizens here at home." www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/24/n...

Kick people off #NDIS because, allegedly, we can’t afford it. Refuse taxing gas mafia to make sure we can’t afford it. Classic neoliberal con from #Labor. And we voted for this.

Spanish archaeologists find Homer's Iliad poem in Egyptian tomb

Started a diary today and made the first entry. After writing just one page by hand, my hand got shocked and tired immediately. It’s not used to writing with a pen anymore!

Mark Rutte’s brain has utterly disintegrated.

This live tracker will make you cry and then get angry. @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

No, it hasn’t. No, it won’t. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Albanese at the press club. What a predictably one dimensional man. Of course the economic crisis isn't because of the war he supports -- it's because of the coalition!

If the gas industry can’t sleep at night over shortfalls of gas domestically, we can help them by introducing forced domestic reservation of gas on top of the export tax.

In which Albanese equated muslims who don’t like him to terrorists. I’ve seen this somewhere before.

"Quietly alarmed" is another pre-packaged nonsensical oxymoron Labor leak to the journalists for the last remaining gullible believers of theirs. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

How do revoke a scientific finding? 😅

I'm very close to unsubscribing from Crikey's newsletter. The liberal party spill porn is getting out of control. Is there no other news to report on? For weeks and weeks now, they have been obsessing over clownery.

This has been the case for years.

I can't read Australian news anymore. 90% of it is obsession with the clownery that is the Liberals and Nationals. How is it at all relevant? The government, meanwhile, is flying completely under the radar. What a waste of oxygen!

So, I haven't been following the news much lately, but when I scrolled through my feed for 5 minutes, I realised that nothing has changed: state and federal Labor governments are still on a clear path to total shitfuckery, and there is no way back. Logging off now.

Having a president in the first place is a mistake.

Who the hell cares

Some #bloodmoon photos taken in Melbourne in the morning. #astronomy #moon #eclipse

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Even in publications like @crikey.com.au, the myth about productivity leading to higher wages is perpetuated. The reality is that most productivity gains are syphoned into profits.

When Nazis march, there are no police to be seen, no militia (known as VicPol) is unleashed on them and nobody ever gets arrested. But god forbid protesting for anything else: the full power of police brutality followed by impunity will be deployed. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

So, what exactly is the difference between Scotty From The Marketing Morrison and Anthony Inanimate Plush Teddy Bear Albanese?

A lot of saving face is happening in the last few days. We’ll see these statements coming from every corner: Oh but I always knew your cause was good just don’t expect us, people in position of power, to react to them quickly; we prefer reacting when it’s tol late and we can’t do anything about it.

Every day, after I finish reading my news feed, I always land on the same conclusion: all our politicians are very consistent; nothing is surprising; we get exactly what we voted for.

So at midnight on the 18th birthday, a whole course on civics falls into the brain out of the sky, does it? The world is burnt down by middle aged angry men with brains rotten on FB, but it’s the 16yos who must prove their worth.

How long are these economists going to pretend they have no idea why the RBA keeps rates higher than needed, and be honest: the only metric the RBA looks at is unemployment; and the RBA wants to make tens of thousands of people unemployed before it's happy? www.thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2025...

This ridiculous obsession with shallow reading of impartiality is the biggest rabbit hole the media organisations have got themselves into. What they should be obsessed with is finding the truth. If I say the sky is green, I should be given impartial treatment. www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/30/a...

A quite embarrassing news from Australia going global. Even the BBC knows that what our duopoly proposes is inadequate. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Not surprised here #AusPol #AusVotes share.votecompass.com/YZKbcJr-Acor...

So, the duopoly are trying to tell us that they are the solution to all our problems while asking us to choose between a few cents of tax breaks or a few cents of petrol discounts. In the current state of the world and Australia, there is nothing else they could come up with.

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Every journalist working the summer has to scrap around for content. But running the same faux outrage story three years in a row seems ridiculous even for the Daily Mail

Getting rid of negative gearing and capital gains tax is the farthest thing from “extreme position” by any measure. Everybody in this country fell for Labor’s myth: everything proposed by the Greens is automatically extreme. Rex can’t read policies from the Greens either.

It still puzzles me as to how people can still vote for these parties. The only hope is that these new election rules don't kick in until 2028 and that the next election will deliver a minority government. The cross-bench must then completely rewrite the legislation.

But how do I delete all my tweets at once?

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