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Max Chandler-Mather @maxchandlermather.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Trump is now waging economic war on Aus & Albanese and Dutton still want to give the US $368 billion for imaginary nuclear attack submarines. In just the next 4 years alone Aus will give Trump $18b. Why on earth would Trump back down in that context? Cancel AUKUS now. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

abc.net.au

Trump puts tariffs of at least 10pc on imports, including from Australia

The US will place tariffs of at least 10 per cent on foreign imports from Saturday, after President Donald Trump finally unveiled his long-awaited "liberation day" trade policy.

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Max Chandler-Mather @maxchandlermather.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

While millions struggle with rents and mortgages, the Commonwealth Bank has just recorded a massive $5 billion *half year* profit - up 7%. The Greens are not going to apologise for fighting to make these massive banks pay more tax to fund public housing and dental into Medicare

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Max Chandler-Mather @maxchandlermather.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I guess handing over $368 billion for submarines that will probably never arrive, signing up to whatever the hell US foreign policy is, and sucking up doesn't work. I reckon it's time we start acting like an independent country, not a vassal state of America.

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Max Chandler-Mather @maxchandlermather.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

First Nations people make up 3% of Aus's population but 28% of people accessing homelessness services. What sort of housing system is it that sees First Nations people homeless on their own land? It's well past time to end the chronic underfunding of First Nations housing.

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Max Chandler-Mather @maxchandlermather.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Two thirds of retirees who rent privately live in poverty in Australia and its only getting worse. In this wealthy country, nobody should have to retire into poverty just because they don't own a home. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

theguardian.com

Retirees who rent ‘really struggling’ financially, researchers say – and the problem is getting worse

Two-thirds of retirees in private rentals live in poverty, Grattan report finds, with more than half reporting net worth of less than $25,000

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Max Chandler-Mather @maxchandlermather.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Trump’s threat to ‘take over’ Gaza and force out all Palestinians is ethnic cleansing, incomprehensible and beyond wrong. That it’s been almost three days and Australia can’t even bring itself to say so is moral cowardice.

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Max Chandler-Mather @maxchandlermather.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Big mining corporations run the government. Once again, the PM has caved to the mining industry and broken his election promise on environment. Instead of doing the right thing by the environment, Labor choose their mining donor mates again and again.

theguardian.com

Albanese ‘spooked’ into ditching national environment watchdog – for a second time, critics say

Labor’s own environment action network laments delay of EPA legislation, stating ‘terrible loss’ would allow illegal logging to continue

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