SCAG pics.

Like others before him, Gates isn’t taking responsibility. He’s just trying to rehabilitate his reputation. Like Chomsky, Gates claims he was aware of some "18-month thing" that had limited Epstein's travel, but he didn't properly check his background. Didn’t bother to check? #AbsoluteBollocks

When News Corp writes about ex-premier Andrews, it’s called a Dantrum.

Interesting post about the coordinated anti-AOC smear campaign. It's 2016 again! Fake local news outlets on Facebook getting picked up until eventually it winds up in the Washington Post.

News Corp says the Trump family and Altus Property Group have been “given the green light” to build a 91-storey branded hotel. They didn’t speak to acting Gold Coast mayor, Mark Hammel, who says no developer application has been submitted yet. All this palaver for a brand deal. #AusPol #Dodgy

An invitee to the Advance conference said that Angela Merkel “did more damage to the fabric of her country than the Nazis did, than Hitler did, 80 years ago.” Because immigration, apparently. Can’t believe there are sections of the local Jewish community that support this organisation.

Of course being the nephew of the Attorney General has nothing to do with getting no jail sentence for killing an Aboriginal person and showing absolutely no remorse only further racism. None at all. They said so. 🤬

A tariff “refund” mostly goes to whoever wrote the tariff check: the importer of record. That’s not the same person who paid more at the register. So refunds -- if they're offered -- might sound like consumer relief, but in reality, they're corporate windfalls.

Drop a crush from your youth.

Scratch the surface and the disgusting underbelly will be revealed. “He pushed her up against a wall and tried to kiss her. Ms Slorach resisted and turned her face away. ‘And when I said, “Get off me, no”, he called me a frigid bitch.’ She was 12 years old.” #AusPol #RapeCulture ab.co/4c8CZqn

I’m calling bullsh*t. “Mr Amon…continued making conversation in the days afterwards about topics including ‘what I was doing at school that day’…” Here’s an idea, maybe people in their mid-30s should avoid meeting up with school-aged children for sex. #AnotherRapeyNewsDay Sigh. ab.co/46dG5Ws

A convicted rapist is vetting and training One Nation candidates to enter the Australian parliament. Pauline Hanson and her financial backers do NOT care that their “campaign director” is a rapist. They worship Trump and Maga so a sexual assault conviction is probably a job requirement. #AusPol

#RapeCulture in action. Powerful people refusing to answer journalists’ questions about sexual assault is very on-brand for the times. It’s depressing that locals fell into line so quickly. If you scratch the surface of this shitty town, I’m certain you’ll find much worse. #AusPol ab.co/3Oo37DX

Just in case there were any doubts about where Angus Taylor will take the Liberals. His Chief of Staff Sam Riordan will be coming back to the Liberal Party fold after a stint working for Australian Energy Producers (the lobby group of big oil & gas).

Am thinking the Sydney Writers Festival has just become much improved

Jesus wept, this is ridiculous. Pauline Hanson is baying for Muslim blood on Sky News but this bar is apparently a crime scene because of posters. Vance and Trump dressed as Sgt Schultz and Col Klink is not offensive. It’s kind of accurate. #AusPol #BogansHeroes www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

People who are angry at Grace Tame are telling on themselves. They don’t want children to be harmed but they’re willing to look the other way if it happens. We saw it with the RC into institutionalised abuse. Powerful people defended horrific actions. And now they’re angry? #AusPol bit.ly/3MhUCJZ

Do they have enough people eating raw onions? “…regardless of whether he is in parliament, party headquarters or writing Substack essays and appearing on Sky News and the rightwing speaking circuit…Abbott once again wields control over the Liberals’ philosophical direction.” #AusPol bit.ly/3OmcAvt

Here’s another example of Libs being stuck because of their dedication to billionaires. We know nuclear is ridiculous when compared to renewables but the Libs can’t shift their policy because it was written by their bosses - Rinehart, Murdoch, Forrest et al. #AusPol www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Re-shared in an attempt to capture the southern hemisphere journal editors. 🤓

The Libs will adopt Trump-style immigration policies because that’s who they are. The party is wedded to Murdoch, SkyNews and other rightwing entities. Taylor and Co will crack down on migrants, non-white people and moderate Libs. And they’ll have full support of all the Oz billionaires. #AusPol

It doesn’t matter where you are in the world, News Corp sings the same fascist tune: Immigration crackdown Shut the door Love it or leave Ad infinitum. #AusPol

Dr Jeremy Walker details the “enormous war chest” of Advance & lists funders inc Gina Rinehart, James Packer, IPA board, Woodside’s Charles Goode & “the priv foundation of Jillian Segal” - who pay Advance to “flood social media with aggressive Far Right disinformation”🔥 #auspol

Absolute proof that these brain dead Liberal numpties have no policies at all. It's so bad that they are recycling the old ones that got them booted in 2022 and decimated in 2025. "...Taylor says nuclear should be part of Australia's energy mix.." Un fvcking believable! 🙄

Angus Taylor will try to unite the Liberal Party using traditional Liberal values: fear, loathing and hating immigrants. “…[S]enior sources have told Four Corners that the Liberal Party is actively discussing a controversial approach to immigration inspired by a recent UK Labour policy.” #AusPol

I kid you not, the Business Section of today’s Australian has a full-page story headed “What would Thatcher do?” FFS, it’s Thatcher that landed us here in the first place. She’d likely rob the pension funds of the working poor, but surely we’ve advanced beyond that regressive neoliberal wet dream?

This timeline sucks. “Gender studies…brought a critical lens to the biological determinism Trump invokes. And this critical lens extends to revealing how gender hierarchies enable the kind of abuses that some men in Epstein’s circle seemingly believed they had the right to commit.” bit.ly/3ZF1YKr

More Nine Entertainment Liberal PR dressed up as news. Taylor is the leader of the opposition, not the government. He can write to Albanese all he wants. Nobody cares. Maybe he could drop a note to Emmanuel Macron and challenge him to a duel over net zero. #AusPol #PenPals bit.ly/4rWjnKT

The world sends its thanks to RFK Jnr and Trump. “The outbreak comes amid declining uptake of the MMRV vaccine across the UK, with only about 84% of children receiving both doses by the age of five, well below the 95% level needed to prevent outbreaks.” #WelcomeBackMeasles bit.ly/46aVKWn

To be true to its origins, it should definitely be called the Epstein ballroom. “The project is being financed by private donors and large corporations including Meta, Apple, Amazon, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Palantir Technologies, Google and Comcast.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19.

Human women choose the bear. Female Golem Grab tortoises choose the cliff. The so-called male loneliness epidemic is just natural selection at work. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/s...

Victim blaming - the real reason you're paying more is the system is rigger in favour of those with wealth, and those who set the rates will always protect capital by hurting those with little. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The Libs believe in meritocracy for men and servitude for women. “Ley’s tenure was marred by disunity...The six men included leadership aspirants Andrew Hastie and Angus Taylor, as well as senators Jonno Duniam and James Paterson, who were members of Ley’s leadership team.” #AusPol bit.ly/4rpTa7E

Lovely illustrative tribute to the mighty Jon Kudelka in the Saturday Paper today.

This seems important. #AusPol

Who is Angus Taylor? 1. MP who it seems used to run multiple sock-puppet socials accounts so that he could praise himself online, perhaps when few others would, until he mixed up his logins, and ... oops.

Centrelink recipients who had Robodebts have just weeks to sign up to receive part of a massive payout. The federal government last year agreed to pay $475 million in additional compensation to about 450,000 victims of the calamitous robodebt scandal au.finance.yahoo.com/news/centrel...

"The beatings will continue until social cohesion improves" Poster seen in Sydney denouncing NSW Premier Chris Minns who ordered a brutal police attack on Palestine protesters this week, justified under the totalitarian mantra of "Social Cohesion". via @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social

Great article, great point. “…[W]hen you see a rally or a demonstration turn ugly, it’s almost always because the cops decided that’s how it was gonna go. Likewise, if and when the cops decide there’s nothing wrong with your Nazi cosplaydate, everything will run smoothly.” #AusPol

We’re poorly served by our politicians and our media in Australia BUT we have some of the best cartoonists in the world. #AusPol #Kudelka

To be fair, certain parts of our political establishment would replicate this decision in a heartbeat. “Mr Trump has said he believes climate change is a ‘con job’, leaving the world's largest historic contributor to global warming out of international efforts.” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Post someone awesome who shares a name with you.

This is the trouble with having a captured media and a shit opposition. An unchecked government can open another new coal mine and Oz journalists will report breathlessly on the inner workings of a party tearing itself apart. #AusPol

So… a couple of weeks back, Murdoch’s The Australian platformed Bjorn Lomborg again. He’s the climate obfuscator. You’ll see in the bio that they give him, Bjorn is affiliated with the Hoover Institution. That’s an Atlas Network partner. There’s more… #Auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Coalition to face messy by-election in Farrer with Sussan Ley retiring. Certain to be Liberal and National candidates, One Nation in the field with the liklehood of local Independents as well. antonygreen.com.au/will-the-coa...

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.