www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01... The draft #HateSpeech bill is circulating.

www.humanrights.unsw.edu.au/research/com... Calls for greater care/caution in progressing any #hateSpeech legislative agenda have been thoughtful and should not be dismissed out of hand.

www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-of... The critically important role of an independent media in times like this. #ScottTrust #Guardian

www.deepcutnews.com/p/exclusive-... Prof Clare Wright - “following the mass boycotting of authors in solidarity with free speech and against censorship and racial profiling at Bendigo and Adelaide … I believe one of the objectives of the pro-Israel campaigning is to destroy festivals”.

With the #ICJ hearing in #TheGambia v #Myanmar kicking off on Monday, I put together some thoughts over at @verfassungsblog.de on key issues to consider for those following this important #GenocideConvention case. A quick summary. verfassungsblog.de/the-rohingya...

The Trump administration is accelerating its retreat from internationalism. JEAN GALBRAITH on the announced U.S. withdrawal from 66 international entities, how withdrawal may work in practice, and why the damage will be hard to undo. verfassungsblog.de/the-announce...

This fire in the high country is chunking away, not yet under control, and now spotting north east to the top of the Great Divide ... themountainjournal.com/2026/01/12/t...

A newly fledged peregrine falcon looking all majestic. Clare Valley, South Australia.

www.sbs.com.au/news/article... 2024 #Parliamentary committee recommendation 17 - #Australia should have a #BillOfRights

25 January #Reconciliation in #YortaYorta country in #Shepparton

www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar... Andrew Wilkie MP tried to get an Australian Bill of Rights through the parliament in 2019-20 and it fell away. Follow up is needed?

Opportunity to submit in support of an Australian #BillOfRights

Exquisite observation made by a friend, that one of the websites where the most outrage has been expressed about my cartoon is the website owned by the guy who did the Nazi salute.

Cathy is the best. Sharpest, funniest … most on point. A wonderful contributor to our public life.

Bizarre stuff. Weird.

At this rate Adelaide Festival will be David Speers interviewing Greg Sheridan

'Chris Bowen wants to use his stint as the world’s chief climate negotiator to lobby Saudi Arabia and others to stop resisting progress at UN summits, heeding calls for a “hard-nosed” approach in dealing with big emitters obstructing the transition.' www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“Seek justice … keep the faith” From Australia - I like it.

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

Today's shift on the Fogarty's Gap fire was emotionally hard. We spent time going down streets to assess houses for damage. Walking around the ruins of someone's home, their loved gardens, their fruit trees, now all a tangled heap of metal & beams, is heartbreaking. Feeling sad for so much loss.

#ICE #Trump #USA

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

#SaturdayPaper editorial on Trump and #Venezuela and other at risk countries - these are the “words of a despot … playing a board game and overexcited by the fact he is winning”….

In #2009 Victoria dealt with catastrophic fires. My older brother Peter Auty worked with other #CFA firefighters at #Flowerdale and this poem expresses some of their struggle … and now we are there again… #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Thursday ruled that John Sarcone, President Donald Trump’s temporary pick as acting U.S. attorney for NDNY, has been serving unlawfully in his post for months. The decision makes Sarcone the fifth Trump-appointed acting U.S. attorney deemed illegitimate by federal courts.

Walz: "I saw an individual at the scene identify themselves as medical personnel and ask to provide aid, and an ICE agent said 'I do not care.' That lack of humanity was chilling to me."

Orwell on America….

Terms of reference for the royal commission:

Trump is also withdrawing the US from the International Law Commission. The US had a proud history on this UN body, which is charged with the codification and progressive development of intl. law. The US is now indisputably a rogue state. #internationallaw www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Statement from @australiainstitute.org.au on Adelaide Festival.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01... Former #HighCourt #Justice Virginia Bell has been appointed to conduct the #Bondi anti-semitism and extremism #RoyalCommission

It doesn’t get much more nuts than this.

www.twma.com.au/channel/tarr... Recalling “we are #eagles” thanks for your brilliant work Kimberley Moulton … and also for bringing us the wisdom of the elders …

theonion.com/every-trait-... “ … a 29-year-old high school graduate had been dismissed from numerous past positions in food service and substitute teaching due to his short fuse and penchant for cruelty, [but he was] rapidly promoted up the ranks at ICE for the same characteristics.”

ICE has left the scene. Local and state law enforcement are there now.

I asked about what happened to this woman - she was shot multiple times in the face and ICE refused her any access to a Dr in the area.

Grass roots. My @smh cartoon.

MacCALLUM: You have about 100,000 dying from drug overdoses, most of those drugs from from Venezuela and other places CROW: That's actually not true. The majority of the deaths by drugs in America are the result of meth and fentanyl. Almost none of that comes from Venezuela

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12... #Bail and #justice…

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01... “The US operation included more than 150 military aircraft, which took off from land and sea, including fighter jets, reconnaissance planes, drones — and the helicopters that would form the crucial core of the mission.”

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2... #NakedPower

www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/dundall... As we reflect on #power and who gets to exercise it with impunity (#Venezuela) there is this - about #Dundali and #colonial #Queensland “It's an interesting thought that European justice required the hanging of an Aboriginal judge for performing his duties …”

The European Union urged the adherence to international law after U.S. President Donald Trump announced the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro earlier today.

Rubio is claiming that they did not need Congress permission because it was a law enforcement mission. The US is behaving as a global police state, extending its own arbitrary legal decisions to the whole world. This is not a problem just for Venezuela.

Trump: "We're going to have our very large United States oil companies go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure and start making money for the country. And we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... 11 months ago …. #bigOil and #politics

Rep. Seth Moulton: "This is insane. What the hell are we doing? ... this is illegal."

Before his debut in 2011, Australia had never seen a cricketer like Usman Khawaja and, thanks to his work on and off the field, he'll be followed by plenty more.

Thanks Usman - you will be missed 🏏 www.smh.com.au/sport/cricke...