Peggy Sanders

Jenny Hocking: “Were it not for High Court’s landmark decision leading to letters’ release, role of Queen & Prince Charles would still be secret, publicly denied by Palace which claims that; ‘neither Her Majesty nor the Royal Household had any part to play in Kerr’s dismissal’.” #auspol

Jenny Hocking: “We have seen that in our own times with belated release of Palace letters between Queen and governor-general Sir John Kerr, revealing the role of the Queen and Prince Charles in what Charles described as Kerr’s “ right" and "courageous" decision to dismiss the Whitlam government.”

Jenny Hocking: “Flynn..; “In this House my mouth is bandaged by archaic rules that deny me chance to be critical of certain individuals [Royal Family]. I can be sycophantically, emetically in praise of those individuals – that is not limited in any way – but I am not allowed to criticise them.””

Jenny Hocking: “The hallmark of the Westminster system and responsible government – accountability to the parliament – does not apply to those at the very top of the constitutional tree – the monarch and their family.” #auspol

Jenny Hocking: “UK Labour MP Paul Flynn tried to raise concerns about Prince Andrew’s behaviour as trade envoy 2011 when photograph of Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein strolling in Central Park graced the front page of the New York Post with the headline Randy Andy with NYC sex creep.” #auspol

Jenny Hocking: “The royal household is exempt from measures against racial and sexual discrimination in employment law. And finally, perhaps most remarkably, members of parliament cannot criticise or ‘cast reflections’ on the royal family in parliament.” #auspol

Jenny Hocking: “The royal ‘private estates’ are exempt from Cultural Property (Armed Conflicts) Act that grants police power to enter and search premises that might contain looted cultural artefacts, thereby avoiding risk of denuding corridors of Balmoral and Sandringham of the spoils of empire.”

Jenny Hocking: “Through ‘monarch’s consent power’ the monarch can amend any Bill that might affect their financial interests before it goes to parliament. Over thousand pieces of legislation vetted during Queen’s reign, including financial transparency laws in wake of Paradise Papers revelations.”

Jenny Hocking: “The royal household, the sovereign and the heir, have absolute exemption from UK Freedom of Information Act; the monarch & Prince of Wales exempt from legal requirement to pay income tax, inheritance tax, corporation tax, capital gains tax – we are assured they do so ‘voluntarily’.”

Jenny Hocking: “….enabled by the ‘ toxic symbiotic relationship’ with the select media ‘royal rota’, has created an effective cordon sanitaire around the royal family. This shields it from accountability and has ultimately enabled the moral and potentially legal breaches that it now confronts.”

Jenny Hocking: “A complex web of royal legal privilege, legislative carve-outs, Freedom of Information and other accountability exemptions, parliamentary cone of silence forbidding any criticism of the royal family, and enabled by media complicity through the ‘ toxic symbiotic relationship’…”#auspol

Jenny Hocking: “The King is, definitionally, above the law. He cannot be charged with an offence, cannot give evidence in court – which raises question were Andrew to be charged since his brother King Charles cannot be compelled to appear. #auspol

Jenny Hocking: “As he announced Andrew’s arrest Starmer repeated same ‘ imperial fictions’ that had protected Andrew from scrutiny in the first place. Starmer claimed, bizarrely given the years of inaction over Andrew’s known proclivities, that Andrew’s arrest showed that “nobody was above law”.

Jenny Hocking: “Signs emerging that royal scandal will neither be acknowledged nor addressed. At heart of this moral and institutional collapse lie centuries of royal exceptionalism, privilege, entitlement, array of legal and other protections that shielded Andrew from scrutiny for years.” #auspol

Jenny Hocking: “The instantly iconic photo of Andrew, slumped in a police car post-interview, ashen-faced, brilliantly captured the shell-shocked stare of bloated privilege deflating.” #auspol

Jenny Hocking: “The arrest of ex-Prince Andrew over alleged misconduct is not an isolated scandal but the product of a system that shields the royal family from scrutiny. Without transparency and accountability, privilege can become a pathway to abuse of power.” #auspol

'Rude, arrogant and entitled’: ex-Prince Andrew’s arrest is the inevitable conclusion to a sordid royal tale of privilege and protection The arrest of ex-Prince Andrew over alleged misconduct is not an isolated scandal but the product of a system that shields the royal family from scrutiny. Without transparency and accountability, privilege can become a pathway to abuse of power.

‘Rude, arrogant and entitled’: ex-Prince Andrew’s arrest is the inevitable conclusion to a sordid royal tale of privilege and protection https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/03/ex-prince-andrews-arrest-the-inevitable-conclusion-to-a-sordid-royal-tale-privilege-protection #Auspol

Labor myth telling about representing workers/people with progressive policies died 2025 election. Nobody believes it anymore.

Expect unequal distribution of wealth, resources, and opportunities. Extreme inequality disparities in income/wealth, health, and social rights unaddressed as intended.

Do any of those 'top economists' have experience in Aged Care System, are they unpaid carers, homeless, rely on foodbanks, charitable orgs, unable to pay bills, have a disability, are they vulnerable, receive gov't income support? Asking so I know what not to expect again in your 5th Budget #auspol

Let’s face it, it’s all about the Israel/US war economy now. They control Canberra. Just as Israel controls Washington.

Trump’s War Dept deal is to hand over $AUD billions/trillions with resultant austerity for the people to pay for acquiescence to authoritarian war criminals. #auspol

We should thank our politicians for embedding our ADF into US subs at war and being so weak-kneed that they have unwittingly embroiled us in a conflict we should never have been involved in; making every Australian traveling overseas a potential target of retaliation.
Where can we safely go?
#auspol

This from The Shot should scare you #AusPol

YouTube video by SBS News Prime Minister faces major backlash after calling Grace Tame “difficult”

With International Women's Day coming up. HOW much do the white men in Australia regret their decision to give a fierce young survivor of grooming and ND an Australian of the year award when they describe her as DIFFICULT #auspol youtu.be/rHrQxsXjEak?...

"Howard tied us to America so tightly, it would take a world-altering event to unshackle us. The tragic truth is though, even then, we would probably be on America’s side, even if it meant our own destruction," writes @amyremeikis.bsky.social.

Read more on The Point: https://theaus.in/40My2MZ

Inquiry into racism, hate and violence toward First Nations people comes late, lacks power – and must deliver Marie McInerney writes: The announcement this week of a joint federal standing committee inquiry into racism, hate and violence directed

Inquiry into racism, hate and violence toward First Nations people comes late, lacks power – and must deliver – Croakey Health Media www.croakey.org/inquiry-into...
By @mariemcinerney.bsky.social
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#publichealth

When taxpayer millions vanish: Western Australia's asset accountability crisis Hundreds of portable assets worth millions have vanished from WA government agency records, including a $3200 ice cream machine from North Metro TAFE.

When taxpayer millions vanish: Western Australia's asset accountability crisis

#AusPol #WesternAustralia #GovernmentAccountability #AusNews

https://thedailyperspective.org/article/2026-03-06-when-taxpayer-millions-vanish-western-australias-asset-accountability-crisis-29660213

#Trump "how to hide the #Epstein files?— nuke the planet!"

The Earth will survive, and Terrorist Israel and North America, a predatory republic along with all the sycophants supporting those abominations of chaos, won't. Given the alternative, it's not a bad idea :)

#USA #Auspol – Fascist-Zionism

I covered the Middle East when Saddam was America’s friend. The bloodletting hasn’t stopped Iranians deserve better than the ayatollahs – and they deserve better than an illegal war waged by a felonious, feckless president with no plan for what follows.

www.smh.com.au/world/middle...
So well said by Geraldine Brooks in @sydmorningherald.bsky.social I hope the bots advising @albomp.bsky.social + @tonyburkemp.bsky.social take note + stop demonising those who think differently #auspol

Heroes no doubt.

Will the RAN personnel be awarded US medals for ‘participation’?