This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Labor sources have told ABC Investigations the prime minister's office has been putting pressure on advocates for gambling reform within the parliamentary Labor party to prevent them from speaking up.” So pathetic. Backbenchers scared of taking a moral position, Albanese scared of any reform.

Corruption watchdog being watched by its watchdog again. Would be good if they investigated corruption as much as they investigate their own conduct imo

Noted racist and Nobel Laureate James Watson, who stole Rosalind Franklin's data to try to deduce the structure of DNA first, has died at 97 as an unrepentant eugenicist and misogynist.

Tasmania once criminalised people for being gay or for cross-dressing. Yesterday Tasmania's Parliament finally passed laws to erase those convictions and offer redress for the harm caused. This is justice decades overdue.

Mockery of human rights. High Court rules indefinite detention of refugees unlawful. Govt packs refugees back to Nauru indefinitely. Janet Pelly reports #auspol michaelwest.com.au/nauru-refuge...

"...while we will never know for sure if Plibersek was serious at the time, we do know for certain that her Cabinet and her Prime Minister had net-zero interest in putting the protection of endangered species ahead of the profits of polluters." @richarddenniss.bsky.social #AusPol #AlboTheLiar

"Politics has turned into a carnival of empty promises — cheap wish lists disguised as (short-lived) visions. ... Here, in our wild capitalism of theft and privilege, the common good doesn’t even make it onto the ballot. Every promise ends where someone’s personal interest begins." Sound familiar?

In news that will surprise absolutely no one ... religious zealots CONTINUE to advocate for human rights abuses against women and girls. #HumanRights

BREAKING: The US Government has decided to fuck off more of its citizens than ever before. A new record for pissing people off. But I'm sure it will be fine.

A formidable mosquito hunter with tiger-striped wings has been named Australia's top insect for 2025. The graphic flutterer dragonfly (Rhyothemis graphiptera) captured more than a quarter of all votes in an October online poll www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

"Howard’s laws were also strong enough to let Labor block Woodside’s enormous North West Shelf gas expansion if Plibersek or Watt had wanted to. It wasn’t the laws that were too weak to stop those projects, it was the ministers." Damned fucking right.

This, there's no sane reason why anyone needs to be a billionaire www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ruo_...

How much longer is this farce of a sideshow going to continue? NACC Commissioner, Paul Brereton, is once again embroiled in controversy. The NACC Inspector, Gail Furness is currently investigating several complaints against Mr Brereton. His position is untenable. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

"Australia kind of leads the world in stuffing up the provision of simple public services. Unis are just the latest version." - co-CEO Richard Denniss unpacks how our university sector became so broken on the latest Follow the Money!💸 @richarddenniss.bsky.social @ebonybennett.bsky.social #auspol

"For essentially the last 25 years every single resources minister, bar one, has left Parliament and gone to work for the resources industry." - Senator Larissa Waters at our Revenue Summit 2025 @larissawaters.bsky.social #auspol

BREAKING: The Weeping Senator, Sarah Henderson, starved for attention, FINALLY gets her head in the news. Good job. Well done Sarah 👍 #AusPol

Across the world, right-wingers are embracing the old idea that they’re genetically, culturally, fixed as superior. Whether as White, Western, men and/or affluent, they deserve everything because nature made them better. If we’re not willing to serve them quietly, we’re disposable. #auspol

Dingoes ARE NOT domestic dogs, multiple lines of evidence demonstrate this. Dingoes ARE NOT ideal pets, they require extensive and special care. Dingoes ARE very important to First Nations peoples, and Australia's ecosystems. This proposed change is a very bad idea www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage. This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country. #CommitToALivingWage

If Israel passes this horrific death penalty law, it is yet another reason for Canberra to end its timidity and impose sanctions on this rogue state. #auspol #Israel #Palestinian #Deathpenalty

Hard to understand a govt that thinks a News Corp campaign is good policy

ChatGPT doing the writing now. There's just no way a competent editor thought this sentence is comprehensible.

Perfection from Pope. #auspol

Gaming regulator announces temporary halt on accepting bribes www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Labor are raising the price of aged care so that corporations can cash in. Meanwhile over 200,000 older Australians are still waiting a year or more for care. This is Labor: selling out the most vulnerable so the investor class can grow their wealth.

All those happy Norwegians, looking healthy with good teeth. If only Australia had the resources to fund a sovereign wealth fund. All it takes is a few more brave politicians. #WhatIsThePointOfLabor #Auspol #PeoplePoweredPolitics

Like a high-paying career as a Defence lobbyist? Get qualified first as a LibLab Uniparty politician and away you go! @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social #whatsthescam with the secret new 'Defence Oversight Committee' #auspol michaelwest.com.au/the-duopolys...

Which is why we're going to use police powers to stop a person’s welfare payment before any court process. Just like Jesus would have wanted.

"Despite billions in public money, oversight has eroded. Regulators turn a blind eye while investors pocket subsidies meant for families. Under a government with dollar sovereignty, such neglect is a political choice, not a financial necessity."

The Albanese government is going all out to keep the public uninformed about anything #AUKUS. The mainstream media will never say the obvious, so allow me: the secretive sycophancy of both Labor and LNP to the US & UK is a huge threat to our national security. And national interests. #auspol

I'm never asked either, but if I was I'd say because I'm a trained, published researcher, I've been studying SARS-CoV-2 science for six years, and it isn't safe for anyone of any age to get COVID.

Budgets aren’t just numbers; they’re a reflection of what we stand for. And #Budget2025 shows #Canada turning away from the world when humanitarian needs are rising. Our reaction: https://ow.ly/ISuF50Xnu7o#Budget2025#Canada#cdnpoli

“What we need is a sensible, modern approach to energy policy and hunting whales and killing them for their oil is exactly that"

The lead researcher of the American Association of immunology saying they are seeing a reduction in T cells You seem to ignore that this statement is not made by a journalist

"For now thankfully, the genocide has stopped. And we must desperately hope this ceasefire holds. But I’m not hopeful. Israel hasn’t ceased fire in its entire history. The history of Israel is a history of mass murder on whatever pretext they decide to use." @natebear1.bsky.social #FuckIsrael

"What’s happening in Sudan is a true horror. Vicious evil is being committed. But the shameless attempts to smear Gaza protestors by ... creating a false equivalence with Sudan stink overwhelmingly of the moral squalor and intellectual feebleness that, by now, we’ve come to associate with Zionists."

Wrote about the commentators and politicians cynically weaponising a genocide to try and salvage the reputation of Israel by manufacturing a non-existent double standard over Sudan open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...

The Trump 'Peace Plan' is going exactly as expected. #FuckIsrael

Tasmania & Tasmanians are stoney broke and the TAS LIB/LABOR pollies want an extra stadium!🤬 WHY?🧐 What is the incentive?🤷‍♀️ ‘Almost a quarter of all households faced severe food insecurity, regularly skipping meals or going entire days without eating.’ pulsetasmania.com.au/news/one-in-...

Read the full article on @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/news/251105-...

LNP has not right to be critical about anyone else's actions on the Foodbank report today - but similarly - Labor are just throwing money at the symptoms and refuse to use the powers we voted to give them for systemic change to address the causes. Shame on both! #auspol #qt

No One Left Behind™

The 50th anniversary of The Dismissal is an apposite moment to look again at Malcolm Fraser as the main beneficiary of it. Malcolm Fraser and the road to The Dismissal ~ Dr Lee Duffield independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11... Poverty exists because public resources have been stolen and given away. Our economy should be measured by how the bottom 30% are doing in the supermarket not how the top 1% are doing in the stock market. Charity is an admission of government failure. #AusPol

“Across Australia, the effects of childcare industry privatisation are clear: higher costs, lower quality, and growing mistrust. Once a public service is privatised, oversight becomes optional.” socialjusticeaustralia.com.au/childcare-in...

Australian scientist who alerted world that COVID is airborne wins top science prize When the WHO falsely claimed in March 2020 that COVID wasn’t airborne, Professor Lidia Morawska took action—organising 239 scientists worldwide to warn about SARS-CoV-2 airborne spread and urge global recognition.

#EPBC “Despite the claims to a limited application, the centre holds grave concerns about the scope, transparency, & accountability of the exercise of the discretion” “Environmental decision making is especially prone to capture by vested interests – that’s why integrity safeguards must be strong"

Public Health To Drop ‘Health’ And ‘Public’

A brilliant fact check by @skyelark.bsky.social "Will Net Zero cost $9 trillion to Australia?" #ThePoint (spoiler, not even fucking close) thepoint.com.au/factchecks/2...