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Paul Keating savages Nine on anniversary of ‘irresponsible prediction’ Australia faced looming China war The ‘Red Alert’ series warned in 2023 that Australia needed to be ‘ready to fight in just three years’ – and Keating has again taken his fight to the newspaper group * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Paul Keating has again accused the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age of misleading the public with their “irresponsible prediction” three years ago of a Chinese attack on Australia. The former prime minister took the opportunity of the third anniversary of Nine newspapers’ Red Alert series to repeat his disdain for the reporting and its primary author, international editor Peter Hartcher. Continue reading...

Paul Keating savages Nine on anniversary of ‘irresponsible prediction’ Australia faced looming China war

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

Our government placing Australians in that position needs to be questioned. The US won’t cease committing war crimes, this needs to be assessed.

And our PM shouldn’t be lying to us from the start.

If you're going after the Quakers, you probably need to take a good, long, hard look at yourself in the mirror.

Because it's almost guaranteed that you are the problem here.

A double whammy for MAGAs.

Many voted for Trump based on two promises:
- no more foreign wars
- I'll bring down prices

He's reneged on both, spectacularly.

Defence refusing to say if WA base helped killer US sub Defence is refusing to say whether a naval communications facility in the remote northwest helped support a US submarine carrying ADF personnel launch a deadly strike against an Iranian warship.

Labor now refusing to say whether Harold E Holt naval communication station in WA helped support US killer submarine - they keep running and hiding from the reality of AUKUS
thenightly.com.au/politics/def...

correct

there is no reason for a single one of them to vote for Mullin (yes, Mr. Fetterman, that means you) and they should make this as embarrassing as possible - which, given Mullin’s extensive track record of putting his foot in his mouth, shouldn’t even be that hard

No for real though

So 3 Australian navy personnel were on the US submarine that attacked an Iranian ship, but they did not take part in the sinking and killing of people onboard.

That makes perfect sense. “We were there but not actually there”. #auspol

Cannot understand how many men just do not like women, despite being sexually attracted to women, they just do not see women as human beings. #auspol

Aussie Rules official heard describing women as 'breeders' A southern NSW football club says an official has stepped down after making derogatory comments about players on its women's team.

New South Wales Australian Rules football club has stepped down after being caught saying a female player should lose weight, and describing women as "breeders". 😡

Single frame. Title: “[redacted]” A line of early teen? girls looking at the viewer. Behind them, silhouettes of four generic men, some with hand on shoulders of the girls, which have been through six iterations of redaction to satisfy the newspaper’s lawyers that none are identifiable.

A heavily redacted cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.

Tweet today from Ryan Grim of Drop Site. "An unarmed Iranian ship was invited, along with the U.S., to be part of an Indian Naval exercise, and its sailors paraded on land before the president. "The U.S. at the last minute pulled out of the exercise and instead attacked the Iranian ship with a torpedo. Breaking with all norms of civilization and warfare, we then refused to rescue the drowning survivors. The Sri Lanka Navy was left to pull the dead bodies from the water. "I am hard pressed to think of any other nation throughout history that would do something so cowardly and despicable. We are genuinely in a league of our own, and American media — mostly shrugging off the bombing of a girls school and acting as if carpet bombing Tehran is a normal military tactic — is deeply complicit."

Decent summary from Drop Site News. Misses the Australian 'contribution' (three of the submariners were Royal Australian Navy).

Boreshot weevils eating native trees in West Oz imported and now fire ants in a forest.
Guys I don't think our government are keeping us safe at all.

When asked if the govt’s new Apprenticeship program was “worthwhile”, Jacinta Price said
“Throwing more taxpayer money to boost trades isn’t the answer”

Doesn’t want taxpayers funding trades, but happy to slug them for hubby to attend CPAC events? Really disgraceful. #auspol

4. Were submariners from any other country's navy also on board?

Didn't think so.

A plantation worker photographed this creature in New Guinea, thought to have been dead for 6,000 years.

👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/meet-to...

New NDIS reform is in chaos, insiders say Documents seen by Crikey show that senior staff at the National Disability Insurance Agency have warned that the policy design of the so-called New Framework Planning is in disarray.

Exclusive: Senior NDIA staff have warned that the policy design aimed at overhauling the scheme by relinquishing human involvement to an algorithmic “engine” is in chaos, writes Rick Morton.

www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/05/r...

"The far-right are benefitting from simply being the most obvious alternative to a failing status quo."

@garyseconomics.bsky.social on wealth inequality & how far-right parties have become the Steven Bradburys of global politics.

🎧 theaus.in/4rM2fYh

He's the nephew of the AG in the NT. He got home detention for killing a man with his car on purpose then bragging about it and seriously injuring another man. They were both Aboriginal and it was a hate crime.

Powerful right-wing regressive weirdos gather to plot at Atlas-linked conference in Australia - The Shot There is a transnational Islamophobia Industry of massive family foundations and “think tank” operations that have been generating fear and loathing of Muslims since the 1990s.

Here's @lucyham.bsky.social with a great piece of research about the local right-wing establishment social engineering operation occurring of late.

"Powerful right-wing regressive weirdos gather to plot at Atlas-linked conference in Australia"

Interesting …

Marsupials in the news again? Yes! And this time it’s good news | First Dog on the Moon Lazarus taxa

Lazarus taxa?! Is that good? Yes it is! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It really would be worth pursuing this person, exposing his real identity (via bluesky admin), sending the lawyers after him and having him thrown off the platform for breach of whatever laws apply.

Guy alters my cartoon by AI in a way my workplace lawyers specifically advised me against, posts his version which violates my intellectual property. I ask him repeatedly to delete, he admits he doesn’t know how then tells me to provide the legal argument for him to do it.
Reported to @bsky.app

Gold Coast mayor says ratepayers did not fund Trump estate visit ABC News can reveal more details about the Gold Coast mayor's visit to Mar-a-Lago before a Trump Tower deal was inked.

"I was there as mayor of the city; that's a gift to the city, not to me". Tom Tate did it for you, Gold Coast. He drank expensive wine with Donald Trump & consumed tomahawks. Still can't see a problem with twice-bankrupted developer David Young on Trump Tower. #qldpol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

London Review OF BOOKS The absence of justification is not incidental. It is a morbid symptom of an international system in crisis. The certainties of the United States hegemonic stewardship of the 'international rules-based order' have been deformed beyond recognition by the Gaza genocide, but no alternative architecture has cohered in their place. Instead there is a politics of gangster imperialism that has neither international nor domestic consent.

On Iran. Worth your time: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...