Trump is now waging economic war on Aus & Albanese and Dutton still want to give the US $368 billion for imaginary nuclear attack submarines. In just the next 4 years alone Aus will give Trump $18b. Why on earth would Trump back down in that context? Cancel AUKUS now. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

While millions struggle with rents and mortgages, the Commonwealth Bank has just recorded a massive $5 billion *half year* profit - up 7%. The Greens are not going to apologise for fighting to make these massive banks pay more tax to fund public housing and dental into Medicare

I guess handing over $368 billion for submarines that will probably never arrive, signing up to whatever the hell US foreign policy is, and sucking up doesn't work. I reckon it's time we start acting like an independent country, not a vassal state of America.

First Nations people make up 3% of Aus's population but 28% of people accessing homelessness services. What sort of housing system is it that sees First Nations people homeless on their own land? It's well past time to end the chronic underfunding of First Nations housing.

Two thirds of retirees who rent privately live in poverty in Australia and its only getting worse. In this wealthy country, nobody should have to retire into poverty just because they don't own a home. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Trump’s threat to ‘take over’ Gaza and force out all Palestinians is ethnic cleansing, incomprehensible and beyond wrong. That it’s been almost three days and Australia can’t even bring itself to say so is moral cowardice.

Big mining corporations run the government. Once again, the PM has caved to the mining industry and broken his election promise on environment. Instead of doing the right thing by the environment, Labor choose their mining donor mates again and again.