hmm an underwhelming first Media Watch for the year...not too much substance for the 7 story. #mediawatch #auspol

I’m not sure what fresh hell 2026 has planned for us but I have seen articles about Scott Morrison and Tony Abbott today and I thought we were done with that shit.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01... So, according to Morrison and Bragg, Muslims should take responsibility for terrorist acts but Jews are not to be held liable for Israels actions. Muslim sermons must be communicated in English but Jewish prayers in Hebrew are fine.

The largest Advance donation appears to be from a shell company that shares an address with Orion Petroleum, international corporation. You are correct about foreign money. johnmenadue.com/post/2026/01...

If like me, you are afraid, anxious, and concerned about the incredible and almost unbelievable heat across Australia, be sure to remember that this is brought to you by endless government ineptitude, fossil fuel company greed and media complicity. I’m so fucking furious.

There is no reason why that racist cunt Macca should still be on ABC Radio on Sunday mornings except that ABC management are gutless.

Excellent primer on the Atlas Network and it’s impact on Australia www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Greg Moriarty off to Washington? This is the same guy who quietly handed #Robodebt architect Kathryn Campbell a plum, top-tier AUKUS role while the Royal Commission was exposing the damage she helped cause. If this is merit, what does failure look like? #auspol

Marles is more committed to US supremacy than most of the GOP

The Age: "Record numbers of Australians want to keep Australia Day on Jan 26. ....Support for Jan 26 has climbed steadily in the past 3 years in exclusive polls ..." Sad if true. Maybe respondents just want to keep a day off on that date. Make it "King's Birthday" instead & move Aust Day. #auspol

Marles is now a clear and present danger to Australia's national security. If only we had a PM with a spine to rein him in. #AUKUS #auspol

Australians think this, Australians think that is such fucked up arrogance from our public figures. Nobody knows what 27 million people all think. Not one of them has remotely represented my views or the view of people I have real conversations with about 14 December 25.

Scott Morrison is heading to Israel next month on yet another sponsored junket. His public statement criticising Albanese's failure to outlaw criticism of Israel is repayment for the cost of the ticket. #AusPol

Ronnie Salt tells it like it is. Essential reading for Aussies! Don't let the casual language fool you.

David Shoebridge gives the LNP & One Nation a hiding in Senate for opposing gun safety reforms — questioning how they can oppose intel sharing with authorities before someone is issued a licence. Then answers his question “They take funds from the firearms industry!” 💥💰

We don't hate Jews or Judaism, Greg. We hate genocide. We hate apartheid. We hate ethnic cleansing. We hate racism. We hate war. We hate terrorism. We hate settler-colonialism. We hate all these things that Israel was and is guilty of yesterday, today and tomorrow. We want Israel to stop.

Hillary was right of course. He has always worked for Putin.

Howard did so much long-lasting damage to Australia, across multiple policy areas. Yet our right wing news media continues to push the false narrative that he was a good PM. He wasn't. Everything wrong with Australian politics today can be traced back to him. #auspol

Very supportive of a "program that would force manufacturers, importers and retailers of solar panels to take responsibility for the disposal of their products." BUT, if they can do this for renewable products, why cant Gvt get fossil fuel industries to take responsbility for the damage they cause??

This ruinous debacle, born of cynical wedge politics, ties us to a corrupt failed state led by a madman - one divorced from the rule of law and which wants to use us as a landing strip for a war on our biggest trading partner. It is INSANE that there is no organised political opposition to AUKUS.

Highly recommend reading Finnish Lessons (audiobook is an option) on how the Finns junked the private school system in the 1970s and now they have virtually eradicated homelessness, reduced crime & have one of the happiest societies on earth. www.pademelonpress.com.au/product/finn...

Time to end AUKUS, remove US bases and chart an independent, principled and safe defence and foreign policy for Australia. Cringing in fear under the tattered US umbrella while it’s being used to beat up US allies is no longer a credible plan.

This is an incredible story. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Listen to the fucking Nats like Bridget McKenzie and Canavan wheel out all the disingenuous NRA tropes about taking guns off ‘law abiding farmers’. Piss off. Farmers will have only what they need. Most Australians don’t need a gun let alone 5 or 6. Ban the bloody things. We ain’t America.

How in the goddamned fuck do we live in a world where the United States is about to go to war with NATO over Greenland yet our Australian govt still intends to pay the US almost 400 BILLION dollars of OUR MONEY to protect an alliance which instead now shames us all? #NewsCorpse

AUKUS has tied Australia to a sinking nuclear defence enterprise called the United Kingdom. It’s not just a retired UK Admiral, the UK Audit office has tracked the structural failures for years. But don’t worry, Marles and Meade say it’s “on track” - they are dangerously deluded

Meanwhile at Murdoch’s The Australian they are in lock step with the dictatorial Trump who’s murdering his citizens on the street and censorious Zionists who won’t tolerate free speech against the genocidal Israeli regime. “Trump watching Albanese“ 🙄 How about you fuck off!

The sky is tinged pink as Victorians literally breathe in our cremated land and wildlife. I feel so sad and angry on days like these and all I can think of is the NW Shelf extension approval, the new coal and gas projects, the absolute cowardice and contempt of Australian governments on climate.

Go well Usman, a great career for Australia and a wonderful human being. 🏏 #ThanksUzzy #Ashes

It feels pre-ordained. Rigged. The Australian establishment manoeuvring the nation into a subservient fascist surveillance shithole against the will of the informed populace. The newspapers moving in lockstep with conservatives and Zionists; the ALP capitulating wherever it can.

What exactly are the values we share with the US? No healthcare? No holiday or sick leave? Dysfunctional electoral system? Love of Putin? Massive military complex? What exactly? @albomp.bsky.social can you help? #auspol

If the ALP didn’t run a Royal Commission into the Murdoch media, something universally understood to have caused irreparable harm to the country for decades and something more than 500,000 signed a petition for, there is no way you can justify running one for antisemitism. #auspol

BREAKING Josh Frydenberg organises 130 prominent cafe owners to sign a letter demanding that Anthony Albanese use the military to kidnap Dan Andrews and take him to Canberra to go on trial for murdering Melbourne’s CBD

Don’t be cheering the kidnapping of a country’s leader, Australia. The CIA helped remove Whitlam because his policies didn’t align. They’re not our friends. Never were. #falcon #snowman #auspol

Just imagining a world where the ALP had dumped AUKUS and the LNP alone were still clinging to the view that the US was the great protector. “Small target” oppositions lead to bad government policies.

Who organised this, and why does the ABC not state this? Josh Frydenberg? Why should this matter, when petitions signed by a far greater number of ordinary Australians are routinely ignored? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

I have a lot of respect for Professor Brian Cox, but I think we all have to agree that ‘Things Can Only Get Better’ has been thoroughly disproven as a postulation

How in the ever-living fuck do we live in a country where the vast majority have had ZERO beef ever with Aussie Jews but many of those same Jews are now deliberately destroying their good standing in the eyes of others simply because they refuse to accept Israel’s genocide in Gaza? #NewsCorpse

In the name of “social cohesion” Zionists will soon have their own exclusive armed special forces on Australian streets, in addition to special oversight of Australian media, arts, culture, and education by way of the Zionist envoy, Jillian Segal. Cool and normal.

There’s twice as many utes as tradies in Australia. We need remove the luxury car tax exemption which incentivises people to buy megautes instead of safer, cleaner smaller cars and SUVs.

The desperation to end a successful run of government is strong. Mistakes have been made, I’ve disagreed with several decisions of the past decade too, but goddamn the anti-Vic Labor narrative(s) is deranged. I still hope Labor still leads the government after next November, majoring or minority.

James Massola in The Age today: "Why Albanese is plain wrong on a Bondi royal commission" Massola's still working hard to make The Age even more like The Australian. #auspol

Well I think @albomp.bsky.social is doing a good job. He’s giving us calm, considered leadership at a time when hearts are breaking, hounds are mindlessly braying and the far right is doing its best to divide us. Of all the people who could possibly be leading us, I believe we are lucky it’s Albo

Attendee at Bondi massacre commemoration says Albanese is to blame for what happened because he has consistently favoured Islamists over Jews, and says John Howard would make a much better and stronger leader. So basically the current Liberal/National/One Nation politicised line. Sad. #auspol

100% THIS👇👇👇👇

Linking the march across the bridge to the massacre is disgusting and everyone doing so should be deeply ashamed of their giving tacit support for genocide www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Imagine being an Australian First Nations watching the speed of change to combat what could essentially be called racism. Those, like the liberal Party, care far more about a white segment of our society (0.4%) than our only Indigenous people with over 30 deaths in custody this yr! #AusPol

Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems that two years of weaponised genocidal mass murder in Gaza has probably made global political violence and terror *MORE* likely, not *LESS* likely And that opposing mass death makes you anti-terrorism, not pro-terrorism www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

I don't understand all this "antisemitism " talk.The men at Bondi were ISIS terrorists.They were radicalised by a radical cleric apparently. Ordinary Australians aren't shooting Jewish people. The men who perpetrated the fire bombings were recruited by off shore entities. They did it for the money.