@Mon4Kooyong 80%+ of people who smoke are buying cheaper black-market tobacco @Mon4Kooyong - your argument that reducing the excise will increase smoking is invalid. Smoking has actually increased since these stupid tax increases forced people into supporting criminals.
@Coles I'm now 60% in favour of returning to your stores after this decision. Thank you. All you need to do now is stop fleecing us at the Checkouts and deliver REAL Value - Highest profit margins in the developed world should not come at our expense !
Just in: Coles will cut ties with Palantir, the controversial US data giant whose software underpins American deportation raids and battlefield targeting systems. It follows a seven month @GetUp campaign.
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“Four nuclear-capable ICBM missiles fired from US mainland across 6,800 kms of Pacific to the Marshall Islands in the past two years.
“US has conducted more than 80 nuclear-capable inter-continental missile tests over the Pacific Ocean since 2000.” https://t.co/QURJNsdMBP
Can anyone in Australia give me one good reason why Australia would support the US TERRORIST REGIME in an ILLEGAL WAR OF AGGRESSION AGAINST CHINA? I must be totally naive because I genuinely haven't got a clue why we would go to war with our biggest trading partner.
The government wants to align Ireland with an EU Defence Union and Nato.
They want Irish young people to participate in their wars, wars, that we will have no say over.
More Mainstream Media nonsense promoting Western Imperialism. Why aren't the Media asking Politicians why they are soft on the US and Israel, the two most Violent and Destructive States on the Planet..?
@paddymacc1 What the fuck can any European country have that Russia wants? Everywhere you go it’s a shadow or a shell of what it was 20 years ago. No utilities, knackered infrastructure, no production or manufacturing, agriculture’s fucked. Waken up people.
My whole fucking life I'm listening to this hysterical bollocks: "The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming". You know who's not coming because they're already here? The Americans. Waltzing around Shannon airport like they own it; transporting weapons to the entity to continue the mass murder in the Levant.
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Alan Kohler:
In other words, the evidence suggests that Australia's businesses have been milking the economy.
They have used the collapse of union power to suppress wages, while using their own oligopoly power to increase prices...
The US Defense Dept is ordering Australian government to control its universities.
The chain of command:
1. Pentagon instruction to 30 US universities to scrutinise their Chinese research partners.
2. Pentagon adds Shandong University to its list of foreign institutions deemed to pose national security threats.
3. Penny Wong complies with the US directive, and issues her directive to ANU to drop Shandong University benign research project.
The new normal.
"The Hanover Institute has no listed scholars, no bylines, not a single named author. In just over a week it published over 100 reports on Israel, Palestine, and antisemitism, engineered to manipulate AI search and chatbot responses."
- via @Cybernews