Newspoll in The Australian becomes the latest pollster to have One Nation leading on the primary vote, recording a four-point surge to 31% with Labor down one to 30%, the Coalition down two to 18% and the Greens down one to 11%. Anthony Albanese records his worst net leadership rating to date, with approval down four to 36% and disapproval up three to 60%, while Angus Taylor is down one on approval to 35% and down three on disapproval to 45%. Albanese’s lead on preferred prime minister is in from 46-38 to 44-38. The poll was conducted Monday to Thursday from a sample of 1240.
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Morten Morland
Pete Songi
Matt
Chapatte
Patrick Blower
on #Trump buying the #ChagosIslands
Ella Baron
Ben Jennings
Banx #nowak
(Some background: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjwg387040wo)
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Le Monde Cartooning for peace: Amorim, Brazil
Guy Venables
One of my cartoons for Wed’s Metro (about a dog being rescued in the middle of the North Sea in a kayak. But you knew that.)
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There was a possibly scurrilous rumour doing the rounds that Alby used to arrive at Monash (when we were fellow students) in his mum’s Roller. It was during this time that it was reported that Bolte would be arriving at the ovals by helicopter at such and such a time. We duly arrived at the appointed hour and the appointed place. Sure enough a chopper approached. It was going to be fun
It was fun all right. The chopper hovered overhead while bucket loads of chum, rotten fruit and other nasty liquids rained down upon us righteous ones.
We had been suckered good and proper.
In terms of the practicalities of a voting person in the ACT, you are right. The discussion is an in-principle discussion. It is primarily intended to get the Greens to do some very serious self-reflection on their defence and national security policies in a time when their global order assumptions are falling over very quickly indeed.
Thanks, D&M.
The Badenoch toons reminded me of the spirited Bludger discussions about appropriate tooning of Williams back in the day.
Dr Doolittle the court held that Langer votes were legit af and it was dealt with by the parliament.
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Nick Anderson
Clay Jones
Joel Pett
Bok
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Matson
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The New Yorker
The Trumps made $500 million – investors lost 93% of their money
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/6/9/800052639/community/the-trumps-made-500-million-investors-lost-93-of-their-money/
A significant test for One Nation happens on the 17th of June when Hanson is supposed to be fronting up at the National Press Club. Don’t diarise that at this early stage because I wouldn’t be a least bit surprised if she finds a reason to back out of that commitment.
If she does turn up, expect an incoherent mish mash of bullshit, but the real test, providing the journalists are genuine, will be when the questions are asked.
Will we find out how much they will spend on defence and where the money will come from? I doubt it.
Will we find out how their housing policy will affect non citizens? I doubt it.
Will they ban abortion? Will they support wage increases? What will happen if an ABC journalist asks a difficult question?
Why do they always have the board sideways?
At least the King and Queen are on the correct colour squares.
However, the choice of defence from black is questionable…
A good contribution from Robert Reich today, which he is keen to see shared.
It sheds quite a bit of light on what has gone wrong there, and where it may be heading.
You’ve heard me talk about this, but I wanted to present it in a way that would be absolutely clear.
The wealth of the richest Americans has exploded. I’m not even talking about the top 1 percent. I’m talking about the richest 0.1 percent — the top one-tenth of 1 percent.
In the 1990s, most Americans’ wealth grew at about the same pace. But after 2010, the top 0.1 percent pulled ahead of the rest of the 1 percent, and everyone else.
2010. Remember that year, because I want to come back to it.
After 2018, in part because of Trump’s tax cuts for the rich that went into effect at the start of that year, America’s richest 0.1 percent are now worth more than the entire GDP of China.
What do they do with all this money? Well, when they’re not just shooting rockets into space or building hideous trucks, they’re spending it on politics.
Billionaire political spending in presidential elections is exploding.
After the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling, it took off.
In the last presidential election, just 300 billionaire families spent roughly $3 billion. Those families gave an average of $10 million each — roughly 100,000 times what an average donor gave.
And the super-rich are getting a big return on their “investment.” They’re getting more tax cuts, more deregulation, and a government that lets them get away with busting unions, exploiting workers, and monopolizing their markets while poisoning the environment.
All so they can get even richer and accumulate even more power. So they can get even richer and accumulate even more power. And so on.
But this vicious cycle is unsustainable, both politically and economically.
When so much of our economy is in relatively few hands, we will inevitably get to the point where consumers cannot buy all the goods and services the economy is capable of producing. This puts the entire economy at risk.
It’s also politically unstable because it’s inherently divisive — pitting losers against winners and laying the groundwork for an authoritarian state — where no one’s future is secure, including the super-rich.
So we ALL have a stake in stopping this vicious cycle.
To do this, we need to raise taxes on the rich — not to punish them but to ensure that the system works for everyone. This means raising their income taxes and taxing their wealth.
And we need public financing for federal elections — matching public dollars to small-dollar donations in order to balance the power of super-rich and corporate donors. Many states and cities are already doing this — and it works.
Finally, we’ve got to undo Citizens United. One way to do that is for states to follow what Montana hopes to do and what Hawaii has already done: take away the power of corporations to make political contributions in the first place.
Look, it’s time to get big money out of politics — for all our sakes.
Please share!
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/inequality-isnt-just-unfair-its-dangerous?isFreemail=true&post_id=201220655&publication_id=365422&r=4m89gm&triedRedirect=true&triggerShare=true
The Australian Labor Government is taking the correct stance here:
“Australia joins sanctions against ‘extremist settlers'”
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/jun/10/australia-news-live-penny-wong-sanctions-west-bank-settlers-australian-politics-high-court-israel-palestine-settlers-immigration-ntwnfb?page=with%3Ablock-679b43ab8f08d7cb6f3007fa#block-679b43ab8f08d7cb6f3007fa