David Graham

Not a bad spring day here in Melbourne.

While we are understandably preoccupied with local issues, has anyone else seen this? If it transpires, where does that leave us with AUKUS etc.? #auspol youtu.be/zjvuMaxAddc?...

In Fiji, the Albanese govt will ask Pacific countries to trust its leadership on climate, while at home it considers approving Woodside’s Browse gas project, fracking in the NT’s Beetaloo and a big coal mine expansion in the Hunter Valley. #auspol www.acf.org.au/news/fiji-pr...

When you know for certain that you are on the right track. #auspol

Sometimes you can find peace in the middle of suburbia #yarrariver

www.smh.com.au/business/mar... More than a few people have been highlighting the risks incumbent in Private Credit over the past year or two. Insiders will certainly have been aware. Yet hubris has seen some ignore the signals. Thus, sympathy for 'rich-listers' ought to be tempered accordingly.

#RMYS St.Kilda Marina yesterday evening. Courtesy RMYS Webcam.

#SBSNews. A shout out to Claudia Farhart. Up to her knees in mud in Nepal. Just the latest in a recent array of reports from various disasters across Asia this year. Stoic and professional. Great work.

Waiting out the final days of winter. #Northcote#Vic#Aust

Every dollar in your wallet is a federal government debt. It pays no interest and has no maturity date. It can be redeemed anytime for anything for sale in that currency. #auspol

The Labor Party's journey to the dark side (AKA Neoliberalism) is complete.

#auspol Labor and the Coalition are teaming up to pass the gambling advertising legislation. The following survey suggests the vast majority of Australians support stronger measures (australiainstitute.org.au/report/polli...). So tell me how this parliament is expressing the will of the people?

Australians will pause at 11am tomorrow to observe a minute’s silence, in order to reflect on the hardships endured by rich men who sabotaged their careers on purpose in order to generate maximum media coverage and victimhood status.

Welp, guess that settles it 🙃

Near the end of ‘The Big Short’ Mark Baum says ‘…in the end…they will blame immigrants and poor people’. Never a more prescient piece of dialogue, and we just keep falling for it again and again. #auspol

#auspol Let's be honest. If the only way to achieve structural reform is to break an election promise, so be it. It was not the first time, and will not be the last. It is not as if they are blatantly looting the treasury or enriching themselves through insider trading 🤔 #USA

Coming soon to a supermarket near you. Is there any chance our erstwhile electoral representatives will preempt this practice in Australia? #auspol

#auspol In this country. At this time.

The following is an interesting analysis. From an #auspol perspective, it exposes the rhetoric of both major parties as being redundant in a world that is leaving the epoch of U.S. hegemony. open.substack.com/pub/johanuni...

Free markets...😂😂😂

Back from the brink once again. However, the problem remains unresolved and occupying the White House. #auspol aje.news/9k7fl9

Time for Australian leaders of all stripes to condemn. #auspol

What if the leader of the United States, who is in effective control of Australia's defence and foreign policy, is clearly unhinged? Would that make the War Parties here rethink their obsequious obedience to Washington? Because that's the state of play, as this latest Trumpian outburst proves.

2/2 Better to tax excess profits accruing to the latter and subsidising the former. Geopolitically induced market failures do not warrant ‘standard’ policy responses. #auspol

1/2 A general increase in prices as a result of higher energy prices, ought not necessarily prompt a rise in official interest rates. Higher energy prices are a transfer of income from energy consumers to energy producers. #auspol

Hey #albomp, have the Australians that are now stuck in the Middle East also 'made their bed'? #auspol

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Anyone checked in with Larry recently?

On the RBA interest rate decision later today #auspol substack.com/home/post/p-...

Oh! “A federal judge on Friday ruled the Energy Department violated the law when Secretary Chris Wright handpicked five researchers who reject the scientific consensus on climate change to work in secret on a sweeping government report on global warming.”

"Starmer’s government has repeatedly sought to invent a conflict between prosperity and environmental protection....So when the security services say that environmental protection is in fact essential to prosperity, their report must be suppressed" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Make no mistake: the changes the Liberals made with Labor on the hate speech laws make them worse. Hear me explain just some of the impacts here.

Lorne, VIC, just now. Flash-flooding down the GOR @Wye River and beyond. Be safe people.

Make it viral.

Hit by the car? Yeah & I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn. That’s why the dude is videoed able to walk away and the ICE truck rushed to drive him out even before medics arrived

I wonder. If you are buying Exxon shares today (up ~6% in futures trading) in anticipation of windfall profits arising from the 'operations' in Venezuela, might you technically be in breach of the Proceeds of Crime Act (2002) (Australia)? #auspol #Venezuela

Today I challenge any Australian politician to say what they really think #auspol #venezuela

Are we going to be complicit again? Of course. #auspol

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This is one of those things where there is a treat every time you look at it. At the moment, I'm obsessed with 'Huge Walk/Guest Suite'

Anyone know if we are sending help? #auspol. After all... www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...

A good example of why @australiainstitute.org.au has started @thepointau.bsky.social: Not news, but it should be

#BlackFriday has no more cultural relevance in Australia than the preceding #Thanksgiving holiday. Therefore, I will not be participating in your cynical marketing exercise whatsoever.

In breaking news that everyone expected, the beetrooter has resigned from the National Party. Place your bets on which circus he joins next. NB. Odds are very very short. #auspol

Can anybody tell me anything about the new Victorian opposition leader?#auspol