@janmah.bsky.social
All things local/global politics/political journalism. In Silver City, Outback Oz. Wilyakali/Paakandji Country/Nation. Indigenous power: ownership, seats at any/every table. Climate/earth crisis.
From the river to the beach, Australia won't have free speech
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Join me this Sunday afternoon in Clifton Hill (Melb) in conversation, speaking about how to not lose hope and keep fighting for human rights in these tough times.
50% of tickets sales go to the ASRC. Tickets here ($30/$15) 👇🏼
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Allegra Spender, Independent MP for Wentworth, presents detailed proposals for tax reform at the National Press Club.
Independents work hard for all Australians 🙏
#communityindependents
#Auspol
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The old adage “The first casualty of war is truth” fits neatly into the war with Iran.
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All we hear from our ABC is how angry displaced Lebanese people are with Hezbollah. Apparently none of them have anything to say about the entity saturation bombing them, including with white phosphorus etc. and driving 700,000 of them from their homes. Seems sketchy 🤷
Piss off my rock!
You. Can't. Bully. Me.
All blubber, no brains ...
You can tell how much the Albanese govt cares about the poor victims of the Iranian regime by the way they ... change visa laws to stop them seeking protection here.
So to summarise: You failed to take out the regime. You failed to destroy nuclear material. You failed to eradicate Iran's retaliatory capacity. You brought chaos to the Middle East. You killed god knows how many people. You destabilised your own economy. All for nothing, but the ego of madman.
My take on the Iranian asylum seekers. The famous ones and the not so famous ones. johnmenadue.com/post/2026/03...
I am thinking that three months of REALLY ensuring that most Australians understand the bombing and deaths are a delaying strategy for #FossilFuels profit AND that a failure to take URGENT #ClimateAction will render the places they are fighting over uninhabitable by 2035 might be a good plan #auspol
#auspol #racism 🤬
Indigenous Australians share the racist messages they receive online: ‘No one’s feeling safe’
The words of a real leader. A leader of courage and conviction. A leader who puts peace before craven compliance and subjugation of his nation to an illegal war and an autocratic warmongering US President.
Well done Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez!
Bought this today. You know why. #DifficultWomen.
It took two hours for Albanese to declare support for the latest US/Israeli war crimes.
How long has it taken the Labor Party to consider raising the rate? To halting fossil fuels? To seriously address the racism to First Nations and Muslims?
The ALP in your head is long dead.
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After Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan:
"Now the Australian government supports the US again in another war. But worse this time, because Donald Trump is in charge.
...Hopefully this won't be the worst war in my lifetime. But it could be the dumbest." - Barrie Cassidy. #auspol
"More than happy to foment social and political upheaval, Trump nevertheless wants the world – his world – to look stable," writes Elizabeth Farrelly. "And compositionally, what gives the appearance of stability is symmetry." satpa.pe/SQHT29o
Australia’s school system is becoming more socially segregated. Private school enrolments have grown rapidly over the past two decades, while most public schools remain underfunded — weakening one of the country’s strongest institutions for social cohesion. satpa.pe/hRFLFpd
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“The strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.”
Quoting Thucydides at Davos, Mark Carney warned the rules-based order is fading. satpa.pe/oEw8Rgx
When US troops march through a city or town in Iran, murdering unarmed, innocent civilians (men, women & children), I expect PM Albo will declare "we're looking into it" and FM Penny Wong will declare she's "deeply concerned" by the "unverified reports". #complicit #auspol #USPolitics #IranWar
But let’s just look at how racism and hate speech affects one section of the community.
Always a privilege meeting with Canadian Finance Minister and my good friend François-Philippe Champagne, this time here in our Parliament.
We agreed to prioritise modernising our Australia–Canada Tax Treaty to support investment, including for our superannuation and pension funds.
In a space of 4 months in 2021, OZ lost half its oil refineries. Did anyone argue to keep them open? Who was Energy Minister at the time? www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02...
The Department of Justice has sued 30 states and DC for access to their unreacted sensitive voter data. My law firm is fighting them in all 30 cases.
We are dedicating so many resources because these are the most important legal fights and the future of free and fair elections is at stake.
87 bodies so far recovered along with 32 survivors from the sinking of the IRIS Dena. With AUKUS active & RAN personnel on the US submarine, is Australia being dragged into war? Submarine is thought to be the USS Minnesota which rotated through Perth. #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
Some Democrats aren’t ruling out voting for a multibillion-dollar military infusion, setting up a potential internal clash in the weeks ahead for a party whose political base is aghast at President Donald Trump’s aggression against Iran."
Jeffries needs his arse reamed
Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.
But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.
