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Australia Institute research shows Australia’s gas tax system is failing – billions in exports, but falling returns to the public. These are Australia’s resources. It’s time we get a fair return. ✍️ Add your name to the petition calling for a 25% tax on gas exports: https://theaus.in/3OIgCP4

Great interview w @punterspolitics.bsky.social on 7am podcast this arvo. It’s worth understanding why the system doesn’t think Aussies own our mined resources. It’s a century of hard work to fight decolonized countries thinking we had a say in our wealth. #auspol open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2...

"Why does the NDIS get such detailed media & govt scrutiny, when Defence - also large and growing just as rapidly - suffers far worse rorting and incompetence and gets rewarded with billions in extral funding?" asks @keanebernard.bsky.social of @crikey.com.au www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/23/l...

ALP too scared to take on the gas industry that strips billions from our country each year; but not shy about kicking the crutches out from under hundreds of thousands of disabled Australians. So gutsy Albo.

MAGA Increasingly Believes Trump Assassination Attempt Was Fake. President Trump’s base seems to be turning against him like never before. newrepublic.com/post/209222/...

“America now doesn’t even pay lip service to global norms - in fact it celebrates flouting them. It is increasingly acting like a rogue state”: Former UK Conservative Government Minister Rory Stewart. youtu.be/eoP-oHVTWrs?...

European political expert and crack negotiator ‘JD’ now adds master theologian to his skillset with advice to the Pope to ‘stick to matters of morality’ - (other than murder, rape, fraud, theft, creating craven images and destroying civilisations, of course) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Israeli has never signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty; it has nuclear weapons; Iran has signed the treaty; it does not have nukes. Why are journalists not tackling Trump on this question? Why is it OK for Israel to have nukes and Iran not?

“Tony, I’ve already told you once. Five decades of the rosary, and only then can show us all your Big Jet Plane. But make sure you clean yourself up afterwards.”

US economics professorJames Galbraith (son of the legendary JK Galbraith): “The foundations of world power just shifted. This is a defeat at the very core of the oil-dollar system, on which American power has rested for 50 years.” www.thenation.com/article/worl...

When does the US finally cut its diseased umbilical cord with Israel? You’d have to think that after recent events, that time is coming. It’s interesting, for instance, to see many on the right in the US starting to give Bibi and his gang of honorary whites the side-eye.

How Iran won the Iran War

So the US spent billions blowing shit up in Iran, now the rest of the world will spend billions on tolls to move stuff through the straits to rebuild the shit that the US and Israel blew up. Got it. We have to subsidise stupidity

Now watch Trump and his lickspittles declare victory in opening the Strait of Hormuz, which was open in the first place before the US and Israel bombed Iran.

BREAKING: Trump agrees to suspend 'bombing and attack of Iran' for two weeks reut.rs/3PU6iny

🚨 U.S. AGREES TO 2-WEEK CEASEFIRE WITH IRAN

Trump has proven his genocidal intent. Australia is providing surveillance and targeting support for US military strikes. Albanese must withdraw resources otherwise we will be complicit in any war crimes involving mass casualties

The right has gone so far right it is now coming in from the left on foreign policy. Meanwhile, the so-called ‘centrists’ - like the Albanese government - are stuck on the road to nowhere trying to pretend the old 90s world of neoliberal supremacy still exists.

Even Tucker Carlson, of all people, is speaking more sense that any of the empty careerist suits in the Albanese government.

Here’s what you say Albo. Former US Labor Secretary Robert Reich on Trump calling for genocide. Maybe get the kiddies in your press team to read some history.

It’s never been more clear that Donald Trump has completely lost his mind. It’s our responsibility to call on Congress, the military, and any sane individual in this administration to stop him from committing war crimes against the Iranian people.

Hey Albo, how does Australia’s ‘commitment to the rules-based order’ gel with allying itself with a state threatening the genocide of a nation of 90 million? What would it take for you to grow a spine & distance Australia from a rogue state run by a madman? Asking for my kids.

President Trump threatened to wipe out “a whole civilization” if Iran’s leaders don’t open the Strait of Hormuz by Tuesday night, prompting Iran to call off talks. Trump’s political opponents questioned his fitness and called for his removal from office. https://wapo.st/3PLILVX

No matter how outrageous the crimes committed by the US and Israel, Albanese, Wong and Marles robotically mouth platitudes about our 'joint commitment to the rules-based international order'. And they wonder why the public looks beyond the political duopoly? www.justsecurity.org/135423/profe...

BREAKING: A US government official has told Al Jazeera that the second crew member from the downed F-15E has been recovered after a “heavy firefight”. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/jgys6v

For the life of me, I can’t work out why Australia just doesn’t use the US bases here as leverage. Hit us with tariffs? We close Pine Gap. Oh, and shove your non-existent subs where the sun don’t shine. www.smh.com.au/world/north-...

Trump tells US allies ‘get your own oil’ (the oil cut off by his illegal war on Iran). He says it was never a war aim to reopen the key waterway (which was open beforehand). He says the US is sick of ‘ungrateful’ allies (whose economies are being ravaged by a war he started).

The consultancy frauds strike yet again. What will it take for the Australian public sector to wake up the fact that these people are overpaid spivs and PowerPoint show ponies? They have no substance whatsoever. #4Corners

Important from @juliannes.bsky.social. If only governments would listen, understand the deeper picture & take action accordingly. Is it so hard? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Turnbull’s right, of course. But the big question is, given Australians’ disquiet at the US lurch to authoritarianism and its attacks on its own supposed allies, WHY is Albanese so badly misreading public opinion??? www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

"Our efforts have altered the Wikipedia entry on Iran’s leadership forever." theshovel.com.au/2026/03/16/u...

If the newest geopolitical trend is ‘decapitating’ evil and despotic regimes, wouldn’t it make more sense for humanity’s sake to start with the US, Russia and Israel?

Balance is replacing accuracy — as if unverified claims were factual counterpoints. Florencia Melgar (SBS) on why verification matters not just to counter disinformation, but to uphold journalistic standards. www.uts.edu.au/news/2026/03...

Trump, facing the mid-terms, lacks an off-ramp with Iran, which has an interest in keeping this war going. Without a deal, the economic consequences for the world will be catastrophic. Political scientist John Mearshimer talks to former NY Times correspondent Chris Hedges. youtu.be/sl-sSsZnSP8?...

Being "quietly alarmed" is what the moderate Liberals used to do all the time, right up until they all lost their seats. Grow a spine or don't bother.

With the majority of voters in democratic countries bitterly opposed to the illegal, illegitimate and insane US-Israeli war on Iran, the big question is why do are all the Big Tent established political parties all on a unity ticket in supporting it?

I wonder how many of the dozens of Iranian schoolgirls killed by Trump’s missiles dreamed of one day playing soccer for Iran? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

How much of an unmitigated disaster is the war that Israel has led a clueless Trump administration into against Iran? Let us count the ways. Watch this interview with Chas Freeman, a former US ambassador to Saudi Arabia. youtu.be/gltqzfUnhFg?...

Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei killed, senior Israeli official says reut.rs/4rLPrBs

Alistair Campbell: “Have you seen any world leader actually come out and support the US-Israel attack on Iran?” Rory Stewart: “Yes, Albanese.” pca.st/episode/b6e2...

Labour leader finding that kowtowing to social conservatives, Zionists, Trump apologists, Murdoch and the fossil fuel industry is a recipe for electoral oblivion. Gee, that sounds familiar. When will these centrist numpties learn??

Breaking News: Israel said it launched a strike against Iran, and residents reported explosions in Tehran.

In decades to come, people will still be quoting from Albo Jesus' sermon on Mount Marrickville.

Trump and Republicans are: -Trying to ram through a bill that would disenfranchise millions of voters -Considering an EO that would allow Trump to take over elections -Proposing to station ICE agents at polling places They’re trying to rig their way to victory. We won’t let them.

Why is everything turning to sh&t? In ‘Enshittification’, journalist Cory Doctorow writes how online platforms first attract users, then abuse them to benefit business customers, and finally harvest all value for themselves. This brilliant video shows how the model works. vimeo.com/1168468796?f...

The US is looking at Australia's retirement system and thinking perhaps we do it better than them. Tell you what chaps, drop the silly subs debacle and we'll show you how it works, OK? crr.bc.edu/can-an-austr...

Renee Geyer's 'Difficult Woman' seems appropriate. youtu.be/BVfNM8Ejomc?...

In ‘The Terminator’, an AI entity becomes self-aware, decides humanity is a threat, and launches a nuclear war. In ‘Robocop’ a rogue US state run by tech overlords submits humanity to a machine. Can there be any doubt we now exist in an ‘80s movie sci-fi dystopia? www.reuters.com/sustainabili...