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When Ted Turner asked Carl Sagan if he was a socialist, Sagan gave an answer that redefined what it means to be a civilized society. It wasn’t about politics or ideology.

@strangerous10 Enough Bran to give you the total shits 🤬

Sarah Hanson-Young skewers BCA Chief Exec Bran Black after he tries to keep his "consultations" secret while he lobbies against taxing gas giants. SHY: “Embarrassment is not a stance for public interest immunity.” “You can’t hide because it’s uncomfortable for you.” 🔥 #auspol

@Terrytoo69 Using corporate third parties to deliver essential government services is a total neoliberal disaster every time. Why do we persist with this corrupt fraudulent model?

NDIS is going to be a big number in the budget but I feel sympathy for government (of any colour) because any well meaning innovation turns to shit when private enterprise _ particularly grasping small business _ gets involved. Name one that hasn't been fucked over by grifters..

@SandiHLogan @Shell They deserve a 33% tax just because of this performance 🤬

Appalling performance by @Shell’s most senior Australian executive managing its revenues and exports. She has no idea. None. Before a parliamentary enquiry. What did she think she’d be asked — how much a paddle pop costs in a Shell servo in Dubbo?

@KellieTranter $350 billion for submarines but helping those most in need is unaffordable. 🤬

You know it's budget time in Australia when politicians and insiders talk about a program that assists some of the most vulnerable people in the Australian community as being financially unsustainable but at the same time defence spending is increasing at record levels and we're already paying $500 billion ++ for the possibility that we'll get a couple of subs 15-20 years from now. #auspol #NDIS #federalbudget #priorities

@ScottAtkins7 @AusPoll6 🤣🤣🤣

@Equidae3 @AusPoll6 Howard had Australia in a good spot. It's Labor fucking it up. They keep putting us in debt

Anthony Albanese favourability 🟢 Favourable: 31% (14% strongly) 🔴 Unfavourable: 52% (36% strongly) ⚪️ Neutral/unsure: 15% ⚫️ Never heard of: 2% 🔴 Net favourability: -22 Spectre Strategy | 2-8 Apr | n=1002

@strangerous10 @TheAusInstitute Australian politicians looking after the gas industries while telling us there is no money for aged care, healthcare, education and basic services.

Susan McDonald went on to ask Dr Denniss if he is trying to kill off the fossil fuel industry. Denniss “No, I want to milk it!”💥

Dr Richard Denniss dismantles the gas industry’s favorite threat. If taxes kill investment, why is the gas industry rushing to Norway to pay 78%? 🙄 “They are playing us for fools.” 🔥 Nationals’ Susan McDonald has no rebuttal & scrambles to change the subject. #auspol

@strangerous10 @TheAusInstitute If Labor invested in regional areas with tangible and significant health services using resource tax revenue it would turn the regional political landscape upside down. But they won't because they are too gutless for any reform or significant change from the status quo.

@deniseshrivell It's extraordinary and appalling that in my lifetime our government has gone from an egalitarian forward thinking democracy to a neoliberal racist kleptocracy and enabler of genocide.

After the 2019 election result - to now see how weak the Labor Party is - and realise they really are cut from a very similar cloth to the LNP - has been the greatest #auspol disappointment for mine. We had such expectations. I was SO naive 😞😞

“Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.” — Carl Sagan

“Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.” — Christopher Hitchens

@aaronsmith Of course, a female Frydenburg clone 🫤

Jess Wilson’s pre-Parliament experience was as a staffer for Josh Frydenberg, followed by a stint with a business lobby group. That may be why her stale policy offering sounds like a Morrison–Matt Guy tribute act: gas, gas, gas - Australia’s most expensive electricity.

“The Earth is the only world known so far to harbour life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit? Yes. Settle? Not yet. Like it or not, for the moment, the Earth is where we make our stand.”

@plesbilongmi Welcome to Australia where educated and experienced leaders are sneered at and rapists and murderers are held up as heroes and role models.

Really poor form by Lucy Zelić Suggest she actually do some research on this appointment before making knee jerk smears.

@JoshButler When Whitlam was removed from office my mother stood in the kitchen and cried. Now I know why she was so devastated.

PM Albanese has extended Australia's deployment of a Wedgetail military plane and ADF staff Asked if Israel’s escalating strikes on Lebanon were a threat to the ceasefire and reopening the strait of Hormuz, he would only say: “we want to see a ceasefire” theguardian.com/australia-news…

@PeterCronau An election shouldn't be a trap.

An alliance shouldn’t be a trap.

"Beware the beast Man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death."

“Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.”