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Great to see some proper Aussie vernacular user even in Parliament.
"If you ask the average punter out there whether the Future Fund needed to send someone … to go and check out some hotels, they’d probably say yeah, nah,” Pocock said."
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"If you ask the average punter out there whether the Future Fund needed to send someone … to go and check out some hotels, they’d probably say yeah, nah,” Pocock said."
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Future Fund spent $20,000 to send CEO’s executive assistant on business class trip to scope hotels in US
Government also reveals it spent nearly $100,000 sending minister Anika Wells and two others to US during UN general assembly
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Great to see some proper Aussie vernacular user even in Parliament.
"If you ask the average punter out there whether the Future Fund needed to send someone … to go and check out some hotels, they’d probably say yeah, nah,” Pocock said."
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"If you ask the average punter out there whether the Future Fund needed to send someone … to go and check out some hotels, they’d probably say yeah, nah,” Pocock said."
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Some Oz local councils are a joke. St Leonards' office vacancy rate is 30%. Meanwhile Resi vacancy rate is 1% on the lower north shore.
Yet North Sydney Council still objected to preserve their precious commercial space...so precious 30% of it is empty!
Some Oz local councils are a joke. St Leonards' office vacancy rate is 30%. Meanwhile Resi vacancy rate is 1% on the lower north shore.
Yet North Sydney Council still objected to preserve their precious commercial space...so precious 30% of it is empty!
Freecity Adds Crows Nest Metro Tower to $6bn Pipeline
A 40-storey residential tower opposite Crows Nest Metro advances after height and office dispute with local controls…
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December 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Some Oz local councils are a joke. St Leonards' office vacancy rate is 30%. Meanwhile Resi vacancy rate is 1% on the lower north shore.
Yet North Sydney Council still objected to preserve their precious commercial space...so precious 30% of it is empty!
Some Oz local councils are a joke. St Leonards' office vacancy rate is 30%. Meanwhile Resi vacancy rate is 1% on the lower north shore.
Yet North Sydney Council still objected to preserve their precious commercial space...so precious 30% of it is empty!
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Horrendous.
Murdering survivors in international waters is 100% a war crime. Just look to Nuremberg where Nazis were executed for doing the same thing. Also if ALL of these people were narco-terrorists why has the U.S. RETURNED some after capturing them???
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Murdering survivors in international waters is 100% a war crime. Just look to Nuremberg where Nazis were executed for doing the same thing. Also if ALL of these people were narco-terrorists why has the U.S. RETURNED some after capturing them???
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Pete Hegseth denies he gave orders to ‘kill everybody’ on alleged ‘narco-boat’
Defense secretary called reports about his role in strike as ‘fake news’ intended to discredit US military
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Horrendous.
Murdering survivors in international waters is 100% a war crime. Just look to Nuremberg where Nazis were executed for doing the same thing. Also if ALL of these people were narco-terrorists why has the U.S. RETURNED some after capturing them???
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Murdering survivors in international waters is 100% a war crime. Just look to Nuremberg where Nazis were executed for doing the same thing. Also if ALL of these people were narco-terrorists why has the U.S. RETURNED some after capturing them???
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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Hmm, as an Australian I think it's high time we told the U.S. to take their racist bulls@#t and shove it where the sun don't shine.
There is a case to review Australian migration levels. But there is ZERO reason we'd give two shits what the U.S. wants.
Hmm, as an Australian I think it's high time we told the U.S. to take their racist bulls@#t and shove it where the sun don't shine.
There is a case to review Australian migration levels. But there is ZERO reason we'd give two shits what the U.S. wants.
U.S. to Press Europe and Other Allies on ‘Mass Migration,’ Document Says
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Hmm, as an Australian I think it's high time we told the U.S. to take their racist bulls@#t and shove it where the sun don't shine.
There is a case to review Australian migration levels. But there is ZERO reason we'd give two shits what the U.S. wants.
Hmm, as an Australian I think it's high time we told the U.S. to take their racist bulls@#t and shove it where the sun don't shine.
There is a case to review Australian migration levels. But there is ZERO reason we'd give two shits what the U.S. wants.
Reason number 386 not to visit!
Trump "administration" was unhappy about a mere Trump slump.
They want an extinction level event for tourism operators.
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Trump "administration" was unhappy about a mere Trump slump.
They want an extinction level event for tourism operators.
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National parks announce ‘America-first’ fee surges for international tourists | CNN
The new $100+ price hike will affect 11 popular parks, including the Grand Canyon and Yosemite.
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November 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Reason number 386 not to visit!
Trump "administration" was unhappy about a mere Trump slump.
They want an extinction level event for tourism operators.
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/26/t...
Trump "administration" was unhappy about a mere Trump slump.
They want an extinction level event for tourism operators.
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/26/t...
Deer in the headlights with no ideas.
Here's three:
1) Gas reservation scheme NOW to get nat gas and electricity down.
2) Pause alcohol and tobacco excise increases and lower Uni fees.
3) Reduce migration to more sensible levels to put downward pressure on rents.
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Here's three:
1) Gas reservation scheme NOW to get nat gas and electricity down.
2) Pause alcohol and tobacco excise increases and lower Uni fees.
3) Reduce migration to more sensible levels to put downward pressure on rents.
www.afr.com/opinion/thes...
These inflation numbers are a federal treasurer’s nightmare
Jim Chalmers and Michele Bullock got a nasty shock in the latest figures showing the data is moving in the wrong direction. Who will the public blame?
www.afr.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Deer in the headlights with no ideas.
Here's three:
1) Gas reservation scheme NOW to get nat gas and electricity down.
2) Pause alcohol and tobacco excise increases and lower Uni fees.
3) Reduce migration to more sensible levels to put downward pressure on rents.
www.afr.com/opinion/thes...
Here's three:
1) Gas reservation scheme NOW to get nat gas and electricity down.
2) Pause alcohol and tobacco excise increases and lower Uni fees.
3) Reduce migration to more sensible levels to put downward pressure on rents.
www.afr.com/opinion/thes...
This seems like really poor value for money...
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Just a lazy A$96m for a website.
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Just a lazy A$96m for a website.
Massive blowout to cost of the BoM's bungled new website sparks outrage | Region Illawarra
The Bureau of Meteorology’s shemozzle of a new website has cost taxpayers more than $96 million, sparking Coalition outrage and…
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November 24, 2025 at 7:59 AM
This seems like really poor value for money...
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Just a lazy A$96m for a website.
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Just a lazy A$96m for a website.
These a@#holes have a 50% tariff on aluminium imports.
Maybe shut the f@#k up until you stop breaching WTO rules and all your free trade agreements (including those with Australia)!
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Maybe shut the f@#k up until you stop breaching WTO rules and all your free trade agreements (including those with Australia)!
www.afr.com/world/north-...
PM’s ‘Future Made in Australia’ unfair, US aluminium giant says
A major US aluminium producer has taken aim at the Albanese government’s green industrial policy, saying the subsidies amount to protectionism.
www.afr.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:33 AM
These a@#holes have a 50% tariff on aluminium imports.
Maybe shut the f@#k up until you stop breaching WTO rules and all your free trade agreements (including those with Australia)!
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Maybe shut the f@#k up until you stop breaching WTO rules and all your free trade agreements (including those with Australia)!
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Dear American media corps,
Go f@#k yourselves.
Sincerely,
Every Australian that is sick of your fascist bullshit and sticking your nose in our domestic affairs.
Dear American media corps,
Go f@#k yourselves.
Sincerely,
Every Australian that is sick of your fascist bullshit and sticking your nose in our domestic affairs.
Trump urged to punish Australia over social media ban, digital rules
Lobby groups representing US publishing and technology giants want the president to act against Canberra’s new television production and child protection laws.
www.afr.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Dear American media corps,
Go f@#k yourselves.
Sincerely,
Every Australian that is sick of your fascist bullshit and sticking your nose in our domestic affairs.
Dear American media corps,
Go f@#k yourselves.
Sincerely,
Every Australian that is sick of your fascist bullshit and sticking your nose in our domestic affairs.
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Imagine how shady a business has to be to pay YOU to convert tether to cash?
The whole crypto industry is built on criminality.
Imagine how shady a business has to be to pay YOU to convert tether to cash?
The whole crypto industry is built on criminality.
Inside the crypto underworld enabling ‘unlimited’ crime
From gritty backrooms in Kyiv to gleaming towers in Dubai, a parallel banking system turning crypto into cash is operating in anonymity and ripe for abuse.
www.afr.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Imagine how shady a business has to be to pay YOU to convert tether to cash?
The whole crypto industry is built on criminality.
Imagine how shady a business has to be to pay YOU to convert tether to cash?
The whole crypto industry is built on criminality.
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These hawks love seeing other people lose their jobs. Maybe Professor Holden should put up his hand if he feels so strongly about inflation?
The unemployment rate is already going up in a straight line and CPI is being driven by energy prices, not demand.
These hawks love seeing other people lose their jobs. Maybe Professor Holden should put up his hand if he feels so strongly about inflation?
The unemployment rate is already going up in a straight line and CPI is being driven by energy prices, not demand.
RBA’s Russian Roulette has Bullock in a pickle
By trying to put equal weight on full employment and price stability the central bank has been playing Russian Roulette with five bullets in the chamber.
www.afr.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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These hawks love seeing other people lose their jobs. Maybe Professor Holden should put up his hand if he feels so strongly about inflation?
The unemployment rate is already going up in a straight line and CPI is being driven by energy prices, not demand.
These hawks love seeing other people lose their jobs. Maybe Professor Holden should put up his hand if he feels so strongly about inflation?
The unemployment rate is already going up in a straight line and CPI is being driven by energy prices, not demand.
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The worst drivel I've ever read on the AFR.
Entire argument is a child born today lives longer than one in 1950.
Yes, life expectancy has increased, most of which is due to less death in childhood!
Why should boomers who didn't die as children get a lift then?
The worst drivel I've ever read on the AFR.
Entire argument is a child born today lives longer than one in 1950.
Yes, life expectancy has increased, most of which is due to less death in childhood!
Why should boomers who didn't die as children get a lift then?
Quit the generational whinging. The young are better off than Boomers
Sure, there are many extra people trying to buy homes. But the current generation will live longer, healthier and better endowed lives than their parents.
www.afr.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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The worst drivel I've ever read on the AFR.
Entire argument is a child born today lives longer than one in 1950.
Yes, life expectancy has increased, most of which is due to less death in childhood!
Why should boomers who didn't die as children get a lift then?
The worst drivel I've ever read on the AFR.
Entire argument is a child born today lives longer than one in 1950.
Yes, life expectancy has increased, most of which is due to less death in childhood!
Why should boomers who didn't die as children get a lift then?
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Job ads per unemployed back to the level of 2017/2018.
Interest rates were 1.5% back then.
Job ads per unemployed back to the level of 2017/2018.
Interest rates were 1.5% back then.
Another monthly decline in Australian Job Ads
ANZ-Indeed Australian Job Ads fell 2.2 per cent month on month in October.
www.anz.com.au
November 4, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Job ads per unemployed back to the level of 2017/2018.
Interest rates were 1.5% back then.
Job ads per unemployed back to the level of 2017/2018.
Interest rates were 1.5% back then.
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Since when is Brisbane smaller than Helsinki in 1952, Antwerp in 1920 or Stockholm in 1912?
Why doesn't somebody correct this bloke when he spouts obvious nonsense?
Since when is Brisbane smaller than Helsinki in 1952, Antwerp in 1920 or Stockholm in 1912?
Why doesn't somebody correct this bloke when he spouts obvious nonsense?
‘No bin chickens, no Tom Cruise’: Liveris pitches Brisbane 2032 to NY
Andrew Liveris has made a Tourism Australia-esque pitch to Wall Street heavyweights for business involvement in the Brisbane Olympics.
www.afr.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Since when is Brisbane smaller than Helsinki in 1952, Antwerp in 1920 or Stockholm in 1912?
Why doesn't somebody correct this bloke when he spouts obvious nonsense?
Since when is Brisbane smaller than Helsinki in 1952, Antwerp in 1920 or Stockholm in 1912?
Why doesn't somebody correct this bloke when he spouts obvious nonsense?
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This is embarrassing drivel.
Australia can easily break the linkage of the domestic gas market price with the export parity price by putting a tax on exports or an export quota system.
Japanese and Chinese investors in the LNG industry will just have to suck it up.
This is embarrassing drivel.
Australia can easily break the linkage of the domestic gas market price with the export parity price by putting a tax on exports or an export quota system.
Japanese and Chinese investors in the LNG industry will just have to suck it up.
Is Australia’s energy transition turning into a muppet show?
Will the Greens be as savvy as pragmatic everyman Kermit the Frog when it comes to gas? Or will they be like the minor muppets in the back?
www.afr.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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This is embarrassing drivel.
Australia can easily break the linkage of the domestic gas market price with the export parity price by putting a tax on exports or an export quota system.
Japanese and Chinese investors in the LNG industry will just have to suck it up.
This is embarrassing drivel.
Australia can easily break the linkage of the domestic gas market price with the export parity price by putting a tax on exports or an export quota system.
Japanese and Chinese investors in the LNG industry will just have to suck it up.
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Looking forward to Bullock being unemployed and doing her bit to contain inflation. Hopelessly behind the eight ball as unemployment increases inexorably. Seek's applicant to job ads ratio is at all time highs yet this clown thinks the labour market is tight.
Looking forward to Bullock being unemployed and doing her bit to contain inflation. Hopelessly behind the eight ball as unemployment increases inexorably. Seek's applicant to job ads ratio is at all time highs yet this clown thinks the labour market is tight.
Rate cut hopes dashed after RBA’s blunt inflation message
Bond yields and the Australian dollar pushed higher after central bank governor Michele Bullock appeared in no rush to ease borrowing costs.
www.afr.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Looking forward to Bullock being unemployed and doing her bit to contain inflation. Hopelessly behind the eight ball as unemployment increases inexorably. Seek's applicant to job ads ratio is at all time highs yet this clown thinks the labour market is tight.
Looking forward to Bullock being unemployed and doing her bit to contain inflation. Hopelessly behind the eight ball as unemployment increases inexorably. Seek's applicant to job ads ratio is at all time highs yet this clown thinks the labour market is tight.
www.afr.com/politics/fed...
The Opposition Leader once again undermining the Government on foreign policy issues.
She is unfit to lead.
The Opposition Leader once again undermining the Government on foreign policy issues.
She is unfit to lead.
Albanese Trump meeting: PM set for high-stakes White House meeting
The opposition leader says the former PM was the punchline of Trump’s jokes; Penny Wong says comments were “tongue in cheek”. Follow live.
www.afr.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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The Opposition Leader once again undermining the Government on foreign policy issues.
She is unfit to lead.
The Opposition Leader once again undermining the Government on foreign policy issues.
She is unfit to lead.
This guy is an embarassment.
Number of reactors currently under construction in the U.S?
ZERO.
He's bought the bullshit from the SMR spruikers and spivs hook, line and sinker.
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Number of reactors currently under construction in the U.S?
ZERO.
He's bought the bullshit from the SMR spruikers and spivs hook, line and sinker.
www.google.com/amp/s/www.ne...
Redirect Notice
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October 2, 2025 at 3:24 AM
This guy is an embarassment.
Number of reactors currently under construction in the U.S?
ZERO.
He's bought the bullshit from the SMR spruikers and spivs hook, line and sinker.
www.google.com/amp/s/www.ne...
Number of reactors currently under construction in the U.S?
ZERO.
He's bought the bullshit from the SMR spruikers and spivs hook, line and sinker.
www.google.com/amp/s/www.ne...
We should be asking Former Police Commissioner Mick Fuller and Gladys Berejiklian to pay these class action costs out of pocket given it was VERY obvious at the time that these actions were 1) completely illegal and 2) frankly pretty perverted / messed up.
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Raya won $93,000 in a class action after she was strip-searched by police and forced to remove her tampon
Police admitted to unlawfully strip-searching Raya Meredith in 2018 at Splendour in the Grass and withdrew all witnesses before court hearing
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2025 at 2:12 AM
We should be asking Former Police Commissioner Mick Fuller and Gladys Berejiklian to pay these class action costs out of pocket given it was VERY obvious at the time that these actions were 1) completely illegal and 2) frankly pretty perverted / messed up.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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This Senator is a disgrace.
Completely irresponsible to post this in his capacity as a Senator.
This Senator is a disgrace.
Completely irresponsible to post this in his capacity as a Senator.
Melbourne charity receives hate mail after senator and others post contact details in wake of Charlie Kirk killing
Ralph Babet posts charity’s contact details in response to comments about Kirk by a former worker – who is no longer employed there – and urges sacking
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October 1, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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This Senator is a disgrace.
Completely irresponsible to post this in his capacity as a Senator.
This Senator is a disgrace.
Completely irresponsible to post this in his capacity as a Senator.
'albanese speech labour' share.google/sDqQDSBesSDt...
He's by no means perfect, but this is a great speech that brings home the need for the Left to be the party of Government if you want to get anything done.
He's by no means perfect, but this is a great speech that brings home the need for the Left to be the party of Government if you want to get anything done.
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September 29, 2025 at 9:40 AM
'albanese speech labour' share.google/sDqQDSBesSDt...
He's by no means perfect, but this is a great speech that brings home the need for the Left to be the party of Government if you want to get anything done.
He's by no means perfect, but this is a great speech that brings home the need for the Left to be the party of Government if you want to get anything done.
What a pathetic Op-Ed. These pro-AUKUS clowns routinely fail to address the most obvious point. I.e. What gives them an iota of confidence that the US alliance will be of ANY use when push comes to shove? ANZUS under the MAGA regime isn't worth the paper it's written on!
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www.afr.com/policy/forei...
Albanese fought the wrong battle for Australia in New York
The PM’s prioritising of Palestinian recognition over managing the US alliance has abandoned the foreign policy goal pursued by most of his predecessors.
www.afr.com
September 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
What a pathetic Op-Ed. These pro-AUKUS clowns routinely fail to address the most obvious point. I.e. What gives them an iota of confidence that the US alliance will be of ANY use when push comes to shove? ANZUS under the MAGA regime isn't worth the paper it's written on!
www.afr.com/policy/forei...
www.afr.com/policy/forei...