https://youtube.com/shorts/S0_4qT2o0AU?si=ogoV1Qvjp_Ci7IIL
This guy is getting funnier every week!
You did a good job daddy Alan.
https://youtube.com/shorts/S0_4qT2o0AU?si=ogoV1Qvjp_Ci7IIL
This guy is getting funnier every week!
You did a good job daddy Alan.
Australia now has 48 billionaires (up 8 since 2020, because why not?), and these 48 people collectively hold more wealth than the bottom 40% of the entire population — that's roughly 11 million everyday Aussies combined.
Meanwhile, the average Aussie billionaire's wealth grew by almost $600,000 per day over the past year. That's right — while rents climb, groceries hurt, and 3.7 million people (including 757,000 kids) live below the poverty line, the ultra-rich are casually printing half a mil a day. Totally normal, totally moral.
Oxfam is calling it what it is: inequitable, unsustainable, and amoral.
Their big ask? A 5% wealth tax on billionaires alone could've raised $17.4 billion just last year — enough to fund universal cheap childcare, extend energy bill relief for years, massively boost humanitarian aid, and actually ease the housing/childcare squeeze that's crushing everyone else.
Throw in scrapping negative gearing, killing the capital gains tax discount for the wealthy, and maybe a broader progressive wealth tax on the top 0.5%, and suddenly there's real money to fix the things governments always say "we can't afford".
But sure, let's keep protecting the system that lets 48 people out-wealth 11 million, while the rest of us argue about whether $2 milk is a human right. Classic Australia 2026.
Tax the rich. Disrupt the vicious cycle. Make billionaires pay their fair share for once.
#taxtherich #wealthtax #auspol #inequality #billionaires #oxfam #economicjustice #housingcrisis #childcarecrisis #povertyinaustralia #eattherich
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/wealth-tax-australia-billionaires-oxfam/9wsstq0nw
Australia now has 48 billionaires (up 8 since 2020, because why not?), and these 48 people collectively hold more wealth than the bottom 40% of the entire population — that's roughly 11 million everyday Aussies combined.
Meanwhile, the average Aussie billionaire's wealth grew by almost $600,000 per day over the past year. That's right — while rents climb, groceries hurt, and 3.7 million people (including 757,000 kids) live below the poverty line, the ultra-rich are casually printing half a mil a day. Totally normal, totally moral.
Oxfam is calling it what it is: inequitable, unsustainable, and amoral.
Their big ask? A 5% wealth tax on billionaires alone could've raised $17.4 billion just last year — enough to fund universal cheap childcare, extend energy bill relief for years, massively boost humanitarian aid, and actually ease the housing/childcare squeeze that's crushing everyone else.
Throw in scrapping negative gearing, killing the capital gains tax discount for the wealthy, and maybe a broader progressive wealth tax on the top 0.5%, and suddenly there's real money to fix the things governments always say "we can't afford".
But sure, let's keep protecting the system that lets 48 people out-wealth 11 million, while the rest of us argue about whether $2 milk is a human right. Classic Australia 2026.
Tax the rich. Disrupt the vicious cycle. Make billionaires pay their fair share for once.
#taxtherich #wealthtax #auspol #inequality #billionaires #oxfam #economicjustice #housingcrisis #childcarecrisis #povertyinaustralia #eattherich
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/wealth-tax-australia-billionaires-oxfam/9wsstq0nw
I'm sorry, but anyone who came out and said "we need more guns" in the aftermath of Bondi, whether family member of victims or not, have zero authority to speak on whether hate speech laws would work or not.
If your immediate reaction, in the aftermath of a terrorist attack, is "Jewish people need more guns, just like in Israel", then you're just not the kind of person I want to ever hear from, about anything, at all, ever
I'm sorry, but anyone who came out and said "we need more guns" in the aftermath of Bondi, whether family member of victims or not, have zero authority to speak on whether hate speech laws would work or not.
If your immediate reaction, in the aftermath of a terrorist attack, is "Jewish people need more guns, just like in Israel", then you're just not the kind of person I want to ever hear from, about anything, at all, ever
Politicians:
We need to get kids off social media and into the great out doors.
Kids:
‘E-bike cowboys’ swarm Sydney northern beaches golf club'
Politicians:
We need to get kids off social media and into the great out doors.
Kids:
‘E-bike cowboys’ swarm Sydney northern beaches golf club'
Keep the genocidal, white supremacist war criminal Herzog out of Australia. https://redflag.org.au/article/protest-against-war-criminal-israeli-president-isaac-herzog #auspol #ZionismIsWhiteSupremacy #GazaGenocide
several stories today saying household energy storage is equivalent to Snowy 2.0 storage. The "Mwh equivalence" is completely misleading. As DeepSeek so succinctly puts it: "Saying "X GWh of distributed batteries equals X GWh of pumped hydro" is like saying "10,000 bicycles have the same passenger capacity as one high-speed train." While the total "seat-hours" might mathematically match, they are functionally not equivalent" #energy #auspol
several stories today saying household energy storage is equivalent to Snowy 2.0 storage. The "Mwh equivalence" is completely misleading. As DeepSeek so succinctly puts it: "Saying "X GWh of distributed batteries equals X GWh of pumped hydro" is like saying "10,000 bicycles have the same passenger capacity as one high-speed train." While the total "seat-hours" might mathematically match, they are functionally not equivalent" #energy #auspol
Keep the genocidal, white supremacist war criminal Herzog out of Australia. https://redflag.org.au/article/protest-against-war-criminal-israeli-president-isaac-herzog #auspol #ZionismIsWhiteSupremacy #GazaGenocide
Trust the Catholics to not want a hate speech bill. Yeh, it needs tidying it, but anybody saying they should be scrapped is telling on themselves
Amazing how peer solidarity - & threats of defamation - can open closed minds
Report: An Adelaide festival (in Australia) apologised to author Randa Abdel-Fattah after peer solidarity & a defamation notice related to her exclusion.
The festival had excluded Abdel-Fattah for no other reason than being Palestinian after the Bondi massacre.
The festival itself collapsed when 180 writers withdrew in solidarity.
Amazing how peer solidarity - & threats of defamation - can open closed minds
Report: An Adelaide festival (in Australia) apologised to author Randa Abdel-Fattah after peer solidarity & a defamation notice related to her exclusion.
The festival had excluded Abdel-Fattah for no other reason than being Palestinian after the Bondi massacre.
The festival itself collapsed when 180 writers withdrew in solidarity.
Cartoon by Fiona Katausakas, Guardian. Fairing my most epic #alttext ever. #auspol #thehellsite
