Victoria Fielding

At SA election candidate forum a Liberal candidate apparently urged voters to support the Liberals because if they don’t, SA will become a one party state and Labor a dictatorship. That’s the Lib’s pitch: vote for us because otherwise we’ll be extinct. I wouldn’t have thought it was a strong message

What did we learn from the Liberal election review? We learned Dutton was unpopular amongst key groups he needed to win. Yet, when Sussan Ley set about trying to (sort of) differentiate Libs from Dutton, a year later they’ve gone back to Dutton take-2 with Taylor. No wonder they tried to bury it! 😳

Which Karl will become Australia’s Joe Rogan? Karl Stefanovic or Karl Sandilands? Stefanovic has already started, but no doubt Sandilands will be going “independent” too - let off the leash outside ACMA rules to spread lies, hate and bigotry for profit the quickest. It will be ugly to watch!

You’re implying govt plans to go to war with the US which they have absolutely said they won’t do. So what do you mean by “support”? Australia has to maintain alliance with the US whether Trump is president or not. And they can’t take Iran’s side. It’s so much more complicated than you appreciate.

I’m sick of the knee jerk “THIS IS ALL LABOR’S FAULT” I see on here every time something happens that people don’t like. Do you really believe govt wanted Trump to attack Iran? Do you think it’s easy managing the US alliance when Trump is president? Why always assume the govt is acting in bad faith?

It’s not as simple as “Labor supports the war”. It’s the government the way - not Labor. And what they say and do in relation to the US is carefully calibrated by diplomacy, strategic alliance, and Australia’s best interest. They’re not “supporting” by joining in. But they can’t take Iran’s side!

We need to talk about Trump's prolific, egregious lying as a form of democratic cheating. And we need to question why the media has - for over a decade - let him get away with it. My analysis👇

The problem was Price admitted they were MAGA - said the quiet bit out loud. The problem was not that they are MAGA. Indeed, Angus Taylor’s ascension is giving in to the Liberal MAGA faction.

This is the real reason Taylor shelved the review. He plans to go full MAGA so he can’t exactly have a document out there finding that full MAGA is the reason the Libs lost the election.

Leaked Liberal election review notes it was a mistake for Price to say “make Australia great again” because it made the Libs look like Trump’s MAGA. I note the review doesn’t say “Liberals should stop being so much like MAGA”, because this would be admitting problem is not messaging. It’s character.

Labor has not joined war with the US, or Israel. I can’t fathom how every single thing that happens which Labor doesn’t have the power to stop becomes Labor’s fault. It’s like people are looking to blame Labor constantly for everything and can’t recognise the reality Labor has to navigate here.

Since the Liberal election review has been leaked to the Age, people will know Dutton was offended it called him “unattractive to women”. I wanted to let Dutton know it’s not his face or baldness that’s the issue. It’s his cold, dead heart, cruel character and mean spirit that make him unattractive.

Iran Protest Death Toll Could Top 30,000: Local Officials According to two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health who spoke with TIME.

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Regime change in Iran would be a good thing. Don’t you think so? As this Iranian so eloquently says, they can’t go on as they are. That doesn’t mean I think Trump can actually manage to enact regime change. But it doesn’t mean I don’t support regime change if it could happen!

Disappeared bodies, mass burials and ‘30,000 dead’: what is the truth of Iran’s death toll? Testimony from medics, morgue and graveyard staff reveals huge state effort to conceal systematic killing of protesters

I'm quite shocked by how many people on here - including many who are rightly vocal and outraged about Palestinian genocide - are claiming that it's a lie that Iran killed 30,000+ protestors in January this year. What propaganda are they consuming? Frightening.
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US intervention in Iran is not benevolent. But Iranians do not have the privilege of choice 'To the critics of the Iran intervention, I ask: the Iranian populace has been dying from cancer for 47 years — what treatment options do they have?'

Important piece by Dr Hessom Razavi: "frequently left-leaning Western armchair commentators with minimal skin in the game...display scant awareness or a cool indifference towards those who are most at risk: the Iranian people themselves, in their tens of millions".
www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/02/u...

Which is worse?
Israel killing 70,000 Palestinians?
Iran killing 30,000 Iranians?
This is not a trick question. They’re both unfathomable atrocities which should be condemned.

Oh you’re on Iran’s side are you? The regime that killed 40,000 people protesting for a democracy? Wow, quite the statement there.

So you’d prefer Australian leaders put the country in a dangerous position pissing off the key country that we would need to come to our aid if someone attacked us just to make you feel good about yourself? Glad you’re not in charge.

False equivalencies are the lowest form of argument.

Same with Venezuela.

It’s a total mess. The Iranians deserve a chance at liberation, at democracy, but I don’t see Trump able to deliver it.

Watching Penny Wong’s press conference. We couldn’t have a better person navigating Australia through the dual chaos of a Trump regime and a murderous Iranian regime. Those claiming the Australian govt should be making simple statements of protest right now underestimate the complexity of reality.

Australia hasn’t collaborated with the US on these strikes, hasn’t promised to join them. They’ve done the bare minimum of what an ally has to do - same as Europe, UK. Amazing how all the armchair foreign policy experts on here seem to think managing an alliance with the US is a simple matter.

Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal More than 36,500 Iranians were killed by security forces during the January 8-9 crackdown on nationwide protests, making it the deadliest two-day protest massacre in history, according to documents re...

There’s some people here who seem surprised to learn Iran has killed an estimated (could be more) 40,000 Iranians in a short period in January. Almost like the world looks away when brutal dictatorships kill their own citizens to stop them trying to democratise.
www.iranintl.com/en/202601255...

Oh, a MAGA on my feed denying Trump’s crimes. Did you always set out to be a paedo apologist or did this just happen by accident?

Simplistic rubbish. See my earlier thread.
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I believe the people on the ground - the families of the dead - more than I believe the Iranian regime. Do you really think the regime will admit to killing 40,000 people? Why would you believe anything they say?

I don’t trust the Iranian regime to admit how many people they killed.

Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal More than 36,500 Iranians were killed by security forces during the January 8-9 crackdown on nationwide protests, making it the deadliest two-day protest massacre in history, according to documents re...

I don’t believe that. I believe the witnesses and families.

www.iranintl.com/en/202601255...