won’t hold my breath this building ever being built.

there is only the LNP in Queensland but MPs can caucus with either party once in canberra.

Well that’s the kiss of death for one nation. 🫢

The great unchurching of America A seismic shift in religion is upon U.S.

HALLELUJAH!! Their attempt to brainwash the country into a Christofascist cult is backfiring.

‘The U.S. is undergoing its fastest religious shift in modern history, marked by a rapid increase in the religiously unaffiliated and numerous church closures nationwide.’
www.axios.com/2025/12/26/g...

Australia’s March Toward 100 Percent Clean Energy The country’s grid operator says shifting from coal to clean power is not only possible but inevitable. The work there could provide a road map for other countries.

Australia’s March Toward 100 Percent Clean Energy
The country’s grid operator says shifting from coal to clean power is not only possible but inevitable. The work there could provide a road map for other countries. www.wired.com/story/as-coa...

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

What Happened to One Nation Conservatism? The jamboree of delusion and extremism that was Conservative Party conference birthed a small, fleeting genre of political centrist-to-soft...

"For the first time the right are open and honest about what they're about, and it's best for us to face them as they are ... There are no good Tories. Only class conscious defenders of a decaying system."

This reboot of the Young One’s looks shit

End to forced redundancies at ANU shows power of fighting campaign – Solidarity Online After a year-long campaign, interim Vice-Chancellor Rebekah Brown has announced an end to forced redundancies under management’s drastic restructuring scheme, Renew ANU.

Associate Professor Nick Cheesman summed up the rebellion for the ABC, “The Vice-Chancellor would not have had to resign but for the increasingly organised revolt against ANU management by thousands of academics and their pupils.”

solidarity.net.au/highlights/e...

Michaelia Cash on Sky has gone bonkers over reports Peter Dutton blames Andrew Hastie for the Liberal Party taking a record beating at the polls saying it’s not Hastie’s fault, but “Labor’s” bcoz of their “11 out of 10 disgraceful social media campaign & attack against us!” 🫠🤦‍♂️

Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.

"history is rife with contentions about the purity of bloodlines of 1 group & claims over ancestral homelands..Instead..analysis..shows that virtually everyone came from somewhere else, & everyone’s genetic background shows a mix from different waves of migration"
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Revealed: the secret polling which foretold the fast and furious collapse of Peter Dutton - THE POLITICS Data obtained exclusively by The Politics shows Dutton’s numbers were crashing in his own seat. It was a far cry from the ‘tight contest’ predicted by the major polls.

This is a fabulous look at Dutton's decline in Dickson.
The messaging really was a mess, and plenty of people could see it in real time, rather than needing hindsight. #Auspol
thepolitics.com.au/revealed-the...

Got to hand it to Sharri Markson: the polls 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 wrong.
They 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 the landslide! 😅
#election25 #auspol

"You boy! What tariff is it today?"

Pass it around, people !

aggregate graph

Both #Newspoll and #ResolvePM made very little difference to my 2PP aggregate which is now at 51.1 to ALP by 2022 preferences, 50.6 with One Nation adjustment (recommended)

More push polling🙄

Average survival amongst that group is 6 months

Western Australian state level Newspoll table for voting figures, leader performance, and preferred Premier, as it appears in the hard copy of The Australian 7 March 2025. 1,061 voter sample over 27 Feb - 5 Mar 2025.

WA #Newspoll state level
TPP: ALP 57.5 (+1.5) L/NP 42.5 (-1.5)
Primaries: ALP 44 (+2) LIB 29 (-3) NAT 5 (+2) GRN 10 (-2) ON 3 (-1) OTH 9 (+2)
www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/liber... ($)
Last poll before the state election, +/- changes vs. 4 weeks ago.

Lapdog interviewer has a thought.

Queen,Live Aid

July 1985

BYD offers Australia’s lowest cost EV, starting at $29,990, in new price bombshell BYD drops a bombshell on EV prices with new entry level variants starting under $30,000.

BYD drops a bombshell on #EV prices with new entry level variants starting under $30,000

Victorians with rooftop solar will get virtually nothing for feeding power to the grid A glut of energy during the day and rapid uptake of rooftop solar has prompted the Essential Services Commission to propose slashing the feed-in tariff.

The electricity market was designed around fossil fuels and was not set up for rooftop solar. This is why we're calling for electricity market reform that ensures fair pricing for Australia's 4 million households with solar. www.smh.com.au/national/vic...

Revealed: the Operators Behind Four Major Neo-Nazi X Accounts Anonymity has long been a tactic used by extremists to spread their ideology while avoiding social consequences, from Klansmen hoods to online pseudonyms.

Best of 2024: As hate flourishes on X under Elon Musk, @stevanzetti.bsky.social teamed up with @bellingcat.com @trislee.bsky.social to reveal the real identities of four extremists accounts that hid behind a mask of anonymity.

Worth reading.

Placating, news corp seems to be more important to him. News corp are not the friends of labour,never have been, never will be - when Albo learn this?

Australia took its interest rate medicine – and it has poisoned our living standards | Greg Jericho Even as we spent less, the Reserve Bank kept raising rates – and now household disposable income is back to what it was in 2015

Australia took its interest rate medicine – and it has poisoned our living standards - my column
www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

apparently my name was used in vain on Q+A last night.

for the umpteenth time, i’m not a clive palmer level political donor.

here’s a representation of political funding over the last political cycle.

i’m the little purple square. significant, yes. major? no.

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