Bruce Haigh, who died on April 7, was a diplomat, an adventurer, an artist and writer, a humanist, a romantic and a man with a deep love of his country, who mourned its fading ideals and values. #tribute #BruceHaigh #auspol johnmenadue.com/bruce-haigh-a-…

⁦Lily D'Ambrosio MP⁩ nails it! Making hydrogen from coal is a nonsense! theguardian.com/australia-news…

This Anzac Day, beware politicians glossing over war’s evils to justify further military adventurism theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Santos are selling their filthy toxic industry to the gullible at the Gunnedah Agricultural Show this weekend, trying to flog the expansion of the #narrabrigas project into the #liverpoolplains & the #hunter #gas #pipeline across our farms. Farmers are preparing for the battle.

When the political tide turns, it can be quick and brutal. It happened today in Hobart. Anthony Albanese now associated with circuses and right wing shock jocks. Budget will confirm it. #TaxCuts Homelessness and poverty relegated to peripheral issue. He is now scrambling. #auspol

This is the true reality of the first year of the Albanese government, not the puff pieces you may have read! themonthly.com.au/the-politics/r…

Australia’s Crackdown on Climate Activists ⁦Sophie McNeill⁩ ⁦Human Rights Watch⁩ “Peaceful protesters…up to two years in prison. Legislation rammed through parliament … “…happening right now in Australia.” Political class captured by gas industry. thediplomat.com/2023/05/austra…

$180 million and five years later the Tax Office and the Federal Police are dragged screaming to an investigation of PwC! This story would have been buried forever if not for an inquisitive journalist. Who’s protecting PwC?

Fossil fuel sponsorships in sports should go the way of tobacco thenewdaily.com.au/life/science/e…

Many echoes of the collapse of the Liberal Party in OZ as neoliberal ideology is taken to its extremes. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Labor is continuing with a’gas led’ development themonthly.com.au/the-politics/r…

I moved a motion to debate the Govt giving $1.5B of taxpayer money to Middle Arm. Middle Arm will unlock Beetaloo for fracking + enable petrochemical production & gas exports. Terrible health risks for people in Darwin & ⬆️ emissions (Beetaloo = 3177 years of domestic gas use).

Until we break the circle of corruption where big business like PwC donates cash to the major parties and invariably gets huge contracts and access to decision making processes, our country will be run according to the priorities of the rich and powerful.

NSW push to stop climate protesters livestreaming on Facebook labelled ‘profoundly anti-democratic’. theguardian.com/australia-news…

Wildlife photographer arrested in Tasmanian forest where swift parrot habitat is being logged theguardian.com/environment/20…

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Pascoe nails it on the housing crisis! thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2023/0…

Front page expose from The Age and 60 Minutes, on an investigation into corruption allegations around Australia’s offshore detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island. But from the beginning of the so-called Pacific Solution, Australian officials knew what was happening. THREAD

Massive expansion of oil and gas production threatens to bust Paris Agreement goals and completely undermine efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C. The Australian government is making decisions that support development of new, very carbon intensive gas fields theguardian.com/environment/20…