Labor & Coalition dud young workers millions of super $$ while lining the pockets of big corps like Coles & Kmart. We can fix this - & we should. @MikeSeccombe in @SatPaper

Labor needs to respond immediately to the reports CSIRO will tomorrow sack a THIRD of the team working on Australia’s national climate model. Australia’s climate science capability is globally significant & locally irreplaceable. A shameful way to treat our scientists.

The Greens-led Senate inquiry into intergenerational housing inequity has revealed a housing crisis out of control where renters, 1st home buyers & homeless are being left behind. Evidence is clear: housing gap between generations is widening thanks to successive government failures.

My heart goes out to the family living through this tragedy. Accessible, quality, well funded public housing isn't just a human rights issue, it's a healthcare issue. It's essential to making sure everyone can live safely with a roof over their heads. tinyurl.com/3627cadx

The big four banks - CBA, NAB, Westpac & ANZ - made a profit of $16.9 billion from owner-occupier home loans in 2025. Over an average 30 year owner-occupier mortgage these banks make nearly $229,000 in profit. That's just over $11,000 in the 1st year of a new loan, $926 each month or $214 per week.

Final report from inquiry into job & program cuts at CSIRO shows a deliberate shift away from public good science. CSIRO is suffering chronic underfunding masked as strategic reform, causing workforce destruction, loss of sovereign capability & subversion of climate science.

The Greens are calling on the PM to use today's National Cabinet to coordinate a nationwide rent freeze and eviction moratorium during the fuel crisis.

No one should have to suffer the indignity & injustice of neglect. Direct government funding in public housing and robust, wrap around, homeless support services stops people falling through the cracks. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

PwC partner income has risen to $814,000 thanks to AI but team sizes are shrinking in relation. Throwing workers under the bus to grow CEO pay can't be the future of AI in workplaces. Productivity gains must be shared & worker's rights must be protected. www.afr.com/companies/pr...

PMs big nothing tonight was worst April Fools on Australia in ages. He should do something real: back the Greens Work from Home bill so that workers have some backup when their boss says no. (2 days/wk minimum. Where it’s practical). Even Labor Premiers agree - & most Australians.

New data shows house prices rising with the CGT discount & negative gearing to blame, on top of a recent teetering interest rate increase. How much more do households have to endure before Labor acts?

A huge win for young workers! Unfair junior rates for 18-20 year olds have been scrapped by the Fair Work Commission - a decision the Greens have long campaigned for. Real wages of workers have gone backwards as inflation has soared, leaving our young workers behind.

ABC investigation reveals universities spent $1.8 billion on private consultants in 1 year. Australia’s universities are becoming increasingly corporatised by the corrosive influence of consultants. Corporate executives and consultants are running our universities like banks.

A Trump whim - costing so many lives, a million Lebanese their homes & the prospect of massive global recession. Meanwhile weapons & fossil fuel profiteers reap billions. And this is the ally we are sending billions to - for mythical subs??! Madness www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

War has big winners. And here they are. Along with massive share boosts for arms suppliers. Meanwhile farmers’ fuel bills are more than double, workers’ cost of getting to work are through the roof, housing costs will rise with interest rates & rent.

Just 3 months into 2026 & already teachers, journalists, nurses, early childhood educators & maritime workers are taking significant industrial action across Aus. Labor, which claims to be the party of workers, must prioritise wage justice for workers who are being left behind.

Using outsource workers in ATO office's has created a 2 class system in the public sector. Again ATO has outsourced core work & subjected those workers to worse pay & conditions. The ATO should be a model example of finance not the cautionary tale. tinyurl.com/225h6y28

The certainties of war unfolding before us: armaments company super-profits ⬆️ , inflation ⬆️, interest rates ⬆️ to push demand ⬇️ & unemploymt ⬆️. Ordinary people pay the price - in mortgages, job loss, fuel - & with lives where the bombs drop.

Labor's choice to support Trump & Netanyahu's war has triggered a rate rise that will inflict massive pain for people across Australia. The Greens are calling for the Treasurer to step in and use his power to override the decision by the RBA board, to change interest rates.

Thankyou @4corners tonight. Toxic algae. A government too slow, minimising risk. Delaying release of critical information. A fail by the Malinauskas government. Thanks to the locals, the scientists, the surfers for monitoring, reporting, questioning and going on the public record.

Labor has wasted $53 billion on tax concessions for wealthy property investors since 2022. A further $190 billion will be wasted if Labor fails to wind back the capital gains tax discount & negative gearing. This foregone revenue should have built public & affordable housing.

Adelaide dwelling prices have risen by 40% while median house rentals have increased by 33% under SA Labor! South Australians are seeing house prices explode, rents skyrocket & vacancy rates at an all-time low & yet the Malinauskas govt are only making it worse.

Robodebt was the worst failure of public administration in Australian history. It raised est. $1.73 bn of illegitimate debts from over 430,000 vulnerable Australians and plunged thousands of families into distress and grief. And still no real consequences. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The announcement today from the Albanese Labor Government to send an E-7A Wedgetail aircraft to the Gulf and provide medium-range air-to-air missiles to the UAE shows Australia has been fully dragged into another US forever war.

Gangster imperialism. ‘An expanding confrontation whose boundaries are increasingly difficult to define’. The dry and the wet burn together www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

Cancelling an event with Francesca Albanese is an act of cowardice on the part of Adelaide Uni. Universities must be places that foster rigorous debate & exchange of ideas, not a vehicle for the whims of a conservative administration. Where's the courage? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Who profits from the war Albanese is backing? The billionaires & corporations who profit from oil & weapons manufacturing. For them, war is a business model. Meanwhile every day people pay with their lives. Labor cannot continue to support Trump & Netanyahu's illegal war!

Australia's housing crisis has resulted in a UN review calling for housing to be a human right. When the UN is telling a rich country like Australia to do better on housing the government needs to take a long hard look in the mirror. Surely that’s a wake-up call? tinyurl.com/5d5n9r6b

New APRA data shows investor lending tracking at the fastest rate since 2015 - this should be raising the alarm for APRA to intervene. If only APRA had acted in 2025 when the Greens had asked them to. Instead the housing crisis continues to spiral while Labor refuses to act.

New data from Domain shows the average 1st home buyer can't afford a home in Australian cities! House prices are sky high, wages are behind & Labor's policies are only fuelling investor demand & raising house prices. Time to scrap the CGT discount & increase affordable housing.

Labor: the govt for house price increases. And first home buyer despair. In every city.

New data shows property investors buying almost twice as many homes as first-home buyers thanks to government tax breaks. Average property investor loan is ~ $100,000 larger than the average loan taken out by a first-home buyer, which guarantees investors a leg up at auctions.

Today's ABS data shows wages aren't keeping up w' inflation, as another bank, NAB, announces a quarterly profit of $2.1 bn. Wages rose a little but inflation climbed faster, meaning workers’ pay packets are going backwards in real terms & it's government decisions driving this.

Labor delivers real wage fall alongside housing price spike. Rents thro the roof. 🏠 prices at record levels, delivered by the Ministry for House Price Increases. Disaster for so many super-stressed households. Despair for so many young people.

IMF joins the long line of economists saying Labor’s 5% 🏠 deposit scheme is pouring fuel on the housing crisis bonfire. A 3.6% increase in price of eligible homes below the cap in the last 3 months of 2025. A disaster.

Looks to me like the SA government has leased prime public land to Walker Corp at $1/yr for 100 years. Despite many requests, Labor refuses to hand over the figures on its dealings with Walker Corp, talking ‘commercial in confidence’. What does Labor not want us to know?

The ACCC’s action against Coles confirms what people already know -  when corporations have too much power, they use it to squeeze people. Fake discounts are one symptom of a system where dominant firms can do as they like while people struggle with cost-of-living pressures.

CBA has raked in $5.4bn in profit in half year results while ANZ's profit rose to $1.94bn & the average mortgage is up $70,000 in last 12 months. It's no secret that in a housing crisis the big banks’ obscene profits come directly from mortgagees & renters.

Aus rents have risen 2.5x faster than wages over the past 5 yrs. Renters are now spending an average of 33.4% of income on rent, putting millions into housing stress. Meanwhile, investor lending skyrockets. A result of Labor's choices that are making the housing crisis worse.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog isn’t welcome in Australia. The Greens stand with those peacefully protesting as we demand sanctions on Israel & an end to the two way arms trade. We join our voices with the millions who call for an end to genocide and justice for Palestine.

Aus rents have risen 2.5x faster than wages over the past 5 yrs w' renters spending an average of 33.4% of income on rent. How is it fair renters are bearing the brunt of the housing crisis while investors profit from tax incentives like the CGT discount? tinyurl.com/32vtacxt

Last night at ANU talking work, time, women & sanity with this fab crew: Annabelle Crabb, Padma Raman, Lyndall Strazdins, Michelle Ryan ⏰. The revolution in women & carers entry to paid work has not been met with the necessary revolution in its terms. 💥It’s time!!💥

He had his hands up. Peaceful protest is our right - and responsibility against repression.

A massive increase in 75+ year olds living in rental stress. More are renting, & for longer, in a housing crisis where rents are thro the roof.

New figures show the Capital Gains Tax discount will blow a quarter-trillion dollar hole in the budget over the next 10 yrs. Considerably more than the $205 bn it has cost over its 25 years. The richest 1% of income earners will get a staggering 59% of the benefit.

Incredible that Labor is selling out SA by putting Woodside Barracks on the privatisation chopping block. 145 hectares of prime public land in our precious Adelaide Hills. Where are their priorities for public housing? For public amenities? Shame on you Labor. All wrong.

In the same week Australian households were told their mortgage repayments will go up, they have also learnt who the real beneficiaries of government housing policies are & it’s not first-home buyers.

After taking years Labor has finally responded to the reccs of two Parliamentary inquiries into the consultancy sector. But they've failed to meet the moment. Labor needs to legislate the reports’ recommendations instead of relying on voluntary guidelines & endless reviews.

Every post a winner when you play the revolving door. 💰 www.afr.com/rear-window/...

Labor's planned fire sale of Vic Barracks ignores the obvious solution: converting this prime publicly-owned land into social & affordable housing. Selling to the highest bidder while Aus' sleep in cars & tents exposes the govt's misplaced priorities. tinyurl.com/yc7a6u34