A piece from David Speers I am happy to endorse.

The Bondi Junction and Wakeley stabbings involved extreme violence and caused fear, so why was only one labelled terrorism? abc.net.au/news/2024-04-1… via ABC Australia

What a difference it makes to the judgement when Janet Albrechtsen doesn’t have 273 interactions with the Judge.

#LehrmannRapist

This is why Blackwood/Eden Hills SA (marginal seat of Boothby) has a very fine sports field with a 2 story club house taking a year to build leading up to 2022 election. Saving Private (Nicole) Flint. It failed. We now have a fine Labor MP.
theguardian.com/australia-news…

A feminist in hindsight. Julie Bishop explains why she served as a handmaiden to so many big swinging d...s.
theguardian.com/australia-news…

The indomitable Miriam Margolyes OBE has a message in support of the Jewish Council! She calls for all of us Jews to “shout, beg, scream for a ceasefire”

theguardian.com/world/2024/apr… This is hard to read. Horrific detail of why so many Palestinian civilians have been murdered. Use of AI and instructions to target Hamas in their homes is killing whole families. Disgraceful and without conscience.

Can Peter Dutton actually win enough seats to form government? thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/… via The Saturday Paper The anti-intellectualism of the Liberal Party is out of step when more and more people have tertiary education.

The number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills.

UK - 0
France - 0
Spain - 0
Denmark - 0
Iceland - 0
Italy - 0
Finland - 0
United States - 643,000

Imagine the swing to Labor Federally in a years time when the tax cuts are being paid, interest rates are cut, real wages are rising strongly, the govt is paying down debt and people are even wealthier. #DunkleyByelection

There will be much analysis and commentary after the #DunkleyByelection but I hope one message rings loud and clear:

beating down on foreigners, spreading misinformation and racist tweets do not help you win an election

At 8pm on their news bulletin the ABC reports Labor is “slightly” ahead. Spare me. If this was part of the general election coverage they would have called this seat for Labor long ago.

If you know anyone living in Melbourne's Frankston, Mount Eliza, Seaford, Sandhurst, Langwarrin or Carrum Downs, please share this with them. Also please share this post to ensure as many people as possible are made aware of what's happening.

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“Head of the Australian Border Force, Michael Outram, contradicted Dutton’s claim that Labor had made cuts to OSB, saying in a statement funding had never been higher.”
Ohh dutts. Can you get anything right or is incompetence your signature characteristic? theguardian.com/australia-news…

Exclusive: Plibersek intervenes after BoM executives lie to court thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environme… via The Saturday Paper This and an earlier article by Rick, describes a toxic culture in the BoM similar to one I also enjoyed at a former work place. Ego driven from the top.

This is the so called Senator who is in a party supposedly putting “working Australian first.” So far all we’ve seen is this grub stand up & say we will always back Australian employers, vote against industrial relations reforms that will improve wages & conditions for the lowest

My young adult children all
have thousands of dollars in HECs debts which they are repaying by working hard -while trying to manage excessive rents and cost of living rises.
Many multinationals and major corporations pay no tax.
How tf is this ok??

In Norway they tax the fossil fuel industry & have free degrees for kids…in Australia we subsidise the fossil fuel industry and charge our kids a fortune to go to uni.

Choices matter.

Stop subsidising fossil fuels & start taxing them property

#insiders #climate #auspol

Extraordinary.

Pretty chuffed to see that PRRT was trending number 1 a day after I pointed out the Government collects more revenue from HECS repayments than it does from the so called Petroleum Resource Rent Tax …imagine if we made the gas industry pay more and kids pay less #auspol