Jack Hamilton

Melissa McIntosh is more worried about kids singing about being locked up than kids being locked up.

I've never been more convinced Australia has the worst mainstream journalists in the world. Simple, thick, racist, ahistorical, bootlicking dipshits that lie and screech more than they think and feel. This weaponisation of a tragedy against anti-genocide voices is grotesque.

The vast majority of Australians, everyone I've spoken to, my Jewish friends, my Muslim friends, want to just be good to one another in this moment, and avoid inflaming the endless blame cycle.

A loud minority want otherwise. Unfortunately they're among the loudest in the nation

John Howard pushed for the invasion of Iraq, which was one of the dominoes which created the conditions for ISIS and caused untold human misery we are still dealing with today. He refused to acknowledge racism was a main driver of the Cronulla riots.

Australia’s former Treasurer Josh Frydenberg — who was exposed running illegal political ads of the CEO of Guide Dogs Victoria for his own political gain — says he’s “deeply offended” at suggestion he could be politically self-serving.

The same guy who confirmed to The Age a day after the massacre that he was weighing up a comeback.

Geoff Chambers suggesting Frydenberg delivered an "impromptu" speech is about the most ludicrous thing one could ever say about Frydenberg.

In the interest of social cohesion I’m going to get six former prime ministers to sign a letter condemning Josh Frydenberg for undermining social cohesion and generally being a dick

As I understand today's discussion, we can stop an ISIS cell by policing the speaker list at writer's festivals and the BA syllabus at Unis. And by "stopping demonstrations." This is madness.

John Howard’s dog-whistle intervention in gun debate all but dashes any hope of meaningful reform In the absence of strong, swift action from Anthony Albanese, the former PM is shifting political debate from gun control to a divisive culture war

Good analysis from Sarah Martin, but misses a key point:

if the Bondi massacre is being hijacked by culture warriors like Howard and the anti-immigration right, it's because that's how mainstream media chooses to frame it.

They are lazy or complicit. #auspol
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I think we can all agree that Australia needs policy advice from the guy wanted by the ICC for war crimes & crimes against humanity.

Global markets have peaked Is this a trick question

The Nationals leader, David Littleproud, is begging Barnaby to stay in their divided party. Offering to pick up the bar tab and give him a new female intern pick. #auspol

Eye on Palestine—

19 Oct 2025: "Amid exhaustion and hunger, a child in Gaza holds his injured brother, trying to wake him to feed him a piece of wafer he saved for him... a scene that captures the innocence of children amid the harshness of life and sleeping on the streets."

Same old problem

I don’t care what B Netanyahu demands of Australia. He is waging a war and overseeing genocide to avoid a court case and preserve his power. He can FRO

This weekend Scotland has had dozens of marches by a religious cult that sing about killing catholics and Irish people, and are protected by the police. But if I chant "End the genocide. I support Palestine Action" I'm arrested for terrorism offences.

What a country we live in.

So Ghislaine Maxwell is serving 20 years for trafficking girls to nobody?!?!

I’m sorry your daughters had to die
But Crazypants needed his taxes relaxed
So the weather service was cut like pie
And all the forecasters were sacked
So the weather forecast may be manure
Fear not, the 1%’s tax cuts are secure

Mr Battin conceded his party has had ‘internal issues that have been frustrating’ but insisted his team is competent —

so basically, they’re like a family dinner: a bit chaotic, a little awkward, but somehow still managing to pass the gravy.

#vicpolitics

#vicpolitics

'I never realised I could feel grief so deep': Former politician loses son to brain cancer As Australians face roadblocks to find clinical trials, doctors are calling for a reform of the system to improve access to potentially life-saving studies.

Labor's Dr Anthony Lynham's victory at Stafford in the 2014 by-election was a key event in the defeat of the Newman government in 2015. He retired in 2020. In 2024 he lost his son to cancer. Now he's working to streamline the clinical trial system. #qldpol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

Laura Tingle

"Asked a couple of times on Friday about how much the redundancies will cost, or how many there will be, Dutton avoided the questions, asserting that the Coalition "have spoken about that a lot". No, only Paterson mentioned it on the radio on Friday." #auspol #SundayShot #insiders

The Coalition can't distract from its lack of policy detail indefinitely The Coalition has resorted to relentless social media posts about the prime minister falling off a stage and lying about it.

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How fucking DESPERATE are Dutton and his press secretaries at NEWS Corp getting, when they blow their loads that Dutton met Danny Green?

What is he going to belt people up if they don’t vote for Dutton?

Dutton’s campaign sucks and it’s getting worse!

The Coalition can't distract from its lack of policy detail indefinitely The Coalition has resorted to relentless social media posts about the prime minister falling off a stage and lying about it.

"even on policies which the Coalition have allegedly released, the details remain such a haze of contradictions and backflips that most voters would struggle to know what they actually were."

Bonus points to @latingle.bsky.social for "allegedly released". 😂 #auspol
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Dutton’s backflipping and clumsy delivery has him spiralling in the polls. What happened? | Malcolm Farr At a time of global disruption, voters seem to want a calm hand on the tiller, not ‘punch-drunk’ policy on the run

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Malcolm Farr nails it. #Dutton is wishy washy with a very fragile glass jaw. #auspol #ausvotes25

Peter Dutton’s amateur hour on policy So Peter Dutton would like to live in a 19th-century mansion on Sydney Harbour, with views of the Opera House and within a lion’s roar of Taronga Zoo. On the third day of the election campaign, in a r...

"Dutton’s shifts show just how thin the policy thinking has been in preparation for this election campaign and how ill-prepared the Coalition is to govern." - Judith Brett 🎯
#auspol
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It is about 44k miles roundtrip. If I lived in the middle of nowhere, I would not have a Starlink. Luckily We have fiber optic everywhere around here.

His priority is to please Gina. Wake up Dickson!

44% of Australians said they’d prefer a more independent foreign policy over a closer alliance with the US.

"Australians are seeing the way he's trashing the international rule of law, the way he is treating allies, and they are responding."

@emmashortis.bsky.social #auspol