Stuart

Trump wants a third term. Here’s how he might pull it off This is a real threat to democracy, not only for America but for the world.

Worth a read.
www.smh.com.au/world/north-...

YouTube video by ABC News (Australia) IN FULL: Ben Saul and Chris Sidoti address Press Club on Palestine recognition | ABC NEWS

Today's NPC. Professor Ben Saul, Challis Professor of International Law the University of Sydney, and Chris Sidoti, expert on international human rights law address Australia's response to the war in Gaza & is a must-watch if you've been following this obscene war.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoUM...

Trump-style 'climate hoax' playbook spreads to Australia US researchers have tracked how dark money funds a tangled web of climate denial think tanks with vested interests in slowing climate action. And Australia is not immune.

Donald Trump's declaration to leaders at the UN that climate change is "the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world" was a disgraceful & disingenuous action. It has knock-on consquences.
Jess Davis' report is absolutely worth reading and sharing.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Albanese is crying poor, but we’re losing billions a year from untaxed gas In Norway, they tax their oil and gas industry heavily and give their kids free higher education. Here, we do the opposite.

I thought Ross Gittins' piece in the SMH today was excellent. Very clear and very persuasive.
Labor needs to stop being frightened of the LNP and start taxing these companies fairly.
www.smh.com.au/business/the...

With US support, Israel is prepared to ignore international anger While the Israeli government resents countries such as Australia recognising a Palestinian state, it is more of an irritant than a substantial setback.

One of Australia's most respected and experienced journalists, John Lyons, speaks frankly about Israel and Palestine.
Time for sanctions.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

This week, Australians had the unedifying spectacle of our racist party Pauline Hanson's One Nation turning their backs on the Indigenous Elder invited to offer the Welcome to Country at the opening of Parl't. If ever there was a basket of deplorables, these ignoramuses constitute it in Australia.

When I made that decision in the cafe in Cambridge, it didn't transform my life. But that one new thought did set off a concatenation of further thoughts & emotions which did result in transformation. Anyhow, I reckon transformation is over-rated. A bit here, a bit there, is usually how it happens.

Australia must combat antisemitism, but not simply defer to demands of some voices | Ben Saul The special envoy’s plan will never be effective if it tackles only the symptoms and refuses to acknowledge let alone address a key driver

This is an important conversation for us all now.
It has become more and more skewed because people are scared to speak up for fear of being accused as anti-semitic.
Let them accuse. It really is time to speak up.
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The more I read, the more I watch, the more it is clear that that the USA is drowning in mendacity, to its people, to itself.
It's like a mass stage hypnosis event on nuclear steroids.
And there is destruction no matter where you look.

(Posted on the day the FBI states there are no Epstein files).

America First seems to be going well.

Supreme Court ruling
Withdrawal from Canada trade talks
Attacks on the media
More politicised health policy from RFK Jr.
That's just today.

What action can Israel’s allies take over its expansion of military operations in Gaza? The UK, France and Canada have warned they could take concrete action if it doesn’t stop its Gaza offensive.

As if the deaths of 53,000 people, most of whom were civilans, women and children, were not enoguh, we now have a Netanyahu imposed famine used as a weapon of war on the ppl of Gaza. If something hasn't snapped for our gov's yet, then it really should have by now.
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Welcome to Country is not an election issue, so why are we talking about it? I think I know If this Welcome to Country furore has shifted your vote, perhaps it’s time to come clean on your motivations.

This resonates strongly.
www.smh.com.au/national/wel...

David Heath (@david.heath.writer) on Threads Trump demanded that an overseer review all classes at Harvard for ideology and to hire professors who would teach accordingly.

www.threads.net/@david.heath...

Starmer told to accept Trump ‘free speech’ agenda to win trade deal ‘Good chance’ of agreement, says JD Vance – but a source close to the administration says his concerns over Britain’s hate speech laws ‘are still a red line’

Does every country now have to choose between their own values & Trump's fascist agenda before the US will trade with them? Not only are the Trump cultists not satisfied with taking the US down the path to authoritarianism, they want the whole world to follow.
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Trump excuses Russian ‘mistake’ as Putin digs in for deeper, longer war Under the disguise of ceasefire negotiations, Moscow is using the lull in Western aid and growing US political fractures to its advantage.

This cowardly sack of self-gratification excuses Putin for targeting & murdering 35 people (incl two kids) on the way to church on Palm Sunday, nominating it as a 'mistake'. Ukraine, in an existential war, can do without friends like Trump blaming them for starting it.
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Doesn't he own a suit and tie?

Is this true? Not that I'm doubting you. What a tin-eared thing to do in dedicated youth mental health space. As a Psychologist, I am appalled. Such an action alone disqualifies him for the Prime Ministership.

It's interesting isn't it how Trump's language is very gradually changing.
Have you noticed? It's shorter, more concise, and every week moving closer and closer to overt authoritarian lexis making the America First movement sound more and more like an autocratic regime.
Haven't noticed? You listen.

"The United States, the richest country in the world & once its most generous provider of foreign aid, has so far sent nothing to the worst hit region of the earthquake disaster zone"
"America nowhere to be seen" SMH 31/3/25

This is what America First looks like.

“There is no question that over the last month or so the Labor Party has thrown dirt personally at Peter Dutton"
Sen James Paterson SMH

Irony much? The LNP has been relentlessly negative about PM Albanese, the Gov, the ALP generally, and Australia over the entire term.

It takes some hide!

Has anybody yet added the word 'gate' to the Signal debacle?

Trump revokes security clearances for Biden, Harris and Clinton US President Donald Trump rescinds the security clearances of former Democratic rivals Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton, as well as several other officials.

Security clearances cancelled for Biden, Harris, Hillary Clinton, A. Blinken & J. Sullivan, effected by the man who owns Mar-a-Lago, where the ballroom, a bathroom and shower, a storage room, and his office, all had classified documents. A vindictive retaliatory POS.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

"Cooler heads must prevail with Trump – Australia shouldn’t give up on the ‘special friendship’ "

So says the headline of an article in The Conversation.

But what happnes if the special friendship gives up on Australia?

Instead of wasting more time on the flawed Aukus submarine program, we must go to plan B now | Peter Briggs The submarines Australia currently wants to buy and build are too big and too expensive. Alternatives are obvious – and limited

Rear Admiral (Ret'd) Peter Briggs makes a strong case for Plan B. Many are with him on this issue. I do not think the Gov has broad support for the AUKUS arrangements. And with the coming of Trump, the reliability of the US is now in question on many levels.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

As Trump attacks US science agencies, ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred ushers in a fresh wave of climate denial in Australia | Adam Morton Alfred is being used as the latest front in an ideological war, but facts are relevant to how we prepare for a climate-changed future

Adam Morton writes a strong piece about the state of the climate emergency. Politicians of all persuasions can and must do better. In Australia, Dutton's LNP will do what it always does, piddle around at the edges but put the breaks on meaningful action.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

How ‘Trump derangement syndrome’ led Americans back for another round In the four years Trump was out of office, an eerie amnesia settled, allowing people to project onto him hopes that were utterly untethered from reality.

Michelle Goldberg in the The New York Times on what she is calling "Trump derangement syndrome".

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Inside the explosive meeting where Trump officials clashed with Elon Musk Seated diagonally opposite Marco Rubio, across the elliptical mahogany table, Elon Musk was letting the secretary of state have it.

We knew it wouldn't take too long, what with egos involved, but there you have it, Trump's golden age is beginning to look a little rusty.
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Margi Simmons (@margi17) on Threads France has entered the chat, and whoa buddy!! They’re not holding back 👏🏻💙👊🏼💙

www.threads.net/@margi17/pos...

Yes, but Jane Hume and the rest of the Coalition have never let sound research get in the way of their 'concerns' before, so why would they start now?

"Coalition vows to match Labor's $8.5 billion Medicare pledge 'dollar for dollar'"

That's because it doesn't have an idea of its own.

Not to mention its history with Medicare.

Oh sorry:

Nuclear reactors
Slashing the public service
CEO long lunches