Another thing that makes me feel old. I won't be watching the #Traitors, even though its a great show. (UK especially) I recognise only three people in that throng of reality stars and influencers: Dicko, Reece and Shane. The rest are just blurs of white teeth and fake tans. Good luck, #TraitorsAU

Frenchman Meets with an Actual Surrender Monkey.

A man can endure the entire weight of the universe for eighty years. It is unreality that he cannot bear.

Things I find reassuring. PHON is a grievance based, geographically centralised party of low candidate retention with everything run through an incredibly incompetent head office, with the whole thing based on the profile of its 72 year old semi-articulate founder. Add the pref voting system 💥

The Greens have referred KPMG to the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) for suspected corruption breaches, in the wake of recent multiple scandals, including allegations of misusing confidential client information to get more audit work & mistreating a whistleblower.

What books give us – Hermann Hesse on reading and the heart of wisdom www.themarginalian.org/2023/12/22/h...

Virginia Woolf on what makes love last www.themarginalian.org/2016/05/11/v...

Another thing that makes me feel old. I won't be watching the #Traitors, even though its a great show. (UK especially) I recognise only three people in that throng of reality stars and influencers: Dicko, Reece and Shane. The rest are just blurs of white teeth and fake tans. Good luck, #TraitorsAU

Go, Wyndham. Lead the way. "This is a different kind of people power. Not barricades, not slogans, not a petition that disappears into an inbox. ... A community that has done its homework and is prepared to use it." #Auspol

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Mucho respect for Zoe but the big difference between Trump's and PHONy's rise is that he had a functioning 175 yo party in place which he hijacked, and Hanson can't manage hers. Give me reasons to think this has changed and I'll start to worry #Auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Meanwhile, in the One Nation commentary box… @theageaustralia.bsky.social

Mucho respect for Zoe but the big difference between Trump's and PHONy's rise is that he had a functioning 175 yo party in place which he hijacked, and Hanson can't manage hers. Give me reasons to think this has changed and I'll start to worry #Auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

For the ilLiberal party this just means trotting out all the old culture wars tropes and shouting them a little bit louder. If at first you don't succeed, do the same things again only worse. #Auspol michaelwest.com.au/liberal-mp-a...

Maybe Albo will bend to our will now that PHONy is nipping at its heels. This is one area where it could. #Auspol australiainstitute.org.au/post/austral...

Let's hope this is a new trend in all the states and eventually the fed. #Auspol australiainstitute.org.au/post/new-pus...

We have 8 community independent MPs who represent the best of politics. Why aren't their achievements being trumpeted to the nation? We'd rather read about grievance and controversy. We've got to show #Auspol that there is an alternative to PHONy. www.newpolitics.com.au/p/the-one-na...

Amy is channeling Rutger Bregman. And for me this means ignoring the PHONy rise and focusing on grass roots politics via the Community Independents, our only saviours. #Auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

"Abbott said Duniam’s retirement required the opposition to put “every hand on deck right now to save Australia from a terrible government and keep us our best selves”." It should read "to save the Liberal party from humiliating oblivion." #Auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Australia Institute Chief Economist Greg Jericho shuts down claims that Labor’s CGT changes will hike rents & reduce housing supply, saying actually, “the best thing about this policy is over the long term it will reduce rental rates & increase home ownership rates.”🎯 #auspol

Treasure Island author Robert Louis Stevenson on what makes life worth living www.themarginalian.org/2023/06/05/r...

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A basic income program in central Iowa gave 110 people $500/mo. It caused improvements in savings, stress, and agency. It also found significant changes in scores relating to hope — the ability to create goals and feel capable of working toward them, and also increases in mattering and self-reliance

Further evidence that PHONy don't care about their voters and are bowing to foreign influence. "This rhetoric doesn’t appear to be in response to voter demand. One Nation voters, like most Australians, are broadly pro-choice." #Auspol theconversation.com/one-nations-...

Add your name to the @australiainstitute.org.au petition for A National Plebiscite for a 25% Gas Export Tax gas-plebiscite.australiainstitute.org.au

"The Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion cannot do its job if it doesn’t investigate all the major reasons for rises in antisemitism in Australia." Like attacks on journalists ... #Auspol

I made myself a vessel. I know its shape. But not the clay. Life danced me. I know the dances. But I don't know who the dancer is.

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Let them copy each other into oblivion. Both have an erroneous take on immigration, both look like they will struggle to deliver their promises, and it means the Red Terror here would have to abolish Medicare. Good luck with that. #Auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

Someone should rename it The Trump Regime Talent Pool

Happy birthday, you head of a historically murderous and racist empire. Enjoy your billions while the millions you stole from starve and die of preventable diseases. #Auspol #UKpol

Yep

How about Indigenous Sovereignty on every continent of the world? iview.abc.net.au/show/stuff-t...

Prediction: If PHONy doesn't implode in the next two years by mismanagement or clash of egos, I expect about half or less of the current projected seats in the House. When they fail to deliver their promises, they will slowly disappear from the #Auspol landscape. thewest.com.au/politics/fed...

The Labor government are looking more like Soviet-era KGB-lite than a liberal democracy. #Auspol michaelwest.com.au/whistleblowe...

How to beat the right. "That is the method. You do not beat a manipulated narrative by being more emotionally compelling than the manipulators. You beat it by being more precise. Name the mechanism. Trace the history. Remove the mystification." #Auspol suebarrett.substack.com/p/stop-being...

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Let them copy each other into oblivion. Both have an erroneous take on immigration, both look like they will struggle to deliver their promises, and it means the Red Terror here would have to abolish Medicare. Good luck with that. #Auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

TESLA: A shitty company that loses money and makes bad cars that blow up. TWITTER: A shitty platform that ruined civil discourse and loses money. SPACEX: A shitty company whose rockets explode and only survived thanks to government welfare. WALL STREET: "OMG! Elon Musk is a business genius!!!!!"

Pauline Hanson Vic fundraiser turns ugly as Neo-Nazis show up in support. But a humiliating end for Neo-Nazi Michael Nelson—arrested face down in handcuffs, sobs out to his hero “Heil Hanson! The great white hope!” Hanson owns this. She is their champion with same agenda #auspol

The Australian media and government would have you believe the opposite. Shared via Ette Media. #Auspol www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

A champion for humanity. Highly recommended. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPUM...

Aussie human rights? Yeah, nah. #Auspol michaelwest.com.au/death-knell-...

Australian police are an absolute disgrace, not least of all in New South Wales. #auspol #nswpol #FreePalestine

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At Pauline Hanson’s Melbourne fundraising dinner in Melbourne they’ll only be serving that classic Aussie pub meal Palmergina

From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things.