Bob

X is fucked, so I'm off to blue skies. @stankobob.bsky.social

[stranger @strangerous10]

Prominent economist Saul Eslake demolishes LNP’s ‘aspiration’ myth saying their 1999 CGT discount failed to build a nation of entrepreneurs & shareholders, in fact, those rates only fell since 1999, while “disproportionately favouring richer & older Australians”💥 #auspol

[Phillip Riley @philmupp1]

One Nation supporters must be so pleased that dear leader has criticized the Fair Work Australia decision to grant a minimum wage increase to hard working Australians because big business will suffer. WTF will they learn that she works for Gina not them?

[Politic@l Spinner. @lesstenny]

Yes I've noticed it and not surprised 🙄 well done Albo

[Kos Samaras @KosSamaras]

Australian politics is no longer a contest between two parties, and our polls can no longer be read as though it is. The addiction to interpreting polls via a two party system lens has created or should I say, triggered, a new generation of anti intellectuals, otherwise known as poll deniers.

It has now been widely reported across numerous polls, including our own RedBridge Accent poll published in the Australian Financial Review that One Nation leads on the primary vote. That does not mean Pauline Hanson can become PM.

Our country is transitioning into a multi party system and hence, the conventional ways of reading polls can be miss-leading and at times, lacking nuance. And nuance is the key word here because it matters a lot more in 2026.

In a multi party landscape, a national primary vote and a two party preferred figure tells you almost nothing about where seats fall. This is precisely what our recent MRP was designed to illuminate…..what the electorate actually looks like once you stop forcing it into a two horse race, with only two riders.

This is how to read polls.

Firstly, polls measure electoral sentiment now, today, this week. They are not a crystal ball, revealing an electoral result in 2028.

One Nation is dominating the regions. Its support concentrates among older, trades-qualified communities, people who built their working lives around skilled manual labour and critically among those now experiencing financial stress. It also polls strongly across a band of peri-urban suburbs, such as Camden, Melton, Ipswich, where that financial pressure is equally acute: mortgage-belt households, long commutes, the sense that the cost of simply breaking even at the end of the week, does require the shopping trolley to be at times, half full.

Labor, by contrast, holds up well in most urban settings, particularly in electorates with larger numbers of younger voters and more diverse communities. The picture here is almost a demographic mirror image: where One Nation draws support from older, financially squeezed, less diverse communities, Labor’s electoral coalition runs through the younger, the more educated, and the more multicultural parts of the country. None of this rules out some of those voters backing One Nation, but the numbers there are far smaller, and the broader trend matters here.

The real big insight this week is the huge existential problem facing the Coalition. Post Budget, they continue to lose support, across all published polls. Having already surrendered significant ground in a number of high-wealth electorates to the Teals, the kind of blue-ribbon seats that were once safe, it has suffered even steeper attrition across its regional base, where One Nation is now eating directly into its vote. It is being pulled apart from every direction at once: bled at the top by voters who have drifted to the centre, and hollowed out at the bottom by voters defecting to its right. And it is compounding the damage itself, pushing diverse communities further away with an anti-immigration narrative, closing the door firmly shut from diverse Australia. The Coalition cannot survive by alienating urban Australia while simultaneously losing vast stretches of regional Australia.

[Stephen Koukoulas @TheKouk]

On yet another economic indicator, the unemployment rate, Australia is a stand out with its success

[Michael @MSpringAuthor17]

Dear RWNJs,

Labor Governments have given us: 1.Medicare
2. PBS
3. Racial Discrimination Act
4. Work from home
5. Right to switch off
6. NDIS
7. New trading partners
8. A stronger economy
9. The United Nations
10. Equal opportunity
11. Compulsory superannuation
12. A seat at the G20
13. Fair Work Act
14. Floating the dollar
15. More renewable energy
16. A progressive & fair tax system
17. A revered education system
18. Two World’s Best Treasurers
19. A safe democracy
20. A vibrant arts community

What have you RWNJs provided? A scorching case of herpes to each other.

[Dr Monique Ryan MP @Mon4Kooyong]

The House of Representatives is debating and dividing on important changes to the NDIS. Not a single member of the Coalition has bothered to attend.

[ShiannonCorcoran💉x4 @shiannonc.bsky.social @ShiannonC]

For a democratic country, we have one of the most dishonest, distorted, partisan and pathetic media assembly in the world.

The rot set in decades ago and has been hastened for the most part by one malicious and malignant entity - who is intent on destroying democratic institutions in any country he occupies for the purposes of power and control.

That’s not a misinterpretation - Murdoch once said the reason he did what he did was for the purpose of power and control.

The destruction of democracy is a Murdoch strategy - because progressive and democratic governments and policies don’t make the rich richer, they don’t concentrate power, wealth and control to the 1 percenters and they don’t discourage equality, solidarity and justice for the many.

“In most countries reporters would grasp the opportunity to boost national confidence by enthusiastically celebrating such excellent outcomes” such as the Albanese Labor government has achieved…

Australia’s finances are the envy of the world. “It is the only nation on the planet with jobless and inflation rates below 4.7%”.

The Labor government have introduced housing reform that has been a long time coming - and for the most part has been received economically as a move in the right direction that will have positive longterm effects for increased home ownership in this country.

Yet, to listen to the cacophony of whiny pearl-clutching catastrophising of a largely partisan media led by vested interests - you would think that we are entering dark times indeed.

While it may be slightly grey hued times for the wealthy, the majority of enlightened and educated people in this country don’t see it as a negative.

The media will tell you that living standards are declining. They aren’t. They are at an all-time high.

They will tell you that ‘wages are not keeping up with costs’. They are. Since 2023 total wages are up by 15.1%.

They also say that Australia is a high-taxing country’. Not true. Australia’s highest tax rate is 45% - like the UK, Germany, Italy and South Korea. The Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Iceland, Sweden, Belgium, Finland and Israel are higher. Austria, France, Japan and Denmark are above 55%. ‘Australia’s total tax take is now among the world’s lowest’

Another media lie: “Labor keeps increasing taxes” Wrong. “In both 2025 and 2026, Australia ranked 26th out of the 31 on high tax rates. Only Ireland, Japan, South Korea, Switzerland and the USA were lower. That is better than rankings under the hapless Coalition”

The media say that Labor is bad for business. This again is untrue. “businesses, large, small and middle-sized, employ more people, expand more rapidly and earn more profits under Labor. In March 2025, total gross operating profits in all sectors except mining rose 3.7% to a record $316.2 billion”

The media constantly foghorn that Labor spend more than the coalition. Once again, this is orchestrated misinformation. “This month’s Budget Paper No.1 shows spending to GDP since 1970. Former PM Gough Whitlam spent the lowest of all PMs, averaging just 19.6% of GDP. Anthony Albanese averages 25.2%, which is lower than Tony Abbott, Kevin Rudd, Bob Hawke and Paul Keating. The highest spending by far was Scott Morrison, who averaged 27.5%”

Another RW media lie pertaining to Labor is that “Business investment is declining”. This is absolute nonsense. “Apart from brief periods of severe global downturns, business investment since 1992 has increased under all governments — except those of Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison. It is steadily expanding again under Albanese”

(Source: Independent Australia)

https://t.co/SrLIdhZUQV

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

@StuddertNatalie @AshPolitik Nah, far more serious than that

If people don't start taking the threat of One Nation seriously - and quickly - they will form government as a coalition before you know it

One Nation are a major threat to Australia and Australian politics

[Rob 101 💙 @RobToThheOz]

@realRick_AUS Of course you post this. You have sand for brain cells. There is no cgt tax changes to super. People like Hughsey can pay a bit more tax. They did pretty well with all the handouts under the old system. Selfish prick.

[Omix @omair_rox]

@Heidi__Matthews @odelure @GazaFFlotilla @CanadaBoatGaza @gbsumudflotilla Trust me it takes real bravery to sail into uncertainty for humanity, solidarity and to raise awareness for civilians suffering in War.

Yet compared to what many Palestinians endure in Israeli prisons, their treatment still appears far more humane and privileged.

[Phillip Riley @philmupp1]

#ABC730
The harrowing story from a family member of an Aust on an Israeli prison ship being beaten by the IDF proves conclusively that the Israelis under Netanyahu's rule are absolute thugs.@AlboMP apart from inviting the Israeli Ambassador in for a friendly chat what'll you do?

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

If a Palestinian person had harmed an Israeli anywhere Australia’s media would be screaming blue bloody murder from the rooftops for days ATM … but an Israeli GOVERNMENT MINISTER joking while harming actual Australians live on camera has been addressed just briefly and ONCE on @ABCaustralia in the entire past hour.

The media are not our friends.

In fact, they are cunts.

#NewsCorpse

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Presidente Meloni,
bene condannare Ben Gvir per l’umiliazione dei membri della Flotilla (un trattamento di lusso rispetto a quanto inferto ai palestinesi nelle carceri israeliane).
Ma le parole non bastano: l’Italia smetta di opporsi alla sospensione dell’Accordo UE-Israele.

[Giorgia Meloni @GiorgiaMeloni]

Le immagini del ministro israeliano Ben Gvir sono inaccettabili. È inammissibile che questi manifestanti, fra cui molti cittadini italiani, vengano sottoposti a questo trattamento lesivo della dignità della persona.
Il Governo italiano sta immediatamente compiendo, ai più alti livelli istituzionali, tutti i passi necessari per ottenere la liberazione immediata dei cittadini italiani coinvolti.
L’Italia pretende inoltre le scuse per il trattamento riservato a questi manifestanti e per il totale disprezzo dimostrato nei confronti delle esplicite richieste del Governo italiano.
Per questi motivi, il Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale convocherà immediatamente l’ambasciatore israeliano per chiedere chiarimenti formali su quanto accaduto.

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

Appalling footage of Israel's Minister Ben-Gvir attacking human rights activists including Australian citizens. Penny Wong has summoned the Israeli Ambassador but will she tell him she's concerned or if there are going to be real consequences like ending the two way arms trade.

[Politic@l Spinner. @lesstenny]

Bloody Howard,just as we thought

[💧Sandi Keane @Jarrapin]

Why is News Corp attacking tax reform? Because it’s actually a real estate company via @crikey_news https://t.co/g3B11oFpe8

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

They start a war with Iran, can't win it and then tell everyone "Europe needs the Strait of Hormuz more than we do. Let them board a ship. This is their war, not ours."
What a bunch of fucking idiotic losers.
THIS IS THE USA'S WAR.