If 25% would shut down the gas industry, you might as well make it 100%, no? #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Palantir's CEO published a manifesto arguing Western tech firms have a "moral debt" to US military dominance, that AI weapons are inevitable, and that "some cultures are dysfunctional." This isn't just a regularly evil tech or defence contractor, it’s a fascist political project.

This poignant article left me nostalgic & sad. Victoria Wood was such a remarkable talent, & one of my favourite comedians growing up in the Eighties. Has it really been 10 years since she died? So much talent & so much loss. 💔🩷❤️ www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/a...

Um…it hasn’t started yet. #auspol

Keep the pressure up. Victim-Survivors of sexual assault & abuse should have safe access to counselling & support, without it being exposed to the abusers that caused the harm in the first place. #auspol #politas This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/do...

This shouldn’t be a dilemma. And an FYI, but that ‘current reality’ has been “current” for quite a few decades now. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I’d argue we need a third queue - people who get to the bar to order a round of drinks for their mates, but only wait until they reach the bar and are asked for their order to find out what the round consists of.

Wow, wait until she finds out what X/Grok has been allowing users to do with images of children…

It’s important to understand how pervasive this thinking is in #auspol. It’s why politicians discount evidence-based, specialised, expert or lived experience knowledge in favour of their own philosophy. Leadership demands tackling base misunderstandings in society, not trying to appease them.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

OMFG that is hilarious 😆

JFC the way some people are talking you’d think this was a minor issue with an admin assistant. It’s the appointment of an ambassador FFS. A minister needs to be informed - that’s why we have ministers. #ukpol www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I know it’s sometimes said that news headlines give the wrong emphasis, but I honestly can’t see Pulse ever topping this. #politas

The #politas government extending its resources to combat child sexual abuse and intimate partner violence with…wait, WTF is that? (Seriously, they just bought this off WA for the Special Operations Group. Ludicrous.)

So-called Christians selectively relying on legitimised violence in the Old Testament, rather than the explicit rejection of same by the living avatar of the supreme being of the Universe in the New Testament, example # 3564

Oh my gosh, an entire wind farm just exploded…oh, wait, I’ll hold that thought. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The right choice. #politas www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

The Parliamentary Joint Sessional Committee scrutinising the implementation of recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry has today released its Second Interim Report (Part One). #politas www.parliament.tas.gov.au/__data/asset...

There is no parody comedy show or film out there that could ever come close to this. It’s like Arrested Development on crack.

“Our position is we’re not considering joining the blockade and no request has been received either.” Suggesting that if a request is made our invertebrate government will consider joining (a blockade, by the way, is a definitive act of war). Weak as. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Note to Barnaby Joyce’s of this world, but rehabilitating criminals doesn’t have an open social licence. The price tag should be lifelong for serious crimes e.g. committing a horrific sexual crime means never working in a role that might let you influence policies impacting women’s safety #auspol

“Joyce went on to say he knows “other people in politics who’ve been to jail for serious crimes and they’re still, they’re still staff members”” Hahaha…there had better have been some follow-up questions to that bullshit comment. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Can we ask JD Vance to come and “help out” the far-right in Australia next? #auspol

This is literally the exact opposite of the truth. Napalm was a thing. The US amassed nuclear weapons specifically to reinforce threats to blow up entire nations, including Russia. Plenty of reasons to condemn Trump without needing to gut history like a fish.

Slow hand clap for every Western nation slavishly giving military support of any kind or just hoping they can keep tight lipped and everything will be alright in the morning…hey @albomp.bsky.social, how’s that strategy going? #auspol www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

I have some serious questions about how you were ever giving that amount to the US.

Hahaha Vance needn’t bother; the US is doing a good enough job of tying its own shoelaces together. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Any politician that anywhere at anytime blames Iran for this needs to be asked ‘how many mines were in the strait before the US and Israel attacked?’ #auspol

Comments like this hack me off. Go look at the rates of offences for sexual assault, child abuse and intimate-partner violence. Compare to rate of convictions, and then come back and tell me no one is above the law. #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Wait until he finds out how many people the US & Israel have murdered, including thousands of children. Getting a little sick of over-privileged white guys getting only mildly irked by genocidal fascists steamrolling over humanity. #ukpol www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Curiouser & curiouser. Her statement reads like it was scripted by a lawyer to me (which would explain referencing her husband by full name). Regardless, it does look an attempt to distance herself, possibly predicting future legal action (& maybe based on awareness of material not yet released 🤷🏻‍♂️).

Slow 👏🏻 for ABC News reporting 300+ Lebanese by recent Israeli attacks, then in the same report saying that Israel *are* bombing Hezbollah. Unless all of those 300+ people were Hezbollah fighters, that statement is incongruent to reality. Israel are bombing civilians. Period. #auspol

Go eat a raw onion and shut the fuck up Tony Abbott. #auspol

Anyone else think it’s weird Melania referred to her husband by his full name? www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Relying on a Tolkien/Middle-Earth reference here, as is my wont, but I imagine this is what it would look like if the Nazgûl were to issue pronouncements about Sauron’s domination of Middle-Earth, but in the form of press conferences. Someone get this guy a dark cloak & the look will be complete.

This applies to #auspol as much as anywhere else.

Looking at the unhinged far-right commentary spewing forth on Facebook, it appears the reactionary response to an ex-soldier being arrested for war crimes is: - look how many medals he has - it’s really sad - the police can’t arrest people for murder - the police commissioner is a woman; #auspol

This is a nonsense pov on @albomp.bsky.social Labor was happy to support an illegal war when they thought it would end quickly. They now realise the full implications, but won’t outright condemn the US or Israel, or withdraw military support. Weak. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I cannot believe my mum gave me so much shit for calling Streeting ‘Tory Boy’.

Billionaire doesn’t understand how the law works. I’m shocked. Shocked I tells ya. #auspol #eattherich www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Meanwhile, data suggested 47 per cent of young people in Ashley Youth Detention Centre were alleged victims of child abuse. This is NEW DATA from the past year.

Meanwhile, in #politas. I’d argue that the law did allow for *some* mandatory reporting if it related to any role with the Youth Justice Act, but Tasmania Police just took a black market pen to the whole thing seemingly. This type of shit happens far too much. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

My letter to my Federal MP, expressing my disgust at Australia’s support for the US/Israel. ‘No matter how much you try to hold back, pouring less than a measure for depravity and moral debasement always turns into a full one, because the depraved put no stopper on their bottle of poison.’ #auspol

It’s very likely Trump knew ahead of time that some movement was in the works for a ceasefire, & his threat of attack was merely to make it seem like he forced the ceasefire. Doesn’t change the dangers posed by the US/Israel actions, or potential to escalate. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

So pro-life means jailing women who miscarry but shrugging when the deranged president says “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Do I have that right?

I can’t impeach POTUS or use the 25th. What I can do is write to my Federal MP, articulate my anger & disgust that Australia has anything to do with this genocidal cesspit of a President, & demand public condemnation of this barbarity & cessation of all assistance. You should too. #auspol 1/ 👇🏻

Tell the truth now: everyone working for the President has to say ‘Thank you Mr President…I love you’ after a meeting with him (inc. his kids).

This just tells me the wealth tax is no where close to being effective. You could tax Bezos 30 times that amount and he’d still be a billionaire. Tax them into extinction.

Chamberlain, like Starmer, had many flaws, but history tends to forget he was still the British PM that declared war on Nazi Germany. History also forgets how much the US backed appeasement of the Nazis too (& still do today as it happens). www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

It’s always been an existential threat. I grew up in the 80’s with Reagan, “Star Wars”, The Day After and When the Wind Blows. Before I was born, every decade post-WW2 had potential flare-ups. Until nuclear arsenals are put beyond use, the glow-in-the-dark Sword of Damocles hangs over us all.