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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 2d

I asked the @australiainstitute.org.au if the Government's FOI Bill would make another Robodebt more likely.

They said yes.

That alone is grounds enough to bin this bill!

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 2d

So, Australia collects 43 cents per $100 of exported gas.

Qatar collects 46 DOLLARS per $100 of exported gas

And Norway collects 56 DOLLARS per $100 of exported oil

This is not just a piss take ... it's the out and out theft of our natural resources.

www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

‘For every $100 of gas exported, Australia gets 43 cents’: Unions open new tax battle

The federal government this week overhauled its superannuation tax reforms. Now the union movement says it should radically overhaul taxes on gas exports.

www.smh.com.au

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Rod Campbell @rodcampbell.bsky.social · 3d

My new report is out - Adani sold coal at mates rates to India, avoiding $400m in royalty payments to Queensland

...and Qld's LNP gov doesn't seem to care.

Thread below on how they did it.

Write up in @australia.theguardian.com
@australiainstitute.org.au
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Adani denies claims it sold ‘below-market coal’ leading to Queensland missing out on hundreds of millions in royalties

Adani has strongly rejected the Australia Institute’s findings, including that customers paid an average of $102 a tonne in 2022-23

www.theguardian.com

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 3d

There's a coal royalty crisis in Queensland, all right. In fact, across Australia.

It's that the greedy, destructive bastards get away with paying bugger-all royalties.

Nobody's putting a gun to the heads of these filthy corporate giants.

Feel free to pack up and leave any time you like.

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 5d

It cracks me up how the Oz and Hun go after the Allan govt. Day after day, it's the same old beat ups and unflattering photos.

Today, Victoria is unlivable due to crime and ungovernable due to the treaty 🤭

All the shouting and lies just backfire. Nobody's listening (/reading). Nobody cares.

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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 6d

Fun fact: Santos has paid $0 in corporate tax in the last 10y while selling $48bn of Australian gas.

Santos buys gas domestically and sells it overseas, increasing the price of Australian gas in our own market.

Our govt must reserve gas for our domestic industries and homes.

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 11d

Apart from that, it's all going swimmingly for the federal Liberals ...

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 11d

In the past hour:

Michaelia Cash: “Labor’s soft on borders”.

Ted O’Brien: “Labor spends, we’ll cut”.

Has someone turned the clock back a year or ten?

Do these clowns realise they were slaughtered using these same tired, false lines only 5 months ago?

They are irrelevant.

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 12d

AUKUS signed and waved through in 24 hours.

The coalition's defence-spending-to-2.5%-of-GDP policy announced less than a day after the shadow minister heard about it.

Yet it takes years to get not-even-half-decent environmental laws passed in Australia.

Our nation's priorities are screwed.

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 17d

Do you earn the minimum wage?

Perhaps you pick up a casual shift to pay your energy bills.

Either way, you pay more tax than Santos.

Crikey, I contributed more in five minutes than Santos contributes in a decade when I paid gst on my coffee this morning.

Our tax system is cooked.

Rod Campbell @rodcampbell.bsky.social · 17d

Big congrats to Santos Ltd!!

10 years. $46.7 billion in sales.

ZERO TAX

New ATO data out today.
@markogge.bsky.social @australiainstitute.org.au
data.gov.au/data/dataset...

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 17d

The ANU's audited accounts show it made a $90m surplus last year. It says you can't count nearly $250m of its income, so it actually made a huge loss. While it spends lavishly on its executives, it sacks teachers and cuts courses.

This is so dodgy.

australiainstitute.org.au/post/the-anu...

The ANU’s hidden $90m budget surplus

New analysis by The Australia Institute reveals there is no financial crisis at the Australian National University.

australiainstitute.org.au

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invictus0729.bsky.social @invictus0729.bsky.social · 25d

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 26d

If paracetamol causes autism, I wonder what causes you to become an orange far quit? Bleach martinis?

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · 26d

Albanese carefully avoids being locked in a room with the orange mad man - again. He does a lot wrong, but the PM has played this beautifully so far.

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · Sep 19

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · Sep 19

Maintaining that proud, century-old Queensland Nats tradition of burying their heads in the sand.

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · Sep 19

Imagine a world where a tiny portion of our taxes went towards music, art, festivals, fun, culture and joy ... and a tiny bit less of our taxes went to rich multi-nationals pillaging our natural resources and pumping pollution into our skies ....

australiainstitute.org.au/post/investi...

Investing in joy. How to save our declining arts sector - submission

Australian artists, writers, musicians and other creative industries helped the nation survive the COVID pandemic, yet they've been left to decline, according to a submission by The Australia Institut...

australiainstitute.org.au

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · Sep 18

The orange idiot's apparent whims and fancies are not random

theconversation.com/jimmy-kimmel...

Jimmy Kimmel’s cancellation is the latest sign we’re witnessing the end of US democracy

Under the Trump administration, the widespread, coordinated suppression of dissent is are ripping apart the fabric of American political life.

theconversation.com

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Dr Sophie Scamps MP @sophiescamps.bsky.social · Sep 18

This range of 62-70 percent is a way to appease the fossil fuel vested interests - it’s now up to the crossbench to ensure ambition lands at the top end of that band, where the science says it needs to be to keep the places we live safe 👇 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

www.abc.net.au

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · Sep 17

After his little hissy fit with John Lyons this morning, the tangerine trumpet claimed Australians "want to get along with me".

australiainstitute.org.au/post/poll-tr...

Poll: Trump a greater threat to world peace than Putin or Xi

More Australians consider US President Donald Trump a greater threat to world peace than Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping.

australiainstitute.org.au

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · Sep 17

The AFL may be able to bully weak politicians, but it can't fool the experts or the people.
Tasmania should have had a team years ago.
It should still get one.
It already has two AFL venues.

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · Sep 16

Funny how anyone left of Genghis Khan is a pinko lefty snowflake when they write about things like trans rights, but dare to provide some much-needed respectful context on the passing of Charlie Kirk is sacrilege. So much cowardly faux outrage from scared little men hiding behind fake profiles.

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · Sep 15

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out

www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

Hastie threatens to quit frontbench, issues net zero ultimatum to Ley

Andrew Hastie’s opposition to net zero emissions is well known, but his provocative comments about quitting the frontbench are a fresh test of Opposition Leader Sussan Ley’s authority.

www.theage.com.au

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · Sep 15

The root cause of so many of the world’s problems.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Sep 15

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone.

Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care.

The system is broken.

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Glenn Connley @glennconnley.bsky.social · Sep 15

Imagine being such a sap that you put the Murdoch agenda before your children and grandchildren. What a legacy. Must be so proud.