In absolutely no way, shape or form should anything resembling or approaching a private militia be allowed to operate in Australia with any government imprimatur. This is kicked in the head by a donkey stuff www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

It’s only fair

And hey what about also arming a women's militia group given that 72 women have been murdered in Aus so far this year. In the spirit of Aussie fairness of course. @chrisminnsmp.bluesky.social

And in the spirit of Aussie fairness they will then arm a Palestinian militia?

The NACC has defied the odds by going back-to-back 🏆🏆 After another year of doing absolutely nothing, congratulations on retaining Stranger’s Useless Govt Agency Award. Consistency is key 👍

An alarming development (opposed by most major powers in the region), given that Associated Press quoted U.S. and Israeli officials earlier this year as saying they had contacted officials from Somaliland to discuss using their territory for resettling Gazans. Threatens to destabilise whole region.

Albanese and Labor could barely have been more supportive of Israel, or less sympathetic of the Palestinian civilians massacred and starved. Did that satisfy News Corp? Not even. And now he invites the president of the genocidal state to visit. Does he think they will lay off now? Ofc they won’t. 🤡

When do you think Albanese will realise there’s no placating these people? News Corp pays no tax and adds nothing to Aus society apart from hate, but Labor acts as if it owns them. Instead of fighting back or standing up for themselves, Albanese and co are like “please sir can I have some more?”

“Pitting Jewish safety against Palestinians, Muslims and migrant communities, and eroding all of our civil liberties, doesn't make Jews safer. It makes the real fight against antisemitism harder.”

Well, happy anniversary to one of the finest of festive exchanges

In Andrew Bolt's infamous 2018 "tidal wave of immigrants column", he specifically singled out Jewish communities as 'part of the problem' The idea that the far-right, anti-immigration parties and xenophobe media are going to protect the Aus Jewish community is absurd archive.ph/sDmhO#select...

You can tell how much Australian Conservatism has embraced authoritarianism because they believe that society should comprise an out-group who are bound by the law but not protected by it and an in-group who are protected but not bound by the law

It’s all about social cohesion, which is why we’re relentlessly hammering a guy who had nothing to do with it, and launching a hate campaign against “immigration”

Only took them 4 years

Wouldn’t want to politicise this tragedy. That would be terribly crass.

Scratch an Oz opinion writer and you’ll find a wannabe white nationalist authoritarian. Do they think one should fight antisemitism with even more indiscriminate racism? Yes they do. It’s obvious why none of them have a problem with Advance’s race-baiting.

You know things are going great in America when

They have a permit for a march on invasion day in NSW. The NSN.

As a Jew, I find it bizarre that people are forcing a 'Palestine' narrative onto the Bondi Beach shooting. The shooter openly claimed inspiration from ISIS; an organization that actually despises Palestinian nationalism in favor of their own global caliphate.

Angry thread👇

Yeah, making it illegal to protest a genocide is going to help 🙄

So, is this hate speech?

A fourth child has frozen to death in Gaza in just 10 days—two of them babies—as Israel continues blocking tents and winter shelter aid, despite UN supplies pre-positioned at the border that could immediately shelter more than 1.3 million displaced Palestinians.

This disastrous institution still abuses children. Of course they will try to escape. It should have been shut down years ago.

Nick's shoutout even more relevant after appalling coverage of Bondi by mainstream media. Uncritical parroting of Netanyahu and Hanson, blaming protestors, and ramping up anti-migrant racism. Great ep from @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social & @scottmitchell.bsky.social . podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/h...

Vanity Fair just did a photo shoot with Trump admin heads and instead of glossing them up showed them as they actually look: like shit

And may the name Warren Bebbington be forever associated with the shame of shutting down Meanjin, an 85-year-old literary institution.

Excellent reporting from Daniel on the Meanjin saga

This is the way #Meanjin ends — not with a bang but a whimper. New FOI story from me for @crikey.com.au: www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/17/m...

Neither MUP nor the Melbourne University council even tried to save Meanjin. In fact they chose *not* to pursue offers to help save it. They also actively ignored the advice of the independent review they commissioned into Meanjin's sustainability. They just shut it.

Opinion | Nowhere has the slow death of investigative journalism been felt more acutely than in Tasmania.

John Oliver really was not kidding about the overwhelming rebellious power of just saying “Fuck you, make me.”

Maybe police and security services should have spent less time harassing peace protesters and more time looking into IS-affiliated guys with multiple weapons who went to the Philippines for terrorist training…?

Oh! I thought he received his inculcation at the harbour bridge peace rally and the sandstone university courses they were never enrolled in

So prescribed fentanyl is fine but otherwise it’s a WMD, as are the chemicals used to make it

This is brilliant, and so illuminating.

Is there no journalist who will treat this as the deranged, psychopathic rantings of a madman that it clearly is? All it would take is one. Q: Mr. President, what the actual fuck? Do you know how evil, deranged, and indecent you sound? Get banned from the White House, go down in history.

Forgive me if I don’t take moral guidance about the killing of innocents from Netanyahu

Right up there with one of the best things @nickfeik.bsky.social has ever written. A must read. 👉 nickfeik.substack.com/p/a-rare-win *cough-former730host-cough*

New piece - about the media environment today and the troubling lack of scrutiny of government nickfeik.substack.com/p/a-rare-win

And how did that work out?

This talks about problems with today's media and politics, but it's also called A Rare Win. So read all of it. To recognise the things that are wrong, but also feel relief at something briefly (?) going right.

New piece - about the media environment today and the troubling lack of scrutiny of government nickfeik.substack.com/p/a-rare-win

Shoutout to Lamestream, We Used to be Journos, @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social, @theklaxon.bsky.social, Declassified Australia, @roycerk2.bsky.social, @thepointau.bsky.social, @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social, @ketanjoshi.co, @crikey.com.au, @rachelwithers.bsky.social + more for their work in this space.

New: A piece about journalism today, its trials and consolations

The Albanese government is paying a bikie gang hundreds of millions to keep ~100 asylum seekers on Nauru, an island of ~12000 people, about the size of Tullamarine airport. They can’t work, can’t afford decent food, and can’t access proper healthcare. www.theage.com.au/world/oceani...

Quite the combination

LOL... Pentagon released a new AI military chatbot and it immediately pointed out that Pete Hegseth is a war criminal. abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...

This is great news. Public pressure works.