I haven’t posted this before…

Australia Institute research shows that nurses pay more tax than gas and oil companies.

Meanwhile, multinational gas companies get 56% of our gas for free and then export it overseas.

Sign the petition: https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/fix_gas_export_problem

I hope the taxpayer is not paying for her seat. And that this will be declared on her register of interests.

Session 3, hold my beer

Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.

Imagine if dental checks were funded by Medicare in Australia, and peridontal disease was picked and treated early, lessening the chance of cardiovascular disease and stroke (and thus saving public health dollars)

An American Grumman Avenger in service with the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm, folding its wings. (Actor Paul Newman was a radioman-gunner in such a plane during #WW2.) #HISTORY

#OtD 17 Oct 1985 nurses across Victoria, Australia, walked out on indefinite strike for wage rises and better staff-patient ratios against the wishes of their union officials. They won concessions within five days stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8940...

The Great Privatisation Swindle Stop the privatisation swindle. Learn how the sale of public assets weakened essential services.

“Australia’s privatisation swindle promised efficiency, yet it left ordinary Australians paying more for poorer services. Over the past three decades, essential systems, from energy to aged care, have been carved up and sold to corporations.”

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Love means zero

🇪🇸 Spain Isolates Israel Like Apartheid South Africa Once Was — Sports, Culture, Weapons, Even Its Skies From canceling billion-euro arms contracts to banning Eurovision, La Vuelta, and weapons flights, Spain is reviving the same boycott and sanctions playbook that helped bring down Apartheid

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...playbook that helped bring down Apartheid

That's not forest, it's bush

The west should never be forgiven for allowing this.

Time to Boycott.

Cool

All that practice on the lava fields under the northern lights paid off 👏

RGANTD reference F R-1 O 48-5 D 463 L 6-43 1939, Soviet Union first high altitude pressure suit

RGANTD reference F R-1 O 48-5 D 463 L 6-43
1939, Soviet Union first high altitude pressure suit.

The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior was 40 years ago today; it helped define our country, and its place in the world. ⁠This all-star cover of Mutton Birds' classic ‘Anchor Me’ was made to mark the 20th anniversary.
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It's a cock-it-rough

I told you we’d be back

BREAKING NEWS: Meerkat hugs a water sausage. Everybody has a great time.

This is Great to See

Inspired by the Madleen, 10,000 are traveling by land from Algeria 🇩🇿, Morocco 🇲🇦, Tunisia 🇹🇳, Libya 🇱🇾, and Egypt 🇪🇬 to deliver aid to Gaza.

Respiratory infections soar in WA as Australian Medical Association urges people to get COVID & flu vaccines. Rachel Fenner The West Australian Sun, 8 June 2025 12:00AM

WA: Respiratory infections soar in WA as Australian Medical Association urges people to get COVID & flu vaccines.

Flu cases hit 6,983 (up from 3,068 in 2024), whooping cough 822 (was 171 in 2024), RSV 1,619 (was 1,376 in 2024). COVID hospitalisations now average 60 a day.

Source: archive.md/B3qeu

48 years ago today
Johnny Rotten with Johnny Ramone in a relaxed conversation backstage at the Roundhouse, London before a Ramones gig (with Talking Heads and The Saints supporting) June 6, 1977.

Photo by Jill Furmanovsky

#punk #punks #punkrock #history #punkrockhistory #otd

This is disgraceful.

The Future Fund continues to hold Elbit System shares or refuses to acknowledge that it does.

It would take a 5 minutes to sell every Elbit share via a phone call to their broker.

Australia is not a serious Nation, but it is a corrupt & immoral one.

#auspol #Gaza #Genocide

Babe, wake up! AR 4098 now has a beta-gamma-delta magnetic field! This has led to the recent flurry of M-flares and even an X1.1 flare earlier today. There is a 15% chance of an X-class flare from this region in the next 24 hours... as it approaches the Sun's western limb.

Companies extracting and selling gas say:
"world must have new gas"
Model projection says we don't
Gas companies only worried about profit, not about the planet

Alternative to burning stuff?
Renewables now in hand, cheapest, easiest, low-emissions energy
We just need to act
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