Financial expert Andy Darroch has lashed Tim Wilson after it’s revealed he banked on Labor mismanaging the economy by investing in a share market product that profits when the economy slumps. Darroch “it’s been a terrible investment.”💥 He can’t even manage his own money #auspol

Why isn’t Australian media covering the fact that Donald Trump’s blockade is creating a humanitarian crisis in Cuba? ABC gave Trump hours of coverage yesterday, but an entire nation suffering from his actions gets nothing.

"Even with the anticipated rains in the south-east in the short term, much more would be required to overcome the long-term moisture deficits,"

"In a week in which we have seen the PM vow to block the return of 34 Australian women & children from a Syrian refugee camp, there is another group we have heard much less about—the hundreds of Australians reported to be fighting with the IDF." johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02...

Contrary to Albanese’s word association games with the Murdoch press, I don't think Grace Tame is "difficult". She just doesn’t like dickheads and pedophiles, it's really quite simple.

Albo was asked to apply one word to various prominent people (Trump, Barnaby, Pauline etc). Grace Tame he labelled "difficult". Unconscious misogyny, which says quite a lot more than he apparently intended.

𝘈 𝘋𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵 𝘞𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯, now starring Grace Tame. Grace Tame is actually a Leader, @albomp.bsky.social. Not a pale stale mediocre male manager like yourself. NB: Overwhelmingly, violence against women in Australia is perpetrated by men, some of whom view women as being "difficult." #MVAW #MVAC

“She just doesn’t have the spinlessness needed for politics,” said Albanese chaser.com.au/national/spi...

‘Anti-Palestinian repression’: Legal experts document hundreds of UK cases https://aje.news/7iz455

PM Albo has been copying ScoMo's style for a while now: endless social media posts of self-praise and vague promises. Now he decides he'll copy ScoMo's smug thug bullyboy #sexism & #misogyny by insulting AOTY and National Treasure Grace Tame, calling her "difficult". 😔 #auspol #IStandWithGraceTame

Israel responsible for 84 of 129 journalist killings in 2025 tracked by the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Oh, ffs. Just say it out loud ... NSW police will patrol SYNAGOGUES and PRO-PALESTINE protests with long-arm firearms after a unit created following the Bondi beach terror attack INSPIRED BY ISIS—NOT HAMAS OR PALESTINE—became permanent. #nswpol #FuckZionism www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"Climate Energy Finance calculated that the top 15 diesel users burned nearly 6bn litres and emitted 16.2m tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2023-24. While doing this they earned nearly $2.9bn in credits."

"It’s more than the government spends on the air force. It’s more than twice as much as it spends on foreign aid. It’s many times over what it spends on First Nations’ health"

Turns out Birmingham & the Big4 banks skipped out on the Capital Gains Tax inquiry, despite being in the building.🙄 Australia Institute Economist @mattgrudnoff.bsky.social gives a clue as to why: Bcoz the CGT discount pushes up houses prices, banks lend more, & make more money💰 #auspol

Residents close to the AUKUS submarine shipyard point to unanswered environmental concerns about the proximity of the nuclear site to schools, childcare centres, recreational waterways and navigable mangrove swamps, and an adjacent dolphin sanctuary. satpa.pe/YYvBD03

“We have to get out of AUKUS before it kills us.” Some communities living near the naval shipyard charged with building nuclear submarines claim their safety concerns are being ignored in the race for job opportunities and rising house prices. satpa.pe/gLd9C6W

It would be fun to compare inflation with supermarket profits. Housing, bills and food are what poorer people spend nearly all their money on. There’s no choice, that’s what their money has to be spent on.

Aid groups petition Israeli Supreme Court as Gaza, West Bank work ban nears https://aje.news/mazh34

For how many more hours will the ABC sideline important Australian local & national news for this guy’s utter rubbish? It really is the American Broadcasting Corporation. #auspol

"Latest betting markets have Independent (Michelle Milthorpe) at $1.91, Nationals $3.40, One Nation $4.33 and Liberals $7."

New look NSW is not a good look, IMHO.

A "must read"? "“And we will be even better positioned to help readers around the globe understand important economic and geopolitical developments in the Indo-Pacific, from trade and defence to energy and critical minerals.”"

A political race to the bottom

If “adhering to Australian values” means leaving 11 Australian women and 23 blameless children in appalling conditions in Syria, please count me out. Jo Bond, South Melbourne The Age, letters

Independent Senator David Pocock has added his voice to calls for a 25% tax on gas exports. @markogge.bsky.social explains why Australia taxes beer more effectively than its gas exports. Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4sf8hAN

Independent Senator David Pocock has added his voice to calls for a 25% tax on gas exports. Polling from RedBridge shows reveals that One Nation and Greens voters strongly support the idea. Sign our petition to stop the gas export scam: https://theaus.in/4aPjUr4

ISIS brides: the race to the bottom. Just 14 federal politicians (out of 226) openly/ardently oppose this racist regression. Of the 212 others, most couldn't care less about Australian IDF soldiers, back from the genocide in Gaza, who walk freely among us. The hypocrisy is breathtaking. #auspol

Homelessness has been around a long time - well before Melissa entered politics 10 yrs ago - and under LNP Government. Her article also acknowledges "housing affordability" at that time was one of the countries biggest challenges. The LNP didn't fix the problem then. Advance today - 2026

www.instagram.com/p/DVGJPXjCW_x/ melissamcintoshmp 1d "About 10 years ago before politics, I wrote this piece for our local Penrith paper about housing, homelessness and some innovative solutions of the time."

@JulianHillMP conveniently ignores many FACTS. johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02...

Oh well excuse me, @JulianHillMP, but most of us are too fucking busy calling out radical Zionist 𝘐𝘚𝘙𝘈𝘌𝘓𝘐 genocidal and apartheid ideologies which at this moment in time along with Western and European COMPLICITY are the scourge of the fucking earth. #auspol #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust

No connection. My @smh cartoon.

“Sometimes as Prime Minister you need to make the tough calls." theshovel.com.au/2026/02/25/b...

The Israeli Govt installed & maintained the security system at Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan apartment. I'm thinking the Israeli Govt has a LOT of video evidence of a LOT of powerful men. I'm sure that has no influence on why the US Govt (and others) do whatever Israel wants. #IsraeliTerrorism

This 🧵. Australian politicians who blame migrants for the cost of living and deficient infrastructure are trying to distract us from the truth: it is the #EpsteinClass - and their political lapdogs - who have worked to help mining companies and billionaires dodge taxes. #auspol

An invitee to the Advance conference said that Angela Merkel “did more damage to the fabric of her country than the Nazis did, than Hitler did, 80 years ago.” Because immigration, apparently. Can’t believe there are sections of the local Jewish community that support this organisation.

mmm, much for the minister to consider here, tricky choice

After a career as spokesperson for the Big Banks, Simon Birmingham has a new career as spokesperson for the Big Banks. #auspol

"Yet we mustn’t complain. It’s now time to reform! And now that Treasurer Jim Chalmers has put CGT relief on the table for debate – just one of the many lurks of the Boomers’ Boom, you – Rupert Murdoch and co – ....”.

"..are now making this “dire warning” about tax hikes on young Australians to pay for “Labor’s unsustainable largesse" "The answer is blindingly obvious: tax wealth not income, tax multinationals who are pillaging Australia, not ordinary working Australians Yet the political will is not available."

Fantastic. Great move. Well done Angus. Now when are you & co going to address the Islamic Mosques, following their threats?

Dr Assal Rad— “There is no context in which “𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘧 𝘐𝘴𝘳𝘢𝘦𝘭 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘭𝘦 𝘌𝘢𝘴𝘵” means anything else.”

Vetting the brides. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Long time coming and a long way to go to address the damage - but so grateful to everyone who has ordered a copy of Where It All Went Wrong (including through your library!) I’m still so angry - and I hope it makes you angry too (so we can fix it) x

“Until now she just assumed they were two separate evils that could be tackled individually. The realisation hit her pretty hard,” a One Nation staffer said. theshovel.com.au/2016/07/05/f...

Save The Children CEO Mat Tinkler has condemned the govt for turning their back on Australian children stuck Syria & for refusing to consider an “evidence-based” & “principle-based” approach to bring them home “On any measure, it doesn’t make sense to leave them there”💥 #auspol

As we watch Israel continue its genocide/ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians, overtly (bombs/bullets) & covertly (denying food/water, medicines/medical care, sanitation etc etc etc), & incite war against Iran, never forget what @senatorwong.bsky.social had to say in October 2025. #GazaGenocide

Pauline Hanson’s vitriol and hate have real life consequences for others… Mr Angel Marina author of the now infamous 9 May, 2002 letter, made specific reference to Pauline Hanson’s 1996 rants against Aboriginal Australians, when he was asked why he wrote it. Hanson’s words embolden racists…