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@MarkDiStef The resellers are at it again. The Japanese resell the gas they buy from us and want to squeeze as much margin out of it as possible. More fool us if we believe them.

What the hell are they talking about

@sacha_coward He would also be incredibly proud of you.

I'm aware that I am in many ways immensely cringe... but you see, the person I'm most trying to impress is basically 7 year-old me. And 7 year-old me would think I was pretty cool!

🇧🇷🇨🇺 BREAKING: Brazil just announced it will send thousands of tons of food and medicine to Cuba. Despite Trump’s tariff threats. Despite the US blockade. Despite the empire's pressure. This is solidarity. This is sovereignty. This is the Global South standing together. While the US starves Cuba, Brazil feeds it. While the empire threatens, Brazil acts. The blockade is a crime. Brazil is saying no. More nations should follow.

@MikeCarlton01 Isn't this essentially a strike?

Poor Ursula. Fancy coming all this way and missing out on the chance to meet some posturing RWFW from provincial Adelaide.

OMG who made this 😭😂🤣

Australia, Big Gas is taking the piss. That’s why we made this TV ad – to make sure people know. We need a 25% gas export tax so Australia gets a fair share. ✍️Add your name and call on the government to act. Sign the petition: theaus.in/4rUsVWi

@fictillius It's looking much better since we built that freeway through the centre of the city (just out of photo)

The Yarra is looking nice and clean today

@davidyelland Is the "liberal consensus" the same people as the "extreme woke"? Just checking.

We do live in interesting times indeed. When Tucker Carlson “is the only one prepared to test the thinking” of The Economist’s editor. But he did. And she looks flustered. All of the “liberal consensus” need to look at this and ask questions.

@BrentHodgson They need more of this and less of ....... youtube.com/watch?v=2bdgE0…

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Election won by party to the left of the Liberals; Conservatives use it as an excuse to go to the right. Their death spiral is terminal, and the Australian public is showing it is moving on without the Liberals.

@Peter_Fitz The reverse... look at current Greens Leader in UK. He is claiming the progressive space and winning votes from all.

Have not followed the Greens closely, but my reckoning is that while many people support their environmental thrust, they are scared off by other policies which they regard as too extreme.

@DaveLovesMovies Hamnet

What's the last film that made you sit through the credits in stunned silence? Not processing the plot. Just feeling.

“Mummy, who’s that boy next to Mary? In the eyes of Australians, I suspect I shall always be the one standing next to Mary, and that is perfectly alright. I take that very much as a compliment.“ 🎥 Billed Bladet

@MarkDiStef He means the Australian government is giving them away

“Giving away” I mean selling them. For money. But the rest is fine.

This is Rome's most famous crime scene Today, March 15, marks the day sixty men stabbed the most powerful person on earth and accidentally destroyed the very thing they were trying to save. The lesson he died for is one the world still hasn't learned... In 44 BC, Julius Caesar was proclaimed dictator for life. He had ended a civil war, conquered Gaul, and remade Rome in his image. The poor loved him. The soldiers would die for him. But 60 senators called themselves the Liberators and plotted to kill him. At their center stood Marcus Junius Brutus, descended from the very man who had founded the Republic. Yet it was Caesar’s mercy that helped restore Brutus’s political career. Caesar had spared his life after the civil war and allowed him to return to public office... Brutus took the blade he sharpened on Caesar's generosity and drove it into his chest. But before the blood, there was a warning. According to Plutarch, a seer had told Caesar his life would be in danger on the Ides of March. On his way to the Senate that morning, Caesar spotted the man and said to him that the Ides had arrived. The seer's reply was: "Aye, they are come, but they are not gone." Caesar was stabbed twenty-three times. He fell at the base of a statue of Pompey the Great — his oldest rival. When he saw Brutus among the assassins, he stopped fighting and sank to the ground... Brutus had prepared a speech celebrating the restoration of the Republic. He was shocked to find outrage instead of praise. Caesar's death triggered civil wars. His heir Octavian crushed the conspirators at Philippi — Brutus and Cassius both died by their own swords — then became Emperor Augustus, terminating the Republic forever. The Liberators had liberated no one. They had a plan for the assassination and none for the morning after — certain of their own righteousness, blind to everything else. Every revolution led by people drunk on their own virtue ends the same way: not in the freedom they promised, but in the chaos they swore to prevent. Power does not fall into a vacuum. It falls to whoever is most prepared to catch it. The men who killed Caesar set out to stop a dictator. They created an emperor instead. That is the oldest political truth there is, and the one we keep forgetting: removing a man changes nothing if you haven't changed the conditions that made him necessary in the first place.

@TerenceMcCart14 Some grass would help diminish the military parade ground look

Hopefully we should get some decent cafes/restaurants that will spill out into the City Square and make it a true square…a place where people want to linger over a ☕️ or 🍸 and watch the world go by..

@tzk1810 And every day on the news they are wrong. No govt in Australia is out of money. We live in one of the wealthiest counties in the world with a AAA credit rating. Get real.

Every day on the news they say Melbourne is out of money and Victoria is a bankrupt state. Okay then please explain how Victoria still gets more funding for transport than NSW??

@RoryStewartUK I'm not sure if my optimism or pessimism is being rewarded but the demise of the Australian Liberal Party has proceeded at a rate beyond my wildest dreams.

We have entered a world in which our most pessimistic predictions are consistently right and our optimistic predictions invariably wrong.

@KirstiMiller30 This is the genius of Albo. The ALP now occupies the political space given away by the Liberal Party. Progressives say this is timid. Perhaps, but it's crushing the Opposition.

Moderate liberal voters in Australia appear to lack a clear political home. No extreme right or left-wing party has ever secured a victory in a federal election within the country. Typically, the centre-right parties tend to capitulate first, followed by the centre-left.

@fictillius Gosh, Melbourne. Looks better since they got rid of the railyards.

Where’s all the parking at the MCG? 🇨🇦

@MikeCarlton01 @RoryStewartUK The possibility of a Ralph Babet equivalent in the House of Lords would have the Brits rushing to democratise!

@RoryStewartUK Or possibly even elected by the people ! A radical, even revolutionary notion, dragging British democracy screaming and kicking into the 19th century.

The hereditary were the last link to historical meaning of the chamber - and idea of a House of “Lords”. The last peers were also some of the most hard-working, public spirited and committed members - particular on non-urban issues. Their removal needs now to lead to a much more fundamental rethink of the composition of the House - appointments focused on merit and independence not political patronage.