Mr Denmore

I believe the gap that is opening up is on the urban liberal left. That’s the constituency that’s underrepresented in power. But it will take a coalition of the Teals, Greens, disaffected ALP left and what remains of the Liberal moderate wing to fight the dark forces taking over this country

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#libspill

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What defines a ‘progressive’ inside the Liberal Party? Someone who favours the cat’o’7 tails over nine? Pulls only one wing off butterflies? Wants us to go back to 1958 instead of 1948? It’s a fight for the Angry Old White Man vote.

Australia is a tax free gas and coal colony for foreign owned Exxon, Conoco, Shell etc. (Angus is perfect he used to work for McKinsey, which services them) the same reason Pauline Hanson is still a thing. The ALP will give big fossil everything they want BUT are building RE. This must be stopped.

I think the media environment has something to do with it. The media is almost entirely right wing, with a business model based on fomenting and exploiting resentment. The answer is not more blancmange centrism but a serious populist leftist alternative

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As Guy Rundle frequently observes, the majority of Australians are now knowledge class small ‘l’ liberals concerned at widening inequality, climate change, housing affordability and our grovelling to a failed US state. So why are the ALP, Libs, Nats and One Nation all competing for the cooker vote?

To be clear, not one single person sincerely believes that "from the river to the sea" is a genocidal or antisemitic slogan. They're just pretending to believe that in order to get new laws passed which crush free speech that is critical of a genocidal apartheid state.

Gets to the nub of the issue - the assumption among the Australian political and media class that the interests of Jews everywhere and those of Israel are synonymous. These were primarily Jewish AUSTRALIANS. There are Syrian Jews and Lebanese Jews and Iraqi Jews etc; None are Israelis.

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The billionaires bankrolling rightwing astroturfer Advance Australia - Michael West Gina Rinehart, James Packer, Mark Leibler and other business figures the major backers of right-wing lobby group Advance Australia. #AEC

Advance Australia purports to be 'grassroots' but the pro-fossil pro-Israel lobby group is actually funded by millionaires & billionaires such as Packer, Rinehart, Liebler. @sstephanietrann.bsky.social investigates.

#auspol #AEC

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How Cory Bernardi was inspired to push climate denial from US conservative groups Climate science denial group the Heartland Institute helped inspire Cory Bernardi and Malcolm Roberts to push back against policies to cut emissions

Cory Bernardi, new One Nation pick, went to America to train in climate denial with #AtlasNetwork’s Heartland Institute. This One Nation, like Farage’s Reform, is a tool of reactionary billionaires determined that no fact will stand between them & profit. #Auspol

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Over the top, misinformed, driven by false assumptions, economically illiterate, gormless. Australia not well served by a clueless press corps.

And before you shout ‘rich boomer living off term deposits welcomes rate rise’, recall some of us have adult offspring priced out of the housing market. A rate rise, assuming it dampens prices, may help them get a foothold. So can gallery hacks retire the boilerplate ‘bad news on interest trates’.

Quite. Press Gallery photo of Jim Chalmers in the engine room ‘running the economy’

Besides, if the govt really wanted to do something about home affordability it has the tools in its grasp to reduce negative gearing and capital gains tax concessions. How much longer is this charade going to continue??

And why this tedious persistence with the assumption that interest rates are domestically determined. Inflation in recent years has been a global phenomenon. It has very little to do with govt policy.

Surely it’s time for journos to dump the recitation ‘Bad news for the govt today with official interest rates on the rise’ given a third of Australians own their homes outright and many living off term deposits.

Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores.

TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti.

Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret.

Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.

Trump wants a weaker US dollar. But it might not be an orderly adjustment if Japan sells its Treasuries, which is probably why the Fed is offering Tokyo a swap line

Except 40% of the average Australian’s super fund is invested in it.

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Financial markets look to be on the brink. The surge in Japanese government bond yields last week threatens the ‘carry trade’ in which funds borrow cheaply in yen & buy US assets. Trump, meanwhile, is threatening to shut down the US govt again and put 100% tariffs on Canada. Seat belts on.

Arising from Carney's speech, middle powers, including Australia, should issue coordinated statements of concern about rule-of-law breaches and the need to respect alliances. They should defend international institutions like WHO & the UN and accelerate strategic diversification away from the US.

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Start distributing the Kool-Aid.

Altamont for Capitalists What replaces globalisation, Davos Man, and neoliberalism? Serbian-American economist Branko Milanovic has an idea and it doesn't sound at all pleasant.

Davos used to be known as ‘Woodstock for capitalists’. But in this post-neoliberal era of might-is-right geopolitics, it looks more like its Altamont. My thoughts on an insightful analysis of the New World Disorder…

Can you imagine an Australian prime minister speaking so eloquently or truthfully about what Trump is doing to the world? Why doesn’t the press gallery ask Albanese for his reflections on the Carney speech at the WEF?

When Trump, in his demented Davos speech, confused Greenland with ‘Iceland’, was this what he was thinking?

YouTube video by ANI News UK MP Ed Davey lashes out at US President Donald Trump calls him ‘International Gangster’

Why can’t we see this sort of truth telling in Australia’s parliament? Here’s Ed Davey, leader of the UK Liberal Democrat Party (similar to our Teals) describing Trump as acting like an international gangster. youtube.com/shorts/e4nhD...

The Crisis Year for Journalism Is Here Journalists have an inherent right and professional duty to defend their industry and its mission against those who want to derail it—even when those threats are coming from the inside.

We are under no professional obligation to treat with even-handedness the would-be architects of our demise. trib.al/eO82fDs

Gory sausage making at the Labor knackery “Social coherence” is being invoked everywhere, but public trust is fraying. Political panic, rushed laws and weak leadership are deepening division, not repairing it.

It’s less than a year since Albanese won an overwhelming election majority. It was a mandate to be a leader, not a wimp. So why does Albo find that lesson so hard to learn & on multiple fronts? Good question from former Canberra Times editor Jack Waterford.

America’s hunger for Greenland is tearing NATO apart Donald Trump could gain an island and lose a continent

If Donald Trump were willing to dismember one European country, allies would ask, why would he come to the aid of another being dismembered by Russia?