You would think this is an open and shut case. What is going on?
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You would think this is an open and shut case. What is going on?
Even I am astounded over lack of legal response to criminal assault. Then further astounded that the PM did not condemn it. What IS going on?
I donโt think so. Could be wrong. Labor needs to release Climate Change Risk Assessment as it affects every decision from net zero, mining approvals, housing, insurance etc.
Where are the charges? Where are the police?
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No penalties for non compliance will do that
โThe attorney general, Michelle Rowland, has announced the biggest changes to transparency rules in more than a decade, including new charges for freedom of information requests to government departments and ministers, as well as tougher rules related to cabinet confidentiality.โ
โLabor facing backlash over plans to curb access to government information Changes announced by Michelle Rowland include new charges for FoI requests as well as tougher rules related to cabinet confidentiality.โ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne....
โBowen says waiting to hear from experts about methane leak Santos Darwin. Monique Ryan asks energy minister if he will deny gas company Santos any further approvals, Santosโ Darwin LNG facility has been leaking massive methane for almost 20 years.โ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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โChris Barrie joined Spender and other cross benchers today, urging greater action to tackle climate change. The government under pressure with decision on 2035 targets and release of climate risk assessment due this month. Albanese says heโll be attending PIF next week as a participant.โ โก๏ธ
Australiaโs modern slavery laws among weakest in developed world and Aust risks becoming โdumping groundโ for goods made with forced labour, Australiaโs first anti-slavery commissioner Chris Evanโs has said. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Finally! Excellent
Some good ones. Quite a few bad ones. Some very average ones. A couple of forgettable ones. One or two who were downright strange. But I can't think of a single PM in my 60+ years who met the definition of 'an empty vessel'. Until 2024.
Honestly just the way he looks at reporters when they ask a question is โฆ weird. Super strange and unsettling.
Add cheeses and itโs DIY Pizza Shape ๐ญ
Pepperoni on Clix crackers for a Tuesday afternoon snack.
Thomas Sewell is a NZ born Australian. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_....
Climate change is making natural disasters like floods & bushfires more frequent & extreme, costing everyday Australians billions of dollars every year. We need a climate disaster compensation levy on fossil fuel exports now. #auspol ๐ Add your name: theaus.in/fossilfuelco...
Trump and children?
NEW: Many of the unaccompanied minors who Trump is trying to traffic to Guatemala today are in foster care - some of which seem to be Christian facilities. These 10 represent a putative class of nearly 600 children nationwide. Our government is trafficking children.
Obviously, didn't see the video evidence that the rest of us saw.
Oop, my bad. Thomas Sewell was apparently defending himself when he and his boyfriends stormed up a hill and bashed women begging them to leave. Thanks for clarifying, Herald Sun. Very responsible reporting. Good to see that providing cover for Nazis is how youโre choosing to play this one
Brexit's ROI
And its leaders need to face a judge
Palantir needs to be burned to the ground.
500k contract with the company that supplies the Israeli military in its genocide to be used in childrenโs services in Coventry So much of the UK is being sold off to US companies www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Israel kills Middle East Eye journalists in double-tap strike on Gaza's Nasser Hospital - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-kills-middle-east-eye-journalists-gaza-nasser-hospital
Miami researchers are testing a textured seawall designed to hold back water and create a home for marine organisms buff.ly/sPOZ8iQ
A good first step in reining in the social and epistemological damage caused by chatbots would be to ban their use of the first person pronoun. We are being sold the notion that they are sentient and humanlike. We forgive errors in humans. We mustn't in AI, any more than we would in calculators.
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. ๐งต
Round and round. My @smh @theage cartoon.
This is it in a nutshell: firing at a hospital to take out a camera is a war crime, no question and no defence, but the media don't even recognise what they're normalising anymore.
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Brings a very different history perspective which I had forgotten
Corporate capture of Defence Dept on full view. Due diligence? No worries.
Makes perfect sense ๐
Another of Laborโs CLIMATE MACHINES Unregulated Profit above everything else Left to pump methane into the atmosphere - the most potent climate warming gas - to fuel accelerating climatic catastrophe 24 hours, 7 days a week In Laborland there are no consequences www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
#Genocide by #Israel.
#EndImpunity for #Fascism and #Violence @albomp.bsky.social! - #Australia #auspol
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Good. Cheer on for me.
Taco ran regular advertisements for young girls to work at Taco Lago, Epstein & Maxwell trafficked some of those girls, was it by design, or by coincidence ?๐ค
Agree.
I can't understand why we are sucking up to this regime to get AUKUS done, when to me it is a disastrous idea, foisted on this government by in my opinion the clown & worst ever prime minister, Morrison.
โFormer foreign minister Bob Carr says he will be attending โVictory Day" military parade in China's Tiananmen Square Wed 3 Sept., to mark Japan's surrender World War II, describing it as "a historic event worth celebrating". Former Vict premier Dan Andrews too.โ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08....
Venezuela has lots of FF If you have something Transnational Organised Crime wants, you are in peril. #auspol
Just wow .. The silence on GENOCIDE was a defence of profits The tepid words just a diversion from the lies Wong and Marles gave in Parliament
Foreigners can do no wrong as far as our regulators are concerned. Lap puppies all & traitors to our nation.
Corporate capture of Australian governments and regulators very evident in every industry. @jimchalmers.bsky.social @albomp.bsky.social #auspol.
Dr Abul Rizvi: โIT WOULD BE EASY to dismiss the anti-immigration rallies of Sunday 31 August as the rantings of neo-Nazis and White supremacists. But they were much more due to both major parties leaving a vacuum on immigration and population policy.โ
Dr Abul Rizvi: โDecades of political ducking and weaving on migration policy have fuelled public anger, leaving space for extremists to hijack the debate.โ independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
โAussieโ Don Bradman was the son of migrants. The ignorance of the sheep following the lies trotted out by the right wing press is gobsmacking.
I think all of us as Australians need to think very carefully about what we have as a country, our diversity, our strengths and our freedoms It is we who put politicians in place - we can't then blame them for all their shortcomings. We share the blame The duopoly is our greatest danger
It's the brainless politicians and pretend Sky Lies journalists etc who haven't got anything else to offer that default to this nasty rhetoric. It appeals to the deplorables and ignorant ones. We can flip bit this is a cohort that thrive on division and blame others for their stupid life choices.
Agree. For me a country that is multicultural with links all over the world has huge potential in the current age of global uncertainty. Huge language and cultural knowledge for all kinds of cooperation. #auspol
"Flipping the script" might mean "migrants" who have been here for some time, raised families, paid taxes and are part of our community, stand up and fight back against fascist calls for reform Most Australians love multiculturalism and understand that without immigration we would not be a country
I've said here the duopoly has completely destroyed both our foreign and defence policies Our foreign policy - who are we if we cannot, indeed refuse, to speak up about GENOCIDE in Gaza (and Sudan)? Nor are we actively helping Ukraine The duopoly firmly inside the Amerikan orbit, Labor retreating
Individuals canโt build a Great Pyramid or a steam engine or a fighter jet, or abolish slavery or laws It takes the wealth, the organisation and the expertise of a society to do so Thatcher was wrong on many things
Thatcher actually said "There is, as you know, ... no society ...". The "as you know" is predeterminative, suggesting you know this to be a fact so there's no point in disputing it.
"There is no such thing as society" ๐ค
Thank you! We do agree on many things and we must hope many agree with us - together we can only hope to make change
So agree !
And we all wonder why our society is increasingly dysfunctional and decaying from within Rot starts from the top - a duopoly that has no message, no values, no expertise, nothing to offer except self-serving ideology We also have pugilists in Parliament offering to smash in the face of journalists
The duopoly needs to take a bow. Sky news, greed before those struggling, jailing climate & nature protesters, intentionally dumbing down the public and devaluing expert / professional knowledge, secrecy, corruption and blatant lies on everything from genocide to the climate collapse all attribute๐คฌ
For sure he has a network - literally in caves for refuge - & in 'compatriot folk' with whom without doubt he will have had a prearranged process in the event of such developments. How long it is sustainable for is hard to say. It's a certainty he will want to hold out. ๐
Freeman left home lightly clothed & carrying numerous firearms. He needs shelter (from Mnt Buffalo's winter conditions), water & food to survive. I've no doubt there are people in the area who will accommodate him.
Something deeply disturbing in our society when people actively work against the police to capture someone who has murdered two policemen and doesn't recognise society We're showing deep signs that as a society we are beginning to fragment and decay from within These are questions for all of us
Perhaps the questions about a growing dysfunction in our society should begin right here We can look to Parliament and see what they are going to do about this - and where some of this deep dysfunction is coming from
Conman who destroyed all decency and trust in our society as he used Australia's largesse to jet around the world grifting his way to the OECD, wants to warn us about global trade That's after the LNP IPA nearly destroyed our foreign trade with our biggest trading partner and betrayed this country
We all know the game being played ... what we need to do is pressure our government to ACT and stand up for international "rule of law" but Labor only has tepid words And as governments allow that to happen they normalise GENOCIDE We can't allow that to happen without consequences
It was always about land theft & soon those resources sitting offshore will also be stolen. You can bet Labor donors are keen to get a hold of those gas fields offshore so no wonder is funding genocide
Skip the GENOCIDE part - Amerika and Israel are onto Phase II - REAL ESTATE The modern way to cover up GENOCIDE is to plow the bones deep into building foundations and invite investors to be complicit Meanwhile, in Gaza GENOCIDE continues Labor quiet/no action www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Still had blood on his hands from Iraq.
As the world seems very intent on finding out! One would have thought that we had the opportunity to learn from Amerika's mistakes ... not to repeat them and replicate the same mistake inside our own body politic I thought we could have been smarter than that
Third way politics, don't you know. (I guess we say neo-liberal now.) Politics without principles is very, very dangerous.
Him
Mr โWeapons of Mass Destructionโ , along with Howard the war criminal and Bush snr.
Follow the money; his ethics and morals appear to have changed.
I guarantee that everyone who marched Sunday could do over knowing what was going to happen, would march again. They are NOT good people.
"When public investment vehicles channel funds into corporations credibly alleged to be materially supporting or enabling actions constituting genocide or other international crimes, state may be exposed to legal liability for complicity," Lara Khider.
โDec 2020, Elbit Systems engaged Pyne and Partners to lobby in Canberra on its behalf. Former defence minister Christopher Pyne โ who awarded Elbit Systems nearly $100m in govt contracts 2018 2019 โ founded Pyne and Partners with his former chief of staff, Adam Howard, in 2020.โ
โThe Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF), established in November 2023 with much fanfare from the Albanese government to โsupport the delivery of 20,000 new social and 20,000 new affordable homes across Australia over five yearsโ, ended 2024 with a $108,907 stake in Elbit Systems.โ
As of Dec 2023, 2 months after Israel commenced operations Gaza, Future Fund held combined $74,737,758 in 3 companies mentioned in UN report: Elbit Systems, Lockheed Martin and Palantir Technologies. By December 2024, data on the Future Fundโs website, jumped to $122,983,179.โ
Australian Future Fund holdings in Israel Weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems: โThe UN office published a report on June 16 shaming companies across sectors that are "sustaining the Israeli settler-colonial project of displacement and replacement of the Palestinians in the occupied territory".โ
"Australia's Future Fund saw its holdings in Israeli weapons manufacturer, Elbit Systems, explode 469% in 2024 as Israel slaughtered tens of thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in actions widely described as a genocide." www.deepcutnews.com/p/exclusive-...
Tim Dunlop: โNo slope is slipperier than one on which extremists skirt law because powers that be are either too sympathetic or too frightened to do anything. There must be ramifications for the attack on Camp Sovereignty, which looks like a classic case of aggravated assaultโฆ.โ
Tim Dunlop: โHannah Arendt notes in The Origins of Totalitarianism, โRace-thinking, rather than class-thinking, was the ever-present shadow accompanying the development of the comity of European nations, until it finally grew to be the powerful weapon for the destruction of those nations.โ
Wow Tony! Have you looked at your hands lately ... why are they so bloody? -> ethnic cleansing based on collective punishment -> complicity in war crimes, crimes against humanity and GENOCIDE And you went there, with Amerika and Israel www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
And we all wonder why our society is increasingly dysfunctional and decaying from within Rot starts from the top - a duopoly that has no message, no values, no expertise, nothing to offer except self-serving ideology We also have pugilists in Parliament offering to smash in the face of journalists
These so-called "leaders" are all the same.
A majority vote for Labor delivers these values, a direct complicity in GENOCIDE in Gaza A silent majority, because who's going to tell us they voted for Labor and a duopoly that attaches these values to this country and all of us? A thoughtless vote - perhaps a malicious vote - but one that kills
๐๐๐ค๐ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ซ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ญ ๐๐๐๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐จ๐ง ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐๐ฌ ๐ ๐ฌ๐จ๐๐ข๐๐ญ๐ฒ .. "๐๐ญ๐ฃ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฆโ๐ด ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ข๐ค๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ช๐จ๐ฏ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด ๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ฌ๐ด ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ท๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ด๐ฑ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ญ๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ข๐จ๐ฐ๐จ๐ถ๐ฆ๐ด .. ๐ธ๐ฆ'๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ข๐ณ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ค๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ค ๐ค๐ฐ๐ญ๐ญ๐ข๐ฑ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ด๐ฆ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ" tdunlop.substack.com/p/streets-of...
Foreign-funded white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and affiliated criminal groups orchestrated a series of anti-immigration rallies across Australia under the banner โMarch for Australia.โ
This weekโs column www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Some pretty good visuals here. I reckon the @nswpolice.bsky.social could probably find these people and arrest them for #HateCrimes - the question is, will they? #auspol #NSWPol #ArrestNazis
Very simple @tonyburkemp.bsky.social Get that flog behind bars, today Otherwise, it's a very easy line to draw that all your tough talk is bullshit, because this bloke's not brown, therefore doesn't suit the Murdoch narrative of good vs bad So we're watching, and your seat is on the line
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โAnd here are the three sentences Iโve said over and over since 2016 when I first said it in Silicon Valley, backed by data and hard-fought experience. Without facts, you canโt have truth. Without truth, you canโt have trust. Without trust, we have no shared reality.โ