Oh you don’t say

Big oil and gas pay less tax than beer drinkers.

2024 just got its 'Ohio'

Why can we afford billions for submarines but apparently can't afford to tackle climate change?

Governments don't want to get asked simple questions like that - Richard Denniss explains why they'd rather you think budgets are boring. #auspol #Budget2024

AUKUS allows our ‘imperial masters’ to dump their nuke waste here. This on top of paying for subs that might never arrive and in an agreement that threatens to drag us into another American war.

theaustralian.com.au/nation/defence…

Joining ABC Radio Melbourne shortly after 10.30 this morning for a US politics update!

The way this is framed. He’s done for.

What Mike says here is not true. But it’s also irrelevant since AUKUS pillar 2 is not being offered to NZ. And yet even if it were, and even if it meant getting “advanced tech,” what good is that if it cuts you off from your leading trading partner or culminates in rivalry—>war?

We've seen seemingly endless scandals from consultants that governments spend billions on.
Barbara Pocock joins Bill Browne & host Ebony Bennett to discuss exposing the consultancy cover-up.

FREE- register now:
australiainstitute.org.au/event/exposing… #auspol #insiders #Budget2024

Australian collects more money from young people repaying HECS than from the Petroleum Resource Rent tax (PRRT). Today’s announcement is obviously better than nothing, but it wont reduce the HECS repayments of those struggling with high rents and low wages #auspol #insiders

Today is #WorldPressFreedomDay . With Julian Assange being murdered slowly in his cell in the UK's Belmarsh high security hell. Impossible to celebrate press freedom unless he is released. Today would be a good day.

'Published under a specifically Christian imprint, the book seems designed to ingratiate Morrison with conservative evangelical fellow travellers in the US corporate and defence scenes.'
Thank you for your service Joshua Black and Frank Bongiorno 🙏
theconversation.com/holy-moly-scot…

'While the United States demands impunity for its own crimes, it is merciless toward those who expose them.' #PressFreedom

End the Persecution of Julian Assange thenation.com/article/societ…

#WorldPressFreedomDay is a time to reflect on the essential role a free media plays in any healthy democracy. It also puts the spotlight on the shocking injustice being experienced by Walkley Award winning Australian journalist Julian Assange. #FreeAssangeNOW #auspol #politas

If governments were driving climate policy we could trust, there would be *no need* for consumers to seek out particular products or brands.

If Climate Active isnt dead before the election, we'll know Labor has no integrity DCCEEW Chris Bowen

Polly Hemming nails it again.

Adelaide! Really looking forward to this The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand event at TheHawkeCentre next week, talking democracy with Monica, A/Prof Priya Chacko, and mishaketch. Still plenty of time to register for IRL or online.

unisa.edu.au/connect/hawke-…

“Foreign policy should not be conducted only via opinion columns and occasional speeches. That isn’t full public debate. And foreign policy needs proper democratic oversight.”

Max Harris identifies a disconnect many feel between foreign policymakers and the public they serve.

As government and industry keep trying to justify increased fossil fuel production in the name of 'national security', *actual* security experts have been telling us climate change is our biggest security risk for years.
#auspol #climate
Emma Shortis australiainstitute.org.au/post/who-cares…

Had a great chat yesterday with Triple J’s Hack - genuinely one of the best news and analysis programs on the ABC. On Trump’s trials, and the appalling spectacle of a militarized police crackdown on young people happening under Biden’s watch.
abc.net.au/triplej/progra…

TAI / Emma Shortis Escalating US University student Gaza Protests; at 17min
abc.net.au/listen/program…