@clivebull.bsky.social Re Australians getting fined for not voting; https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-30/voters-fined-failure-to-vote-federal-election-/106971244

Australians fork out $4 million for failing to vote in federal election

More than 1.3 million people did not vote in last year's election, and about 200,000 of those have paid the $20 fine.

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You say empirical, I say umpirical. Or both actually

Larissa Waters says it’s ”time to wake up” to One Nation’s use of foreign AI bot farms flooding social media with “racist, hateful messages” “to promote ON & attack everyone else” “Tsunamis of trash funded by billionaires” “Australia can’t keep sleepwalking into fascism”💥

The Govt's gambling "reforms" arrived today. They're useless. The PM should personally explain why protecting gambling companies, media companies and the major sporting codes is more important to his Govt than protecting the interests, and lives, of Australians. #auspol #politas

An open letter from four real leaders of Australia when Hanson first emerged with her putrescent dose of racist bile. We need this sort of statesmanship from our current leaders. Sadly, it probably won't happen. I will put it differently. One Nation can fuck right off. #auspol #phon #paulinehanson

It seems likely that this will be looked back on as the last chance the once dominant Liberal Party had to defend its liberalism. Yet it refused, appeased, surrendered

Baffle no more. My @smh @theage cartoon.

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 This week on Leading, Rory and Alastair are joined by former 🇦🇺 PM, Malcolm Turnball. They discuss what makes AUKUS a bad deal, why the UK and Australia can't ignore the reality of Trump, & what is it about Keir Starmer's communication style that fails to captivate? Link in replies👇

And #Morgan makes three. ALP 28 LNP 21.5 ON 26 (-5.5) Grn 13 Ind/other 11.5 2PP respondent prefs ALP 53.5 (-0.5) vs L-NP last election ALP 52.5 (-) my conversion ALP 52.5 (-0.3) ALP vs ON respondent prefs 53 to ALP (+2) my conversion 52.1 (+2.2) www.roymorgan.com/findings/102...

-From Quarks to Quasars 1/ Fired government scientists just launched a new site to keep climate data public.The site is called Climate.us & it was created by former staffers behind Climate.gov, the NOAA-run website long used by many for trusted climate information."

Sarah Hanson-Young says it beggars belief that One Nation, who say they stand for Australia, “are running their political campaign from offshore” using digital bot factories in “Indonesia, Vietnam & India” Calls for ON to to be investigated, “This is foreign interference”💥💯

More than half of Australians now see their nation’s relationship with China as more important than its ties to the US, a new poll showed, while confidence in President Donald Trump slumped to a record low.

Australians Value China Ties Over US as Trump Confidence Slumps

More than half of Australians now see their nation’s relationship with China as more important than its ties to the US, a new poll showed, while confidence in President Donald Trump slumped to a record low.

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Flattening out modern, diverse Australia. What a dismal, unpatriotic mission.

Is binning expert correspondents in eastern Europe a good idea at a time like this? Disinformation on the rise, Russia interfering in many countries, threatening several and actually at war with one? Well, BBC News management seems to think so. It's disposing of me and 4 of my colleagues.

‘her target audience is small business – and particularly people who have run a small business that has failed.’ Please explain: Hanson blasts away pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/06...

Please explain: Hanson blasts away

Pauline Hanson’s National Press Club appearance cannot be judged by normal standards of evidence or logic, because her appeal lies in grievance, demagoguery and a direct rejection of the journalists a...

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Australia news live: Wild bird found sick with suspected bird flu in WA as minister says positive H5 test would be ‘sobering but not unexpected’ Sandilands is buying into 2GB and NewsCorp’s business model as is Karl Stefanovic. There’s money to be made in dumb bigotry

Where have we seen this before? My @smh cartoon.

Wilcox

Not the same. My @smh @theage cartoon.

@petergarrett.com.au Just heard you on RN National talking about #AUKUS enquiry you want to have. A huge thank you from me! Go you and good luck!

Here’s an idea for Labour: take a vow to come off Elon Musk’s cesspool, rather than give it the imprimatur of respectability by playing out the Party’s internecine drama on it. Something we could all get behind.

Trump steers America into a ditch but shush, don’t tell the media…

This week's edition of the UK's New Statesman magazine isn't pulling its punches.

Hypertension. My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social

Someone needs to tell him that this isn’t how anything works. NATO is a mutual defense treaty for when an ally is attacked, not for when you choose to invade a country because you feel like it. And I know he’s been told this repeatedly, but NATO was there for the U.S. after 9/11.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5mo ago

“.. If there’s no response or if it’s a negative response I think it will be very bad for the future of Nato,” he added. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/1ca6...

Last words before Robodebt 6 findings are published. Saturday Paper’s Jason Koutsoukis reports on the still unnamed 6 who implemented unlawful cruelty. This scandal has exposed the failure of both the Commonwealth public service and the National Anti Corruption Commission.

@carlquintanilla.bsky.social With your administration’s change on car emissions is it the expectation that these cars will be exported? Many (most?) countries will have higher standards for emissions. So is it fair to assume they only be made for domestic buyers? TIA.

By fine Australian cartoonist Peter Broelman.

Anti-Fascist Translator Monkey@translatormonkey.bsky.social · 6mo ago

How has the preferential voting system masked the decline of the major parties and why is the decline worse for the Liberals and Nationals? 🗳️ #AUListen #DemocracySausage 🎙️ @shaunratcliff.bsky.social @marijataflaga.bsky.social @markgkenny.bsky.social 👉 ausi.anu.edu.au/news/democra...

Pretty telling that Cathy Wilcox has become a more effective political commentator with her powerful sketchings than practically any of her non-cartoonist colleagues who expend literally thousands more words every week but somehow manage to say very little or gutlessly avoid the issues altogether.

The Cathy Wilcox@cathywilcox.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A heavily redacted cartoon. My @smh cartoon.