Bob Elliston

PM criticises Pocock’s ban from parliamentary sports club but dismisses concerns about betting lobby Exclusive: Senator accused of bringing social club into disrepute after raising concerns about its association with betting lobby

Anthony Albanese says Senator Pocock should not be kicked from Parliament’s sports club, but the PM says his concerns over lobbying are “absurd”

OBVIOUSLY @AlboMP HAS LOST HIS MORAL COMPASS and HE NEEDS DAVID @davidpocock.bsky.social TO HELP HIM FIND IT AGAIN

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

Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.

What???
They threw a former Wallabies Captain out of their Parliamentary sporting club because he spoke up about gambling!!!! What???
#auspol #4Corners > www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

“They make a desert and call it peace.” - Tacitus

💔💔💔

Still supporting this @albomp.bsky.social @senatorwong.bsky.social ?
#auspol #rape #torture #prison

How can anyone respond to needless violence, brutality and hatred? What kind of deliberate nastiness creates so much division and violence?
Why do so many people believe their own propaganda, aka lies?

Dfat officials supporting five Australians in Israeli prison after they were detained on pro-Palestinian flotilla The Global Movement to Gaza group have raised concerns about the conditions in which the Australians are being held in detention

just DFAT officials blaming humanitarians for having their human and legal rights violated by Israelis while ignoring the criminality of abduction and torture.

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

Hedges Report: NPC Australia caves to Israel Lobby, cancels talk on our betrayal of Palestinian journalists The National Press Club of Australia cancelled my talk on how the media, by amplifying Israeli lies, have betrayed Palestinian journalists, 278 of whom have been assassinated by Israel.

This is a truly excoriating and well-deserved take-down of the National Press Club @PressClubAust by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges.

You really, 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 should read it. His words cut like a hot knife into butter. #auspol #GazaGenocide
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

PM criticises Pocock’s ban from parliamentary sports club but dismisses concerns about betting lobby Exclusive: Senator accused of bringing social club into disrepute after raising concerns about its association with betting lobby

Independent Senator David Pocock, previous captain of Australia's national rugby team, The Wallabies, was told he is not welcome at the Parliamentary Sports Club after questioning the club’s sponsorship by gambling, alcohol and fossil fuel companies.

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

Great turn of sarcasm here, @timdunlop.bsky.social 👇

UN General Assembly: Deploy an Emergency Armed Multinational Protection Force to Gaza! Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

We are calling on the United Nations General Assembly to deploy an Emergency Armed Multinational Protection Force to stop the #GazaGenocide

The Netanyahu government does NOT want PEACE, but we citizens of the world DO!!!

PLEASE sign this Petition via @changeaus.bsky.social

chng.it/VyY9smpZHH

You’re being played – your part in the culture wars - The Shot When Zack de la Rocha told you to rage against the machine, he didn’t mean take it literally. Agitprop. Fury bait. Yes, you feed it too.

This article by @ronnisalt.bsky.social should be compulsory reading for those of us that are terminally online...

Atlas/The Heritage Foundation: "Here's some rage baiting we prepared earlier..."

Seems like you can't trust anything from the FBI anymore-is that on purpose?
#uspol #epstein #auspol

It's well beyond time our politicians kicked their US habit So Anthony Albanese has secured his one on one meeting with Donald Trump and we are all supposed to pretend this is a good outcome.

It's time our politicians kicked their US habit

www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

✍️ ADD YOUR NAME: Phase out fossil fuels Emissions reduction targets won’t solve the climate crisis if they’re built on fiction. It's time for the government to tackle the biggest source of carbon emissions in Australia – fossil fuels.

I just signed The Australia Institute's petition to phase out fossil fuels. Will you please join me?

nb.australiainstitute.org.au/phase-out-fo...

Huge news that Spain and Italy have sent navy boats to protect the Sumud flotilla - the world should support and join them protecting the flotilla in international waters

Climate risk report is old news. Australia needs transition ... to reality - Michael West The National Climate Risk Assessment, released this week, has made headlines, but adds little to all the other such reports of recent decades

Australia needs transition - to reality!
As the third largest Petrostate (by Fossil fuel exports) Australia's entire fossil fuel sector contributes only 2.5% of total federal & state government revenues.
And that’s before they get big subsidies.

By David McEwen
michaelwest.com.au/climate-risk...

Coalition dearly loves a 'cruel hoax' – now it has become one Pretending the Coalition matters, or its criticisms are worth anything, allows Labor to get away even less. That is the cruellest hoax.

www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

Massive loss for climate, democracy and western power as Murdoch battle ends - The Klaxon The destructive forces that brought US democracy to its knees, ushering in the most dangerous global environment since the Cold War, have been locked in to 2050.

Endless lies by propaganda outlet Fox News has brought US democracy to its knees, in the process ushering in the most dangerous international environment since the Cold War.
Those destructive forces have been locked in to 2050.
By Andrew Dodd and Matthew Ricketson

theklaxon.com.au/massive-loss...

Writing like this is what an education is good for. #auspol

Optus admits early warning about triple-0 failure as fourth death investigated Optus reveals it received an early warning of Thursday's system failure — which has since been linked to a fourth death — hours before the situation was fixed, but that it did not respond appropriatel...

Optus.com.au triple-0 failure linked to deaths. Again! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... Unless such lethal repeat 'failures' are linked to jail terms for senior executives, all the handwringing in the world will yield no positive change. #auspol

WHY is #abc730 interviewing yet another irrelevant LNP member over reducing global heating emissions, when there are plenty of actual CLIMATE SCIENTISTS who could be MUCH MORE INFORMATIVE?!?

Trump Administration Rushes To Kill Free Speech In Response To Kirk Assassination Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/trump-admi...
Americans who don't agree with conservative views held by MAGA & Republicans are now designated "far left terrorist organisations" & antisemitic. Trump's Government will "disrupt, dismantle & destroy these networks" to make America safe again: for Charlie Kirk.

Should have included 'catastrophic' among the 'c' alliterations. 😰

"Israel says" is not journalism, @australia.theguardian.com.

Just like GENOCIDE is not "war" nor an "offensive." #auspol #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust #WesternMediaToTheHague

Jeremy Bowen: UN genocide report a blunt indictment of Israel's actions in Gaza A new report accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, in "the strongest and most authoritative UN finding to date".

@australianlabor.bsky.social

@albomp.bsky.social

The Lucky Country...

#australia #auspol #extinctionrebellion

I wonder if anyone actually checked the data here.
If not, I cannot blame anyone, it feels so true that I wouldn't even waste my time.

(And how about you? ;) )

@bladeofthes.bsky.social - thank you by the way for inspiration. You're wise.

The Global Sumud Flotilla has been bombed by the occupation in Tunisian waters. The attack set the boat on fire, a deliberate strike on an unarmed civilian vessel.

Huon Aquaculture reported 4 dolphin deaths at salmon farms Four dolphins died entangled in equipment at Huon Aquaculture salmon farms in the first half of 2025, newly released Tasmanian government data reveals.

🐬 Four dolphins died at Huon Aquaculture #salmon farms during first half of 2025. Total number of dolphin deaths over the past two years is now seven, adding to a wildlife toll that includes 108 seals killed on salmon leases since 2018.
#politas #auspol

▶️ tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/huon-aq...