Lindsay Parry

Albo has clarified that the three Australians onboard the US submarine that torpedoed the Iranian ship were in the loo at the time which is a well-recognised defence under international law to the charge of waging aggressive war

Australian gas producers reap windfalls as Iran war chokes global supply Santos, the country’s second-biggest listed oil and gas producer, finalised a deal with a commodities trader at more than double recent market rates.

We should be taxing the fuckers into the ground.

War profiteering used to be a bad thing…

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Legislative harakiri. A rare win for transparency as FOI bill dead - Michael West The Government's attempt to limit transparency has been killed off. Widely condemned, the death of the FOI amendment bill is a good thing

Albo's 'transparency bill' was so bad Labor killed it themselves.

( @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social might have helped but can't say too much)
#auspol #FOI
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All at sea with Pete Hegseth: Is this is what AUKUS looks like in practice? It seems that Australia finds itself yoked to America's actions whether the government likes it or not.

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Liberal Party reboot: Same message, same mistakes? Podcast Episode · New Politics: Australian Politics · 19 February · 39m

Different messengers, but same message. And they’ll get the same result from the last two federal elections. A crushing defeat and decimation.
The Liberal Party never learns, especially when Pauline Hanson is the teacher. #AUSPOL podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/l...

Hanson’s racism rears its ugly head again As the Liberal Party copies Pauline Hanson’s culture-war rhetoric, immigration has once again been weaponised in Australia’s race to the political bottom.

One Nation didn’t win a lower house seat at the last election, yet it holds so much power on immigration. Why? Because everyone panders to Hanson’s racism instead of trying to remove it. Latest analysis from New Politics. #AUSPOL open.substack.com/pub/newpolit...

A new phase of Western imperialism Australia is watching on and allowing the system they have so carefully constructed over the past 80 years to completely fall apart.

The new and dangerous phase of Western imperialism. The latest analysis from New Politics about what’s going on in Iran, and Australia’s meek response. All the way with DJT! #AUSPOL open.substack.com/pub/newpolit...

This from The Shot should scare you #AusPol

Zali Steggall tears into racist political group Advance for platforming ‘far right, white supremacist’ views
“What’s more frightening is a former PM Tony Abbott openly supporting & being at that conference in support…& current Liberal senators.”🔥 #auspol

Australian media isn’t covering this but what’s happening in Cuba is dreadful. Trump signed an executive order cutting off Cuba’s last oil supply. Ten million people are paying with their lives. Sewage systems are failing, food is rationed, it’s getting worse.

NSW Premier Chris Minns has justified the violent response by NSW Police which led to multiple & severe injuries to people protesting against Isaac Herzog’s visit, saying his obligation was to
“keep the President of Israel safe” #auspol

The newly amalgamated Adelaide University brings utter shame upon itself in its first months of operation.

In a statement following this shocking act, it risibly claims it is a place where "exchange of ideas can happen freely".

Not if the ideas include a defence of the remaining Gazans, it seems.

Chris Minns asked why he singled out & sacked Anthony D’Adam for spkng out against NSW Police brutality when his other MPs did too?
Minns says bc D’Adam was P/Secretary for “Police”
Tudehope “Can I just stop u there?
He wasn’t P/Sec to Police”
Incompetent? Or dishonest?🙄 #auspol

How in the ever-living fuck do we live in a world where merely posting our outrage that the US/Israeli coalition just murdered hundreds of Iranian schoolgirls in cold blood somehow makes us simps and apologists for a despotic Iranian regime?

#NewsCorpse
#Iran

Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...

David Shoebridge asks if any Australian troops were used in the US submarine attack which blew up & sunk an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka.
Penny Wong says for “operational & security reasons” this cannot be disclosed. #auspol

He read the wrong job description I think.

A US nuclear submarine just sank an Iranian frigate off the coast of Sri Lanka, leaving the survivors to drown. I asked Wong if any of the 50 or more Australians stationed on US nuclear submarines in the Pacific were on this submarine.

The Government refused to answer.

#Contrast: Yesterday I was in halls of Parliament advocating for whistleblowers and working to kill off @albomp.bsky.social’s secrecy Bill. Today it’s back to peace and tranquility - on the Murrumbidgee River at Darlington Point, The Riverina, NSW. #WorkFromRoam

Sarah Henderson has a meltdown as Murray Watt explains just how happy Labor is with the Liberal Party’s new front bench, after everyone found to have failed in their secret election review, has “now been promoted”
“Every loser who let them lose, has been promoted”🔥 #auspol

The word is three consulting firms and two legal firms were invited to tender and in the end none did.

And then Gregarious Greg got the gig as numero uno choice from a list the ASECA and her office drew up.

Greg! The Stop Sign!

"a matter for the United States" is now Wong's standard response whenever she wants to avoid accountability.

And thanks to Wong, Albanese and Marles, Australia's sovereignty, security and foreign & defence policy is also now "a matter for the United States". #auspol

Read these words from 100 years ago about immigrants in Britain – and see how history is chillingly repeating itself | George Monbiot Shabana Mahmood’s new rights clampdown looks outlandish until we remember that this kind of hardline action is part of our country’s fabric, says George Monbiot

The precedent is eerily, chillingly precise. What the current Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is doing to immigrants and refugees today is almost a carbon copy of what Sir William Joynson-Hicks was doing 100 years ago. And that's not a good thing. My column.
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FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Adelaide University cancels literary festival event with UN Gaza investigator Francesca Albanese Festival organisers criticise the university for last-minute booking cancellation of event headlined by special rapporteur for Palestinian territories

Another absolute disgrace in South Australia as the Adelaide University bows to pressure to cancel anyone who speaks out against the slaughter of Palestinians.

The outside influence on our governments and institutions is completely unacceptable.

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By Jen Sorensen.

Fancy being led into world conflict by such a mob of hateful, reprehensible people. That’s what feels even more devastating this time around. Even in the disaster of the Iraq invasion, while we knew they were lying, they hadn’t been going out of their way to be the most vile, venal criminals.

Breaking: Sweeping hate speech laws pass in Queensland Sweeping new hate speech laws banning certain expressions in a way that makes a member of the public feel menaced, harassed or offended have passed in Queensland parliament.

Banned phrases?

Banned phrases?

David Pope in Canberra Times