New Australia Institute research shows that state and federal governments will provide $16.3 billion in subsidies in 2025/26 to some of the biggest, most profitable companies in Australia, an increase of 9.4 per cent on last financial year.
Read more on The Point: https://theaus.in/4bmdAaP
Graph showing the index of profits and wages since 2001 (2001 = 100). Profits are at 492, wages at 335
With profits in December having a jump and wages not, this is what the latest graph of wages and profits since 2001 looks like
Labor delivers real wage fall alongside housing price spike.
Rents thro the roof. 🏠 prices at record levels, delivered by the Ministry for House Price Increases. Disaster for so many super-stressed households. Despair for so many young people.
An email from Epstein naming Herzog as coming to the island "this weekend" from 2014
Isaac Herzog, special guest of the Australian government this week, is in the Epstein files.
It appears he went to the pedo rape torture island, alongside Ehud Barak, former Israeli PM, in 2014, long after Epstein’s conviction and outing as a predator.
My column on Oxfam's inequality report #ThePoint
"Oxfam: Australian billionaires pocket $600,000 a day as inequality deepens"
thepoint.com.au/news/260120-...
This sums it up rather well.
37.7%
Just in case you forgot…
New Australia Institute research shows the Aus and QLD governments allowing large-scale gas exports tripled gas prices for Australians on the east coast, ending decades of low-cost gas.
#auspol
Here's me. "A comprehensive list of the non-lethal parts of my big death plane"
Labor's 50 year extension of the most climate destroying fossil project in Australia, Woodside’s North West Shelf gas export terminal.
Emissions will be equivalent to opening 12 new coal power stations for 50 years - a mockery of Labor’s climate policies
www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
It’s alleged that First Nations man Mr Robert Barnes been kept in solitary confinement in SA’s Yatala Labour Prison for 800 days. (The UN prohibits solitary for more than 15). Cultural support has been denied. His well being is on the line. Time for an Inquiry that gives us some answers Premier.
Άλλη μια μέρα, άλλο ένα έγκλημα πολέμου των Ευρωπαίων, Αμερικανών, Καναδών, Αυστραλών κοκ, που με την ενεργό συνενοχή τους στη γενοκτονία στιγματίζουν μια ολόκληρη γενιά της Δύσης: Από το πρωί, ισραηλινές δυνάμεις σκότωσαν τουλάχιστον 80 στη Γάζα
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...
@codefrenzy.bsky.social great to meet you today - see you again on Thursday (had to run out early).
There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
How absurd are complaints against the super changes?
Consider if someone's super goes up from $3m to $3,250,000.
So they earned $250,000 in a year.
Oh no! Their balance is over $3m. They now have a tax liability.
How much? $2,884.
That is how much income tax someone pays if they earn... $36,300.
They have nuclear weapons just a reminder.
Imagine the western reaction if Iran had bombed a humanitarian aid ship trying to feed starving civilians.
Imagine if Russian forces were caught massacring medical workers in ambulances.
Imagine If China bombed an international humanitarian aid convoy in clearly marked vehicles.
Never trust Dutton #auspol #Australia #politics
On doing the same inadequate shit over and over again until the end of democracy theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
A voice of sanity amidst .. all of *flutters hands helplessly* this...
20*25. This is March.
Here's me. 'Israel is mass murdering journalists and Aussie media loves that shit'
"Labor’s budget has delivered $56 billion in fossil fuel subsidies and $176 billion for wealthy property investors, but failed to deliver the bold reforms needed to support people being smashed by the skyrocketing cost-of-living"
The Aus Greens respond to #budget2025
Charts showing cost of increasing Jobseeker to 90% of age pension base - $3.5bn; raising it to 90% of total age pension - $5.2bn. Cost of super concessions for the richest 10% - $9.9bn + $10.4bn, cost of capital gains discount for the richest 10% - $18.6bn, cost of fuel tax credit for mining companies - $4.8bn
Always remember - budgets are about choices
www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
Everyone deserves a secure home & homelessness is solvable. The Green's plan will offer every single one of the 37,800 people experiencing chronic homelessness across Australia access to a permanent home and wrap-around support services, with no strings attached. #auspol
