Jommy Tee

This announcement leaves so many unanswered questions:
- Why is Brereton still a Major-General in the ADF?
- What happens to all the defence referrals he has been working on, and making decisions on, until now?
- Why is he paid over $800k a year not to work on defence referrals?

Matt Golding SMH

Long-awaited EPBC reforms fall short of fixing a failing Act - Environmental Defenders Office Positive elements contained in the EPBC Act reform bills [1], introduced to parliament today, are undermined by extensive exemptions and opportunities for ministerial discretion, according to Environm...

Of course they do.
Labor was never up to true reform

www.edo.org.au/2025/10/30/l...

Pretty sure public and political pressure forced this move by #NACC Commissioner Brereton to NOW recuse himself from Defence referrals.

Obvious to most that this should've been implemented from the get go, not after public pressure and outcry.

Parliamentary behaviour! Instead of saving the planet we get to watch very highly paid folk yelling at each other | First Dog on the Moon It’s awful

If we get the politicians we deserve we must be really terrible and also smell bad... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Weaponising media. National Press Club and its arms industry sponsors - Michael West More than a quarter of the National Press Club’s sponsors are part of the global arms industry or working on its behalf.

"More than a quarter of the National Press Club’s sponsors are part of the global arms industry or working on its behalf"
Investigation by Michelle Fahy #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/weaponising-...

An evisceration of the pantomime that is performative politics.

Buried detail in Labor's bill reveals how the government wants to override laws — and never tell you why

Executive overreach and secrecy are two of the hallmarks of the Albanese government. And its new environmental protection bill features both, writes Bernard Keane.

Excellent piece. The #Albo-tross grows more loathsome every day. Dobbing on Kevin, chortling about it - what larks, eh?

Maybe if spineless Albo had held that RC into the media that HALF A MILLION Australians wanted, Murdoch's creepy minion Clennell might not have been there to shaft Rudd.

Ken Henry warns ‘conga line of developers’ would try to exploit exemptions in Labor’s proposed nature laws Exclusive: ‘Every project developer is absolutely convinced that their project is in the national interest,’ Australian Climate and Biodiversity Foundation head says

Labor’s proposed environmental reforms are a recipe for corruption and political manipulation. Inviting special treats for ministerial intervention.

Mr. Albanese goes to Washington - The Shot Albanese’s pilgrimage to pay homage at the feet of our lords and masters, the United States of America, is over...

Here's Australia's current #1 bestselling novelist, @ronnisalt.bsky.social. 'Mr. Albanese goes to Washington'

That was Scott Morrison, but this is Anthony Albanese: The ALP's curious history with transparency

Labor spent a decade attacking the Coalition on transparency. How different things look today.

Bill Gates has an urgent ask for the UN climate summit Gates' comments reflect how society's current zeitgeist has pushed climate change off the front burner.

This is typical of the kid gloves treatment of Bill Gates pivot toward Bjorn Lomborg-style climate downplaying that we're seeing from legacy media. The beltway reporters are entirely complicit in what some are rightly terming an ecocidal plutocratic agenda.
www.axios.com/2025/10/28/g...

Wow!!

Well deserved Ronni. 👍

The independent Centre for Public Integrity handed down its report card into the Albanese Government this week. It doesn’t tell a happy story. #auspol 👉 publicintegrity.org.au/wp-content/u...

Twit

I had a spare t-shirt cartoon.

If it was a FOI DIVISION t-shirt it wouldn't have a message at all
bsky.app/profile/pupf...

Albanese confident on AUKUS despite Trump's Korean subs promise As the US president promises South Korea can have nuclear submarines, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese insists this can be delivered alongside the AUKUS boats.

The US industrial base barely makes one Virginia nuclear submarine a year, now they need to make 2.33 a year for AUKUS, plus another huge Columbia nuclear submarine a year plus X more for South Korea. This book goes in the fiction, not documentary, aisle. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

When public services become PR: How charities and corporations blur the line between care and self-promotion There are certainly cases where working with a charity lets government draw on specific expertise and enhance service delivery. But too often, that’s not the case.

"When public services become PR: How charities and corporations blur the line between care and self-promotion" by @stephenlongaus.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

oh dear. This is the third time in two years NSW Police have investigated zionist nonsense and reported back with zero evidence.

*They’re trying to create a MARKET out of environmental destruction*

The government has finally stopped drip feeding EPBC details and provided them to everyone! www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/...

One of many howlers

"The proposed changes will also allow certain biodiversity certificates issued under the Nature Repair Market to be used for environmental offsetting."

Just quietly, the Albanese government could do with some education about the functions and importance of the upper and lower houses for good governance and democracy...and perhaps also be reminded (again) that they don't control the Senate.

Because it is very clear, that these changes are about ensuring nothing changes except approvals are done more quickly

The Australia Institute advert

Without the numbers in the Senate, Environment Minister Murray Watt has been forced to negotiate the new EPBC environment laws.
But instead of working with the Greens & independents to strengthen our environment laws, Labor is seeking a deal with the Coalition

Via @australiainstitute.org.au #auspol

It's hard to convey just how truly terrible the @albomp.bsky.social government's Environment Protection Reform Bill is, they've outdone themselves! If this bill, in its current form, passes, the places and wildlife we love are about to have even more pain, death and destruction heaped onto them!

Government threatens reprisals after losing key Senate vote The Coalition and crossbench united to extend question time until the government releases a report on jobs for mates.

The Albanese government is upset because the Senate has asked it to release a report into jobs given to mates. It is quite specifically grumpy about answering more questions in question time www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

4585 - Police and Counter-terrorism - INCIDENTS INVESTIGATED UNDER STRIKE FORCE PEARL Latham, Mark to the Minister for Agriculture, Minister for Regional New South Wales, and Minister for Western New South Wales representing the Minister for Police and Counter-terrorism, and Minister for the Hunter (1) I refer you to the answer provided to the recent Budget Estimates, on notice, by the acting Police Commissioner Peter Thurtell regarding serious attacks on people and property motivated by antisemitic ideology, such that, "Fourteen incidents were investigated under Strike Force Pearl which were at the higher end of offending, being attacks on synagogues, graffitti, firebombings, attacks on cars and attacks on houses", and ask: (a) (b) of these 14, how many were investigations of incidents that did not lead to any charges being laid? of the remaining (where charges were laid), how many were perpetrated by: Iran or agents of the Iranian regime? other foreign agents? people associated with and paid by organised crime figures? (c) Of those not covered by (a) and (b) (that is, were a product of genuine homegrown anti-semitic ideology), what was the nature of the incident and what criminal proceedings have been pursued by the NSW Police Force? Answer - I am advised that: (1) (a) All 14 incidents have resulted in charges being laid. (b) (i) (ii) Strike Force Pearl investigated 14 incidents which were at the higher end of offending, being attacks on synagogues, graffiti, firebombings, attacks on cars and attacks on houses. The NSW Police Force has nil holdings in relation to Iran or agents of the Iranian regime perpetrating these incidents. Strike Force Pearl investigated 14 incidents which were at the higher end of offending, being attacks on synagogues, graffiti, firebombings, attacks on cars and attacks on houses. The NSW Police Force has nil holdings in relation to foreign agents perpetrating these incidents. Answer received on 23 October 2025

No media about this?

NSW Police investigated 14 incidents of alleged antisemitic attacks and found NO evidence of Iran or any other foreign agent acting in relation to the 14 alleged antisemitic incidences

The Minns and Albanese govts both exploited this falsehood to further their own agendas

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