Gavin Miller

Do you think he maybe wonders do people think I'm a bit of a charlatan?

Lowest first preference support for a federal Labor leader's party in 92 years.

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If we turn the post-drink farts into tradeable gas futures can we get our beer taxes back? 🤔

#auspol

David Pocock is right: more tax is raised from beer than from petroleum resource rent tax (PRRT) Senator David Pocock has produced viral social media content claiming that Australia’s beer tax raises more revenue than the gas industry pays in Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT). Can more public mo...

@rodcampbell.bsky.social onya mate!
thepoint.com.au/factchecks/2...

David Pocock is right: more tax is raised from beer than from petroleum resource rent tax (PRRT) Senator David Pocock has produced viral social media content claiming that Australia’s beer tax raises more revenue than the gas industry pays in Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT). Can more public mo...

Not that it was ever in doubt, but the gas companies' jimmies are very rustled, so here you go:
thepoint.com.au/factchecks/2...

1. I would vote for anyone who could win a Democratic primary in 2028
2. I will vote for the most credible left candidate in the primary
3. The two-party system is bad and we should replace it with proportional representation
4. The presidency is bad and we should replace it with a Prime Minister

David Pocock is right: more tax is raised from beer than from petroleum resource rent tax (PRRT) Senator David Pocock has produced viral social media content claiming that Australia’s beer tax raises more revenue than the gas industry pays in Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT). Can more public mo...

I’m doing my part. Why can’t the gas industry

duopoly career politicians is as d.c.p does

Australians are the world’s biggest losers when it comes to gambling. It’s a predatory system - the industry’s business model depends on people losing.

What makes it even more disturbing is the ongoing acceptance of donations, gifts & perks from gambling companies by some MPs & Senators.

Duopoly PMs is as Duopoly PMs does

One could be forgiven for thinking this is a headline from 2021.

When you get romanced by party career politicians, they're following their careers and ideologies, not yours

When you follow ideologies, YOU pay the price

A compromised democracy populated by grifters who have already constructed a golden cage to set themselves apart from you

𝐈𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐂𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐘?

Two vignettes. 1. Isaac Herzog, President of Israel, with quote: “Now is not the time to recognise a Palestinian state.” 2. Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s Finance Minister, with quote (preceded by my words “…not while…”), “We’re deepening our roots in all parts of the land of Israel and burying the idea of a Palestinian state.”

Now?
My @smh cartoon.

Inside the Australian scheme accused of modern slavery More than 30,000 people from Pacific Island nations and Timor-Leste are on a working visa in Australia as part of the Pa

Is the PALM scheme ripe for exploitation?

Hear Postdoctoral Research Manager at The Australia Institute, Dr Morgan Harrington, explain why some warn it could pose a modern slavery risk.

Listen now: https://7ampodcast.com.au/episodes/inside-the-australian-scheme-accused-of-modern-slavery

Dear Premier Jacinta Allan, if, as alleged, Victorian taxpayers are being massively ($15B+) ripped off by CFMEU criminality they deserve urgent reform of IBAC Victoria’s investigative powers = coercive, follow-the-money.👇

Speaking on an Australia Institute webinar, Nobel Prize-winning economist Professor Joseph Stiglitz has urged the Australian Government to “follow the money” and start imposing a “a very, very high tax rate” on the country’s natural resources.

Read more on The Point: https://theaus.in/4qEs0bO

Indeed. As shameful as ^ABC Breakfast who forgot to ask Albanese anything of substance, again^. One's gone to jelly, the other's just spineless.

What the Albanese government did on the environment amid the Liberals’ turmoil: threatened species, a new coal project and carbon leakage Labor chose a day when attention was focused on the opposition to slip out a handful of announcements

Shameful, @albomp.bsky.social.

"as Angus Taylor ascended to the leadership of a riven & defeated political party, the Albanese government slipped out a handful of announcements on contentious climate & environment issues.

Excellent work, @adammorton.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I think Darwin only got television in the 1970s?
Unmade roads, few flights in or out, it was very isolated

ABC Breakfast TV - puff piece
Pathetic ABC, pathetic Albanese/Labor
@gekko.bsky.social

AUKUS and the submarine illusion: Australia’s $368 billion surrender As Washington debates whether it can spare the submarines, Canberra continues to pay for vessels it may never fully control.

"Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles, a fool of Chaucerian proportions, deserves a star of commendation in his denials of what AUKUS really entails ... He has a story to tell a public he wishes to gull and he insists on sticking to it."
Binoy Kampmark
independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...

HUGE money, billionaires, career party politicians - IDEOLOGIES - pressure on voters is enormous as they circle voters and prey on us all

WE are the ones that must defend our democracy, they definitely want to drag it down

WE need to appreciate our democracy more and fight back!

BUILD SOLUTIONS

You can not take citizenship from an Australian citizen. The high court has made it clear. If you are Australian, you are allowed entry into Australia. Doesn’t mean authorities won’t follow up or monitor you, but short of a complete border closure, you can’t be denied entry.

Darwin in 50s - wow that must have amazing.

In the tiny outback town of Underbool, the community pool is a ‘vital’ part of life – and they almost lost it Locals in the Victorian Mallee town, where summer temperatures regularly top 45C, fought for 10 years to save the only swimming spot for 50km

Growing up in Darwin in the 50's and early 60's my life changed when Darwin opened its first Olympic sized swimming pool - near my home!

My brother and I and a kid named Tony were the first customers for swimming lessons

Pools in remote towns are wonderful!

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The question must be a challenge to all voters ...

𝐁𝐄 𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐃 𝐁𝐘 𝐄𝐗𝐓𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐒𝐌 𝐎𝐑 𝐕𝐎𝐓𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐎𝐅 𝐔𝐒?

No, I'm not optimistic either but voters have the role of building a body politic for Australia and Australians and this is definitely on all of us

𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲 𝐞𝐡? (𝟕𝐦𝐢𝐧)
tinyurl.com/GekkoPodcast-6

Thousands of paywalled research papers could be freed with this simple fix ‘Green open access’ has existed for decades – and it’s not hard to get academics to use it more.

Keep it free:
Thousands of paywalled research papers could be freed with this simple fix
theconversation.com/thousands-of...

woof

They need to make this for people