I spoke to Radio National this morning about just how bad the Labor and Liberal changes made to hate laws are - no one is made safer by the dirty deal they did in Parliament last night. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Labor is rushing a 144-page omnibus mess through parliament with just 48 hours for public submissions. Communities are fearful this is designed to criminalize people calling out genocide in Gaza. You have my word that we won't let Labor silence dissent.

“We are targeting Venezuela because of DRUGS, not OIL, which is why we are blowing up boats without any drugs and stealing a tanker full of oil.”

1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution. The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵

How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health

Greens say Labor’s nature laws revamp ‘worse than status quo’ with climate impact of fossil fuel projects overlooked

IF THIS IS NOT HOSTAGE TAKING, WHAT IS? Israel refuses to release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya who insisted on staying with his patients in his bombed hospital even after his own son was murdered. Since then he has been held in one of Israel's torture facilities.

1. Yesterday, 86 people were arrested in the UK under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action." They are the opposite of terrorists. They were protesting *against* terrorism. 🧵

See also this - minister for headkicking the environment exactly as Albo planned

Labour might wonder why, less than a year into a new government promising “change”, people are giving up on it in droves. So let me help it out with a few clues. 1. Cutting disability benefits 2. Freezing Local Housing Allowance. 3. Maintaining the cruel, Malthusian two-child benefit cap .... 🧵

Your weekly reminder that the Greens are the only party that is committed to ending AUKUS and making Australia independent from Trump’s US military.

Borrowing from whom? The Bank of England? Then that’s borrowing that need never be paid back as they’re effectively borrowing from themselves. If it’s gilts, then that is a choice. Neither taxation nor borrowing fund spending.

Well I for one am shocked