🧵 1/6 New piece: the Guardian recently asked why the Greens aren't riding One Nation's surge the way the Green Party of England and Wales rode Labour's collapse. The advice on offer was basically "be angrier." I think that's wrong, in a specific and testable way.

Not preaching to the converted: The Greens, One Nation, and a comparison that doesn’t hold

A Guardian piece from mid-July on why the Australian Greens aren’t riding One Nation’s polling surge the way the Green Party of England and Wales has ridden Labour’s collapse leans heavily on Zack Pol...

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🧵 (1/6) Attitudes towards gender inequality and sexual violence have genuinely improved in Australia over the past decade. Belief that domestic violence is "equally committed" by men and women has moved the other way, up, not down, over the same period.

Domestic violence isn't a two-way street, and Hanson isn't confused about that

Pauline Hanson told Brisbane’s 4BC radio on July 21 that domestic violence is “wrong, but it’s also a two-way street,” attributed it to the “pressures of living,” and said “women can lose their cool a...

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🧵 1/6 New piece: why do claims that seem like they shouldn't survive basic scrutiny keep being published unexamined once they're said inside the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion?

Why does it just get reproduced? On the Royal Commission, the black armband, and the right’s oldest trick

Louise Adler’s argument is straightforward and correct.

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🧵 1/5 Labor's CGT and negative gearing reforms have drawn months of loud, confident criticism. This piece checks it against Treasury, the ATO and the critics' own submissions. Most of it doesn't hold up. open.substack.com/pub/revitali...

Labor's CGT reforms and their critics: A defence of the policy, and what rewarding innovation and building would actually look like

Since the announcement of Labor’s changes to capital gains tax and negative gearing in the May budget, criticism has been sustained and heated, and it has come from fund managers, property investors, ...

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@lastweektonight.com you really need to be talking about @countbinface.bsky.social and the Clayton by-election as it truly could be the funniest thing. youtu.be/HTIESiyDNUQ?...

Count Binface reacts to 'hilarious' chance of becoming an actual MP

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🧵 1/8 Part II of the One Nation resource is out: Why this is happening, and what we do. The record is in Part I. This part asks the harder questions.

One Nation, what we're up against

Part II of a resource for honest conversations about One Nation

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🧵 1/7 One Nation is pushing towards 30% in the polls. Almost everyone you know knows someone considering voting for them. I've built a resource for the conversations happening right now, in families, workplaces, communities. Here is Part I. open.substack.com/pub/revitali...

One Nation, The Record

Part I of a resource for honest conversations about One Nation

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Has palmer ever had an original idea in his life?

OPEN LETTER TO THE INTERNATIONAL ANTI‑WAR CONFERENCE IN LONDON On 20 June, the Stop the War Coalition is hosting a major International Conference Against War in London. Back in January, the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign wrote to Lindsey German, Convenor of StW, stressing that any credible discussion…

OPEN LETTER TO THE INTERNATIONAL ANTI‑WAR CONFERENCE IN LONDON

On 20 June, the Stop the War Coalition is hosting a major International Conference Against War in London. Back in January, the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign wrote to Lindsey German, Convenor of StW, stressing that any credible discussion on the war must include those directly affected by Russia’s unprovoked invasion — particularly Ukrainian trade unionists and democratic left organisations. We offered to help arrange such participation.

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🧵 1/6 Should the "Teal" independents form a party? I think they should, and that the left has good reason to want them to. New article on why a teal party makes sense from a left perspective

A question of form: The Teals, political realignment, and what the left should make of a Teal party

Since the arrival of the “Teal” independents at the 2022 election, much attention has been given to whether they are really independents at all, or a party in all but name.

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🧵 1/ One Nation is polling at over 20% and just won its first lower house seat. *Marxist Left Review* says we beat them in the 1990s and can do it again. My new piece argues the history is more complicated than that, and getting it right matters now. open.substack.com/pub/revitali...

What the Anti-Hanson movement of the 1990s actually achieved — and what it didn't

The current issue of Marxist Left Review (MLR), Socialist Alternative’s theoretical journal and the space where Australia’s largest far-left organisation presents its most considered public intellectu...

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🧵 1/6 Australia is one of the world's biggest gas exporters and the system for capturing public revenue from that extraction has failed comprehensively. The campaign for a gas export tax is right, but the mechanism has a structural vulnerability with how the price is set and how to fix it.

Fixing the right problem: How we can get the gas export Tax Right

There is growing public pressure for Australia to introduce a gas export tax, to capture more revenue from the extraction of a resource that belongs to the Australian people.

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🧵 1/6 The Sex Discrimination Amendment Bill claims to protect women and girls in single-sex spaces. The evidence shows it will harm the women it claims to protect. Here's why, and why opposing it is what genuinely protecting women's rights requires. open.substack.com/pub/revitali...

On the amendments to the Sex Discrimination Act: Bad science, harming women

On May 15 2026, the full bench of the Federal Court upheld the 2024 decision in Tickle v Giggle, finding that the exclusion of a trans woman from a female-only social networking app constituted direct...

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Fuck the Australian mainstream media think their readers are stupid. If you ask me to explain why the protection is necessary, i can and will in very small words.

🧵 1/6 Taylor's welfare citizenship announcement claims billions in savings from non-citizens accessing welfare. The data doesn't exist. The scenario is structurally impossible. He exempts the only people who could actually do what he claims to be preventing. open.substack.com/pub/revitali...

An answer in search of a problem: Taylor's welfare citizenship announcement and what it gets wrong

As part of his May 13 Budget reply speech, Liberal leader Angus Taylor announced a new policy that would restrict access to Australian social security payments to Australian citizens, a move that he claimed would save billions.

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The mode of political discourse of "throw random incoherent internally inconsistent shit at the wall and see if it sticks".

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Because yeah, he couldn’t have done that.

I am sorry, what? The Liberals, and the mainstream commercial media is full of idiots where this type of garbage is seen as profound insight.

🧵 1/8 Clive Hamilton's defence of transphobic psychiatry doesn't survive a close read of his own evidence. I went through every source he cites. Here's what they actually say. open.substack.com/pub/revitali...

🧵 1/6 Last week Pauline Hanson offered the Coalition her supply and confidence, before any negotiation, without extracting anything, without a Cabinet position. This is either incoherent, a lie or most likely both. open.substack.com/pub/revitali...

One Nation's Coalition gambit: A strategic error that reveals the limits of its appeal

On May 9, One Nation swept to victory in the Farrer byelection, consigning the incumbent Liberal Party to a humiliating defeat in a seat the Coalition had held since its foundation almost 80 years ago...

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Federal Court Full-Bench decision against the transphobes' appeal has a real Lehrmannesc feel to it. Appealing an adverse finding and getting a much more devastating adverse finding is pretty epic.

🧵 1/ I've been sitting with Andrew Brown's Israel lobby pieces in Michael West Media. They do real investigative work. But I think the central frame is mistaken, and getting it wrong closes off the political possibilities we actually need. open.substack.com/pub/revitali...

Why Australian governments support Israel, and why it is important to get that right

On April 28 and April 29, Andrew Brown published two articles on Michael West Media exploring the role of the pro-Israel lobby in Australian politics.

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🧵 1/6 The Green Institute has real resources, real institutional positioning, and real potential. This is the fourth and final piece in the series “What the Green Institute could be”, developing the positive alternative. open.substack.com/pub/revitali...

How the Greens can make the most of the Green Institute

What the Green Institute could be - Part IV of IV

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🧵 1/6 Left populism has a track record. This is the third piece in a four-part series, “What the Green Institute could be”, examining what that track record shows and what it means for the Green Institute’s strategic direction. open.substack.com/pub/revitali...

On the Green Institute's left populist gamble

What the Green Institute could be - Part III of IV

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With the unsurprising news that at least some of the people booing on Anzac Day were neo-Nazis, it makes clear exactly whose frustration Angus Taylor was validating when he said he 'understands the frustration.' open.substack.com/pub/revitali...

Booing at ANZAC Day: The right's chickens coming home to roost

Building the breakdown, how the right attacks social cohesion while claiming to defend it, and what that project protects

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🧵 1/5 The coordinated booing of First Nations elders at Anzac Dawn Services has generated anger. But the commentary is missing the central question: who built the conditions that made this possible, and why? My latest piece follows that question where it leads. open.substack.com/pub/revitali...

Booing at ANZAC Day: The right's chickens coming home to roost

Building the breakdown, how the right attacks social cohesion while claiming to defend it, and what that project protects

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🧵 1/5 The Albanese government says cutting the NDIS is a tough decision. It isn't. It's the easiest available option dressed in the language of courage. My latest piece explains what the cuts actually do, and what a genuinely tough decision would look like. open.substack.com/pub/revitali...

The easy decision dressed as tough: What the NDIS cuts actually do

On 22 April 2026, the Albanese government announced changes to the National Disability Insurance Scheme that will dramatically reduce expenditure through an active narrowing of access.

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In a totally shocking development capital shows a united front against the right to organise. The only true surprise is that they are saying the quiet part so loudly.

🧵 1/6 The Green Institute’s left populist turn points to the rise of the Green Party of England and Wales as evidence the strategy can work. This is the second piece in a four-part series examining that claim. open.substack.com/pub/revitali...

Understanding the rise of the Green Party of England and Wales

What the Green Institute could be - Part II of IV

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🧵 1/6 The appointment of Max Chandler-Mather as Executive Director of the Green Institute marks a significant strategic shift toward left populism as the organising framework for the Australian Greens. This is the first of four pieces examining what that means. open.substack.com/pub/revitali...

Left populism: What is it and what are its limits?

What the Green Institute could be - Part I of IV

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Trump and his advisors really should have taken Vizzini's advice, "never get involved in a land war in Asia"

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ALT: a bald man is smiling and saying " you fell victim to one of the classic blunders ! "

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