Angus Blackman

Photo of Nobel Prize winning economist Professor Joseph Stiglitz speaking at an Australia Institute event NEW EPISODE | Joseph Stiglitz on super profits, capital gains and why corporate tax is good for democracy Listen to Follow the Money now via the link or wherever you get your podcasts.

Inequality creates insecurity and, as the US is demonstrating right now, that insecurity can have devasting consequences for democracy.

@josephestiglitz.bsky.social joins us to discuss inequality, getting a fair return for resources & why corporate tax is good for democracy.

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"They're raising prices because they can.

"That's what's driving inflation and yet it's workers who get smashed by an interest rate rise."

@grogsgamut.bsky.social on how corporate profits are driving inflation while workers bear the cost. #auspol

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I wish Jeff! Maybe @grogsgamut.bsky.social can shout me one?

The latest Dollars & Sense pod is up - talking about wages, Coles and wondering whether businesses raising prices to increase profits affects inflation (which measures how much prices go up….)

australiainstitute.org.au/post/real-wa...

Really great piece

Vinícius, Mourinho and treating racism as reputational risk rather than a lived reality | Jonathan Liew The Brazilian has seen this before, football has seen this before, and yet why does it feel like nothing ever changes?

on vinicius, jim ratcliffe and bad immigrants

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Surely they just get daddy to sue?

"There's a reason that it's been hard to get North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons.

"It's because they weren't attacked when Iran, Iraq, Libya & Ukraine were."

@jonatomic.bsky.social discusses Trump's chaotic nuclear diplomacy & why "nuclear weapons are back".

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Trump at a press conference holding up a file titled "accomplishments" NEW EPISODE | The “president of peace” is helping revive the nuclear arms race Listen to After America now via the link or wherever you get your podcasts.

Trump claims to be a "peacemaker", but the US president is helping to revive the nuclear arms race.

@jonatomic.bsky.social joins @emmashortis.bsky.social to discuss Trump's chaotic approach to nuclear weapons & why it's so dangerous for Australia & the world.

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"Democracy dies in darkness is the Washington Post's credo...someone just turned the lights out at the Washington Post."

"It's a dark day for democracy in that country."

The Guardian's Ben Doherty & @emmashortis.bsky.social on the mass layoffs at the Jeff Bezos-owned paper.

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The Australian government must announce a plan to phase out fossil fuels "way before" COP31, says @kuminaidoo.bsky.social.

"I think they would have no legitimacy to play the key coordinating role in Türkiye...if they don't do that." #auspol

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@fossiltreaty.bsky.social

A tough day for Anguses everywhere. Perhaps the worst since McDonald's launched those burgers. #libspill #welldone

Are record property prices on the way (again)? On the back of ongoing tax concessions primarily benefitting the wealthiest and the government’s five per cent deposit scheme for first home buyers, Australia has just broken a new record for average ...

The latest Dollars & Sense pod is up - what did the 5% deposit guarantee do? What about Capital gains tax? And what the hell is contribution of demand???

australiainstitute.org.au/post/are-rec...

Photo of Anthony Albanese in a hard hat and high-vis vest NEW EPISODE | Are record property prices on the way (again)? Listen to Dollars & Sense now via the link or wherever you get your podcasts.

Are record property prices on the way again?

@grogsgamut.bsky.social & @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social discuss why government spending isn’t to blame for the latest inflation increase & the impact of the federal government’s 5% deposit scheme on lending figures. #auspol

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Charts showing that the PBO estimates that in this current financial year the discount will cost $21.8bn in revenue forgone. The richest 1% will get 59% or $12.9bn of it:

John Howard brought in a tax policy that delivers 59% of the benefit to the richest 1%.

It truly is time to ditch the Capital Gains Tax 50% discount
www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

Photo of Chris Bowen at a lectern with Anthony Albanese standing behind him NEW EPISODE | Australia's climate crossroads Listen to Follow the Money now via the link or wherever you get your podcasts.

With a leading role in COP31, Australia has an opportunity to show real solidarity with its Pacific neighbours.

@kuminaidoo.bsky.social lays out the case for a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty & why it’s past time for the Australian govt to stop coal & gas expansion #auspol

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Can't have proper public transport or bike lanes in the Parliamentary Triangle. Would disrupt the heritage values of the large surface car parks.

Abolish the NCA.

"Your journalistic antennae are raised immediately when people don't want to give you answers."

Guardian Australia's Ben Doherty on the "troubling" reality that the US government is far more transparent about the AUKUS submarines deal than Australia's government is.

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incredible

Running into your Band 1 at Kingsley's?

Super pleased to have a new guest on the show this week! Ben Doherty on the Albanese government’s response to Trump - and its naivety in the extreme on Aukus

Excellent podcast. Ben Doherty is a seriously good journalist.

Photo of Donald Trump speaking at a lectern, pointing to the ceiling NEW EPISODE | Democracy "dies in darkness" and Trump is trying to turn out the lights Listen to After America now via the link or wherever you get your podcasts.

As American democracy teeters, the Australian government is trying to pretend everything is just fine.

Ben Doherty from Guardian Australia joins @emmashortis.bsky.social to discuss the mass layoffs at the Washington Post & the lack of transparency around the AUKUS deal.

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this is top tier content

Australia is the most expensive place to send a kid to high school in the developed world! 🤯

"We've basically privatised our education system."

Chief Economist Greg Jericho unpacks how we got here on the latest Dollars & Sense! 💰
@grogsgamut.bsky.social @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social #auspol

The graves of Anzac soldiers in Gaza have been desecrated. Where is The Australian's outrage? The News Corp publication, usually quick to defend the memory of fallen Anzac soldiers, is quiet on the destruction of a grave in Gaza where more than 250 Australian servicemen are buried.

I guess I'm a dupe or something, because I'm still capable of being shocked by this stuff.

www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/06/a...

Maybe someone should ask the Israeli president about this on Monday

“Every day [MAGA] is becoming more solidified and less likely to go away,” Don Watson said on The Australia Institute’s After America podcast.

🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts
📖 Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/3ZQhuTL

2026 NRL Signings Tracker: Tino commits to Titans All the latest signings news and player movement ahead of the 2026 NRL Telstra Premiership.

For once, happy tears. 😭🥳😭🥳😭🥳

www.nrl.com/news/2026/01...

As this new Aukus report outlines, Australia has committed, in USD:

$3 billion to our own sub industry
$3 billion to the US industry
$3 billion to the UK industry

And zero dollars of that *US$9 billion* is refundable.

We don't get our money back when the stuff we ordered doesn't arrive.