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Newspaper, newspaper Can't take no more You're here every morning Waitin' at my door And I'm just tryin' to kiss you And you stab my eyes Make me blue forever Like an island sky And I'm not pretending That it's all okay Just let me have my coffee Before you take away the day

@ShaneOliverAMP With any hope. But the big hope is a massive drop in NOM.

Population grth remains strongest in WA, Qld & Vic but it’s slowing. Net interstate migration to Qld is cooling as interstate migration out of NSW slows…likely reflecting the deterioration in relative housing affordability in Qld. In time this will likely slow Qld home prices

@TheAusInstitute All talk for now

Breaking – the prime minister's department has requested options to impose a new tax on gas giants. This is welcome news and could be very good for the country! 👏👏👏 Read more: theaus.in/4rOupRP

@TheBarrelMind "This is not X, this is Y" This is exhausting AI "prose".

Pearl GTL has been hit – and is now offline. This cannot be understated. Pearl is not just another facility. It is the world’s largest gas-to-liquids plant, one of the most complex and capital-intensive energy projects ever built. Operated by Shell, it taps directly into Qatar’s North Field and converts gas into high-value liquid fuels at massive scale: • ~140,000 b/d of GTL products • ~120,000 b/d of NGLs and ethane This is not marginal supply. This is core, high-quality barrel substitution capacity. The project itself is enormous: – $19 billion capex – Fully integrated from offshore wells to export – Two GTL trains online since 2011 – One of Shell’s top three assets globally by value And now it’s offline. This is a structural hit, not a headline. What makes Pearl even more critical is not just scale – it’s what it produces and how it reaches the market. Shell’s downstream and global supply chain is a key advantage in monetising these specialised GTL products. Much of the base oil output feeds directly into Shell Lubricants, anchoring a high-margin value chain. The slate is unique: • ultra-clean diesel and kerosene • naphtha for petrochemicals • n-paraffins and premium base oils QatarEnergy also plays a central role in marketing, with years of experience placing GTL products into global markets. And Pearl is not just big – it is exceptionally reliable. Known for uniform, high-quality output, it has carved out premium niches: – aromatic-free fuels used in urban environments like the Paris Olympics – high-performance drilling fluids that helped Shell capture share in the US Take this offline, and you don’t just lose barrels. You lose specialised molecules, premium margins, and deeply integrated supply chains. At a time when LNG is disrupted, crude flows are constrained, and refining systems are under pressure, this removes one of the most sophisticated conversion hubs in the global energy system. The market is not just tightening. It is losing quality, flexibility, and resilience – all at once. 🛢️

Looks like an F-35 profile to me in IR. Remember: stealth is just radar optimization. We're clearly looking at IR and seeing full afterburner. One of the first design compromises in the F-35 program with Lockheed's design was this unoptimized, circular exhaust nozzle. Cost and weight cut after they beat the X-32, costs escalated our last great Middle Eastern disaster, 2003 Iraq, was consuming the DoD budget.

$3.08 at the bowser in Quilpie today. Eastbound, be interesting to see how it changes. My bulk supplier just advised he can now fill the order I put in a week before the fireworks started. It is going to hurt.

"Given this government reflexively committed us to this war with even less forethought than previous governments in the last several wars, it would more accurately be described as Albanese’s rubber-stamp war." #auspol michaelwest.com.au/costs-of-albos…

@Mon4Kooyong All talk until they do something. 40% seppo owned, 20% Japanese?

I asked the Treasurer for this in Question Time last week. Woodside and Santos are set to make massive profits from our oil and gas internationally, while Australians are struggling to afford petrol, gas, diesel, and electricity. We have to immediately change our tax settings to support Australians and get a fair return on our finite national resources. abc.net.au/news/2026-03-2…

We had no problems with Iran or it's people until we were told otherwise by the USA directed by Israel.

@jmaher568869 ...slumlord celebrity golfer

Iranian politician - PhD in quantum physics of philosophy, authored 17 books, fought in 3 defensive wars while doing 4th dissertation, speaks 3 languages US politician - borderline illiterate pedophile

Last Eid, after being displaced for more than a year and a half, we finally managed to return to our home in the southern Gaza Strip. The house was worn out and full of damage, but I tried to repair it with the very limited resources I had, without any help. I was just trying to bring a bit of life back into it, so we could feel that we had returned and celebrate Eid inside it, even if only modestly. And indeed, we managed to celebrate… despite everything. But today, nothing is left. I opened the gallery on my phone to look at pictures of our home… and I cried. Everything is gone years of hard work, all the small dreams I built with my own hands, vanished in a moment. It’s as if the house never existed, and with it, my joy and hope for Eid disappeared. This Eid is nothing like any other… I am without a home, without shelter, and without any sense of happiness.

For those not following at home it is functionally illegal to criticise Israel in any capacity as an artist now in Australia without being legally questioned. A member of the Jewish lobby actually had exclusive pre-access to the Sydney Biennale to “approve” all the art included.

All talk for now

BREAKING: Police have raided ‘Dorothy Day House’ in Greenslopes, Brisbane. The Christian community living there has been proudly displaying this now-illegal banner.

⬇️The Australian Press pack is just mouthpieces for Israel and Zionist agents in Australia. Hopefully, we will find out, via a citizen journalist, the method by which Albo and Wong have been procured by Israel. #Auspol2026

@Microinteracti1 AI. It's exhausting reading "it's not X, it's Y"

The F-35 was supposed to be unkillable. That was the whole point. Lockheed Martin spent thirty years and four hundred billion dollars, the most expensive weapons programme in human history, building an aircraft that the enemy simply could not see. Not on radar. Not on infrared. Not on anything. The F-35 was not just a fighter jet. It was a theological statement. America’s way of saying: we have moved beyond the reach of your missiles, your sensors, and your prayers. Iran apparently didn’t get the memo. Somewhere over Iranian airspace on March 19, 2026, an IRST system, infrared search and track, the kind of sensor your grandmother could probably explain, looked up, found the F-35, and locked on. Not because Iranian engineers are geniuses. Because the F-35, it turns out, is extremely hot. All that engine. All that thrust. All that carefully sculpted stealth geometry, and the bloody thing glows like a kettle. The heat signature data Iran now holds is not just embarrassing. It is a gift that keeps giving. To Moscow. To Beijing. To every procurement ministry on the planet that has been quietly wondering whether to spend the money on systems designed to kill this aircraft. The answer, as of this week, is yes. And here is the bit that should really worry the Pentagon. You can patch software. You can redesign coatings. You cannot reprogramme a pilot’s brain. Every F-35 driver who takes off from here on knows, actually knows, that someone down there might be able to see them. That changes everything about how they fly. Caution replaces aggression. Hesitation replaces instinct. Four hundred billion dollars. And in the end, it was done in by a heat sensor. Tremendous. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

So Hezbollah, that was supposed to be finished after 15 months of "Israeli surgical attacks" with support from litterly the entire west, is still monitoring the very borders with thermal cams, and sending coordinates to operation room, to send them to rocket artillery units, to hit the units in realtime. RESPECT!

Angus, trust me I'm a doctor, your have amnesia < Either that or your a natural born lying foot fungus: LETS. FACT FUCK. YOU: That, over one refinery, coming from the guy who oversaw the closure of the Kwinana and Altona refineries on his own watch. When the LNP took over in 2013, we had 7 refineries. When you left, we had 2. That’s a 70% collapse in domestic refining capacity under your government. You didn't build a single litre of new storage in Australia, you spent $94m to store 'our' oil in Texas. How does oil in America help a tradie in Brisbane during a 2026 war crisis? Stop the fart muscle from flapping Angus, you'll rupture your pooh pooh valve. You spent a decade letting the market hollow out our security and now you're shocked the cupboard is bare.

The graphs show the point clearly. There’s a concern government can get hooked on fossil revenue, but still.. #auspol Never waste a fuel crisis: the Albanese government must seize the moment and start taxing gas companies | Greg Jericho | The Guardian theguardian.com/business/grogo…

All fiscal cards on the table in Australia as Trump/Netantahu’s folly hyperinflates (5%?). ⁦@AlboMP⁩ ⁦@JEChalmers⁩ look at coal/gas extra tax 👇@isobelroe; CGT/neg gearing; cut spending. Diesel/petrol rationing if war continues + work from home/free public transport.