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Money talks live.thepoint.com.au/2025/10/the-...

Mates’ rates and why Australia can’t have nice things live.thepoint.com.au/2025/10/the-...

Australia Institute Live — Daily Updates Stay updated with the latest from The Australia Institute.

Without freedom of information, Australians would have no idea of the scale of gun thefts live.thepoint.com.au/2025/10/the-...

Australia Institute Live — Daily Updates Stay updated with the latest from The Australia Institute.

AUKUS: no scrutiny, no guarantee live.thepoint.com.au/2025/10/the-...

Australia Institute Live — Daily Updates Stay updated with the latest from The Australia Institute.

Fuel for thought live.thepoint.com.au/2025/10/the-...

Local governments face soaring cost of climate change Local government revenue is not keeping pace with the rapidly rising costs of climate change, according to new analysis by The Australia Institute.

Australians are paying for the effects of climate change already. It's time the govt made big polluters pay their part. The first step is for the government to release its National Climate Risk Assessment report - to acknowledge, transparently and honestly, where we are and what we need to do.

Seal photo exposes brutal truth behind popular Aussie dinner staple The salmon industry says it's committed to protecting wildlife, but campaigners say details of the connected deaths would “horrify consumers”.

Can everyone please stop eating Tasmanian salmon.
Question where the salmon from your sushi lunch is sourced from and what is dying to supply it!
#Tassal #ecocide #environment #auspol au.news.yahoo.com/seal-photo-e...

Jane of the north posted "Canadian here, your neighbor with cold winters and sensible gun laws. Did you know we've had 11 school shooting deaths? Not this month or this year, but total, in history. And absolutely no deaths in elementary schools. Why? Because gun laws save lives. Listen. Its the guns."

This says it all.
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Ley’s need to appease the far-right further condemns the Coalition Sussan Ley’s pronouncement on Palestine and a need to appease the far-right of her party is dragging the Coalition into the political abyss.

Excellent by @amyremeikis.bsky.social. Australian journalists need to wake the f*ck up

www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...

We finally find out what Labor will do with its second term The question we have been asking is ‘what will Labor do with power?” Now we have the answer – the least possible.

It’s the very least they can do

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None of this passes the pub test - The Shot Jillian Segal’s report, the entire double-spaced, decorative and glossy 16 pages of it, is largely insulting dross.

None of this passes the pub test theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

Dr Max Kaiser, Executive Officer, Jewish Council of Australia “This document reads more like a blueprint for silencing dissent rather than a strategy to build inclusion. The report’s vague language around ‘antisemitic narratives’ or ‘affiliations’ , coupled with its emphasis on the discredited IHRA definition of antisemitism, make the actions recommended dangerously unclear. Consistent with her past statements erroneously linking antisemitic attacks with Palestine solidarity protests, Segal seems fixated on driving a pro-Israel narrative and repressing legitimate criticism of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Antisemitism is real and must be taken seriously. But it does not exist in a vacuum. Any response that treats antisemitism as exceptional, while ignoring Islamophobia, anti-Palestinian racism, and other forms of hate, is doomed to fail.”

This by @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social's Max Kaiser is absolutely on point.

Why this week matters | Between the Lines - The Australia Institute The Wrap with Amy Remeikis Earlier this week, 2025 clocked up its 183rd day. Most of eastern Australia would have been keeping one eye on the weather report, given the ‘rain bomb’, while others were r...

'You may delay, but time will not'
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Wins: Why we can’t insure our way out of the climate crisis Just as bookmakers won’t take bets on a one-horse race, insurers will never offer insurance against inevitable sea level rise and floods.

Insurance can’t make a nation safe from climate change

We can no more rely on insurers to protect us from floods than we can expect supermarkets to protect us from famines

Insurance is a one year contract. Once damage becomes likely you just cant buy it
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It’s absolutely critical that the Albanese govt holds firm against the attacks on the PBS by US pharma. That includes protecting generics.

Affordable medicines are key to our universal health system.

Extract from Lattouf judgement

"ABC managers...extraordinarily sensitive to the risk of criticism by The Australian."

Shocking, as the Murdoch media now has near zero influence on the Aus public, see recent research from @australiainstitute.org.au 1/3

www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Ju...

Chat showing votes for ALP and LNP and independents+minor parties since 1944 and in 2025 the LNP got 31.8% while indep/minor parties got 33.6% (the ALP got 34.6%)

With Bradfield now called, @skyelark.bsky.social points out that the 2025 election was the first time where the votes for independents and minor parties were *larger* than for one of the ALP or LNP #OffTheCharts
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Future gas reservation won’t get us over ‘valley of death’: energy CEO EnergyQuest chief executive Rick Wilkinson said a prospective change to reserves was “unlikely to solve the problem” of Australia’s east coast gas shortage.

Successive govts have failed to ensure 🇦🇺 gas benefits Australians. The re-elected Albanese Govt risks doing the same.

There's enough uncontracted gas to fix the projected shortfall. What’s missing is the guts to stand up to the gas industry.

www.afr.com/politics/fed...

Chris Richardson, one of the most pro-resource industry economists in Australia.

“It is fair to say that how we tax gas in Australia is a massive fail,” he said.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Australia needs a Whistleblower Protection Authority.
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Other countries tax their oil and gas industries. Australia subsidies ours.

Our research found while gas prices boomed in 2022, LNG companies made windfall gains of up to $40 billion. PRRT take increased by less than $1 billion.

It's time to fix the tax loopholes that Big Gas exploits. #auspol

I find myself completely unable to function today. I’ve seen a child surrounded by the flames of what was her family home. Starving babies. Defeated, broken men. Women cradling their shrouded children. It’s too much. And yet I still have to hear ‘but Hamas..’ FUCK OFF. Israel is committing genocide

By donating, you'll help fund the work of people like Amy changing Australia for the better ➡️ theaus.in/amy_eofy_rally.

🩷 We are lucky to have you @amyremeikis.bsky.social! #auspol

Oh how I miss Clarke & Dawe. 😂
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Silence on big ute subsidies as Coalition backflips on EV's - The Australia Institute As Peter Dutton announces a Coalition government would scrap tax breaks for people who buy electric vehicles, The Australia Institute has called for him to scrap the ridiculous tax break for people wh...

As Peter Dutton announces a Coalition government would scrap tax breaks for people who buy electric vehicles, we are calling for him to scrap the ridiculous tax break for people who buy big utes.

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Australia needs more than hollow words about a fair go – we need brave policy-makers | Greg Jericho It is not only conservatives who love our country and believe it worthy of defending

In which I ask - what is the Australia we want to defend?

www.theguardian.com/news/grogono...

Policy of the Day: Five ideas to make our tax system better.

If we make the gas industry pay their fair share, reduce loopholes that benefit the wealthy, and stop subsidising fossil fuels, we can collect more revenue to build world-class services that a country like Australia deserves.

Coming Up: Monday April 14, 2025 - Q+A Panellists: Minister for Housing & Homelessness Clare O’Neil, Shadow Minister for Social Services, NDIS, Housing & Homelessness Michael Sukkar, Independent MP for Warringah Zali Steggall, Deputy Mayor...

Tune in to #QandA tonight!

@richarddenniss.bsky.social is on the panel to explain what we can do to tackle the housing crisis, and more. #auspol

"so called Dr Chalmers"? Why do MAGAGINAS hate educated people so much? Why do they want to make our children dumb & dumber? Why do they want them to live in a world of expensive petrol guzzling UTEs on low wages & zero contract hours? Why do they hate the future?
#auspol #ausvotes2025