The PBS is a national treasure.

Australia Institute research shows the prices Australians would pay if Trump had his way and dismantled our Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.🤯
#auspol

The Australian Government makes more money from HECS repayments than it does from the PRRT.

‘Norway taxes its fossil fuel industry and gives their kids free higher education… we subsidise our fossil fuel industry and we charge our kids a fortune to go to uni.’

@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

Attacking health infrastructure, killing journalists, starving children - how many more flagrant breaches of international law will governments tolerate before sanctioning PM Netanyahu and stopping trade with Israel?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

10 years after gas exports from Queensland began, all of the gas companies involved, bar one, have not paid a cent in company tax.

This is despite them selling $125 billion worth of LNG out of Queensland, and reporting $330 billion in total Australian revenue. #auspol

The Fair Work Commission has recommended significant pay rises for 175,000 low-paid workers, many of them women, to improve the gender pay gap, but employer groups want to make workers wait 6 years. We can't continue to undervalue highly feminised industries - these workers deserve pay rises now.

"Our governments are letting a handful of giant multinational oil and gas companies drain Australia of gas."

"There's only one way to keep Australian gas for Australians, and that is to cut gas exports. "

- Principal Advisor Mark Ogge
@markogge.bsky.social #auspol

To address supermarket price gouging, we suggest:

1. Powers to break-up supermarkets in regions where their market power is clearly harmful
2. Tighter merger & acquisition laws
3. More transparency on prices & profits
4. Tax excessive profits
5. Stronger minimum wage for supermarket workers

Read:

"Coles & Woolies are among the most profitable supermarkets in the world, and the only thing crazier than them price gouging their way through a cost of living crisis, is their excuses for it."

– @richarddenniss.bsky.social, way back in February last year.

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🇦🇺ns should be able to compare costs when they need surgery, so they can find the best price - and so they can see what their insurers will actually cover compared to others.

Good news that Mark Butler will overhaul the Medical Cost Finder website.

www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/polit...

Australian Retailers are mounting an attack on workers entitlements at the Fair Work Commission. If you value your penalty rate, holiday pay, overtime and meal breaks then collective action is the best way to protect your rights at work.

Frank Wilhoit seems very topical today: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

Labor talk a big game on protecting Nature but consistently end up bowing to vested interests. From supporting native forest logging that costs taxpayers $$ to backing salmon farming that is sending the Maugean skate to extinction.

It's a gutless approach.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Chamber of Commerce opposes criminal prosecution of individuals who undertake intentional wage theft. Unbelievable. For some, it’s their business model and it must stop. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

Another week, another transcript of the Kyle and Jackie O show, witches.

We know these are hard to read but please do, if you can.

This is a thread and it’s the first of 5 posts in the thread.

#VileKyle

As the last Parliamentary sitting week of the year begins, it is still legal to lie in a political ad at a federal level.

The ACT and SA have both shown it can be done.

Add your name to the call for truth in political advertising laws before the next election: https://theaus.in/TIPApetition