Once upon a time in the Strait of Hormuz. #SolidarityWithIran
Australian state and federal governments provided $16.3 billion in subsidies to fossil fuel producers and major users in 2025-26, according to new research from The Australia Institute”.
This is a pretty screwed up way up address climate change, @australianlabor.bsky.social.
Address please 😝
My mum had dementia too.
We lost her
Piece by piece 😞
Curiosity also.
Someone who is always looking for the why
Hegseth spent the years before he was made Secretary of Defense defending convicted war criminals on the theory that virtually nothing is a war crime.
Trump chose him to be the civilian head of DoD *so that he would order war crimes committed*.
Everything he's doing is what he was appointed to do.
Remember when Israel still had the shame to spin lies and put out statements that the children in the yoghurt factory were Hamas or Hezbollah or whatever they use to massacre tens of thousands of children as Western politicians claim Israel's "right to defend themselves".
BREAKING: The Israeli military says it is dropping charges against five soldiers who were accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee.
Scott Santens has some good info on ubi.
CSIRO have now lost more jobs under the Albanese Governmet than under the Abbott Government.
We have to do better on research funding and backing our scientists.
www.smh.com.au/environment/...
Me for @thepointau.bsky.social "ACOSS data reveals CGT discount billions flow to Australia’s wealthiest electorates"
thepoint.com.au/news/260313-...
It's the Economy, Stupid.
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Not only are we almost totally dependent on Trump's USA satellites for the business of every day life
csirostaff.org.au/news/2025/08...
but what happens if US refuses access as it allegedly did during the bushfires?
2/
I held hope for resolution of the whole robodebt scam after Catherine Holmes +Justin Gregory pushed to get to the truth
Yet the Alp in govt have again proved to be impotent
Corruption
Environment
"raise the rate" for jobseeker.
All points they played hard.
They play a great game in opposition.
I don't like weasel words from anyone.
Least of all where we are talking about following a "decision maker" like Donald Trump into war.
5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open.
Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.
Sure foreign policy requires keeping a lot of balls in the air.
But that is made exponentially more difficult to do whilst maintaining fealty to foreign powers by lying to the electorate
Most people would prefer the actual explanation.
It's not just that Australia is joining another American war, it's that we're defending the fucking UAE — one of the most evil countries on earth. All that carnage you've been seeing in Sudan? That was backed by the UAE. Those emaciated kids you were seeing in Yemen a few years ago? +
Blue skies over south east Qld today so my washing is on the line!
The wealth & power of the richest 3,000 households has increased by more than 500%
They are squeezing the rest of us through higher prices, manipulating supply, influencing political & regulatory processes
This is the source of our economic crisis in the West
Don’t be fooled by grifters & haters
The US is looking at stagflation as the attack on Iran fuels inflation and unemployment surges, write Glenn Dyer and Bernard Keane. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/09/a...
We could do with a new party which values the electorate and the provision of essential services over and above fossil fuel multinationals, wealthy corporate mates, and lobby groups !
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Just because someone does not believe in your god, it does not give you the right to kill them.
Perfect analogy for now
Australia, where we had to have a non-binding plebiscite on whether to grant non-heterosexual people equal marriage rights because it was apparently such a difficult moral issue, but they can just sign us up to be complicit or an active participant in an illegal war (again) without our consent
I can't think of a time height has really been an issue... being left handed is a totally different story!
Ring binders all through high school
How tables are set
How others hand things to you (always to your right hand and I'm very awkward with my right hand)
The direction sliding doors open
That's right, Donald. We *have* seen this before:
✳️ 2003: "Weapons of Mass Destruction" ➡️ Iraq war;
✳️ 1964: Gulf of Tonkin "incident" ➡️ Vietnam war;
✳️ 1939: "Polish attack" on German radio station ➡️ WWII
No-one ever accused you of being original ... 👇
#Trump #Iran
ICYMI- yesterday's #Iran cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com
The Melbourne Grand Prix is a massive net negative for Melbourne and Victoria!
"The race loses around $100 million dollars each year and Victorian taxpayers pick up the tab. That’s almost double what the Victorian Government spends on community sport."
thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
