Mel Halpin

The woeful state of our housing market can be fixed by having the guts to scrap the CGT and negative gearing. It would stop the growing chasm of wealth and income inequality and create generational change for the better.

Such a shame Labor no longer care about being Leaders for the working class.

A classist protection racket, writ large.

If this was a vast network of working class criminals engaging in horrific SA crimes, they’d be calling for the death penalty.

Rich, powerful White men in a network of horrific crimes? “OK, you can retire to your mansion, let’s not talk about this again.”

If he’s serious about protecting the public then I’d imagine he’d want to start with the Catholic Church and the Pentecostals?

Sorry, news just in…turns out, it’s not about protecting the public. He’s just a massive racist and propagator of hate and division politics.

I assess cognitive decline for a living. Doesn’t look like cognitive decline to me, looks like a combination of low IQ, rampant mental illness and medication side effects.

It's not that complicated @albomp.bsky.social

It's that magical time of year when private jets descend on a Swiss mountain village to discuss climate change and poverty! Anyway, here's my annual reminder. I'll stop posting this when they stop avoiding the real issue: their own massive tax avoidance 💰

Anyone else get massive red flags go up with the ’emotional’ response?

Not picking up any sincere concerns for anyone other than himself, IMO.

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing.

You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics.

That is all.

I can’t quite put my finger on it but there is something missing from this group of ‘leaders’…

Happy 2026! 🥳

May this year be one where those of us who can, don’t just list the problems we see in this world, but do our best to be part of the solution.

As Rutger says “Follow the Gandalf”!

Truer words.

#TaxTheUltraWealthy #UBI

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The gentleman doth protest too much, methinks.

Why doesn’t Trump just admit he’s a white supremacist and be done with it.

Ah, Ray Hadley. Never met a fire he didn’t want to stoke.

Agree. He’s been disappointing, but attempts by the now far right parties of Australia - the LNP, Pauline Hanson etc, to blame the PM are gross (and entirely expected).

Also of note right now is how much these same parties have pushed to weaken gun laws for years while cozying up to the gun lobby.

“Hate begets hate; violence begets violence," Dr. Martin Luther King

Feeling heartbroken tonight. Praying for all affected in Bondi, for peace, for a remembrance of our shared humanity and inherent connection to each other. ❤️🙏

Heartbreaking 💔

Had a number of patients while I worked in a stroke unit who‘d had strokes after a masseuse or chiropractor worked on their neck.

The lead Neurologist insisted DO NOT let anyone manipulate or do deep pressure work on your neck! Your vertebral arteries can get occluded or tear & you can stroke out

Every bully has a bully. The whole world is paying the price because Leon had a horrible father.

Reminds me of when Trump said the covid numbers went down since they stopped testing.

If AI succeeds, we need universal basic income, and if AI fails, we need universal basic income. Also, we should have implemented UBI decades ago when working class incomes first decoupled from productivity growth.

We just finalised our Christmas menu today.

Christmas Eve is a cold dinner (chicken, prawns, ham + salads). Christmas Day is a hot lunch (turkey w stuffing, ham, roast potatoes, veggies and cauliflower and broccoli gratin)

Desserts - trifle, Christmas pudding + custard, Knafeh and truffles.

What exquisite final words. 🥹

This. Decades of worsening wealth and income inequality hasn’t happened by accident, but by design.

The good news is it can be redesigned.

Time for major tax reform. Time for Universal Basic Income. Time to get Big $ out of politics and break up media monopolies.

#auspol #UBI #TaxTheUltraWealthy

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Cementing their irrelevance, well and truly, to appease the far right Christian nationalists of their party…cause that has proven so effective at the polls.

Slow clap.

Completely agree Peter. And the lack of a strong opposition makes our democracy weaker. Hopefully at the next election we see an increase in Independents who can hold the balance of power in a Labor Govt.

Fingers crossed the party actually want to move to the left, as opposed to Starmer’s centre-right policies and approach.