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Big deliberate push of the Overton Window designed to move the narrative to the ridiculous. Genocide combined with crypto grift. I’m sure they are all laughing at the audacious stupidity of their “plan”. It deserves outright rejection without compromise. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
One protester said she loved the country, “Just not its people, its government, its policies, its cities, its suburbs, its taxes, its laws, its restaurants, its internet, its cyclists, its TV shows, its direction or its culture. Although I do quite like Yum Cha on a Sunday with the family”
I felt safer when there was no yum cha.
Yeah, I’m sure the mums and dads here are just good honest bigots. Salt of the Australian earth. Is this the equivalent of “but he never murdered his family before..”? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
I find it disrespectful when people, such as Pauline Hanson, wrap themselves in our flag and treat it as a cheap theatrical prop to push their political agenda. Anne Maki, Alphington @theage letters
Alternatively the government could just be open with people why they do what they do. They’re scared because the choices they sometimes make are not in our benefit.
Elon is a Nazi. To say he incorrectly posted fake numbers is to suggest he made a mistake rather than that he goes out of his way to boost white nationalism and fascists. Why be so polite to a Nazi??
I hope she realises that her people are on the list too???
Courage? Well the Labor government are pretty courageous in pushing through things that we don’t like, like buying shitty expensive subs and supporting genocide. But for things we want, like a liveable planet they seem a weak as Albo’s piss (I hear it is the weakest form of piss).
I think this whole loss of Australian identity and culture can directly traced back to when we started to drink craft beer. Somebody bring up the graphs. Thanks.
I’m more surprised that they don’t recognise that is just violent white fundamentalist Christian nationalist culture that they are importing into Australia… 🇦🇺 why can’t we come up with our own wacko violent ideology, eh??
David Rowe march from australia..Financial Review
@albomp.bsky.social I gather turning up to a neo-Nazi anti-immigration protest rally gets a censure motion in parliament? Have you asked your special anti-semitism envoy if her husband’s donation helped fund the anti-immigration protest by the way??
She’s probably too busy hiding funding of today’s rally to work on manufacturing evidence.
Sam Maiden, thanks for the complex background to Bob Katter, but he’s an adult who bears responsibility for his behaviour, and if he is so troubled by this aspect of his identity, he should get proper help and not make others carry the cost. #insiders
The government refuses to release ONI - this government have zero credibility on climate. They prefer to bargain with the laws of chemistry and physics. 🌏
@theguardian.com - you might want to use Elon’s Nazi salute picture here… just so the world gets the kind of dangerous dickhead he is.
Imagine if our authorities showed such tenacity pursuing the ones who DID the corruption. Lol hello NACC u still there?
QLD is full of weird fucked up people. Bob somehow managed to make a career out of being totally off planet. But I don’t have time for any of this because everyday someone points their finger and another fairy dies! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Richard Marles navigating the White House. www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
Don’t need a conviction to destroy your life. The Australian is cruel and vindictive government to people that speak out against it’s actions
Richard Boyle has walked from the court after eight years of hell with NO CONVICTIONS. A small win in an otherwise disgraceful prosecution. #auspol
David Rowe in AFR
Iran is a terrible theocracy that imposes suffering on its people and neighbours… but considering who we consider to be friends… I’m not sure we’ve thought this through. How many hospitals have they blown up I the last couple of years? Like literally. Repeatedly.
David Pope in Canberra Times
Subjugate. Today’s @theage cartoon
BREAKING: The Senate has just voted YES to our inquiry into the social media age ban & search engine age verification codes! This isn't just about kids - it's a national age verification and identification system masquerading as being about online safety for children. 🧵
It has the Streisand effect about it.
Trust Labor to fail to read the room. Good dog. Sit. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Outside the US we have strong public healthcare and a distinct lack of nutters in charge. The US has been trying to use its power to destroy and privatise healthcare across the world for decades. You’re just in the realisation of the end state now.
Is there anyone left to surrender? Hamas is really the perfect foil. I wonder if Israel would get a better result if stopped bombing hospitals and rescuers??
David Rowe wtf.. wtf.. @FinancialReview
Last year this would have been called communism, this year it’s called?
The number of emergency vehicles going through the protest today is pretty alarming. VicPol going to boost the numbers of blocked emergency vehicles? #free-Palestine-protest
Government is more likely to tear it down and build flimsy apartments - now that Labor wants to destroy environmental laws and reduce pesky red tape.
Yeah, just ditch all the rules, man. Them builders are too busy to care about rules for bugs and grass and stinky animals. Concrete and tar the 🌏. Because, if you can trust anyone with our national heritage, it’s fuckin greedy builders who can’t fill forms. #Labor www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
“Protect the children” by introducing the biggest reforms enabling mass surveillance and the end of anonymity online. That’s the end game here people.
www.theguardian.com/environment/... Funny how the only major tax reform is targeted at EVs. Easy target. “These EV drivers have been freeloading off government subsidies for too long!” - seems like the government is really run by 2GB talk back.
Bad news good news. My @smh @theage cartoon.
Well, no, not really. I think it was very clear that they were working for them while in office too.
“Only a weak leader would ever have a secret nuclear program. The United States needs to step in and ensure that this deal is ended immediately," said the Israeli PM. theshovel.com.au/2025/08/21/n...
Sorry, too busy ignoring a genocide to worry about ignoring climate change
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Wow - what a “gas led recovery” moment. How predictable. Reduce environmental protections. Can we choreograph this farce any better??
Ha ha, @albomp.bsky.social trying to reason with a war criminal. Maybe should have shown some backbone earlier
You can see just how mean tricky and cruel they truly are. Seems they are capable of destroying “strong relationships” when it’s them that are hurt.
Looks like the appeasement of a genocidal regime is working out well. @albomp.bsky.social wouldn’t want this character assessment to stick. So will he hide or find some minority to crackdown on to appear tough?? Is that the end of any Palestinian recognition? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Ouch. Too true
David Pope in Canberra Times
Productivity round table @theage
Albo is morphing into “get a better job” Joe Hockey every day. Next, I hear, he is taking up cigars.
Subsidising landlords sucks capital from investments that can earn the country money. Landlords are the ultimate leeches on productivity. Labor won’t do any real reform. Labor will sacrifice the environmental protections instead - because who doesn’t hate a greeny??
Netanyahu led Israel into genocide in Gaza for its crime of supporting Hamas, when he had been doing the very same thing for years.
They’re like the Epstein files….poison for Labor and the 1%.
There are lots of problems with copyright, but AI creators don’t give away their content, why should creators? If AI is going to suck up livelihoods based on the efforts of others then they should pay! Otherwise it’s just corporate theft disguised as innovation. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Read more: theshovel.com.au/2025/08/11/a...
Sure. If we are in a centuries long tribal religious feud and decades of occupation… sure. Maybe we would. But only if we drastically lowered the value of human life.
I hear they are tasking Deloitte to come up with a new set of modern principles as we speak. I think for too long we have been hung up about human in humanity. I mean seriously - where is the profit in that???
In Victoria police gentle coral Nazi protesters… climate or anti- war protesters get a much more brutal result. Wonder how many police recognise their day shift buddies? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...?
Jeepers - they are getting really serious now. The equivalent of “don’t make me come in there!”. Bombing hospitals, killing doctors, aid workers, journalists, starving a population - not enough. Might as well go back and watch love island or something Penny. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
#MarchforHumanity
David Pope in Canberra Times
🚨Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal's "husband" claims are a lie – the couple have been donating together for decades, investigations reveal. The couple’s donations were even overseen and applauded by a sitting NSW Premier... Explosive 👇 theklaxon.com.au/lztu
Jeepers @senatorwong.bsky.social - such formidable action. Of all the levers you have to pull to protest this action in Gaza you choose “do nothing, have a cup of tea”. If only Woodside had an interest in Gaza 🙄
They write shit for clicks.
“Having something like GPT-5 would be pretty much unimaginable at any previous time in history” said Sam Altman. Not widely read??
Defund Uni’s that support scarves and prams.
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Hmm I think the problem is we don’t consume it... The problem is that supermarkets wrap every single item in it. It’s their fault. “We still have a real problem in that we consume too much [soft plastics], we discard too much and we don’t buy back anywhere near enough,” says Gayle Sloan
David Pope in Canberra Times
Remember when @albomp.bsky.social promised to protect #whistleblowers? Mcbride is in prison and Boyle continues in court. #auspol
@7ampodcast.com.au See ya- unsubscribed www.theguardian.com/media/commen...
Nothing can be done to address this …. Yet Labor turn the world over to stop 16yr olds watching YouTube…which is worse for their future? Tax the rich. Tax the polluters now.
There’s also a wonderful variety of porn available where you don’t need an account.
Fifteen-year-old Jake Nelson won’t be able to use TikTok once the Government’s social media ban is introduced, but is comforted by the fact he’ll be old enough to watch a thousand ads from Sportsbet about the latest odds at Randwick. theshovel.com.au/2024/11/11/t...
Think we entered the upside down 🫠 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
So they can control “legacy platforms”…what are they going to do about AI??? They are years and years behind technology
Funny how some groups get their very own voice to parliament without having to bother with annoying things like submitting themselves to the court of public opinion. It turns out you just need to be rich AF
Wow
Man-made mass starvation. Today’s @theage @smh cartoon
Just how long do you have to do the genocide before before your government takes action and puts sanctions on the leadership and the support for Israel in their actions @albomp.bsky.social ?? I believe everyone can see how hollow your words.
It’s actually a sign of the stupidity of Brexit and the UKs issues rather than how wonderful Australia is…why we hitch our wagons to dying fucked up empires is beyond me
Inhumane aid delivery area. @theage
In the Australian government’s strongest condemnation of Israel yet, the prime minister said the actions of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government in denying access to aid “cannot be defended or ignored”. “The situation in Gaza has gone beyond the world’s worst fears,” Albanese said in a statement. But….
The #ICJ's ruling on the obligation of states in regard to climate change is now up. Unanimous ruling that states have a legal obligation to protect the environment (and human rights) and that there are legal consequences for breaching that obligation #climate #auspol www.icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...
Truly pathetic given they are not censuring One Nation members for turning their back on the Welcome to Country.
How bad is it that the only sanctions Labor are prepared to exercise are against those that oppose the genocide in Gaza. What a perverse sense of perspective. @australianlabor.bsky.social
Meanwhile, at Canberra Airport… @theage
Donors over people. They both have the same masters.
Based on past performance and other world events? 🚫 Thoughts and prayers.
David Pope in Canberra Times
Imagine running an organisation that fed off the misery of people who it claims as fans.
Mordoch likes things he can control. Trump is a buffoon
Exclusive | The government claimed it had nothing to do with handing $900 million to an Israeli company steeped in the Palestinian genocide. New documents show that's false, writes Bernard Keane.
Probably won’t be written as part of any university Ph.d or research… maybe a few minor newspapers.. at least not in Australia.
This was a typical knee jerk reaction by @albomp.bsky.social and the ALP to manage a crisis. They didn’t even announce an Anti-Islamic envoy until much later, like it was an afterthought. The ALP have been duplicitous on supporting the genocide abroad and quashing the opposition at home. Typical 👎🏾
David Pope in Canberra Times
You can just imagine what else they use they tax break family trust to fund. Settlers in the West Bank? Labor are such incompetent try hards captivated by pro-Zionist agenda and propaganda.
#FOI is appealing to Govt. That is: 1) Govt makes a shonky access refusal decision. 🤬 2) You ask the Information Commissioner to review it. 3) You wait 3 - 5 years to win. #delay 4) Govt appeals to the ART on new grounds (i.e. try again). #AbuseOfProcess 5) You pay the Govt’s legal costs. #auspol
If only there was some way to hold Trump accountable says WaPo … like some mechanism … you’ve tried your boss standing behind him..