Australia-specific data suggests BHP fuelled 50 heatwaves, Woodside 49, Santos 49, and Whitehaven Coal 41

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Crikey article headline Never mind company tax — reform proposal reveals Australia’s real inflation cause A big rise in large corporations raking in profits by abusing their market power is impacting inflation, as shown by modelling buried in the Productivity Commission’s tax reform proposal.

Back in 2023, quite a few self-aggrandising economist types, desperate to get attention from the AFR, plus the RBA & Treasury tried to tell @australiainstitute.org.au that our work showing rising excess profits were causing inflation was wrong.

Last week, the Productivity Commission ...

Chaplains in schools: probably illegal, certainly immoral In the recent federal Budget, an additional $247 million has been allocated to the schools chaplaincy program. This brings the total amount of funding for the scheme, since its introduction in 2006 by...

Gender whisperers are absent from schools, yet religious whisperers are present , receiving federal funding.

It is essential to keep religious chaplains out of public schools.

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Victorian Labor party members to push for ‘immediate’ federal recognition of a Palestinian state Exclusive: Labor Friends of Palestine to move three ‘urgency resolutions’ at weekend conference, but PM maintains no immediate plans for the move

Be brave & do it @australianlabor.bsky.social!

Labor party members will push for an “immediate” federal recognition of a Palestinian state, in a series of resolutions due to be tabled at the Victorian state conference this weekend.
#auspol #FreePalestine

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More people need to understand governments hand-pick individuals who they implicitly trust & know for a fact are going to say exactly what that government wants to hear, for high profile roles/to provide advice to government.

Segal is not a mistake. Our government is. #auspol

This should go well for him.

Private schools spend millions on new buildings, thanks to generous tax deductions. The Govt's own Productivity Commission recommended that the tax deduction for private schools be removed.

Our report shows how it creates inequality in our education system: australiainstitute.org.au/report/fundi...

Australians threw him out of his very safe seat #auspol

His own #LNP party rolled him

He was unemployable until #Murdoch gave him a casual job to get him out of the way

#WTF is he doing on ABC as an INVITED guest?

Balance does not mean equal time for the wrong and completely rejected!
#ABC

#Woodside
When Howard and Downer bugged Timor to steal their resources, it was never to benefit Australia, it was always to benefit the American managed and majority owned Woodside Resources
Are we under duress?
Are we held to ransome?
What other explanation could there be?
#auspol

I haven’t seen nearly enough people talking about this.

The levels of greed and inhumane thinking on display is actually terrifying.

America really is dystopian as fuck.

And you thought you had a bad day at work

Just a few days ago, Speaker Mike Johnson, the puritanical pixie twit, refused to rule out arresting Governor Newsom. He added that Newsom should be “tarred and feathered,” a form of torture popularized by vigilantes. He is a reckless hypocrite.

Excellent article by Rock Morton in the Saturday Paper this morning, on consultants Nous. These guys are so endemic in university managements I ended up writing a whole paper about them. They're basically vampires www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati...

BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”

They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

The people at @smartelections.bsky.social are moving forward with a major lawsuit in NY over this obvious instance of fraud that took place in the 2024 Election...

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‘He saved lives’: Why Morrison deserves highest honour in Australia Branded by some as “the worst insult to all Australians”, there is a case amid the controversy for former PM’s royal-endorsed gong.

This defence of awarding an AC to Scott Morrison is a distortion. It was the premiers who led the Covid defence. Morrison delayed closing the borders & the vaccine order (made sure he personally got the good one early) but took every opportunity to grandstand #auspol

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Let’s be clear: Israel, an occupier, has no authority under international law to board or divert the Madleen.

This is a hijacking, plain and simple. A hijacking of a UK-registered ship, with multiple *European* citizens on board.

Does the EU or UK government have anything to say? Anything??

Proud Boys Suing Government For $100 Million For Cruelly Arresting Them Over January 6 Guess we shouldn't be surprised.

"...as soon as Ashli Babbitt’s family got $5 million from the government for the way it made her attack Congresspeople, other insurrectionists with dollar signs for pupils are now stepping up to dip their fingers in the taxpayer till."

Where's the trigger warning with any report on Scott Morrison's gong?

Imagine the retraumatization for people who faced the bureaucratic terror of #robodebt.
For families of people driven to suicide.
None have received justice.

His award compounds the dehumanizing of welfare recipients. #auspol

Is this just kind of like repeat it until you believe it yourself? Your boss pardoned everyone who assaulted law enforcement on January 6th. Ass!!!

“Anyone”

How on earth can this country still hold the World Cup and Olympics next year??

DEVELOPING: No warning. No reason. NYPD officers rushed into the crowd and tackled a protester this weekend.

His body was limp. He couldn’t move. He said, “I can’t feel my legs.”

He might never walk again. For showing up.

This is brutality. This is America.

‘Done and dusted’: Inside Labor’s North West Shelf gas approval After almost eight years of delays, Murray Watt raced to make the extension of Woodside’s largest fossil fuel project his first act as environment minister.

After almost eight years of delays, Murray Watt raced to make the extension of Woodside’s largest fossil fuel project his first act as environment minister.

They never race to raise people out of poverty.

#auspol #TaxTheGas #ClimateVandals

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Greg Jericho says Labor’s super tax reveals a system built for the rich - podcast Columnist Greg Jericho speaks to Reged Ahmad about why the media debate over a reduced tax break for Australia’s wealthiest 0.5% is divorced from reality

Greg Jericho says Labor’s super tax reveals a system built for the rich – Full Story podcast

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Wild… really

@australianlabor.bsky.social gifting Woodside over $200 billion of our gas is obscene corruption.

#AusPol

What is the PRRT? - The Australia Institute Gas extraction is often lauded by the industry as the 'backbone of the Australian economy', but the actual revenue collected from one of the main taxes on the industry falls staggeringly short of what...

What is #PRRT:

Gas extraction is often lauded by the industry as the ‘backbone of the Australian economy’, but the actual revenue collected from one of the main taxes on the industry falls staggeringly short of what most people would expect. #auspol

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What infuriates me so much about this new operation is that it is literally punishing people for following the rules and showing up to their court hearings. It is so toxic to the basic concept of following the rules.

It is an operation designed by people who hate the concept of the rule of law.

North West Shelf gas extension will deliver ‘almost nothing’ to Australia’s public purse Experts say hugely profitable east coast LNG producers pay little in resources rent tax and Woodside project won’t help country’s energy shift

Murray Watt better get a nice directorship after he leaves office

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