“Lately: a self-portrait” is in this winter issue.

It’s about community, writing influences and Palestine!

Thank you to State Library of NSW for including this in the Openbook Magazine & the amazing photographer Joy M. Lai for the accompanying photo in Parramatta Square

David Marler Where was Dutton when the Coalition Govt was implementing the policies that created the boom in NOM? As with the biggest labour trafficking scam in OZ history, he was missing in action.

Why do so many journalists tell lies? Fact is that two new planes for RAAF VIP Fleet were ordered by #Scomo in 2021. Ben Fordham Live is not on record as having criticised him then. There is no secrecy about their use. Only secret is why Fordham blames Anthony Albanese.

I just signed a petition: Stop penalising people on Jobseeker payments during heatwaves.

Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop…

'The only democracy...'

A response from Socialist Alliance - Parnell Palme McGuinness wrote not just about her RW opinions but she went further & made a factually wrong statement about those she sees as a threat. The Sydney Morning Herald should publish a correction. Her intent was nasty & deliberately intended to mislead readers

The Victorian Government's Ministerial diaries were just published.

It's crazy the Federal Government doesn't do the same, as called for in my #CleanUpPoliticsAct .

We deserve to know who our Ministers meet with and why.

Time to open up the diaries.

theage.com.au/national/victo…

Bob Noto Peter Louwe I’m the author of two books on Trump. I warned about the severe threat of him in 2015 while most everyone treated him like entertainment. I know every crime that monster has done.

Biden is abetting a genocide. It is one of the worst things a person can do. I have no doubt Trump

7. The Duttongina Wedding

Dutton was whinging about foreign students creating a housing crisis & one Sydney uni producing a profit of $1.4 million (?) last financial year.

Who deregulated universities? Who introduced higher fees for certain courses? Who turned universities into profit centres?

The Greens have killed Labor’s gas fast-track bill. 

Santos, Labor & the Liberals wanted to bypass environmental protections and First Nations voices to approve more gas in a climate crisis.

But together we fought back. 

And today we’ve won.

I cannot get my head around the Budget finding only $111 million a year for additional mental health services while we’re still happy to give the fossil fuel industries $14.5 billion a year in subsidies.

What justice is it that a whistleblower is sentenced to prison while war crimes go unpunished?

PwC stole govt docs for private profit and is back consulting. David McBride stole docs in the public interest
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/whistleblower-…

In Guardian Australia, Peter Greste and I on the democratic implications of David McBride being imprisoned for almost 6 years theguardian.com/media/commenti…

Australia is one of the richest countries in the world but our budget choices make us poorer. We still collect more from HECS than from the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax. We still spend more on diesel fuel subsidies than renewables
#budget #auspol #climate
abc.net.au/news/2024-03-0…

#Shakespeare 's 'Henry V' isn't just about stirring speeches. Professor Anne-Marie Walkowicz of Central State University delves into the play's exploration of just #wartradition and class conflict in #Elizabethan England.

DOI: bit.ly/3vGcvcV

bit.ly/3VIjaxS

.⁦⁦Alan Kohler⁩ calls out Albanese govt Future Gas Strategy

“the dominant purpose […] is exports, but this is not a very important export industry.

“…employs 20,000 people – one-sixth as many as Coles – and pays little in taxes and royalties.” thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2024/0…

Sudan's murderous Rapid Support Forces are using fire as a weapon of war: '72 villages and settlements were either destroyed or damaged by fires last month, bringing the total number of settlements hit by fire in Sudan to 201 since the conflict began.'
apnews.com/article/sudan-…

UNRWA says that 'most people in Gaza have been forcibly displaced on average once a month.' The World Food Program says 'only one bakery in Rafah remains functional, and no aid has entered from the south in three days.' washingtonpost.com/world/2024/05/…

MPs $64,000 question – Do they Save Koalas or save the logging trucks?
Logging operations will go ahead in known Koala habitat within Kiwarrak State Forest, all for a mere $63,180

#NSWpol #auspol #Kirrawak #Stand4FORESTS
1earthmedia.com/mps-64000-ques…