BREAKING: The Albanese Government will spend an emergency $2bn on social housing in coming weeks to get around stubborn housing roadblocks by the Greens, who the PM says are “happy to promise the world, while organising a petition against every new apartment building”. #auspol
Awful scenes in #Senate raise question of whether Australia actually needs Senate that elects Senators by undemocratic means that produce so many duds. Was created in 1901 solely to enable small States to stop Victoria & NSW from dominating #Parliament. Must be totally reformed.
I hate the phrase ‘ weaponisation of rape’ being directed at women when men have used both rape and the threat of rape as actual weapons since the beginning of time.
There is no cost-of-living crisis for bosses.
This is why we urgently need to close the loopholes that Big Business uses to drive down wages and conditions for workers: https://t.co/q6Xa8PsXaz
It's been revealed the Liberal Party room plotted and “war gamed” the current onslaught against Katy Gallagher. It comes as partisan media mouthpieces and Liberal MPs officially retreat from the sordid campaign, following damning transcripts released by Brittany Higgins. #auspol
Any of the major media outlets which have been caught dishonestly twisting Brittany Higgins' story this week covering the explosive transcripts she released last night which have been viewed over half a million times? #auspol
The very worst thing about the Minerals Council funded employer ads opposing Labor’s Same Job Same Pay laws isn’t that they are a lie, it’s that they make Australian workers out to be lazy and stupid. They are just disgraceful
There are concerns News Corp is colluding with faceless Liberal figures in its choreographed assault on Brittany Higgins — a powerful “wakeup call” to Canberra that media corruption and political corruption not only overlap, but thrive when left unchecked. #auspol
Working people are already doing everything they can to minimise spending, and they are running out of options. It's time workers received a fair share of the value they create.
The vilification of Brittany Higgins, Lisa Wilkinson and Katy Gallagher by the RW media wouldn't have anything to do with wanting to intimidate or silence witnesses at a forthcoming trial in Toowoomba, would it? 🤔😠 #BruceLehrmann#GutterJournalism
Media piling on Brittany Higgins and everyone who stood up for her and supported her, particularly the Australian, is the sickest, morally reprehensible thing I’ve seen in a long time. A new low for an already gutter-dwelling industry.
As someone who studies the media's influence on democracy, I find it completely unacceptable that Murdoch and some Nine journos are openly campaigning against Brittany Higgins and politicising her confidential settlement with the govt. A new low in a broken media institution.
Half-year profits: Commonwealth Bank - $5.15 billion, Coles - $616 million, Ampol over $440 million, and Qantas $1.4 billion.
But wages are 5.4% lower in real terms today than they were before the pandemic hit.
We need to end the profit-price spiral.