“The debate over the capital gains tax discount comes down to a very simple question: who do you think should pay more income tax?” writes Matt Grudnoff, Senior Economist at The Australia Institute.
Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/3OHEXVa
Breaking: Sophie Scamps will boycott QT in parliament today in protest against Isaac Herzog’s visit. Says he should not be in our parliament - “with the entrance being officially lined with Israeli flags” bcoz it “normalises” Israel’s “atrocities” in Gaza. #auspol
So apparently soon I could face up to TWO YEARS in jail for political art that says “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” if someone "takes offence". This is what Crisafulli is proposing in QLD. Acceptable speech is narrowing in real time. And it's fckn terrifying.
What things like the attempted terrorist attack in Perth and Scott's public Islamophobia speak to is the deep social division our governments and media have facilitated by the self-evident hypocrisy in how they've dealt with the past two years of domestic rupture arising from Israel/Gaza.
johnmenadue.com/post/2021/10...
Important read
Meanwhile Canadian PM Carney can read , write and think independently. His speech at Davos will go down in history. Australia must choose to stand up. But I know it won’t
It is so important to keep stressing the fact of One Nation funding and policy direction is not coming from Queensland racist simpletons. It’s far right US money and a far right US agenda
Did you know that there’s a secretive new command of the AFP to protect AUSKUS and US military assets? But more tellingly it has the remit to quash anti-AUKUS protest anywhere. 7ampodcast.com.au/episodes/the...
No. Of course not. That’s not how Australia works. That information must be kept on the quiet
Book recommendation: Tenderfoot by Toni Jordan. Devoured it in a couple of days.
"This is further evidence that the share of Australia’s wealth held by the very rich is increasing.”
Read the full piece on The Point: https://thepoint.com.au/off-the-charts/260112-capital-gains-for-the-rich-outpace-the-national-wages-bill-by-whopping-300-billion
If sport is sugar, the arts are fibre
This from Ben Quilty hit hard
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...?
Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
If it didn’t work they wouldn’t try to ban it
I've heard some recently suggest that protesting is ineffective and potentially a waste of time/resources/efforts.
I think this is a pretty solid rebuttal to that notion. Worth a read.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Made a conscious decision to focus on AI/bigtech in early 2025 and I'm glad I did
It's a systemic attack on both the means of climate action (evidence-based facts, the written / spoken word, visual communication) and the ends (trying to stop fossil fuel use). I think it's starting to sink in, now
Boomers who answered the landline
I think romance is dismissed as not important because women like it
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In Melbourne’s Springvale, one in four residents speaks Vietnamese at home. Another 10 per cent come from China or Cambodia. In Sydney’s Fairfield, one in four residents were born in Vietnam, Cambodia or China. In Sydney’s Five Dock, long after the heyday of immigration from Europe, one in seven residents still speaks Italian at home. In Melbourne’s North Caulfield, 41 per cent of residents are Jews, including hundreds who have lately fled South Africa. Dandenong now has an official Little Indian Cultural Precinct, with 33 Indian businesses. Such colonising will increasingly be our future as we gain a critical mass of born-overseas migrants. Like tends to attract like and these new colonies can then more easily keep their cultures thanks to satellite TV, the internet, and cheap travel.
In Andrew Bolt's infamous 2018 "tidal wave of immigrants column", he specifically singled out Jewish communities as 'part of the problem'
The idea that the far-right, anti-immigration parties and xenophobe media are going to protect the Aus Jewish community is absurd
archive.ph/sDmhO#select...
I’ve just started using”-AI” at the end of all my google searches. The top results are still mostly paid or “sponsored “ 🙃 but it removes the nearly always wrong AI bit
Been editing Ho Chi Minh quotes over pics of Reagan and spreading them in boomer spaces instead of working today. Over a picture of Reagan and the following quote from Ho Chi Minh The capitalists often boast that their constitutions guarantee the rights of the individual, democratic liberties and the interests of all citizens. But in reality, only the bourgeoisie enjoy the rights recorded in these constitutions. The working people do not really enjoy democratic freedoms; they are exploited all their life and have to bear heavy burdens in the service of the exploiting class.
Sharing this because it's funny.
Yes!!!
It's impressive that Big Tech was like: We aren't douchy enough. What if we made asshole intelligence and burned up some of the earth's power and water faster?
Harsh. Stokes is on fire
Once you see their ridiculous performances of far right indignation thru the lens of Gina Reinhardt money it all becomes clear
So we’re getting better? 🤦♀️😫
✍️PETITION: Launch a Parliamentary Inquiry into AUKUS
Australians are increasingly unsure about dangerous AUKUS deal.
…<1/2 of Australians think #AUKUS is in Australia’s best interest or makes us safer. More think US is an unreliable security ally…majority support a parliamentary inquiry into AUKUS.
Me too! Both my mum’s cousins were my aunts (what else can you call them?)
Catherine Connolly has won the Irish presidency in a landslide.
Because you are allergic to truth telling & principled foreign policy, @albomp.bsky.social @senatorwong.bsky.social, I hope hearing a respected leader speak with honesty & integrity causes you both to break out in hives. #GazaGenocide
