Wondering what the feds and NSW will get in return for a $2.5b bail-out of an aluminium smelter? If it's normal Australian industry policy, the answer is: absolutely nothing
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Meanwhile, somewhere within missile hitting distance of the Middle East...
New parlour game: you show everyone a picture of a One Nation candidate and they have to decide if they are: A - Racist B - Homophobic C - A sovereign citizen cooker D - Have had at least one AVO taken out against them E - Have past convictions for fraud
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 20h agoWA One Nation candidate Parminder Singh describes gay people as having 'mental illness'
I wonder if Karoline Leavitt is leaving fuckface because he left her to die on AF1.
In light of Barnaby Joyce declaring that One Nation ‘is one of the gayest parties in Australia’ I have designed a pride flag for them to represent their diversity. I will be sending an invoice to Gina Rinehart
Ever wonder what a pogrom looks like? CNN won't show you. Jewish settlers first surrounded the Abu Rida family home in the town Qusra (south of Nablus, occupied West Bank), then fenced it to tighten the siege on the family and are destroying the house. And the military? Protecting settlers.
Gambling apps partnering with news organizations are the natural endpoint of horserace journalism. What’s the point of a horserace if you can’t bet on it
Honestly, this is like a Monty Python skit. She's swaying to her own private head music, Brainworms is spouting insane nonsense as usual and yer man is snoring in the middle. This is the US government.
Pete Hegseth joining Trump at the airport in Turkey to leave men behind in harm’s way is so on brand for both of those shallow narcissists.
From this ‘low confidence’ transcript of a voicemail I received tonight I’m trying to guess if I was bum dialed by Joh Bjelke Peterson, Bob Katter, Pauline Hanson or Vicky Pollard 🫠
Barnaby Joyce and Bob Katter merging into one being is something we definitely don’t need
6 News Australia@6newsau.bsky.social · 14h agoBarnaby Joyce says One Nation is "one of the gayest parties" in Australia, while responding to ex-WA ONP candidate Parminder Singh describing gay people as having a mental illness Joyce told the ABC that "I don't concur with his views and he obviously hasn't been around farms"
One woman decides. AG Michelle Rowland to decide tomorrow if whistleblower David McBride gets out of jail on parole #auspol #whatsthescam michaelwest.com.au/michelle-row...
Michelle Rowland to decide if David McBride gets out of jail tomorrow - Michael West
Attorney General Michelle Rowland decides tomorrow whether military whistleblower David McBride will be released from prison on parole
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Barnaby Joyce defends One Nation candidate Parminder Singh’s homophobic remarks calling gay ppl mentally ill & lower than animals, claiming ON is one of the “gayest parties in Australia” Conveniently forgets his starring role with ON campaigning against SSM. Shameless hypocrisy
If Peter Dutton had said that people in Melbourne were too afraid to go to dinner due to roaming gangs of communists he could have won the election for sure
Meanwhile, somewhere within missile hitting distance of the Middle East...
Really love these short posts on the Point Live blog Migration and housing fact check live.thepoint.com.au?post=977b2a4...
The Point Live: Gambling debate to get back underway, government pushes back against house price criticism. As it happens
The gambling debate is set to get underway with the Coalition likely giving the government the numbers it wants to pass the legislation. Meanwhile, Labor has decided falling house prices is not a bad...
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"Australia's carbon offset system is already plagued with integrity problems." - Louise Morris, Head of Fossil Fuel Transition at The Australia Institute. For more on Carbon Offsets listen to Richard Denniss on “What’s the Point?” here: https://theaus.in/45nz4Br
Is there some kind of test I can perform at home to check if I have communism? #auspol
This story has made my day. Man spends $6k on a billboard in SF advertising an AI chatbot. The twist? The "AI" is him, typing back to strangers one by one. He calls it artisanal intelligence. "I tend to overcommit..." futurism.com/artificial-i...
We Talked to the Guy Who Built a Chatbot That's Just Him Manually Responding to People One-by-One
Tucker Bryant wanted to create an "average or bad" user experience with ChatTJB, a chatbot that's just him manually responding to you.
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Data centres hoovering up workers who could be building houses. It just gets worse live.thepoint.com.au/2026/08/the-...
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