Steve

Pauline's just cut and pasting from British and American right wing tropes. It's all the same terminally online stuff pushed on Facebook and X

Go Blues. Lid’s off.

I attended a funeral for a friend, fellow wharfie and desperate Blues supporter this week...not being able to ironically send him a copy of your post really hits home...

Yes

Chart showing the contribution to inflation and showing that recently non-wage factor have risen., while the impact of wages has actually fallen

What's driving inflation? Not your wages, but the RBA remains worried we all are doing too well and more of us need to be unemployed
www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

Any political party spreading lies about voter fraud as a pretext to make it harder for every one to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.

Remember this.

Breakfast Wrap: Government under pressure over return of IS-linked families - ABC listen An independent UN Commissioner has responded to PM Anthony Albanese's insistence that the Australian government will not help the families with links to Islamic State trying to return home from Syria....

Independent UN Commissioner Fionnuala Ní Aoláin told Radio National Breakfast, "these women are victims too, and their children are absolutely victims."

I agree. Bring them home @albomp.bsky.social
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

When politicans fail, police go rogue, justice fails to protect - Michael West Herzog has departed, leaving behind anger and less social cohesion, while politicians, justices and NSW police have many questions to answer.

on the NSW SC decision to not overturn Major Event declaration by NSW Tourism Minister. As Wendy Bacon shows, the decision turns on judicial deference to police (assumed officers act reasonably) and judicial interpretation of a political event as “cultural”.

michaelwest.com.au/when-politic...

At last, experience in political journalism counts for slightly more than absolutely nothing

AUKUS is cactus

Will all submarines, even nuclear ones, be obsolete and ‘visible’ by 2040? Technologies could render the ocean transparent by the time Australia’s new submarines are ready, some experts say

Just sayin'...
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The designated character part for all female columnists at The Australian is Mean Girl (for men, the character is Too Clever By Half, until they reach a certain age and become Old Man Shouting At Clouds)

Jane Hume using her opening remarks as deputy to attack Labor for only being focused on politics.

Irony is as dead as the Liberal Party.

Moral clarity in a time of cowardice + complicity.
Thank you, Grace Tame.

And how many Australians?

Paterson went on to say “the best way that we can demonstrate … that we’ve changed direction is to change leaders”, thereby illustrating the bottomless depths of the vacuousness which engulfs the LNP

Yep, we saw what happened to the police officer who tasered an elderly woman with dementia, we'll have to build social cohesion on more of that

65 years old over here. I hope she sues them blind, because we with age plus likely osteoporosis, there's no guarantee she'll ever be pain-free again.

Headline image: Woman, 69, in hospital with four broken vertebrae after interaction with police at Sydney Herzog protest

Social Cohesion, one vertebrae at a time, one pensioner at a time, until we all start getting along by thinking what the government tells you to.

Should be posted on every naturopath's, homeopath's and other antivaxxer's door. #MedSky

photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

I did a slight modification

asked if there is any circumstance where police repeatedly kidney punching a member of the public is reasonable, the NSW Police minister tells ABC radio that police were there “keeping people safe”. This is straight up dehumanisation. The victims of police brutality ARE people.

Israel undermines two-state solution while Herzog visits Australia While Israeli President Isaac Herzog visited Sydney, his government was taking concrete actions in the West Bank designed to "continue to kill the idea of a Palestinian state".

Laura Tingle remains one of the few journalists who is able to state basic facts about Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian territory, and how it shows the utter hypocrisy of our own government (in inviting Herzog)

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Police use of violence ‘disturbing’ and ‘disappointing’ at Sydney rally against Israeli president, experts say Luke McNamara, who attended protest, says police behaviour was ‘the direct consequence’ of the Minns government’s ‘unreasonable conditions’

"Lawful use of force" questioned after NSW police response in Sydney. The Law Enforcement Conduct Commission must investigate. Several academics witnessed the protest firsthand. #nswpol
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Sadly amusing that it took Haaretz to pick up on this line by Albanese

There is a very good reason why America's pedophile president did not attend the Super Bowl or the Olympics in Milan. Everywhere in the world Trump and JD Vance go, they are HATED and DESPISED. If they come in contact with people, they will be spit on.

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Chris Minns and Anthony Albanese

Social colesion

See it’s not that hard to report accurately

Our reporters were at the protest. This is the moment it turned violent There were violent clashes between protesters and police in Sydney's CBD as punches were thrown, capsicum spray used, and 27 people arrested. Our reporters were in the thick of it.

“We saw officers throwing punches at protesters, largely unprovoked for the most part” — SMH reporters

www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...