Jan

Watching Ablaze in iview
Guts & determination for Indigenous Rights

AFR screenshot: ‘Grossly unfair’: Coalition to fight super tax but powerless to stop it The shadow treasurer said the tax “defies everything we believe in”; Tasmania will head back to the polls if a motion passes today. Follow for live updates. Includes photo of very sad Ted O'Brien. That's not a description of how he looks, just of Ted O'brien.

So sad. And yes the changes to super do defy everything the LNP believe in, which is ensuring wealthy people get wealthier at the taxpayers expense

Laura Tingle exits press gallery after 40 years with parting shot on News Corp’s election ‘irrelevance’

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Wildlife Wednesday!!

#whale #wildlife #wednesday

This town is a 'canary in the coal mine' as climate change threatens home ownership New data shows dozens of suburbs around the country are at risk of becoming uninsurable, triggering warnings of a "climate-induced credit crunch".

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

Congratulations to Judge Susan Crawford on her victory, and to the people of Wisconsin for electing a judge who believes in the rule of law and protecting our freedoms.

David Coleman, never clapped eyes on him until 7.30 & he’s the Shadow Foreign Minister
#LibFail

Dutton is going full Trump. Never go full Trump. Even Trump shouldn't go full Trump.

He's obviously completely given up on winning the votes of women, or anybody under 55.

#auspol

Patricia Karvelas asks Labor MP Ed Husic & Liberal MP Ted O’Brien if gas companies are “ripping us off”
Husic says yes.
O’Brien says no. #QandA

Chris Bowen reminds Sarah Ferguson of “the previous govt’s hidden price rises” saying it happens to be “the third anniversary of Angus Taylor changing the law to hide a 20% electricity prise rise before the last election.”🔥#abc730

'Bitten' by students, 'cyberbullied' by parents: School leaders report record violence The level of violence faced by school leaders is the worst it's ever been, with both students and their parents reportedly making threats, according to a long-running survey of more than 2,000 princip...

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Former AFL player Andrew Krakouer dies aged 42 — 7NEWS.com.au The AFL Mark of the Year winner died on Sunday in Perth.

Rest in Peace Brother. 🖤💛💔

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So sad 😞

Dutton doesn’t have the details worked out - that’s why he hasn’t released it.
Scammers and liars
#Insiders

John Hewson in The Saturday Paper:
"A key component of his[Dutton's) emerging agenda – the final details of which we are assured will be released as costed policies prior to the upcoming election, or perhaps not until after – is a drastic downsizing of the public service....
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YouTube video by SBS News Penny Wong and Michaelia Cash clash over Netanyahu question

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FFS Cash

I just keep thinking of the heartlessness of going to an election promising to sack 41,000 people just because they’ve chosen public service. The LNP talks of small business owners going out of business as a tragedy. How is sending thousands of people into unemployment not?

Countries that have issued a travel advisory this year warning their citizens about visiting the United States:

Canada
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Ireland
Netherlands
New Zealand
United Kingdom

Every time I hear an #LNP politician promise something (if we elect them) I remember Tony Abbott promising an Equity Ticket’ on full funding for public schools and no cuts to the #ABC.
Both big fat lies
#LNPlies
#LNPFail
#LNPCorruptionParty

I am worried about Myanmar, especially Mandalay, after a 7.7 earthquake today.A state of emergency has been declared in Bangkok with people trapped after a skyscraper under construction collapsed.Myanmar is incredibly vulnerable amid severe internal conflict.I hope the major parties offer help.

Can we all help Stranger get his account back . He is a true legend in keeping us up to date on Australian politics.
He is not a racist or a bigot .
Why was his account suspended? Hacked ?

Angus Taylor is spinning rubbish on #RadioSydney.
He wants to sack 41 thousand public servants appointed by Labor - but ignores Sabra pointing out that this was to replace expensive consultants and to get services working again (after the last #LNP stuffed up).
#AngusTaylor
#AusVotes25
#Auspol

Same

Grrrr. I dislike him more and more every time he speaks.
The divisive Voice referendum. Divisive, only due to him. Every single thing he does is divisive.😡

Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada Jason Stanley, who says grandmother fled Berlin with his father in 1939, says US may become ‘fascist dictatorship’

A Yale professor who studies fascism is leaving the US to work at a Canadian university because of the current US political climate, which he worries is putting the US at risk of becoming a “fascist dictatorship”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Basically Dutton's speech is migrants are bad and the cause of your problems, and also we need a lot more fossil fuels being pumped out while giving $20k a year for blokes to take their mates golfing

CNN put together a collection of clips of various Trump officials who were on the signal chat criticizing Hillary Clinton’s email server

The Red Tree I’m writing this on the almost eve of my 50th birthday.

Happy birthday to the incomparable Jacinta Parsons. To celebrate m, she wrote this for us.

Restoring Victorian Trades Hall Behind-the-scenes look at the restoration of the world's oldest continually-active trade union building. The Trades Hall Stage 3 Conservation Works project is supported by the Victorian Government.

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