Given that #AlboPM and his Govt has given in to Sports club (Mainly NRL and AFL) as well as free to air TV, we didn’t get much of a #Gambling reform. The govt response was slipped out as quietly as possible and made no waves. #Gambling #Advertising and #SportSupport are tightly paired. So what is the #Suns coach saying?

“So the question becomes, how can such a close-knit partnership between sporting codes and sports betting companies ever be untangled, without adequate government reform?”.

Let me translate “adequate government reform” for you: Govt funding to make up for gambling Industry funding that will be lost if further #GamblingReforms are made. Sports relying on govt han outs, is not the solution here. If sports wasn’t so a big *Business*, there would less of a problem here IMO (Exec & Staff remuneration for example).

There’s not much cheering about the #budget. Some grudging remarks on finally tackling the ‘big end of town’ but also much about #NDIS cuts and #AUKUS spends. But the truth iwe shouldn’t get too excited and think about this budget as foretelling what’s to come next (election time next that is). A New Politics article reminds us it is still a budget steeped in neoliberalism:

“..it’s a mixed but ideologically revealing budget: it contains some redistributive reforms, especially on housing tax concessions, but it also preserves the deeper neoliberal framework that has afflicted most economies in the Western world for far too long – there’s the typical material about budget repair, productivity, business incentives, expanding the defence, means-testing and restraint on social spending, especially within the National Disability Insurance Scheme.” (Source: https://www.newpolitics.com.au/p/the-new-politics-verdict-a-slightly )

#AlboPM is not about to change in any radical way anytime soon. Vote #GreensFirst #LaborSecond (Or a good progressive independent small ‘L’. liberal if Labor offends too much) next time around. That’s the lesson I learned these past two years.

#AusPol

I am wondering is Keir Starmer’s problems are going to matter for #Labor in #Australia. The UK elected #Labour on the promisse of much needed progressive policies. Instead Sir Keir has headed a centrist govt veering to the right in many portfolios (as I believe #Labor is doing here). Calls for #Starmer to stand down as leader of the Labour party is now coming from the Unions:
““This is a point where the future of the party we founded will be debated and determined – and we are working closely as unions to shape a shared vision on policy, political strategy and economic policy that will reorient Labour back to working people, so Labour do what it was elected to do: govern in the interests of workers.” https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/13/labour-unions-keir-starmer-leader-election

While here at home, the Unions have been pretty tame by comparision even though the #Left of the Labor party feels betrayed by #AlboPM.

#AusPol

Maybe the reason #AlboPM and the #ALP have so little interest in pursuing rightwing hate group #AdvanceAustralia, funded as it is by the partner of the antisemitism commissioner, is because their advertising campaign targeting the #AustralianGreens is the only reason the ALP retained, or reclaimed inner-city electorates?

#AusPol

https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/260511-albo-is-sacrificing-inner-city-labor-seats-but-for-what

There you go... #JimChalmers, a member of the left faction dominated Parliamentary causus is saying the not-so-quiet part out loud today:
"“The Australian Labor party is the last one standing in the sensible centre of Australian politics but we’re not standing still.” (Source: The Guadian - Live - today)

The old left is now the new Centre... Mission completed #albopm

PS. I did say I was stepping away from the key board today didn't I? Ah wel...

What is #AlboPM up to…? Richard Denniss has some answer, and a warning for him, here:

“It was no accident that Labor waited until after the 2025 election to announce its support for the massive North West Shelf gas project, just as it was no accident that Labor waited until after the 2022 election to announce $1.9 billion worth of taxpayer subsidies for the Middle Arm gas project in Darwin. Labor keeps betting that voters will forgive and forget their support for fossil fuels expansion, but while that might work nationwide, it’s far less likely to work in the inner-city seats Labor is hanging on to by the skin of their teeth.”

Link:
https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/260511-albo-is-sacrificing-inner-city-labor-seats-but-for-what

#AusPol #FossilFuelIndustries #LaborValuesGone #Antifa #CliimateAction #PocketedPoliticians #StateCapture

As if we don’t have enough #Grifters making a pile on #Australia ‘s slack #TaxRevenue from #GasExports here is another one to add to that pile:

“Amid renewed debate over whether Australia is getting enough tax from its gas exports, an investigation by the ABC shows how one LNG producer uses Singapore to help boost its profits.

That company is Shell, the global oil and gas super major, which is the world’s largest trader of the fuel.

Over the eight years to 2024, Shell’s LNG trading and marketing arm in Singapore made billions of dollars in profit. And it did so by buying LNG from producer countries such as Australia before on-selling the gas at a significant mark-up.”

I wonder how many more #FossilFuel #TaxEvasionSchemes are operating that we don’t know about. Wake up #AlboPM we’re all being had here!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-11/australian-gas-giants-using-singapore-to-reduce-taxes/106632272

#GasExportTax #TaxWindfallProfits #ExtractiveIndustries #Shell #AusPol #TaxReformsNow

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116546757843079296

I guess it won’t be long before the #RAN is sent in harm’s way again to support a completely #DerangedDemagogue #tRump (#KingDonny ).

It’d be great if we didn’t, but given #AlboPM ‘s lack of spine when it comes to the #Alliance… well, you know…

#AusPol