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For the record, Joe Hockey is a defence lobbyist who stands to make millions from defence contracts with the US and other allies. To just describe him in interviews as a former US ambassador and not his CURRENT vested interest role is not just irresponsible, it's lying.

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Also lives of hostages much more endangered now from Israeli bombings and aid blockages

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Withholding or preventing humanitarian aid is a war crime and a crime against humanity, under international law.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Australia is actually a low-taxing nation. We pay much lower tax on our personal income than most all other nations. Serious about tax? - look at tax concessions on superannuation, capital gains tax, how gas companies are taxed. TENS OF BILLIONS going to the richest and the most profitable.

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

You’ve got a national newspaper openly cheering for rather than interrogating genocide & calls from right-wing women to “finish them” Yet those being attacked & silenced in Australia are overwhelmingly Arabs whose outrageous stance is: Please stop killing children & journalists.

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It’s obscene what a lovely peaceful day it is here as lsraeI is again slaughtering Gazans with bombs that require Australian-made parts, as the Western political establishment does nothing, the Western media pretend there’s a ceasefire, & people are getting fired & jailed for opposing it

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I'm privileged now. But lived in public school residences where Dad was a teacher for 40+ years (didn't have an indoor dunny until I left home at 17) We sent our kids public,saved the $$ on fees,then paid off their Uni debts. Keep public education strong! Give your kids a debt-free future!!

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

This dry

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The 'no cuts to frontline services' shibboleth is such a furphy. When Dutton says he wants to cut (or let wither) 36,000 jobs from the public service, everything is affected. The response post ex-cyclone Alfred proves how vital the work of the APS is www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environ...

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

The most dangerous thing about Trump right now isn’t that he’s corrupt—it’s that he’s lost it completely. His enablers—Vance, Musk—are too weak to tell him. The man needs a medical check-up.

submitted 5 days ago • 31 comments

Normally powered by pure renewables back home in South Australia, here is the Polestar at Australia’s dirtiest brown-coal powered Yallourn Power Station just outside of Moe, Victoria. Time to shut this bad boy down and get the workers into solar, wind and battery.

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antibiotics found in the chunks of rotting diseased salmon washing up on our local beaches!! wonderful!! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

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When “negotiating” the AUSFTA Australian officials were told to agree to everything just so Howard could get to say a deal was done. Time to start going through that deal and removing things…

submitted 6 days ago • 24 comments

Pretty obvious Trump is unwell and his tariffs make no sense. Will the sycophants continue on course? Or start telling the truth.

submitted 7 days ago • 33 comments

The USA is not a friendly nation. It is run by kleptocrats. Any political party not currently looking at reshaping our defence and foreign affairs policies is negligent in the extreme. AUKUS must go. The AUSFTA is dead. We have leverage. Time to use it.

submitted 7 days ago • 40 comments

Pure cowardly BS from The Age execs. They wouldn’t publish an ad on the front page saying Muslim or Jewish people don’t have the right to exist. They wouldn’t run one saying women aren’t fully human. But they’ll blare front-page hate against a smaller group. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

submitted 8 days ago • 35 comments

Doesn’t matter what The Age says; the fact is it’s taken money to publish hate speech

submitted 8 days ago • 65 comments

It's astonishing that noone else seems to be pointing this out. Trump's policies ARE insane. THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES (and is also totally fucking insane).

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

The debate over tariffs is a perfect test case for policy coverage... one that will I am sure fail. Also might be time for journalists not to get aroused at the mention of "free-trade agreements" and instead take a long look at the USAFTA where Howard sold the farm in order to get a deal done.

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

The complete unseriousness of Dutton criticising Albanese for not ‘lobbying Trump in person’ after spending much of the term calling Albanese ‘Airbus Albo’. There is no universe where the Coalition wouldn’t have criticised Albanese for heading to the US this close to an election

submitted 8 days ago • 42 comments

If Australian govts we’re doing ‘everything they can’ to cut fossil fuel use we’d see fewer enormous utes on our road, not more… exempting giant utes from luxury car tax (as they aren’t used as cars!) and FBT concessions are bizarre policy…but making the parking spaces bigger to suit the…FFS

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

What we learned from that caravan hoax is that division in this country comes far more from media and populist politics than it does from ordinary people. Anti semitism has been weaponised by media and the right to still protest and wedge the left. That’s the true evil.

submitted 9 days ago • 24 comments

Thus sealing public contempt for the self serving duopoly. I mean, Joel, why have elections at all?

submitted 10 days ago • 17 comments

What a different world we could have.

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Thing about those anti-Musk stickers for Teslas is the bloke has been an easily recognisable sh*thead for at least 6 years now (prob earlier) I mean the Thailand cave rescue thing was in 2018.

submitted 11 days ago • 35 comments

Friends! It’s #InternationalWomensDay today. Please celebrate the women and girls in your household and appreciate them for how wonderful they are. More than ever now, we must speak up and support women around the world. Our feisty little Cleo agrees. Please share ❤️ and have a wonderful #Caturday ❤️

submitted 12 days ago • 22 comments

ugh was thinking it was a nice morning to take the dogs to the beach but the local beach we go to is covered in rotting diseased salmon fat

submitted 12 days ago • 15 comments

Just a general rule - if you wouldn't go out in weather to go pick up something non-critical, don't ask a delivery driver to do it

submitted 13 days ago • 42 comments

Really good piece by Waleed Aly, saying something nobody else has bothered to to say www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

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So the US is asking us to increase our defence spending - by a lot - to protect us - from our largest trading partner? 🤔 #auspol

submitted 15 days ago • 52 comments

Looking forward to seeing this in UK real soon…

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It’s a good thread

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

The election could be called any day now, and you would be hard pressed to name any LNP policy other than nukes. There's small targets and then there's invisible ones. Not great for a good election.

submitted 15 days ago • 39 comments

Every night we have to go lock up the chooks. Every night we get big sky reminding us how lucky we are.

submitted 16 days ago • 9 comments

And one more storm photo ... This one was over the Clare Valley some time back.

submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments

The United States of X (The Country Formerly Known As USA)

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NSW Premier Chris Minns wants to come up with some answers on this ... and fast! This was a core 2023 election promise! Tell me again how the CMFEU &AWU care about koala habitat. I'm all( fluffy) ears!! www.smh.com.au/environment/...

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