Australian governments subsidising fossil fuel use by more than $30,000 a minute, analysis finds Australia Institute data finds state and federal subsidies for coal, gas and oil products increased 10% in past year, growing at a faster pace than funding to NDIS

Remember this next time anyone in the govt says they can’t afford to raise the rate.

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Morrison was sacked from tourism Australia for fraud

👇 excellent thread; terrible decisions.

We are at war #Australia.
It wasn't self defence at all, #auspol.

That's #Bullshit #Propaganda for #Fascism @senatorwong.bsky.social! You should feel DEEP #SHAME!

A cartoon by Ron Cobb (1975), showing a shadow of US B-52 bomber above cratered landscape. Two people who look like Vietnamese peasants look up; one says “they’re having problems with their economy again.”

This is from 1975.

Single mothers are facing thousands of dollars in debts being raised against them by the commonwealth as their ex-partners manipulate the child support ­system in a loophole feared ripe for abuse www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/polit...

what gets me is we willingly give billions of dollars to the federal government every year to provide universal health care and public education and Albanese and his mates give our money to landlords and rich people schools and white mercenaries seeking fortunes in Dubai.

Queer people are not 18+ We are not some degenerate topic, we are people with real lives and we are more than the sexuality that makes you uncomfortable. Your issues are yours- get over it.

Queer people are not 18+

We are not some degenerate topic, we are people with real lives and we are more than the sexuality that makes you uncomfortable. Your issues are yours- get over it.

Cord was cut about few years back. Partner struggles with nostalgia for the ABC that was. Figure that slows a lot of peeps

This is such sad news. I cant express how much i have appreciated your photos and stories of Abla over the last few years. It is obvious how much she means to you both, and to her sheep family too. ❤️‍🩹💕❤️‍🩹

Cory Bernardi - a nasty, bigoted, divisive politician - might be a One Nation adherent now but let’s not forget that he is the product of the Liberal Party. As he became more and more extreme and discriminatory towards minorities, he remained a LIBERAL Senator. Speaks volumes of Liberal “values”.

International Women's Day. Never closer to equality, nor closer to losing it. - Michael West Women's rights are rolling back at the exact moment women are being pushed closer to war, poverty and public violence. IWD

"Women's rights are rolling back at the exact moment women are being pushed closer to war, poverty and public violence. This is not drift. It is design"

#IWD is tomorrow.

Very good analysis by Aleta Moriarty
#auspol
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People need to accept that Labor is centre-right, not left. Coalition is right to far right depending on the reigning internal faction. Teals centre-right only because environmental issues are considered "left". Greens are centre-left. Most other minor parties like PHON are far-right. #auspol

‘A Culture of Fear’: Adelaide University Under Fire for Cancelling Event with UN Expert Francesca Albanese By Helen Reynolds   The decision by Adelaide University to withdraw a venue booking for an event featuring a leading United Nations human rights expert has ignited a fierce debate about academic freed...

“The decision by Adelaide University to withdraw a venue booking for an event featuring a leading United Nations human rights expert has ignited a fierce debate about academic freedom and censorship in South Australia.”

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The newly amalgamated Adelaide University brings utter shame upon itself in its first months of operation.

In a statement following this shocking act, it risibly claims it is a place where "exchange of ideas can happen freely".

Not if the ideas include a defence of the remaining Gazans, it seems.

Exclusive: NDIS algorithm designed to put scheme back on track at 'critical risk' Documents seen by Crikey show that senior staff at the National Disability Insurance Agency have warned that the policy design of the so-called New Framework Planning is in disarray.

I've been shown NDIS agency documents that warn the introduction of a support needs assessment and 'robo-planning' is a mess with every element of the tech listed as off track and now at 'critical risk'. Agency booked savings, but they're figuring it out as they go. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/05/r...

NDIS ordered to pay up in 'significant' court battle The national disability insurer was wrong to deny funding to a man in need of a mobility scooter,...

The NDIS tried to argue that because mobility wasn’t a blind man’s primary listed disability, he didn’t need supports for his mobility impairment. He successfully challenged the NDIS in the Federal court www.canberratimes.com.au/story/918960...

Over recent years, One Nation has been forced to repay over $200k in wrongly claimed election spending. It's not clear how much personal wealth Hanson has, but she recently loaned $245k to her own party and refuses to say where the money came from.

WA fish under threat as seismic blasting slips through the net The Western Australian government’s move to protect vulnerable species from fishing is undermined by its failure to prevent seismic blasting to explore the region’s gas reserves.

On January 1, Western Australia introduced strict fishing bans to protect some of the state’s most endangered fish populations. The same consideration was not applied when, months earlier, the state approved seismic blasting to search for gas reserves. satpa.pe/C9Q10nK

UN review urges Australia to address poverty, housing crises, and strengthen human rights Australia must act on UN findings highlighting major gaps in rights, poverty and housing, the AHRC warns.

UN review finds Australia must do more to protect basic rights, highlighting poverty, housing, social security fairness, climate impacts and ongoing asylum concerns humanrights.gov.au/about-us/med...

Victoria Police are failing their duty of care to Aboriginal people in their custody www.vals.org.au/news/media-r...

PSA- al-Jazeera has the best and most balanced coverage by a long shot, and they livestream on YouTube

Story on The Australian front page: Israel’s deadliest day: Nine die in public shelter in Beit Shemesh struck by Iranian missile Volunteer medic Ronit Elimelech rushed her elderly mother and three children to the shelter as sirens wailed, instinctively grabbing her vest and the medical equipment she’d used to save countless lives. It wasn’t enough to save her own.

All civilian deaths are tragic, but we're getting a real sense of whose lives are valued more.

If The Australian had run this story for Gaza it would have had to do it more than 8,000 times.

Never mind one for the around 150 children killed in a Tehran school just this week...

Algorithm denies high level care for Melbourne man with advanced MND Graham Crossan cannot eat, talk or breathe unassisted but he's been denied funding for high-level care due to a new way of assessing aged care funding.

Advocates fear My Aged Care funding algorithm could become Australia's next robodebt www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Apparently he has no clue how very deeply he fucked that right up. Done and dusted.

Evelyn Araluen wins $125,000 for ‘politically uncompromising’ poetry at Victorian premier’s literary awards Poet’s second collection The Rot won the Victorian prize for literature and the Indigenous writing category

Seems the Vic Premier's Literary Awards aren't bowing to pressure or self censorship in choosing the winners this year.

I read Fierceland a couple of weeks ago and thought it was excellent. Also thought Discipline was very much worth a read.

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

The PEOPLE’S choice

Why does the Australian Future Fund hold a $100 million stake in Palantir? www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/20/c...

Juvenile Justice. Caging children while corporate criminals go free - Michael West In Australia, children as young as ten can go to prison, while an executive responsible for multimillion-dollar bribery gets away with a fine

An average of 884 children in detention per night BUT Leighton exec in $45m bribery scandal pays $1k fine, goes to French chateaux
#auspol #justice
Story by Aleta Moriarty
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