Helen Russell

Grace Tame’s public behaviour questioned by family values MP.

Funny how obsessed Australian politicians are with social cohesion when both the federal and state political spheres entirely revolve around finding issues to differentiate, wedge and create fights between parties.
Maybe take a look in a mirror and set a better example you stonking hypocrites

I am also very reluctant to comment but the images of NSW police punching people and in one case punching a person already on the ground and restrained, in the kidneys, makes me feel sick.

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.

Passing the poisoned chalice

Everything Angus Taylor touches turns to shit, so this should be the final death throes of the Liberal party as we know it then

Suggesting the crisis of confidence in the Liberal Party can be fixed by anointing Angus Taylor as leader is....optimistic.

But I encourage them to give it a go.

Single frame, press conference of David Littleproud and Sussan Ley at lecterns marked NATS and LIBS, 4 Australian flags behind them. Lecterns are on a small podium, and the classic cartoon saw is cutting around Sussan Ley’s lectern. Littleproud and Ley touching hands and Littleproud says “Solid as.”

Reunited.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Albanese’s stupid, immoral decision to invite Herzog has inflamed divisions in the local Jewish community too.

The Jewish community speaks:

The Zionist lobby, antisemitism and Herzog Australia’s political and media response to Gaza, including the invitation to Israel’s president, reflects the influence of pro-Israel lobbying and the shrinking space for lawful criticism.

Like our politicians, "So much of our media, including, shamefully, the ABC is intimidated by the Zionist lobby
...Palestinians and Muslims are treated as much less human and less valuable than white Jews and white Christians."

Must read from @johnmenadue.com
johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02...

a man with a beard wears a black hat and a black jacket ALT: a man with a beard wears a black hat and a black jacket

Pasty Hastie dropping out and leaving it open for Anus Taylor to challenge Sussssan Ley is so funny. I haven't stopped laughing.

Title: “Uses for the Australian Flag”. Six frames. 1. “To show support”. Guy in a crowd wearing green and gold waving little flag shouting “CARN THE AUSSIES”. 2 “To dogwhistle”. Pauline wrapped in flag as in Senate stunt. 3. “Survival abroad”. Woman with shorts, ponytail and large backpack with flag on it, Eiffel Tower in distance, says “Not American” 4. “To tell people who you are”. Big bloke in Aust flag t-shirt looks at smaller brown man menacingly? Assertively? Aggressively? and points to it. 5. “To tell people you belong”. Four people of diverse culture/ethnicity all proudly holding little Aussie flags. 6. “Sun protection for your lily white skin”. Two blokes, back to us, red necks, beach in front, thumbs up, beer in hand, saying “MATE” “MAAATE”.

Uses for the flag.
My @smh @theage cartoon

Just what the ABC needs. More David Speers.

This is what happens when you set up a Liberal Party to only have Abbott, Morrison, Dutton types.

Anyone slightly sane either leaves or loses and you are left with Sussan and Hastie and people like Ted O’Brien.

Well done Johnny. Your dream is achieved!

Labor and the LNP demand that we have social cohesion in Australia, and then constantly manufacture fights about everything to ensure that they hit the news cycle and are seen to be 'relevant'
Apparently it's called 'leadership'
Would be good if a journo could ask them about that

Adelaide Righters Festival Programme Day 1 9:00 – 9:30 Welcome and Acknowledgement of Zionism 9:30 – 9:45 Advance Australia Fairly (original composition sung by Lind Hurley) Sponsored by Advance Australia 9:45 – 10:45 Macca’s Ridgey Didge True Blue Aussie Anecdotes Ian McNamara Sponsored by McDonalds 10:45 – 11:15 Morning Tea (ladies bring a plate) 11:15 – 12:30 Gina Rinehart – selected poems Sponsored by Hancock Prospecting 12:30 – 1:30 Lunch Sri Lankan Chicken Curry (chicken definitely cooked) 1:30 – 2:00 Motivational Pep Talk Sarina Rosso 2:00 – 3:00 Why Victoria Is Terrible and Why It’s All Dan Andrew’s Fault Panel discussion with Andrew Bolt, Steve Price and Jeff Kennett, chaired by Peta Credlin Sponsored by The Daily Telegraph 3:00 – 3:30 Prayer Circle / Afternoon Nap Greg Sheridan Sponsored by Horlicks 3:30 – 6:00 Church Crawl Lead by Barnaby Joyce and Tony Abbott

BREAKING
Day 1 programme for the 2026 Adelaide Righters Festival revealed

Hey Murdoch hate media.
A murderous illegal power grab by a gangster state to steal oil is not helpfully”taking over”
The rules based order set up to protect us from monsters like Hitler is torn apart so billionaire fascists can gorge themselves on oil and the dead.
Call it out MSM.Do your fking job

Ahmed the Fruiterer being the everyday hero that saved multiple lives of mostly Jewish people today is the only politics worth a pinch of shit in this act of terrorism

Have spent the day resolutely focused on all the people who helped, who risked their own safety to ensure the safety of others. It’s no small thing in all that horror. Hate is a sickness.

What a treat.

Still cannot believe we ended up with this Pentecostal happy clapping speaker in tongues eejit as a PM in our secular democracy

Be alert AND alarmed.

Love your work Rick. Congratulations on your award.

Writing the book on Robodebt drove Rick Morton mad. Now it's won him $80k Journalist Rick Morton didn't want to write a book about Robodebt. Now that book, Mean Streak, has won the Prime Minister's Literary Award for non-fiction.

What a ride. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

I’m just gonna put it out there, unless you’re a hardcore LNP supporter who lives and breathes negative gearing, franking credits and general psychopathy, why would anyone care what these two lunatics have to say on anything at all? And why have this shit as the headline? #auspol

Claret.

Thanks for the memory. (Dry) Cinzano and Brandavino were two of my favourites.

James Paterson has lashed out at Tony Burke for criticising Netanyahu’s attack on Albanese & says he should “apologise” to Netanyahu for “reckless & inflammatory” words
🤣yeh right🤣

Why are they so staunchly defending a war criminal? Such a turn off.

Yes, excruciating is a good word to describe how two experienced defamation barristers soared while one criminal lawyer floundered.

Interesting to see Albanese today in a presser draw attention to the obvious agenda from the Israel lobby by obtaining an alleged statement from an alleged Hamas leader & placing it in front of their favourite journalist - SMH's Matthew Knott

Such junk journalism.

Israel's agenda here is so clear