Hypocrisy underlying this decision is glaring. Trump recently pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted in the US on drug trafficking charges, and conspiring with traffickers while in office. You cant argue drug charges in one case, and issue a pardon in another.

Wealth taxes are a start However if more people understood that we don’t need rich people’s money to fund our public services, politicans wouldn't be able to evade their responsibilities. Their weasel excuse "We don't have the money" is (surprise, surprise) simply not true findingmoneyfilm.com #MMT

Yup!

Very funny…. Austerity as the work of the grinch

Money on the Left speaks with Pavlina Tcherneva, Professor of Economics at Bard College and leading scholar of–-and advocate for—Modern Monetary Theory.

You might have gone into debt this holiday season, but household debt and the federal debt are nothing alike. Resolve to understand Modern Monetary Theory in the New Year. #MMT

Increase in productivity since 1979: 87% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.

Please don’t make fun of kids who believe in Santa. I know economists who believe markets are perfectly efficient.

Neoclassical economics anyone?

An alternative “bargain of the century,” which Kaboub sketches out in a recent paper, relies on African nations banding together to forge more equitable partnerships with countries in other parts of the world. news.mongabay.com/2025/12/the-...

"The Albanese government’s proposed amendments to the Freedom of Information Act ask us to take seriously its proposition that robodebt may have been avoided under a regime with more secrecy."

“Women will only find safety…, when those seeking to escape abuse have a path to economic independence, when judicial systems treat violence against women with the seriousness it deserves and when technology companies are held accountable for platforms that enable harassment.”

91 people became billionaires this year through inheritance. That's not 'hard work'. That's a RIGGED system. Tax the super-rich.

Charity represents the failure of public policy. So one of the worst examples of political hypocrisy is politicians getting photo ops performing meal services for people who they have kept living in #poverty. #inequality #homelessness #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Cash is a public utility. We need a public banking option as commercial banks are failing us. www.youtube.com/shorts/qypdX...

“a single person on jobseeker is living about 40% below the poverty line.”

“degrowth must be paired with security and guarantees. You don’t sell “less consumption” in a society where people already feel stretched. You build a society where people feel held, and then you cut the nonsense that’s burning the future.” #jobguarantee

“video footage was shown of a semi-autonomous drone targeting an individual inside an apartment building, imagery that bears striking resemblance to documented Israeli strikes that have killed civilians in residential homes, including the attack that killed Dr Marwan al-Sultan and his family.”

And the biggest compo payout for Robodebt victims is ... drumroll ... Scott Morrison! Vics get $1k, we pick up Scomo's $461k legal bill although *he knew* @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social FOIs are back. #MerryChristmas #auspol michaelwest.com.au/biggest-comp...

This story should be framed not so much about ABC management's 'defence' of Tingle and Ferguson. But that the pro-Israel lobby and its proxies in politics and media continue to try to monster the public broadcaster into submission. #auspol www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...

“Chevron also sued Steven Donziger, a U.S. lawyer who represented the impacted Ecuadorian communities” “Judge Lewis Kaplan denied us a jury, refused to review any of the voluminous scientific proof of Chevron’s pollution, and then ruled in Chevron’s favor.”

"City of London Police said a 22-year-old woman has been arrested for displaying a placard in support of proscribed organisation, Palestine Action, contrary to Section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000." Read her sign again:

Something has gone terribly wrong with a society and an economy that sees a steady and inexhaustible flow of garbage as a reliable fuel for generating electricity. But here we are. thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

What are you really paying when using a card this Christmas? In 2025, when cashless payments make up about three quarters of all transactions, isn't it time surcharges were treated as critical infrastructure and subsequently offered at close to cost? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Building an airport on silt is not unlike building an economy on crypto “Mangroves grow in soft, unstable soil,” Tejada says. “Even if sediment hardens over time, an airport built on it in a highly seismic country like El Salvador could be dangerously unstable.”

“Once a company spends a billion dollars building an incinerator to generate electricity, and once that company starts paying people for waste to burn, there will be even more incentives to produce waste and even less incentive to reduce it. The Treasury economists know that.”

"Latest list of new mine proposals reveals 97 new coal and gas projects are under development" #ThePoint thepoint.com.au/news/251219-...

someone nominate this guy for an AO award

One of the best conversations re Bondi shootings I have heard. Basically: treat the perpetrators as the warped and forgettable individuals they are. And don't glorify them as infamous ideologues. open.spotify.com/episode/74hS...

“thoroughly combatting racism can only occur within the framework of a human rights approach, which does not abide the sort of heavy handed enforcement and legal pedestaling that the current envoy suggests. Jillian Segal’s plan does not reflect the fundamental diversity of Jewish opinion & voices”

What makes debt illegitimate? moneyontheleft.org/2025/02/01/o...

local activists huge win www.facebook.com/MaribyrnongT... no-truck zones introduced on ... streets, built as residential streets in the 1800's... slowly, over many decades, morphed into some of Australia's busiest truck routes...one of Australia’s longest running examples of environmental injustice

Institutionalised psychological abuse - an integral aspect of a system that blames individuals for govt choice to maintain unemployment

“Australia instigating wholesale transfer of welfare system to private company that has no interest in the wellbeing of welfare recipients, and sets up a wide range of opportunities for corruption and a very thin line between government, private corporations and political parties.” Eddy Jokovich

Dunlop re social media ban: "If the problem is defined as a matter of restricting access, then a world where platforms redesign their products, schools change how they work, parents get real support, and young people are treated as citizens... recedes from view." tdunlop.substack.com/p/the-road-t...

petition to sign: Comm bank refusing to refund low income customers Stop the Big Banks Profiting from Poverty www.getup.org.au/campaign/cam...

Sheesh! "Verdant will attempt to bridge the distance between party members who favor radical socialist reform, and those who recognise the UK’s [[here it comes...]] dependence on international investors for its debt-financing requirements and want to swing left while keeping bond markets on-side."

The world's richest 0.001% now control 3x as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity combined. 56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people. Read that back.

“Mr Brereton… told Australia that he had not in fact been involved in any of the NACC’s Robodebt decision making process, and then was found to have sat in on…almost all the Robodebt senior decision meetings… the Commissioner who was also a very close friend of one of the key Robodebt accused…”

Thanks @3crmelbourne.bsky.social for having us on to talk about what is happening in the system of compulsory activities known as "mutual" obligations and what the Commonwealth Ombudsman found in his latest investigation into unlawful penalties for people on Centrelink payments. Interview from 1:10

Shameful and unnecessary #learnmmt

“Brereton had dismissed …the suggestion that the Robodebt referrals indicated a belief by Royal Commissioner Catherine Homes that corrupt conduct had potentially occurred, “There is nothing in the referral to indicate that a view had been reached that there was corrupt conduct for us to look at.”??!

Why Paul Brereton, the chairman of the NACC, has to fall on his sword. By @sarahrussell.bsky.social He is before Senate Ests next week. Another year would be a travesty #auspol #robodebt michaelwest.com.au/enough-is-en...

we deserve better if this was morrison, people would be ... um... er... writing a very witty blog post #auspol

There's gonna be nothing left of the US when this is over

Labor sat on the “jobs for mates” review for 2 years; they wrecked the NACC; they haven’t introduced whistleblower protection laws despite promises; they’re trying to crater FOI laws; the ANAO missed half its targets bc budget cuts… & they have the nerve to talk about the abuse of transparency laws.

Hear from seven world-leading experts in our January 2026 Economics of Sustainability free lecture series, hosted by Modern Money Lab and TUA. That's Maryam H'Madoun, Stephanie Kelton, Pavlina Tcherneva, Tim Foxon, John Harvey, Scott Fullwiler and Phil Lawn. events.humanitix.com/economics-of...

The more authorities undermine "the legitimacy of dissent", the more they also undermine the "social cohesion" of which they are so fond. "HRLC documented no fewer than 49 anti-protest laws across federal, state and territory parliaments" www.abc.net.au/religion/jef...

nuthin' to see here... "The National Anti-Corruption Commission has over 200 employees, an annual budget of $60 million, and has received more than 5,000 referrals. It also hasn’t made a single major corruption finding in the two years it’s been operating." podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...

As at 10 October 2025, there were 32,556 on income management (IM): - 9,598 on old IM (BasicsCard) and 22,958 on enhanced IM (SmartCard) - 6.7% (2,221) were voluntary, the rest under compulsory measures. - 82% (26,599) on IM identify as Indigenous. www.aph.gov.au/api/qon/down...