The NACC report is astonishing for just how many non-sequiturs, excuses and naive assumptions can be packed into 455 pages. The deputy commissioner who authored it is not a judge, unlike Catherine Holmes. And it shows. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/13/n...
One of these sharks was found to have breached their duties 13 times, was not referred to the NACC, and is now a university VC. I can’t see any difference between disgracing yourself in the APS vs in a public university. We need huge change.
www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/13/n...
"The Reserve Bank of Australia may need to raise interest rates higher, to increase unemployment, which is currently too low, in order to bring inflation under control." – Emma Power, Emma Mitchell & Ilan Wiesel
Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4lrnyfp
“Kilgour displays a naive understanding of the real-life behaviour of senior public servants, wondering aloud in her official report how or why such officials could ever do the wrong thing while at times finding they did just that.” @squigglyrick.bsky.social slams NACC’s “baffling” robodebt report
Albo joining the war on Iran but shaking his head so people know he feels sad about it
CSIRO have now lost more jobs under the Albanese Governmet than under the Abbott Government.
We have to do better on research funding and backing our scientists.
www.smh.com.au/environment/...
Labor Left faction needs to face facts that the CIA wanted it more when they went to the MP draft. You have to offer better contracts if you want to attract players.
Australia last year: bans flavoured vapes and restricts access to permitted vapes in pharmacies.
Australia this year: Uhhh 95% of vapes are sold on the black market and are completely unregulated. Mods!!
"When [economists] say the labour market's too tight & we need unemployment to rise, they say it so cavalierly."
"One, because they know they're not going to lose their jobs."
@grogsgamut.bsky.social & @skyelark.bsky.social on the latest episode of Dollars & Sense. #auspol
🎧 theaus.in/4aU32AI
More likely the moderates form their own small-L liberal party with the teals
The government must prioritise meeting the material needs of people in Australia, including by increasing all Centrelink payments to at least the poverty line and ensuring everyone who needs income support can access it
via @antipovertycentre.org
love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region
... into the sun
Hanson took a chartered flight from Tamworth in NSW to Avalon in Victoria in October to attend the opening of the $11.3 million Nicholas Hancock House at Marcus Oldham College, where Hancock Agriculture CEO Adam Giles delivered the opening address.
Rotating this sentence around in my mind.
Consequences? For MY actions?
You must be insane
![Sun Ripened Warm Tomato Party
Abbreviation
SRWTSRWTPTomato Party[1]
Leader
Emile Brunoro
Founder
Emile Brunoro
Founded
10 January 1989; 37 years ago
Registered
19 January 1989; 37 years ago
Dissolved
23 December 1991; 34 years ago
Headquarters
5 Phillip Avenue
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Sun Ripened Warm Tomato Party Abbreviation SRWTSRWTPTomato Party[1] Leader Emile Brunoro Founder Emile Brunoro Founded 10 January 1989; 37 years ago Registered 19 January 1989; 37 years ago Dissolved 23 December 1991; 34 years ago Headquarters 5 Phillip Avenue Watson, Canberra[2]
This guy slowly limbering up on the sidelines
Rem has *other problems* but Albo has shown that staffing absolutely needs to be out of the hands of the government — he's too much of stupol dickhead to act with integrity on this stuff.
I think the Rem tribunal used to do this, yeah? Probably should be brought back.
This whole scandal is completely fucked. Corrosive to our system of government.
Westminster convention is clear: governments win votes on the merits of legislation, not by deploying executive patronage. Labor just tried to do exactly that.
The FOI bill deserved to die. So does this approach to governing. #auspol
"Inflation is everywhere and always a monetary phenomenon" bros sobbing, pounding sand
Incredibly gear here
Canned hotdogs for $9.80, kids skipping meals, welfare frozen in time.
Government response: "we're focused on the subsidy program."
Focused. Children are hungry. But that's ok because bureaucrats have got a focus.
Canned hotdogs for $9.80, kids skipping meals, welfare frozen in time.
Government response: "we're focused on the subsidy program."
Focused. Children are hungry. But that's ok because bureaucrats have got a focus.
The moral courage of Albo's ALP - sure, we were standing right there when our closest ally attacked an unarmed enemy and left the survivors to die, but it had nothing to do with us.
‘I have a username that is older than you. I made social media.’
‘I know, grandma. That’s why we’re taking you to the woodchipper.’
Is Australia at war with Iran? Or do we not disclose that for operational and security reasons?
Single frame. Trump at whiteboard with pointer. A line of backs of heads of various world leaders. (Macron Carney Albo Starmer Merz Von der Leyen). Written on whiteboard: “INTERNATIONAL RULES-BASED ORDER. 1. I RULE. 2. I ORDER THE REST OF THE WORLD AROUND.
Rules-based order.
My @smh cartoon.
