Over a month ago I warned people didn’t realise they needed to sign up to receive compensation over Robodebt. So many people will miss out and their anger will point straight back at the government and the system bsky.app/profile/ashe...

Hmmmmmm🤔

Great egret. Bald Hill Beach, South Australia.

So much for Trump's lies that Europe needs to step up for Ukraine!

As it appears enough of the Liberals will sufficiently succumb to madness to endorse him as their next hapless leader, here's a piece I wrote way back in 2021 about the many and varied and still unexplained controversies that have swirled around Angus Taylor. theshot.net.au/news/opinion...

Job growth over the past two years was far weaker than previously believed. U.S. employers added just 181,000 jobs last year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Wednesday. That was 69% fewer jobs than its initial estimate. The agency also lowered its estimate of job growth in 2024 by nearly 28%.

“Follow the money” is always the answer if you wonder why some people wield more influence than others.

NSW premier won’t apologise to Muslims after police grab men praying at rally against Isaac Herzog Chris Minns doubles down on support for NSW police, stating officers would ‘never have disrupted a prayer service … unless it was in the middle of a riot’ #AusPol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Can confirm this is the reality of working at a uni.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov: “The situation with Venezuela, the increasing pressure on Cuba, the attempts to destabilise the situation in Iran, Greenland crisis. The world has entered a period of rapid and profound change that could last for many years or even decades."

No contact for hours: Behind Netanyahu, IDF's failure to stop Hamas's Oct. 7 massacre - exclusive www.jpost.com/israel-news/...

…States is expected to signal the start of a sixth straight year of inflation above the Federal Reserve’s target, China is struggling with the reverse. There, low inflation is both a symptom and a driver of the weak domestic demand currently weighing down economic growth. #inflation #china 2 of 2

NSW Police on the defensive in the wake of Monday's attacks on protestors as details of victims/those arrested begin to emerge - such as Ali (below) #auspol #Herzog @sstephanietrann.bsky.social michaelwest.com.au/herzog-prote...

Professor Ben Saul, UN SR Human Rights & Counterterror—

The irony of Israeli president Isaac Herzog pressing the flesh with Australian servicemen and women today #whatsthescam @kimwingerei.bsky.social michaelwest.com.au/as-herzog-co...

Cohesion. My @smh cartoon.

"The Police chose violence". Veteran journo and sports broadcaster Peter Lalor was at the Sydney Herzog protest, got pepper sprayed. His account #auspol michaelwest.com.au/peter-lalor-...

Sophie Scamps MP: "At the very time the Government is welcoming President Herzog into Parliament House, with the entrance being officially lined with Israeli flags, Israel is moving to extend the illegal occupation of the West Bank thus undermining the hope for a two-state solution."

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If the NSW government has any interest in maintaining faith with its own public, it will ask the DPP to investigate police actions on Monday night without NSW Police involvement, with a view to prosecuting the cops who committed assaults. Or it can carry on blaming the victims; Minns' choice.

social cohesion..

Amnesty International Australia has called for an independent investigation of NSW Police violence towards peaceful protesters. Pro-Genocide NSW Premier Chris Minns and NSW Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon must stop their slanderous lies. #NSWPol #Herzog #Palestine

Herzog Itinerary leaked - dinner at Kirribilli with Albo tonight. Canberra in morning, evening with the Lowys w @sstephanietrann.bsky.social #auspol michaelwest.com.au/herzog-itine...

Keep on thinking how incredibly brave the Jewish Australians are who put their name on the @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social's ad The hatred on sections of social media to towards anyone at the marches is off the charts today. And it only intensifies when it is pointed out Jewish people marched. #AusPol

Hey #Sydney #HerzogNotWelcome #policebrutality Has anyone got an update on the teen boy who was brutally bashed by the two cops last night? Everyone wants to know about his welfare and to tell him he’s been offered legal help Please pass it on

Gee. I wonder if @albomp.bsky.social could lodge the nations unhappiness at this while we have their President amongst us? Naaaah. International condemnation of new Israeli settlement measures in West Bank grows www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Crikey was on the ground at the Sydney protest against Israeli President Isaac Herzog. We captured the confusion about how and where protesters should leave the rally, beginning with a heated discussion between NSW Police and NSW Greens MPs.

There was a lot of people last night at the Syd protest who either haven’t protested in years or have never protested - & they saw things last night they never thought they’d see - & now to see politicians, police & media lie about it. This is a turning point #auspol #nswpol

Yesterday Isaac Herzog tried to gaslight Australians, saying anyone arguing against his visit is also against Israel’s right to exist. He also openly rallied for support for Israel’s illegal invasion of Gaza. He’s not here to mourn, this is a calculated political move. #auspol

And while Australia entertains the Israeli President this is happening…

BYD sold 5,001 vehicles in Australia in January, a staggering 641% increase year-over-year, while Tesla managed just 501, leaving the American automaker in 24th place as Chinese brands continue their takeover of the Australian EV market. #BYD #Tesla /1

“ABC NEWS Verify is looking for video from last night's Sydney protest to forensically examine what went on, and to unpack the competing narratives between protesters and police. All vision is welcome — not just of controversial events but also of the lead up to, and aftermath of flashpoints.”

Actual journalist reports from front line of protest against Israel president Herzog in Sydney: how a peaceful protest was disrupted and violently attacked in concerted police action michaelwest.com.au/this-was-pla...

Read executive officer, Sarah Schwartz's opinion piece in the Financial Review today about why Herzog doesn't represent Australian Jewry and shouldn't have been invited in the first place: www.afr.com/policy/forei...

Some of our staff were at the Sydney rally last night and report that the degree of police brutality was terrifying and unhinged.

PM&C confirms that the Secretary responsible for the mutual obligations scandal was sacked www.themandarin.com.au/307119-pmc-c...

The violent scenes that played out in central Sydney last night were deeply troubling, and entirely foreseeable. We are Australians, first and foremost. Inviting a foreign head of state to Australia when the consequences for social cohesion are so obvious shows a serious failure of judgment.

Australia has a proud history of protest, but protesters have too often been met with violence. Politicians set the tone by how they talk about our democratic right to protest. More from me on @thepointau.bsky.social live blog: live.thepoint.com.au/2026/02/the-...

A government that promoted a voice to parliament for Australia’s First People’s is deaf to the voices of Australian’s who’ve lost multiple loved ones in Gaza genocide for which Herzog is complicit. Shame #auspol Shame #HerzogNotWelcome

Seriously Sydney Morning Herald... "What Tony Abbott reckons" is about the last thing I'll be reading today (or pretty much any day). Saw the headline. Enough already.

Another.

Good to see an MP call it truthfully

Does anyone believe that any of this is making anyone feel safer?

NSW coppers yearning for the days when they hunted poofters to throw over The Gap. Gotra have some fun

Not de jour, de facto, but fact.

These cops just flat-out assaulted an elderly man. Plain as day that the cops are the only ones interested in violence.

Vale to one of Australia's greatest cartoonists and artists - Jon Kudelka