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Australia Institute research shows a 25% gas export tax could raise $17 billion a year, cutting energy bills and funding healthcare and education.

Meanwhile, Aussies pay more tax on beer than the gas industry pays on exports.

Sign our petition to end the gas export scam: https://theaus.in/3P0dk9D

Australia’s most costly anti-climate policy hits taxpayers for $30m a day as calls mount to wind back fuel tax credits | Adam Morton The government will hand over $10.8bn this financial year under the scheme that makes it cheaper for miners and other industries to use diesel and petrol

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Rodri getting his groove back. Strong bench. Let’s hope we push on for more goals second half.

🦗🦗 🦗 from Ms Wong as per.

‘A step in the wrong direction’: Israel’s West Bank plans prompt global backlash US, Britain, EU and Arab nations condemn plans that Israeli ministers say will ‘kill the idea of a Palestinian state’

“We will continue to kill the idea of a Palestinian state,” Katz said in a joint statement with the finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich.

They will also continue to kill!

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We knew from the moment we heard it that “social cohesion” would be one of those Orwellian terms which would be used to cover all manner of state sanctioned abuse and deprivation of civic freedoms.
It fuels the very unrest it pretends to seek to quell.

I attended the Sydney Harbour Bridge protest and also the Adelaide protest last night.

Both protests felt peaceful and I never once felt threatened the police.

Last night in Sydney was different because Minns has amped up and enabled the cops to behave exactly as they did.

100% on Minns & Albo.

Why the fuck would we “socially cohere” for monsters?  - The Shot Yesterday, the gulf between the will of the Australian people and the actions of the Australian government revealed itself to...

Here's me. "Why the fuck would we 'socially cohere' for monsters?"

What does justify a royal commission is the actions of the NSW government and NSW Police in the lead-up to and events of last night in the Sydney CBD. Any internal investigation will have no credibility.

Craven speaking at the Skynews antisemitism Summit last year states if he was still a Vice Chancellor he'd break hateful occupation or demonstration and engage police in prosecuting demonstrators, and impose disciplinary processes, and if that was legally challenged he would create new harsher disciplinary measures. Craven was handpicked by Combatting Antisemitism Czar, Jillian Segal, as the "independent" assessor to judge her, and now the Government's University Report Card project.

Combatting Antisemitism Czar™️, Jillian Segal's, hand-picked University Report card independent assessor - Greg Craven - brings novel views and thoughts to the position.

Predictable response to Pep’s plea for a modicum of humanity.

Maybe these Jewish groups can focus on asking why the Israeli government is still murdering children despite the “ceasefire”.

YouTube video by City Xtra PALESTINE, SUDAN, USA... 🤯 | Pep Guardiola Press Conference Embargo | Man City vs Newcastle

Pep Guardiola's pre-Newcastle press conference, part two.

🎥 @hayterstv.bsky.social

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"When thousands of innocent people are completely killed it hurts me!"

"Humanity is better than ever in terms of possibilities. We can do everything. But still, right now, we kill each other. For what?!"

Pep Guardiola delivers hugely passionate speech on the power of images and humanity. 🧠

If possible, track down the full impassioned response from Guardiola to the killing and oppression in the world.

Superb and from the heart.

Get this: the Israeli president’s visit will be so divisive, according to NSW Police, that the appropriate response is to ban all public assemblies while he’s here, rather than, say, him not coming.

🇸🇩 SUDAN | UN: displacement accelerating on multiple fronts ➤ In South Kordofan, more than 10,000 displaced people are living in camps with critical shortages of food, healthcare, water, shelter, and education after fleeing Kadugli and Dilling. ➤ In North Darfur, over 1,000 people have arrived in Tawila in recent days. ➤ Displacement is also continuing across East Darfur and Blue Nile, as insecurity pushes more families to flee.

🇸🇩 SUDAN | UN: displacement accelerating on multiple fronts

➤ In South Kordofan, more than 10,000 displaced people are living in camps with critical shortages of food, healthcare, water, shelter, and education after fleeing Kadugli & Dilling.

➤ In North Darfur, over 1,000 people have arrived in...

Even Neville Chamberlain wouldn’t have been as stupid as extending such an invitation.
Hertzog’s visit will be a massive PR coup for genocidal Netanyahu regime, and its Zionist supporters.
It’s a degrading humiliation to reasoned Australians appalled at morally repugnant actions of IDF in Gaza

Single frame. Title: “[redacted]” A line of early teen? girls looking at the viewer. Behind them, silhouettes of four generic men, some with hand on shoulders of the girls, which have been through six iterations of redaction to satisfy the newspaper’s lawyers that none are identifiable.

A heavily redacted cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.

Labor’s refusal to join even Canada, the UK and France to condemn Israel for demolishing UNRWA headquarters in East Jerusalem shows Minister Wong has completely given up the pretense of caring about aid to Palestinians.

EVs Are Quietly Cleaning Up The Air. This New Study Proves It California’s EV boom led to cleaner air in its neighborhoods, with satellite data linking this growth to lower NO₂ pollution.

California’s EV boom led to cleaner air in its neighborhoods, with satellite data linking this growth to lower NO₂ pollution.

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In what world would this be considered a “ceasefire” except the one where our prime minister calls for “social cohesion” then invites the leader of a state committing genocide to pop over for a visit whilst simultaneously arming them with weapons for that same genocide.

Howard Lutnick is the guy who said he and his wife, neighbors of Epstein, visited his home. He said they both got such a negative feeling that they left and agreed to never see him again.
It seems none of that was true.
Every person in this regime is a liar. All them

Labor has invited the head of the country that is still doing this to millions of occupied people for a state visit - it’s hard to believe really.

As a citizen of Australia, I expect and demand that our government speak out against war crimes and blatant fascism no matter which country is involved.
Labor has failed as a government

Vale Nanna Heather Goodall who passed away on Jan 29th. A rare human being who gave so much to so many.

Sydney Knitting Nannas were honoured to have Prof Heather in our ranks, buoyed up by her environmental research and generosity. See youtu.be/X8ABgidgXao

Heather loved and missed (in the beret)👇

Say 𝑵𝑶 to Isaac Herzog's "visit." #auspol

Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza.

This is textbook censorship of the highest degree

friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there

Human rights advocates are calling for the Australia Government to stop violating children’s rights and locking them up in “cages” as the country faces renewed calls to increase the minimum age of criminal responsibility.

Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4a07kEL

The Government’s invitation for President Herzog to visit must be rescinded - it will cause immense distress to many who have lost relatives in Gaza. This is a time to build social cohesion not blow it out of the water ! 💦