I'm not a botanist, but I know a tomato plant when I see one. 🍅

Relying on tug boat from Australia risks lives, council leaders say

The Catholic Church receives a major blow in its efforts to not compensate abuse victims www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/12/c...

Labor used to be the 'working class' party, but they stopped listening to actual tradies and started listening to construction companies and massive, corrupt unions (see the CMFEU saga).

I noticed that MPs of the big parties stopped listening to constituents (voters) and instead listened to lobby groups (the top end of town). The Nationals once represented farmers and country folk. Now the represent miners, multinational corps etc, not farmers on the land.

Peta Credlin who has pushed Liberals into far right oblivion says she’s “saddened” to see the party so unpopular today. #auspol

Turnbull on Taylor - ‘he’s the most qualified idiot you’ve ever met’ #auspol

NZers can still vote from overseas. Friends and family should encourage them to vote for parties that would support a country they'd want to return to. #NZpol

Anyone blaming Hasan Piker (a twitch streamer) for the failures of Democrats are the reason Democrats keep failing. If you want people to vote for democrats then demand democrats have a positive vision and good policies worth voting for - not endless concessions and pandering to Republicans.

If the cap fits. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Chris Minns’ refusal to apologise is extremely offensive, divisive and inflammatory. So much for social cohesion.

rather than play advocate, go meet your client in person to be sure you understand their concerns

Are we at the point now where -- even if you've "committed" to US manufacturing investment on the threat of tariffs -- you're doing the math on just waiting him out? Or hedging the possibility of a policy pendulum swing?

I've found 3 streams of the Melbourne Rally all with no sound. This is one of them #AusPol #FreePalestine www.youtube.com/live/wQMjqYP...

Thousands of people come out again and again to show they’re on the right side of history.

Minns: Police would "never, ever have disrupted a prayer service … unless it was in the middle of a riot" What riot? There was no riot!!! We have seen all the videos. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

If you took the ideological craziness out of the Liberal Party it would be so easy to run and win against Labor. But you just can’t trust people who lie because SkyNews bullied them into it.

This is Victoria Police employing their new powers to demand to see your papers. Like, well, you know. #ACAB, including the cops who do “I don’t like it either, but I’m just following orders” acting. #VicPol #AusPol

Disgusting interview with Jeremy Liebler on thr ABC this morning, filled with Orwellian abuse of truth, in service of a colonial slaughter and conquest. It's a minor casualty compared to most of this era, but I miss being able to listen to the radio without being throttled w/ propaganda

You can’t have an abortion but you can kill your grown daughter if she disagrees with you

#YouGov ALP 30 L-NP 19 ON 28 Grn 12 IND 5 other 6 2PP 54-46 to ALP vs L-NP (Alternative 55-45 to ALP vs ON, I assume respondent prefs as my last-election estimate there is 52.1).

Their head of state

Woah this episode of News Weakly by Sami Shah is brilliant. I have never listened to an episode twice in a row before. “And every time the state treats dissent as contagion rather than communication, it teaches people that the system cannot hear them unless they shout louder next time.”

I can vouch that NSW police act like this in western Sydney and towns with high Aboriginal populations every single day, and are in fact largely untouchable. The difference today is the number of white people who saw what police do, usually with impunity.

Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this

"I'm more used to signing missiles but with the similar shape I'm sure I can make it work." chaser.com.au/general-news...

Whatever you think about the protests against Herzog — and nothing I say should be taken as an endorsement of any particular position — the fact that every major protest went smoothly (Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Darwin, Adelaide) except Sydney suggests a Sydney-specific policing problem.

The language of “social cohesion” was never neutral. It was a calculated, callous move to silence dissent on Palestine. You can keep it. Decent Australians demand justice, international law upheld, and an end to our complicity with a rogue apartheid state committing genocide.

Yes yes, but did you hear Sydneysiders attempted to protest?? After the government asked them kindly *not to*???

https://preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webview/448398/178638197428848429 @chaser #auspol

this is literally going to strongarm every queer user into giving info after they declared every single lgbtq+ server to be "adult servers" years ago. so now it's literally give us your info or lose access to your communities and resources. fuck you discord.

If we are going to ban symbols and phrases because of 'social cohesion' then we really should start banning some moustaches too.

There was a lot of people last night at the Syd protest who either haven’t protested in years or have never protested - & they saw things last night they never thought they’d see - & now to see politicians, police & media lie about it. This is a turning point #auspol #nswpol

Never forget the protection Nazis received from NSW Police when they gathered outside the NSW Parliament in 2025. No-one was violently assaulted. No-one was pepper sprayed. No-one was arrested. You'll recall—Nazis are renowned for protecting Jewish communities. #sarcasm #auspol

I would love a visual meme - reworking the "Learn something For Dummies" genre but its Albo reading... "Social Cohesion through Over-Policing For Dummies."

This Is a lesson for us all. What happens in America is not isolated to that country. A country that is an ally to a genocidal state will destroy civil liberties and use state sanctioned violence to protect its vested interests #auspol

Ah yes, social cohesion in action

5/ NSW Police calmly directing a large crowd of people along Bathurst Street, Sydney.

#SackMinns #WTF #HerzogIsNotWelcome #auspol #Jackboots

The perpetrators - who look remarkably like members of the black-shirted mob that marched on NSW Parliament last month without any interference 🧐

Chris Minns has a lot of explaining to do, to the NSW public and to his own party colleagues. But so too has Anthony Albanese who has completely failed to read the room in welcoming such an unpopular head of state to our country. #auspol

@albomp.bsky.social is this your social cohesion? What's next? Murdering protesters like the US? Turn off the internet and start killing marchers like Iran? Bulldozing the arresteds homes like Israel? You and Minns own this, the new labor legacy. #auspol #genocide bsky.app/profile/drop...

If the NSW police defence to the brutality we are all witnessing in our feeds is "the video's don't give full context." I call on them to release all police body-cam footage from last night's police action against protestors. Give us the full and proper context.

Do they teach this at the NSW Police Academy? Brutality 101, am I right? #HerzogProtest #auspol

I am shook by the scenes from Sydney last night. We have been judging the actions of ICE in the USA but then we have imported the same behaviour here. Not just arresting people praying but assaulting them at the same time. Aggressive over-policing will not lead to “social cohesion”.

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

Old Man Yelling at Cloud

Australian Labor: if we don’t like your politics, we will change the laws to let police beat the crap out of you.

We know who’s side Labor politicians are on, and it’s definitely not the Australian people’s

As someone else said recently, the beatings will continue until social cohesion improves.