Eric Bananarama

Who killed the Liberal Party? As Angus Taylor seizes the reins of the federal opposition, moderate and conservative Liberals talk about internal divisions, historic and recent failures, and how their party lost its way

“Taylor will be gone by Christmas. And that will have nothing to do with the moderates.” mnth.ly/piIXLuj

The Liberal review explains the defeat – but not the path back The leaked review of the Liberal Party’s 2025 election defeat details campaign failures and organisational problems. What it avoids is the harder question: what policies or direction might rebuild support.

The leaked Liberal Party review dissects the failures of the 2025 campaign – leadership, organisation and messaging. But it offers little about the policies or direction needed to win voters back, David Solomon writes.
#auspol #LiberalParty #Election2025 #AustralianPolitics

Single frame. Karoline Leavitt on the press briefing lectern with a US flag and a large “chocolate wheel” with coloured panels showing: “REGIME CHANGE -YAY!; THEY’RE TERRORISTS!; THEY HAVE NUKES!; THEY DOT HAVE NUKES YET; WE WANT TO REPLACE THE LEADER; WE KILLED THE REPLACEMENTS; ARMAGEDDON!!!; PRE-EMPTIVE SELF-DEFENCE; BIBI IS OUR FRIEND; (SOME SCHOOLGIRLS MAY HAVE DIED); WHAT OIL?!; MID-TERMS - YIKES!” Leavitt says, “Next question?”

Spin.
My @smh cartoon.

Last year, 50 Australians were serving on US attack submarines, and that number was on the rise.

The Albanese Government must answer whether Australian troops were used in this attack.

If we don't want to be involved in this war, withdraw Australian troops.

US/Israel-Iran war: “The biggest casualty of all is going to be the global oil and gas industry”. Yes, all countries will now hasten their decarbonisation strategies. 👇Ambrose Evans-Pritchard explains why we must delink from the corrupt global petro cartels.

Who killed the Liberal Party? As Angus Taylor seizes the reins of the federal opposition, moderate and conservative Liberals talk about internal divisions, historic and recent failures, and how their party lost its way

“When I turned up at the end of the Morrison government, the party room which I understood to be a place of fierce and ferocious debate, wasn’t. It was nothing of the sort. It was a rubber stamp for decisions of cabinet.” mnth.ly/ynk8RCd

“This year you brought into the picture taxes on beer. You do this so well . . . [and] when you say things like . . . we pay more tax on beer than we tax the fossil fuel industry . . . This is brilliant.” - Yanis Varoufakis

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Australian energy bills could surge as Iran conflict drives up global gas prices Experts warn of similarities with 2022, when electricity prices went up by more than 40% due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Gas companies that export 🇦🇺 gas are about to make windfall profits after strikes on Iran & we have no plan to capture that value for 🇦🇺

To fix this, we need a 25% tax on gas exports that would raise billions of💲of revenue & ensure that when prices rise, 🇦🇺 benefits
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Really, @senatorwong.bsky.social? Well let me tell you, I am disappointed in your human rights abuse of asylum seekers/refugees, complicity in the #GazaGenocide, support for the illegal Israeli/US war in Iran, to name just 3 of many things but ... I guess we just need to suck it up, right? #auspol

Who killed the Liberal Party? As Angus Taylor seizes the reins of the federal opposition, moderate and conservative Liberals talk about internal divisions, historic and recent failures, and how their party lost its way

As Angus Taylor seizes the reins of the federal opposition, moderate and conservative Liberals talk about internal divisions, historic and recent failures, and how their party lost its way | Karen Middleton #auspol mnth.ly/Eb8Ty1y

There Are 47,635 Epstein Files Offline for Review, DOJ Says Among the unreleased documents are a woman’s unverified allegations against President Trump.

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PK: What about the IRGC & their alleged involvement with a synagogue in Australia?
David Shoebridge “to suggest that that would justify a war in gross breach of international law, a war that’s based on a multiple of lies…I mean it’s not even worth considering”💥 #auspol #Iran

Australia-US minerals deal underpinned decision to allow Alcoa to keep clearing WA forest, document reveals Document also shows US miner had been unlawfully clearing land for 15 years despite warnings from department

Next up… Alcoa?

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We relocated to Western Australia for a school term in Jan and thought we’d make ourselves useful by covering some local shitfuckery with help from local talent, so we’re stoked to have folksinger, writer, educator and all-round WA legend Lucy Peach guest-hosting our latest episode! ✨

Adelaide University cancels literary festival event with UN Gaza investigator Francesca Albanese Festival organisers criticise the university for last-minute booking cancellation of event headlined by special rapporteur for Palestinian territories

Zionist really are just universally shitty people.

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International Relations and Iran ft Scott Burchill - MWM Live YouTube video by The West Report

YouTube livestream at 2pm with @IRanalyst Dr Scott Burchill. Lots to chat about. No holds-barred. 'Free flowing' on Australia, the US, Israel and the invasion of Iran
#auspol
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The Iranian regime is vile and the attack on them by Israel and the US is a war crime. Much needed clarity on these two realities by Geoffrey Robertson. Solidarity with the Iranian and Lebanese people and condemnation of this latest US Israeli war of aggression is what the world must focus on.

Single frame. Trump at whiteboard with pointer. A line of backs of heads of various world leaders. (Macron Carney Albo Starmer Merz Von der Leyen). Written on whiteboard: “INTERNATIONAL RULES-BASED ORDER. 1. I RULE. 2. I ORDER THE REST OF THE WORLD AROUND.

Rules-based order.
My @smh cartoon.

Judge takes pity on BHP in case against injured coal miner - Michael West BHP has had almost an entire court case muzzled and a coal miner's case struck out without even filing a defence. Stephanie Tran reports.

Who said wailing doesn't work? BHP gets injured miner's case thrown out, docs suppressed - after they send him 'Court Book' he can't open on the night before the hearing
#auspol @sstephanietrann.bsky.social

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By definitions established since Nuremberg the US/Israel bombing of Iran is a war crime.👇Geoffrey Robertson KC advocates a new “rules based order” that excludes a UN Security Council veto currently abused by Russia, the US and China (re Taiwan).

#Trump got played.
Cartoonists put it so succinctly ... 🤌
#Iran

"Is the Australian dream to own your own home or someone else’s?" @jack-thrower.bsky.social

Angus Taylor seems to think the capital gains tax discount helps achieve the Australian dream. But as Jack points out... it's only for investment properties!
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Thirty years on, the Howard legacy still defines our limits John Howard marks 30 years since the Coalition’s 1996 victory with a familiar story of stability and economic management. But the deeper legacy is the set of political and economic defaults both major parties now treat as common sense.

Thirty years after the 1996 election, John Howard celebrates stability and economic management. But the deeper legacy is the bipartisan “common sense” that narrowed Australia’s political imagination, writes Stewart Sweeney.
#auspol #JohnHoward #EconomicPolicy #Politics #Australia

Packer's $150,000 donation to Advance a 'worrying' sign for Liberals Liberals say billionaire James Packer's first political donation in 12 years to a conservative lobby group should be a cause for concern, saying the rise of Advance could push the party further from t...

Billionaires are not our friends.

It’s notable that this article about a billionaire funding racism is framed as a story about how this donation affects the Liberal Party.

Our media are failing us. They’re playing politics while racism and fascism are the actual story.

#AusPol

Albanese government rejected advice on Tasmanian salmon farming impact before passing pro-industry laws FoI documents show ministers ignored recommendation for fresh inquiry that could have reduced or paused farming

Albanese government rejected advice on Tasmanian salmon farming impact before passing pro-industry laws

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‘Off-ramps available’: Oman pushes peace talks as nearly 800 killed in Iran Iran strikes energy infrastructure across the Gulf as Revolutionary Guard announces closure of Strait of Hormuz.

The head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog says inspectors have not found evidence of a coordinated Iranian programme to build nuclear weapons despite Israeli and US claims.

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French President Emmanuel Macron disapproved Tuesday of the US-Israeli attacks on Iran, stressing that they were outside the framework of international law, Anadolu reports.

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Isaac Herzog held secret meeting with Asio boss during Australia trip, intelligence agency confirms Granting a foreign head of state such as the Israeli president access to domestic intelligence agency ‘unprecedented’, senator David Pocock claims

Isaac Herzog held secret meeting with Asio boss during Australia trip, intelligence agency confirms

Granting a foreign head of state such as the Israeli president access to domestic intelligence agency ‘unprecedented’, senator David Pocock claims #AusPol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Iran’s regime is vile, but what Trump and Netanyahu have done is a war crime The US and Israel have used the same perverse justification for the attack on Iran that Putin used to invade Ukraine.

No - this isn’t “opinion,” - Geoffrey Robertson AO KC is a former war crimes judge, human rights barrister, and author and he’s unequivocally stating that what the US and Israel did was illegal, and how. That’s not opinion - it’s fact.

#AusPol
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ASIO, our national security gatekeeper, not.