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ApaulD@apauld· 11d

How would Mark Zuckerberg survive? #billionaires #taxtherich Or Gina Reinhart? They’d still have the money to buy our #politics #democracy #auspol youtube.com/post/UgkxGfY...

If voters in California approve the 5% billionaire wealth tax in November, Mark Zuckerberg would owe $10.5 billion in taxes & healthcare would be saved for 3 million low-income people.
Poor Mr. Zuckerberg would only have $200 billion left to feed his family. How will he survive?

ApaulD@apauld· Jun 29

chapter & verse on why the oligarchs’ pursuit of the AI arms race is a (the?) central issue of our times. Did you know China is developing open source AI? substack.com/@empathicrev...

Image of walls of computers. At the top, words ‘Data Centres’ with a large eye underneath. At the bottom the sentence continues: “because calling them ‘’mass surveillance centres’ would cause a national uprising.

ApaulD@apauld· Jun 16

Want to fight against billionaires (& the trillionaire) #australia #politics #billionaires #taxtherich #protest #democracy beyondbillionaires.org

Photograph of Elon Musk on a pink background. Text reads: if you have $1 trillion in a world where children are starving, you’re not a visionary, you’re just an evil parasite.

ApaulD@apauld· Jun 15

“Look at this astonishing chart and tell me we don’t have a billionaire wealth problem”. #billionaires #economy What do they do with all that money? Buy our political system. #politics #democracy #inequality Likewise in #australia www.linkedin.com/posts/robert...

Wealth growth in U.S. by income percentile showing that the income of .01% of the wealthiest 1% has exploded since 2010.

ApaulD@apauld· Jun 12

We could pay for all of this if we had a fair taxation system. #billionaires #taxtherich #politics #auspol #democracy

A chart on a blue background. Two columns. First column - If we text rich people like this: for every dollar owned above 50 million, they pay two cents and for every dollar owned above 1 billion they pay one cent more. Second column – we could pay for all of this: universal childcare, lower housing cost by building millions of new homes, slash child poverty, expand Medicare, provide free community college and still have money left over

ApaulD@apauld· Jun 8

Billionaire owners & corporations can afford to clean up pollution. And pay compensation for their appalling climate pollution. We shouldn’t have to do this. Why doesn’t our government make them. #auspol #pollution #billionaires #taxtherich #taxwealthnotwork

Photograph of a footbridge over a highway with a banner hanging over the side of the hand rail. The banner reads “Make Big Polluters Pay”

ApaulD@apauld· Jun 8

Local artist Light Guerrilla projected "TAX THE RICH" on the side of Mark Zuckerberg's boat while it was docked at Seattle's Lake Union. 👏 Let’s do this to our billionaires. And politicians #australia #protest #billionaires #taxtherich

A photograph of a huge luxury ship with "TAX THE RICH" projected the side

ApaulD@apauld· May 30

#auspol

Text: One Nation Vote Scam. Victorian voters beware. The following parties have been identified as fake fronts designed to siphon your votes to One Nation and the far-right:
• Free Palestine Party
• Muslim Votes Matter Party
• Refugees Are Welcome Here Party

• Save The Environment Party
All four are linked to far-right activists Avi Yemini and Monica Smit, who have publicly admitted to this scheme. It exploits Victoria's group voting ticket system - the only state in Australia that still uses it - which lets parties direct your preferences to whoever they choose if you vote above the line.

ApaulD@apauld· May 30

Until recently this was beautiful forest in the Dandenong Ranges National Park #nature #australia #victoria Now it’s been gutted by logging, under the guise of storm clean up one example of the loopholes that allow habitat destruction to continue by stealth. support.vnpa.org.au/isnt-it-obvi...

Ariel photo of logged national park. Lush mature forest with large slashes of utterly destroyed bare earth.

ApaulD@apauld· May 27

BHP ‘laughing’ at Australia’s key climate policy while pocketing hundreds of millions in tax breaks. #auspol #climatechange Laughing & profiting from destroying our world Like Gina. #taxtherich www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Photo of Gina Reinhart, Multi billionaire laughing hysterically. The written text says:"If you go back a million minutes, you reach 2023. Go back a billion minutes, you reach the Roman Empire - that's the scale of inequality we're living with." Zack Polanski

ApaulD@apauld· May 27

Our one year anniversary outside Josh Burns’ office protesting #australia Labor fossil fuel approvals and we’re celebrating (mourning?) All welcome Friday May 29th Josh Burns MP electoral office. 219 Barkley St St Kilda 12:30-1:30pm .

Photo of young girl with two thumbs down in front of a birthday cake and a plume of fire behind her. Text says: It’s been one year and we’re still here! Labor in bed with dirty gas!
Friday May 29th
Josh Burns MP electoral office.
219 Barkley St St Kilda
12:30-1:30pm

ApaulD@apauld· May 26

#poltics #auspol This forum will explore various models of deliberative democracy, and the exciting possibility of a party of independents, chosen by their community members and deciding their policies using local & national assemblies. Free registration actionnetwork.org/events/peopl...

Text:
BEYOND BILLIONAIRES presents PEOPLE POWERED DEMOCRACY FORUM.
This Sunday, May 31, 2026.
2 to 4 pm
Carlton, Melbourne.

Photo of 3 speakers :
Eddie Kowalski and Craig Lambie from conversations at the crossroads.
Sonia Randhawa from the Sortition foundation
Andrew George & Jane Morton Beyond Billionaires

ApaulD@apauld· May 23

“At the root of all our problems stands one travesty, politicians surrender to the superrich“ George Monbiot Public forum: People-Powered Democracy Sunday, May 31, 2026. 2 pm to 4 pm Kathleen Symes Library, Multi-Purpose Room 2. 251 Faraday Street, Carlton VIC 3053 #australia #politics

Photograph of Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk standing in a line together in Washington DC. Text reads. “At the root of all our problems stands one travesty, politicians surrender to the superrich“ George Monbiot

ApaulD@apauld· May 16

“The economic system is working as designed” Clara Mattei In 2009-2019 the top 10% secure almost all gains - 93% of income growth in that period. #taxtherich #auspol They hijack our politics to increase this wealth australiainstitute.org.au/wp-content/u...

Photo of a graph showing “Per adult real economic growth: Share of growth (%) going to the top 10% and bottom 90%” After WW2, the majority of economic growth benefit flowed to the bottom 90% of income earners. Since then that declines. In 2009-2019 the top 10% secure almost all gains - 93% of income growth in that period.

ApaulD@apauld· May 15

They blame migrants so you don’t blame billionaires #tax #billionaires #taxtherich #australia

Poster black & red text on white background.
“They blame migrants [insert Photograph of six Australian billionaires] so you don’t blame billionaires

ApaulD@apauld· May 11

The Australian Youth Climate Coalition is asking we all send Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese & Treasurer, Jim Chalmers a clear message. It’s their future. Tax gas exports, not our future. @albomp.bsky.social

Two people at the side of a street holding up a banner that says “tax gas exports”

ApaulD@apauld· May 6

St Kilda, Victoria #australia Thank you for all the photographs you share.

A beach scene with silvery grey clouds and smooth calm sea. A pier stretches on the horizon with an old style building, a cafe, to the right side. Three yachts are in the foreground and they are reflected in the calm sea.

ApaulD@apauld· Apr 5

Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) Swedish artist and mystic whose paintings are considered to be among the first major abstract works in Western art history. Her later period of abstract art (1906–1920)

Abstract painting in Orange & warm tones, circles & spiral shapes. By Hilma at Klint female artist. Swedish artist and mystic whose paintings are considered to be among the first major abstract works in Western art history.[1] A considerable body of her work predates the first purely abstract compositions by Kandinsky, Malevich, and Mondrian.

Hilma af Klint abstract work of circles spheres & spirals in blues & yellows.

ApaulD@apauld· Apr 1

“The fossil fuel sector spends over $A5.7 billion every year on the politely-termed “communications and public affairs” (and pays almost no tax) #disinformation #auspol #fossilfuels lucyham29.substack.com/p/theres-a-w...

Text - The overall objective is not simply to convince, but to degrade the information environment itself, creating confusion, mistrust & institutional delegitimisation that weakens democratic decision- making on complex issues including climate and energy. The problem is becoming more acute with the emergence of even more powerful anti-climate- action coalitions, expansion of generative Al, and the global corporate consolidation of information
power.

ApaulD@apauld· Mar 27

US Senator Elizabeth Warren #usa “"we need to stop fighting poverty and start fighting wealth. We need to stop debating the minimum wage and start debating the maximum wage." And enact it. #taxtherich

Meme by US Senator Elizabeth Warren #usa
“"we need to stop fighting poverty and start fighting wealth. We need to stop debating the minimum wage and start debating the maximum wage."
#taxtherich

ApaulD@apauld· Mar 25

Rising Tide added another message on a coal transport! 👏 “TAX ME” Naming a ship "Climate Respect" feels like they are just asking for it. #australia #activism #climate #energy #taxtherich

Photograph of a black and red coal transport tanker in Newcastle, named “climate respect“.. the words TAX ME are painted on the hull.

ApaulD@apauld· Mar 22

word is that Marubeni may be very sensitive to protest & could be encouraged to walk away from this incredibly polluting coal mine extension. And if Marubeni walks away, the extension may not go ahead. #climate #activism #australia #japan

Poster: red & black text on white background “don’t expand Hail Creek Coal Mine”

Join a vigil at Marubeni Melbourne Office.
Tuesday 24th March 12pm-1pm 120 Collins Street

Join online action using vigil images on Wednesday March 25, 5-6pm

ApaulD@apauld· Mar 15

1/ We are watching a tiny class of AI billionaires reshape society, redistribute political power, & embed themselves into government infrastructure without a single vote being cast. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Palantir CEO Alex Karp announced on camera that he is going to reduce the economic power of highly educated Democratic voters. In a recent CNBC interview, Palantir CEO Alex Karp stated that his AI disrupts humanities trained, largely Democratic voters and makes their economic power less, while increasing the economic power of vocational, working class, often male voters. He then had the audacity to admit these technologies are "dangerous societally," but justified it with a Cold War style argument thats if America doesn't do it, adversaries will. This isn't some fringe conspiracy. This is a sitting CEO, with billions in government contracts, telling you exactly what he's doing to your democracy while daring you to stop him.

The mechanism is straightforward and worth understanding. As AI automates the cognitive, analytical, and communications work that college educated professionals have built careers around, those white collar jobs shrink in value and number. The people most exposed are educated women who vote Democrat. Meanwhile, trade and vocational workers, the plumbers, electricians, and machinists who lean Republican and male, become harder to replace with software. Karp isn't just predicting this shift. He is building the technology that accelerates it, cashing Pentagon checks along the way, and calling it patriotism.

ApaulD@apauld· Mar 7

@abcaustralia Please focus on WHY ”all the gas in the world doesn’t save us from price spikes during conflicts”. #journalism #media www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Australians suffer high & spiking gas prices because our govt continues to allow the majority to be exported (for obscene corporate profit instead of used domestically. Moreover these companies pay minimal tax that could be used to fund the transition away from fossil fuel dependence.)

ApaulD@apauld· Feb 22

Peacefully greet 👋🏻 & message attendees at the Carbon Capture & Storage Conference #climatechange #fossilfuels #pollution #australia #auspol 📆Tuesday 24 February ⏰8:15am 📌501 Bourke Street Melbourne

POSTER TEXT Santos is coming. Shell is coming.
Madeline King & Martin Ferguson, current & former Mnisters for Resources will be there.
📆Tuesday 24 February
⏰8:15am
📌501 Bourke Street Melbourne

ApaulD@apauld· Feb 16

Telling truth to the Australian government. Every Friday 1230 to 1:30 pm. At Sarah Witty MP electoral office 142 Johnson Street, FITZROY, Naarm #auspol #climatechange #environment

Multiple banners along the footpath in front of Sarah witty MP Electoral Office on Johnson Street FITZROY Melbourne. Banners read: “Elected by you serving the fossil fuel lobby” and.” honk for climate action.”

ApaulD@apauld· Feb 11

Via @amywestervelt @journa.host a little chart showing the fossil fuel roots of a non-exhaustive list of modern political problems. drilled.ghost.io/content/imag...

chart showing the fossil fuel roots of a non-exhaustive list of modern political problems. Very complex so really difficult to describe here. But a short list includes interactions between : climate change, tech takeover, Greenland, Gaza, Epstein files, Venezuela, ICE,

ApaulD@apauld· Feb 9

No meme but here’s a list from 2024.

Text lists:
Australian Atlas units
(formerly listed on Atlas partners web page)

The Institute of Public Affairs (Think tank, Melbourne)
The Centre for Independent Studies (Think tank, Sydney)
The Australian Taxpayers Alliance (Think tank, Sydney)
Australian Institute for Progress (Think tank, Brisbane)
Mannkal Economic Education Foundation (Training
organisation, Perth)

Indirect affiliates (unlisted but linked by personnel
or funding)
Advance Australia (Campaign organisation, Canberra)
Sydney Institute
CPAC Australia - Conservative Political Action Network

ApaulD@apauld· Feb 2

there is no right to free speech in Australia’s constitution. Laws to suppress free speech in VIC & NSW are currently being challenged in our courts. #auspol #politics #democracy We have to fight for our right to protest. 📍 Vic State Parliament 🗓️ Tuesday Feb 3rd ⏰ 5:30pm

Purple poster calling on people to stand up for the right to protest. Text “We have to fight for our right to protest. 📍 Vic State Parliament 🗓️ Tuesday Feb 3rd ⏰ 5:30pm”

ApaulD@apauld· Jan 30

TODAY Friday 30 January 12:30-1:30pm continuing every Friday in 2026 @ Josh Burns MP electoral office, 219 Barkley St , St Kilda #melbourne #naarm to express our outrage Labor is about to approve fracking in the Kimberley! #energy #environment #australia