Anna

All things interconnect, and all things matter

[Australia Institute @TheAusInstitute]

Australia Institute research shows voters across the political spectrum overwhelmingly support a 25% tax on gas exports.

Yet the Australian Parliament has failed to act.

✍️ Join the call for a national plebiscite to introduce a 25% gas export tax!
https://t.co/WpUqbp10vI

[Reuters @Reuters]

As protests in Albania continue to grow, Edward McAllister, Reuters Bureau Chief for Greece and the Balkans, explains how the demonstrations over a planned luxury resort have grown into general political discontent with Prime Minister Edi Rama

[Jane Caro @JaneCaro]

Yet Joyce & Pauline (great title for a sitcom) keep telling me climate change is a hoax! https://t.co/J7qz3WM3CO

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

A hell of a lot of travel and "presentations" and conferences where they tell others about their job, the one they're not doing because they're all too busy travelling

Oh and lots of new office refurbishments, car space rentals, legal advice from outside. For example, the Robodebt debacle cost Australians almost $2 million to have re-examined and then Brereton charged us $220K for his legal fees to cover himself for investigations into his conduct

One conviction, zero public hearings

[Jane Caro @JaneCaro]

What part of religious private schools do people not get? They are all about segregation, exclusion, hierarchy and control.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

When you have a bad day at work but you don't smoke.

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

🚨 Antarctica’s west coast missing an area of sea ice the size of France as temperatures peak 20C above average
https://t.co/EZ5fTCCpuk

[Jane Caro @JaneCaro]

This is so sad and so accurate.

[CNN @CNN]

In the North Atlantic Ocean, south of Greenland and Iceland, a large patch of water is doing something very strange. While the rest of the ocean heats up, it's been getting colder. A new study says it has the answer to this mystery — and it's an ominous sign the world is hurtling toward one of the most alarming climate tipping points. https://t.co/3IcVwmYXBy

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

The system is working exactly as it was designed.

▪️Adani’s $400 million royalty liability forgiven after a $600,000 donation.
▪️The gas industry paying less tax than beer drinkers.
▪️900 days of gambling reform delay with secret industry meetings running in parallel.
▪️The think tank that produced the Shadow Treasurer funded by the companies he now shadows.
▪️The party that wrote Australia’s donation disclosure laws writing itself out of them.
▪️A housing policy blaming immigrants for a crisis created by a 1999 tax discount.
▪️A leader who stepped off a billionaire’s jet to demand gas returns – then voted against the only mechanism that would deliver them.
▪️A political class that spent $22 billion on buybacks, while telling you to work harder.

👉 You want straight talking? Here it is. No jet required.: https://t.co/rOfK1aT89Y

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

My latest article in The Shot

After spending obscene amounts of taxpayer's money on luxury travel, office refurbishments and airfares from their homes to their Canberra office, I examine the high price Australians have paid so far for an impotent #NACC

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https://t.co/BKPplkv0fZ

[Cheryl Kernot @cheryl_kernot]

Israel’s Dep Foreign Minister bemoans the fact that some Israeli children had to spend the night in shelters. Wilfully oblivious to the 2 years of suffering of Palestinian children- highest number of child amputees,only tents to shelter in. Spare us the hypocrisy.#abc730

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Australia has executed its largest cockroach bust in history.

Authorities seized more than 100,000 live cockroaches from a commercial breeder in New South Wales, in what officials are calling the country’s biggest-ever confiscation of exotic invertebrates.

The insects were valued at approximately 200,000 Australian dollars (roughly $130,000 USD). The collection included Madagascar hissing cockroaches, one of the largest species on Earth, capable of reaching 3 inches (7.6 cm) in length and famous for the loud hissing sound they produce by forcing air through specialized breathing pores.

Officials also confiscated thousands of dubia cockroaches, another sizable species widely used as food for captive reptiles.

Both species are strictly prohibited from import, breeding, sale, or possession in Australia. The ban aims to safeguard the country’s unique biodiversity and prevent invasive species from spreading diseases or outcompeting native wildlife.

Australia is already home to hundreds of native cockroach species that play vital roles in local ecosystems. Introducing foreign varieties could pose serious, poorly understood environmental risks.

Investigators believe many of the seized insects were intended for the exotic pet trade or as high-nutrition feed for reptiles. No charges have been filed against the breeder so far, though authorities have warned that violations of biosecurity laws carry heavy penalties.

The confiscated cockroaches will be humanely euthanized.

The operation highlights Australia’s renowned reputation for some of the world’s strictest biosecurity regulations, which are designed to block invasive animals, plants, insects, and diseases from entering the country.

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

My piece in the @GuardianAus today arguing govts can't afford to repeat the mistakes they made with the gas industry.

With huge investment in data centres - why aren't we asking what this is all for and how Australians are going to benefit from it?

If we do want data centres and multinational tech giants are going to use Australian land, Australian energy, Australian water & Australian workers to build the infrastructure that powers the AI revolution, then Australians deserve a fair return.

That's the lesson we failed to learn with gas. We shouldn't wait another generation to learn it again.
https://t.co/HJvwk474L9

[Cheryl Kernot @cheryl_kernot]

@rationalbitch @IIreckon

[Oh Dear! @rationalbitch @rationalbitch]

Next question...How much did it cost the country when these criminals cancelled the french contract..And why did they go with the USA #Morrison #Dutton #Aukus

[💧Michael West @MichaelWestBiz]

Human rights abuses next door as Prabowo militarism, censorship rise. Duncan Graham reports from Indonesia
#auspol
https://t.co/ccevIcETJR

[Euractiv @Euractiv]

Brussels bureaucrats get ready for the carbon pricing battle of their lives https://t.co/SjWgsFgoOf

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

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[Rex Patrick @MrRexPatrick]

Meanwhile, here’s a report card on the performance of the UK shipbuilding industry our Defence Dept ‘geniuses’ chose to partner with to design our SSN #AUKUS subs 🤦‍♂️. It would be hard to make this stuff up! #auspol