The capital gains tax discount & negative gearing have made housing less affordable & exacerbated inequality. @MaiyAzize, @purplepingers, Josie Lee & @AmyRemeikis discuss the origins of the housing crisis & how to fix the current mess. 🎧 https://t.co/5lkhkm4N2Z

Indigenous child suicides four times that of non Indigenous children. Child removals at the same levels as the stolen generations. Incarceration of Aboriginal children at the worlds highest rates. Every Inquiry consistentlyconcludes “system failure” drives most of it -that’s

I can hear it approaching .. ⚡️ ⛈️ 💥

#JacintaPrice has posted another ghost-written slab of reheated Advance talking points, sprinkled with CIS pseudoeconomics and served with a side of “the renewables are coming to eat your children.” So let’s pull it apart — politely, scientifically, and with the appropriate

Nationals leader David Littleproud claims Labor’s net-zero plan will cost $9T. We did the maths.👇⁦@10NewsAU⁩

Until this seeps into everyone's brainpans we're not going to be able to get anywhere. The cost of doing nothing far exceeds the uncomfortable cost to get there. "The climate crisis is expensive: net zero is cheaper for Australia than not doing more."

In Australia we put children in jail 2 years before they're allowed to watch YouTube

We’ve published a lot of stories about MinRes and Chris Ellison over the past year. In the background, our lawyers have been suing in Federal Court to get access to documents that kickstarted it all. They finally won. So today we’re publishing the story of how it began:

As usual - a bunch or arsehole boys playing at “let’s hide behind the girls” 🙄

From “the annals of usefully useless information” 🤭

No good deed goes unpunished, though. 🤔

I was asked to help out a project, as a favour - so I did. I provided useful advice that outlined the work needed. I was then asked to do the work itself. I said “no”. Woo boy 😱 No amount of “I just don’t have the time” helped. The PM complained to my boss 😳 (who backed me)

Gorgeous from @mpbowers https://t.co/t4QOQ25lJA

Never in my life did I imagine I would own an apartment - let alone renovate one. But here I am. But this is not any apartment and I am not a traditional homeowner. I am turning this little slice of suburbia into a safe haven for domestic violence victims. Stacey’s Sanctuary is

‘Israeli soldiers have described a free-for-all in Gaza & a breakdown in norms and legal constraints, with civilians killed at the whim of individual officers, according to testimony in a TV documentary.’ Most moral army in the world??

Federal government approves Queensland solar and battery hybrid project in just 19 days.

“A [US] federal judge explains his reasoning for leaving the bench. By Mark L. Wolf” https://t.co/KN9xZNLPyI

A beautiful story to start the week, happy Monday 🥲🥰 The kindness of strangers: a man I’d just met helped me land the job that changed my life - Guardian Australia

This week, I wrote about political belief (also the subject of my Quarterly Essay). About its role in the successes of both Mamdani and Whitlam - and whether the current Labor government might have something to learn from that.

Just watched a currowong unpeg and take one sock from the line, just in case you were wondering where all those lost socks went