Jack O Lantern

South Park inspired Down Under

Australia’s richest woman Gina Rinehart’s $300k prize for world championship-winning swimmers - Hancock Prospecting PTY LTD Australian swimmers are set to pocket more than $300,000 in bonuses with their rich supporter Gina Rinehart declaring the world championship medallists will each get cash deposits within two weeks.

You do know Greedy tax avoiding Gina has resided in singapore for years & has bought our swim team with her family blood money

www.hancockprospecting.com.au/australias-r...

Our PBS is a national treasure, not an international trade barrier Extraordinary new analysis from The Australia Institute reveals the prices Australians would pay if the US had its way and dismantled our Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.

Australia Institute analysis shows the staggering difference between US and Aus drug prices.

Atorvastatin – a cholesterol pill among the top ten most prescribed drugs in Australia – is 125 times more expensive in the US!

Aus - $21.07
US - $2,628.39

australiainstitute.org.au/post/our-pbs...

Share this to help us get a message to Australia's biggest Billionaire 😉 Billionaire born rich punts like Gina Rhinehart are stealing the wealth of the middle class according to @garyseconomics. Maybe them seeing this message can solve the problem? 😉

Huge American-style utes are damaging our roads, reducing safety, and increasing emissions.

“In Europe they’re introducing measures to discourage people from driving these big utes...

"In Australia we’ve got subsidies for them.”

@richarddenniss.bsky.social, Executive Director

#auspol

This👇🏽

#taspol

Headline in the AFR: Blow to Chalmers’ hopes for summit unity as BHP clashes with PC over tax

Oh no, one of Australia's biggest companies doesn't like a proposal that would see Australia's biggest companies pay more tax. What a blow.

Nuked: The submarine fiasco that sank Australia’s sovereignty Andrew Fowler's book Nuked shows how the Morrison government might have put the future of Australia’s national security at risk.

****ing Morrison:
Submarine fiasco that sank Australia’s sovereignty

www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/enterta...

Stop the Aussie gas scam petition TRUST. INTEGRITY. LEADERSHIP.

It’s time to stop the Aussie gas scam.

Let’s put our people & industries first.

Sign my petition: www.davidpocock.com.au/prrt_petition

Dump the ‘left-field ideas’ and just build a gas reserve, demands AWU The influential union, a key backer of Jim Chalmers, has long advocated for an east coast gas reserve that would force LNG producers to put away gas for locals.

🇦🇺doesn’t have a gas shortage- we’ve got a gas export problem.

¾ of our gas is exported, much of it for free. Meanwhile households & businesses are paying high prices.

Last year I proposed a gas reservation to fix this.
Businesses & unions back it too.
www.afr.com/politics/fed...

Cheers to the over 200 punters who have donated so we can employ our very own lobbyist! cheers to big gas, Albo and Ms Susan Ley for their humble contributions as well.
🙏 Remember, just like Australia's political donation system, you can keep your contribution completely dark and hidden 😉

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#palantir
#auspol

www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/08/p...

Greens must blow AUKUS out of the water - THE POLITICS With an 'opposition' that's as useful as deckhands on a submarine, it's up to David Shoebridge and co to fight the good fight against a deal that's sinking fast.

major parties = duopoly. Can we just call it for what it is?
@davidhardaker.bsky.social
'They signify a defence pact between nations but become synonymous with the trashing of government process and a pact between the major parties to deny public accountability.'
thepolitics.com.au/greens-must-...

The Albanese Labor Govt and the Liberal Party teamed-up today (Thu 31Jul25) to vote to prevent an inquiry into legislation that will allow the AUS Govt to build public housing for US troops in Australia as part of #AUKUS. FMD. #auspol share.google/CqVLUsb42a7X...

Greens must blow AUKUS out of the water - THE POLITICS With an 'opposition' that's as useful as deckhands on a submarine, it's up to David Shoebridge and co to fight the good fight against a deal that's sinking fast.

The Greens must blow AUKUS out of the water.
thepolitics.com.au/greens-must-...
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An in-depth explainer about AUKUS in the book The Big Fix by Albert Palazzo former AU Army's Director of War Studies.
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Australia has an opportunity to get out of the AUKUS security pact.

Two thirds of Australians (66%) already support a parliamentary inquiry into the future of AUKUS.

There are 21,000+ signatures and counting, add your name to the petition.

#auspol

The Govt’s first Housing Bill for the 48th Parliament is a Bill to build 700 new houses in Perth for US personnel and families for #AUKUS. 1/2 #priorities #AmericaFirst #auspol 👇 @davidshoebridge.bsky.social objecting👇

Australia has a politician problem: not too many, but too few.

There are nine times the number of voters than in 1903, but the number of MPs has only doubled. Maybe it's time for our representative democracy to get a bit more representative?
@australiainstitute.org.au #auspol

I am SELLING OUT! I will spend the next few months endorsing whatever corporations or small businesses want me to sell, with all the money raised going towards our very own lobbyist. Share with a business interested 👍

No Return: Australia's Missing Billions Four Corners is the home of Australian investigative journalism.

🚨TONIGHT: 4 CORNERS | 8:30PM | ABC 🚨

I speak to Four Corners about the flaws in the ATO system that allowed more than $50 billion in tax to go uncollected.

You can catch it on ABC TV or ABC iView

#auspol #tax

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Australia won’t receive Aukus nuclear submarines unless US doubles shipbuilding, admiral warns Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull says there is a ‘very, very high’ chance Virginia-class subs will never arrive under Australian control

Everyone can see the #AUKUS risk, except Richard Marles and our Defence leadership. It’s OK, though - it’s just your money and security at stake. #auspol https://

#Israel denies there is starvation in #Gaza . With guest #DaveSharma #afternoonbriefing the subject was #Gaza and starvation. Where is there any room for smirking? #GazaGenocide

Epstein accuser Maria Farmer on Ghislaine Maxwell: “I’ve never met a more predatory, terrifying human being in my entire life. She’s a very dangerous person. The woman is not a victim, she’s a victimizer.”

via @msnbc.com

(ht: @marcofoster.bsky.social)

Excellent article by @rossgittins.bsky.social on the dodginess of CGE modelling used by the RBA, PC et al
www.rossgittins.com/2025/07/roun...

Parents did not consent to children appearing in new Advance ad Conservative lobby group Advance used unblurred images of children taken from the YouTube accounts of education organisations without their consent, an ABC NEWS Verify investigation has found.

Families need to lodge privacy breach lawsuits against these fuckers for $Aus millions.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Front Groups working with Zionist actors are promoting Islamophobia Australian front groups have been working to promote the idea that the Greens make many cultural identities less safe. It's - loosely - part of a global Islamophobia industry.

I wrote a (lengthy) piece tying Australia’s (cultural) Christian and Jewish Zionist movements loosely into transnational Right Islamophobia networking. It’s been termed an “industry” & overlaps with neoliberal & “race” “science” projects. Advance is in the mix open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2...

Anthony Albanese being no different to Scott Morrison

No One Left Behind*^#£

* excludes those on unemployment benefits
^ excludes those that want to stop Australia supplying arms parts to Israel
# excludes those that want restrictions on sports gambling
£ excludes those that want to stop new fossil fuel projects

The United States is a joke of a country. How many 'shared values' does Australia actually have with it? With Donald Trump's America showing zero commitment to democracy, the rule of law, human rights or free trade, is it time to admit things have changed?

How many shared values do Australians have with Donald Trump and MAGA Republicanism? Virtually none — despite what shills for the US defence alliance insist, writes Bernard Keane.