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“We live in one of the richest countries in the world, that can afford to drop a lazy $360 billion on a bad idea . . . yet, when it comes to health, education, aged care, apparently, so many of these things are unaffordable.” - Dr Richard Denniss, co-CEO at The Australia Institute
I’ve signed a lot of petitions in my time but this is the petition of the times.
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7 year ordeal over for ATO whistleblower Richard Boyle is finally over w no conviction recorded. Severe need to fix #auspol WB laws.
@kimwingerei.bsky.social
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In Melbourne on Wed 16 July?
I’ll be chatting to Emma Shortis about what’s going on in America, what it means for Australia and what a path forward that’s in Australia’s best interest.
Hope to see you there, get tickets here: bit.ly/3ZWWbAz
Insurance can’t make a nation safe from climate change
We can no more rely on insurers to protect us from floods than we can expect supermarkets to protect us from famines
Insurance is a one year contract. Once damage becomes likely you just cant buy it
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Amidst a world in chaos, join us for the #SundayShot to try and make it sense of it all. @davemilbo.bsky.social & I are joined on the panel by @emmashortis.bsky.social & Bruce Wolpe, with insights from Antony Loewenstein.
Watch..and please subscribe to our YouTube channel! We need a little boost.
Three months have passed since the NACC promised an “impartial & fair investigation” into Robodebt. Nothing has been heard since. @FahyMichelle & @LizMinter #auspol
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80% of Australia’s gas is exported and NO GAS EXPORT PROJECT HAS EVER PAID PRRT.
Utter rort, aided and abetted by THE Australian government.
Big Gas is taking the piss, and your government is letting them.
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George Brandis:
"We alienated women. We offended public servants. We offended multicultural communities. We insulted people who live in the inner cities. It was almost as if we were running out of new people to offend,"
#auspol
"This idea that people with $3 million in superannuation are victims of unfair policy change is a fiction that blatantly ignores the broader reality." @eddyjokovich.bsky.social
With 3m households in #poverty, bleatings of the privileged are obscene. #auspol
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An underwhelming reflection by people still convinced they are born to rule.
Values, schmalues #4Corners
So good to hear Pat Dodson fully. Nice to see Sarah Ferguson listen too.
How come not a single person has said they have been headed this way for years. I mean there’s Brandis waxing lyrical about how they’ve offended everybody without even a backward glance to his fight for the right to be a bigot. #4corners
#4corners Andrew Hastie who believes that women shouldn't be in leadership positions in the defence force, now says he backs Sussan Ley as the first female Lib leader? How stupid do you think we are? #auspol
Exactly what I thought when they literally said it.
Andrew Hastie has 3 ‘stars’ on #4Corners -family, homes education. No mention of Lib govts making families’ lives more difficult through wage suppression and casualisation, defunding of public education and the CGT discount re ‘homes’. Yet, they continually get away with this ‘aspirational’ drivel.
Watching cooker Alex Antic walk through a press pack calling journalists “fake news, fake news, fake news” tells you everything you need to know about what is wrong with the Trumpist, extremist Liberal Party #4Corners
Proud that Australia is on this list.
This is a crazy-extraordinary event. By the 2016 WBM flood study it appears to be 1:500 flood, *out-of-season*. Taree's is largely a summer rainfall climate, definitely for extreme events. It'll be winter in 10 days.
At risk of being rude, have others noticed the extreme irony of the National Party (self declared ‘friend of farmers’) breaking up the coalition because they oppose Net Zero while Australia languishes under extreme floods in NSW and extreme drought everywhere else? No? Just me, then?
David Littleproud (holding a small nuclear cooling tower) and Sussan Ley at either end of a sofa which has been severed in the middle, facing a bucket of coal, saying “Mummy and Daddy still love you very much.”
The split.
My @smh cartoon.
Wonder how the Liberal branches are going to take the news that they are going back to the centre? 🤔 #auspol
Since when has support of nuclear power been a "core principle" of the Nationals anyway?
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No idea why media still depicts Nats as a farmers party. They are a mining party beholden to coal and gas interests and funded by Gina Rinehart. When there is a conflict between farmers and fossil fuels, they always back fossil fuels. Their opposition to wind is to protect fossil fuels for longer.
Selfie of me with headphones on, in front of a mic, holding a copy of After America.
I’ll be on the ABC Radio National Hour with Fran Kelly tonight, talking about my new little book. Airs from 6pm. You can order it here: australiainstitute.org.au/store/After-...
Today's post, in the light of yesterday's coalition break-up, looks at the Liberals and Nationals, how we rarely ever see the parties run against each other, and how the Nationals have now got to a point where they don't really run in many marginal seats #ausvotes
Labor spent $1.5 bn on a new subsidy for the middle arm gas project straight after the 2022 election…there’s no plan to stop subsidies or tax gas exports let alone tax pollution…the idea offsets are the only way to fund land restoration is a sick joke from those who make a fortune selling ‘hot air’
Where would we be without you Denise? 🙌
19 articles from independent commentators (so far) on #LibNatSplit in TrueNorth this afternoon.
Don't miss it #auspol > truenorthnews.substack.com
