🔥 scoop 🔥 from @keanebernard.bsky.social: travelled overseas? your biometric data + potentially everything from your Medicare card to your drivers licence is being handed to US agencies like ICE

Can the centre hold in Australian politics? Not if key players stop trying

The One Nationals' "pay more for power for longer" climate policy is crunch time for the remaining Liberal moderates. Do they keep rolling over to appease right-wingers or stand up for their voters? www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/03/n...

Malcolm Fraser wanted a new party that's basically 'the progressive Libs' – you could say we now have that in community indies. But can a structured party do things an indie coalition can't? BK & I discuss on the pod. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXfQ... Listen on Apple, Spotify, etc #auspol

ABC now running completely untrue propaganda for America and Israel. The bombing hasn’t stopped and it has been widely reported that Netanyahu said to his own people they wouldn’t stop pretty much as soon as trump asked him to.

Opinion | Donald Trump wants to impose an economic development plan on Gaza, led by Tony Blair — a man whose deceptions led to 100,000 deaths in Iraq, @keanebernard.bsky.social writes.

I don't think this journalist understands the role of public servants compared to ministerial office staff.

“… It is an “agenda” of the white male id — capricious, short-fused, anxious, paranoid, jealous, demanding of control but resentful of the burden of responsibility control brings — the nihilism of privilege.” @keanebernard.bsky.social www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/22/d...

Netanyahu is a corrupt, genocidal, thin-skinned man-child who propped up Hamas with millions of dollars. Why is even a foreign propaganda outlet like Sky News giving him a platform?

What a weird coincidence — everyone attending the productivity roundtable thinks something they directly benefit from would be great for the economy, @keanebernard.bsky.social writes.

Media Release: Jewish Council backs march across Sydney Harbour Bridge We stand with – and join – those marching across the bridge and call for immediate action to stop the Gaza genocide and for a future where everyone is free, from the river to the sea.

How it started. How it's going..

News Corp launched a disgusting smear campaign against @sarahschwartz.bsky.social last summer. But an independent review just completely cleared her of fake charges of antisemitism -- and pointed out how the media took her out of context

Never mind dying babies, what about Senate decorum? Crikey reveals how Labor sets its priorities when it comes to genocide in Gaza. @keanebernard.bsky.social writes.

Police in Canterbury today informed a protestor that the phrase "Israel is committing genocide in Gaza" could be considered a declaration of support for Palestine Action and therefore a terrorism offence.

Dear Sydney: you're not a global city, you're just a toytown run by a grubby entertainment-gambling industrial complex. Love, @keanebernard.bsky.social

At least 73 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since dawn, including 33 aid seekers, according to medical sources.

This week the media fell for OpenAI's bullshit about massive productivity gains from adopting AI — just another demand for handouts by big business, @keanebernard.bsky.social writes.

In NSW, violent crime is surging. Meanwhile Premier Chris Minns is obsessing over pro-Palestine protesters, @keanebernard.bsky.social writes.

How long before the government does something about the department of defence? A new report reveals spectacular failings around our helicopter carriers, @keanebernard.bsky.social writes.

Welcome to the jungle: the "rules based international order" that Australia has lectured other countries about for decades is dead and buried. www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/24/d...

What was Australia's role in Trump's attack on Iran? You're not allowed to know. While other governments treat their citizens as adults, Labor keeps us in the dark.

The American empire is in accelerating decline, exposing vassal states like Australia to increasing global chaos and violence. How is Australia's political establishment coping? Not too well. www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/19/d...

Anthony Albanese doesn't need to chase Trump, and voters don't want him to. He should ignore News Corp and the Coalition and keep his distance, @keanebernard.bsky.social writes.

The genocide, ethnic cleansing and aggression demonstrated repeatedly by Benjamin Netanyahu exposes the double standard at the heart of the west's foreign policy. The regime change we really need is the removal of him and his genocidal government from office.

Anthony Albanese has integrated Australia's defence capability into what is looking more and more like Donald Trump's private militia. How long can the fiction of business as usual with the US be sustained?

The Auditor-General has revealed another example of unethical conduct by bureaucrats, this time around a plan to re-engineer Meals on Wheels across Australia. @keanebernard.bsky.social reports.

Opinion | Why are Australians indifferent to the genocide in Gaza? Because to do so might be to remember that Australia, too, is founded on dispossession, writes @keanebernard.bsky.social.

A blistering piece by @keanebernard.bsky.social on Australia's inaction on Gaza "If a country is engaged in genocide or ethnic cleansing, is not a matter of international politicking, but of basic morality. The continued presence of companies engaged in supporting those actions would be intolerable

Labor's "middle way" timidity on the Palestinian genocide might have worked at the ballot box, but it can't hold in the face of blatant ethnic cleansing, mass starvation and Australia's allies denouncing Israel

Opinion | While France, the UK and Canada condemn Israel and threaten it for mass starvation and ethnic cleansing, Australia sits limply by, saying little. @keanebernard.bsky.social writes.

Labor feels vindicated in its middle-way path on Gaza -- but has now been caught out by Netanyahu's mass starvation and ethnic cleansing. The government is reduced to muttering banalities in response to genocide

Exclusive | American lawmakers of all sides have joined together to ask Australia to ban greyhound racing, as the US have. @keanebernard.bsky.social‬ reports.

Backers of RW populists love the idea of ‘smashing the system’ ‘til they see their savings eroded, their jobs threatened & basic services cut. @keanebernard.bsky.social observes how a lack of interest in actually governing is undoing Trump and his tribute acts. www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/14/m...

How did the Trumpist right go from triumph to despair so quickly in Australia? Because voters worked out they're not interested in governing well, @keanebernard.bsky.social writes.

There will never be a better time for the Coalition to stop being worried about unity and instead have the fight over climate and energy it has been dodging for decades

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

cyberpunk has had its run now it's time for cyberska give me robot rudeboys and augmentations that turn your hands into trombones

Excellent article from @keanebernard.bsky.social at @crikey.com.au. Looking back at the election, I’d say the Teals were more focused on climate action than the Greens were. I wish them well because we need them but they’ve got to return to their core business. www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/08/a...

This is really good news 🎊 "Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work." www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Too bad you forced her to resign for censoring one of her political cartoons.

News Corp owns a large part of the Liberals' defeat — for decades it has engulfed the Liberals in a bubble of right-wing insularity from the real world.

News Corp relies on division and resentment. By tying their fortunes to that company, the Liberals enfeebled themselves and made themselves irrelevant to real Australians. www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/05/n...

Theory: Angus Taylor was purposefully so awful in this campaign with the goal of destroying Dutton and clearing his own path to the leadership. That it's the leadership of a rump of a party doesn't matter, I guess.

Happy democracy day to all who observe. For those of you who haven’t already voted, this morning we have a few extra reading treats up our sleeve for you to read in the queue 🧵First, @keanebernard.bsky.social on why it’s vital we don’t blow our shot for minority gov www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/03/m...

I probably hold at least seven unlawful beliefs before breakfast. I expect to hold even more later today.

One Nation is polling at levels that suggest the next parliament could be a very bad one for social cohesion — and thus for national security, writes Bernard Keane.

Who better than Peter Dutton to teach us how to "disagree better". Here are Dutton's tips on better civic discourse!

Dutton surges from behind!

My taxi driver from SFO was a Waymo. I said, "I know you're AI and cannot vote, but if you could, I'd like to think you'd vote for a center-left techno futurist who believes in human rights but who also goes easy on the billionaire class. Turn left if this is true." It turned left. I am in love.