ellenback #factsnotfeelings

@ShiannonC My daughter has a prescription for an asthma eczema medication which is $7.70 a script to concession card holders which would be nearly $1800 if it wasn't subsidized. Our PBS is a Godsend.

“The teeming hordes of people who come here for welfare.” I wouldn't call it racist as much as I'd call it a lie. @corybernardi is a liar. The 'hordes' he’s talking about are not entitled to welfare. Cory is welcome to prove me wrong, but he won’t - because he can’t.

“The oil and gas industry told the Norwegian government that if you tax us, we won't invest," says David Pocock. "Guess what? They've still invested. Norway has a $3 trillion sovereign wealth fund now.” satpa.pe/pCwzZtN

Jillian Segal, an apartheid supporter from South Arica has really messed up Australia. And we pay her $450, 000 to totally ruin us. She is incompatible with our democracy - it's time she is sacked.

I am not always proud of my country or its government. Right now I am. Thank you @AlboMP theguardian.com/business/2026/…

Super important the government stares the Trump administration down on medicine pricing. The PBS is a cornerstone of our healthcare system. We can’t be bullied into caving in and dismantling a system which serves Australians well. theage.com.au/politics/feder…

BREAKING: Denmark says it will boycott all diplomatic relations with Israel.

"Surely Jim Chalmers cannot argue that we are unable to afford the FBT exemption for EVs but we can afford to hand $4.8 billion a year in fuel subsidies to some of the world's most profitable resource companies." | Monique Ryan satpa.pe/PeAh7Jc

Honoured to second @ChaneyforCurtin's bill to ban gambling ads today. It's good policy and Australians want it. If the Gov is too scared to stand up on this, they should at least get out of the way and let others do it for them #auspol #politas

Today 63 of Australia’s best minds, including three Nobel prize winners, have written to the PM asking him to immediately boost medical research funding. The letter was led by Prof. John Fraser, who has pioneered world-leading bionic hearts and lungs technology - technology now being developed in the US. Professor Fraser is just one of the many talented researchers within our medical research community - scientists who could do more and develop more if we supported them better. Without investment from the federal government, Australia will continue to generate brilliant ideas for others to commercialise and benefit from. In the upcoming federal budget, the government must spend the money we’ve already put aside for medical research. It'll help our health and help our economy. Find the full story on page 10 of today's Australian newspaper.

"Surely Jim Chalmers cannot argue that we are unable to afford the FBT exemption for EVs but we can afford to hand $4.8 billion a year in fuel subsidies to some of the world's most profitable resource companies." | Monique Ryan satpa.pe/cg7zDGy

Reminder it is nearly FIVE YEARS since Bruce Lehrmann was accused of rape in Toowoomba and the case is still yet to get to trial. Hope of conviction fades along with witness memories. The system is broken. #auspol abc.net.au/news/2026-03-1…

A Trump whim - costing so many lives, a million Lebanese their homes & the prospect of massive global recession. Meanwhile weapons & fossil fuel profiteers reap billions. And this is the ally we are sending billions to - for mythical subs??! Madness abc.net.au/news/2026-03-2…

This is why the UK Greens are succeeding. And it’s a lesson the Australian Greens need to learn. Meet Mothin Ali. Deputy Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales. Son of a Bangladeshi immigrant who came to the UK in the 1960s and worked as a unionised steelworker in Sheffield. Mothin grew up in that world, the world of shift work, union solidarity and communities holding each other together. He’s now a Leeds councillor in Gipton and Harehills, one of England’s most deprived wards, where 40% of residents are Muslim and the cost of living is a daily crisis. He’s not the stereotype of a working-class northerner. But his family has been in those communities just as long as anyone. His father worked the same steel. Paid into the same union. Felt the same deindustrialisation tear through the same streets. Mothin Ali is working-class Britain, as it actually exists in 2026, not as a sepia photograph. We could say the same about the working class in Australia in 2026. That’s what the UK Greens under Zack Polanski have understood. Working-class communities are diverse. They always were. But they share the same material reality: rents going up, wages going nowhere, streets hollowed out, and a political class that stopped listening decades ago. The UK Greens are speaking to that shared experience, in English, Urdu and Bangla, and putting leaders who come from it at the front of the room. Now contrast that with the Australian Greens. The Australian Greens remain culturally anchored to the inner city. Fitzroy. Newtown. University-educated, professionally progressive, and genuinely well-meaning but culturally legible only to a narrow demographic slice. When they go to the outer suburbs, the places actually doing it hardest, they have historically struggled. The difference isn’t ideology. Both parties want economic justice. The difference is who is seen to speak for working people and where those people feel the party actually comes from. Mothin Ali spent decades in one of England’s toughest communities before he ever stood for office. That matters more than some appreciate. youtu.be/VPsR1hfTaAA?si…

Andrew Brown has become a force to contend with. The mistake the lobby has made is overreach. The more you try to suppress, the more those you have suppressed will expose you. *******Groomed, captured, deployed. How the Israel lobby runs Chris Minns michaelwest.com.au/groomed-captur…

The Minister says that backing in Australian science is in our national interest. But there have now been more jobs lost at CSIRO under Albanese than under Abbott. I've been calling on the Government to deliver on long term investment and rebuild Australia's science capability. canberratimes.com.au/story/9207056/…

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been formally nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2026.👏👏👏

@redo72JR @MichaelWestBiz Yes she was terrific

@MichaelWestBiz Minns has #Snottie vibes around he time in Parliament along with his deposing of an genuinely decent Jodie McKay I'm sure this little delve will expose much more bastardry and manipulation by the powers that dictate Oz Politics.

"Chris Minns did not arrive at this moment by accident. He was built for it." Andrew Brown - how Israel groomed an Australian premier #auspol michaelwest.com.au/groomed-captur…

David Pocock has achieved more as a single Independent MP in four years than Pauline Hanson and her entire circus of expensive clowns have achieved in 20 years. #auspol