"modern tax systems have become #inequality machines." @garethhutchens.bsky.social on Gabriel Zucman, who is advocating a minimum level wealth tax on the super-rich. If the Albanese govt just fiddles around the edges on tax reform, Australia will follow the US: moving from democracy to oligarchy.

🏆 Alex Fein via Redbridge. @auspoldaily.bsky.social #Auspol is just one of many being subjected to an intense propaganda project for the new robber barons to hold all the power. It’s strategic, massively funded and One Nation is the 🇦🇺 vehicle. Read this. redbridgeintel.substack.com/p/call-it-wh...

3/5This is the DeSmog listing of how many Mont Pelerin Society members are at each Atlas Network partner or linked think tank. Walker describes MPS as Atlas “steering committee.” Samuel Griffith Society attached to 3 members. Context from @garethhutchens.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Very good article

1/4 Church & State 9th conference kicks off tomorrow in QLD. The vehicle by which the coercive US-style Christians plan to impose their version of God’s rules on your governments. Pellowe, founder, posed with Proud Boys 😬 #Auspol See details in this essay: open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2...

"Beech-Jones then accused the society of attempting a US supreme court-style conservative stacking of the high court. The judge painted a picture of dark forces gathering, of a Trumpian stalking horse, of the abused legacy of one of Queensland’s most significant figures."

These two articles are a pair so consider them together. The big money, the strategists, the ground game and even the Neo Nazi-adjacent are trying to build for Australia an echo of the US’s MAGA Christofascism. #Auspol open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2... open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2...

"Class relations didn’t weaken. In fact, #inequality worsened in many countries. Neoliberal policies, including those adopted by social democratic parties, made the rich much richer, but they slowed the growth in the wellbeing of the majority of people, and left the working class behind." #auspol

Christian extremists believed destroying trans existence was the key to power via LNP in 2021. Then tight integration into destroying First Peoples’ consultative body in No to Voice campaign. Now, they are after abortion access with One Nation & Gina. #auspol lucyham29.substack.com/p/extremist-...

Privatising public services: when will we learn? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

This is a crucial piece of reporting. Mega rich funding Nazis. With private school alumnus/plaything of tycoons Farage creating Neo Nazi riots on British streets to distract from his corruption revelations, we need to be watching the way the very rich are creating this ➡️ societal collapse. #auspol

What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy. Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc. Some call it the "Network State."

ICYMI, good piece from Kos Samaras on the structural #inequality driving political change. #auspol pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/05...

First is from the Pearls article. Second is from this: redflag.org.au/article/node...

Paul Keating upbraided Woodside executives in 1985 when they warned about the imminent collapse of the North West Shelf and asked for government support to keep the project afloat.

Woodside asked the fed govt for help to prevent the collapse of the North West Shelf project in 1985. The WA govt spent billions on the project. Yet, Australian Energy Producers claims the private sector carries “all of the risk & upfront costs” in the gas industry? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

Australia's government has signed $60m of Palantir contracts. It owns $160m of Palantir shares. But what does the pro-Trump company actually do for us? Internal documents shows how an agency uses it to analyse 42 million call records, messages and other data points

We wrote about the $2t SpaceX IPO as world-historical land grab in low Earth orbit, a push for communication-and-compute monopoly and the effort to build a vertically-integrated full ideological stack. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

In an era when everything is on line, here's a big Budget leak delivered face-to-face to a journalist by a Treasurer "wearing his pyjamas and a woollen dressing-gown." Great story from @garethhutchens.bsky.social #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

"The group behind the Budapest conference, the American Conservative Union, has hosted annual Conservative Political Action Conferences in the U.S. since 1974, and been closely linked to Trump and MAGA since Trump’s first rise to the presidency in 2016.

Worth noting that Tony Abbott has just ceased as director/trustee at the Global Warming Policy Foundation: Atlas Network-interlinked, fossil fuel-funded, core of UK climate denial. (Missing Taiwan entry on this list.) www.desmog.com/2024/12/16/t... www.desmog.com/global-warmi...

Big shout out to @lucyham.bsky.social and @garethhutchens.bsky.social for their work exposing the #AltasNetwork & for the mention by #ETTEMedia #auspol #climatecrisis

As the world is looking at fossil fuels with fresh eyes, I took a look at Australian defence and foreign policy thinktanks that have been advocating for more gas extraction, even as they have been taking money from the US, Japanese and Korean governments. Here's me in @drilledmedia.bsky.social:

“12 of the 14 universities had council members, who had substantive roles as consultants from firms such as Ernst & Young, PwC, KPMG, Deloitte, McKinsey, and Boston Consulting Group.” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

"It seems clear that the report's 21 recommendations aren't the end of the fight to clean up our information ecosystems; they're the beginning." Thanks to @garethhutchens.bsky.social for covering this key Senate report, and the 'climate denial machine' it unearthed. #ClimateCrisis #auspol

Professor Bob Gregory says stagflation is “guaranteed” in Australia, thanks to this oil crisis. But he says its severity will depend on how long the war in the Middle East continues. Thanks to Peter Martin for inviting me onto this podcast to talk with Prof Gregory. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Australians impacted by Robodebt have until 4pm on Friday, March 6, to register for a new class action settlement with payouts between $1,000 and $50,000 au.finance.yahoo.com/news/centrel...

Extreme rhetoric Advance Holocaust minimisation Margaret Thatcher and the International Democracy Union (IDU) www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

“Currently grappling with threats from an old foe, Russia, and an old ally, America, Denmark has made conscription compulsory for women for the first time in its history. “Every 18-year-old Dane, male or female, must now register for military service.” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Jeffrey Epstein saw promise in Bitcoin — and its far-right supporters www.theverge.com/tech/885252/...

This ep has a very good discussion of the Atlas Network, its ‘free market’ think tanks in Australia, astroturfing, and the layers of the onion of dark money in politics. Thank you to @nicolechvastek.bsky.social and Denis Muller for the shoutout too. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...

Advance platformed a rep of a US Islamophobic hate group last week. He called for “remigration” (white supremacist term for mass deportation). Steve Bannon’s sidekick called Muslims “invaders” here to conquer. Unrelated: WA police stopped attack on Mosque. #Auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Jewish Council of Australia condemns Benjamin Harnwell's appalling comment at the Advance conference and call on our leaders and the Antisemitism Envoy to speak out in condemnation.

Benjamin Harnwell, the international editor of Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast, told Australian conservatives that Angela Merkel did more damage to Germany’s fabric than the Nazis and Adolf Hitler. The comments were made at event held by the lobby group Advance. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

🧵. "it really matters that these #auspol figures are networking with some of the more toxic establishment forces in the transnational Right." More excellent investigative work from Lucy H.

You Don't Need Democracy If You Don't Have People. @quinnslobodian.com and I discuss the tech billionaire dream of "capitalism without democracy." Quinn's work helped inspire my own, so it was great to finally chat! He's been leading the way on this topic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1om...

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

The corruption of the West is about to have a stake driven through its vampire heart. This profound and thorough analysis by Gareth Hutchens explains what that stake is made of.

Thanks to @garethhutchens.bsky.social for this excellent explanatory journalism. #Auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

The origins of neoliberalism, the Mont Pelerin Society, the Atlas Network, the Overton window, the Nobel Prize in economics, and cryptocurrencies. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

When this blows over I might have to share some of the emails I’ve received over the days which really make me wonder why I am the one accused of hatred. There is deep unresolved trauma being spewed by some of these people and we cannot consent to living according to their warped reality.

excellent look back at decisions to screw over early childhood services, including those who warned about what would happen, from @garethhutchens.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

How very Pocockian. The only parliamentarian to have captained an elite national sports team got expelled from the parliamentary sports club for expressing principles about the sinister cavortings of the gambling industry.

👀A Rutgers professor who teaches an anti-fascism class was blocked from leaving the US hours > Trump’s “Antifa” roundtable w/ Jack Posobiec who has called Bray a “domestic terrorist professor.” TPUSA at Rutgers has called him an “antifa member,” a claim he denies. He’s received death threats. 1/

Thank you @rossgittins.bsky.social. That’s high praise coming from you. www.smh.com.au/business/the...

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