Labor are spinning this as a ‘restrained and sensible’ budget. There’s nothing ‘restrained’ about $53 billion more for war and AUKUS. Nothing ‘sensible’ about homelessness and poverty. Unless you are the 1%

"This is a hard article to read, but I hope you'll do so. I've spent some time reporting on widespread rape and other sexual violence of Palestinian male and female prisoners by Israeli authorities, and the [gift] article is now published." — Nicholas Kristof www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

Dr Assal Rad— "It's not "blood libel" when it's true."

we worked very hard to get over a dozen Labor MPs to break ranks in the lead up to the 2023 budget, but since then have heard from MPs that they're not allowed to bring it up anymore

Yeah, and it’s those uses that are getting pushed at us, half-baked, that is behind a lot of the backlash. Being told that AI can do out work for us, so we’ll be more productive, while we go through constant restructuring and job losses. Big talk of UBI, but no one with wealth wants to pay taxes.

Remove Israel. A country committing genocide, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity has no place in Eurovision.

Fair enough to cover 'shrinking middle class', outrageous tax breaks for the wealthy, and the #inequality of inherited wealth. But odd how these pieces rarely mention the 1 in 7 households and 1 in 6 children with *zero* wealth and such low incomes they are living in poverty. #RaiseTheRate #auspol

..and Iran has been "just weeks away" from completing a nuclear weapon for 30 years... Trump and Israel have cried "wolf" too many times, yet the goldfish media repeat it every time.. 🤦‍♂️

No Eurovision for me. Genocide is far too important to be ignored

A national leader presenting a well-deserved award to a global leader. Meanwhile, the Australian prime minister cowers, and enables the genocidal Netanyahu and the mad fascist Trump. #auspol

And did Mr. Netanyahu express a desire to declare his stocks of fissionable material, or the size of the nuclear arsenal in Israel? The regional power balance is not irrelevant to the Iran war.

Israeli attacks are intensifying in southern Lebanon, with 552 killed since the 'ceasefire' started on April 16.

Israel is what is causing the rising antisemitism

Dr Assal Rad— "An average of 4 Palestinians have been killed per day in Gaza since October 10, 2025. "That’s not a ceasefire @reuters.com."

"They even told us that if it's a woman or a child, use your judgement, because things happen" he added, saying similar instructions were given regarding donkeys." Israel is a terrorist state @tonyburkemp.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social #auspol www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli...

Australia’s sovereign wealth fund drastically increased its investments in arms, tech and banking companies contributing to the Gaza genocide in 2025, risking “serious breaches of international law” according to pro-Palestine advocacy groups. www.deepcutnews.com/p/future-fun...

Rural Australians don't have a monopoly on disadvantage. We live in a lopsided society where homelessness and poverty are everywhere. The voters of Farrer had the same info as everyone else. They had a choice between a mining corporation backed ON and an independent, and they chose ON.

They buried children alive in Gaza. THEY FIRST TIED THEIR HANDS BEHIND THEIR BACK‼️ Orthopedic surgeon Mark Perlmutter, who recently worked in Gaza, has shared a harrowing eyewitness account - that Israeli soldiers buried two Palestinian children alive in a mass grave in the Nasser medical complex.

They are not settlers, they are terrorists. Call them what they are.

Dozens of Israeli settlers stormed various areas of the West Bank, set cars on fire, and attacked Palestinians.

The political impact of extreme weather depends a lot on how we talk about that weather. If journalists, elected officials, and other trusted messengers explicitly link extreme weather to climate change, then "climate change worry" and "support for government action" rises. #EndClimateSilence

📢 Australia’s largest survey of migrant working conditions has uncovered stark details of widespread, systematic underpayment. The study, published by the Migrant Justice Initiative, reveals two-thirds of migrant workers are paid less than they are owed under the Fair Work Act, and international…

Inside the jails where Russia breaks Ukraine prisoners 'like dogs'. Thousands of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians have been subjected to violence in detention centres in Russia and occupied Ukraine, according to testimonies collected by AFP -- including from Russia prison officers u.afp.com/SRkp

“Future Fund was set up for our children’s future, but it’s being used to fund the killing of children in Palestine. The Treasurer should cut off the supply of Australian dollars for Israeli weapons" Media all over alleged terrorism of 'ISIS brides' while ignoring Israeli state terror that we fund.

We tried to warn you about Anthropic. Now they're using xAI's ultra-polluting community-killing nightmare data centre to power your toxic claude relationship All the new paid subs from @rutgerbregman.com and @quitgpt.bsky.social's campaign, now powered by Musk 🫠 www.anthropic.com/news/higher-...

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne.... Being against Genocide and Lebensraum doesn't make us Anti Semitic. #Auspol @albomp.bsky.social

The word “genocide” is a precise legal term. And what has happened in Gaza matches the definition laid out in the 1948 Genocide Convention: “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group as such.” - Omer Bartov, Israeli historian

Are these women accused of sniping kids—who were searching for food/water—in the head/chest for fun/sport/to relieve boredom, @albomp.bsky.social @tonyburkemp.bsky.social? Like we know at least some Aussie IDF members have been doing in Palestine? No? I see. #auspol #MVAW #MVAC #GazaGenocide

Palestinians expose torture and sexual violence in Israeli detention https://aje.news/xf7y5u

“This (genocidal) campaign, conducted by the IDF, appears to have had the enthusiastic support of the vast majority of Israel’s population. For this reason it is not possible for any considerable sector of Israeli society … to claim that it should not share in the blame for the atrocities in Gaza.”

I don’t understand how the Albanese government can morally justify keeping the jobseeker rate way below poverty level, when their economy requires that some people need to be unemployed bc “labour market”. I guess morality doesn’t come into it.

"It's a pity the Prime Minister can't mention Gaza because the savage irony is that the Israeli destruction of that country has most likely been the major cause for a rise in antisemitism in Australia." A pity, and also despicable, @albomp.bsky.social #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2026/05...

This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...

This is exactly why language matters: “women were given the vote” frames equality as a gift from men, instead of hard won political power extracted through organized resistance. Nobody gave women anything. Women fought, marched, strategized, endured violence, went to prison and died for it.

Ffs, All this fuss to increase fear and distract us from the poverty many Australians are facing, including a baby who has died in a tent.

Electrify everything. Fast. It can be done if there is political will.

Stop paying AUKUS and save A$12 billion each year and tax export gas effectively and gain A$20billion each year. Problem solved but not by being timid.

WTF????? Discount for the fossil fuelers again while we get our rates increased!! #auspol

#auspol Australia we have a problem when our government and opposition are not complaining about this every day to the ambassador and the envoy. This is a disgrace youtu.be/huL4pCiKtdM?...

The #LnP still fuck us over from opposition. Not clearing out their boobytrapped appointments is masochistic for (check’s notes) the people who voted Labor. They’re goading Australia to give the Greens balance of power.

The entire Board needs to be sacked in disgrace. Tomorrow There must be Union, unemployed advocates & other real people appointed. "The levers" available to the Board need legislative change The utter stupidity of punishing the very people WORST affected by greed driven inflation is breathtaking

"fill the moat, pull-up the drawbridge!" #auspol #RBA #InterestRates it always goes back to this cunt

"Higher interest rates will do nothing to open the Strait of Hormuz. Higher interest rates cannot change the world price of oil and bring down fuel prices,” said Matt Grudnoff, Senior Economist at The Australia Institute. Read the full media release: https://theaus.in/4n6xcoB

The most dangerous thing in the world to cops being thugs, is when they do it to a middle aged white man of means with a powerful friendship group. Go sick'em Rex www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Massacres continue in Gaza, the only reason you don’t hear anything is because Palestinian journalists are dead & Western MSM pretends there is a ceasefire. Last night Israel carried out another massacre in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood.

"It has created one of the most segregated education systems in the OECD." Walkley-award winner Jane Caro AM unpacks the issues with Australia's private/public school system in the latest Vantage Point essay, 'Rich Kid, Poor Kid: The battle for public education' 📚 #auspol @janecaro.bsky.social

Michele Bullock thinks real wage growth falling after COVID was a good thing and she's worried they might go up this time. Brain dead belief that it is always 1979. Please resign and get someone who is not an RBA lifer. live.thepoint.com.au

The economic equivalent of cutting off your leg to save you from the risk of future sprains. Diabolical. Admits there is nothing this rate raise will do to stop inflation, but doing it anyway just in case there is increased spending in the future. But it's fine for businesses to increase prices.

‘Wake-up call’: methane emissions from Australian coalmines more than double official estimates, report finds International Energy Agency findings show government must commit to rapid cuts in emissions of greenhouse gas, climate experts say www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It is so shocking that the only option for many people who can no longer afford rent and cannot get help from friends or family is to live in a fucking TENT. No bathroom, no kitchen, no safety, no security, no real protection from bad weather and no public sympathy. Fucking disgraceful.