Inside the heavily guarded, aseptically cool halls of the Indo-Pacific International Maritime Exposition, Australia’s defence minister, Richard Marles, describes it as, for some in the room, “a kind of Disneyland … the happiest place on Earth”. WTF? 🤬 #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

When your presidency runs on manual transmission.

A reminder of how big a trillion is. 1 trillion seconds = 31,546 years

@duchessfrida.bsky.social nb.australiainstitute.org.au/increase_the...

John Menadue: “Charles was a very active participant in the dismissal of Gough Whitlam 50 years ago. Don’t make any mistake about that. Charles was up to his royal ears in it. He was not politically neutral. He sided with privilege and aristocracy.” johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11....

The rotten fruit is starting to drop from the $368B #AUKUS tree. Against the backdrop of @albomp.bsky.social’s choice to spend so much money on a single future capability (that likely won’t arrive), other ‘now’ defence capabilities are suffering. Reckless strategy in tense times 🤦‍♂️. #auspol

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

@albomp.bsky.social Your god bothering AG is out of order. Sort it out!

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Pretending that fossil fuels can be harmless is 100x worse than denying climate science. Not sure I've seen anything that lay it out with such efficient density as this @danrepacholimp.bsky.social speech. I lay it all out at @crikey.com.au for you -->> www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/06/n...

Israel, lies and videotape https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11/israel-lies-and-videotape #auspol

www.ohchr.org/en/statement... “…we unconditionally denounce the US decision to impose sanctions on UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) & reaffirm our commitment to defending… 1/2

Dear ATC, If any small group could effectively make big change right now, IT'S YOU. Stop. Showing. Up. Stop leaking to the media that it's dangerous now. Just stop what you're doing until they fix it. You have tremendous power. SNAP users don't fly, but business folk do. Fuck 'em up. Delay them.

A new report from @oilchange.bsky.social reveals that while most of the world has cut back on fossil fuel production since the Paris Agreement, four Global North countries (the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Norway) have increased oil and gas output by nearly 40%.   🔗 oilchange.org/publications...

speaks volumes that Trump's response to tonight's resounding defeat is to demand Republicans redouble efforts to rig elections

#NobodysGirl also available as an audio book. Such a sad story about VERY evil n cruel bastards! amzn.asia/d/cYb5ONr

New Australia Institute polling research shows most Australians, regardless of who they vote for, think most university degrees are too expensive. “University fees are totally out of step with community expectations.” - Jack Thrower, Senior Economist @jack-thrower.bsky.social #auspol

Only 8% of Australians think we share values with the US under Trump. That’s lower than One Nation’s national vote. Lower than Clive Palmer’s approval. Lower than the error margin of the poll itself. At this point, Dementia polls higher. Labor’s still spooning the guy like it’s 2019 #auspol

Reminder: @amyremeikis.bsky.social is now providing a live blog of Federal Parliament events at thepoint.com.au #auspol #ThePoint

the teens are all about to join substack notes seriously though, how fascinating that mastodon, bsky and threads seem to be not there?

I’m here for the comments lol

"PM Albanese’s culture of secrecy, in three charts" Damning work by @skyelark.bsky.social on this govt's secrecy #OffTheCharts #ThePoint thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

READ THIS: "The powerful don’t want you to ask why we choose to have (both) unemployed people & an urgent need for aged care workers..... They want you to keep your eyes on the government’s meaningless deficit figure, not on the very real deficits in our housing, healthcare, & climate action." #MMT

Dr Assal Rad— “There is no “peace” for Palestinians living under Israeli occupation. There never was. “But @nytimes.com isn’t concerned by that small detail.”

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

A very big part of the problem here is pretty simply that if renewable energy really does actually reduce both wholesale and retail electricity prices, it can "feel" like nothing if it just makes a price rise less severe All people notice is rising bills, even if the rise would've been worse w/o RE

“The seven-year-old girl had been torn apart. The rocket had hit her and torn her into pieces.” Tell me again, @senatorwong.bsky.social, how that phony "ceasefire" is "the greatest contribution to peace in the Middle East for a generation or more." Go to Hell. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

True! 😊

Sadly, our ABC is replete with these same Murdoch media minions, often using false equivalence to “balance” actual science with ‘feel-pinions’ of ignorant & biased people. ABC’s Karvelas does little/nothing to explain the science or to demonstrate the absolute idiocy of the Nationals dumb denialism.

We kick off Pearlcast with a topic close to our hearts, the 50th anniversary of the #Dismissal of the Whitlam Government with Editor-in-Chief John Menadue; Jenny Hocking and Brian Toohey. We launch with two episodes today and I look forward to joining you there.@catrionajackso1 #auspol

For more info... House Notice/Daily Program & more www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar... Senate Dynamic Red & more parlwork.aph.gov.au ParlInfo parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/sea... Hansard www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar... All we have to do to keep the bastards honest is pay attention. 🐝 #auspol #qt

RN Brekky interviews D Littleproud , followed by D Tehan. Is it stale, pale,male anti-intellectual day today? Phht. Poor form #ABC #auspol

It’s official! Accounting tricks denied public schools more than $2b in funding in 2023 https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11/its-official-accounting-tricks-denied-public-schools-over-2-billion-in-funding-in-2023 #auspol

Laughing in the face of a climate crisis.

In Donald Trump's mind, there is only him. He is everything. Everything is his. Everything is about him. Nothing else, no one else, matters. In his own mind, he is the law. Everyone must follow him. He is the only one who gets to say what is right and what is wrong. ...

71.5% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions, according to government data. Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.” As Trump's regime terrorizes communities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of his biggest donors are private prison corporations.

The new Support at Home Program sees the elderly paying private operators per shower. @sarahrussell.bsky.social on the neoliberal aged care program #auspol michaelwest.com.au/pay-per-show...

Obama: "It's like every day is Halloween, except it's all tricks and no treats. And here's the thing -- it's not as if we did not see some of this coming. I mean, I'll admit it's worse than even I expected, but I did warn y'all. And you know what? Donald Trump warned you too."

welcome to the 51st state of USA. aUStralia. When the government doesnt stand up to USA corporate lobbyists and support Aussie musos or movie productions, all we do is import culture from the USA... Is this what we want?

New in PN: 1984, Idiocracy version "Despite Trump’s desperate efforts to hypnotize people into believing his tariff bowel movements smell like sunshine and roses, a large majority of Americans are not enjoying the bouquet of rising prices when they go to the grocery store."

A “let them eat cake” moment. Lying, while ignoring the fact that many in the US will go hungry, is evil & cruel! The world is watching you lie Speaker Johnson. Failing to help/protect your people makes you faux Christian 🤬 & a piss weak politician. #GOP lie for Trump…so pathetic!

"A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought" - Ronald Reagan

I’m watching the Treaty vote. Ayes 21 Noes 16. Victoria has a Treaty with its First Nations People. #springst

“With 94 seats, its largest majority since 1943, Labor governs with the courage of a bunny caught in the headlights, terrified of using its power. Keating would have reshaped the country with these numbers.” theaimn.net/the-governme...

The Albanese government is upset because the Senate has asked it to release a report into jobs given to mates. It is quite specifically grumpy about answering more questions in question time www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

@duchessfrida.bsky.social Due to Starbucks support for Israel 🤪

Wind hits record share of 150 pct of state demand, as fossil energy shrinks to just 1.5 pct of total generation reneweconomy.com.au/wind-hits-re...

That's right, ~80% of Australia's contribution to global carbon emissions is embodied in 🇦🇺's fossil fuel exports The @albomp.bsky.social govt's ceaseless enabling of NEW/EXTENSIONS of Coal & Gas projects (31🤯 so far) is fuelling climate disaster cos no matter where ff burns, physics is physics

Treating billionaires as experts on everything remains one of the media's dumbest reflexes

Well why not? Under the right wing @australianlabor.bsky.social & even more right wing @liberalaus.bsky.social parties, State & Federal govts have been effectively privatised. Neither prioritises public over wealthy private interests & 'donations'. nswliberal.org.au/news/chris-m... #auspol #nswpol