I suspect Al might have got it right. This sounds more like a distracted journo/ intern. Either way pretty dangerous since most people will get the wrong information and message, especially since the actual article is behind a paywall.
The Age article blurb on Facebook: “shock retirement of special adviser Dennis Richardson, who says… he was not paid enough to do his work.”
Same paywalled article headline: “Former spy chief on $5500 a day says he was paid too much to do too little on royal commission.”
#auspol #MSM #TheAge
Rules-based world disorder.
#auspol #RuleofLaw #RuleoftheJungle
Our chillies be chillin’
🌶️🌶️
#harvest #chillies #GardeningAustralia
The ship and its crew were in India at the invitation of the Indian government to participate in friendly naval exercises. They were guests of India and were attacked unprovoked by the US submarine as they were leaving.
I mean it’s not like we can let a United Nations Special Rapporteur just rock up to a university! And give a speech about international law! It will be anarchy. Where will it end? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
When you gain the admiration of actual fascist supremacists, it may be time for for some self reflection.
#auspol #ALP
That is so beautiful. I do love that colour! Beautiful chartreuse 🥰
An Israeli defense official just said out loud that the US was only pretending to negotiate, in other words. An over-mighty and presumptuous ally, indeed.
In a statement issued on Saturday evening, Anthony Albanese said: “Australia stands with the brave people of Iran in their struggle against oppression”…by supporting them being bombed into oblivion.
#auspol
How right you are! And that’s a gorgeous lace shawl.
Here’s mine: still incomplete since I got distracted by another mosaic shawl.
Man arrested for a bit of red paint on the statue of the misogynist racist responsible for the murder of millions.
#Churchill #colonialism #racism
This Nine Nights shawl is so special — it evokes joyous images of celebrations, festivities and weddings!
Inspired by the bandhani (tie-dye) Gharchola sari that I rarely get to wear, this shawl will be worn each time I need a cultural hug.
Also 🐘
#knitting #tiedye #shawl
The politics of hope, justice, resistance that we have seen at protests against genocide across the world is undoubtedly going to manifest as election results, sooner or later, even if our media pretend otherwise & magnify hate.
This 🧵 offers some key pointers for Australia!
#auspol #GoGreens
If Reform had won this, it would be all over our media as an ‘unstoppable force’ and Hanson would be platformed as saying it was inevitable here. But no one ever treats a progressive win in the same way. That’s an ‘outlier’
So sectarian and regressive are the Muslims, that they voted for a young white feminist in a party led by a progressive Jewish gay man.
Matt Goodwin or Matt Soreloser?!
#MattSoreloser #MattGoodwin #UK #elections
Academics and students are more likely to face “repression” for their pro-Palestinian views than any other group in the UK, says European Legal Support Center www.timeshighereducation.com/news/academi... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social
As has been the case for a while now, our excellent satirical news outlets capture the mood and gravity of this issue.
#auspol #DifficultWomen #Media
“Secret report”?!
Once you start to believe your own cooked narratives, you need secret reports, autopsies and deep analysis to tell you what is blatantly obvious to us all. She lost because she supported a genocide.
Absolutely! Maybe the chapters in Abbott’s history book outlining this were mislaid by the printers?
A white man with white nationalist values & Western Christian culture is the terrorist.
Following LNP & ON logic, will white men & Christian religious leaders take ownership of this pattern of terror that they have unleashed from colonialism to the present day?
#auspol #terrorism #racism #Perth
When people say they stay “out of politics” or prescribe that others/ films/ art/ sport should “stay out of politics”, aren’t they simply saying that the status quo works for them?
#politics #StayingOutofPolitics
300 million people protested in India against the pro-corporate, anti-worker, anti-farmer policies of the Modi government.
Unsurprisingly, this has not been reported by the pro-corporate, anti-worker Australian media and scarcely by the Indian media.
#India #ProtestsWork #MSM
Thomas Sewell lookalike contest?
Honestly there aren’t enough eyerolls so I’ll just say ‘pfffttt’!
This sudden change in opinion was expressed in an angry Facebook comment left on a News Corp headline. chaser.com.au/general-news...
Asked on Thursday if he would apologise, Minns said: “Look, I won’t.”
#auspol #racism
Cohesion.
My @smh cartoon.
Finally, a piece of good news!
#auspol #Meanjin
We knew from the moment we heard it that “social cohesion” would be one of those Orwellian terms which would be used to cover all manner of state sanctioned abuse and deprivation of civic freedoms.
It fuels the very unrest it pretends to seek to quell.
