Even Pele is pissed, escalated. Be careful, y'all.

Former prime minister Kevin Rudd will step down as Australia’s ambassador to the US at the end of March, a year earlier than expected.

‘The Albanese government should urgently reconsider Australia’s alliance with the United States, two former Labor foreign ministers have said,’🎯 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Some Grok users, mostly men, began to demand to see bruising on the bodies of the women, and for blood to be added to the images. Requests to show women tied up and gagged were instantly granted. ‘Add blood, forced smile’: www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

🚫 Criticizing Israel ≠ anti-Semitism. Most Jews have never even been to Israel. You can’t make Israel speak for all Jews and you can’t hold Jews accountable for what Israel does. The real danger? Letting Israel redefine anti-Semitism to silence truth.

🚨“Irresponsible media” and political rhetoric are "actively fuelling" violence against Muslims, says top Islamic body, after alleged attack on Imam and his wife. Falsely tying peaceful pro-Palestine marches to Bondi attack is "contributing directly"... theklaxon.com.au/i03z

Jacinda Ardern quits Adelaide Festival’s Writers Week in wake of growing boycott "Former New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern has quit the Adelaide Festival’s Writers Week in the wake of a boycott around the cancellation of Palestinian-Australian academic Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah."

The Australian defended Bill Leak to the death. So why is it coming for Cathy Wilcox’s Bondi cartoon? "The Australian has run at least 10 stories decrying Cathy Wilcox’s controversial cartoon about the Bondi royal commission. The hypocrisy is staggering." www.crikey.com.au/2026/01/12/t...

Extremely unusual that the Bluesky team is working late on a Sunday night to verify Canadian political parties and elected officials who are rumored to be mulling over a coordinated X ban with Australia and the UK. When there's smoke, there's fire.

That awkward moment when your past foreign policy faceplants in real time.

When this blows over I might have to share some of the emails I’ve received over the days which really make me wonder why I am the one accused of hatred. There is deep unresolved trauma being spewed by some of these people and we cannot consent to living according to their warped reality.

#Auspol, now is the time to put pressure on Albanese to join Starmer (and potentially others) in reining in Musk, X and Grok. If not now, when? If multiple nations act simultaneously, it limits the blowback on individual states.

The Rising Tide of Authoritarianism: Why I Refuse to Be Silenced. open.substack.com/pub/suebarre...

Absolute must-read. Cracking piece. ‘Authoritarianism is rising all around us. It does not arrive with a flourish of trumpets or the march of boots; often, it arrives in the quiet room where a festival board decides which ideas are “safe” and which must be scrubbed from the record.’

Former Australian PM Paul Keating on American society

Here are a couple of useful links to the old BoM system. The Old BoM reg.bom.gov.au Daily Weather Observations www.bom.gov.au/climate/dwo/... #BoM #WebsiteFail

Bushfire smoke is travelling north from Victoria's bushfires, prompting health and air quality warnings from state authorities. Health experts and advocacy groups have urged people to take precautions and protect themselves from the impacts of smoke. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

"There are currently 32 active bushfires and 15 warnings in place advising people to leave their communities. Around 350,000 hectares of Victoria has now been burnt out." "Over 300 structures have been lost in fires across Victoria."

Once again: Really hard for me to even consider using Bluesky more when it refuses to let me access messages after a dozen successful verifications (Alternatives to get around this have only been semi-successful and not really perfect for mobile either)

Antisemitism crisis. What is real and what is not "Australia is being told it faces an unprecedented wave of antisemitism, a crisis requiring extraordinary measures, including a Royal Commission. But police data, court findings, and parliamentary evidence tell a very different story."

BREAKING: 3 members of the Adelaide Festival Board have resigned after it refused to reverse its decision to rescind Dr Abdel-Fattah's invitation. No statement has been issued but their names have been quietly removed from the website. Four people are now responsible for the ongoing crisis.

The hacking group, Handala, released the identities of 600 agents linked to Mossad who are instigating riots in Iran.

You mad yet?

Look to the people pulling the strings. They are the ones who need to be removed from their positions of power. Look to the companies profiting from the rise of fascism. Boycott them and hit their profits. It is the only thing they care about.

Looks like Gina Rinehart is Pauline Hansons campaign manager #auspol

We’re spending $A7.3 BILLION on what now? #auspol #ForeverWar

U.S. Notifies Proposed Logistics and Support Sale to Australia for C-17A Fleet - https://politicalgadgets.com/usa_arms_sales/2026-01-11_02-12-11.html

They need trucks and drivers and community halls in fire areas

BlazeAid Vic needs some assistance to help Victorian farmers Longwood Skipton Euroa Need assistance / volunteers Go to BlazeAid.com to offer help

Household voting - just the dudes. pastors who believe that the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote, should be repealed and replaced by something called “household voting,” where it’s no longer one person, one vote, but one household, one vote. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/o...

📢 A tropical low lurking in the Coral Sea was declared a cyclone overnight.

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Exclusive: One third of reassessed NDIS plans see cuts to funding Almost a third of participants in the National Disability Insurance Scheme whose plans have been reassessed since May last year have had their total support packages cut, by an average of 22.5 per cent. ♿️ #NDIS #disability

Exquisite observation made by a friend, that one of the websites where the most outrage has been expressed about my cartoon is the website owned by the guy who did the Nazi salute.

Great piece by my Cato colleague. “Since July, immigration agents have shot at least six people behind the wheel of a vehicle. The same playbook is used each time: the agent says they “feared for their life” as a vehicle was “weaponized” against them. Juries should decide, but we tie their hands.

The Adelaide Writers Festival now wrecked by the Adelaide Festival Board, half of which was appointed late last year: a marketing executive; a former politician; a local councillor/real estate agent; an airport manager; a lawyer; a media consultant; and a banker. Another public arts takeover fiasco.

Affected (or know someone who is) by Jan 2026 Victorian Bushfires? Click➡️ emergency.vic.gov.au/relief/#janu... Info. /Links to 🔸Relief Centres (images below) 🔸Help with pets, livestock etc 🔸Emergency Relief Payments 🔸Travel/Road Closures 🔸Power Outages & more... #Vicfires

Our fossil fuel CEOs get multimillion dollar packages while our volunteer fire fighters get $0 to mop up their mess. #climatecrisis #bushfires #vicfires

** CEO Pay of Major Oil & Gas Companies 2023 - 2024 ** ExxonMobil CEO @Darren Woods total compensation rose 19.3% to $44.1 million, in 2024 including $26.8 million in stock-based awards Chevron CEO Michael Wirth received total compensation of $32.7 million, a 23.4% increase from the previous year

Remember when the Australian Jewish Association fiercely opposed the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, calling it divisive and against Aussie values? Fast-forward to 2026, and they're backing Jillian Segal's role as Antisemitism Envoy—basically a Jewish Voice to Parliament without a referendum.

Victoria Emergency Warning Take Shelter Now Acheron Devils River Eildon Taylor Bay Thornton Wind change on 9th Jan caused the fire to change direction toward the east (towards Lake Eildon) While fire behaviour has reduced, the fire is not contained and is still spreading

Here are some websites, feeds and bluesky handles where you can keep up to date about the bushfires in Victoria. Please feel free to add any others you come across #vicfires #bushfires. www.emergency.vic.gov.au

You can check your air quality here. www.epa.vic.gov.au/check-air-an...

Renée Good is one of at least nine people across the country who have been shot by immigration agents since September. There is something every case has in common: Everyone was in a vehicle at the time of the shooting.

the @australia.theguardian.com published an oped by me today. This heatwave is bad. The bushfires it is enabling are also bad. Climate scientists & meteorologists are incredibly concerned about the next 48 hours. And this is just a taste of what's to come. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Always worth remembering that Rupert Murdoch will die having been the most malignant force in the world of the past 80 years. One of the few of whom you can say the world would be better had he never been born.

Scores of fires, many that are huge, spanning the state of Victoria. Thank you to all the firefighters, you are heroes! No thanks to politicians that continue to ignore scientists & our evidence-based & urgent warnings about climate change, placing the lives of humans & others species at risk.

Crumbling infrastructure and public service failures are always an opportunity to stir discontent. The far right is capitalising on public anger with terrible realities during #VicFires