Sukkar was an ineffective housing minister in the Morrison government and did nothing to support Australians in mortgage and rental stress. He has a hide to criticise Labor when Howard’s CGT concessions lit a fire under house prices. #Q&A

The Taliban regime in Afghanistan should be subject to at least the same boycotts and international sanctions as apartheid South Africa once was.

"Native forest logging has cost Tasmanians $1.5 billion. "It's a loss-making industry." - Dr Dr Sophie Scamps MP MP, Independent Member for Mackellar #auspol

SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, affects the lungs, heart, brain, kidneys, and blood vessels. It can also trigger complications like Kawasaki disease (KD) in children. Researchers continue studying the virus's diverse impacts on the body. financialexpress.com/life/kawasaki-…

"Afghan women are right to feel as if the west has abandoned them, and is effectively ignoring their brutal oppression...The UN special rapporteur has recommended that the UN codify the crime against humanity of “gender apartheid” in international law." theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

With unflinching accuracy, Niki Savva unmasks Australia's media game: "The Murdoch empire continues its mission to emasculate the ABC, at times ably assisted by the ABC," which "wilts" under pressure from politicians. The attacks on Laura Tingle. Endless "Dutton says". #auspol

There’s much propaganda being pumped out, claiming minority government would be terrible. Rubbish. Politics should be about the public interest, not dictated by powerful corporations. A govt that had to listen to more voices, not just the big end of town, would be better. #auspol

Wow. The once-credible National Farmers' Federation is trying to gag farmers over pesticide links with Parkinson's. Staggering. abc.net.au/news/2024-09-1…

11 months into Israel's onslaught in #Gaza, the Australian government continues to obfuscate about its deep complicity in the kind of defence equipment being used by Israel, denying what we know is true. This kind of gaslighting convinces nobody. And more importantly, there's no

Bernard Keane Tony Koch National Farmers' Federation The manner in which the NFF have fallen in behind the live animal trade shows clearly how they are motivated by money more than their concerns for animal welfare or environmental management.

Isn’t it strange that the rest of us, who pay 95% of Australian government revenue don’t feel the need to bang on endlessly like the mining industry about how much revenue we pay.

Over the course of my grandfather's lifetime, he gifted and "loaned" Donald $413 million. And Donald still declared bankruptcy 6 times. He failed so badly that the banks needed to put him on a $425,000-a-month allowance.

Severe illness odds higher in COVID-19 vs other illnesses. "The study compared symptom severity, patterns, and durations between COVID and non-COVID respiratory episodes. COVID cases had 7 times greater odds of severe illness than non-COVID-19 controls" archive.md/MAhdC

We tax our gas industry so weakly, that beer is a bigger revenue-raiser than the PRRT. Add your name: theaus.in/increasePRRT

This is some speech - without a teleprompter - from someone totally in command of facts, morality and emotion. Winner. #DebateWatch

The two biggest threats to the future health of Australians and other western countries are normalisation and denial. Governments are using normalisation and denial to justify abrogating their responsibilities to protect population health

Instead of supporting my amendments to strengthen the Independent Parliamentary Standards Commission the Govt & Opp chose to weaken oversight of MPs’ behaviour. The public must have confidence poor behaviour in Parl is dealt with by an independent, expert body. #auspol #politas

Both houses of parliament have now endorsed Codes of Conduct for MP behaviour, but without an independent body to investigate breaches, those Codes have been unenforceable. I'm pleased there will now finally be a process - the #IPSC - to hold poorly behaved MPs accountable.

Most of the gas industry in Western Australia pays no royalties. While iron ore royalties are expected to be $6 billion in 2023-24. Why does the gas industry get special treatment? Elinor Johnston-Leek #auspol

Imagine if we had chosen not to ban tobacco advertising because some health experts also wanted a ban on tobacco… The idea that the merits of a specific idea are diminished because you don’t like the motivations of the proponents is peak identity politics #auspol