Our whistleblower laws are broken. Man of impeccable character leaks confidential documents, contributing towards an inquiry finding Australian military killed 39 afghans. Even if you’re leaking information on the murder of people you can still be prosecuted for whistleblowing.

Pause and remember it is not as bad as they are saying it is and here are some facts tot prove it.

You couldn't make this up. Johnson introduced photo ID as a deliberate attempt to rig the vote, knowing that poorer and younger people were less likely to possess it than the older, more settled Tory base. He promised it wouldn't make voting more difficult. He lied. Now ...

We live in one of the most resource rich countries of the world. Only have the chance to dig it up once and yet we make more of students HECS debts than we see from taxes on resources under all our feet.

The Mazda 3 in the foreground was Australia's top selling car in 2011-12.

The Ford Ranger in the background is currently Australia's top selling car.

Have Australians' vehicle requirements really changed that much in a bit over a decade?

A great bit of insight and vision on how you run a top performing company from the bottom up.

The state of Israel is no longer acting proportionately and responsibly. It continues with impunity to illegally seize lands, killing 1000’s of innocent civilians & waging genocide on the people of Palestine and Gaza. This madness has to stop.

Its challenging to fix our housing supply but like any emergency there are steps and reforms they could take. It just requires real leadership & courage.

Indeed

“It’s definitely a better customer experience'

Full details 👉 theshovel.com.au/2024/05/01/gro…

“Electrification of shipping could never happen”, shipping “hold my drink”.

This is a great thread about post-Brexit border issues - and it is purely factual :-)

Labor Vows to Keep Adding to Defence Budget Until Domestic Violence Crisis Is Solved
theshovel.com.au/2024/04/29/lab…

The expansion of the Synchronous Condenser market is one of underreported stories in energy, primarily because it's about spinning bits of metal hidden in sheds with no exciting planning battles involved. /1

The Tories have changed the rules to make the London mayoral election a two horse race. (First past the post.) Which means it's a choice between a dire Tory or Sadiq, about whom they are peddling desperate lies, and cynically stirring up racial hatred. So it's an easy choice.

Definition of stupidity: Doing the same thing over and over again but expecting a different result.

Read and weep.

Powerful words highlighting how this once great platform has now been corrupted into a platform for nut jobs by its giant man child owner Elon Musk. Well worth a read from a former director of #Twitter .

OPINION: 'Young people whinging about rising HECS debts should have been more prepared and done uni in the 1970s when it was free'

theshovel.com.au/2023/06/02/you…

Any school that can afford to build an aquatic centre like this for $125m shouldn't receive a cent of government funding.