Doug Cameron

The Murdoch owned Herald Sun shows the stupidity of treating housing as a commodity. Unaffordable prices are described as an outstanding performance. Murdoch increases wealth due to his investments in realestate.com.au
The crisis will not be solved by a failed market!

It’s time for Labor to abandon failed reliance on “the market” to resolve the housing crisis.
Public housing has and could again play a crucial role. Labor should go back to basics, create a national public housing commission and fund it by reducing CGT and -ve gearing rip offs!

Herzog signed a bomb to be dropped on innocent civilians and children.Claimed all Palestinians were “unequivocally” responsible for Oct 7 . He accused critics of the Gaza genocide of cowardice, intimidation and hypocrisy. He was specifically named in the ICJ order.

Reading “Complicit” - by Peter Oborne which exposes the role played by the UK govt, Herzog and the media in the genocide of Palestinians. How does his visit promote peace, security and civil order in Australia? Why are we welcoming this man to Australia?

Malcolm Turnbull showing leadership by calling out the madness that is Donald Trump.
Albo needs to join the growing list of wise, concerned and courageous leaders who recognise Trump needs to be called out. He is belgerent, dangerous and a threat to peace he is out of control.

The billionaires club led by Gina Rinehart fund the racist and divisive One Nation.
Labor has an opportunity to ensure it builds its base by ensuring working class Australians get a fair go. Spend more on building a good society less on militarism and fix CGT and -ve gearing.

Steve Bannon shows why Trump supports AUKUS and Albo.
It’s not “shared values”.
Australia is of “geo strategic importance” and a US “lynchpin” in the Asia Pacific.
We are an unsinkable aircraft carrier, a base for nuclear armed attack submarines and a pawn in US imperialism.

Trump is a dangerous, unhinged megalomaniac. The Albanese govt must stop pandering to this dangerous, declining “ally”.
Australia must play a role for peace, common sense and humanity. The old world order is over, unthinking fealty to the Trump regime is sycophantic stupidity.

Albo should reject joining Trump, Rubio, Witkoff, Kushner and Blair on the Orwellian “Board of Peace”. We should work with and support the UN not a gang of thieves, autocrats and Trump sycophants.
Big test for our sovereignty,leadership, and dignity. Time to show some backbone.

Calling it as it is!
Bob Carr, Gareth Evans and thousands of Labor party members understand how dangerous, expensive and all consuming the dumb AUKUS rip off is.
Australia can play a massively more constructive role pursuing peace not funding the US and UK war machines.

How does feeding the US military industrial complex and Trump’s increasingly facist regime align with claims of being aligned with “democratic values”?
ALP leadership has abandoned claims of pursuing world peace, a rules based order and democratic principles. It’s disgusting!

Our PM is being watched over by an autocratic narcissist who unleashes armed killers against his own people. This is a bizarre and cruel joke.
We should quit being a vassal state, stand up for ourselves and recognise Malcolm Fraser’s warning that the US is a dangerous ally!

A Royal Commission, adopting the flawed Segal Report, including the IHA definition of antisemitism, cracking down on legitimate demonstrations against Israeli govt genocide and apartheid will not silence those who see this as a political opportunity to bring down a Labor govt.

If the Royal Commission is to investigate issues of social cohesion it cannot ignore the implications of Israel’s genocide in Palestine and the role of all religious extremism. The RC must ensure the separation of church and state and not preference any religion or group.

Trump DCOS Stephen Miller claims Greenland should be “part of our overall security apparatus….part of the US”. We have voluntarily become an appendage of the US security apparatus. AUKUS subjugates us to an aggressive, warmongering regime who flaunt international law and peace.

I’m sick of so called “experts” like Jennings who feed off the military industrial complex blaming Labor for the Bondi terrorist attack. Ignoring the slaughter of innocents, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing by the Israeli govt and IDF is intellectually and morally bankrupt.

If the NSW ALP executive/Premier charges members who oppose Israeli genocide, apartheid and war crimes with antisemitism the National Executive must intervene and place the branch in administration. Starmer style attacks on ALP opponents of Israeli genocide have no place here.

I have been an active member of the ALP since the early 70’s. The description of the ALP by a group calling themselves “Labor Israel Action Committee” and reported in the Murdoch press makes no sense to me or thousands of ALP members. It’s straight out of the Starmer play book!

Baseless, divisive and excessive, rhetoric from a desperate Coalition demonstrates that political survival comes before dignity, truth and the national interest. Demanding govt ministers cry in public to show support for victims of terrorism is juvenile, nonsensical claptrap!

Looks like a Royal Commission is on the cards. Terms of Reference will be important. Will it:
•Examine the role of religious extremism in a secular society?
. The impact of Israeli genocide, imperialism, and apartheid on domestic politics?
. The influence of Israel on MPs?

I have policy differences with the PM. Nevertheless Albo is a smart, hardworking and successful politician. The pile on by the RW media a desperate opposition and Frydenberg is disgusting. Blaming him personally for an act of terrorism is grubby,partisan, opportunist politics.

Minns fails to understand that real democracy requires concerned citizens demonstrating against inhumanity, genocide, apartheid, colonialism and misuse of power. A Labor Premier must not sacrifice democratic rights on the altar of ill informed, short term, knee jerk reactions.

Labor must critically analyse the effect on democracy and the right to protest of adopting the Segal report recommendations.
Conflating antisemitism with legitimate opposition to Israeli govt genocide, apartheid and breaches of international law would be a grave mistake.

Disgusting, cowardly anti semitic terrorist attacks on Australian citizens cannot be justified. We need a calm and measured response not a knee jerk reaction. The families of victims need support in their time of grief. Peace and tolerance needed here and in the Middle East.

Tomorrow morning 9.00am I’m on @the_sunday_shot with Zoe Daniel,Jo Dyer and Dave Milner. Discussing the year in review, the dreaded AUKUS, parliamentary “entitlements”, housing, cost of living, political courage, Palestine, Trump, global warming and much more!

“Full steam ahead” on AUKUS. Hegseth “applauds” another $1B of our money handed over to the US military industrial complex. Wong claims it’s a win for Australia 😳
Abandoning our sovereignty, preparing for war with our most important trading partner, is a disaster not a win!

Interesting article from Wayne Swan. The strength of Labor used to be “contentious” debate resulting in good policy.
Discipline is ok but conformity is a recipe for militarism and neoliberalism.
Progressive taxation, public housing and a social wage is not contentious.

More AUKUS secrecy and political manipulation by Trump as we dance to the tune of the US military industrial complex. Champagne corks popping as the bank accounts of lobbyists, former politicians, defence personnel and public servants burst with AUKUS $s. Militarism gone mad!

What a surprise! Trump, according to Richard Marles is “completely supportive” of AUKUS,
We abandon our sovereignty, sign a one sided dud deal, subsidise the US and UK military industrial establishments, build public housing for US troops, antagonise China.
What a deal for Trump!

Australia tracking Chinese navy flotilla in Philippine Sea as Marles announces major defence overhaul Biggest changes to defence bureaucracy since the 1970s aim to tackle budget and timeline blowouts, government says

As criticism of the atrocious AUKUS deal increases, what better than some shock horror headlines of another Chinese flotilla. The hypocrisy knows no bounds as we snuggle up to Trump by conducting “freedom of navigation” exercises off the coast of China.