Eric Bananarama

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.

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.