Miners exaggerating tax. Again.
What's new is that this is so demonstrably false.
Will they take down false ads? If you see this ad after today, please let me know.
Debunked on @thepointau.bsky.social here, more below: thepoint.com.au/factchecks/2...
18.12.2025 02:09 β π 135 π 84 π¬ 6 π 5
Funniest detail to me re: Thom Yorke's weird relationship to Israel is that it's the first place Creep really took off so Israel kinda launched Radiohead's career. Israeli music fans could not get enough of a song that asks "what the hell am I doing here" and answers with "I don't belong here."
30.05.2025 22:36 β π 1814 π 419 π¬ 11 π 9
Our PBS is a national treasure.
Our research shows the prices Australians would pay if the US had its way and dismantled our Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
Heart disease/cholesterol medicine: $25 v $968
Depression medicine: $32 v $2,244
Female contraception: $28 v $621
03.04.2025 00:19 β π 303 π 170 π¬ 13 π 27
Arguing against WFH, Hume cites research that supports hybrid work
Shadow Finance Minister Jane Hume pointed to Stanford Research when arguing that working from home hurt productivity. That same research found working from home part-time actually saw productivity gai...
The research Jane Hume cited to justify the Coalitionβs attack on WFH in the APS actually found hybrid work improves productivity + employee happiness & reduces turnover by 1/3, in particular among non-managers, female employees & those with long commutes
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03... #auspol
04.03.2025 21:48 β π 50 π 33 π¬ 5 π 0
Poster in colours of Aboriginal flag with the shape of Australia made up by the words βnot a day to celebrateβ
Always was, always will be
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25.01.2025 21:51 β π 120 π 49 π¬ 0 π 1
no, meta and x have not forced you to follow trump. if you already followed the @potus account, it's changed hands with the administration.
22.01.2025 04:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
as LA is burning, a swath of the country is recovering from an ice storm, Alabama is preparing for up to 6β of snow and Iβm praying for the TX power grid, a reminder:
we donβt need climate action just for future generations, we need it now.
the climate crisis is here, all around us
09.01.2025 01:00 β π 41538 π 9323 π¬ 769 π 279
Keith Wasserman: Does anyone have access to private firefighters to protect our home in Pacific Palisades? Need to act fast here. All neighbors houses burning. Will pay any amount. Thank you.
βWill pay any amount.β
Feels like one of those futile pleas weβre going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.
08.01.2025 06:16 β π 37674 π 6285 π¬ 2400 π 1499
Holy Jesus, βpaywalls for relevant evacuation info from fast moving deadly disastersβ has been my worst nightmare for over a decadeβ¦and here we are
09.01.2025 02:51 β π 1718 π 496 π¬ 45 π 10
24.12.2024 06:50 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
attempting to make a bΓ»che de noΓ«l without my buttercream melting in the heat π
24.12.2024 02:11 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Woolworths takes $50m hit as strike leads to empty shelves
The supermarket giant filed an urgent application with the Fair Work Commission to end industrial action blocking distribution centres
$50 MILLION - the amount of money Woolworths is willing to pay to ignore striking workers' call for a fair workplace.
It seems they saved up a lot by squeezing their shoppers and workers over the last few years!
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
03.12.2024 07:02 β π 80 π 18 π¬ 5 π 0
rip matthew guy you would have loved tinned lobster bisque
01.12.2024 02:09 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
sensory room at cop29 does not let me turn off the fluoro lights π but does have a rubiks cube π overall ?/10
20.11.2024 11:40 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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