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Bill Shorten questions ‘forces at play’ after Steve Bannon’s claim he helped Clive Palmer, damaging Labor’s 2019 election chances Former opposition leader says Bannon’s purported claim, which Palmer has denied, would be a ‘badge of honour’ for him

Foreign interference 😠.

Bill Shorten says he wants to know “what forces were at play” during the 2019 federal election, after Steve Bannon purportedly claimed he was behind a $60m advertising strategy that damaged Labor’s campaign. #auspol

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

“In Australia, it’s perfectly legal to lie in a political ad. And thanks to taxpayer funding of election campaigns, you could be the one paying for the ad that lies to you," writes Bill Browne from The Australia Institute.

Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4kn5u5S

Cathy Wilcox waxes poetic over kleptocracy (which we are) and the meritocracy we like to think we are.

The lines highlighted in red ring true for anyone eking out a living in independent media* while Bolt and Credlin rake it in ...
#auspol

Enjoy the comment on Melania’s dress in the reviled documentary.

YouTube video by Times Of India ‘ICE Death Cards Found Across…’: Trump’s Agents Exposed As Hickenlooper Reveals Chilling Action

Liking this Senator's words...

youtu.be/ATZJ6enfoFI?...

‘I had Clive Palmer do the … ads’: Trump lieutenant’s Australian election claim revealed in Epstein files Trump ally Steve Bannon told paedophile Jeffrey Epstein in 2019 he had influenced an omnipresent election advertising campaign by the mining billionaire.

Steve Bannon interfered in the 2019 Australian federal election, as part of a global effort to stifle climate action.

He should face investigation under Australia’s foreign interference laws.

#auspol

www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

‘I had Clive Palmer do the … ads’: Trump lieutenant’s Australian election claim revealed in Epstein files Trump ally Steve Bannon told paedophile Jeffrey Epstein in 2019 he had influenced an omnipresent election advertising campaign by the mining billionaire.

Want to know why Australians are angry about what is happening in the US? This is why. Trump and his cronies have interferred with democracy in many countries around the world.

"‘I had Clive Palmer do the … ads’: Trump lieutenant’s Australian election claim revealed in Epstein files"

ICE claim that a man shattered his skull running into wall triggers tension at a Minnesota hospital Intensive care nurses immediately doubted the word of federal immigration officers when they arrived at a Minneapolis hospital with a Mexican immigrant who had broken bones in his face and skull.

ICE claim that a man shattered his skull running into wall triggers tension at a Minnesota hospital

"Intensive care nurses immediately doubted the word of federal immigration officers when they arrived at a Minneapolis hospital with a Mexican immigrant who had broken bones in his face and skull."

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Among the prosecutions of protesters, perhaps the strangest story involves a desperate quest by DOJ to bring criminal charges against the former CNN news personality Don Lemon. On January 18, Lemon documented a demonstration at a Southern Baptist church in St. Paul by a group of activists, who accused a church pastor of also serving as the acting director of the local ICE field office. Just days later, federal law enforcement arrested three of the lead protesters. But prosecutors were unable to convince a magistrate judge to let them charge Lemon along with the other protesters. Instead of taking the hint and giving up, however, the Justice Department repeatedly tried—and failed—to bully judges into allowing them to bring the case. On Monday, the department indicated that it had dropped its effort to force the court to reconsider, but Lemon may not be in the clear. “We’re going to pursue this to the ends of the earth,” promised the Civil Rights Division leader Harmeet Dhillon.

here is the abbreviated backstory on lemon www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Minnesota Live Updates: Don Lemon Is Arrested Over Church Protest

Minnesota Live Updates: Don Lemon Is Arrested Over Church Protest

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Some people see their own anger reflected in Trump -- just as some Australians see it in Pauline Hanson.

Political correctness didn’t erase racist, sexist, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-immigrant, or religious bigotry. It pushed it underground. Trump and Hanson made it acceptable to say the quiet part loud.

The muted response to the Perth bombing exposes a pattern of national indifference A failed bomb attack in Perth on Invasion Day drew little attention from the media and public. It shows Australia has long been selective in its sense of danger.

The muted response to the Perth bombing exposes a pattern of national indifference

"A failed bomb attack in Perth on Invasion Day drew little attention from the media and public. It shows Australia has long been selective in its sense of danger."

www.crikey.com.au/2026/01/29/p...

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Lyric Video)

Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice
Singing through the bloody mist
We’ll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst

Directed by Thom Zimny
Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro
Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny

I want that oven to restore

Trade policy as middle school cafeteria politics: You can shake kids for quarters… until they decide you don’t get a seat at their table. Then the “tough guy” is just eating alone with mystery meat.

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

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This is Literally the Job Political journalists need to stop pretending they don't know what Republicans are going to do.

As @parkermolloy.com asks in this brilliant piece, “What part of this was hard to see coming?”

In the Australian context, pretty telling that it was @aunz.theconversation.com that had the space for that kind of evidence-based analysis.

www.readtpa.com/p/this-is-li...

Cathy Wilcox telling it how it is again.

The reason we hate opening emails and messages around Invasion Day. 👇🏾

The news has been covering the attempting bombing at the Boorloo Invasion Day march responsibly imo — but what were all noticing is the lack of commentary that would usually bulk out the column inches and front pages after these events.

The professional opinionhavers have distinctly no opinions.

Federal Court widens NDIS eligibility for some participants - Team DSC Chris looks at the wider implications of a landmark Federal Court case, which ruled early access to an Aged Care package doesn’t make people ineligible for the NDIS.

Federal Court widens #NDIS eligibility for some participants

"Chris looks at the wider implications of a landmark Federal Court case, which ruled early access to an Aged Care package doesn’t make people ineligible for the NDIS."
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mixed troubles..

“Angus Taylor Has My Vote for Liberal Leader,” Comments Facebook User Angus Taylor — The Shovel Member for Hume Angus Taylor has received some emotional support in his potential bid for Liberal Party leader today, in the form of a positive comment from Angus Taylor.  “Angus Taylor would make a f...

Insiders say Taylor is confident he has the numbers, though it’s unknown how many times he has counted his own vote.

theshovel.com.au/2026/01/28/a...

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That doesn't stop them from labeling other events as terrorism before facts are known.

I can't imagine this going down well with the base...

Trump - "you can't have guns, you can't walk in with guns. you just can't"

The US can not claim to be the land of the free when tech is used to document observers and peaceful protestors as "domestic terrorists".

Turnbull urges Albanese to acknowledge new global political reality under ‘bully’ Trump Exclusive: Former PM says Labor must stop ‘pretending nothing has changed’ and should outline how Australia will deal with the United States going forward

“I thought Mark Carney’s speech in Davos was outstanding … and yes, I think the Australian prime minister needs to give a similar speech, which is essentially acknowledging that the world has changed,” the former prime minister told Guardian Australia’s Full Story podcast.

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