Australia’s 178 billionaires are $25.7bn richer than last year as 3.7 million live in poverty Oxfam finds the 20 richest Australians now hold more wealth than the bottom 3 million households #AusPol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

“Israeli restaurant Miznon closes in Collingwood after two years” 🎻 … anyway: ‘Would You Like a Killing Field in Gaza With Your Overpriced, Israeli-cool Pita?’ #SpringSt #AusPol www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

After Anais Mitchell's HADESTOWN and Zoe Terakes' Eurydice (and Orpheus, sort of), Sarah Ruhl's EURYDICE is less daring but a new local production is thrillingly odd.

What? This Tim Dunlop? From the University of Queensland. Specifically from the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. The Faculty that decided to pulp the book Bila by Jazz Money because Chun was the illustrator? That Tim Dunlop? #auspol #uq #ethics

A Different Kind of Fading President Joe Biden became quieter, while Donald Trump grows even louder. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Extraordinary. Tim Dunlop admits to using AI to generate a story about Matt Chun and the Bondi shooting, with quotes attributed to Chun that he never said. Entirely fabricated. By AI. The levels of harm and stupidity are enormous. #AusPol open.substack.com/pub/tdunlop/...

Jack Schlossberg has positioned himself as the candidate most critical of Israel in his New York race. But behind closed doors at one of NYC’s most exclusive private clubs, his tone shifted👇 🔗 politi.co/4u3X1rb

David Shoebridge slams Jillian Segal who refuses to release conflict of interest docs claiming they’re “private” Segal, stumbling, then claims her conflicts are actually “public” Shoebridge “if it’s public, why do you object to them being published?”🔥 Trainwreck💥 #auspol

David Pocock left gobsmacked after asking why a contract - no tender - no minister sign off - has gone to a co founded by Scott Morrison’s fmr priv sec Yaron Finkelstein Home Affairs Sec Stephanie Foster has the answer, a decision by the unelected Antisemitism envoy. FFS #auspol

Israeli President Herzog got a personal tour of ASIO headquarters. Asked if they could name another foreign leader ever given that access, ASIO drew a blank.

Hamish Linklater AND Betty Gilpin as #WidowsBay guest stars? It’s like fantasy football but for horror nerds!

Former ICC prosecutor says Mossad chief pressured her to stop investigating Israel war crimes Fatou Bensouda says she 'felt left alone' and 'unsupported' as the Dutch government failed to protect her during intimidation campaign over Palestine case www.middleeasteye.net/news/former-...

‘Send Help’ starring Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien is doing way more and much better than whatever the F Sacha Baron Cohen and Rosamund Pike thought they were attempting with that ‘Ladies First.’

'Ladies First' Stars What's Left of Sacha Baron Cohen's Career www.pajiba.com/film_reviews...

‘Ms. Marvel’ Star Iman Vellani to Make Solo Comics Writing Debut www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Jillian Segal hired former Scott Morrison adviser on $200,000 contract without public tender process Company founded by Yaron Finkelstein received contract to advise on antisemitism under a limited tender ‘due to an absence of competition’ #AusPol www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

Thirteen hundred of you took the time to complain to the NACC about their appalling mismanagement of the Robodebt referral. This is how the Commissioner talks about those complaints. How utterly shameful.

Arrogant scum, and the ALP chair should not be protecting him.

I asked the outgoing NACC Commissioner whether he accepts responsibility for keeping his own CEO in the dark about his ongoing defence work. His answer was that his CEO had no business knowing what he was doing on the side 🤯🤯🤯 They just don't think the rules apply to them!

The Media's Treatment of Flotilla Detainees is Shocking and Unprecedented Australians are returning home with stories of abuse and mistreatment while the media is deferring to Israel by interrogating them as if they aren't reliable. #AusPol www.lamestream.com.au/the-medias-t...

+972 magazine is helping to publish Sally Rooney’s latest novel in Israel, a deal that undermines Israel’s cultural isolation as it continues to commit genocide in Gaza. Who does this serve? mondoweiss.net/2026/05/on-9...

Image of ‘twin babies’ used by anti-abortion activist appears to show sugar gliders Joanna Howe says the image was sent to her by a woman ashamed of her abortion, and used it to support ‘rally for Emma and Ruth’ in favour of NSW bill #AusPol www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

‘I’m enraged’: Family demands answers from Israel, meeting with PM as activists arrive home “If that is what they are prepared to do to Australians, on camera, imagine what they are doing to Palestinians who are locked up for years and years and years,” #AusPol www.theage.com.au/world/middle...

No one in world history has been an easier mark than Trump.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... City of Moreton Bay made national headlines when it unlawfully dismantled a tent city in Lawnton. In a landmark human rights case, the QLD supreme court ruled council broke the law partly because it did not treat its most vulnerable residents as “human”.

"‘They’ve taken all my stuff’: councils across Australia threaten homeless people with fines and confiscation of belongings" This is punitive and senselessly cruel #AusPol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Activists released from Israeli custody after being detained on a flotilla trying to take aid to Gaza were subjected to abuse, organisers have alleged, with several hospitalised with injuries and at least 15 reporting sexual assaults, including rape. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

"We Don't Know What We're Voting For!" 'Kirklees Council Circus' youtu.be/ZqQOMS4vLvw?...

House Republicans cancel vote on war powers resolution to end US war in Iran Cancellation, which avoids embarrassment for Trump, is latest signal of diminishing congressional support for war www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Just to be clear how little I’m exaggerating, in 2016, the UK Government actually advised trans people against travelling to certain US states due to the implementation of bathroom bans. @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social is now implementing those same bans across the UK. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-u...

We collected tonnes of baby formula and medicine. Israel sent them to the bottom of the ocean Neve O’Connor is a Melbourne woman in the custody of the Israeli government after attempting to reach the Gaza Strip as part of a protest flotilla carrying aid #ausPol www.theage.com.au/world/middle...

This really is an amazing thing to have happen isn't it. Like sci fi from the 50s www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

Israel is grossly breaching international law and kidnaps 11 Australians. The Labor Government instead of taking actions against Israel, blame the people trying to break Israel’s illegal blockade. That’s Labor and they won’t change.

Ben-Gvir is not “hardline” - he’s a terrorist. Literally a war criminal. www.theage.com.au/world/middle... #AusPol

‘Israeli security minister stirs diplomatic outrage with flotilla activist abuse video Far-right figure Itamar Ben-Gvir shares footage of himself taunting bound international detainees’ #AusPol … he is a terrorist from a terror state. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Morrisonesque www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Hey hey, if you're an Australian author, please send a submission to this!! Closes Sunday 24 May. There's a template letter to make it easy (but you know me, I had a good old whinge) www.asauthors.org.au/advocacy/nat...

@zalisteggall.bsky.social: “The PM claims to know what’s needed to tackle domestic violence. Yet his government fails to act on key drivers such as problem gambling and alcohol consumption” @fairagenda.bsky.social: “Governments need to actually increase the capacity of services"

‘Disdain for women’: PM under fire for femicide royal commission response The prime minister has previously faced criticism for calling former Australian of the Year Grace Tame “difficult”. #AusPol www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

“A burgeoning social media campaign has portrayed an AI-generated Albanese…” I’m gonna stop you right there. No. #AusPol www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

First, they taxed the private jets And I did not speak out. fortune.com/2026/05/16/n...

Sounds to me like Gillham made clear statements criticising Israel and the MSO - in a deeply antisemitic move - assumed he was criticising Jewish people. To believe that their colleague Suzanne Dembo would be hurt for the mere fact of her Jewishness? Odd. #AusPol www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

Government ‘urgently seeking’ status of 11 Australian Gaza flotilla activists detained by Israel #AusPol www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Wait. What? Kars 4 Kids exposed as a fraudulent “charity” that does not benefit local disadvantaged kids. Or Canadian kids. Benefits to any kids is negligible. California has banned the ads. Canada should do the same! The money is going to New Jersey, New York to the organization Oorah.

"Criticising governments for their actions is not hate speech. Criticising Israel for its genocide in Gaza is not anti-Semitism, and I say that as a Jewish Australian.” —Clare Wright #AusPol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

“The charges against Smotrich… would be the first ever issued by an international court for the crime of apartheid.” Good. Entirely justified. www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusi...

Wright tells ABC Arts she would still like to see the job-ready graduates program axed to maintain the skills of would-be historians, "the people who are going to continue to dig into our past to reveal its wounds and its riches". #AusPol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

Australia’s social media ban preventing teens from accessing the news, research finds Half of the teens who have been blocked say they are seeing less news than before – but they are not necessarily going back to traditional sources #Auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

WHO declares Ebola outbreak in DRC, Uganda a global emergency: What to know DRC outbreak causes more than 80 deaths and spreads to neighbouring Uganda. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/...

Australia’s ‘green Wall Street’ is failing to launch. Threatened species deserve better than the nature repair market One must ask why Labor is so comfortable continuing to ignore the wishes of the vast majority of voters #AusPol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...