Quentin Dempster

Pauline Hanson obviously wants Australia to ban Muslim immigration but won’t say so out loud. The Faragists now coalescing in our country use the dogwhistle “mass” migration but so far have not put up legislation to embed religiously intolerant “values” in our immigration laws.

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Yes that’s so. But Albo’s secret weapon in ‘25 was Dutton. A decisive number of electors, particularly those who usually voted Greens, voted ALP instead because they didn’t want Dutts to become PM. Ask Adam Bandt and Max Chandler-Mather.

No wonder PM Albanese now appears ambivalent about hosting COP26 in SA next year. World attention would focus on his export coal/gas (gaslighting) hypocrisy: an embarrassment for Australia. AFR reports 👇 big decision expected this week. Bonn?

Hope you’re right. But these mis/disinforming forces are well resourced and were emboldened when they scared Australians into voting NO in Voice referendum.

“Disclosure without consequences. A smoke alarm without batteries - installed when the house is already ablaze”. Carmen Lawrence 👇 exposes the Faustian “trigger” PM Albanese proposes in his EPBC Act. Coal/gas: let ‘er rip.

California Exceeds Another Clean Energy Milestone: Increasing battery storage capacity by 2,100% since the beginning of the Newsom Administration in 2019.

NEW: California now has nearly 17,000 megawatts of battery storage – reaching one-third of the way to our 2045 goal.

We're deploying more battery storage than any state in America, building a stronger grid, cutting pollution, and securing a safer future for our nation.

While Gina/Advance/IPA/Murdochs/Faragists/preferential Pauline take over the Liberal Party, a big window has opened for more meritorious independents (think ‘teals’) to run in marginal LNP (and some ALP) seats across federal electorates. Libs may have signed their own death warrant. 👇

Sussan Ley and the federal parliamentary Liberal Party display “contempt for the future”. Saturday Paper editorial 15/11/25. >> Zero sense www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/edit... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

The Liberal Party has lost the Australian business sector with its “sheer fatuousness and contradictions” by abandoning net zero 2050. AFR editorial 15-16/11/25. The so called party of rational market economics relegates itself to the political fringe. 👇✅

Re net zero dispute: Phil Coorey AFR observes PM Albo is watching closely. “.. not everyone in government will be heartbroken should Australia ultimately fail to host next year’s” UN COP conference in Adelaide.

The Faragists, backed by Gina, are about to trigger a full blast Australian fear campaign on net zero target and “mass” migration. Resolve polling indicates electors remain undecided on these political pressure points.

Malcom Turnbull accuses Liberals of ‘Trumpian campaign against renewables’ after party dumps net zero Climate groups call backflip a ‘disaster’ while moderate Liberals worry about impact on winning back urban electorates

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Folks, this now successful campaign to capture the federal parliamentary Liberal Party re dumping net zero 2050, has been bankrolled by an “enshitification” online outfit called Advance -bankrolled by Gina Rinehart, an Australian coal/gas oligarch and Trumpist.

The subversives. Sponsored by Gina, Advance, IPA, the Murdochs, Sky After Dark, preferential Pauline and the Beetrooter. Australia’s 2025 climate/energy war has just been declared by vested coal/gas interests. First capture? The federal parliamentary Liberal Party.

Net Zero hides a truth the mining giants understand perfectly: nothing has to change The point.com.au

Like ‘housing affordability’ ‘net zero’ has become one of those meaningless political sayings

Labors support for net zero hasn’t stopped them supporting new coal or gas or from spending billions on fossil fuel subsidies

My latest column on @thepointau.bsky.social

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Unpaid ‘women’s work’ is worth $427 billion, new research shows. See how much your unpaid labour is worth New analysis reveals just how much “invisible” caring and housework is worth to the economy.

Presented with a massive side-eye to governments who can’t even equitably remunerate paid work, let alone unpaid labour.

11 November 1975.

Recognise him? It’s Al Capone! Al taught us when demand for drug (alcohol) is strong & availability restricted/illegal, supply shifts to black market & can get vy violent. Just what happened with cigs/vapes in Australia @jamomartin.bsky.social @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social

It’s too late George (Brandis). Andrew Hastie (Lib., Canning) has already jumped the shark. He’s joined the illiberal Faragists and Trumpists. The key question: does Sussan Ley have the party room numbers to survive this week, then months, years to the 2028 election?

“Strategic voting” e.g. Labor voters giving first preferences to “teal” independents in House of Representative seats where ALP cannot win, is now an established pattern. @antonygreen.com.au

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

Well what’d ya know? “Pentagon confirms the ‘benefit’ of AUKUS deal” for US defence policy. MKoziol SMH/Age. Yes $A368B to prop up US N subs production .. and Australia gets expanded US bases on its soil and is now a nuclear target in US war with China over Taiwan.

Nuremberg, Geneva, Rome genocide conventions: those violating human rights in 21C (Hamas, Netanyahu) must be held to account. Sydney Peace Prize Navi Pillay. Please note: neither Trump’s USA nor Albanese’s Australia have yet to uphold the rule of law = our moral abyss.

If the US resumes nuclear weapons testing, this would be extremely dangerous for humanity All of the nine nuclear-armed nations are investing huge sums in new weapons. And the numbers of nuclear weapons “available for use” is climbing again.

Excellent summary of current situation re international nuclear arms. New START treaty expires February 2026. Should be extended & new treaties developed to ban all nuclear weapons. @sanho.bsky.social @paulbongiorno.bsky.social @quentindempster.bsky.social
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Social media outfit Advance, bankrolled by Gina, backed by the Murdochs, IPA, Nampijinpa, Pauline Hanson, Tony Abbott, John Howard pays for what Steve Bannon calls “enshitification” = flooding a polity with “shit” - fear/propaganda. Now it’s “mass” migration and net zero 2050.

Cowardly, irresponsible. It looks like Australia’s L-NP Coalition will dingo out of net zero 2050. Awaiting Sussan Ley’s Liberal partyroom decision = leadership test. Failure to urgently mitigate emissions via new technologies exposes our children to ever increasing risk.

Quentin neglected to provide a link, but a bit of probing on the net produced the following for those interested...and we should all be interested and support such endeavours www.whistleblowers.org.au/about/consti...

Quentin neglected to provide a link, but a bit of probing on the net produced the following for those interested...and we should all be interested and support such endeavours www.whistleblowers.org.au/about/consti...

It’s only fair: Australia’s copyright content to be statutorily licensed to make AI platforms enforcibly pay for its use. AG Michelle Rowland will consult all stakeholders and content creators. Thank heavens for the Copyright Act. 👇 AFR 29/10/25.