Sarah Henderson was vexatious as she was trying to make this a political event that has backfired. Spectacularly #auspol

It's the height of self entitlement for Sarah Henderson to waste precious 000 resources on multiple test calls. Your silly little games could have killed someone, Sarah. #auspol

Senator Sarah Henderson Stood and was rejected Appointed not elected #auspol

Regional red flag. Today’s @theageaustralia.bsky.social cartoon

Gianni, I just need you to find me four more goals.

Solomons..

Socceroos Awer Mabil was born in a Kenyan refugee camp to South Sudanese parents & later migrated to Australia & became a citizen. He was Young Australian of the Year in 2023 in recognition of his charity work. #auspol www.theguardian.com/football/202...

BELGIUM, WE LOVE YOU

Hooray for Belgium Great win #worldcup

“If the US do win today, everyone will be saying, ‘you guys cheated to get there”💥 Craig Foster calls out FIFA for colluding with Trump to rig the World Cup, saying this means that if the Americans win today, there will be a question mark on all of their remaining matches. 🎯

Yessss Goal to Belgium Allez Allez Allez les Belges #worldcup

Good the law has now been changed, but WTF? #auspol Man with prior domestic violence convictions granted a NSW Working with Children Check

Allez La Belgique #worldcup

It’s been a bad few days for Donald Trump - he’s been upstaged by a beautiful global game and America’s epic 250-year history. Both have made him look peevish and small - a presidential pygmy. My latest at my Substack, History Never Ended. Free to all. open.substack.com/pub/historyn...

Just when you thought Gianni Infantino and FIFA couldn’t go any lower, they did. The jury is now in, it’s a farce. Mary Wise, Ringwood @theageaustralia.bsky.social letters

Both America’s 250th anniversary and the World Cup have diminished and exposed Trump. He’s been upstaged by his country’s epic history and a beautiful global game he is now trying to taint. open.substack.com/pub/historyn...

Dear FIFA

BAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHAHAH

Heads up everyone! Sky News has rebranded to “News 24” & has started following people on BlueSky, to get more people to follow them, unaware it’s Sky. You know what to do folks! #auspol

Senator Bridget McKenzie / Nats Leader of the Senate attended Jordan Peterson’s Alliance for Responsible Citizenship event in London where she took to the stage to call for policies to ‘break’ universities that teach ‘white guilt’ and ‘climate catastrophism’ Fun fact | Last week was a sitting week

If you or family or friends might ever face entry to an aged care facility, you need to see this. Residents charged $30 a day for things they don't get or can't use, and other rorts. Common practice among many providers. Be aware. #Auspol #AgedCare #ElderAbuse youtu.be/Rgt-cmRRw3s?...

A damn good thing if class action gets rip off aged care providers held to account! #AgedCare #Auspol #ElderAbuse

Four decades of privatization of human services, and governments still have not learned. Or won't stand up to the profiteering interests they have unleashed. This is not just about yet another company exploiting vulnerable people: it's massive policy failure. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

each way albo

Speers and Maiden might be tempted to brush it off as "just Tony being Tony" but when the Liberal Party president sounds more like a One Nation recruit than a Liberal leader, it's not a harmless quirk. It's a symptom of something deeper And it deserves serious scrutiny not a shrug. #auspol

Suspected Opposition Leaders. Today’s @theageaustralia.bsky.social @sydmorningherald.bsky.social cartoon

The panel on Tony Abbott speaking at far right ARC conference where banged on with his regular coded dog whistle ‘anglo celtic culture judaeo-christian foundational ethos’ bullshit Sam Maiden ‘that’s just Tony being Tony’ 🤡 Daniel James ‘it was the language of white nationalism’ 🔥

#auspol #Australia #OneNation

#Victoria #Auspol #Australia #OneNation

#auspol #Australia #OneNation #racism

Kylian Mbappé #WorldCup

Another non apology. Jacinta Allan may be naive but the rest of us aren’t. Jane Patrick, Brighton @theageaustralia.bsky.social letters

Half the Aussies watching our heroic Socceroos this morning did so on a streaming service, the latest figures showed that 0.12% of people opt out from gambling ads on streamers. Under the govt’s new gambling laws, streaming services will be allowed more gambling ads - unlimited ads - not fewer.

july 4th

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📣 Public Service Announcement

A woman is killed by a current or former partner every week in Aus. The gov’s National Plan to End Violence Against Women & Children is well intentioned, but without action & resourcing it’s a media release. We can & must do better #politas #auspol

It's infuriating that our government still refuses to tax our national oil and gas resources adequately. That inaction is costing us all.

A people can survive a decade of camps. It’s far less certain they can survive the re-engineering of how their children are raised, taught and made to speak — on Uyghur cultural erasure, the failure of the international system, and what remains possible in exile blakandblack.com/2026/07/03/t...

let them crypto..

Did you know you could opt out of gambling advertising on #SBS? I didn't either! #BanGamblingAdvertising help.sbs.com.au/hc/en-au/art...

The naivety of Conroy’s view that the US will recognise the treaty of Rarotonga and not bring nuclear weapons to Australia beggars belief. They have butchered the concept of a rules based order and act only in their national interest and their hegemony.

Andrew Wilkie fires ballistic missile 🚀 at Albanese over the 1000 souls who’ve committed suicide since the Murphy Report 😔 ‘This parliament is a fellow traveller to the gambling companies, the media companies and the sporting codes who are like jackal’s feeding on the carcasses of gambling addicts’

Fuck AI. Mass destruction & climate disaster for what? Deepfake porn, plagiarism robots, automated extreme RW slopaganda, pointless summaries of internet searches top 5 hits, enshittification of truth based social infrastructure (law, welfare, education) ubiquitous authoritarian mass surveillance.

Note to incumbent @australianlabor.bsky.social Govt

I’ve seen a lot of hyperventilating that suddenly a blip in house prices means the market has crashed. Alan Kohler puts things into perspective with this graph nicely. #AusPol

Spiral. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Impossible to argue a case for returning the current government in the state election. Unthinkable to contemplate voting for the alternatives. Seriously, where to from here? Chris Millgate-Smith, Sandringham @theageaustralia.bsky.social letters

An inquiry into the 2025 federal election says democracy came "under assault" from third parties named as the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church and Advance. It urges a mandatory code of conduct at polling booths & a wider look at "domestic interference". #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...