Hey Chris (Uhlmann) yes Norway built a $3.2T wealth fund from oil fields which underwrites pensions/education etc, but nowhere in your latest attack on Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen do you urge him and PM Albo to impose a 25% tax on Oz export gas. Blind eye mate.

She can write! America not so great. Sussan Ley’s Route 83 Greyhound bus trip through middle USA helps her refocus her perspectives after Libs brutally dump her as leader. 👇👇AFR

Hey Joe (Aston) congrats re Ramparts $29m valuation and employing more journalists. Noted that your 5 equity investors have signed non-interference commitments with your editorial judgments. Hope you have a defamation contingency fund. Oz is now the deffo capital of the world (per capita).

While Murdoch media condemns Anthony Fauci re taking the 5th during Congressional hearings it’s worth noting that whatever the genesis of COVID (lab accident/animal transmission?) the rapid invention of mRNA vaccines saved millions worldwide and preps us for the next pandemic.

“PM @albomp.bsky.social scoffed at the suggestion” the proposed ALP national conference pledge for a fairer return from natural resources was related to gas. 👇”Long bow” Phil Coorey AFR says his sources stand by the story. Curiouser … and curiouser.

Trump’s quagmire: R&LMurdoch’s The Australian demands escalation of Trump/Netanyahu war with Iran. Call for international support for Trump including from Australia. Still no (IRGC) regime change; Hormuz Strait unopened. Iran’s civilian infrastructure now being bombed.

“Up to 4 in 5 cigarettes now smoked in Australia are illegal”. 👇Shane Wright* quotes tobacco commissioner Amber Shuhyta on how excise, cost of living and devious criminal syndicates have created a vicious black market. Oh .. by the way .. smoking will kill you. *Sun-Herald.

“Competent Sheilas Australia” the new Steggall/Spender independent political party now recruiting meritorious candidates for Bennelong, Menzies, Deakin, Mitchell, Berowra etc + a full Senate ticket “above the line” = a counter measure to Porleen for PM. 👇

Re Pauline Hanson v Australian media (please note Sky/Murdoch outlets exempted). In 1980s Joh for PM called this “feeding the chooks”. Hanson will adopt the same methodology but, unlike Joh, will decline interviews with ABC, SBS (and Guardian Aus).

Pauline for PM: forced divestment of houses for temporary visa holders; round-up/deport over-stayers; reject Muslim migrants on ‘national security’ grounds; uncontrol guns; revoke neg-gear/CGT reforms; paywalls for ABC/SBS; more frack/drill/open cut coal; no EVs/renewables; yes to online gambling ..

The great Australian journalist Brian Toohey’s book “Fifty Years Before The Mastheads” launched today. Thanks Brian for all you are doing to tells Aussies and the world what’s really going on. QD

“Israel cannot kill its way to security”. 👇Gideon Rachmann FT. “Netanyahu’s (military offensive only) vision for Israeli security has failed. He deserves to lose (the upcoming election)”.

Australia shouldn’t lock itself into a Trump and son-of-Trump US war with China as the presumed basis of our acceptance of 3 in service Virginia NSubs. Senator Shoebridge tells Insiders there are other sub vendors (SKorea/Japan/France) who could fill our regional-only capability gap. ✅

Hmmm .. profound insights by Chris Uhlmann comparing Porleen for PM with Martin Luther. Will there be burnings at the stake in a centuries long sectarian war as the Curia elites (Canberra) demand unquestioning belief?

This is the house price correction we have to have. House prices are falling as Albo and Chalmers’ neg-gear/CGT changes pass the Reps. Our Aussie obsession with real estate will remain but now, hopefully, more young families can buy a house. Bob Menzies would be pleased.

Now is the winter of our discontent. Pauline for PM? Her solution to our duopoly grievances? Frack, drill, open cut coal; deport/ban Muslims; restore landlords’ neg gear/CGT slush; open slather gambling; paywall for ABC; axe Family Court; ‘work choices’ 2.0; burn Aboriginal flag … 👇

So it’s Clive Palmer and Pauline Hanson unity ticket? One Nation ‘momentum’ to be tested in Victoria and NSW state elections before we see if Pauline will stand in a House of Reps seat in ‘28. Remember it was Clive + the ‘white shoe’ brigade who backed Joh for PM in the 1980s.

Dear ‘teals’, independent MHRs senators. Ignore Malcolm Turnbull. Don’t even think of forming a new political party. Remember what happened to the ‘keep the bastards honest’ Democrats? Your power is your independence.

Frack, drill and open cut for more Australian gas, oil and coal with 30% taxpayer investment with global fossil corporates proposed by Porleen for PM👇. Now waiting for Angus Taylor and Matt Canavan to match this with declarative LNP policy.

Autocracy Inc. in the USA. Here Michael Koziol (SMH/Age) explains how corrupt Trump and his loyalists defenestrate good Republicans who try to resist MAGA methodology (institutional stacking). 👇

Tony Abbott, 67, looking to return to federal parliament. Jason Koutsoukis (Saturday Paper) quotes Liberal sources. Abbott has the numbers to be Lib fed pres (May 29). Looking for a compatible Reps seat NSW or Vic. Plot hatched by Credlin, Loughnane and Lachlan Murdoch.

US citizens Rupert/Lachlan Murdoch go full smear on Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ justified corrective to our country’s distorted distorted property market. Housing unaffordability had to be confronted. But the Murdochs’ propaganda rags call this a “communist manifesto”. Pathetic.

One Nation wins Farrer. So it’s Porleen for PM as Senator Hanson considers running for a House of Representatives seat. Barnaby Beetrooter thinking about recontesting New England rather than trying for a NSW Senate seat in 2028. Libs/Nats now on life support.

Greetings from Budapest, Hungary (pop. 10m). pro-Putin Viktor Orban is gone. New PM Peter Magyar confronts challenges: inflation; dismantling crony corruption; restoring press freedom. EU reinvestment will help. The Hungarian people have stood up for themselves through the ballot box.

If the electors of Farrer want to send a message to the cynical major parties and to the Trumpist copycat Pauline Hanson’s ‘One Nation’ there’s only one sensible choice: community independent Michelle Milthorpe. Back yourselves folks.

Liberal leader Angus Taylor defends Farrer preference deal putting One Nation ahead of community independent Michelle Milthorpe as “worst best option”. With PHON ahead in voter surveys this gives racist/divisive Porleen/Beetrooter party a strong chance to take Farrer.

Crowd funded billboards on Australian highways organised by @GetUp! justifiably question the bona fides of Trumpists Porleen and the Beetrooter. Getup donors can’t possibly match Gina’s $m’s or Murdoch megaphones but in a democracy all voices have a right to be heard.

About bloody time! Peter Hartcher (SMH/Age) nails our “intergenerational bastardry” which has embedded Australia’s inequalities. On May 12 (federal budget) Albanese and Chalmers have their best chance to redeem the boomers = CGT; neg gearing; export gas tax. 👇

“The Liberals and Nationals will in return preference One Nation” in the May 9 Farrer by-election. There it is folks. Our Coalition (party of government) does a devil’s deal with Porleen and the Beetrooter. (Vale Ron Boswell). Lachlan Leeming The Australian.

The prosecution of Ben Roberts-Smith on five counts of murder while on active service in Afghanistan is a test for Australia says investigative journalist and author Chris Masters. 👇BRS deserves a fair trial. Let the evidence determine the outcome.