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BREAKING: Rep. DeGette gets heated with a constituent pressing her on why she voted to send bombs to Israel: "If this the only issue that you care about is this issue, then you should not vote for me" DeGette, who's 68, is facing a primary challenge from @MelatKirosCO.



Shell's Pearl GTL facility in Qatar stops production after attacks reut.rs/40HzVdT reut.rs/40HzVdT




In 1997 Australia sold $800 million of agricultural products to Iran and this would have grown had the USA not imposed sanctions killing this trade. Iran has done Australia no harm and at 90 million people, wealthy with oil revenue, it could have been a great customer.




DJ Haram is currently under police investigation following comments made during a speech at the 25th Biennale of Sydney. ra.co/news/84784

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…













