Rob Walls
@robwalls.bsky.social
Photographer, grateful to be living on un-ceded muwinina country on the lower slopes of kunanyi in nipaluna/Hobart, lutruwita/Tasmania. Unsolicited DM = BLOCK Biography: https://1earthmedia.com/british-australian-photographer-rob-walls/ #FreePalestine
Richard Denniss is going on tour for his new book, More Fool Me: How the gas industry tricked Australia. You can book tickets via our events page: https://australiainstitute.org.au/events/ The essay is out now: https://australiainstitute.org.au/store/more-fool-me-vantage-point-issue-6
Author and commentator @janecaro.bsky.social has thrown her support behind our campaign, urging Australians to tick the ‘No religion’ box on the Census “if it’s the truth for you”. Find out more: censusnotreligious.org.au #Census26 #NotReligious #Census2026
As we tonight watch David Crisafulli & Jarrod Bleijie pompously parade around the screen, in Brisbane between 1 July 2025 & 30 June 2026, there were 984 families, including 1,539 children, identified by name as homeless. #qldpol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
More than 1,500 Brisbane children listed as experiencing homelessness
In the last financial year, 984 families, including 1,539 children, were identified as experiencing homelessness in data collated by Brisbane Zero.
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This is so deeply disturbing to read, If it eventuates it would in essence be One Nation now running immigration policy for the Albanese Government and them abandoning migrants and refugees in a desperate attempt to win votes. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
Tony Burke delays speech expected to reveal sweeping migration cuts
The ABC understands the cuts to migration numbers are contentious within Labor, but no reason for the delay is given.
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“We must protect political debate by stopping any protesters and media who present things that make us look bad.” chaser.com.au/national/pol...
Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "
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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This is not a story of journalists talking and writing about journalists. It is a story about the functioning of Australian democracy.
One Nation’s banning of the ABC and abuse of journalists is shameful. It’s time other media took a stand
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A new round of inquiries may expose more than corruption and mismanagement. The deeper danger is what money, secrecy and insider access have done to public trust in politics and institutions, Jack Waterford writes. #auspol #Integrity #Corruption
The truth, forced out, is more damaging than coming clean
A new round of royal commissions and public inquiries may expose not only corruption and mismanagement, but the deeper erosion of public trust in politics, parties and institutions.
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AUKUS must-read Peter Briggs, fmr RAN, sub expert, 40yrs: "Every objective metric confirms that Pillar 1 cannot deliver its promised outcomes on schedule or within budget. Pausing this trajectory is not an admission of failure; it is an urgent strategic necessity" johnmenadue.com/post/2026/08...
AUKUS Infrastructure, part 6: It is not too late to change course
In the final part of a six-part series on AUKUS infrastructure, Peter Briggs argues that Pillar 1 cannot deliver on schedule or budget, and that Australia should pause its HEU pathway and assess prove...
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When Pauline Hanson bans journalists from some media outlets from her pressers, why don't the journalists from ALL the other outlets simply walk out in solidarity, and refuse to report anything she has to say? No radio, television, newspaper or online reporting. None. #auspol #JournalismIsNotACrime
Australia Institute research showed in 2023 that 69% of the inflation above the RBA's target after COVID was due to excess corporate profits. But the Reserve Bank continues to ignore profits driving inflation. #auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social
"The only thing stopping Australia from introducing new taxes on the gas industry is the insecurity of our elected leaders." Read an excerpt from co-CEO Richard Denniss' latest Vantage Point essay 'More Fool Me: How the gas industry tricked Australia', in Crikey! #auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social
Poor Jeanine Pirro. It’s always sad when a vicious liar loses their job because they unscrupulously tried to ruin the life of an innocent American hero to appease the most repellent man in America. Drink up, sweetie.
Georgia O'Keeffe : Petunia and Coleus, 1925 Oil on canvas | 36 x 30 inches Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM
My mom and grandma told me about this. It happened in Los Angeles. The last streetcar ran in 1963.
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d agoIs everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.
The ABC, The Guardian and The Age denied access to One Nation publicity event in Victoria Imagine the hue and cry if Labor or The Greens denied access to the Murdoch media www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
One Nation reveals Victorian state leader ahead of November election
One Nation reveals its upper house candidates for Victoria, with army veteran and party state president Warren Pickering set to lead the party to the upcoming state election.
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Pauline Hanson flees her own custom-curated presser. With ABC & Guardian banned, & far-right criminal Avi Yemini running interference, still can’t handle questions, even from Sky “Shouldn't all media have access...?"💥 Not even sidekick Avi could save her from total humiliation.
Tim Costello shocks the Senate after revealing a young man in prison who had his life turned upside down from gambling was being offered drugs & escorts by TAB & SportsBet as inducements “He was given escorts” & “asked, ‘what drugs you like?’” And we’re still just debating ads?
Funny how legacy media execs blame social media for disinformation - but rarely examine their own industry. This panel included former Australian editor-in-chief, Chris Mitchell. Who conveniently forgot the toxic role played by the Murdoch media in undermining The Voice referendum. #Garma #auspol
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 4d agoMedia leaders say social media disinformation destroying Indigenous debate
Methinks the LAPD doth protest too much.
Klaus Gaming: Here's The Problem
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Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5d agoLAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments to be charged with felony eavesdropping, because what he uncovered is just plain embarrassing to the force. www.latimes.com/california/s...
The US has very few options stopping a madman who is president. A president can destroy a whole lot of things in a very short time. All a president has to do first is hire people loyal to him and his craziness above loyalty to their country, it really helps if these people aren't that intelligent.
Australian electric vehicle sales more than double since outbreak of war in Iran
New data shows fuel crisis triggered record EV sales in Australia
Nearly one in every two new vehicles sold was either electric or hybrid across April, May and June.
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