As well as the Law Council of Australia, more disability peak bodies have come out to oppose the sudden introduction of new powers for police & ministers to cancel social security for people accused of a serious offence.

Aus is supposed to be a country where the rule of law & natural justice applies. The Gov’s sneaky attempt to strip welfare from people before they’ve been convicted of any crime is a fundamental breach of these principles. We may as well dissolve the court system. #auspol #politas

"So there was our PM - a man who talks and lives in all lower-case letters - sitting up at the table with the man who lives permanently in an all-caps world." My latest article in The Shot: Mr Albanese Goes To Washington. 😎 theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

David Pope in Canberra Times

Good to catch up with Zack and the crew from Rising Tide today - they took on the fossil fuel lobby on Sydney Harbour this morning and backed up at the Free Palestine rally in Hyde Park. Our movement is full of good people like Zack.

Amazing. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

The clear air column ran in the Saturday politics slot this week. It’s partly on politics and partly on what we know about whether the new environment protection bill will, you know, protect the environment www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🚨 We won! Charges dismissed for the first People’s Blockade defendants! ⚖️ A major win for the climate movement and protest rights in NSW. And against Minns’ anti-protest laws. Blockade 2025: Nov 27 – Dec 2 🌊 Sign to stop the coal ships: 🔗 risingtide.nationbuilder.com/stop_the_coal_ships

Wondered where @johnthelyonsden.bsky.social was in ABC's coverage, suspected he'd been excluded. Confirmed by @barnsgreg.bsky.social johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

Why I started Readers and Writers Against the Genocide (RWAG) 'As a literary community, we trade in creative freedom, free speech and the contestation of ideas,' says RWAG founder Aviva Tuffield. www.artshub.com.au/news/opinion...

The dispute between Chris Hedges and David Marr reveals much about the dire state of our press, writes @amyremeikis.bsky.social www.deepcutnews.com/p/australian...

FFS tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/cement-...

World War 2 veterans, the original antifa, took part in the nationwide protests against the fascist Trump regime. #3E #NoKings #50501Movement #indivisible #wearetheflood

No sign of the two way arms trade between Australia and Israel slowing as Australia purchases approx $20m worth of weapons from Elbit.

And our clever leaders have already said no to a climate trigger in the EPBC and instead will rely on a deeply, deeply flawed and farcical ‘Safeguard Mechanism’ theconversation.com/labor-is-clo... #Ecocide #ClimateCrisis

More of the Trump extortion game at work. Apparently @albomp.bsky.social intends to pay 1 billion of our money to appease Trump. Hell NO. #Auspol

Really strong story from @newcastleherald.bsky.social about the Hunter Region’s role sending F35 jet fighter weapons parts to Israel for its genocide in Gaza. The F35 regional hub in Williamtown isn’t for Australia’s defence, it’s a US controlled global weapons hub run by the US, for the US

"I was meeting with senior leaders in Congress who were evangelical about the importance of Aukus", Defence Industry Minister, Pat Conroy's "real positivity" engagements. Evangelical usually = a big red flag, esp in the US. Admitting AUKUS is an act of faith? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Heard @ronnisalt.bsky.social use a phrase on the #SundayShot referring to the NACC 'practicing weaponised incompetence' which seems equally appropriate for the Tasmanian Liberal Government. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Congrats to Tawny Frogmouths. Saw a couple this morning with their chick. They looked completely nonchalant about all the Bird of the Year carry on, as you'd expect. 2027 is the Gang Gang's year! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Chris Hedges providing history & context and concluding "This bloody saga is not over. Israel’s goals remain unchanged: the dispossession and erasure of Palestinians from their land." johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

If you were hoping to hear Chris Hedges speak at the National Press Club and were stymied by the NPC's cancellation of him... There is this instead (in Adelaide): events.humanitix.com/edward-said-...

The beloved Saleh Al-Jafarawi has been murdered. We are absolutely devastated. For 2 years he reported on the genocide of his people, just for him to be murdered during the ‘ceasefire’

Important evidence about Tony Blair deciding Gaza’s fate. His “thinktank” is heavily funded by Zionist money, particularly Larry Ellison who flipped Dem to Rep over Israel. Bought CBS, trying for CNN too. Controlling US TikTok for Israel. Massive program to stop condemnation of genocide.

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

The Albanese govt’s first term was the second most secretive on record. Rather than changing their ways, they’re doubling down and tightening our FOI system to make it even harder to get information. Not a single expert or member of parliament outside of the Labor party has backed their new bill.

Just so we’re clear: Labor is choosing to work with the worst possible party on environmental issues, instead of the Greens and teals who actually want environmental regulation. And Watt is already admitting it won’t have a climate trigger …

Sounds like @davidpocock.bsky.social has hit a nerve. Fact that the Sports Club and PM can't see the issue doesn't mean there isn't one. Kicking Pocock out is reminiscent of the primary school playground. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

How we ‘fess up when we mess up shows who we are. Pay it all back Deloitte. And apologise. Give yrsrlf some procurement teeth Labor: the capability to ban for poor behaviour, commensurate with the misdemeanour, up to 5 yrs.

I don’t know about you, but I’m a bit scared of any new ‘environment laws’ that Labor can get Matt Canavan and Andrew Hastie to vote for…I think they will be better described as ‘ how to build more mines faster laws’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Labor of course do not need one single vote of the LNP to pass any laws, so they are choosing to make the laws weaker.

File this under "Failures in government policy-making" for future reference. And, for the record, restating my opinion that this stadium will cost at least $1.5bn and not have a roof. Certainly not the roof pictured. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

A letter to those who taught me my Jewishness, and who now sit on the other side of a deep chasm. When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Today the Tas Govt officially binned the Planning Commission’s damning report into the proposed Mac Pt AFL stadium. But if the knuckleheads actually knew anything about ‘future prosperity’, they’d be focussed instead on essential infrastructure and services #auspol #politas

Is it relevant that the National Press Club sponsors include at least 5 corporations who work with the Israeli arms industry?? Incl: Lockheed Martin KBR Raytheon

"The National Press Club Statement declares that Chris Hedges’ appearance was “ tentatively agreed to”. This is untrue. AFOPA received written confirmation from the NPC’s Chief Executive on 8 September 2025 as follows [...]"

ICYMI: @nicolefroio.bsky.social writes about the revolutionary potential of music through an analysis of Kneecap ( @kneecapceol.bsky.social ) and their solidarity with Palestine: the-flytrap.ghost.io/censorship-o...

"...Israel, while continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide and mass destruction... attempting to erase an entire population...again violated international law by preventing humanitarian aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved." Greta Thunberg www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

Read in full here: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...