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If one is censured by a nation's Parliament for behaviour officially found to be "corrosive of trust in government", and is referred to an anti-corruption commission for misleading its Cabinet about the "crude and cruel" Robodebt scheme, how is one then eligible for said country's highest honour?

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Australia Institute research has found that 73% of gas exported from WA attracts zero royalty payments, effectively giving a public resource to multinational gas corporations for free. Over the last four years, $111 billion worth of WA LNP was exported australiainstitute.org.au/post/zero-ro...

submitted 26 days ago • 9 comments

Restrictive interest rates are obsolete: A 50bp rate cut is urgently needed next week. If the RBA does not cut 50 next week, it will be playing a very risky game with the jobs of tens of thousands of people the stakes in its economic modelling zealotry www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTYo...

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

I will forever be haunted by this footage. Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity. What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives. 🌎🦑🧪

submitted 39 days ago • 85 comments

After WW2 many Germans said they did not know about the Jewish Holocaust. No one can say now that they do not know about the live steamed Holocaust of Palestinians in Gaza today. John Menadue #Auspol #gaza

submitted 37 days ago • 4 comments

Dr Assal Rad— #MothersDay

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Israel resumed its relentless bombing of Gaza overnight on Tuesday, killing more than 400 Palestinians and sowing terror. Here's what we know about why Israel broke the ceasefire in the enclave ⤵️

submitted 92 days ago • 45 comments

I’ve just watched ep 1 of Ningaloo, Tim Winton’s doco about that amazing, ancient WA reef. Wow. Just wow! Not only interesting on nature & ancient Oz history, but the sublime beauty we see is breath-taking. Stunning underwater cinematography. It’s on iview. And I hope they keep it there.

submitted 94 days ago • 2 comments

5 years of the COVID-19 pandemic: The origins of a social catastrophe. "Virtually every column published has minimized the catastrophic character of the pandemic and referred to it in the past tense, despite the fact that COVID-19 continues to disable and kill millions of people globally each year"

submitted 98 days ago • 5 comments

Ok a quick thread about disinformation and the 2024 election. I have an ANECDOTE. And it's a doozy... 1/n

submitted 99 days ago • 7 comments

"People are realising WE are democracy it is of us, by us, and for us" 🤝🤝🤝 You need to get yourself a Community Driven Independents movement, America. So good to see this change in Australia. #auspol #npc www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g5V...

submitted 98 days ago • 3 comments

Sinodinos, former Lib USA ambassador, made it crystal clear on 730 we’d get no tariff exemption no matter what we did. Dutton very wrong not to be Team Oz on this. He’s unfit to be PM.

submitted 98 days ago • 3 comments

This is such an interesting & important analysis 👇 ihttps://johnmenadue.com/russophobia-and-sinophobia-projection-narcissism-and-denial/

submitted 103 days ago • 5 comments

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submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

Lunch money. My @smh @theage cartoon.

submitted 103 days ago • 11 comments

johnmenadue.com/never-has-vi...

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

The highest priority is to avoid ANYTHING that we are beholden to the US for. The US may recover, but at present it can only be viewed as a proto-fascist basket-case whose economy and capabilities are collapsing like a deck of cards. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

submitted 107 days ago • 1 comment

Putting a cash value on nature might be necessary for some humans to process, but is farcically arse about face and represents a collective delusion. Cash is a made-up token that wouldn't and couldn't exist without a viable biosphere. theconversation.com/new-report-s...

submitted 109 days ago • 1 comment

Second US company recalls pet food as bird flu spreads to cats through tainted meat www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 110 days ago • 4 comments

And nothing but silence from Western media.

submitted 109 days ago • 5 comments

The national gallery censored parts of an artwork about silencing Indigenous and oppressed peoples — First Dog on the Moon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 109 days ago • 2 comments

I think there must be quite a few Americans who today realise that Trump must be removed from power ASAP. Waiting four years is untenable.

submitted 109 days ago • 2 comments

My latest on the media’s confected 'both sides-ing' of the govt’s Medicare announcement: 'the largest ever financial commitment to Medicare was reduced to a false equivalence between Labor’s detailed, costed, policy, and the Coalition’s cheap 5-word knock-off' #auspol www.echo.net.au/2025/02/medi...

submitted 111 days ago • 12 comments

Here’s a Russian policy expert explaining why Russia supports Trump: Because Trump will destroy America. This clip is worth rewatching, considering how much damage Russian asset Trump has already done in the first few weeks. ❤ and share so others see this too.

submitted 111 days ago • 5 comments

Is everybody thinking what I’m thinking?

submitted 110 days ago • 3 comments

According to EIA data, the planned retirement of coal-fired power plants is set to double this year. An estimated 8.1 GW of coal capacity is slated for closure, a sharp increase from 2024's 4 GW figure and a return to the aggressive phaseouts of the past ten years. oilprice.com/Latest-...

submitted 110 days ago • 1 comment

Again, this theory that "more fossil fuel production and less climate stuff = high share price" theory really doesn't seem to hold water

submitted 111 days ago • 3 comments

This is so cruel.

submitted 110 days ago • 565 comments

God's honest truth... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 111 days ago • 2 comments

These folks have never ever believed in freedom of speech, or freedom of any kind but the freedom to amass levels of wealth that are cataclysmic to organized society. Cancel your subscription and make a donation to kick-ass independent journalism of your choice.

submitted 112 days ago • 40 comments

whenever Israel is due to release a group of Palestinian prisoners the military take more Palestinians hostage.

submitted 111 days ago • 1 comment

@australianlabor.bsky.social Update your ignorance bsky.app/profile/jewi...

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

This is so good

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

The for-profit employment services regime is costly, ineffective and cruel. It must be abolished. The Greens want to put job services back in public hands, bin mutual obligations and lower Centrelink call wait times. Change is possible. You just have to vote for it!💚

submitted 113 days ago • 2 comments

Watching with interest!! Independent media is the future of news & hopefully truth. Finding them in one place is smart!! True North on Substack is great for Aussies too! Thank You @deniseshrivell.bsky.social ⭐️ #independentmedia

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

after spending the day “reporting” what an opposition said about signature ALP government policy, the ABC is openly campaigning for the medicare-hating coalition.

submitted 115 days ago • 12 comments

As many suspected, there seems to be a lot more to that "story" of the Bankstown nurses' video than initially meets the eye and/or ear. The "Israeli influencer" is Max Veifer, aka "a Tik Tok baiter." #auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/state/n...

submitted 125 days ago • 27 comments