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The richest 10% of Australian households get more money from the capital gains tax discount than the government spends on Jobseeker, the childcare subsidy, government schools or higher education - nearly $4.5bn more than it would cost to include dental in Medicare.
Treasury figures reveal $18 billion capital gains windfall for Australia’s richest 10 per cent
The latest tax expenditure figures released on Friday by the Treasury department show this financial year the richest 10 percent of Australians will receive $18bn worth of tax breaks from the capital ...
thepoint.com.au
December 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM
The richest 10% of Australian households get more money from the capital gains tax discount than the government spends on Jobseeker, the childcare subsidy, government schools or higher education - nearly $4.5bn more than it would cost to include dental in Medicare.
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Large SUVs and utes are 82% more likely to kill children in collisions- 44% more likely to kill adult pedestrians or cyclists. They damage our roads and add to air pollution, harming our health.
Pedestrian fatalities reach 17-year-high. This trend could be why
Fifty-one pedestrians had been killed on the state’s roads this year as of Saturday – the most in any calendar year since 2008.
www.theage.com.au
December 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Large SUVs and utes are 82% more likely to kill children in collisions- 44% more likely to kill adult pedestrians or cyclists. They damage our roads and add to air pollution, harming our health.
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"The invitation to the President of Israel as head of a state responsible for genocidal acts is immoral, cowardly, illegal and wrong." #GazaGenocide #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
‘Australians for Humanity’ demand the invitation to Israel’s President be withdrawn immediately
The Israel President cannot be welcomed in Australia. The government he represents has been found by the International Court of Justice to have breached international law: the Netanyahu regime has com...
johnmenadue.com
December 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
"The invitation to the President of Israel as head of a state responsible for genocidal acts is immoral, cowardly, illegal and wrong." #GazaGenocide #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
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The NACC has defied the odds by going back-to-back 🏆🏆
After another year of doing absolutely nothing, congratulations on retaining Stranger’s Useless Govt Agency Award.
Consistency is key 👍
After another year of doing absolutely nothing, congratulations on retaining Stranger’s Useless Govt Agency Award.
Consistency is key 👍
And the Australian 2024 Useless Government Agency Of The Year award goes to . . . . .
*drum roll*
the National Anti-Corruption Commission.
Yaaay!! Well done @strangerous.bsky.social for judging the #NACC the supreme winner out of a crowded field of incompetent, taxpayer-funded duds.
#pfffft
*drum roll*
the National Anti-Corruption Commission.
Yaaay!! Well done @strangerous.bsky.social for judging the #NACC the supreme winner out of a crowded field of incompetent, taxpayer-funded duds.
#pfffft
December 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM
The NACC has defied the odds by going back-to-back 🏆🏆
After another year of doing absolutely nothing, congratulations on retaining Stranger’s Useless Govt Agency Award.
Consistency is key 👍
After another year of doing absolutely nothing, congratulations on retaining Stranger’s Useless Govt Agency Award.
Consistency is key 👍
Could be wrong, but each decade from the 1920s to the 1990s 'feels' like it has an overarching social theme.
This seems missing from the 2000s and 2010s -- unless it was perhaps 'denial' or even 'denialism'.
The 2020s are obviously 'covid, fascism and genocide'...
This seems missing from the 2000s and 2010s -- unless it was perhaps 'denial' or even 'denialism'.
The 2020s are obviously 'covid, fascism and genocide'...
December 27, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Could be wrong, but each decade from the 1920s to the 1990s 'feels' like it has an overarching social theme.
This seems missing from the 2000s and 2010s -- unless it was perhaps 'denial' or even 'denialism'.
The 2020s are obviously 'covid, fascism and genocide'...
This seems missing from the 2000s and 2010s -- unless it was perhaps 'denial' or even 'denialism'.
The 2020s are obviously 'covid, fascism and genocide'...
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How in the jingle-busting fuck do we live in a world where tens of millions are getting ready to celebrate the birthday of a Palestinian baby they wouldn’t feed, clothe or save from being bombed to smithereens were he alive today?
#NewsCorpse
#NewsCorpse
December 22, 2025 at 3:59 AM
How in the jingle-busting fuck do we live in a world where tens of millions are getting ready to celebrate the birthday of a Palestinian baby they wouldn’t feed, clothe or save from being bombed to smithereens were he alive today?
#NewsCorpse
#NewsCorpse
In 2025 (nearly 2026) there is just no excuse for eating animals.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Do prawns feel pain? Why scientists are urging a rethink of Australia’s favoured festive food
Studies show crustaceans can learn, remember, solve problems and form relationships
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:27 PM
In 2025 (nearly 2026) there is just no excuse for eating animals.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
This seems like wild policy (if being accurately reported) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
China to hike tax on condoms in attempt to boost falling birth rate
From 1 January, contraceptives will be subject to a 13% VAT rate – part of a carrot-and-stick approach by the government to increase births
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:12 AM
This seems like wild policy (if being accurately reported) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Linda Reynolds again restoring her reputation by being bitter to the wrong person. 🤬
#IStandWithBrittany #AusPol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
#IStandWithBrittany #AusPol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Brittany Higgins declared bankrupt by federal court
Former senator Linda Reynolds's bid to have Brittany Higgins declared bankrupt has succeeded in a federal court.
www.abc.net.au
December 12, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Linda Reynolds again restoring her reputation by being bitter to the wrong person. 🤬
#IStandWithBrittany #AusPol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
#IStandWithBrittany #AusPol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Boycott Israel, boycott USA, boycott GERMANY, fuck!
December 8, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Boycott Israel, boycott USA, boycott GERMANY, fuck!
The signal this sends is WILD.
There's no 'centrist' or 'reasonable' position on genocide. For Germany of all places to show solidarity with a genocidal regime really is unconscionable.
www.dw.com/en/germanys-...
There's no 'centrist' or 'reasonable' position on genocide. For Germany of all places to show solidarity with a genocidal regime really is unconscionable.
www.dw.com/en/germanys-...
Germany's Merz in Israel: Solidarity amid Gaza criticism – DW – 12/07/2025
Friedrich Merz's trip to Israel drew intense scrutiny over whether it would send the wrong signal amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza and escalating violence in the West Bank.
www.dw.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:59 AM
The signal this sends is WILD.
There's no 'centrist' or 'reasonable' position on genocide. For Germany of all places to show solidarity with a genocidal regime really is unconscionable.
www.dw.com/en/germanys-...
There's no 'centrist' or 'reasonable' position on genocide. For Germany of all places to show solidarity with a genocidal regime really is unconscionable.
www.dw.com/en/germanys-...
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“Australians lose close to $32 billion a year from gambling” but “Labor's leadership decided it was not worth acting on gambling advertising and upsetting the powerful lobby”.
Pure ALP.
Pure ALP.
Fear rules on gambling in Albanese government
Andrew Wilkie has asked the PM to allow a free vote on banning gambling advertising and it appears many Labor MPs would support it.
www.abc.net.au
December 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
“Australians lose close to $32 billion a year from gambling” but “Labor's leadership decided it was not worth acting on gambling advertising and upsetting the powerful lobby”.
Pure ALP.
Pure ALP.
With emissions from extraction, transport, distribution, combustion and leaking, it is STAGGERING how fossil gas managed to get positioned as 'clean'. 🙄
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
South Australian bus ads misled public by claiming gas is ‘clean and green’, regulator finds
Ads to be removed from Adelaide Metro buses after advertising regulator rules they breach its environmental claims code
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
With emissions from extraction, transport, distribution, combustion and leaking, it is STAGGERING how fossil gas managed to get positioned as 'clean'. 🙄
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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"No nadir low enough" shd be the motto of sadistic Israel.
Israeli settlers uprooted about 850 olive and grape trees owned by Palestinians on Monday. These trees are Palestinian families’ livelihoods.
Israeli settlers are making the West Bank unlivable for Palestinians by depriving them of their income.
Israeli settlers are making the West Bank unlivable for Palestinians by depriving them of their income.
Israeli settlers uproot hundreds of trees belonging to Palestinian in West Bank
Settlers from the Susya settlement bulldoze and destroy large parts of agricultural land southeast of Massafer Yatta
ow.ly
December 5, 2025 at 3:31 AM
"No nadir low enough" shd be the motto of sadistic Israel.
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The internet offered a world of connection and cooperation. What we got was a world of ruthless monopolies and oligarchs.
How the internet became enshittified – and how we might be able to deshittify it
theconversation.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:48 AM
The internet offered a world of connection and cooperation. What we got was a world of ruthless monopolies and oligarchs.
I would pretty much die to live in Gerudo Town tbh. Those stylish INTERIORS!!! Xx
December 3, 2025 at 10:14 AM
I would pretty much die to live in Gerudo Town tbh. Those stylish INTERIORS!!! Xx
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Tim Wilson is a skid mark on humanity
This is really bad!
First - it seems some kind of monitoring and/or database is being kept on community independent volunteers - and then there's the refusal to serve a constituent based on their political views.
This is REALLY bad!!! #auspol
First - it seems some kind of monitoring and/or database is being kept on community independent volunteers - and then there's the refusal to serve a constituent based on their political views.
This is REALLY bad!!! #auspol
December 1, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Tim Wilson is a skid mark on humanity
"The poetry’s lack of predictability was enough to get the AI models to respond to harmful requests they had been trained to avoid – a process know as “jailbreaking”."
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
AI’s safety features can be circumvented with poetry, research finds
Poems containing prompts for harmful content prove effective at duping large language models
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:47 AM
"The poetry’s lack of predictability was enough to get the AI models to respond to harmful requests they had been trained to avoid – a process know as “jailbreaking”."
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
"Next year the plan is to cover the whole island with sterile blowflies.
That will require an overhaul of the breeding facility, including automating some processes, to produce between 40 and 50 million sterile flies a week."
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
That will require an overhaul of the breeding facility, including automating some processes, to produce between 40 and 50 million sterile flies a week."
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Sterile flies take to the sky in Kangaroo Island eradication push
Researchers on Kangaroo Island have been breeding and releasing millions of sterile Australian sheep blowflies in an attempt to eradicate the pest.
www.abc.net.au
November 30, 2025 at 3:13 AM
"Next year the plan is to cover the whole island with sterile blowflies.
That will require an overhaul of the breeding facility, including automating some processes, to produce between 40 and 50 million sterile flies a week."
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
That will require an overhaul of the breeding facility, including automating some processes, to produce between 40 and 50 million sterile flies a week."
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...