Gambling regulator's alleged 'cosy relationship' with $50b betting industry
Four Corners has uncovered allegations of conflicts of interest and pro-industry bias at the country's part-time regulator responsible for Australia's biggest betting companies.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
What a national disgrace. The regulation of the betting companies, mostly foreign, who inflict such damage is left to the tiniest jurisdiction, the NT, population 260,000, a local government not a State, when the Federal Govt has full power to regulate corporations.
05.10.2025 23:00 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
As the grotesque slaughter and dismemberment in Gaza grinds on with invaders (bizarrely calledβsettlersβ) seizing more of West Bank, Trump just had a great and novel
idea! A British mandate over Palestine led by Tony Blair, an architect of the disastrous Iraq war!!!! Balfour laughing hysterically.
26.09.2025 10:39 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Oh Alboβ¦β¦ that is the worst statementβ¦β¦ a fawning sefie
24.09.2025 11:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
24.09.2025 11:22 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Another 34 Palestinians slaughtered by Israel which is now beyond debate a pariah state.
21.09.2025 13:10 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Can someone teach Australian relay athletes how to pass a baton. Itβs been a problem since 1952 at Helsinki when our champion women blew it.
21.09.2025 12:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
βGood thinking 99β guided all our lives
20.09.2025 22:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Greens-endorsed candidate elected Alice Springs mayor for first time
Incoming mayor Asta Hill says she wants to "change the story" of Alice Springs, after years of negative national media coverage.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
First thing Ms Hill can do as Mayor is restore the real Arrernte name of the place! Mparntwe . Alice Todd, wife of builder of the telegraph through that country, never went to the place and there are no springs there!!
07.09.2025 04:19 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Well we shall see as NSW Labor govt is not acting out of principle despite its election promise because the legislation is conditional on feds granting carbon credits for the forests. ie, unless thereβs money in it, the iconic Koala, can potter off to extinction in the wild, as already predicted.
07.09.2025 04:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
ATO whistleblower Richard Boyle spared convictions, jail sentence
Australian Taxation Office whistleblower Richard Boyle has avoided convictions and a jail sentence, seven years after publicly exposing aggressive debt collection practices at the tax office.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
So happy for Richard and Louiseβ¦β¦what a travesty, what a disgrace, that both political parties subjected him to these years of torture-by-law. Successive Attorneys-General stand condemned of refusing to see the nose in front of their facesβ¦..THE PUBLIC INTEREST!!!!!!
28.08.2025 04:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Five journalists among 20 killed in Israeli double strike on hospital
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it was a "tragic mishap" and promised a "thorough investigation".
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Again the grotesque mediaeval slaughter by Israel with American backing leaves major Jewish organisations in Australia silent. How can they condone this horror which daily alienates the Australian community.
26.08.2025 02:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
So many leaders of the international JewIsh community including in Australia remaining silent on this endless slaughter. As I have repeatedly said, the Israel Netanyahu and USTrump governments have made their nations pariah states for this genocide.
23.08.2025 23:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
To speak of an agreement to end a war in which 1.5mill people have been killed or maimed and cities and villages have been obliterated, as a βdealβ, is grotesque. The main stream media should stop using this obscene real estate language about ending an horrendous illegal invasion.
16.08.2025 07:12 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Watching S2025 Momentum - Dr Mohammed Mustafa in iview
If well over 100000 marching on Harbour Bridge wonβt drive our politicians to strident condemnation of Israelβs slaughter and dismembering then this report of Dr Mo Mustafa surely will. The bombing by Israel and the US must stop.
05.08.2025 11:46 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
'They are using their power to destroy us': Elderβs urgent appeal to PM
Warlpiri elder Ned Jampijinpa Hargraves joins growing calls for federal intervention into law and justice policies in the Northern Territory.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
The NT population 260,000, is smaller than Greater Geelong and not much bigger than Wollongong. NT local govt should not determine their own βjusticeβ laws. Federal Govt in s111 of Constitution has ultimate power over Territories and should ensure indigenous justice.
03.08.2025 04:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
$8BILLION pa put through poker machines just in Fairfield NSW LGA. NSW Labor has a shocking history on facilitating gambling in this State. Hardly the workersβ party.
03.08.2025 01:47 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Starmer ludicrous cock-eyed foreign policy on Gaza. βKeep killing and destroying Gaza and we will recognise statehood for the nothing that will be left.
Stop and we wonβt β.
30.07.2025 03:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A person claiming to be a human being can write thisβ¦and SMH publishes it. New depths.
26.07.2025 22:08 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Israeli forces kill 67 Palestinians seeking aid in northern Gaza, Hamas-run ministry says
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had "fired warning shots" and disputed the number of reported deaths.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The Israel Army killing machine, under command of the Netanyahu govt, slaughters the innocent again. There is the beginning of protest from the Australian government. It must turn into a condemnation of war crimes.
20.07.2025 18:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Children queuing for supplements killed in Israeli strike in Gaza, hospital says
Eight children were among 15 people reportedly killed when a queue for nutritional supplements was hit in Deir al-Balah.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
β¦. every day, every day the slaughter of the innocents by the Israel Army grinds on and
on and on with no daily
outrage from our government. I must keep posting my own outrage every day.
10.07.2025 12:18 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Children among 20 people reported killed overnight by Israeli strikes on Gaza β Guardian
β¦β¦we must daily cry out against this horrendous daily slaughter by the Israel Army utterly disproportionate to any continuing risk from Hamas military.
09.07.2025 08:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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