Worth a go in Oz www.bbc.com/news/article...

Not since Andrew Peacock will we have the chance to enjoy such coiffured incompetence www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

#BREAKING 🚨 Former Greens candidate Hannah Thomas says NSW premier Chris Minns "is responsible for every single injury" at the Sydney march against Isaac Herzog Protesters were pepper-sprayed and punches thrown, with Thomas saying it "felt like war being waged on us by police"

It's time for the Australian Government to admit we can’t insure our way out of the climate crisis. It's impossible to get insurance against likely events, and climate disasters are becoming more and more frequent. It's time to make polluters pay for the damage. #auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social

"Glencore is a company whose criminality is genomic. In its very DNA lies a flagrant disregard for the law and, indeed, human life. Rio Tinto might just as well explore a merger with the Camorra." Target acquired - Aim, shoot, fire ! Shame its behind a paywall www.afr.com/companies/mi...

"If Australia was serious about investing in health and education, it would be really simple. "We would stop giving gas away for free and we'd transfer more money to the states to spend on health and education." - co-CEO Richard Denniss on FIVEAA Adelaide #auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social

The shocking brutality behind Gaza’s crumbling ceasefire

“Please tune out Bibi Netanyahu,who exploits tragedy to attack allies only to deflect from his own profound failures as a leader”. Replace Bibi with LNP leadership and there you have it www.smh.com.au/world/middle...

How did we end up with a Woolies and Cole’s (capitalist) model and here in Switzerland they have 2 co-operatives as their largest food retailers ? Who got the rough end of the pineapple ? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coop_(S...

The way that housing co-ops work in Switzerland may seem foreign to many. But the central idea is simple: What if homeownership had no profit motive and no capital gains? Advocates say their model could reshape how the world thinks about affordable housing. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/r...

What’s the number of empty long term rentals in Oz? And could the govt incentivise their sale / lease ? bbc.com/news/article...

Ah Services Australia. It’s all in the name isn’t it. Wasted tens of millions of $ on a Whole of govt ERP template ‘Servicing’ the big 4 and SAP whilst ‘No Services’ at all for some of the more marginalised people in society #big4 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

New @therestpolitics.bsky.social - genocide in Gaza, lack of courage at the top of the BBC, and how Ukraine could still win alastaircampbell.org/2025/07/425-...

Once again doing the work of our somnambulic regulators, national treasure #AdeleFerguson #SMH www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

The NACC, taking a tabloid media approach to rooting out corruption. 2 years in and someone’s got a job for their Fiancé ! How about taking Chris Master on to take a look at the AFP ? “The Moonlight Nation” would be a great reveal #NACC www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

If every country did this, no one could be wedged by big tech and their political playthings … “Canada's 3% digital services tax has been a sticking point in its relationship with the US since the law was enacted last year. The first payments are due on Monday.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

“Those additional hours performed by workers have not been matched by business investment in systems and technologies” Lazy C level business culture prioritising share buybacks and dividend returns. We paid gold not peanuts, yet we still got monkeys! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Gareth Evans was Oz Foreign Minister and the architect of the 1991 Paris Peace Accord, which ended war in Cambodia www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Democracy requires the losers to accept the decision of the electorate. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Interesting to see how this plays out. Government is trying multiple policies including big hike in capital gains tax to promote ownership over lordship. www.bbc.com/news/article...

BREAKING NEWS | Spain will propose to the UN that the International Court of Justice rule on Israel's blockade of humanitarian aid in Gaza

Delusional Reyonlds … “we have to understand why women have turned away from our party and change." Maybe buying a bigger mirror would be a good start #ABC #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Listing to Maxine McKew on RN on labour victory. Excellent analysis and articulate. David Pocock up next #abc #ausvotes

OMG more Angus Taylor “natural attrition” babbling nonsense on #ABC RN. The babbler from Bowral can’t explain the arithmetic #ausvotes

Angus Taylor is useless - babbling on about “natural attrition” magical thinking resulting in 41000 public sector job losses. Couldn’t count to 10 if his hands were in his pockets #auspol

More u turns than Flipper #auspol www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Whyalla steelworks not a unique event in countries that privatised critical industries after siping the neoliberal cool aid “the last site in the UK that can produce virgin steel” and “the only member of the G7 group of leading economies without that ability”

On our #ABC James Patterson repeated this lie regarding NVES putting up RAV4 costs by thousands of dollars. www.aap.com.au/factcheck/na...

“fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me” People of Whitlam - your newest LNP climate denier www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

www.bbc.com/news/article... #auspol

Conservatists as opportunists. First Howard now Dutts. Why Sydney is not the nations capital. www.smh.com.au/national/dut...

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03... The alternative finance minister. No idea. Another reverse gear crunch on the DOGE bus.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04... False flag operation? If he wins government what’s the bet the reservation policy is dumped. This is a transparent attempt to distance dutts from MAGA #auspol

“It means we're spending vastly less than many other countries to give people a better retirement” So tell me again #AFR, who is the better economic manager ? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03... How could this happen? Oh yeh wait - it’s core LNP policy … Finance Minister Matthias Cormann described (downward) flexibility in the rate of wage growth as “a deliberate design feature of our economic architecture”. 2019 theconversation.com/ultra-low-wa...

www.smh.com.au/politics/fed... ‘Consultants will be back’ if Dutton cuts public servants, says PM’ #auspol

Are the RSL supporting the party who looks after veterans ? Anyone know ? #auspol #rsl www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

www.bbc.com/news/article... Foreign interference goes global. Next stop could be the federal election in Oz

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03... Backed by the productivity commission and most Economists but wait oh no, say the lazy Chamber of Commerce and Industry council who only have wage suppression as a response to productivity improvements. #auspol

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03... Labour cuts into the Big4 gravy train. Dutton will work hard to restore the ‘snouts in trough’ Big4 Partner gouging of the public purse “returning … outsourced work to government departments has yielded $4.7 billion in total savings across Labor's first term #auspol

Illawarra Hawks clinch fairytale NBL title after thrilling finals defeat of Melbourne United

www.smh.com.au/business/the... Excellent article by Ross Gittins as usual. Analysis that you’d never read in the #AFR where it’s always about wages Surely not lazy bosses … it can’t be !

Dutton to line the pockets of the Big4 consultancies.. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed... #auspol

In the police body-cam vision, Kerr asked officers more than 20 times to "listen to the recording" of what happened in the taxi. The court was told that no officer ever physically swept the car for a camera, instead relying on the word of the driver, who said he did not have one.

What’s up with the ABC national news Background graphic? Is it an attempt to embed the housing crisis into the subconscious - I find it distracting and just weird for a news program #abc

www.bbc.com/news/article... One of many attempts to address housing prices in Spain. No silver bullet exists but lessons can be learned ..

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Precisely as our @budget.senate.gov hearings warned. “The potential consequences are huge. Without insurance, banks won’t issue a mortgage; without a mortgage, most people can’t buy a home. Fewer buyers mean falling home prices, threatening the tax base of fire-prone communities.”

Earlier in the week... Developers in Australia have been forced to apologise after they “accidentally” demolished the house where AC/DC formed in 1973.