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Pauline Hanson has spent decades demonising Muslims in the Senate with zero consequences, but put an anti-fascist poster on your bar wall and the AFP comes knocking. Labor's first scalp under their hate speech laws isn't a hate group and that says everything.

Australian One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson

Imagine the outrage if a Federal MP asked "Show me a good Jew!" Yet Pauline Hanson can rptedly vilify the Australian Muslim community by asking "Show me a good Muslim!" Shouldn't she be charged under the new hatespeech laws?! #auspol #Islamophobia

Political parties receive more than $138m in ‘dark money’ before new donation rules begin Labor, Liberals and the Greens given tens of millions of dollars each from undisclosed sources, analysis shows * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The source of more than $138m in donations to Australian political parties remains unknown, thanks to contributions that fall below the disclosure threshold in the federal electoral system that are known as “dark money”. The Australian Electoral Commission’s release of the 2024-25 political financial disclosure reports found a record amount of donations made to the major parties. There was also a record in terms of all money declared. Continue reading...

Political parties receive more than $138m in ‘dark money’ before new donation rules begin

YouTube video by ABC News (Australia) Australians to experience more 50C days as heatwaves intensify, experts say | ABC NEWS

I think this is representative of fossil-fuelled weather extremes reportage not just in Aus but in many countries, where (a) the cause, fossil fuels, is simply never mentioned and (b) the change is treated as essentially inevitable and un-mitigatable, all that's left is figuring out how to 'adapt'

Why the hell does everything have to happen at once?

Today’s comic in @australia.theguardian.com

It’s only mid January and we’ve had destructive cyclones, deadly heatwaves, bushfires followed by flash floods and the cherry on top, a coal approval!

Well it was nice knowing you all.

The Australian one used to ask what was the batting average for the cricketer Don Bradman.

As they swab down my inside elbow at the blood donor centre while I watch a news report about how 50% of patients arriving at hospital in Gaza are children with severe blast wounds and burns…

let me remind you that the word ‘gauze’ comes from the place the fabric was first made – Gaza

Publisher: This is great! How do you pronounce the name?

Lovecraft: Oh, I don’t know.

What a comforting fact-check.

14,000 Palestinian babies won't die in #Gaza in the next 48 hours, it'll be in the next year.

Who got on the blower to Kim Williams to push this rapid 'fact-check'?

#Israel #genocide #EthnicCleansing #afternoonbriefing #auspol

Overhaul the tax system you say? OK. End the Capital Gains Tax discount... improve the PRRT... bring in a wealth tax.... also a broad super profits tax.

Cheers, thanks for the suggestion.

Are the Liberals in danger of becoming the Kodak of Australian politics? • Frank Bongiorno The party is taking a long time to understand its plight

Good piece insidestory.org.au/are-the-libe...

Drive it like you stole it, stop fucking around, deal with climate change, poverty, and deal with inequality to pay for it. Deal with industry transition, deal with education costs, accept that large investments in ourselves today pay for more than themselves in the future. And dental in Medicare

Perhaps Albo will feel secure enough to start growing a spine now.

YouTube video by thejuicemedia Honest Government Ad | How To Vote 2025

Every election, we've made a video to help voters understand how our preferential voting system works. This is for the 2025 election. If you find it helpful, pls share with your family, friends and pets. Good luck Australia! 💛🗳️

📌 ICYMI: this is satire, NOT official electoral advice!

The silhouetted figure of Trump, fist raised to a crowd of media and fans, all focused on him, stands on a stage. Words that represent the values of America are written on the stage, in the colours of the American flag. Some of those words - care, trust, honesty, equality, kindness, inclusivity, freedom, transparency, fairness, democracy, decency, truth and honour - sit in deep shadow, cast by Trump. While others - including capitalism, opportunism, America first, exceptionalism, competition, power, authority, might, influence, etc - are in the glaring light.

A shadow on its former self.
My cartoon in today's The Age and Sydney Morning Herald

The ABC is defending Antoinette Lattouf’s case partly on the legal argument that there is no such thing as a Lebanese or Arab race. Cool story.

Trump says he is cutting off funding to South Africa over land ‘confiscations’ Government of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is ‘treating certain classes of people very badly’, Trump claims as he demands ‘full investigation’ of situation

Gee I wonder which South African white supremacist could have mentioned this to Trump?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

For the visual learners...

No Australians aren’t trying to solve it. We are trying to melt it.

Australia is the 2nd largest fossil fuel exporter and 5th largest producer.

If we want to stop Antarctic glaciers collapsing it’s pretty f***ng simple.

Stop new fossil fuel projects.

Jon has been an absolute giant of political cartooning. He’s also a giant of a human, so go well. You’ve more than earned it.

In other news @bsky.app continues to fly 👏

the lesson here is that the next honest pastor who gets a chance to have Trump in the audience shouldn't offer a mild plea for mercy, they should straightforwardly condemn him for the sin of Sodom, because they're getting the death threats either way.

The not-so-super tax concessions Superannuation tax concessions benefit the richest Australians most – so why is the government finding it so hard to make modest changes to the system?

The latest Dollars & Sense pod is up.

Talkin' about the need to change how superannuation is taxed and how we need to stop giving tax breaks to the richest that has nothing to do with their saving for retirement
australiainstitute.org.au/post/the-not...

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A brown, fluffy wombat running at speed across a grass field. It is airborne, legs not touching the ground.

The fastest potato you'll ever see!

Whilst #wombats might look cuddly and slow, when needed they can hit speeds of 40km/h. While they can’t sustain it for long, these bursts of speed are truly impressive for such stocky little legends.

Happy #WombatWednesday!

📷: Bowles Wildlife Photography

Showing more courage than the entire media in the US, and 99% of Democrats

It's time that that National Anti-Corruption Commission was renamed to better reflect its operations to date.

The #NACC should be called the NECC:
the National Enabling Corruption Commission.

Great work from Anthony Klan. #auspol

Cabana equality.
My @smh @theage cartoon.