Eric Bananarama

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.

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ASIO, our national security gatekeeper, not.

Ep 07 - War with China? - Media Watch Nine Newspapers' series on war with China within three years is criticised as hysterical and hyperbolic.

It's now 3 years since Nine published its Red Alert series that predicted Australia would be at war with China by now. ABC Media Watch had a look at the claims made at that time in 2023. #auspol www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/e...

Albanese offers Sandilands support, “Sorry to hear that Jackie O is being difficult”

Following backlash, Albanese claims he meant that Jackie O had a ‘difficult life’ having worked with Kyle
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This thread is sort of the reverse of the Python skit about “what have the Romans ever done for us?”
No equivalent of, “well, obviously the roads!”

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👇

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Tabled document reveals Liberal party’s secret election review of its ‘worst campaign’: from ‘grim’ Dutton to ‘weird’ nuclear policy PM tables copy of secret review, which describes former leader Peter Dutton as ‘unattractive to women’

Peter Dutton, a man so "unattractive to women" Liberal Party candidates didn't want him in their electorates.

It's the suppressed review that everyone seems to have a bootlegged copy of. Now PM Anthony Albanese has tabled it in the parliament. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Fiona Katauskas is on fire. Brilliant. 💥 #auspol
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The greatest gift anyone could ever give me was helping this little book beat Tony Abbott’s myth making of Australia. Thank you 😭

The Death of Spotify: Why Streaming is Minutes Away From Being Obsolete Jimmy Iovine just called the Death of Spotify. He might be right.

"I’m going to take the diplomatic hat off here and say with brutal honesty: Basically everybody in the music business hates Spotify except for the people who work there."
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Strikes on Iran show why quitting fossil fuels is more important than ever Reducing oil dependence and boosting renewables and electric transport is often framed as climate policy. But it is also vital to energy security and national security.

Reducing #oil dependence and boosting renewables and electric transport is often framed as climate policy. But it is also vital to #energy security and national security.

"Pack of Mongrels". Politics beats extinction of Maugean Skate - Michael West A decision brief on protecting the threatened Maugean Skate shows that the Labor Government puts wildlife extinction second to politics.

Docs show Labor put politics ahead of species extinction in lead-up to election @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social on the Maugean Skate
#auspol #FOI
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The pre-emptive pre-emptive missile barrage.

A new phase of Western imperialism Australia is watching on and allowing the system they have so carefully constructed over the past 80 years to completely fall apart.

The new and dangerous phase of Western imperialism. The latest analysis from New Politics about what’s going on in Iran, and Australia’s meek response. All the way with DJT! #AUSPOL open.substack.com/pub/newpolit...

I copped a bit of flak yesterday for pointing out the squandered futility of Albo's 30-year parliamentary career.

Fiona Katauskas appears to agree with me:
#auspol

I copped a bit of flak yesterday for pointing out the squandered futility of Albo's 30-year parliamentary career.

But Fiona Katauskas seems to agree:
#auspol

Who’s afraid of changes to the Capital Gains Tax discount? A loud minority have made submissions claiming changes to the CGT would see the sky fall in, as we wait to see whether Anthony Albanese can find the courage to stand up to them.

A loud minority made submissions to the CGT Senate inquiry claiming changes would see the sky fall in.

Economists, think tanks, housing groups, unions, and even the Mathias Cormann-led OECD say otherwise, arguing the regressive tax discount entrenches inequality, rewarding wealth over work.

LIVE SOON: Trump's illegal war, and the lies from his congressional lapdogs Starting Mar 2 at 9:15 PM EST

Trump's illegal war, and the lies from his lackeys and lapdogs. Let's discuss live on Substack at 9 pm ET.
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Who is the real threat to world peace…

oops he said the quiet part out loud - the US just went to war because it was manipulated into it by Netanyahu

The team did a great job of this, making sense of my over caffeinated, deregulated rants. Listen for them x

Kesha calls out Donald Trump for using her music for a pro-war video.

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‘SendBarron’ trends online as South Park writer sets up website after Iran strikes The president has been accused of appearing indifferent about the deaths of American service members, prompting questions about whether he would feel differently if his own son was deployed

#SendBarron trends as the website, Draftbarrontrump dot com, goes up. There's only speculation at the moment that Barron Trump would be too tall for the US military. Over to the military people on that one. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Ben Crowe Where the Light Gets In Heated Rivalry Rachel Reid Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte Arnott's The Cookbook Arnott's Wild Dark Shore Charlotte McConaghy The Correspondent Virginia Evans Nobody's Girl Virginia Roberts Giuffre The Hybrid Prince (Wings of Fire #16) T Sutherland Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë The Housemaid's Secret Freida McFadden Game Changer Rachel Reid The Long Game Rachel Reid The Housemaid Freida McFadden The Housemaid Freida McFadden Where It All Went Wrong Amy Remeikis

I said, goddamn! @amyremeikis.bsky.social book is sitting 15th on the Dymock's best sellers list!
It's behind 2 version of Wuthering Heights, 3 of the Heated Rivalry books and 3 of The Housemaid.

Brilliant stuff!!

What disrupting the strait of Hormuz could mean for global cost-of-living pressures The narrow shipping route on Iran’s southern border carries one-fifth of global seaborne crude oil, one-fifth of LNG shipments and one-third of the most widely used fertiliser

In the days after the beginning of the first Gulf War (1990-91), the announcements of oil price rises began to appear. (Working on the farm back then). It can take a while for higher prices to flow through to Australia but flow through they will. #auspol
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We called these strikes illegal because they are. Pete Hegseth admitted today they are not seeking to comply with international law and in fact they view it with contempt!

Criminologists criticise premier for changing definition of 'victim' Leading criminologists say Queensland Premier David Crisafulli is comparing unrelated datasets to claim victim numbers have dropped.

From 2025. As OL, David Crisafulli famously pledged during the campaign to resign if there weren't fewer victims of crime under his government. As premier he redefined "victim" & began publishing figures from incompatible metrics & incomplete data. #qldpol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Australia’s shameless support for the US attack on Iran makes us gullible, duplicitous, or both | Allan Behm For Anthony Albanese – as well as Mark Carney and Keir Starmer – to go along with Trump and Netanyahu’s cynical ploy negates any sense of moral authority we possess – a catastrophe for the rules-based...

"Australia’s shameless support for the US attack on Iran makes us gullible, duplicitous, or both" by Allan Behm
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