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Peter Dutton's nuclear power plan means Australia will produce an extra two billion tonnes of greenhouse emissions between now and 2050, @keanebernard.bsky.social explains.

Kind of stunning really, but in January a record percent of adults in Australia had a job

The leader vanishes: Dutton goes missing yet again "When the going gets tough, Peter Dutton gets going. The opposition leader spent this week hiding from questions about interest rates — an all-too-common pattern." www.crikey.com.au/2025/02/20/p...

Dutton is Temu Trump. Wanna taste of the 💩 show a Dutton government would deliver for Australia? Take a look at the carnage in the U.S. right now.

🥔 “He’s a thug.” - Fmr PM Malcolm Turnbull #auspol #AusVotes25 #DontRiskDutton

Sky News was running this bloke nonstop on Friday

Two Murdoch editorials exactly 12 months apart. Barnaby might be a 'drunken idiot' but he's our drunken idiot.

The Manager of ABC Radio National will be in a public chinwag with a far right-wing Murdoch columnist. No doubt making public statements endorsing one party to a conflict. Meanwhile, they sacked Antoinette Lattouf for tweeting a post from Human Rights Watch! #theabcisdeadtome

According to the ABC’s Ita Buttrose, a journalist isn’t critical of Israel - This would be funny if it wasn’t so dangerous, racist, & supportive of genocide.

This is the MO of the Liberal Party in Australia Only ALP build huge public infrastructure/schemes Like NBN NDIS Labor build it Libs wreck it

The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

I've spoken to several US journalists who inform me that now Musk has unfettered access to classified US information, such as that provided by "Five Eyes" (such as Pine Gap) that classified Australian defence information is now available to Elon Musk. Australia's national security is now at risk.

Peter Dutton promises to slash public spending, throw 36,000 people out of work, & refuses to say what programs he will cut. Medicare, urgent care clinics, renewables roll-out, energy price subsidies, HECs relief, childcare, free TAFE, all now at risk #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Dutton today on Jews in Australia: "I’ve never seen an element of society ostracised in such a way" Yeah, that's why they have a much lower life expectancy, earn 25% less than everyone else, and are 17 times more likely to be incarcerated... Oh wait, no that's another group.. can't think who.

No opposition wants a fall in inflation or interest rates before an election do they?

Reposting because no-one says it better, and we should not ... MUST not ... lose sight of these facts. #StopIsrael #FreePalestine

My latest. The Albanese govt's reforms are not being given the credit they deserve. The focus group-driven mantra of a ‘do nothing’ govt cannot be sustained if our erstwhile political commentators bothered to look at what the govt has actually done #auspol johnmenadue.com/mainstream-m...

Straight faced #auspol media to Albanese 'Peter Dutton says you're obsessed with culture wars. What do you say?' 😏

My latest in The Echo. The Albanese govt's reforms are not being given the credit they deserve. The focus group-driven mantra of a ‘do nothing’ govt cannot be sustained if our erstwhile political commentators bothered to look at what the govt has actually done #auspol www.echo.net.au/2025/01/main...

The least I can do is share this

Dutton, who threw First Nations People under the bus in order to gain political advantage from his racist boomer base wrongly accuses #Albo of marginalising Jews in order to gain political advantage. You could not make this shit up. #auspol

Elon Musk has a history of anti-Semitism and enabling anti-Semitism. Now he's made a blatant Nazi salute. But somehow -- at a time of media hypersensitivity about rising anti-Semitism -- a cowed media won't call it out.

Now we get to play this dumb game where we debate the exact angle of his arm, his fans get to claim it was some other gesture and we're such gulliable libtards, when we could just look at all the racist, authoritarian shit he keeps saying and doing

Here's a list of Dutton's plans - so far. What a shocking and dangerous vision for our fellow Australians #auspol

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QUOTE OF THE DAY…if you LIKE IT give it 💙and plz RP😘😘

Billy Connolly on why he quit smoking: "Every time you smoke a cigarette, God takes a day off your life and gives it to Keith Richards."

Howard knew his policies were making houses unaffordable and did nothing. www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

“Peter Dutton has been a worthy Opposition Leader…” Bollocks. He’s a devious, cynical, reactionary bully, a policy black hole, a disgrace to the office.

Israel laid seige to #KamalAdwan Hospital, the last functioning hospital in northern Gaza, forcing medical staff and patients to strip and leave the hospital at gunpoint, then setting fire to it. Western media (incl. BBC and ABC) reported this as an "evacuation". 😠 #IsraeliWarCrimes #GazaGenocide

Worked for the LNP in QLD

Owners of Australia’s coal power plants say they cannot keep their ageing fossil-fuel electricity generators running long enough for Opposition Leader Peter Dutton to build his planned fleet of nuclear reactors." #auspol www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Don’t trust Peter Dutton…. “NEVER TRUST ANYONE WHO WOULD RATHER CUT SOCIAL SECURITY, MEDICARE, HEALTHCARE, EDUCATION, NUTRITION, AND HOUSING THAN RAISE TAXES ON THE WEALTHY AND BIG CORPORATIONS.”

If your largest source of bankruptcy is medical debt, your nation has more guns than people, your doctors are regularly made to put profit before patient health, insurance claims are rejected a third of the time & insurance company executives live like medieval kings what did you think would happen?

Still more evidence of the Israeli campaign of genocide upon the Palestinian people of Gaza.

In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services. Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt. While Norway still owns everything and has the equivilant per person of £10tn. That's how privatisation 'works'.