Dick Denyer

The Productivity Commission throughout its entire history has been a failure of hoping neo-liberal bullshit is going to save the day.

It continues to be so under Wood.

Their report even misunderstood what productivity even is.

“Not only do Segal and her husband John Roth “donate” together — and have been donating together for decades — they co-fund a prestigious annual scholarship.

That is named after them.”

Sliver/Lead/Zinc - Sliver is the most “glamorous” of the three.

Somehow “cleans” the lead, in the minds of the uninformed ?

yeah not talking about Palestine - Saudi Arabia, Qatar etc all have/take major stakes in their OIL/LNG companies - in some cases up to 70%

Sure lets be more like the Middle East - most of the LNG projects there are part owned by the government.
Lets Nationalize our LNG industry - that will surely make Mr. Wirth happy ?

WOW. @marcelias.bsky.social goes off on the failures of legacy media: "We have an absolute collapse and failure by the institutions that have promised us that democracy would not die in darkness, that in fact, they stand for the proposition that democracy will die in plain sight of daylight."

Lets go for the middle east model, aren’t most resource companies there part owned by the government ?

Apparently it real.
Trump obviously doesn’t get the irony of trying to bully his way into getting a “peace prize”
Obama really does live in Trump’s head !

Israel's 'trust us' mentality loses power as it targets journalists Israel has provided documents it says justify its killing of a high-profile Palestinian journalist in Gaza. But the "trust us" mentality employed by Israeli authorities has long lost its power.

"Scepticism regarding anything Israel has to say about its conduct in Gaza has spread far and wide."
🤔
I can't imagine why.

#CrimesAgainstHumanity

Minister Murray Watttf is going to artificially aerate Macquarie Harbour (surface area a mere 32,000 ha), by burning bulk diesel on a few noisy barges ... in order to subsidise a foreign owned non-taxpaying open water salmon feedlot operation.

Your Labor political party, working for you.

What’s his win/loss ratio on those 4000?
How many has he TACO’d ?

A black bollard with a picture of Charlie Chaplin at the top.

The Charlie Chaplin bollard.
#WorldBollardAssociation

U.S. Government to Take Cut of Nvidia and AMD A.I. Chip Sales to China

What if instead of weird one-off extortion schemes the government just collected meaningful and stable amounts of corporate tax revenue hmmm www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...

Makes a lie of the old statement, “that if the government increases taxes on big business they will leave”.

Welp

Via News Corp, Australia's defence policy continues to be dictated by our economic enemy Wherever you turn in the defence debate, America maintains a strong presence — particularly via News Corp. Yet the Murdoch-owned entity is only one part of a broader ecosystem of US influence.

Wherever you turn in the defence debate, America maintains a strong presence — particularly via News Corp. Yet the Murdoch-owned entity is only one part of a broader ecosystem of US influence.
#auspol
www.crikey.com.au/2025/08/11/d...

Nope, still not distracted. Release the Epstein files.

2016: Ghislaine Maxwell swore under oath she didn’t know Epstein recruited underage girls for sex — even though she was doing it for him.

Two perjury charges later… and we’re still supposed to care what she says?

What’s the point of “protesting” in the middle of the night?
They must real tuff guys to march with their faces covered in the middle of the night.
It thought the whole idea of a protest was to be seen, to but forward you views.
If this hadn’t been reported, it probably didn’t happen.

Jillian Segal's position as Antisemitism Envoy after the Advance revelations was tenuous at best.

Now it is completely untenable.

Great work again from The Klaxon. #auspol

Another opportunity for a foreign government to make more money from our gas, than what our own government collects !

“Can we get the base gold plated”

“shit, its got to be made in USA, what state has a gold mine”

“Its one of one, so very exclusive”

“Will he put it on display somewhere”

“Does the President know how to use it ?”

“Its got have more gold”

Jay Leno* meets the #WorldBollardAssociation
(*it isn’t actually Jay Leno)

Can you imagine the meetings that were held at Apple to come up with this “gift”.
It’s not even an Apple product!

The Israeli Ministry for Diaspora and Combating Antisemitism keep regular tabs on protests around the world, including Australia.

They usually produce a weekly report but the Sydney #MarchforHumanity got its own separate report.

The disclaimer worth a read too.