Gavin Miller

woof

They need to make this for people

He ran straight to Murdoch when he won.

Oh & much too busy fighting tories

remembered he is a career politician, post career job securing, returning past debts to factional warlords, Murdoch etc got in the way

This guy sounds like he knows what he’s talking about. Wonder what happened to him

I kid you not, the Business Section of today’s Australian has a full-page story headed “What would Thatcher do?” FFS, it’s Thatcher that landed us here in the first place. She’d likely rob the pension funds of the working poor, but surely we’ve advanced beyond that regressive neoliberal wet dream?

Tim Dunlop: “The growing weakness of the traditional conservative parties has been less a boon for progressive politics than an impetus for a space to open up for One Nation and other manifestations of the far right—groups such as Advance—to fill.”

The next era of conservative politics will make John Howard look woke (Angus) Taylorism is just another word for nothing left to lose

Tim Dunlop on the dangers of "a fractured conservative movement with nothing else to offer and nothing more to lose."

This is "a structural and cultural shift in [Australian] politics that I don’t think the left are vaguely prepared for."

#auspol

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here, hear.

A duopoly focus -ignoring a dominance of women teal independents and The Greens

Photo of Angus Taylor and Jane Hume at the Centre for Independent Studies that might be possibly the whitest two people ever captured together on camera at the whitest gathering of people ever assembled. Their smiles suggest they are either about to sell you some dodgy time-share or are to ask you whether you have hear the good news of this cult they have just joined.

"Would you be interested in becoming an Amway independent business owner"?

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I agree even though the state is different I’m really upset with Labor. It’s just not good enough for a free democracy.

@ebonybennett.bsky.social excellent article. Pls keep this topic on the front burner. I was at Brisbane rally & was horrified to see Sydney's violent police response with NSW premier's imprimatur & ongoing gaslighting. This is deeply troubling. Thanks

“If we don’t fight now to protect our basic civil liberties, the beatings will continue until social cohesion improves,” writes Ebony Bennett, Deputy Director of The Australia Institute.

Read more: https://theaus.in/4aiOEBI

The Liberal Party is chasing right-wing voters off a right-wing cliff, failing to even try to win back the urban, educated women who have locked them out of the cities until further notice.

What will Angus Taylor mean for the Liberals’ seemingly never-ending women problem? The Liberal Party needs to win back all sorts of voters, but especially urban women. Instead it seems intent on chasing right-wing voters off a right-wing cliff.

The Liberals have an ongoing, existential issue with women — one that far predates the recent rise of One Nation, and which has seen the share of Coalition-voting women reach increasingly new lows.

Albanese dismisses Aukus concerns as submarine shipyard cost revealed to be $30bn Prime minister commits $3.9bn as ‘down payment’ for Adelaide facility to eventually build nuclear-powered vessels

The AUKUS agreement has now been in place for 4 years. During that time both the US & UK have undertaken reviews of its progress. With the Albanese govt now admitting its South Australian submarine base will cost at least $30bn, it's well past time Australia undertook its own AUKUS review.

Albo’s Waterloo: The Clayton’s PM and the Farrellisation of Labor “Leadership’s always been about two main things: imagination and courage.” (Paul Keating). Bernard Keane is half right. In today’s Crikey, he despairs of our PM as “a political manager, a risk-averse ...

"𝘈𝘭𝘣𝘰’𝘴 𝘞𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘰𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘥. 𝘐𝘵 𝘴𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘵, 𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘮 𝘴𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘳𝘶𝘱𝘵𝘤𝘺"

An EXCELLENT article!

You'll NEVER see this quality of article and analysis in any mainstream media in this country - well done The Australian Independent Network

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Karoline Leavitt: “We’re moving on from Epstein.” The Internet: “The fuck you are.”

AUKUS and the submarine illusion: Australia’s $368 billion surrender As Washington debates whether it can spare the submarines, Canberra continues to pay for vessels it may never fully control.

"Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles, a fool of Chaucerian proportions, deserves a star of commendation in his denials of what AUKUS really entails ... He has a story to tell a public he wishes to gull and he insists on sticking to it."
Binoy Kampmark
independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...

@fmols.bsky.social @gekko.bsky.social

Dr Jeremy Walker details the “enormous war chest” of Advance & lists funders inc Gina Rinehart, James Packer, IPA board, Woodside’s Charles Goode & “the priv foundation of Jillian Segal” - who pay Advance to “flood social media with aggressive Far Right disinformation”🔥 #auspol

Is the US moving away from attack submarines? - ABC listen "Fiscal, industrial and operational realities"; that's the defence jargon used to explain why the US is reportedly losing interest in building more attack submarines, in favour of more flexible and au...

AUKUS / ABC - wow talk about blatant boosterism.
'FS ABC this is one time when bothsideism is important.
@quentindempster.bsky.social @emmashortis.bsky.social

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the deep **** of Australian government & the duopoloy career politicians that dumped us in it

Its very much like Poooorlean's video in a vault .. "If you are seeing me here then you know I've been killed ..."

It's a pre-recorded message Albanese put in a vault.

We're seeing it now only because he's in deep trouble with the majority of Australians.

Resume your morning activities as normal

Q QD : what in the blazes do these peole like Mr Switzer want? He and the Murdocracy are the ones who have driven the Liberals into irrelevancy. Are they settling old scores before The Australian makes a pitch to take over public relations for PHON?

Get Turnbull! Yet another Murdoch columnist, Tony Switzer, enraged by “narcissistic” Malcolm Turnbull’s personal attacks on his party’s hardliners, now including “the most qualified idiot”, our new Opposition leader. 👇

Antisemitism training. Labor's march to authoritarianism - Michael West State and Federal Labor governments are becoming authoritarian. Next in line is the thought police entering campus.

Compulsory Zionist training for university staff is next step down Labor's road to authoritarianism. It's dangerous mind control writes Nick Riemer
#auspol

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