“Not only has the 50% CGT discount distorted the housing market and coincided with the biggest decline in housing affordability in our history, but it massively favours the richest.” - Greg Jericho, Chief Economist, The Australia Institute Read more: https://theaus.in/4r0IBqr

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This is completely untrue. He said "if there was any misinterpretation, then I certainly apologise", which is not an apology. He then went on to dissemble about what he had meant when he called her "difficult", and he offered no apology at all to Grace.

Difficult. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Here's me, and @boganintel.bsky.social. "Collating the recent escalation of fascist state fuckery in Australia"

Holy fkn shizballs!!!! Thank you to everyone who has embraced this. You’re incredible - and also - not alone. It’s a mess, no one has fixed what he helped break and if anything comes from this, it’s a reminder of what we need to do to fix this

Call me crazy, but I don’t think we should cede control of the world to fascist child rapists high on ketamine.

Australian artist Meredith Woolnough's delicately embroidered sculptures express aspects of nature #WomensArt

Marigolds By Australian artist Margaret Olley 1923-2011

I hope all the "difficult" women voters (and their male supporters) in Albo's electorate of Grayndler remember his insulting comment about AOTY Grace Tame at the next election. 😡 #auspol #sexism #misogyny #IStandWithGraceTame

If "difficult" means challenging an unjust status quo, Australia needs *more* difficult women. And men. Grace Tame already has a solid track record making a difference. Albo will be remembered for being far too *easy* with corporate donors, genocidal regimes, vested interests, and racist media.

The PM calling Grace Tame, a woman fighting for the safety of children, “difficult” is completely unwarranted.  Labelling women as difficult won’t silence us. It won’t stop us speaking truth to power.  Next time try “unbreakable” or “warrior” or “fierce”, Prime Minister.

The world is a complex volatile place & unfortunately for Australia our Prime Minister is not rising to the occasion #auspol

The PEOPLE’S choice

I wanted to hear how it worked, straight from the horse’s mouth, as it were. You’ll be unsurprised to know: it was all about the grift. (Money spent: straight from the candidate’s pocket. Monies received: straight to Poorleen’s personal - not party - bank account. Etc. 🙄)

And now we know the initial contract value $6.7m :

Anthony Albanese called Grace Tame “difficult” in a News Corp word game. Donald Trump was merely “president”. Throughout history women who fight to better society get punished and labelled problems Men who are convicted criminals and whose policies kill are more likely to get a pat on the back

Albo was asked to apply one word to various prominent people (Trump, Barnaby, Pauline etc). Grace Tame he labelled "difficult". Unconscious misogyny, which says quite a lot more than he apparently intended.

At the butchers just now and next to me a loud rant about commies, socialists, renewable energy, immigrants ... with the declaration that,"Porline will fix it!" Anyway, that's probably me banned from buying the sausages from now on.

For how many more hours will the ABC sideline important Australian local & national news for this guy’s utter rubbish? It really is the American Broadcasting Corporation. #auspol

You voted for it USA but it is your children who are paying the price. Learned anything for 2026/28, USA voters? #MedSky #Measles

No connection. My @smh cartoon.

Oh dear - Margaret Tighe, harasser of pregnant and vulnerable women, vicious harridan, anti-abortionist, judgemental Catholic zealot, anti-science campaigner and a woman who rejoiced in the destruction of other's lives - has died What a shame #pfffft www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

One Nation's migrant attacks are peak stupidity: In rural/remote Australia, 40-50% of doctors are international grads, recruited to fill dire shortages. Bash them, and watch healthcare crumble. And 17-40% of nurses nationwide are born overseas, vital to our health system. #auspol #OneNation

So politicians want school kiddies to be taught more ‘Australian values’? Which ones are those? Alcoholism, toxic masculinity, colonialism, anti-science, anti-expert, ecocide, racism, genocide of First Nations peoples, banning public protest, profit at the expense of affordable homes? Which ones?

Gynaecology's open secret. Surgeon repeatedly removed women's tissue & organs for “severe” #endometriosis. Pathology showed little/no trace of it. Multiple complaints by clinicians & patients to hospital & AHPRA. Nothing happened. Our 7-month #4Corners investigation. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

The media has the memory capacity of a particularly gullible goldfish

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02... Just imagine, if you will, that a woman had been removing men's organs un-necessarily. Government response may well be a little different.

ONE man having his testicles taken out (oops) for no medical reason would have caused hell. You know it would. Also, how do billionaire women behave? Do they resort to depraved acts upon young boys? We think not. Things that were discussed at lunch today with the gals.

Oh, Frances, so sorry. I loved having my own office, and worked so much better in there. But of course, things change, and it was pods for the jobs after that. Better than open plan but not by much IMHO.

Unfashionable to say but the evidence consistently suggests that about a quarter of the population in white countries are unvarnished racists and another quarter are casually racist until circumstances cause them to feel less casual about it

#exercise after #cancer diagnosis and #survival www.emjreviews.com/urology/news... — 33% to 61% increased survival across cancer types — healthcare professionals should actively promote physical activity as part of survivorship care #health #longevity #science 🧪

I worked in a State Govt open plan office for years - it was horrendous & contributed to my break down #nswpol theconversation.com/why-your-bra...

Murdoch media should be declared a hostile foreign entity trying to influence, undermine and manipulate our democracy. It’s a toxic, rabid right propaganda machine.

I just saw an ad for airless tires on cars - the first comment said “this would ruin the tire industry” - why is this type of thinking normalized? Why are we prioritizing the survival of billion dollar corporations over eco friendly progress? Money won’t matter if we don’t have a planet to live on??

Dear dead children and mothers around the planet. Did you #makeyourbed ?? #MaleSupremacy is killing us

Why does an age have 2 be applied to “the sandwich generation” as if those of us outside this bracket (me 4 Inst 68) didn’t do exactly the same things? In house counsel, mother with Parkinson’s, young adults living at home & some grandkids ! Then a breakdown! womensagenda.com.au/latest/boome...

After a career as spokesperson for the Big Banks, Simon Birmingham has a new career as spokesperson for the Big Banks. #auspol

Long time coming and a long way to go to address the damage - but so grateful to everyone who has ordered a copy of Where It All Went Wrong (including through your library!) I’m still so angry - and I hope it makes you angry too (so we can fix it) x

Vetting the brides. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Red-tailed black cockatoos. Menindee, New South Wales.

We don't want a bar of Trump & AUKUS, but @albomp.bsky.social is hell bent on foisting it on us. #auspol

Albanese says of former prince Andrew: Australians ‘don’t want a bar of this bloke’. (And that's why Australia has been the first to support his removal from succession). We didn't want a bar of Herzog either, @albomp.bsky.social . Why didn't you listen to us on that one as well? #auspol

It is truly demeaning to be writing to the UK government saying oh look if you want to remove the rapist from the royal line of succession we here in this far-flung corner of the realm will loyally toe that line.

#PaulineHanson is a case study in #hate and ‘othering’, diminishing EVERYONE, not just those in the cross hairs. In the case of those like Pauline, it eventually show on the outside. Look at her face, it has made it look twisted, cruel and bitter. Gina is not looking much better. #Auspol

Hate personified #auspol open.substack.com/pub/newpolit...

Ping #mediawatch

If Albo is right that children are obliged to lie in the bed that their mother made, why is he sleeping at the Lodge and not a public housing flat, while the children of the "ISIS brides" must remain in a refugee camp in Syria? Seems a little inconsistent, logically, just saying.

I feel this so strongly. Covid was a test of our moral integrity & decency -- *not just elites, but all of us* -- and we failed. I genuinely think one reason Covid has been memory-holed so hard, & so crusted w/ myths & conspiracy theories, is that on some level we know this & are ashamed.

Money at any cost www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...