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This hasn’t gone viral the way it should. Jamie Corry, an Irish lad from east Belfast, has lost his home of 13 years after masked rioters set fire to cars outside and it engulfed his house in last night’s violent chaos. He stood right there and begged one of them: “This is my house. This is my house.” They didn’t care. They burned it anyway. “They’ve done it to one of their own.” These racist, uneducated thugs and street urchins destroy everything in their path. They don’t care who gets hurt: locals, families, their own community. Just mindless arsonists ruining innocent lives with no excuse.

RT @AnnaDeMilanese: Trump lässt 900 Tiefseesensoren aus dem Atlantik und Pazifik herausziehen – ein 370-Millionen-Dollar-Netzwerk das seit…

Iraqi footballer Aymen Hussein issued a statement after being detained and questioned for seven hours upon entering the United States: “If America is so hostile towards foreign nationals, why is it hosting the #2026WorldCup?”

This group isn’t a last on the ladder team. Picking up the pieces of the Brad Scott era starts now. ❤️🖤

If we don’t explain science to the public, others will fill the gap with nonsense.

David Pocock left gobsmacked after asking why a contract - no tender - no minister sign off - has gone to a co founded by Scott Morrison’s fmr priv sec Yaron Finkelstein Home Affairs Sec Stephanie Foster has the answer, a decision by the unelected Antisemitism envoy. FFS #auspol

The average time living with MND is 2-3 years. Neale Daniher was diagnosed in 2013. For those 14 years he chose to fight for others while staring down his own mortality. Neale was the best of us, and we are better for having him 💙

We take the small wins along the way

Because no-one else would have him

System, structure and cohesion are absent, even after 4 years. That's entirely on the senior coach And we can't complain about draft picks when the club picks players that every club and pundit rate highly. Every kid in the top 20-30 are always rated by pretty much everyone

Publicly anti-renewables except for herself and Gina Gina Rinehart's company, Hancock Prospecting, has installed solar and battery systems at its Pilbara mines for dewatering operations, saving diesel and achieving 55% RENEWABLE energy penetration at those sites. .. The company has also planned a 30 MW solar farm for its Mulga Downs mine, and Rinehart has a significant investment in the Kathleen Valley lithium mine, which runs on 81% RENEWABLES (wind, solar, and battery). . These projects highlight a strategic move towards renewable energy for economic savings at remote mine sites, despite Rinehart's public opposition to net zero policies. . Hancock Prospecting mining operations Pilbara mines: Three solar and battery hybrid systems have been installed for dewatering, combining 750 kW of solar PV and 1.68 MWh of battery storage. . Renewable penetration: These systems are designed to achieve 55% renewable energy penetration at the remote, off-grid sites, resulting in ANNUAL SAVINGS of up to 250,000 liters of diesel. . Future plans: Hancock Prospecting has applied to build a 40 MW solar facility at its Mulga Downs mine. Kathleen Valley lithium mine Rinehart's role: Rinehart is a major shareholder in the project, which is operated by Liontown Resources. . Renewable power: The mine has a hybrid power station with 30 MW of wind, 17 MW of solar, and a 17 MW/19 MWh battery, which achieved an 81% average penetration of renewables in the 2025 fiscal year.

RT @aussie_billy: @FlightPlanPod Excuses like this will see his tenure prolonged and destroy the club further. Richmond started better reg…

Fun facts: In the 15 years since September 2011, the number of dwellings has increased by 2.395 million. Population (natural & immigration) has increased by 5.292 million people. Assuming 2.4 people per dwelling (a conservative estimate) there has been "over building" of 190,000 dwellings. At 2.5 people per dwelling (the latest estimate) there has been over building totalling 279,000 dwellings.

Norway and the UK drilled the same North Sea. 🇳🇴Norway got $2 trillion. 🇬🇧The UK got tax cuts. Same basin,Same era.... Completely different outcomes. Norway captured $30 per barrel in government revenue. The UK captured $11. That gap, compounded over 50 years of production, is the entire difference. Norway's model was simple: tax heavily (78% marginal rate), take direct equity stakes in fields via the SDFI, own part of Equinor, and put everything surplus into a fund invested abroad. The Government Pension Fund Global now holds over $2 trillion in assets. That's $390,000 per Norwegian citizen about 1.5% of all listed equities on earth. The fiscal rule: only spend the 3% annual real return. Never touch the principal. The UK started producing earlier, at lower prices, with a lower tax rate (40%) and no saving mechanism. North Sea revenues flowed straight into the general budget. Economists estimate the UK missed out on roughly £400 billion compared to a Norwegian style regime. The windfall largely financed tax cuts in the 1980s rather than a fund. Where things stand in 2026? Norway's petroleum sector will generate $63 bn in net cash flow this year alone feeding a fund already large enough to cover 10-15% of the national budget from returns alone. The UK is a net energy importer. Since 2021 it has paid countries like Norway more than £100 billion for gas. One country treated oil as a finite resource to convert into permanent financial wealth. The other treated it as income. image source:eia

"Over the last ten years, the population has increased by 16%, and the number of homes has increased by 19%." "The housing crisis wasn't caused by a drop in supply." @MattGrudnoff @auspol

I call absolute bullshit. At the end of 2023 we apparently decided on a rebuild but then that off season brought in Setterfield, Goldstein, McKay, Gresham and Duursma, let D’Ambrosio walk and delisted Voss? #godons

“We made a very, very conscious decision at the end of 2023 that we needed to reset our list. We went to the draft ... it’s crystal clear what we did at the end of 2023."

Looney Tunes hasn’t aged well

GOOD POINT TOM The ABC’s @TomisCrowley makes an excellent point in this article Some journos asked me about the cost of the Coalition policy, and I (mostly) used the PBO’s Build Your Own Budget tool to come up with some numbers But Tom points out that PBO spreadsheet assumes a year’s delay, and he’s right When I use my own model, I get $m costs that look like this 2028-29 3,300 2029-30 6,500 2030-31 10,300 2031-32 15,800 2032-33 21,900 2033-34 28,600 2034-35 35,400 2035-36 43,100 And that’s essentially where Tom lands too Some quick thoughts: •That says the Coalition has a bigger hole to fill to pay for those cuts •It is also a reminder that the medium term budget is built on inflation •Or, to put that another way, governments rely on that ‘inflation tax’ to pretend the budget is in better long term health than it is See abc.net.au/news/2026-05-15/c…