"Stephenson said $26.2 million of its 2025 revenue declines were due to “clients who had chosen not to advertise with ARN because of issues relating to brand safety” – a thinly veiled reference to The Kyle and Jackie O Show."

"Amid fears among moderate and other Liberals that Abbott, who is also seeking the role, 👉will use it as a platform for his own policy agenda,👈 Downer, a conservative, suggested that would be inappropriate."

"An effective opposition is good at policy. Last term and so far this term, the Coalition has been very poor at policy formulation." "Remember Peter Dutton’s defence policy? If you don’t, it’s probably because it was just a commitment to spend a lot more. No flesh on that bone."

How much has it cost taxpayers for the return of some 40 similar cohorts - also INCLUDING actual ISIS fighters - under the LNP governments of which you were a part, Senator Cash? Could the press gallery please ask these LNP headless chooks + friends, currently making a bad situation worse

Back in the tent, and back to building more dams - which was one of Barnaby Joyce's PET projects he would dust off at election time to keep the country folks happy, if I remember rightly 🤔

"If Zeldin replaced Bondi, he would oversee the Justice Department’s defense of his EPA actions in court, including lawsuits by states and environmental groups over the endangerment finding repeal."

"Independent Australia has taken up the responsibility of emailing Hanson for her daily schedule and this is what we received: Dear Independent Australia, Though you are lefty lunatics, 🤣 I have provided my schedule in the hope you actually do some honest reporting. See below:"

"Four Australians were on board the ship, though their identities have not been disclosed. In a statement, DFAT told Reuters it was aware that Australians were on the ship but was not aware of any being affected by the reported hantavirus outbreak."

"Too much time at Mar-A-Lago will fry your judgement, and you’ll start confusing Donald Trump’s interests with Australia’s interests." Does that include Gina Rinehart?

It's a gas, gas, gas .... "Also on Thursday, the Albanese government invited oil and gas companies to bid for exploratory drilling rights across expansive new sections of Commonwealth waters off the coastlines of Victoria and Tasmania."

Here we go again "The Victorian and federal governments have approved plans for a company to drill for offshore gas in waters near the Twelve Apostles. Amplitude Energy says the site, 9 kilometres from the shores of Port Campbell, ....."

Tabcorp under investigation by financial watchdog "Austrac had informed the betting giant that it has “serious concerns” with Tabcorp’s ability to “effectively identify, mitigate and manage its money laundering / terrorism financing (ML/TF) risks” via The Guardian

"A few months before Australia's conservative Liberal Party suffered its worst election defeat last May, Sydney stockbroker Angus Aitken donated #$A230,000 (#$NZ280,000) to the party, a political cause he thought he would support for life."

“Mrs Rinehart welcomes the appointment of the USA Ambassador to Australia,” a spokesman for Rinehart told CBD ...., covering everything from the billionaire’s relationship with the Trump administration to where she suggests Australia could learn from its ally."

Interesting Bloomberg video interview with Amos Hochstein -"who ran the Iran sanctions for Obama in 2012 and then ran energy security for Joe Biden"...

"In the first two months of his leadership, Angus Taylor studiously avoided saying anything remotely interesting. Then he released his immigration policy. The party which dismantled the White Australia Policy has plagiarised Trump and One Nation to embrace discrimination."

"The man was wrong to grab his phone. Both Farley and Pauline Hanson condemned the incident. Was it the right move for Paterson to keep engaging in the argument and film it, however, rather than walk away?"

David Rowe - AFR - Road to Canberra🤣🤣🤣

"That’s precisely the evil regime’s goal as outlined in Project 2025. Flood the news, flood the markets, flood with so much grift and horror and outrage and craziness that people just get overwhelmed and tired and fucking give up. Bingo. Ten points. Pull the bell. We have a winner."

Pulling out all the tricks in their playbook

WHAT WAS CLAIMED A photo shows Communications Minister Anika Wells wearing expensive designer clothes in parliament. OUR VERDICT False. The photo has been edited.

"In 2022 the conservative lobby group Advance Australia (ADVANCE) ran a campaign targeting independent ACT Senate candidate David Pocock, falsely depicting him as a member or proxy for The Greens." In 2026 copycats LNP roll it out in Farrer - nothing original about these guys

WHAT WAS CLAIMED Since 2023, more than 50,000 immigrants have accessed a government home loan scheme that Australian citizens are not entitled to. OUR VERDICT False. The government home loan scheme is not exclusively available to immigrants.

Unbecoming behavior of senior LNP minister Not sure if this is the complete story - but why is James Paterson sticking his camera in the ON volunteer's face and recording his argument with him. You are on the polling booths to answer voters questions - not pick a fight with opposition parties

"Hanson needs to choose. She must decide whether she is on Team Trump or Team Australia – and between battlers, making clear their interests come first, and a billionaire patron. Or she can continue down the current path and hope voters either do not notice or do not care."

"..the Queensland plan ignores the simple fact that six of Australia’s eight refineries have closed since the early 2000s because they were no longer economically viable." "“Right now it feels like a good idea, but when things return to ‘normal’, then we’ll be faced with a situation where … "

This is a good example of "illusionary truth effect" from, one again, One Nation's Pauline Hanson - she is not alone, of course, LNP & NAT's using similar strategy

How lies persist This phenomenon relies on the “illusory truth effect”, identified by psychologists in 1977, where repetition increases the subjective sense of truth regardless of evidence. The nuclear threat was repeated across government and media channels until familiarity was perceived as fact.

Have to ask - how many Ford Rangers have been donated to One Nation? They are popping up in North Queensland one moment, then in Nepean and Farrer the next. If it's just 1, it's certainly getting around during a fuel crisis. Maybe it's fueled by Red Bull and it's got "wings"

Barnaby is not happy ....

Has Tim Wilson MP asked relative Geoff Wilson - Wilson Asset Management - for help AGAIN (like he did during against Bill Shortens tax policies during the 2019 election)

Hanson and Joyce update their respective register of interests to include their travel to Gina's fundraiser Addition 13 April 2026 Flight from Brisbane to Sydney from HPPL. No cost to the taxpayer. 29/04/2026

"There are serious legal and financial implications for failing to register as a significant third party if the Church exceeded regulations regarding electoral expenditure."

Not good - "human-to-human transmission" although risk to public is low - so they say.... "There are seven confirmed or suspected cases among passengers, three of whom have died. The WHO says it suspects there has been human-to-human transmission.

The inflation con Inflation has surged since 2021; we’re told the medicine is interest rate rises. Cool demand, bring prices down. Difficult but necessary.

"Oil didn’t just fuel the modern world; it reorganised global power." "Then the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after World War I opened a new geopolitical contest for the Middle East. The Sykes–Picot Agreement carved borders with resource control in mind and the 1928 Achnacarry Agreement ...."

"Her adviser James Ashby first floated the idea on Sky News on Monday, saying he would “throw a new one into the mix”. “Pauline Hanson might step down from the Senate […] and run for the seat that she lives in,” he said."

Things are going well in the One Nation camp "Another source said that it would be wise for Farley to use Hanson’s new plane, donated by mining billionaire Gina Rinehart last week, to take a holiday during the last week of the campaign."

"The latest The Australian Financial Review/Redbridge Group/Accent Research poll finds Hanson’s loyalty to Trump is the biggest turn-off factor among all voters, and for those already supporting One Nation or considering doing so."

Did anyone else hear this interview on ABC News? He seemed to be taking questions (which sounded scripted to me) ONLY from the telephone from ONE female reporter?

"The inquiry, chaired by Liberal senator Leah Blyth, took a break yesterday afternoon with no explanation as to why. After 15-minutes, the broadcast began again, with Greens senator Jordon Steele-John explaining Philip Morris representatives had just given evidence in private." Why??

"Aviation firefighters will pressure union bosses on superannuation boards, including HESTA and Hostplus, to oppose Airservices Australia’s $2 billion privatisation plan for firefighting equipment and infrastructure at airports across the country."

It's a tough gig being Monica Smit. No longer putting her hand out for donations for her "special" causes, or setting up political parties to harvest preferences for ON with bestie Avi Yemi - she's now flogging skincare products🙄

Another "grassroots" organisation "Charlotte Mortlock is a former Sky News journalist. She founded Hilma’s Network to encourage women to join the Liberal Party but is now founding Something Better Australia."

David Rowe - AFR - "Gone with the Wind" - 🤣

No mention of the government of the NT? “The government, the Greens, the Teals, the ABC are all complicit in the fact that they would rather turn a blind eye,” Ms Nampijinpa Price told Sky News on Sunday.

Barnaby being Barnaby again - pompous .... 🙄

It's unclear when construction could start on projects.

Nepean result shows ‘Liberals can’t govern without One Nation’, Allan says The Guardian