Israel bars MSF from Gaza aid, citing staff ties to militants while ignoring 1,700 slain medics, dooming hospital beds to empty echoes amid endless suffering. #Gaza

Our fraying social fabric isn’t being torn apart by culture wars or extremism alone, but by a deepening inequality that no royal commission can paper over. Australia’s social cohesion troubles can be resolved by addressing inequality ~ Dr Bronwyn Kelly independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...

Opposition to a genocidal bomb signer, is a position of moral authority.

All of the world’s problems, cause concentrated amongst a cabal of sick and powerful men.

"The future of our democracy is at stake" - Nick Hanna, the lawyer challenging Chris Minn's anti-protest laws. For that interview and a discussion about our fascistic shitshow w/ @emmashortis.bsky.social, @marquelawyers.com.au, @instanterudite.bsky.social, check out this episode. We're back.

Hey @albomp.bsky.social - do you think that any of the Palestinians killed and injured were the victims of bombs personally signed by your special visitor Isaac Herzog? #auspol

"Trump admin exhibits corruption, brutality and casual disregard o f law .US Congress shirks its responsibility to prevent presidential over-reach. But note some hope for the US. Many of its institutions and processes appear so far more resistant than those destroyed by autocrats elsewhere."

"Five years on, the Myanmar junta has failed to break the will of the people to resist its tyranny and system of repression. It has neither legitimacy nor mandate, and can only resort to violence against the ppl." ✊🏽End impunity! #Rejectshamelection & institutions formed as a result buff.ly/3wLxuZA

And so it ahould be Accountability. For All involved. @albomp.bsky.social

OECD says it’s time to cut capital gains tax discount and negative gearing. Albanese hopes no-one will notice the widening gulf between the wealthy and everyone else. #inequality #poverty #HousingCrisis #auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2026...

Who would stay a Labor Party member when their leader is welcoming a bomb signing genocidal leader as an honoured guest? There's no coming back from this, Albanese is morally bankrupt. #auspol

The world feels like its on fire, but things like this is why im thankful to be born in this day and age with science advancing like it has been. These are heroes www.unilad.com/news/health/...

Boring but important! Inpex giant gas dollars yet tiny tax. @joshbarnettmw.bsky.social investigates systemic failure of Australia's tax system and some suss corporate tactics #auspol michaelwest.com.au/inpex-and-au...

The Bill to Combat Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism risks undermining rights, due process and democratic accountability. These are the first stages of tyranny, says human rights lawyer Greg Barns. michaelwest.com.au/bad-laws-wil...

ICYMI, good coverage on "Jewish and Muslim groups joined forces" to legally challenge the Herzog visit. The Israeli president is credibly accused of genocidal intent. Does Albanese not know how stupid he sounds when he says "people don't want conflict brought here"? www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Israel has violated the ceasefire more than 1000 times. "There are moments when the most important question is not what is happening, but why so many people are never told that it is happening at all? We are living in one of those moments"

"try as much as possible not to worry about the small day-to-day things that in the end won't matter and to focus on the big things that will matter..."

South Australian Health Minister Chris Picton has given his first interview since the death of his brother Tim after an alleged one-punch attack in Perth. #national

"try as much as possible not to worry about the small day-to-day things that in the end won't matter and to focus on the big things that will matter..."

When Easy is sadly, Vulnerable or Stupid??

Politics is about choices. This government is choosing to spend more on tax breaks for landlords than on social housing, homelessness and rent assistance combined. While you're getting smashed by unlimited rent increases and massive mortgage repayments.

Housing is a provincial responsibility! If the political will was there, we could end chronic homelessness. We know the solutions needed, we just need a government that will step up and implement them. #onpoli #housing #homelessness

"Australia spends more on tax breaks for landlords than social housing, homelessness and rent assistance combined ACOSS report shows property investors received $12.3bn in tax concessions in 2025, while the share of social housing dropped to a record low"

Read our advisory committee member, Josh Bornstein's important contribution in the ABC today (link in bio) about why Albanese should not have invited Herzog to Australia. Rescind the invitation, now.

Opinion | Reporting about the Perth attempted bombing spoke in the voice of bureaucracy, as if describing a traffic incident. There was no shock, no reckoning, no pause, @mrdtjames.bsky.social writes.

"This should be a moment for collective mourning, reflection and care. It is not a moment to host the head of a state which has been found to have committed a genocide in Gaza." Albo is more focused with placating the Israel lobby, than 'social cohesion'. www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/01/jewi...

Cynicism. Or. Observation.

This is obvious hypocrisy. Racism. It's not at all like The Caravan. Shame.

Hypocrisy WRIT LARGE as they say.

US Comment: What conservative white Evangelicals have been guilty of has been alarming, but you haven’t seen anything yet. As far as religious extremists go, they’re unmatched in their fervor, ferocity, and organization.

Human rights lawyer @barnsgreg.bsky.social how the Hate Speech laws in the wrong govt hands will lead to tyranny #auspol michaelwest.com.au/bad-laws-wil...

And this is the concern...banning criticism (of select groups) undefined, rather than banning incitement of violence is not anti racism but anti democracy.

"Policy makers need to adopt a live with limits approach" Except for data centres. Or coal/gas corporations. Or mining operations. ??

🧪After years of writing, my book, „The Physics of Nerves and Excitatory Membranes“, was finally published this month. It presents a thermodynamic (sound-based) approach to understanding the nervous system. A theory for anesthesia naturally emerges from it. www.wiley.com/en-hk/Physic...

Was also stunned by how unshocked ABC editorial fathers (my assumption) were by this shocking story. #auspol #media #abc

The double standard is disgusting. Sorry to say it, but compare the coverage of this event with that of eg the Dural caravan hoax. Unlike that, this was a REAL bomb thrown into a large crowd of REAL people, intended to cause REAL harm. I was there, at the front, & feel lucky to be unharmed. #Auspol

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

The EU Commission will "determine whether X has met its ‍legal obligations under EU law, or whether it treated rights of European citizens — including those of women and children — as collateral damage of its service."

Sometimes good things can happen

The righteousness of the wealthy.

Looking forward to the AFR's column on how people on Newstart can avoid mutual obligations

Amazing stuff.

"These changes also aim to train researchers, students, and academics to analyze these issues from a non-Western perspective, moving beyond the narrow and limited concept of American hegemony."

Helen Keller. Unwashed.

Listen. Relax. There really is no fkn "Life Purpose". You're Everything That Matters but also utterly irrelevant. Sorry. Time is BIG. Just be the best you can in this moment, with courage, or not. Do what matters here and now. Set boundaries. Take joy. And notice. Learn. Adjust. It does end.

People actually do have Power when we act together. When we act to support each other as fellow humans.

NSW Labor MP Anthony D’Adam deserves to be commended. His letter to Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke is worth reading. He asks the minister to investigate potential foreign interference by Israel in Australia after Israel published a dossier conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism. #auspol

Andrew Brown’s article highlights inequities that need to be addressed if Australia is to be a fair & democratic multicultural society. #auspol