We’ve watched the #LNP shoot itself in the foot, twice in both feet and redoubling its effort to dig its own grave. Now we’re being presented with a #Labor party apparently intent on following suite. #Unions and #LaborHeartland must be seething in frustration approaching outright anger by now.

I’ve been there and I’m not looking back. For me #Labor has lost its way, completely, maybe beyond salvage. The following is just furhter proof of it.

“There’s a tell when a politician has been captured by an industry lobby. The language shifts. The carefully prepared lines about “existing contracts,” “investment certainty,” and “there’s already a tax, actually” start flowing out with the smoothness of a media brief, because that’s exactly what they are. The Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on all evidence appears to have been captured. So has Resources Minister Madeleine King.”

Read more:
https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/260520-blink-twice-if-you-need-help-prime-minister

#AusPol #Lobbyist #ExtractiveIndustries #FossilFuel #GasGrifters #TaxReform #TaxTheRich #Antifa #AntiOligarchy #JoinYourUnion

[edited to add link to Guardian article source]

How’s this for a complete and frank confession that the #Labor Govt is Wholy Owned by the #CorporateGiants making bucket loads of profit from #Raping the land and #Pillaging Australian #Resources:

“Trade minister Don Farrell said on Friday “we’re not changing our policies in respect to gas” and that “the most important thing” was to honour existing export contracts.”

Well, Mr #Farrell, for your information, the gas export contracts have nought to do with you or your govt. It is a #Commercial contract from which #Santos and others derive an outrageous profit. So if we were to #Tax that, it would reduce theirt bottom line by the same percentage without any change to the contracts they hold (unless they contain some cagey and dogey clauses — but that a commercial issue again and commercial law, nothing to do with the Govt.)

Nothing more is needed from our govt to prove that #StateCapture is alive and thriving in Aus when a Trade Minister goes to bat for an #ExtrativeIndustry Private Corporation! You just wait until the next election or by-elections, we’ll teach you a thing or two.

read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/24/labor-albanese-gas-tax-caving-david-pocock-fuel-supply

#AusPol fuck #neoliberalism and #Globalisation
#Antifa #AntiOligarchy #EatTheRich #SaveOurResources #Grifters #RunawayCapitalism

From what I am seeing, the push back against #TechBros is finally getting a head of steam behind it. From EU govt(s) getting off gatekeeping software, to Court cases imposing heavy fines for privacy and decency breaches, and new laws to establish national guardrails.

There’s plenty of fuel left in the #TechIndustries and the #BillionnaireProblems to keep it going and reach full speed in the near future.

The last frontier would be changes in #TaxRegime and #WealthLimits. That may take a little longer.

The candle lights in the dark are becoming light houses… I wish Australia would get on board quick smart.

#EatTheRich #Antifa #AntiOligarchy

“The organization Patriotic Millionaires found that one-third of the millionaires who they surveyed supported a US$10m extreme wealth line”.(Source: F. Belata and H. Wright. (2025). Exploring An Extreme Wealth Line. New Economics Foundation, in partnership with Patriotic Millionaires International. Accessed 18 September 2025. https://neweconomics.org/2025/01/exploring-an-extreme-wealth-line )

If that is truly the case, then one might ask what are those 30% of the weatliest on earth (mostly US-based I would guess) doing with whatever funds they hold above USD10M? I don’t see any evidence of philanthropic largess, not where it matters.

#TaxTheRich #EatTheRIch #Antifa #AntiOligarchy