Well worth listening to. Rex Patrick is a very sensible and articulate person who has the interest of Australia’s democracy at heart

Rex Patrick deserves our gratitude for the work he pursues, sometimes at significant financial risk. Outrageous that our government not only delays and denies information that citizens are entitled to. But that they threaten campaigners like Rex with legal costs to thwart transparency. #SundayShot

Still trying to get over what @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social is doing ( which I’m so grateful for) but having it go to court for information every Australian deserves to know? Bad enough we had AUKUS sprung on us now we have to fight for information. Rant over. Grateful to you all once again 🙌

A must-watch with FOI *King* Patrick. What the govt is trying is beyond 'chilling'. Not model litigants; model dirty rotten scoundrels! J: Control the drop effectively but that's not democracy D: PR machine ready to go R: Social licence is not something you obtain by way of secrecy D: Amen 👏🙏👏

Ain't they all

This was a blast and also feeling of sadness that we, as a society, do not overwhelmingly vote for people like Rex.

'Only the opposition bench calls for transparency' 🎯

Join #RealHeroes of #Independent #Media, #Australia. #auspol

Fucking brilliant episode this morning with @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social who’s just such a champ for democracy and integrity

We had "professional public interest troublemaker" and FOI warrior @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social on The Sunday Shot this morning. Tune in for an eye-opening discussion.

Starmer’s Repressive Zionist Britain is utterly criminal. Oust all the Zionists in parliament. #starmer #zionist #palestine #UK #UK-government

Another reason for the crash in the polls. One arsehole was enough. 😡

JCA’s Sarah Schwartz tells the Royal Commission that she’s contacted every day by Jews “terrified of speaking out” to criticise Israel or to support Palestinians, in fear of being abused or vilified. Says Israel ‘shields itself from a lot of criticism’ by claiming to be the victim💥

“Karl is the establishment, and no ranch-style font on his logo, brand new RM Williams workwear, or farted-out colloquialisms will conceal his soft hands or his shallow heart.”

Compare this straight shooting analysis from Joel Jenkins against the sloppy dance around the issues from Karl Stefanovic and his fascist eugenics fan club of billionaires and their little ant people like coked up, Tommy Robinson. There is no comparison.

Here's @boganintel.bsky.social. "The Monocultural Cinematic Universe"

Useful (and sadly very grim) accounting of how much trouble Australia is in politically bsky.app/profile/dave...

This is Australia's Trump, on ascent, for any friends outside of Australia watching.

Here's @lucyham.bsky.social. "Hanson is just the tip of the oligarchs’ far-right iceberg"

I had a lovely long-form chat with world-renowned concert pianist Jayson Gillham about art's role in saving humanity, standing with Palestine, and suing the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Check it out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WdP...

One for my fellow Australians. Lucy Hamilton's superb work pulls back the curtain - and basically exposes the whole damn thing. Read it, let it sink in, and circulate it as widely as you can.

"After the News Corp-sponsored Bush Summit, we know that the Gina Machine (with a Hanson/Abbott skin-suit) will mean a big Trumpy orange bulldozer driven through your living standards and protections. ...giving free land and infrastructure to Elon Musk and Israeli weapons-industrial corporations."

Pay attention Australia. If there’s one article you read today make it this one.

I had a lovely long-form chat with world-renowned concert pianist Jayson Gillham about art's role in saving humanity, standing with Palestine, and suing the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Check it out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WdP...

I’d visualised something more like this 😂 #Auspol

Here's @lucyham.bsky.social. "Hanson is just the tip of the oligarchs’ far-right iceberg"

The anti-renewable brigade aren’t real people. They’re agents of fossil fuel cartels who are diversifying into surveillance, e.g. data centres. They drink Kool-Aid not water.

More than 20 years ago, Cape Cod was poised to put wind turbines in Nantucket Sound. The first people to raise a stink were beachfront homeowners who said the (barely visible) turbines would ruin their view. The big pushback was funded by, guess who? The Koch Brothers. The project never happened.

coz they haven't been told to hate them

Simples! Their opinion is based on intensive research of information readily available from Sky after dark, The Australian and Daily Mail.

This big chunk of land near me is about to have a bloody data centre plonked on it. Whilst it is basically a commercial area, there are houses opposite, plus an aged care facility & hundreds of apartments behind it. Council apparently just went 🤷‍♀️ & approved it.

How come all the NIMBY weirdos who never shut up about wind turbines 5km off the coast have nothing to say about these gargantuan noisy data centres that are springing up in the middle of suburbs, contaminating water, destroying liveability and property prices? It's weird.

Definitely worth watching.

Uncle Robbie Been going clear and strong for years 🖤💛❤️

Good episode of Sunday Shot Great to see Aussies advising Aussies on the show (instead of Americans who feel they just can't advise us enough) 1<3 @antounissa.bsky.social & liked what @tinamq.bsky.social had to say also Looking forward to next weeks podcast #Auspol

Never ever disappoints. Truly grateful. Shoutout to @davemilbo.bsky.social for lowering my KKKarl induced cortisol from the constant reporting on this dangerous far right f****wit by saying “he speaks to mediocre, comfortable,dull,thick plank of wood demographic.”

Fox set up a whole-ass news desk for the Great American State Fair and barely anybody showed up. ☠️

Daily bunny no.3363 keeps a watchful eye

Fab show today. (Thanks also to @antounissa.bsky.social and ‘Milbo’ @davemilbo.bsky.social for being at the inaugural Surf Coast Writers Festival in Torquay yesterday, showing it’s not just @instanterudite.bsky.social ‘s purview 😊). #auspol

Seems we decided back in the 40s that Australia was not really against genocide: “This crime should have been dealt with back in 1948 when Australia signed the genocide convention. But they never put it into law here! This is an illegal occupation, and your courts and your laws are invalid.”

It's rare that a current affairs podcast generates a genuine guffaw in the audience but @davemilbo.bsky.social comment "Germany might" goes off in just the right tone. #SundayShot youtu.be/XDal8a7Pw18?...

@antounissa.bsky.social 's take on how much Iran's power has increased since 28th February was interesting and also how much damage has been done to US military bases in the Middle East. Also @davemilbo.bsky.social's "planks of wood" has now entered my vernacular. I learn something every week.

I think those ones are astroturf. The real NIMBYS only care if it’s in their suburb and this won’t be cos they’re rich. The rest of us, who just look at each project on a case by case basis and consider whether it’s good for the whole community, are of course 100% against data centres.

Sunday Shot this week is me and Jo, The Fourth Estate's @tinamq.bsky.social and Deepcut's @antounissa.bsky.social. We chat about the Teal Party, the rise of socialism in New York, Karl fn Stefanovic, and the resistance against the Zionist entity. Come hang. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDal...

Here's this week's #SundayShot! @antounissa.bsky.social, @2ser.bsky.social's Tina Quinn, @davemilbo.bsky.social and I chew through the stories of the week (and avoid spending too much time talking about the Walking Midlife Crisis that is Karl Stefanovic). www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDal...

It’s nearly 30 years since I met Arabunna people who were discussing a test case for genocide in Australia & here we are still, with First Nations people still forced to work within these imposed systems of injustice.

The counter-argument, apparently, is not that #genocide didn’t happen here, but that within Australian law genocide is not illegal.” “This crime should have been dealt with back in 1948 when Australia signed the #genocideconvention. But they never put it into law here!…” #auspol #Indigenous

People are in the queue already waiting for #SundayShot 🤗 Get those coffees and croissants ready for 9am folks and maybe a blankey if you’re in Melbourne with its temp of 4.7c 🥶 @theshot.net.au @deniseshrivell.bsky.social @davemilbo.bsky.social @instanterudite.bsky.social

Yup, anyone would think that the NIMBY groups are funded by oil, and therefore get more news space — because people are fighting like heck against data centres and getting radio silence.

Amen