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ACTU plan to tax gas exports would cut energy bills and allow government to triple spending on housing Analysis by The Australia Institute shows ACTU Secretary Sally McManus’s call for a 25% tax on revenue from gas exports to replace the “broken” Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT) would raise around $1...

You can read more about it here: australiainstitute.org.au/post/actu-pl...

The People versus Murdoch: the rise of independent media Over a decade ago, I wrote about a subject that remains as relevant today as ever. For nearly twenty years, I’ve been hammering away at the keyboard – a space where I could speak freely, [...]

The explosion of independent media sites isn’t merely an echo of dissenting voices – it’s a response to the MSM’s failure to provide objective, impartial reporting.

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Once again, Israel has perpetrated acts of #piracy and #kidnappings of the #FreedomFlotillaCoalition crew of volunteers! Israel has broken every international laws of the sea and land with impunity!
#R2P #StopIsraelimpunity #ArmsEmbargo #Oilembargo #SanctionIsrael #BDS #Genocide #BreakTheSiege #Gaza

Ep 29 - Stop the Boeings - Media Watch 2GB’s Ben Fordham fires up his listeners with questionable migration numbers.

Misinformation on Australia's immigration system has been corrected by the ABS, Home Affairs & ANU. Net Overseas Migration is the figure to understand and it's expected to fall. #auspol www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/e...

Indigenous midwife referred to by racist slur on staff whiteboard at Sydney’s RPA hospital Exclusive: Renee Bani quit hospital’s Aboriginal midwifery group practice due to a number of factors which she said ‘came down to, basically, racism’

Indigenous midwife referred to by racist slur on staff whiteboard at Sydney’s RPA hospital | Indigenous Australians | The Guardian share.google/nlyXW9dA0VW7.... Meanwhile our Aboriginal brothers and sisters get no special help.

Jillian Segal and husband funding far-right group "Advance" - The Klaxon Antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal and her husband are among the biggest funders of far-right group "Advance”, which spreads hateful propaganda and racist tropes.

🚨Antisemitism boss Jillian Segal and her husband are the second biggest funders of far-right group "Advance". The extremist lobby group spreads online racism and xenophobia, including directly targeting Palestinians...
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"Norway taxes its fossil fuel industry & provides free education. Australia subsidises its fossil fuel industry & charges kids a fortune to go to university"

– @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

It doesn't have to be this way.
Add your name to the petition to fix the PRRT:
theaus.in/increasePRRT

🔥 Rep. Al Green is not new to standing up

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Big Gas is taking the piss. Help us spread the word, and share this. 👇

90% of WA’s gas is exported. Big Gas takes 73% the gas for free.

To add insult to injury, these gas exporters have never paid resources tax.

Add your name to make them pay their fair share: theaus.in/collect_gas_... #auspol

‘Deliberate, orchestrated incident’: Daily Telegraph caught up in stunt gone wrong It’s the oldest adage in journalism: don’t become the story.

Working hand-in-hand with Zionist provocateurs, News Corp caught red-handed trying to fan a race war in Sydney by manufacturing ‘news’ to trigger outrage, generate clicks, and bolster the far right in Australia’s coming election. Whatever this is, it isn’t journalism.

Laura has #temutrump 's measure

“Barbarians and their accomplices”- Israel and Western media - Pearls and Irritations The year Israel's Zionist regime dragged Western post-democracies into a barbarism we were supposed to have left behind many centuries ago.

The year just past, the year the Zionist regime in Israel dragged the Western post-democracies into a state of barbarism we, the inheritors of “the Judeo–Christian tradition,” were supposed to have left behind many centuries ago. #auspol #gaza

People still tend to think of gas as a vital industry to Australia, but the truth is, if anything, it costs the Australian economy.

Throwback to Polly Hemming dropping some truth bombs on ABC The Drum 💣💥 #auspol

Downer and Howard's East Timor lies. History missing in action. - Michael West The Government commissioned an official history of our operations in East Timor and then censored the historian, removing an entire chapter.

25 years on from the Indonesian military’s atrocities directed against #TimorLeste’s independence vote, DFAT is still covering up Downer’s obfuscations & deceit. But in a win against censoring history, they’ve been forced to reveal the truth. #FOI #auspol

Time for your annual reminder that it’s Tasmanian devil dispersal season!

This means young devils out finding their way in the world are particularly vulnerable, & often drawn towards roads for easy passage & food. So watch your speed on Tassie roads this season & keep an eye out 👀

Gaza death toll 40% higher than official number, Lancet study finds Analysis estimates death toll by end of June was 64,260, with 59% being women, children and people over 65 Research published in the Lancet medical journal estimates that the death toll in Gaza during the first nine months of the Israel-Hamas war was…

Gaza death toll 40% higher than official number, Lancet study finds

Absolutely agree with this sentiment

The facts are in on this: The younger a child is when they are put into prison, the more likely it is they will continue to be in prison across their lifetimes. These policies harm children, families and communities and create crime.

He wasn't planning on playing Israel until Brian Eno and Roger Waters asked him to boycott it. So he went out of his way to play there. 'Standing up to bullying' apparently. He also said Israel was a 'thriving democracy'

Gaza, flattened

When Israel builds its newest seaside resort over the corpse of Gaza, it will attempt to erase the erased from history, like it has done, over and over, since 1948. The western world will move on. Seinfeld and Radiohead and Nick Cave will do shows by the sea. We will all pretend. It will all be lies

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public.

He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit.

Make sure everyone sees this cartoon. - @aaronparnas.bsky.social

Australia kept quiet about early deployment of forces ahead of Iraq war, cabinet papers show The Howard government sent military personnel to the Middle East well before officially authorising Australia’s involvement

My contempt for John Howard is total.

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We pored over the newly unsealed 2004 cabinet files. Here's what stood out Hundreds of previously secret cabinet records have been made public in the National Archives' annual release.

Negative gearing and capital gains tax concessions together make investing in residential property attractive, adding to demand and prices, the Howard Australian government was warned in 2004. They did nothing. Non-homeowners are paying the price. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

Young men and the far right’s influence on them My first three children were born in the first years of my 20s. As a young father, the lessons, both good and bad, both intentionally taught to me and subliminally absorbed, shaped how I raised them a...

"My concern of late has been the realisation that the far right is targeting boys and men in its campaign for power," writes Thomas Mayo.

“As part of the global right-wing movement, the Coalition is aware of this material and its power.” www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/2024/12/21/y...

FFS. The 'left leaning ABC' huh?

The new ABC CEO is the same Hugh Marks who hosted a $10,000 a head Liberal Party fundraiser at Nine's headquarters.

Wow.

We'll now have a middle-aged white male who supports conservative causes in charge of the ABC.

What a refreshing change.

I mean . . . I can hardly wait.

Wouldn’t it be amazing if we had some media regulation in Australia which meant this couldn’t happen?👇🏻

Too young for TikTok, old enough for jail: How a meaner Australia treats its kids Two worrying but contradictory laws affecting children passed last week in Queensland and Canberra. Both arose despite a lack of evidence to support them.

Cracker by Sean Kelly. www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...