Reform plans threaten maternity leave and job security for half a million pregnant women, analysis shows

Trump is reportedly losing patience with his own war that he started in Iran and wants it to end as soon as possible, according to a new report.

Trump's giant gold statue of himself at his Doral Golf Club in Miami was met with online disgust by people who couldn't believe that anyone would want or applaud such a vanity project.

‘They have screwed each other pretty badly’: tensions emerge in Netanyahu-Trump alliance

Depression treatments focus mostly on decreasing negative emotions. But a study finds that increasing positive ones might be more effective. Positive affect treatment is designed to help people find more joy, connection and meaning.

Sign Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday card! getup.to/PLz3etPxNU7o...

Grim stuff. Posters of a man charged with war crimes at a State by-election polling booth.

Almost all inflation in March was petrol prices. Not sure why the RBA would think a rate rise will fix that. My column www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

This is so fucked

Literally the world is being destroyed by the worst bunch of 12 year old boys who've seen WAY too many 80s action films 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Payslips aren’t optional. They’re a legal requirement and if your boss can’t keep accurate records, that’s a red flag. www.australianunions.org.au/factsheet/pa...

Donald Trump posted this latest threat to Iran on his social media account at 4:05 a.m. ET / 1:05 a.m. PT. Note: Reports indicate Trump’s social media posts have been actively undermining negotiations.

Modern book burning.

"We are all of us operating in an environment of blatant racist interference from state and federal governments doing their best to suppress dissent, to stigmatise and criminalise protest, to falsely characterise opposition to apartheid Israel’s blatant crimes against humanity as antisemitic...

I don't think @albomp.bsky.social gets how universally Australians want to tax the gas companies and how aggrieved they feel about being ripped off and the resultant lack of funding for essential programmes.

Love France 🇫🇷 They understand the importance of the battery life of a Nokia 3310

📌MEDIA: Stop calling Jared Kushner a "high-level negotiator." He's a damn thief operating in his repulsive family's best interests not ours.

I don’t think we talk nearly enough about the fact that corporations like Amazon, don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay nothing for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business. WE Pay for

Paul Keating 👀 “The Liberal party […] has again fallen back to its default political policy: racism.” www.theguardian.com/...

Turned on NBC. They talked about “President tipping a DoorDash driver $100”. This woman participated in GOP ads before playing other roles. There is no DoorDash deliveries to the Oval Office. Please exercise proper judgement when consuming news.

Ex-CIA director calls for ousting Trump: ‘25th amendment was written with him in mind’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has signed a decree establishing Universal Healthcare for all Mexican citizens. The United States could’ve had this, but people chose economic collapse, cruelty and death instead. I’ll never regret voting for Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris.

Carney: "The days of our military sending 70 cents of every dollar to the United States are over." *thunderous applause*

Lying from the White House Podium is now a family tradition.

The energy weapon that the US has directed at Mexicos throat is straight up gangster: Buy our gas or else lose USMCA market access And a decade long recession. Claudia Sheinbaum should break free with a massive sola plus storage buildout. bsky.app/profile/just...

"Some hope that rumoured high-level discussions in Mexico between the Cuban government...no signs of progress. Instead, diplomats in Havana are preparing for an alternative tactic: the country being starved until people take to the streets and the US can step in" www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

"Mexico’s 120 million citizens will begin to enjoy free, universal access to healthcare from next year, following a decree by socialist president Claudia Sheinbaum. The landmark policy will unify a fragmented and unequal system that has left many unable to receive care..." x.com/novaramedia/...

Singapore says it won't restrict fuel to Australia as the countries sign new energy deal www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

Two things of note here: 1) only in Australia could we have media buying into right wing talking points that the answer to a global fossil fuel crisis in a climate crisis is to "drill, baby, drill", and 2) Chris Bowen is doing a decent job at holding the line against this nonsense.

This is the 10 point peace plane from Iran gulfbusiness.com/en/2026/iran...

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available. We decided to illustrate it.

NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military, according to nine U.S. officials familiar with the process.

“They were going to come. It was going to be a big thing. We were going to go to the beach right after. All those plans had to go out the window because they said ICE would be here."

Feels like an awkward detail here that the US has also not ratified the Law of the Sea. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/w...

Datacentres are a menace. Don’t approve them. We can cope without AI generated slop. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

BREAKING: Labor is halving the fuel excise which will reduce the cost of petrol and diesel by 26.3c per litre. The Albanese Government will halve the fuel excise for three months from April and cut the Heavy Vehicle Road User Charge to zero to help with the cost of living.

Not sure why we’d be in a rush to get a religious conservative, anti-climate change, anti-marriage equality, Enoch Powell quoting, pro-white South African farmers bloke in power. But some journos get seduced, I guess.

Presuming the NPC inviting the Israeli ambassador to speak means they are okay with the murder of the first three journalists to ask any questions, or is that only the non-white ones?

Well stop throwing bones to your evangelical wingnuts by shutting down renewable projects, or deliberately tying them up in red tape because the process is the punishment.

Just as with the last federal election, more people voted against conservative candidates in South Australia, than for them. And yet policy and media is still dictated by conservative politics and whether or not there is ‘political space’ to enact them 🫠🫠🫠🫠

BREAKING 🚨 Trump threatens to invade Greenland again if Europe doesn’t help him against Iran.

‘Vile’ Trump condemned for gloating over Robert Mueller death www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...