Kate

but if immigrants aren't responsible for exploding housing costs then how am I going to justify my racism?

#auspol

Minns vows "massive" police response to Sydney Herzog protest Malaysian government urged to seek Israeli President's extradition as Herzog lands in Australia

'Sydney is bracing for the start of Israeli President Isaac ['Social Cohesion'] Herzog’s Australian [Social Cohesion] tour today, with NSW Premier Chris Minns flagging a “massive” police crackdown on a planned protest outside Sydney Town Hall.'

www.deepcutnews.com/p/malaysian-...

Her father’s war grave in Gaza was bulldozed by Israel. Amid the grief and anger, she wants answers Wilma Spence’s father was an Anzac buried in a part of the Gaza War Cemetery bulldozed by the IDF

On the weekend, we found out that Israel has been desecrating Australian war graves (and the graves of Palestinians).

“They have no respect for the living, so why would they respect the dead?” Wilma says of the Israeli government.

Today, @albomp.bsky.social has brought Herzog to Australia.

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Should Australia welcome Isaac Herzog? | First Dog on the Moon Will banning protests keep us safe?

Today's cartoon... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Pauline Hanson once said of Cory Bernardi: 'I'm glad you're out of parliament, you wouldn't have a bloody clue’
And she described Barnaby Joyce as being as ‘useless as tits on a bull’.
So, clueless and useless seem to be the joining criteria for PHON.

'Disunity is death' – but Labor's cowed caucus has a cost too "Disunity is death" is a phrase often used in Labor circles, but it’s rarely discussed how government unity at all costs fragments society.

'Disunity is death' – but Labor's cowed caucus has a cost too

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

Morning. ☕️

lotta rich people screaming about government spending. Easy solution, Ted. Stop giving billions of our dollars to expensive schools, franking boomers, and landlords. Nothing more inflationary than free money for the rich who produce nothing but speculation and bubbles.

Get this: the Israeli president’s visit will be so divisive, according to NSW Police, that the appropriate response is to ban all public assemblies while he’s here, rather than, say, him not coming.

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

Beware the new 'normal', it might be about to bite us Some people just like power. Those same people enjoy sowing seeds of discord that they never have to actually solve, in order to keep it.

Amy Remeikis:

"The normalisation of One Nation, through reality TV, breakfast TV slots and inclusion as a serious political player in Australia has been media-driven, dressed up as the people’s choice." #auspol

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

The science of sacking. Be gone CSIRO scientists! - Michael West CSIRO chief Doug Hilton announced he’s sacking 350 scientists, he now refuses to have his own ‘sacking science’ publicly reviewed.

Scientist sackings ... 130-150 to go from the 715 Environment scientist pool? @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social in an FOI fight on #CSIRO

(No funding issues for #AUKUS !)

#auspol

michaelwest.com.au/the-science-...

A national emergency – and an ongoing national priority An ongoing, national priority On 28 April 2024, the Prime Minister declared that Australia faced a ‘national crisis’ of violence against women, with one woman being killed every four days.8 On 1 May 2024, National Cabinet met to discuss this national crisis as a standalone issue, the significance of which should not be underestimated. The Commonwealth agreed to deliver a range of new measures to address it, including establishment of this Rapid Review of Prevention Approaches (the Review). Link: https://www.pmc.gov.au/resources/unlocking-prevention-potential/national-emergency-and-ongoing-national-priority#ref12

Key findings One woman was killed every 8 days and one man was killed every 41 days by an intimate partner on average in 2023–24. Intended or actual separation are risk factors for intimate partner homicide. The intimate partner homicide victimisation rate increased for the second consecutive year in 2023–24. Link: https://www.aihw.gov.au/family-domestic-and-sexual-violence/responses-and-outcomes/domestic-homicide

Meanwhile, male* violence towards women seems to have slipped off the "National Emergency / Priority" pedestal...
*Data obscures offender gender under "intimate partner" or "family" banners, but the majority are male.

@albomp.bsky.social @tonyburkemp.bsky.social and whoever else -

I do NOT support one more cent being paid to the fascist American regime for useless submarines they have no intention of delivering

I also do NOT support Australian teams competing in the #FIFAWorldCup in fascist America

Boycott the World Cup.
Boycott the Olympics.

Beautiful shot of her 👍

Broome pub manager jailed for raping staff member Stewart Patrick Burchell is jailed for six years, found guilty by jury trial of raping a staff member and indecently assaulting several others.

Maybe we start to prevent the violence against women in Australia instead of taking on International agenda's that have only caused division amongst our society. This is what we should mourn ffs. How many more? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

How the fuck do we live in a place where 60+ women are killed every year including 4 in just the past few days yet there’s no National Day of Mourning or prominent lapel pins or sobbing politician speeches or Special Envoy or Royal Commission or endless media commentary for THEM?

#NewsCorpse

A campaign to retrieve the body of Dr. Adnan al-Bursh: A mirror of a collective tragedy The family of Palestinian physician Adnan al-Bursh continues its efforts to recover his body, which has been held by Israeli authorities since the announcement of his death in prison in April 2024.

21 months after his killing, Israel still won't release his body.

english.palinfo.com/Zionist-Terr...

Israel is holding hundreds of Palestinian bodies - estimates range from 460 (UN/JLAC July 2025) to 730 (Amnesty/JLAC September 2025)

Brilliant

Bored of Peace

Can you imagine an Australian prime minister speaking so eloquently or truthfully about what Trump is doing to the world? Why doesn’t the press gallery ask Albanese for his reflections on the Carney speech at the WEF?

If Albanese allows Marles to join the Peace Board we need a motion of no confidence on the floor of Parliament.

We can not allow Albanese’s cowardice to make Australia complicit in this madness any longer.

We are firmly on the wrong side of history right now.

The leader of the Nationals tells Parliament farmers need machine guns, magazine belts & arsenal of weapons.

The War of the Warthogs is worse than imagined.

#auspol

Adelaide and the crisis of free speech The implosion of Australia's literary festival offers some harsh lessons.

open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

How to burn political capital for no gain Political interference has destroyed a writers’ festival and left a popular Premier politically exposed, with no obvious political gain. So why did he do it?

open.substack.com/pub/newpolit...

McKenzie unintentionally clarifying that

1. Zionism is a political ideology
2. Anti-zionism is not antisemitic

Is a wonderful service to public debate.
We must credit her.
Often.

• Australia news live Penny Wong says Israeli president Isaac Herzog's visit a good thing' despite backlash from Labor party members Follow updates live

It's "culturally unsafe" to have a Palestinian Aus author advocate against the systematic slaughter of hundreds of thousands of her people, but it's
"a good thing" for the president of apartheid Israel, which has committed daily massacres and mass starvation for 2yrs, to visit us. Unbearably racist.

YouTube video by Nev Nuance Here's 52 seconds of Albo pretending to care about whistleblower protection & govt. transparency

Seems timely to repost 52 seconds of
@albomp.bsky.social conning us back in 2019...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZGf...