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This is the outfit in Tasmania @albomp.bsky.social ‘backed-in’ before the last federal election.
Opportunistic policies have consequences.
And, Albo, protection of the environment is demonstrated by action…not deeply flawed legislation that amounts to window dressing
#auspol

🚨Words matter.
ABC news services are describing the NAZI rally outside the NSW Parliament as an "antizionist" rally. It was a FASCIST rally. An "antizionist" rally would not get a permit & they would've been arrested, be in court today & fined. Instead the NAZIs got away with it. 👁️Stay woke. Ask:

RBA chokes growth by keeping interest rates high. It worries about non-existent inflation than says we might be trapped in slow growth for years! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11... #releasetherates #auspol

German Food Banks Feed 37,000 US Soldiers US soldiers stationed in Germany and civilian employees of the US armed forces are not receiving any salary or other payments. German authorities are compensating the civil employees, but not soldiers

US soldiers stationed in Germany and civilian employees of the US armed forces are not receiving any salary or other payments.

They are being fed by food banks and charities in Germany.

@reuters.com also just reported that US military base workers in Italy are being fed by charity too.

150 police visits in 20 months: Indigenous mother takes action after her boys subjected to ‘relentless’ checks Exclusive: A family has launched a court case against NSW police alleging racial discrimination is behind excessive bail checks

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... How to ensure kids hate Police and maybe push them to break. This is racism in my opinion. #News #Australia

$millions lost in offshore detention amid corruption claims

Schools are not neutral: they are sites of punishment in the prison pipeline - Tabitha Lean and Debbie Kilroy OAM

www.croakey.org/scho...

The 'grotesque policy cock-up' stopping downsizers freeing up their homes In regional Australia, where baby boomers are being told to downsize to free up homes, country communities are having to become developers to build appropriate-sized housing.

“We have disconnected our humanity from housing” #auspol

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Proposal for Ksi Lisims LNG project filed with Government of British Columbia and the Government of Canada The Nisga'a Nation, Rockies LNG, and Western LNG have filed the Initial Project Description for the proposed 12-million tpy Ksi Lisims LNG project.

"coal & oil supply more than 70% of primary energy demand in Asia. Replacing coal & oil with LNG exported from Ksi Lisims LNG would result in a reduction of global carbon emissions"

Unsubstantiated industry talking point even while studies showing otherwise grow
www.lngindustry.com/special-repo...

🧵Spotted on Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A small human (4?) wearing a frilly crocodile print dress has a VERY important announcement to make.
Looking up at Mum, she announces very solemnly: "My brain has a thought inside."
Mum treats this information with the seriousness it deserves. (1)

Anti-corruption commission watchdog inquiring into NACC chief Brereton The inspector of the National Anti-Corruption Commission is inquiring into the agency's head, Paul Brereton, in relation to several complaints including from a former employee.

How much longer is this farce of a sideshow going to continue?

NACC Commissioner, Paul Brereton, is once again embroiled in controversy.

The NACC Inspector, Gail Furness is currently investigating several complaints against Mr Brereton.

His position is untenable.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

If farmers and regional people follow the Joyce and Abbott line of doing nothing about climate change, the victims of extreme climate events will be themselves, and they may no longer be able to rely on city-based governments being prepared to wear the cost.

At Sydney’s mighty arms convention, weapons are sold as ‘solutions’. No one mentions the people they will target As protesters outside condemn war, inside the Indo-Pacific International Maritime Exposition the defence minister praises the ‘beautiful, menacing and extremely cool’ technology on show

Inside the heavily guarded, aseptically cool halls of the Indo-Pacific International Maritime Exposition, Australia’s defence minister, Richard Marles, describes it as, for some in the room, “a kind of Disneyland … the happiest place on Earth”.
WTF? 🤬 #auspol

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I do not think the @australianlabor.bsky.social government is very strong on #accreditation or #security checks for people doing their work. Absolutely compounds the harm if very cruel and illegal #immigration #policy and #programs. #auspol

Making them pay: Wielding influence in a world with no shame One of the upshots of US support for Israeli criminality over the past two years has been the cowardly position adopted by US supplicant states who feel wedged by realpolitik and morality.

Since Australia shamelessly remains complicit with apartheid, genocidal #Israel and its US enabler, we make a personal ethical choice to boycott. By targeting corporations directly, pressure can be brought to bear on Israel.

johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11... #BDS #auspol #Palestine

Dare to be better – a timely call to action ahead of COP30, by Marie McInerney for Croakey Conference News Service.

#ClimateHealthSummit25

www.croakey.org/dare...

'Broad, unspoken consensus': silent Labor MPs want action on gambling Andrew Wilkie has asked the PM to allow a free vote on banning gambling advertising and it appears many Labor MPs would support it.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

in 2025 the King of Australia detitled his creepy brother for being a PR liability. Not for being a sexual predator. In 1972 KCIII supported a vice regal representative sacking the lawfully elected prime minister who had confidence of the House. For implementing the platform on which he was elected.

If you haven’t seen much news about Palestine lately, it’s not because the killing stopped.

Israel has reduced coverage of the genocide, killing ~250 Palestinian journalists since Oct 7th.

Since the ceasefire, Israel has rejected 107 requests to bring aid into Gaza
and continued attacks.

PAYING LESS THAN THE POLLUTERS WAS MEANT TO BE THE POINT.

congratulations to all who mobilised immediately and tirelessly on this disgusting piece of law.

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Little known fact about Jesus: he was also very close to the gambling lobby, and fought hard to shut down freedom of information requests

The great S African lawyer Sir Sydney Kentridge is 103 today. In a Pretoria court in 1977 I watched in awe as he crucified the secret police who had murdered the Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko - arguably the start of apartheid’s downfall. A very happy birthday, dear Sydney!

Which is why we're going to use police powers to stop a person’s welfare payment before any court process. Just like Jesus would have wanted.

Religion is a personal matter and you should not be using a govt position to promote your religious beliefs.
Beside, being a good person with good values is not a religious thing, it's a human thing, so stop claiming that religion is the only way to have good values or principles!

The IDF is a State Sponsor of Terrorism. Labor's new laws allow them to be listed as such, so let's get on with it!

Exactly

I would prefer my security information came from elected members of the Australian government and not some Boy-Who-Cried-Wolf pantomime performer who beats the hysteria drum for attention and funding

I'm unsure why successive govts have allowed him such publicity-whoring free rein

That 1 in 3 Australians are suffering from food insecurity - in one of the most affluent countries on the planet - is a sign of political failure at all levels of Govt - and that media is not recognising this is also a failure of their responsibility in our democracy #auspol

Four frames. 1: “Israel boasts that it can bu counted on to investigate its own…” Israel spokesman says, “It was an accident/a mistake/a tragic mishap and we’re looking into it. 2: “In that spirit, it’s pursuing military prosecutor Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi for leaking a video showing IDF soldiers raping a Palestinian prisoner at Sde Teoman prison…” Image shows scene from video where prisoner is being escorted by soldiers. 3: “That’s right, she was in charge of investigating that case, also the attack on World Central Kitchen which killed 7 aid workers (including Zomi Franckom), the 15 paramedics shot and buried, and the double strike on the NASA hospital which killed 20 including 5 journalists…” 4: “Israel is determined to stamp out that sort of reputational damage, and we can count on it…to punish the leaker.” Image is Netanyahu saying “…perhaps the most severe PR attack on the State of Israel ever”

Bad hasbara.
My @smh @theage cartoon.