Why can't we be laser focused on everyone's safety. Or laser focused on the fact that at least one woman is murdered in Australia every week? #auspol

Andy Fleming@slackbastard.bsky.social · yesterday

'New police commissioner pledges ‘laser-like focus’ on Jewish safety', AJN, September 26, 2025. nek minnit: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Antisemitism has been exceptionalized: "A government can respond to one racism with the full weight of the state and to another with programs and pamphlets" #auspol pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/08...

The government cannot ask Muslims not to compare

The government created a legitimate comparison when it appointed envoys for Islamophobia and antisemitism, and Muslim communities are entitled to ask whether both responses reflect equal protection.

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Trump keeps posting that America was once the laughingstock of the world, but now that he is president, it's never been more respected. As an Aussie, I can 100% confirm that Donald Trump is a laughingstock here.

Just so everyone's clear: this massive data centre bringing a huge fracked-gas power station online is *NOT* in breach of the Australian government's latest statement on AI "regulations", as per their own press release. archive.ph/wip/vyZzE

Oh come on Grim, Sam Neill, really??? Do we really need to draw you a picture?? Now go back, do it again and show your work

If you have evidence of crimes, but you wait a few years to tell anyone until your book comes out... There should be some legal repercussions for that.

terrifying. They are prepping the ground for instituting a new global corporate feudal empire

Lucy Hamilton@lucyham.bsky.social · last mo.

Compulsory viewing for #Auspol on the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference in London. Plenty of our 🇦🇺 politicians, Religious right, terfs, Murdoch journalists networking with wealthy and connected fossil fuel/fascistic forces. 💰 available. Will import far right 🌎 voices. @theguardian.com

As an Australian I am very disappointed in Jonathon Swan.I thought he had more integrity than to team up with Maggie Haberman who has very little due to her previous relationship with Trump. I guess everyone has their price?

Texas introduces a plan to convert children to atheism at a young age: Texas Public School Students May Soon Be Required to Read the Bible Reading the Bible is what convinced me that it was a dark fairy tale. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/u...

Texas Public School Students May Soon Be Required to Read the Bible

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Why is this parasite given any credence for her ideas. Ignore the bitch.

Rinehart puppet, Pauline Hanson, was sore at @australia.theguardian.com's Sarah Martin over her public interest question about how Lee Hanson came to be employed in a well-paid taxpayer-funded role for NSW-based ON senator Bell, when she basically lived in Tasmania Fair question!

Yung En Chee@yungenchee.bsky.social · 2mo ago

2/ Pauline 'Workers have it too good' Hanson is not averse to indulging in nepo-politics... Lee Hanson's taxpayer-funded 'senior advisor' role to One Nation senator Sean Bell is "worth as much as $180,000 a year"

Dear Australian Press Club and members. Thank you for being as complicit as the U.S. media in helping sane wash a completely incompetent billionaires’ grifting puppet. Your lack of rigorous questioning and letting lies and misinformation go unchecked has been noted… yet again.

Michelle Khare Gives Thumbs Down: You Suck!

ALT: Michelle Khare Gives Thumbs Down: You Suck!

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GIVE ME YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR, AND 5 YEARS OF YOUR FUCKING INSTAGRAM

AMERICA IS BEGGING THE WORLD TO VISIT. THE WORLD BOOKED JAPAN INSTEAD.

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Labor MP Ed Husic says Australia has tolerated poor behaviour from the Israeli government for too long, calling for a “red line” from Canberra including tougher sanctions, an end to defence cooperation and a block on supplying parts for the F-35 fighter jet."

The rise of One Nation in Australia makes me sick to my stomach, & deeply ashamed of my country. There are no depths they will not stoop to, no people they will not harm, in pursuit of power and profit. You might not feel vulnerable, but harming vulnerable people harms us all. We gotta call it out.

In Turkey, a cat comes to an elderly man who earns his living by cleaning shoes at the same time every morning. He asks to have his fur brushed, and the man never refuses. Original post

Autocracies are rising. To compete with China & Russia in the 21st century, we need to return to the basics that underpinned Cold War success: strong democratic alliances, global institutions (which can and should be reformed), and renewed engagement and cooperation.

There's a new Aussie mini-series called 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' (based on the novel) about the Australian POW's who are forced to build the tracks that I think end up to the bridge. It's a brutal series, made my physically ill at times. #TCMParty

Absolute outrage🤬🤬🤬. Heroic Australian activist Zack Schofield completely dismantles his government for blindly supporting Zionist regime. He demands Canberra immediately cut all ties with Israel, exposing how they supply weapons to a state that systematically rapes Palestinians. 👏👏👏👏👏 🇦🇺🇵🇸💥💥💥🤬🇮🇱🇺🇳

A superloser is a leader of a great power, or (onetime) superpower, whose disastrous choices lead to a crash. He possesses a combination of skills that allow for a rise to personal power and the collapse of state power. I spell out the phenomenon in this video: snyder.substack.com/p/the-era-of...

The Era of the Superlosers

Trump, Putin, and the World

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We don't need another report to tell us what a bad idea it was to privatize human services, and leave vulnerable people in the largely unregulated clutches of corporate profiteers. Whether its childcare, aged care, employment services.... we need govts to get off their neoliberal arses and fix it.

ABC News Bot (unofficial)@abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 3mo ago

For-profit providers have been accused of putting growth and revenue ahead of quality care in a report into childcare safety failures.

The Albanese govt doesn't want too many pesky climate scientists. There's a risk that they'll gather even more embarrasing evidence that Australia's climate & energy policies are woefully inadequate. And the Abbott-era 'Safeguard Mechanism' that Labor has adopted is a fossil-fueled sham. #auspol

Barbara Pocock@barbarapocock.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Labor needs to respond immediately to the reports CSIRO will tomorrow sack a THIRD of the team working on Australia’s national climate model. Australia’s climate science capability is globally significant & locally irreplaceable. A shameful way to treat our scientists.

If it refuses to provide the full suite of health services its community needs, it is not a public hospital and should not receive government funding.

ABC News Bot (unofficial)@abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Queensland premier has opened the state's first major new public hospital in almost a decade — at Springfield, south-west of Brisbane — but it won't offer some services for religious reasons.

A salutary lesson for Australia. Pauline Hanson told us "there are no good Muslims". Most of the political and media establishment provided no more than brief, token condemnation at best, and moved on. #auspol

Wajahat Ali@wajali.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Shooting in San Diego Was a Consequence of America's Toleration and Mainstreaming of Islamophobia thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-shooti...

“Honesty is not a well Pauline Hanson drinks from. Never has Australian politics seen such an endless, shameless bullshitter.” #auspol

David Milner@davemilbo.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Here's @ronnisalt.bsky.social. "Where One Nation lies".

@marcelias.bsky.social @democracydocket.com Today I’d like to ask everyone I know here to sign up for Democracy Docket! Then ask everyone you know to do the same! If you know anyone else who is working harder to save democracy in America than Mr. Elias, I’d like to know! Thank you!

Meanwhile, mainstream media continue to give Hanson the easiest of runs. And [with few honourable exceptions] fail to investigate her corruption, Trump and Rinehart connections, plus are scared to use the accurate word "racist"* to describe her 'policies'. #auspol [*a common label 25 years ago]

Tim Stephens@proftimstephens.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Tim Wilson says the Liberals are open to forming government with One Nation. Craven capitulation. #auspol #insiders

And right on cue, our hosts 'PK & Speersy' pick up the "mass migration" phrase like it's a real thing, rather than a racist disinformation scare slogan pushed by the far right. The Overton window is cracked. #FarrerVotes #auspol

Simon Rosenberg@simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“We’re gonna take away some hard lessons from this. …mass migration (sic) has not worked for this country.” After being thrashed by One Nation, Delusional Angus has decided the best approach is to emulate that racist rabble. And he takes no responsibility for the defeat. #FarrerVotes #auspol

My hand to God, I often wonder how many of our problems would be alleviated if the entire internet somehow went down for a few months.