Palantir’s spokesperson confirmed that Palantir staff worked inside Defence premises, enabling them to “work collaboratively” with Defence staff and train them to use its products. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/09/p...
Before you vote on 21 March, make sure you know where the parties stand.
Find all the candidates in your electorate and what they've committed to at fairandequalpledge.org.au.
Authorised by R. Carr, Fair Agenda, 36-38 Gipps Street, Collingwood VIC 3066.
How institutional secrecy hampers court reporting on public health issues www.croakey.org/how-institut...
A sorry tale with a bad ending.
‘Nacc said it could not…prosecution, because of a lack of “admissible evidence”. The body noted that “key admissions & statements made during this investigation are not admissible in criminal proceedings”. #Robodebt
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australian state and federal governments provided $16.3 billion in subsidies to fossil fuel producers and major users in 2025-26, according to new research from The Australia Institute”.
This is a pretty screwed up way up address climate change, @australianlabor.bsky.social.
#Switzerland rejects US requests for overflights by aircraft linked to war with #Iran en.ypagency.net/387167
First step, nominate
“A Queensland government minister intervened to ensure that a new theatre would not be named after the Aboriginal poet Oodgeroo Noonuccal, overriding the theatre’s board, according to documents obtained under right to information laws”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
You can administer unlawful government scheme that results in anxiety and deaths and walk away Scot-free but woe to you who misses a job provider interview that you aren't advised of, it's instant cut off of life-supporting payments. #auspol
“That Labor & LNP remain in the thrall of the #gas lobby is no surprise, but that Pauline Hanson lined up with Greens & independent senators in voting for an inquiry shows this issue is no longer a “right vs left” issue, but everybody else against the Uniparty.”
michaelwest.com.au/hold-my-beer...
I don’t subscribe to Crikey so haven’t read this series by Jo Tanawsky. Here she is exploring and explaining how power protects itself.
Well worth a listen.
#auspol
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Australia should be generous, not punitive, when it comes to those seeking to escape war | Julianne Schultz
https://www.europesays.com/2846489/
As the people in the Gulf countries are now learning, having a great and powerful friend on bases…
In Albanese's seemingly Damned Whores & God's Police universe, women's rights are rolling back at the exact moment women are being pushed closer to war, poverty & public violence.
michaelwest.com.au/internationa...
Misogyny is a political force that serves a strategic function to gain power.
Australia claimed impotence over Gaza but is now sending military support to the US-Israel war in the Gulf. Andrew Brown on the hypocrisy of a nation that prides itself on fairness.
michaelwest.com.au/moral-double...
this story will surprise the boomer who yelled at me that there is no nuclear waste stored in the Pacific
The light on the hill was never poetry. It was instruction. Government existed to lift the living standards of working people and restrain capital when it became predatory. Winning elections was not the aim of power. It was the consequence of using it properly.
michaelwest.com.au/the-light-an...
Hidden Cameras on a Remote Tasmanian Island Capture Rare Animals Scientists Had Struggled to Confirm for Years
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/541006/
Night cameras placed across truwana/Cape Barren Island off Tasmania’s north-east coast recently began recording movement through grass and…
The hidden cost of 'free' government wills in NSW
#NSWTrustee #EstateePlanning #WillsAndEstates #ConsumerRights #AusNews
https://thedailyperspective.org/article/2026-03-15-the-hidden-cost-of-free-government-wills-in-nsw-39dea5be
When you take the same skillset you used to bankrupt six casinos, and apply it to international relations, the global economy, and geo strategic stability.
The release of the NACC investigation closes the final chapter of the long accountability process that followed the introduction of the robodebt scheme by the Abbott government in 2015: satpa.pe/KzeEyAj
If you haven't watched today's episode of #TheSundayShot try and make some time to do so today. @davemilbo.bsky.social talk with @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social is fantastic. Kon is inspiring and an absolute treasure!
#auspol
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"In the present circumstances of a genocide, the obvious reason for a tidal wave of panic about antisemitism is that the efforts to deny Israel’s vast crimes is not working. Everyone can see the truth on their mobile phones."
johnmenadue.com/post/2026/03...
"He does not deserve the benefit of the doubt. He does not deserve his war to be assessed charitably. He deserves our contempt."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This is our lifeblood
SA is under threat because greed, political mileage and personal wealth are treated as important, while climate, species decimation and the health of our entire ecosystem are completely ignored.
#GreensAreOurOnlyHope
#auspol
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
🚨BREAKING: Iranian Missiles Impacts Throughout Tel Aviv
Cluster munition warheads appear to have been used again.
Defence spends the most public money on projects, by a long shot. They waste 10s of billions. A Govt controlled committee has ordered the Auditor-General to stop auditing Defence major projects. Politically good for @albomp.bsky.social but very bad for taxpayers. #auspol
The misuse of environmental offsets that former environment minister Tanya Plibersek called “completely unacceptable” are found to be still “completely unacceptable” despite supposed reforms by her @australianlabor.bsky.social
www.smh.com.au/national/env...
