Private data is being shared data between govt agencies with controversial CIA-linked surveillance group Palantir. Without permission, without disclosure. Claudia Weisenberger investigates #auspol #NDIS #AUSTRAC michaelwest.com.au/palantir-is-...

Palantir is inside the House. Surveillance and the NDIS - Michael West

The Government is sharing NDIS data between agencies and even with controversial CIA-linked surveillance group Palantir. Via AUSTRAC

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A valediction. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Worth noting that the @albomp.bsky.social government coughed up $240 million for a football stadium precint in Tasmania for a Tassie Devil Football team. However can only find $20 million to stop Tassie Devils, and all our other wildlife, from being decimated by bird flu Check your priorities Labor

Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS@euanritchie.bsky.social · 18h ago

It’s an insult, a national disgrace. This is @albomp.bsky.social & Murray Watt making it crystal clear that they do not see helping Australian wildlife in the face of this massive threat a high priority. Submarines, anyone? au.news.yahoo.com/australias-2...

"He ridiculed an AFP investigation into allegations that Australians were beaten, tortured & raped. He branded the survivors frauds before a statement was taken. He defended the army that cleared itself over the killing of an Australian aid worker." Andrew Brown michaelwest.com.au/send-israeli...

Send Hillel Newman home: Australia has tolerated his contempt long enough - Michael West

Sneering, denying, lecturing, lying. Andrew Brown puts the case for the Australian government to expel Israeli Ambassador Hillel Newman.

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Faster ecological collapse.

The Conversation AUNZ@aunz.theconversation.com · 14h ago

The federal government has softened its initial renewables-only stance.

Worth repeating Again, and again This year will be the hottest year of your life This year may be the coolest year of the rest of your life bsky.app/profile/prof...

Prof Ray Wills@profraywills.futuresmart.com.au · 3w ago

Worth repeating This year will be the hottest year of your life This year may be the coolest year of the rest of your life www.linkedin.com/posts/raywil...

There is nothing about your country that is even vaguely socialist - you have a right wing party and then an extreme right wing party - that is all.

Someone is many sandwiches short of a picnic 🙄 #auspol

"Famously, fiercely non-political, Dolly Parton could teach our politicians a thing or two" @amyremeikis.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

Famously, fiercely non-political, Dolly Parton could teach our politicians a thing or two

Parton was famously not-political. It’s how she managed to be so political. She refused to become bogged down in terms or fights over identity politics, while she quietly got on with the work of makin...

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Another completely disheartening bk down by @albomp.bsky.social. Is there any issue you will truly lead on Albo? Clearly not the spiking #energy demands of #datacentres in a #climate & #energy crisis! Disappointing is an understatement. #coal #gas #captured #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...?

Queensland allowed to use coal, gas for data centres despite renewable push

The state's premier says it is a "good win" for his state, which owns much of its own electricity infrastructure, while the federal government had previously demanded states use renewables as a standa...

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"Yeah but the medical research benefits" is going to need a big work out today

Greg Jericho@grogsgamut.bsky.social · yesterday

Yeah, sorry if you thought things would be different this time. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The Israel lobby has comic Bassem Youssef banned from Australia while the government gives a free pass to IDF soldiers suspected of war crimes. Andrew Brown on the joke that could not enter Australia, and the army that could. michaelwest.com.au/comedian-ban...

Comedian banned from Australia, war crimes suspects cheered on - Michael West

The Israel lobby has comic Bassem Youssef banned from Australia while the government gives a free pass to IDF war crimes suspects.

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Yes we said that guy who was in Home Alone 2. FFS death, get it right.

Everywhere. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Saw this on facebook and thought of you 😂 I particularly like how it positions christian history as being older than indigenous culture

"The only reason a country needs to create more ‘carbon offsets’ is because it expects to fail to decarbonise." "Whatever the paperwork calls it, an offset is a corporation saying we’re going to keep polluting, & we’re paying someone else for the permission slip." I urge you to read the full piece

LouiseMorris@louisemorris.bsky.social · 3d ago

Turning public native forests into carbon trading chips for the biggest polluters to offset ongoing emissions is a live fire exercise in neoliberal greenwashing. If this passes no govt/agency will ever want to protect nature without offset trading markets $. #auspol thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

Cartoonists are some of the few bold voices left in mainstream media. Both @cathywilcox.bsky.social and @fionakatauskas.bsky.social have fought for space and held their own in a very male dominated field for decades. Thank you Fiona and Cathy making space for women, and all your wit and insight!

islands..

Less Segal Less Ossip Less Ryvchin More, much, much more Flanagan

Deepcut News@deepcutnews.bsky.social · 2d ago

Esteemed author Richard Flanagan delivered a powerful speech at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas warning of a new McCarthyism, accusing Israel of "seeking to silence" Australians with the slur of antisemitism. We have published the full text of the speech.👇️ www.deepcutnews.com/p/segals-pla...

Fmr ECAJ Pres Nina Bassat says what gets her “the most worked up” is Aussies accusing Israel of “genocide”, claims it violates the “UN legal term”🤔 “You cannot use that word!” Odd, given the UN’s highest court (the ICJ) is adjudicating a genocide case against Israel right now?

“America has changed”. One day when @albomp.bsky.social takes a close look at the #AUKUS deal where the US indicated acceptance, he'll find that “its signature was written in pencil”. #auspol

Mark Carney says the US signature 'was written in pencil' after trade deal collapses

Carney has repeatedly said relations with the US have been forever altered.

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not all heroes wear capes...

Christian H. Klosz: "Remember: If you're a lone masker again, know that in another, more advanced culture you would be totally normal. The problem isn't you, it's them." Source: x.com/_Kun3_0/stat... @ckklosz.bsky.social

Thrilled that Lyrebird has been shortlisted for the 2026 Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction in such great company. www.austcrimewriters.com/2026-shortli...

Choices. My @smh cartoon.

Expel Israeli Ambassador Hillel Newman. Andrew Brown puts the case #auspol #Gaza michaelwest.com.au/send-israeli...

Send Hillel Newman home: Australia has tolerated his contempt long enough - Michael West

Sneering, denying, lecturing, lying. Andrew Brown puts the case for the Australian government to expel Israeli Ambassador Hillel Newman.

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"Dolly Parton gave the world the gift of reading and a COVID-19 vaccine" 🔹The Dollywood Foundation and Imagination Library provide scholarships and books to children worldwide. 🔹Dolly Parton donated $1 million to Vanderbilt University Medical Center for the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine research.

Misogyny has been flagged as a red flag for extremism. I think that's something we already inherently knew. It seems that every far right dkhd is either a misogynist and/or a paedophile. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

Misogyny identified as biggest red flag for violent extremism

A new study finds that violent attitudes towards women are not just a social issue but a matter of national security.

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Announcing new tight rules then not putting them in place til next year is just giving data centre developers a heads up. #auspol

Australia may face a rush of datacentre construction as AI firms look to avoid upcoming rules, experts say — Guardian Australia

Regulations will require new sites to avoid pushing up power prices by building renewable energy plants and minimising water use

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