A rotating GIF of images from the return of passengers on the first commercial flight from the Middle East to Australia after US-Israel strikes on Iran. Middle East at war ‘My kid’s in a war zone’: David Koch among relieved parents as Sydney private school students return The Australians on the first flight from Dubai included a group from Sydney’s Barker College who were welcomed by parents, including TV personality David Koch. 2 hours ago

Huzzah. The SMH finally found a way to link the Iran War with private schools!

The only people Trump never criticises are Putin and the alleged would-be assassin.

He festers over real or imagined slights from years ago, rage-posting through the night, but never has a bad word to say about the man who tried to kill him. Maybe he's grateful for the photo op.

Well, something's very clear to everyone

So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for:

- Who takes over;
- Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation;
- How to defend US bases in the region;
- Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and
- How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.

When Geoffrey Robertson speaks, I listen. #SolidarityWithIran

Is it just me or does destroying police stations and basically all government infrastructure leave Iran pretty vulnerable to extremist groups in the region to exert even more influence in the country? Take out "bad guys" and very often there are worse guys ready to step into the void.

Alt text: Comment: Wayne Stanborough What year your family come Australia DiD YoU KNow? Early Indigenous Australians likely arrived by boat From Southeast Asia.

This white guy replied to an Aboriginal person’s clip (Australia), and I haven’t stopped laughing at him. Like… c’mon

Screenshot of a CIDRAP news brief titled “Up to 56,000 people died from COVID-19 or RSV last year,” written by Liz Szabo, MA and published today at 8:41 a.m. The article includes a photo of a hospitalized patient in a hospital bed connected to medical tubes and monitoring equipment in an intensive care setting.

According to data published last month by the CDC

🔹From July 2024 to June 2025, RSV caused an estimated 190,000–350,000 hospitalisations and 10,000 to 23,000 deaths deaths.

🔹During the same time, COVID-19 was linked to 290,000–450,000 hospitalisations and 34,000 to 53,000 deaths.

War on Iran signals urgent need for Australia to end risky imported oil dependency The widening conflict in the Gulf has exposed Australia’s extreme reliance on imported oil. With minimal fuel reserves and a $12 billion annual diesel subsidy to mining, energy security has become a national security emergency.

With just weeks of diesel reserves and 90% reliance on imported refined fuel, Australia remains dangerously exposed to global shocks. Reforming the $12bn Fuel Tax Credit is now a national security imperative.
#auspol #EnergySecurity #FuelTaxCredit #ClimatePolicy #NationalSecurity

WAR CRIMES DON'T HIDE SEX CRIMES!

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!

Adelaide University cancels literary festival event with UN Gaza investigator Francesca Albanese Festival organisers criticise the university for last-minute booking cancellation of event headlined by special rapporteur for Palestinian territories

Zionist really are just universally shitty people.

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

Penny Wong should be censured for plagiarising John Howard's #IraqWar justification notes in her remarks justifying the #IranWar. She did a copy-and-paste, changed q to n, and then repeated the talking points on every news program. Pathetic. 😠 #auspol

US strikes on Iran ‘outside international law,’ says Macron Macron joins Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez in calling the legality of the strikes into question.

After four days of hesitating, the president of France has joined the prime minister of Spain in saying that the 🇺🇸🇮🇱 attack on Iran is a violation of international law.

But they are still the only 2 EU leaders to have done so. Will others join?

Andrew Wilkie says there’s “alarming parallels” b/w what’s happening in Iran now & the war in Iraq in 2003
“In both cases the threat was exaggerated to justify the war”
“For a country to attack another country in self defence then they have to have been attacked first.” #auspol

We have been here before – and we never learn From Afghanistan to Iraq and Libya, repeated military interventions have weakened rather than strengthened US power. With new strikes on Iran launched without congressional authorisation, the pattern ...

"—the full history of Middle Eastern intervention visible in the rearview mirror is in the process of learning the same lesson, the hard way, one more time.

"History suggests it is. History also suggests we will be surprised when it does not go differently."
johnmenadue.com/post/2026/03...

cannot stress enough how absurd it is that our government officials are mocking Iranian leadership for being delusional theocrats when they themselves genuinely believe this war is a mission from God to prepare the holy land for the Book of Revelations

Where are the Epstein Files arrests?
Where are the Epstein Files trials?

A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

The Point Live: PM calls UAE President amid "consular crisis"; Coalition Election Review a "boss move" - Hastie; Trump slams allies; Inflation data out today Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks with the UAE President, with the Emirates under attack as Penny Wong reveals "consular crisis"; Andrew Hastie says the PM's tabling of the Coalition Election Rev...

I have a bit of a look at the report in the ABC that supermarkets might introduce electronic shelf labels and what that means for dynamic pricing
live.thepoint.com.au

Glenn Diesen—

"The US is giving Tehran the Gaza treatment. Only a few days ago, the US political-media establishment was shedding crocodile tears over Iranian protesters"

U.S. sub sinks Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, killing 87 and expanding war zone A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy.

A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000
miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

“Welcome once again to Moscow on the Torrens...Unis, the Arts, and the media were once respected as sites where controversial ideas could be tested. That's no longer a given. We are witnessing relentless campaigning by sectional groups & their influence over politicians ..."
— Louise Adler

Really, @senatorwong.bsky.social? Well let me tell you, I am disappointed in your human rights abuse of asylum seekers/refugees, complicity in the #GazaGenocide, support for the illegal Israeli/US war in Iran, to name just 3 of many things but ... I guess we just need to suck it up, right? #auspol

Grace Tame says ‘spare me the condescension, old man’ after Albanese defends ‘difficult’ comment PM clarifies remark but says he disagrees with some language the 2021 Australian of the Year has used

“Dude’s quoting Scott now!!! ‘She’s had a difficult life’… Spare me the condescension, old man"

Maybe time Albanese had a holiday, like a retirement one
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

One word unravels Albanese's week The prime minister was this week evacuated from the Lodge over a bomb threat and later got stuck in a tit-for-tat with a former Australian of the Year.

Very true - but that’s what happens when you ain’t doing anything else worth talking about.
Labor’s complete lack of meaningful activity is why we spend every week talking about immigration, Hanson and whatever dumb shit Albanese also said to Karl Stefanovic

How the hell is Angus Taylor still a thing? - The Shot Angus Taylor a walking Venn Diagram intersection of fossil fuel fervour and cash for the boys.

As it appears enough of the Liberals will sufficiently succumb to madness to endorse him as their next hapless leader, here's a piece I wrote way back in 2021 about the many and varied and still unexplained controversies that have swirled around Angus Taylor.

theshot.net.au/news/opinion...

Charts showing that the PBO estimates that in this current financial year the discount will cost $21.8bn in revenue forgone. The richest 1% will get 59% or $12.9bn of it:

John Howard brought in a tax policy that delivers 59% of the benefit to the richest 1%.

It truly is time to ditch the Capital Gains Tax 50% discount
www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

The problem of big party politics… and this is true across the aisle … is that they imagine a change of leadership will correct their public standing.
Not a change of policy. Not a realignment toward public need and sentiment, but a change in figurehead. Says it all really.

as we mark 18 years since Closing the Gap was launched with the National Apology to Stolen Generations and their Descendants, know that police routinely target and brutalise Aboriginal people including children and then charge them with offensive behaviour, resist arrest, and assault police.