ABC Political lead Sam Maiden on RN this morning asked what she thought of PM's Future Made in Australia speech.

'It was just full so much jargon and gobbledygook that I really felt at points I was going to lose the urge to live.'

More top notch analysis from your ABC.

Clubs'n'pubs hold over the Minns Govt demonstrated by (unsurprising) dud industry cashless gaming trial. Govt trial has the same built-in fault. Doubt that's accidental.
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So much for opposites attract

The PM giving a speech about industry policy, while Dutton is comparing a protest in Sydney to the Port Arthur massacre.
Just about sums up the prevailing levels of seriousness in our politics atm.
(BTW, 'Interventionist' is such a loaded term.)
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Buried the lede:
Dutton has effectively told the Israel government it can ignore Air Chief Marshall Binskin because he is a stooge, his appointment a matter of internal Labor politics.
Dutton has no interest is ensuring justice for a dead Australian.
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Where were you when the leader of the opposition officially lost his mind?

Andrew Feinstein, genocide scholar and Jewish former member of the ANC, on western complicity in the Gaza genocide:

'The so-called western world is prepared to sacrifice the entire architecture of international law that has been in place post-World War 2 specifically to prevent…

It's reasonable to conclude he does see and doesn't care.

Ahead of tomorrow's parliamentary elections in S. Korea, green onions have emerged as a symbol of growing public frustration over the cost-of-living crisis and the perceived disconnect between politicians & ordinary citizens. My latest with justin mccurry: theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Wait, what are you Tweeting?

six months into the livestreamed Israeli genocide and this is the first time Gaza has been headlined on #Insiders . Reminder that the genocide is being committed against Palestinians.

1/ 🧵 The Murdoch media and some powerful groups want to bring down my colleague Randa Abdel-Fattah. Make no mistake, this is part of an organised and orchestrated campaign to destroy her career.

Let me show you some of the incredible things she's written over the years.

Let's…

With massive media reach..,pretty much corrupted journalism in this country. Go through the day with Seven breakfast, Murdoch and Seven West media papers, Sky News (especially from 5pm on), almost all talk-back radio and commercialTV current affairs and despair!

Victorian Greens leader Samantha Ratnam has just announced she's nominating to run as the Greens candidate in the federal seat of Wills, currently held by Labor's Peter Khalil.

Whole thread, but this

IF this headline makes you despair about current state of the ABC, don't read the actual article. Ffs.

Why Labor apparently doesn't want to govern in Tasmania: some discussion.
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In the history of the labor party: when have tax cuts alone been considered cost of living relief?

In all the historically bold ideas and reforms of Labor, where does a tweaked version of Scomos tax cuts rank?

Exactly right.