Ben (up north)

When both sides chant 'lower tax', the country pays in division As the Coalition reasserts “lower tax” as political identity and Labor rushes to deny the high-tax label, Australian politics is losing the language needed to fund shared purpose, rebuild trust and sustain public life.

When both major parties compete to look “low tax”, politics loses the language – and permission – to fund the public goods that hold society together, Stewart Sweeney writes.
#auspol #TaxPolicy #PublicGoods #SocialCohesion

Day 275 of posting the obvious: Housing prices must come DOWN.
#FusionParty #auspol #housing #taxreform #investmentpolicy #realestatelaw

Left is often more focused on virtue redistribution than wealth redistribution & can bog down with boutique legislation addressing the former.
Meanwhile structural reform is neglected & the rich become richer…and more powerful.
First things first, idealism doesn’t provide a roof & a meal
#auspol

REZA BARATI Murdered during an orchestrated attack on refugees in Australia's Manus Island Offshore Detention Compound, February 17, 2014 1. ABBOTT'S INDIFFERENCE • Australian perpetrators flown out of PNG • Sentences of PNG perpetrators reduced due to Australian interference • Colonial supremacy in action 3. DUTTON'S SECRECY The Australian Border Force Act 2015: • weaponised truth • 2-year prison threat for whistleblowers • protects perpetrators, punishes victims 2. MORRISON'S LIES • Claimed the murder happened outside the detention centre • Accused of misleading the public • Lie should have ended political career 4. ARCHITECTS of INJUSTICE • Abbott & Morrison - worst PMs • Dutton - worst Health Minister • "White superiority" narrative rewards incompetence

12 years today since the death of Reza Barati, and still no accountability.

There is no statute of limitations on murder. Australia needs to open the 2014 files, and name the alleged killers - and their protectors - who continue to hide from justice.

@tonyburkemp.bsky.social #AusPol

to be fair....

....Angus has never been good with "numbers"

as his time as Shadow Treasurer clearly demonstrated

#auspol 👍

Should we break up Coles? | Alex White The ACCC’s has launched a case against Coles, credibly alleging that it made false claims about its "Down Down" discounts. The case shows how corporations exploit their monopoly power to extract wealt...

Coles and Woolies control two thirds of Australia’s retail food supply market. What few people know is that both Coles and Woolworths are majority owned by foreign shareholders.

alexwhite.org/2026/02/shou... #auspol

Coles and Woolies control two thirds of Australia’s retail food supply market. What few people know is that both Coles and Woolworths are majority owned by foreign shareholders.

alexwhite.org/2026/02/shou... #auspol

Yup 👍

"Moderate Liberals" are Teals; what's left in the party are The Right and The Further Right.
#auspol

Moderate Liberals warn Angus Taylor against adopting Trump-style immigration policies Paul Scarr, the shadow immigration minister under Sussan Ley, and South Australian senator Andrew McLachlan expressed concern

They seem okay with Trump style climate policies though. A Taylor government would effectively pull Australia out of the Paris Agreement.

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

Police now carry big guns at sport events so people feel safe (sic).

So what are Aust gov'ts gunna do about the weather?

#Climatereality
#Climatedisaster
#Auspol

Important, #auspol 👇

POV: When you learn that Australia taxes beer more than polluting gas exports

And the cherry on top? That gas is driving climate change and worsening extreme weather – no matter where it’s burned.

Thanks for the hot tip @davidpocock.bsky.social

Senate Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy starts at 10.15 this morn.
Look at these stooges, you can see the shame on their faces, Labor totally captured by the Gas Lobby.
David Pocock sorts them out, but do they even care?
#auspol
#Climate

Seems legit.

Media:
Angus Taylor says.
Jane Hume says.
Sarah Henderson says.
Barnaby Joyce says.
.
.
.
yawn
#auspol

Good article thanks 👍

A government without an effective opposition is a danger to democracy The Coalition’s internal decay has left Australia without an effective opposition at a time when scrutiny, debate and accountability are more necessary than ever. The result is not just a party in trouble, but a democratic failure.

Australia does not just have a weak opposition – it has a dangerous absence of scrutiny. Without effective challenge, secrecy grows, accountability fades and executive power goes unchecked, Jack Waterford writes.
#auspol #Democracy #Accountability #Parliament

This! 👇👍
The diseased want us fighting each other.
#auspol

#auspol
#AustralianValues
sucking the life out of everything

Not so much "the sky is falling" and more of "the boats are coming" from the right turning right wing extremist arm of the Australian Liberal Party. #auspol #opinion #coryidau

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

For more info...

Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy
www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...
🐝
#auspol

most of Australia's politicians will back the 'U'SA regardless of what they do.

Australia spent $26 billion on 'nature-harming' incentives in a year The federal government funds $26 billion of incentives each year that may be harmful to the environment and is yet to report on its international commitments, researchers say.

Save Earth & biodiversity. Go clean & green with renewable energy. Corporates profit from public money & environmental damage. Make them pay the full price. End #FossilFuelSubsidies. #AusPol 🇦🇺 🐨 🌱

👍 keep the people fighting amongst themselves while the diseased pillage.

Truth.
#auspol
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Antisemitism training. Labor's march to authoritarianism - Michael West State and Federal Labor governments are becoming authoritarian. Next in line is the thought police entering campus.

#ALBO & #MINNS, we see what you are doing and we are aghast! Fascism!

"Compulsory training in a political ideology befits a police state, not a notional democracy – a status that Minns, Albanese & the rest of the political establishment are undermining like none before them."

🇭🇲🦘🤠

#auspol

AUKUS is sinking and Labor responds by making up a $30 billion un-budgeted AUKUS announceable for the SA State election. This stuff is straying so far from reality.

#auspol