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"The security boys just go wild for it." @emmashortis.bsky.social on the 'Thucydides trap' & false narratives about war being inevitable. "What some blokes thought about war several millennia ago is not really relevant to our significantly changed circumstances." 🎧 theaus.in/4di7GcT
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A 25% tax on gas exports wouldn't just raise $17 billion a year to fund essential services. It would mean more Australian gas sold to Australians! @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
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The budget brought big changes to how wealth is taxed in Australia! Trusts will now pay a minimum 30% tax rate, which will raise around $4.4 billion a year, and reduce inequality. @grogsgamut.bsky.social @mattgrudnoff.bsky.social #auspol #Budget2026
“A gas export tax would raise $17 billion a year ✅ “The only way to avoid paying a gas export tax would be to sell it to Australians ✅ “So you don’t need a [gas] reservation policy if you’ve got a gas export tax in place.” ✍ Sign to support a 25% gas export tax ➡️ https://theaus.in/4d8tAiH
Angus Taylor''s plan to bar migrants from accessing welfare until they become citizens ignores the fact that the vast majority of those people already face up to decades-long waits to access welfare. "It's just another bomb in the culture war." @amyremeikis.bsky.social #auspol
"The Australian government doesn't like to be confronted with the fact that we're still opening new gas projects while telling everyone we're transitioning away from fossil fuels." @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
The US & Australian governments insist that the AUKUS submarine deal is "full steam ahead". But there appears to be a big gap between that political rhetoric & the reality, says Guardian journalist Ben Doherty. "The US is getting slower at building submarines, not faster." 🎧 theaus.in/43vlCKI
Australians lose $32 billion to gambling every year. "We are the biggest losers in the world per capita when it comes to gambling," says Martin Thomas, CEO of the Alliance for Gambling Reform. "It's reshaping a whole generation." 🎧 bit.ly/4nXsbPW @ebonybennett.bsky.social #auspol
$1 billion taxpayer dollars for Trump's ballroom. The Epstein files. Attacks on voting rights and civil liberties. Judiciary Republicans have ignored it all, and instead held a hearing to peddle Islamophobic conspiracy theories. Shame.
13 Americans killed in action. Hundreds wounded. Thousands of civilians dead. The regime in Tehran? Still intact. @ossoff.senate.gov on Trump’s war in Iran: “A huge self-inflicted wound.”
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