Morgan Harrington

Honest Government Ad | Woodside YouTube video by thejuicemedia

Anyone looking for a new job? Woodside is hiring.
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Do beer drinkers pay more tax than gas companies?
Yes, they do!

Beer excise > PRRT
Beer drinkers' income tax > gas company income tax

Thread below, full details here: australiainstitute.org.au/report/tax-b...

The last stop on the train line of Australia’s social failures: Tales of a homelessness case worker on the NSW South Coast Life as a homelessness case worker is brutal. You often feel like the last stop on the train line of our country’s social failures. Hardest of all is knowing that people aren’t helped as well as they ...

Policy analysis from actual homelessness case worker.

Proud to have helped with this piece.
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Let’s talk about tax, baby: How economic reform can change the world It may be fifty shades of boring to most of us, but by all rights tax reform should be the water-cooler topic du jour. Despite the many damning reports about our ongoing cost-of-living crisis, Oxfam f...

Did somebody say tax? You had me at "the existence of billionaires is a colossal failure of policy."
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Oh look, Australia has a brand new coal mine proposal.

Just after committing to phase out fossil fuels.

What will @MurrayWatt do with this?

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Why Australia’s “Grammy-rush” is good news for local listening In addition to obvious economic benefits, growing overseas audiences for our artists could also address growing Americanisation here at home.

Midnight Oil manager John Watson argues that, despite all the woe, Aussie musos are killing it overseas - even if they're relatively unknown at home. thepoint.com.au/news/260202-...

The PALM visa scheme gives people from Pacific Islands and Timor-Leste the opportunity to work in Australia.

But the scheme's strict restrictions are leading to concerns it's facilitating modern slavery in Australia.
@mhharrington.bsky.social #auspol

PALMed off: The story of modern slavery in Australia Listen to all four episodes now!

PALMed off: The story of modern slavery in Australia - new podcast available now thepoint.com.au/news/260108-...

Photo of ni-Vanuatu men in the back of a Toyota ute PALMED OFF, Episode 1 | Modern slavery in Australia? Listen to Follow the Money now via the link or wherever you get your podcasts.

Is the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme facilitating modern slavery?

@mhharrington.bsky.social speaks to experts, community leaders & ni-Vanuatu former PALM workers in the first episode of this four-part mini-series on the guestworker scheme. #auspol

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Extreme heat inflames inequality The people most vulnerable to extreme heat either live below the poverty line, have a long-term health issue, and/or are aged 65 and older.

Feeling the heat? 35 degrees is the crucial point for Australia's most fatal kind of weather.
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The NACC’s exceptional challenge: integrity is not achieved by secrecy, but by trust earned in the light Few issues unite progressive and conservative voters. Ending corruption is one of the few exceptions.

Australia's anti-corruption commission has been around for two and half years, but is yet to hold a single public hearing: thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

The 50 best albums of 2025: Your ultimate year-end music guide It's been an incredible year of music. Did your favourite album of 2025 make our list?

Looking for some new music? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Highway to hell? Reversing the decline of Australian music These days, Aussie music is falling out of the charts, leaving local acts wondering if they’ll ever see your face again.

Wondering where all the Aussie music went? Former Spotify Chief Economist Will Page explains how algorithms take listeners offshore australiainstitute.org.au/post/highway...

Ausmusic tshirt day at work with
@skyelark.bsky.social
@ebonybennett.bsky.social
‪@alicektg.bsky.social‬
You can donate to musicians doing it tough here: ausmusictshirtday.org.au

ping @skyelark.bsky.social @ebonybennett.bsky.social

Are you wearing your Aussie band t-shirt today? 👕

Australia Institute research shows the number of Aussie artists being streamed online has gone down in recent years, and it's got a lot to do with the algorithms! 🎶
#auspol #ausmusictshirtday @mhharrington.bsky.social

Friends, can I ask a favour.

Our latest Honest Government out is a serious warning to Canada from Australia, which acts as a cautionary tail about the harms of the gas (LNG) export industry... Hence the cameo (spoiler alert) from our own aussie climate criminals, Woodside Energy

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It wasn’t the laws that were too weak to stop those projects, it was the ministers The Prime Minister is betting that by 2028 people will forget the North West Shelf and EPBC backflips, but it would be a brave backbencher willing to make that same bet.

It wasnt our enviro laws that were too weak to protect the Skate or stop the North West Shelf, it was our Ministers.

Thats why Labor is trying to get the Coalition to help them water them down…to save Enviro Ministers the embarrassment of always saying yes #climate
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AI Astroturfing is here

Here's ten articles on democracy & governance that you can read right now on @thepointau.bsky.social:

1/ "New research on proposed FOI laws show it would block access to even more documents" --

Going against the Robodebt Royal Commission's recommendation. thepoint.com.au/news/251007-...

What's The Point?
Let @australiainstitute.org.au to explain at our new site: thepoint.com.au

2023-23 TAX STATS SPREADSHEET SHOWING 91 PEoPLE WITH A TOTAL INCOME OF $1M+ who paid $0 tax

The 2022-23 tax stats just dropped. And there we have it:

91 millionaires who paid ZERO tax

Here's something absolutely cooked about books in Australia Winning authors pay tax. Mug punters, that's another story.

If you bet on the winner of the Miles Franklin, your windfall is tax free but if you win the Miles Franklin you pay tax. There's an easy and cheap way for the gov to help our best artists and writers. Make prizes tax free.
Thanks to @charlottewood.bsky.social & Melissa Lucashenko for their thoughts

Australia has an opportunity to get out of AUKUS. We should take it.

We ask the Albanese Government to prioritise Australia's interests and security, and to join the UK and the US Governments in undertaking an independent parliamentary inquiry into AUKUS.

✍️ Add your name: theaus.in/AUKUS_inquiry

Planet Wreckers: Top Global North Countries Responsible for nearly 70% of projected new oil and gas expansion to 2035 - Oil Change International Four Global North countries are responsible for nearly 70% of projected new oil and gas expansion from 2025 to 2035.

Australia, Canada, Norway and U.S. are responsible for nearly 70% of projected carbon-dioxide (CO2) pollution from new fossil fuel projects between 2025 and 2035. Also Australia - "we are a renewable powerhouse and should host COP31" #nonewcoal #nonewgas #climatecrisis oilchange.org/blogs/planet...

Oh look, Env Minister Murray Watt could approve a brand new coal mine in the next 10 days. @australiainstitute.org.au #CoalMineTracker 1/2

Don't let the confected outrage fool you, the super tax reform is good for women Confected outrage at the very wealthy paying slightly more tax on their super is misguided and misdirected.

"Confected outrage at the very wealthy paying slightly more tax is misguided and misdirected."

Great piece on proposed super changes by @gemkillen.bsky.social
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The Fight to Save Murujuga YouTube video by The Australia Institute

Over 1 million pieces of 50,000-year-old art, gone in 50 years, just to mine more of the fossil fuels that are causing climate change. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj9V...

Very excited that @ketanjoshi.co is working with @australiainstitute.org.au!!!

Check out his post on Woodside, dodgy offsets and the safeguard mechanism...

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This is scandalous

@walabor.bsky.social doctoring scientific report on destruction of Murujuga cultural treasure to cover for Woodside.

"A disgrace to Australian science, and my colleagues at Curtin University, who I'm sure are as angry as I am."

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