Colin Lyttle

@DavidPocock @r_quazzy There will never be a better political time. Australians are feeling pain with the COL and fuel going up. Hard to oppose a proper tax on own resources.

Looks like the government might finally be caving to the pressure myself, others on the crossbench & especially Australians in communities across the country have been putting on them to tax gas companies making wartime profits. Australians are already paying more on petrol & we shouldn’t be paying more on beer excise than the government gets for Petroleum Resources Rent Tax (PRRT). It’s encouraging to see Treasury modelling changes to the way gas is taxed. We should have a flat 25% tax on all gas exports & enough gas exports diverted into an east coast gas reservation & we need both now. abc.net.au/news/2026-03-2…

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…

🇨🇳🇨🇺 BREAKING: 60,000 tons of rice from China sets sail for Cuba. First batch already on the water. The US blockades. China delivers. Cuba faces crisis. Beijing sends hope. Cuba Is Not Alone. The world is watching.

Israel says it is bombing bridges to disrupt Hezbollah supply lines. But on the ground the reality is stark: entire routes into southern Lebanon are being severed — effectively cutting off around 1 million people from their homes. Families who have lived on this land for generations now face the very real risk of permanent displacement, unable to return, rebuild, or even reach what remains of their communities. What is being framed as a military tactic is also reshaping the map of civilian life

@Sahar_A_Writes What a wasted opportunity. Ferguson secures an interview with an Iranian at the heart of their government and persists in trying to trap him with a pathetic Gotcha question. 🤡

"Your question is biased." Iranian official Esmaeil Baghaei calls out ABC's Sarah Ferguson who frames Iran as "making the world suffer" over striking a Qatar LNG site. He reminds: "The US and Israel are attacking our infrastructure. We did not start this war." #abc730 #auspol

We are against this US-israeli war against Iran because it's illegal, and there's no reason behind it, says Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez

We apologize to the Americans! - for establishing our country in the middle of your military bases; - for refusing to remain silent — unlike others — in the face of genocide in #GazaSOS ; - for our girls' school happening to lie in the path of your missiles... - ... #Iran

🚨 The Jerusalem Post confirms: an American F-35 has been hit for the first time in history. Iran’s air defenses — which Trump said today were completely destroyed — just hit America’s most advanced stealth fighter. The F-35 costs $80 million per aircraft. It has never been hit in combat in its entire operational history. Until today. Trump said the defenses are destroyed. An F-35 got hit. Joe Kent confirmed there was no nuclear program worth stopping. Hegseth told his son they died to stop a nuclear Iran that didn’t exist. 14 Americans dead. $21 billion spent. Zero allied warships. Pearl Harbor invoked to Japan. And Iran just hit the plane we said they couldn’t touch. Never stop connecting the dots.

Staggering. He becomes more gross by the day.

So here we have definitive proof that @Keir_Starmer just looked at the British public and LIED and LIED and LIED about what the UK is doing to Iran. Look as some of the most vicious and deadly bombs in the world are loaded directly onto planes in the UK heading for Iran.

China 🇨🇳 announces humanitarian aid to Iran 🇮🇷, Jordan 🇯🇴, Lebanon 🇱🇧 & Iraq 🇮🇶 An illegal ‘war’ Nothing to do with a ‘threat’ All to do with a ‘Greater Israel 🇮🇱’ Finally a ‘grown up’ nation thinks about the innocent A new world order is needed Isolate 🇺🇸 & 🇮🇱 now.

🇲🇽🇨🇺 BREAKING: Mexico will send oil to Cuba. Trump's blockade has fallen. 60 years of embargo. 60 years of trying to starve an island. Now Mexico breaks the siege. Oil shipments. Solidarity. Sovereignty. The US can sanction. Can threaten. Can block. But neighbors help. Neighbors deliver. Neighbors don't forget. Cuba has been alone too long. Mexico just changed that. The blockade isn't gone. But it's cracked. And cracks spread. Mexico sends oil. The world watches. The empire fumes. Solidarity wins. Every time.

Qatar expels Iranian military and security diplomats, orders them to leave the country within 24 hours. While the US bases stay. They deserve all the hate.

@abcmelbourne has been saying all day @JacintaAllanMP is in trouble. Ali Moore was repeating this with great delight this afternoon at every opportunity. The presenters must have all been offered jobs with new Murdoch bosses or they’ve been told to bag Labor for a LNP win.

I watch closely from Australia, and I agree 💯. It needed to be said.

BREAKING: 🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱 CNN claims that since the start of the US war against Iran, the country's popularity worldwide has fallen by 79%. The only country more unpopular than the United States is Israel. This could cause an additional and significant economic blow due to boycotts of US products and services around the world.

Superb from Geraldine Brooks. Hegseth, “the Ken doll from Hell.” 😅 smh.com.au/world/middle-e…

“It is time for the government to stop being afraid of the gas industry,” writes Greg Jericho, Chief Economist at The Australia Institute. “Australians have woken up to the greed and how we are being ripped off.” Read more on The Point: theaus.in/3PguiRr