David Papps

This post has attracted more than 8600 likes and 1500 comments - overwhelmingly supportive. Widespread disgust at the Labor party.

Of course Albanese and Minns won’t bat an eyelid at this. Won’t even get a ‘grave concerns’ from Penny Wong
Fuck Labor

Qld coalmine expansion approved by Albanese government will clear habitat and fuel climate crisis, scientists say Conservationists estimate coal exported from expanded mine to release CO2 equivalent of about half Australia’s annual carbon footprint

The utter sham of offsets, yet again...

“Destroying the equivalent of 40 MCGs worth of greater glider habitat and then attempting to relocate all hollows and claim this somehow offsets the harm to greater gliders is genuinely deluded, and contemptuous.” - me

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How the hell is Angus Taylor still a thing? - The Shot Angus Taylor a walking Venn Diagram intersection of fossil fuel fervour and cash for the boys.

As it appears enough of the Liberals will sufficiently succumb to madness to endorse him as their next hapless leader, here's a piece I wrote way back in 2021 about the many and varied and still unexplained controversies that have swirled around Angus Taylor.

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Single frame. Chris Minns stands beside a massive tonne weight marked NSW POLICE being lowered by a crane. Visible sticking out from under the weight are hands, legs, a woman’s face, a keffiyeh and placards saying “NO TO GENOCIDE”, “FREE PALESTINE”, “HERZOG OUT”, “NO TO VIOLENCE” Minns says, “Thst should socially cohere them nicely.”

Cohesion.
My @smh cartoon.

Aren't they technically arseholes?

Literally a conga-line of government suck-holes queuing up to shake a war criminals hand … #auspol this is Government under @laborcaucus.house.gov

Yes, if police are not accountable for what would be considered heinous crimes by ordinary citizens, then we are hurtling towards a very, very dangerous situation.

Exactly the same look too. That manic, angry, I’m the victim here look.

All ready been given a pass by Minns and the equally inadequate NSW Police Minister. They will suffer no consequences. Nor will the nazi-mustachioed cops beating up the older gentleman in the white shirt. There were other cases as well. What will happen is erosion of public trust in the cops.

If these cops don't go to jail for this assault, please explain why not, @albomp.bsky.social.

If a police person belts the shit out of a civilian in the name self defence ie: the civilian attacked me. Then 5 hours later the civilian is released without charge. Is that an admission that the civilian was not guilty or a declaration that punishment was delivered. Doesn't instil confidence!

Another fabulous photo!

Thomas Sewell, suit and tie outside court, trying to do an intense stare and emphasising his racist shite with a hand gesture. (ABC News: Andi Yu)

Thomas Sewell looks more like a character from an English comedy show every day, possibly the school teacher everyone despises, or the hilariously incompetent detective.

What a boring little man.

#AusPol

Quite a few of the NSW cops I saw on video beating the shit out of peaceful protestors last night were sporting that exact same style of moustache. Makes you wonder...

NSW Police Minister saying to the people please don't antagonise the cops by, you know, exercising your basic human rights

Wage war on nature to build new homes: that’s Labour’s offer, but it’s a con trick | George Monbiot The government’s new planning bill is tearing down environmental protections to benefit developers. This nation of nature lovers won’t stand for it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

5. For me, a massive frustration has been the government’s war on nature: falsely pitching wildlife against human welfare, tearing down essential protections for the tiny scraps of ecosystem that remain here.
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4. Its repeated assaults on benefits - first resisting, beyond all reason, its backbenchers’ demands to end the Tories' vicious two-child benefit cap, before finally relenting, then seeking to throw people with disabilities into the ditch - has been grim beyond belief.

1. Many here seem bemused by the anger and disappointment this government attracts. Please bear with me while I try to explain it.
Let’s begin with Gaza. Starmer’s complicity is one of the major reasons so many people are disillusioned.
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Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

2. Linked to its alignment with the Netanyahu government is the Labour government’s assaults on the right to protest at home. Assaults that would have stopped the Labour movement in its tracks:
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Craven speaking at the Skynews antisemitism Summit last year states if he was still a Vice Chancellor he'd break hateful occupation or demonstration and engage police in prosecuting demonstrators, and impose disciplinary processes, and if that was legally challenged he would create new harsher disciplinary measures. Craven was handpicked by Combatting Antisemitism Czar, Jillian Segal, as the "independent" assessor to judge her, and now the Government's University Report Card project.

Combatting Antisemitism Czar™️, Jillian Segal's, hand-picked University Report card independent assessor - Greg Craven - brings novel views and thoughts to the position.

Israel sends 55 mutilated bodies, 66 bags of skulls to Gaza hospital Gaza doctors say Israel delivered mutilated corpses and bags of human remains to al-Shifa. Surgical cuts in the skulls and organ theft

@albomp.bsky.social's alternate world means this will be ignored. The Leiblers r more important #auspol

"Many of the bodies were missing body parts, and some showed signs of torture. Several corpses also showed fractures in the legs consistent with gunshot wounds"

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Some classic moral certainty from Peter Hartcher. He knows, case closed.

Colour us shocked

I don’t want to depress you all but the entire media and political class will have moved on from this latest Trump racist outburst by tomorrow, Monday at the very latest. He gets away with it every time - because he is allowed to get away with it, and because he floods the zone.

Australian politics live: Wong acknowledges ‘depth of feeling’ on Herzog visit but calls for would-be protesters to ‘recall the context’ Follow live

The context of what? The last 75 years?
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Australian universities to be graded on how well they deal with protests under antisemitism report card Exclusive: Leaked documents show how universities will be assessed under new system, which was fast-tracked after Bondi terror attack

Universities and anti-Semitism are almost entirely unconnected, and having thought-police on campus is precisely the chilling stifling of protest against atrocities that Netanyahu seeks. Australian politicians - you have either been duped or are complicit.
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“Smells pretty bad”: 100,000 dead fish wash up on lakeshore Hundreds of thousands of native fish have died in Lake Menindee amid a heatwave and blue-green algae bloom.

Groundhog Day
We don't doubt the effects of extreme heat & lack of rainfall on the enviro, but it's not rocket science that there needs to be more water in the river & less extraction.
Bureaucracy & vested interests rule the day over scientific fact.
www.smh.com.au/environment/...

I can’t see how any institution that implements this can survive as a university in the way that term has previously been understood. If staff are forced to state that they accept the claims of the Israeli apartheid state (which is what the proposed ‘training’ entails) what’s left?

Bari Weiss’s new CBS hires include ‘germ theory denialist’ doctor Dr Mark Hyman, who claimed he reduced his biological age by 20 years, brought on as a contributor

"Among the hires at CBS News announced by Weiss is a doctor who claims he reduced his biological age by 20 years with cold plunges; that cod liver oil treats autism; and that Alzheimer’s and dementia can be reversed with supplements he sells on his online store."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...