My column calling bullshit on the lies www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

Paul Keating with a strong support for the CGT changes and rips into Howard and Costello along the way thepoint.com.au/news/260521-...

Albanese's softly-softly just won't cut it any more www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

Secrecy of Govt is cultural. Culture is set by leadership. But our leader is addicted to secrecy. The Auditor-General’s #FOI report is just more evidence of a betrayal by @albomp.bsky.social who, in opposition, promised greater Govt transparency. #liar #auspol

Anyone else remember the absolute hysterics from Pharmacists, media and the Coalition that they changes to scripts to 60 day dispensing was going to see mass closures of Chemists. Same sky is falling carry on over the tax changes for investment, conflated outrage #auspol

A decade from now Trump, Xi, Modi and others will be dead or beyond being in office. They say it’s good to have something to look forward to.

Stone lied to a federal court and remained in his job. Now he’s leaving under a new CEO.

Albo shreds Angus who admits his door is open to One Nation “The door isn’t open, there’s no door. They’re in the same policy room”🔥 Tells Angus he should “go into any hospital & ask what would happen if we got rid of everyone who works but wasn’t born in Australia”💥 #auspol

Michelle Ananda-Rajah torches Bridget McKenzie for demonising tax-paying PRs & wanting to strip their social security BM “not going to cop that” MAR “that’s what you’re doing” BM “not going to cop that I’m somehow denigrating their contribution” MAR “Sounds like u are”🔥 #auspol

American author Fran Lebowitz on ABC730 completely wipes the floor with Donald Trump. “It’s not that he’s crazy, it’s that he’s stupid.” “Incredibly stupid.”🔥 Ferguson “What about charming…lots of ppl say he’s charming, do you believe that?” Lebowitz “No, I do not.”💥

Andrew Wilkie says he’s optimistic “one day…a strong govt” will ban gambling ads in full “Sadly it’s not this govt, not the previous govt…”💥 Wilkie slams Labor for dropping the Peta Murphy report on budget day & says it’s time to fix the “completely & utterly useless" regulator #auspol

Here we go again. My @smh @theage.

At least six oil and gas companies kicked in $1m each to a fund operated by Australian Energy Producers (AEP) to fight a proposal for a new gas tax. The Prime Minister flew across the country to tell the resources sector in person it was dead. Here's me in @deepcutnews.bsky.social looking at why.

This is absolutely brilliant stuff from @ronnisalt.bsky.social, not just skewering the lying, grifting hypocrite that is Pauline Hanson, but the insipidness and greed of both major parties (and complicit media) which has allowed One Nation to flourish.

Seems Labor are copying U.K Labor, abandoning the common people by overall moving to the right,allowing far-rw attacks to manipulate them to adjust this way. Independents need to hold strong on their values and policies as adjusting to attacks they loose anyway. U.S Dems have finally recognised this

My latest article in The Shot "In Farrer, suddenly the saviour Pauline was all for the water .... Pauline Hanson – who thinks the Murray Darling Basin Plan is the name of her plumber Murray’s work schedule – now wants you to believe she’s going to save them." 🙏🏽 theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

Media is enjoying obsessing over polls at the moment, except for this post-budget Resolve poll which has been quietly buried. Is it because it shows more Australians support cutting handouts to wealthy investors, than not? #auspol

"The politics of grievance is owned & operated by Pauline Hanson. She channels anger into dead-end bigotry & conspiracism & sells it back as the voice of the people. She shouldn’t be allowed to pretend her idea of the country is somehow 'authentic'." thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

The Australian government should not extradite anyone to the US. It's a broken country that murders people. We do not have the death penalty here - they do, and it's wielded in a brutal capricious way by their mercurial president.

Wow. A minor reform to property taxes has created a major backlash among the property classes and the usual mainstream media banter about “broken promises”. The only problem is the reform doesn’t go far enough. Latest New Politics analysis about the upcoming week: newpolitics.com.au/p/housing-cr...

For Sunrise viewers who couldn’t hear Tanya Plibersek over Nat Barr & Barnaby Joyce’s constant interruptions, what she said was “Those who work for a living should not get taxed more on their wages than ppl who are living on their assets”✅ Hard to argue with that. #auspol

Jim Chalmers fires back at media reporting saying there is “no tax on inheritances or inherited assets.” Calls on them “not listen to the scare campaigns from people who have a partisan or a commercial interest”🔥 If only.🙄 #auspol

💥Angus Taylor grilled on his dog-whistling migration plan after diaspora groups, Lib colleagues, call him out. He just gets worse, apparently today’s migrants are leas worthy, coz they’re not like “great” & “committed” migrants in the past🙄 Disgraceful, unelectable. #auspol

Not good www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

The WA premier campaigned hard against a 25% tax on gas exports. You'd think he'd look at his state's own Budget Papers and see how little gas royalties the WA govt gets and how fast it is dropping thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

Fascinating to read this now - with what we are seeing play out in the US. Written in 2017. www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

Excellent scoop from @danielhurst.bsky.social @deepcutnews.bsky.social Raises broader questions about the Australia govt's supine willingness to follow the US - and in this case, Israel too - into any war. Whether or not it's in our national interest. #auspol www.deepcutnews.com/p/exclusive-...

Govt finally "pulled the crutch out from under the laziest investment strategy ever invented" - Mark Gardner @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social #auspol #Budget #negativegearing #CGT michaelwest.com.au/distortions-...

I love this!

Clare O'Neil hits back at Andrew Clennell over Angus Taylor’s new tax policy “If I came on your show...uncosted, u would absolutely rake me over the coals”💥 “Can u imagine a Labor Opp. with a policy that had a $12.5B black hole?” Sky would make a multi-part doco on it. #auspol

Albanese attaching himself to a pop singer, almost exactly like Morrison did. And taxing gas at the same rate Morrison did. And refusing to #RaiseTheRate of unemployment benefit, just like Morrison. Did we all get together to bring Morrison down for no reason? #AusPol

For anyone who has never met the Superb Lyrebird of Australia. David Attenborough says it displays one of the most sophisticated voice skills within the animal kingdom—"the most elaborate, the most complex, and the most beautiful." The chainsaw always brings tears to my eyes. 🥹😔

Looks like today might be Country Road Sunday 😄 Here's a track out on the plains at Boolcoomatta. Plains wanderer territory. Looks like I won't be able to take my annual camping trip to Boolcoomatta this year, which makes me sad.

bracket creep

Another country road ... Darke Peak on the Eyre Peninsula.

The PHON cookers just found out John Williamson is not with them, and they are losing their shit. :chefskiss: #auspol

Seen near Holborn Station, on the route of the Unite the Kingdom rally. When the scapegoats are gone, the borders are fortified, and the hatred has done its damage, the cost of living will still rise, the NHS will still be dying, and corporate vultures will still be picking our lives apart.

Royal Commissions in a parliamentary democracy are meant to protect democracy from domestic or foreign abuse and corruption and so on, ensure equal opportunity and representation of the public, not be controlled and dominated by a foreign apartheid power for instance

Surya just sent me these beautiful pictures from the Sumud Flotilla. After some final deliberations in Turkiye, they're now heading onwards to Gaza, taking aid and the world's conscience with them. May it be smooth sailing.

Sunday Shot this morning is me, @instanterudite.bsky.social, @grogsgamut.bsky.social, and Cheek Media's Kalila Welch as we break down the budget. Join us! www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1iG...

I stand in solidarity with Palestinians who are commemorating the Nakba today. The Israeli Government’s continuing genocide in Gaza is an extension of the Nakba, despite Palestinians having every right to self-determination and to live in peace. #auspol #politas

The existence of billionaires - a tiny minority of parasites amassing obscene wealth from the exploitation of workers - is propaganda enough for socialism, but it's even better when they actually open their mouths.

Thanks to the 400+ people who joined us at Coburg Town Hall this afternoon for our public forum - 'Melbourne says no to Hanson'. Particularly thanks to our wonderful speakers Dr Gary Foley, Ghaith Kreyme, Yasemin Shamsili and Omar Hassan.

Decent result for the Queensland Socialists in their first electoral outing. Liam Parry (who was listed as an independent because the party just missed out on registering in time) coming in fourth in a field of nine candidates with 3.8% of first preference votes. Well done comrades! 🙌

I’m 63 this year. I live in rural SA. I’m doing something I’m certain I’ve done only twice before in my whole life here. That is: listened to solid rain for almost 24 hours. It’s utterly glorious.

Man who lost one of the safest seats in parliament wants to see if he can lose two of them