So this guy who was arrested today & charged for allegedly planning or preparing for a terrorist act ( inc. throwing Molotov cocktails on the Gold Coast on Australia Day) was doing a PhD on drone navigation and precise landing. #auspol

Imagine having the entire news media, the entire opposition and a bunch of former Olympians attacking you literally non-stop for a month, and the outcome is a poll which matches your 2025 election landslide. #auspol #newspoll

Unfortunately for Malinauskas, the internet remembers. Instagram user beccilove dug out this quote from a few years ago.

Bye bye Adelaide Writers Festival. You were great once.

Would the last writer to withdraw from Adelaide Writers Week please turn off Amanda Vanstone. Thank you.

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

So many motivations for the US action in Venezuela are not talked about including access to heavier crude oil which is needed by US refineries and also the threat to US dollar financial domination as Venezuela (& BRICS) are increasingly selling oil in Chinese Yuan. #ABC730

Wondering whether any highly paid CEOs, sports stars or other non-experts now calling for a RC into Bondi said a word when the LNP rejected calls for a Banking RC or a Robodebt RC. 🤔

It would be practically and legally impossible to hold a royal commission that goes anywhere near the actions or motivations of the accused killer, before his criminal proceedings are concluded, which could take years. That limitation would render the royal commission itself pointlessly premature.

Now do this with Netanyahu

New York’s new Socialist Mayor, Zohran Mamdani, reaction to a heckler.

What the actual fuck is wrong with Chris Minns?

Today’s Bob Dylan. Jesse Welles sings indie-folk songs about things Dylan would sing about if he was 30 something today. US centric but with messages that register globally. #auspol youtu.be/61I4hlig78w?

Media release: Unity must guide the Government's response to Bondi attack, not divisive pro-Israel wishlist Full release available at the link in our bio.

Psst - Gaza … the elephant in the room.

Thomas Keneally putting into words exactly how I feel. “Attacks such as these are designed to shut up debate; to drive one side to a rancour, & serve to make government more radical, while encouraging acts of radicalism from one’s own side so that the cauldron boils over, stoked from every side.”

Just one of the many lies by distortion told by Frydenberg last night on #abc730 - his insinuation that Jewish schools have armed guards due to a failure by Albo. In fact armed guards were initiated in 2015 - when the LNP was in power & Frydenberg was Asst Treasurer. #auspol

Irrelevant, side-lined man with ambitions far greater than his abilities sees mass-murder as a golden opportunity to re-establish his profile through faux apoplexy and dishonest drum-beating. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

It is shocking Josh Frydenberg is trying to restart his political career off the back of this nightmarish terrorist attack in Bondi. #ABC730

Disgusting that Frydenburg is saying that the PM is personally responsible for #bondi As he always was, Frydenburg is 100% divisional politics. #abc730 #auspol

I would rather listen to this ex-PM than those politicising #bondi like John Howard. #abc730

“one thing Hanson can benefit from having Joyce in the party is a substantial salary boost, thanks to One Nation now having five MPs and achieving official party status. … Hanson receives a 42.5 per cent pay increase, taking her salary to $340,900.” - ex angelapriestley.bsky.social #auspol

He went back for his hat! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Kudos to David Littleproud for his genuine, heartfelt best wishes extended to Albo & Jodie on #insiders . Nice to see expressions of humanity in #auspol

“The Opposition has talked themselves into irrelevancy” - Graeme Samuel #insiders #auspol

I hope #insiders acknowledges the opening today of the most beautiful inner-city railway stations in Australia - Melbourne’s 9km Metro Tunnel with 5 new stations. Credit to ALP Premier Andrews who pushed ahead after various myopic LNP leaders (Baillieu, Napthine & Abbott) tried to shelve it #auspol

“America was softened up for Trump long before he arrived” - Kerry O’Brien Walkley Awards. “Don’t believe it can’t happen here” #auspol

Lobster fishery off Bruny Island in TAS closed on eve of the opening of fishing season due to antibiotic use by the salmon farms. No indication of how long for. Must be a devastating blow for fishermen approaching Xmas.

In a nice twist on interfaith cooperation, the blast-proof glass that once protected the Catholic Pope, will now protect Palestinian children & health workers in Gaza from Israeli snipers during mobile medical treatment. #SanctionIsrael #AusPol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Geez, this is not #AustralianStory … it is Leigh Sales doing an interview. ABC’s Australian Story format is unique & brilliant - introduced by someone close to the subject with just the subject & those connected with the story telling the story. No interviewer needed. Don’t mess with the format!

$100 million for a failed website (that has no registered users / password access / consumer data / paywall / ecommerce etc etc etc) is truly insane. $78 million for "design"!?!?! www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

“I am a millennial” says Victoria’s new Liberal leader, Jess Wilson. She has said it a zillion times just in case you missed it. #springst #auspol

X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based. Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

Nicki Savva (who has very strong LNP sources) said on #insiders that the South Australian Liberals are worried that in the March state election they might be reduced to ZERO seats. #auspol

“We are witnessing one of history’s greatest betrayals” - Mark Kenny re Trump pushing the putrid Putin “peace” deal on Ukraine. #insiders

The reason why Trump’s meeting with his sparring partner the newly elected New York Mayor, Zohran Mamdani surprisingly went so well. Trump loves getting coverage. “"I've had a lot of meetings with the heads of major countries, nobody cared. This meeting — you people have gone crazy."

End times for the USA. #auspol

“If you work in the zoo don’t try to be friendly with the animals” - Australian political journo of yesteryear on “Anabel Crabb’s Civic Duty “ re working with pollies. #auspol

“What’s good for the planet is good for your pocket.” - Chris Bowen #insiders

Arguably the most arrogant Australian journo, Paul Kelly, does a story about Gough Whitlam’s dismissal and puts himself at the start of the timeline. #auspol #dismissal

We are entering bushfire season in Oz which always focuses people’s minds on the (literally) inflammatory effect of climate change on our world. If the LNP does ditch Net Zero the LNP will become even more electorally insignificant. #insiders #auspol

Um … David Littleproud on #abc730 saying that one third of Australians can’t afford to put food on the table tonight. One in three people you see in the street? Nine million people? Clear, obvious lies like this should be challenged on the fly otherwise all credibility is lost. #auspol

Oh my God, Cuba. When the guy is dead you can stop punching!

Trump “confuses dementia screening for ‘very hard' IQ test as he brags about results.” "Trump has previously bragged about his performance on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, a dementia screening administered by clinicians that is not intended to test for intelligence.” people.com/donald-trump...

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos." factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Of course Barnaby Joyce hasn’t announced how he sees his future. He is getting far too much enjoyment in lapping up all the attention journos are giving him as he vacillates. #abc730 #auspol