Writing exclusively for Crikey today, Rick Morton tears into the NACC's long-awaited robodebt report that exonerated Scott Morrison and Kathryn Campbell.
www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/13/n...
The world has built its energy system around oil. Now imagine something different.
Sunlight travels 93 million miles at the speed of light to reach Earth — never passes through the Strait of Hormuz.
Energy from the sky doesn’t need an army to protect it. #Bettrification
The NACC continues to be a joke
Nothing but a hit job on Rohan Pike, who is knowledgeable and right about it all. Melissa Davey's reputation as an objective reporter on these issues was shot a long time ago. What's more important Mike, is asking consumers why we do what we do - that's where the truth is, if it was wanted.
FDA Commissioner Makary telling the truth: FDA-authorized nicotine vapes are "less dangerous than combustible cigarettes." It is remarkable how many people don't know or want to accept this fact.
Unfortunately, most people who smoke in both Great Britain and the United States now believe, incorrectly, that nicotine vapes are as harmful as, or more harmful than, traditional cigarettes.
The question is: Who misinformed them and why have they done that.
“I am driven by deep despair and intense frustration that the opportunity to avoid millions of premature deaths and tens of millions of years of human suffering is being squandered by a kind of purity cult."
@kiransidhu41.bsky.social interviews leading tobacco harm reduction advocate Clive Bates:
Hope this proposed new Australian gold mine in Otago NZ gets stopped. Please watch this video @greencate.bsky.social @m1ngthemerciless.bsky.social @paulbongiorno.bsky.social
youtu.be/UNung9Gw5MQ
Cristopher Snowdon smashes Australia’s Tobacco Taliban:
“The black market in cigarettes is now so normal in Australia that little old ladies are not just buying them but are happy to have their name and photo published in the New York Times”
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Always enjoy being told that the private sector is a more efficient and productive way to deliver public services
A Letter From a Future Smoker
@alexwodak.bsky.social
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An Open Letter to Tobacco Control Academics: When Will You Look Abroad?
@alexwodak.bsky.social @melissasweetdr.bsky.social @drbfreeman.bsky.social
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“Dad, that light says ‘check engine’.”
“Uh-Oh. Tape must’ve fallen off.”
How Australia’s tobacco control deals with appalling consequences of failed sky high cigarette excise & super restrictive vape policy @algore09algor.bsky.social @chancethegardener.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social
Stop the scaremongering. 🛑 France’s ANSES confirms: No smoke = far fewer toxins. With an 80-100% reduction in harmful compounds & zero tumours identified in users, the data is clear: Vaping is a life-saving exit ramp from cigarettes. #PublicHealth #Vaping #FactCheck clearingtheair.eu/post/french-...
Aussie Al Gore is one of the most elloquent writers out there on the subject of nicotine #HarmReduction. A super-controversial topic. The WHO literally calls it an "evil industry plot." 140 million adult ex-smokers worldwide disagree.
ICE vs. NSW Police. Spot the difference.
Exactly right! Highly recommend reading this commentary & other pieces by Gor. Raises question whether this dishonesty by tobacco control vaping opponents is accidental or intentional? Getting harder & harder to believe it’s accidental @chancethegardener.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social
Herzog should never have been invited to visit Australia. Especially now. Should be arrested on arrival. Divisive. His own words & actions legally deeply problematic. @paulrgregoire.bsky.social @m1ngthemerciless.bsky.social @senatorwong.bsky.social @albomp.bsky.social @paulbongiorno.bsky.social
Demonstrations all over Australia 5:30pm Monday 9 February to protest against visit of Israeli President Isaac Herzog. Please attend if you can. Peaceful. Non violent
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Single frame. Title: “[redacted]” A line of early teen? girls looking at the viewer. Behind them, silhouettes of four generic men, some with hand on shoulders of the girls, which have been through six iterations of redaction to satisfy the newspaper’s lawyers that none are identifiable.
A heavily redacted cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.
Something is going horribly wrong with Albo. Herzog and now this. What room is he reading?
I wonder if there's any chance this would pass. It's incredible and appalling that it's even been considered. Enforcement would be pretty difficult and surely backlash would be guaranteed.
👇🏻is what you call social cohesion. People from different faiths working together & acknowledging genocide is no acceptable.
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Well, this is new - at least to me...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
Australia wastes millions on enforcement as NZ proves pragmatic harm reduction works by ⬇️adult daily smoking to 6.8%-one of lowest rates globally. Oz prohibition created $A4 billion illicit market, >200 fire-bombings, gang warfare @caphra.bsky.social says=policy failure.Press release: bit.ly/4jYrsfh
Surveys show 80% of US physicans believe, incorrectly, that nicotine itself causes cancer, heart and lung disease.
4 out of 5 doctors are profoundly misinformed. That's bad, but it raises an interesting question: Who misinformed them? And why?
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