Retired wannabe Oz socialist. One of those annoying progressives that Albanese now despises, but used to rely on for support. Sigh🫣
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Robert Barton retweeted
These are not serious people.
These are absurd demands.
Russia demands Finland leave NATO and the alliance abandon bases in the Baltic states
These “conditions” were put forward by the Russian delegation during recent trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi, BILD reports.
Moscow proposes keeping occupied Ukrainian territories and taking all of Donbas, including Kyiv-controlled parts of Donetsk and Luhansk.
The plan also requires NATO to drop military bases in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and Finland to leave the military alliance.
Ukraine would get non-aligned status and renounce NATO membership, though EU membership is not ruled out. Odesa and Mykolaiv ports would be demilitarized. Agreements on free navigation in the Black and Baltic Seas are also envisaged.
Russia also wants Moldova turned into a federal republic including Moldova, Gagauzia and Transnistria. If Moldova joins the EU, Transnistria and Gagauzia could hold independence referendums.
In exchange, Moscow offers to withdraw nuclear weapons from Belarus, abandon intermediate-range missiles there, and pull troops from Transnistria.
Robert Barton retweeted
It’s now conventional wisdom in Washington as well as in Canberra that we’re not going to get the subs, and we’ll be assembling some alternative. That leaves us looking at what we’re going to get in their place. theguardian.com/australia-ne…
Robert Barton retweeted
🎯 Always. Russia has no interest in peace. In fact, it would be a catastrophe for Putin. It is using negotiations to delay action by Europe & US Congress by making it seem like there’s a way to end the war other than Ukrainian victory. There isn’t, and there never has been.
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Putin gained a lot of experience bombing hospitals in Syria. Now applying it in Ukraine. Bastards
We were on the scene minutes after a Russian drone slammed into a hospital last night in central Kyiv. I found a burning building, dazed patients & firefighters. The attack came after Ukraine reported that @SpaceX had again throttled the Starshield system theguardian.com/world/2026/n…
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Fact check: “the proportion of home loans going to first homebuyers has doubled, while the proportion of loans to investors has halved in the past year.” @abcnews
New data from the Commonwealth Bank out today shows that the proportion of home loans going to first homebuyers has doubled, while the proportion of loans to investors has halved in the past year.
There are a lot of factors at play in our housing market right now, but these figures show our reforms to make it easier for first homebuyers to get into the market are making a meaningful difference.
Because of our reforms, first homebuyers will have to compete less with established investors for limited existing housing stock, and we’re seeing some encouraging signs of that in this data.
Robert Barton retweeted
Climate protests were working, and that is exactly why the fossil fuel industry got their spokespeople in the Liberal and Labor parties to ban them.
When people organise to challenge the coal industry and demand a liveable future, suddenly they’re treated as the problem.
Robert Barton retweeted
Russáci se už úplně zbláznili! Donbas, Finsko pryč z NATO, konec aliančních základen v Pobaltí a ještě chtějí diktovat Moldavsku! To mají být podmínky míru?! Kreml je naprosto odtržený od reality! Putin si zjevně stále myslí, že může rozhodovat o osudu celé Evropy. Ani náhodou!
Robert Barton retweeted
When a missile hits a hospital in Ukraine, it's a war crime.
When a missile hits a hospital in Gaza, it's self-defense.
When a missile hits a hospital in Lebanon, it's security threat.
When a missile hits a hospital in Iran, it's pre-emptive strike.
Bombing a hospital is a war crime everywhere.
Robert Barton retweeted
The short answer is: committing genocide
"How Israel lost America" ft.com/content/33b33399-fc3a… via @FT
Robert Barton retweeted
So it appears Elon has turned off the satellites for Ukraine again. This will lead to more innocent deaths.
When will people realize he basically works for Putin?
Robert Barton retweeted
Kallas on Witkoff/Kushner: "We have institutions in place, so we can't just send any person who has no institutional role, like the Americans are sending. Clearly, we should not copy the same patterns."
The ability of this woman to grill people in the sweetest voice 🤌
Robert Barton retweeted
What Trump has done vis-à-vis Ukraine, our allies, and his own country is unacceptable.
You don’t act like that if you’re an American president.
Every move he made before the election was counter to any proper move you’d make if you were actually trying to support Republicans, and he was openly cuddling up to the Russians.
He brought them to the G20 in the middle of all this.
Americans are smart enough to know how much damage Russia has done globally, to American prestige, to American lives around the world.
And this man is an ass-kisser of Vladimir Putin.
No American president sitting on the largest military and the strongest economy in the world would genuflect to a country with an economy smaller than Italy’s.
Unless he’s compromised!!
What would be even worse is if he wasn’t compromised.
Robert Barton retweeted
New data from the Commonwealth Bank out today shows that the proportion of home loans going to first homebuyers has doubled, while the proportion of loans to investors has halved in the past year.
There are a lot of factors at play in our housing market right now, but these figures show our reforms to make it easier for first homebuyers to get into the market are making a meaningful difference.
Because of our reforms, first homebuyers will have to compete less with established investors for limited existing housing stock, and we’re seeing some encouraging signs of that in this data.
Robert Barton retweeted
Kemi B from northwest Essex gets £2,700 a month in housing benefit on a six-bedroom Grade II listed farmhouse, even though she's in a relationship with a highly paid investment banker. We need to put a stop to these kinds of welfare abuses.
Robert Barton retweeted
Gaza had over 2 million olive trees until 2023.
About 150,000 remain.
Genocide is not only about killing. It also entails intentionally destroying the conditions of a people's existence and inflicting severe mental harm upon them.
reuters.com/world/middle-eas…
Robert Barton retweeted
This is the housing price correction Australia has to have after two decades of property market distortion via neg gearing/CGT tax slush. The egalitarian Australia Bob Menzies built after WWII was based on wage earners being able to afford their own homes. Now .. let’s get inflation and interest rates down so more young families can call “home”. 👇
📈 Interest rate hikes, falling house prices and major changes to property tax rules have led to a 15% drop in new home lending in the September quarter. 🏠 That’s the biggest drop since the ABS started keeping such records in 2002. My latest report👇 youtu.be/if53fu9ShtY?si=ajny…
Robert Barton retweeted
Moment young people are told to line up and kiss David Walliams in bizarre BBC Comic Relief segment is unearthed as comic is unmasked trib.al/KRx7uMM
Robert Barton retweeted
QANTAS can't even staff the domestic terminals adequately. I recently flew business from Darwin to Adelaide, and there was not one qantas employee to help check luggage. Flying qantas is now like self-checkout at a supermarket.
