Nick McKim

There is plenty that Labor could do to put downward pressure on inflation, like making price gouging illegal and making the top 1% and big corporations pay their fair share of tax.

The top 1% will be popping the champagne at the extra money they’ve just been handed by the Reserve Bank and a Labor Government sitting on its hands.

Today’s interest rate rise will further entrench economic inequality and deliver more money into the pockets of the 1% at the expense of renters and mortgage holders.

Thanks to Madeline Habib for her activism, advocacy and work promoting today as a National Day of Action. All eyes on Gaza.

Call Foreign Minister Wong and your local MP to demand they take action to protect the Australian members of the flotilla, and bring them home safely.

While ordinary people, including Australians, are risking their lives in an attempt to aid Palestinians, Labor refuses to act. The Australian government continues to be complicit in the genocide in Gaza.

Six Australians were abducted and abused by Israeli forces in international waters this week for trying to deliver aid to the people of Gaza.

Today is a day to reflect, and for allies, a great opportunity to recommit ourselves to the ongoing fight for queer rights in this country.

While we've come a long way since this day both in Tasmania and around the country, we still have work to do in ensuring that LGBTIQA+ folk feel safe, supported and loved in our island home.

On this day 29 years ago, Tasmania became the last state in Australia to decriminalise homosexuality.

The best thing Labor could do to bring down inflation is to stop backing this war and make corporate price gouging illegal across the economy.

We are now staring down the barrel of another rate rise, which will make things even worse for renters and mortgage holders who are not causing the problem and who are already being smashed by cost of living pressures.

Trump’s senseless war on Iran, supported on day one by the Prime Minister, is making the cost of living crisis worse for everyday Australians and increasing the risk of another interest rate rise. The longer the war drags on, the more that everyday people will pay the price.

The AFL as an organisation and as the custodian of a beloved sport, has fallen badly short here. It should be taking a leadership role to stamp out homophobia, and that means no longer excusing homophobia.

This ruling is a green light for homophobia and shows the AFL is not serious about fighting for equality. The totally backwards logic that underpins this decision is a slap in the face to queer Australians, particularly those who have been made to feel unwelcome in Aussie rules.

The AFL Appeal Board’s decision to slash a penalty imposed for a homophobic slur is appalling, and its statement of reasons makes it worse. Homophobia should have no place in the AFL, or our society at all, and the AFL Commission needs to intervene and make that clear.

Introducing our soon to be new Tasmanian Greens Senator Vanessa Bleyer!

Labor had made Australia complicit in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and in the US and Israel’s illegal war in Iran. It’s bullshit. We cannot continue this way, we must stand for peace and against war. #nowar