Michelle Ananda-Rajah torches Bridget McKenzie for demonising tax-paying PRs & wanting to strip their social security BM “not going to cop that” MAR “that’s what you’re doing” BM “not going to cop that I’m somehow denigrating their contribution” MAR “Sounds like u are”🔥 #auspol

WTF? Don Jr is a partner of 1789 Capital (as is Peter Thiel ally Chris Buskirk), which backs Anduril, which received a government contract worth up to $20 billion earlier this year. 1/

Think of an oil shock like a stone tossed in a pond. First splash: gasoline. Then the ripples: airfares, delivery costs, packaging, groceries, construction materials.⁣ ⁣ The ripples are real. Just give them a moment to spread.

Trump doesn't understand what power is, and Iran has exposed his core weakness. My latest, with assists from Thucydides and Arendt. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/o...

#auspol #trusts

Canadian officials have reported that one of four Canadians returning from a cruise ship with a hantavirus outbreak has a "presumptive positive" test result.

#springst #auspol

Russia deliberately attacks volunteer vehicles in Kherson while they are delivering hot meals to locals. Today, a drone hit the vehicle of a Ukrainian NGO, injuring two volunteers. One of them is in critical condition and had a traumatic leg amputation.

There is a statue of author Alex Haley in East Knoxville, TN. Knox County just removed Roots from all school libraries.

"Laura Tingle’s analysis of the killing of journalists by Israel has been found to be 'duly impartial'" Now investigate who organized 56 identical complaints, their links to similar campaigns against journalists, artists, writers and academics and Israel's coordinated foreign interference. #auspol

ABC ombudsman declares Laura Tingle’s Israel analysis ‘duly impartial’ as complaints campaigns gain traction | The Weekly Beast

I rarely say “major breaking” and rarely put out these video hits, but this is pretty major.

#auspol #budget

A must read. And then an absolutely must share. With as many people as possible.

"The populist movement absorbs you. It eats your donors. It eats your activists.It eats your local associations.It eats your moderates first because they’re the most nutritious.Then it eats your conservatives.Then it stands there in your skin & tells everyone it was always there" #Farrer #auspol

The AEC is “urgently considering” its legal options over a sign outside a Farrer polling place that uses the AEC logo and carries an incomplete authorisation statement. AEC says it “has the potential to misrepresent the source of the corflute” and that it is investigating.

Oh look at that: there are approximately 80,000 fewer manufacturing jobs today than there were when Trump took office last year.

Avoid this site, #Auspol Epoch Times: part of the Trumpist BS far right ecosystem.

Agree, great article by @ransos.bsky.social #auspol

Can reporters stop using the word deal? It’s an agreement, a settlement, a treaty, an understanding, an MOU etc. Using the word deal is accepting his simple-minded TV game-show framing and contributes to the bogus drama he is trying to create.

🚨 NEW: A majority of Australians think Donald Trump is the greatest threat to world peace, according to a YouGov poll commissioned for The Australia Institute released today Last year, a Dynata poll (also for The Australia Institute) saw 31% rate Trump as the greatest threat

The second half of this year will almost certainly see the start of an El Niño phase that could lead to extreme heat across much of the globe, and James Hansen expects that to make this year surpass 2024 as the hottest on record

I’d love to be able to buy a copy for every single cosplaying Christian in this GOP regime.

Nevada's largest utility says it will need three times the electricity required to power Las Vegas just to handle proposed data centers — and it probably can't do that without fossil fuels. https://to.pbs.org/4c0Eh6n

What was claimed: A video shows Sydney police detaining a pro-Palestine protester. Our verdict: False. The video shows German police detaining a pro-Palestine protester in Berlin in July 2025. #auspol

NEWS: MAGA influencer Craig Long has been arrested in a human trafficking and prostitution sting in Florida, along with Ryan Yates, a Trump supporter who pleaded guilty in Feb 2024 for his involvement in January 6. Long posted this photo with Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr. just a few weeks ago.

The Trump administration is again trying to silence voices it disagrees with. Jimmy Kimmel and others should not be subject to the whims of this, or any, president.

NEWSMAX: Are you directly assisting U.S. in Middle East? Trump said U.S. doesn’t need and not confirmed any support from Ukraine. ZELENSKYY: Various institutions in U.S. asked us for support. We are partners, so we decided to provide it, including assistance to American bases.

Musk is funding Tommy Robinson and now promotes his movement as a "hard man" vehicle for a civil war which Musk believes is inevitable, and imminent (+ which he has argued should be begun pre-emptively in self-defence) Robinson usually more careful/at least coded on violence than this from Musk

Hungarian oligarchs begin fleeing the country, transferring assets, in anticipation of corruption investigations giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

"Among the recommendations are funding community reporting services for hate crimes experiences by LGBTIQ+ people and other targeted communities." #nswpol www.outinperth.com/right-wing-e...

#auspol #ANZACDayService #AustraliasRacialEmpathyGap #cultofforgetfulness

The IDF’s killing of journalists in Gaza and now Lebanon: Laura Tingle’s distressing analysis here. 👇https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-25/israel-journalists-killed-lebanon-gaza/106582644?utm_source=abc_news_web

Paris urban biking investment helps cut pollution in half: “Between 2005 and 2024, levels of nitrogen dioxide and fine particulate matter — 2 of the most harmful pollutants to human health — have been slashed by 50% and 55%, respectively.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social momentummag.com/paris-proves...

#auspol #Atlas #ClaremontInstitute #IPA #OneNation

How to be more alive – Hermann Hesse on wonder and the proper aim of education www.themarginalian.org/2023/07/06/h...

“To our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in WA, we will continue to acknowledge country," he said to the crowd.” #auspol #Anzac

Prince Harry attending Kyiv Security Forum in Ukraine today: “I am not here as politician. I am here as a soldier who understands service, as humanitarian who has seen human cost of conflict, and as friend of Ukraine who believes the world must not grow used to this war or numb to its consequences.”