Bill Browne

Heroic. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

"A less conciliatory approach to negotiations may be uncomfortable, but historically it has not stopped collaboration" writes @browne90.bsky.social Read the full piece on The Point: https://sbrew.link/BYozFd1l

Great to see UNANIMOUS vote for climate disaster levy City of Port Phillip last night. Local councils are at front line of climate costs and are now pushing for big polluters to pay up! Great job PECAN, @alexmakin.bsky.social @justinhalliday.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/new/261008-m...

"So where does the Australian Government fall on the economic implications of AI?" "It really depends on whether you look at their words or their numbers." Read the full piece by @browne90.bsky.social on The Point: https://sbrew.link/Ls4MtUH2

“What use is a report forecasting the next forty years by a government failing to tackle the greatest challenge of our time?” said Anjali Sharma. Read the full piece on The Point: https://thepoint.com.au/new/260922-intergenerational-report-is-pointless-while-australia-continues-to-back-fossil-fuels

"The petition, which closed last month as the fourth-most popular electronic petition in NSW history, calls on state parliament to adopt laws against misleading political advertising" writes @browne90.bsky.social Read the full piece on The Point: https://sbrew.link/qzLVkCKN

“But these two narrow defeats prove that individuals matter, democracy matters, and parliament matters. Nothing is predetermined” writes @browne90.bsky.social Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

"Inequality does not merely impair economic performance; it is also a profound and direct threat to democracy," writes Professor @josephestiglitz.bsky.social in @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

Asked about the state of Australian democracy by independent Allegra Spender, PM Albanese makes a virtue of disclosing his diaries ... something he was forced to do. More on @thepointau.bsky.social live blog -- live.thepoint.com.au?post=8c155fb...

You're 9x more likely to die if you're poor in Australia. Shocking data from @aihw.bsky.social, great post by @grogsgamut.bsky.social live.thepoint.com.au?post=7543a9e...

“Now, the secretaries who head government departments are suggesting footage from Senate Estimates should not even make it online” writes @browne90.bsky.social Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

What does a vote 17 years ago have to do with next week’s disallowance motion, and what lessons might the Greens take from the CPRS history? Read the full explainer on The Point: thepoint.com.au/explainers/2...

"A group of insiders were there with the NSW Govt for two years, in all the conversations linking the park to offsets. They kept this secret from the public and the rest of the environment movement. That sounds more like the definition of a conspiracy." thepoint.com.au/factchecks/2...

Our latest Honest Government Ad is now also on YouTube. This extended version includes the insane story of California's forest offset program, which set aside 6M offset credits to compensate for a century of wildires for the next 100 years. And wildfires torched 11M offset credits in just 1 decade

It's a scam, it's a scam, it's a scam. Taxpayers will pay for 95% of the NSW Great Koala National Park. Yet Chris Minns/Bowen say $$ from climate polluters for offsets are essential. Me in The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

“The culture that developed [was] one of fear, one of intimidation, and one of carefully orchestrated cinema to make it appear what’s happening is legitimate, when it’s not,” Liz Allen told the Senate. ANU apologises for indefensible treatment of academic. thepoint.com.au/new/260825-a...

"Exclusive Brethren secretly paid far-right activists to perform stunts disrupting the federal election" -- lots here from SMH as Brethren and Advance face the Committee on Electoral Matters www.smh.com.au/national/exc...

“The broad point of the paper remains true: the patterns, habits, and relationships of Australian society have changed remarkably in the 80 years since the Liberal Party’s founding” writes Dr James Watson. Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

Three times I’ve introduced a Human Rights Bill. Three times the major parties didn’t support it. A petition signed by over 50,000 Australians demands better. Aus mustn’t remain the only liberal democracy without comprehensive national human rights protections. #auspol #politas

Former aged care min Anika Wells redacted a bunch of FoI docs -- including my name despite my consent otherwise -- because releasing might chill 'frank and fearless' advice from public servants. The FoI Commissioner rubbished that claim, ordered the release. www.crikey.com.au/2026/08/19/a...

Right now it is perfectly legal to publish misleading political advertising in NSW but more than 30,000 people have said that it shouldn't be. Add your name to the petition now ⤵️ https://theaus.in/4wHCkTr

KPMG boasted it was "essentially cleared by 'two separate law firms'", "but the omissions from the work by Ashurst and Allens are so vast as to render their conclusions a joke." Nick Bonyhady in @sydmorningherald.bsky.social www.smh.com.au/business/com...

Next week a disallowance motion wtih decide whether state #native #forests are now to have their logging deferred for 100 years if they are used as #carbon trading chips. What even is a disallowance motion you ask? @browne90.bsky.social has the answer #auspol thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...