Two great reads on Lamestream today: An analysis of the political response to Bondi, and a look at how Australia’s gun laws haven’t kept up to speed with weapons manufacturers. www.lamestream.com.au/how-politics...

The protest/speech/liberties crackdown in Australia right now is obviously much more significant than what occurred post 9/11. Also striking is how completely silent progressives are on it. Minns has announced the outlawing of protests and the Greens are ?

Incredibly craven stuff by the AFR in their editorial. Happy to crackdown on all speech except don’t take away our right to be anti-immigration.

Amazing job with today’s episode @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social and @scottmitchell.bsky.social www.lamestream.com.au

Thoughtful, critical analysis of the Australian media’s response so far to the #Bondi attack on Lamestream - notes much of the framing is coming from national / Federal politics journalists, distinct from the local, investigative reporters open.spotify.com/episode/0syj...

Fantastic episode of Lamestream by @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social and @scottmitchell.bsky.social this morning. Great, careful, analysis of how Australia's media has gone off the deep end over the last few days

Nick's shoutout even more relevant after appalling coverage of Bondi by mainstream media. Uncritical parroting of Netanyahu and Hanson, blaming protestors, and ramping up anti-migrant racism. Great ep from @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social & @scottmitchell.bsky.social . podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/h...

Hanson is calling for tougher hate speech laws, while she is currently in court trying to appeal against her loss in a hate speech legal case. A fact not mentioned by a single outlet covering this story.

Incredible the entire press gallery is actually buying the line (promulgated by Netanyahu!) that Albanese is personally to blame for the Bondi attack. No one is actually explaining how firing academics for opposing Israel’s genocide would stop two people who never went to uni from this shooting.

The ABC has hired Latika Bourke, after discussions with Waleed Aly fell through, to co-host its global affairs show - which will move from being made weekly to daily: www.lamestream.com.au/latika-bourk...

Incredible how worked up people got about this take, which was sensible and obvious at the time, and has only become more necessary in the years since.

This is pretty funny. Why is The Guardian’s political editor endorsing “legitimate concerns” around migration and complaining Hanson is being distracted from trying to address them?

Thank you Greens for helping speed up approvals for the business community 🙏🏽

Even enviro groups, who are notoriously cowardly and weak, think this bill sucks. All the Greens are doing if they vote for it is telegraphing to Labor they are terrified of standing up to them, and taking one of their key issues off the table for this term of parliament. Pathway to 5% of the vote.

The Greens trying to cut a deal with the government on this terrible enviro bill is incredibly dumb, and the best way to lose a bunch more seats at the next election imo. The bill itself is terrible, and voting for it just takes a key issue of theirs off the agenda for this term of parliament.

Captain Carlton, the AFL mascot accused of causing an "anti-semitic furore" when he "stormed out" of a bat mitzvah after learning he would be performing for Zionists, lays out what actually happened for @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social and @scottmitchell.bsky.social in Lamestream:

There is some smart analysis in the UK and US Guardians on Mamdani but here we get takes from guys who spend their careers trying to elect our version of Cuomo.

Exclusive from me: The mascot Carlton fired for alleged anti-Semitic comments and “storming” out of a bar mitzvah breaks his silence to share his version of events. Shockingly, but unsurprisingly, the Herald Sun didn’t speak to him before writing their story. www.lamestream.com.au/exclusive-ca...

The latest edition of @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social and @scottmitchell.bsky.social's Lamestream is a cracker. As progressive parties around the world are handed more and more platforms, Australia's Greens could learn a great deal by listening in:

Not for the first time, Australia's biggest, self-declared progressive news organisation re-writes independent media coverage of a story and pretends like they are the first too it. The Guardian is actually third to the story on Hedges and the NPC (after Lamestream and NPC) but doesn't mention that!

Exclusive: Correspondence obtained by Lamestream show the National Press Club confirmed Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges as a speaker, before cancelling him because was “in favour” of Palestine. www.lamestream.com.au/exclusive-na...

This is a bizarre thing to publish on the day the federal court awarded a journalist $220,000 for being unfairly dismissed from an on-air role for their political views. In Australia it isn't just private companies that cave to pressure, it's the public broadcaster www.smh.com.au/national/why...

A less than ideal family tree

The people running the once quite good and important newspapers in this country are absolutely taking the piss. The worst columnist in the country doing a completely incoherent interview with a seemingly self-published author who isn’t sure what she believes in www.smh.com.au/national/peo...

i don't think Australian journalists are aware of how deep we are into The New Stupid. They certainly aren't equipped to deal with it. They are being asked to parse hieroglyphics at breakneck speed when they're modes of thinking are stuck somewhere around 2012.

"Meanjin’s performance and sustainability were the focus of a review commissioned by MUP. Its report, delivered a month before the publisher’s controversial axing of the 85-year-old journal ... did not include closing Meanjin." —@nickfeik.bsky.social www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/16/m...

It’s ridiculous framing for a question the paper then uses as a proxy for support for AUKUS generally.

Incredible stuff here from the Nine papers to combine “I don’t have strong feelings but I accept the fact we have purchased these submarines” with “support”.

I agree, the far-right doxing tens of thousands of people who didn't respond to Kirk's death the way they wanted is exactly the same as... the ACLU maintaining a glossary on extremists. Maybe the worst, bad-faith take on the Kirk stuff published in Aus yet www.smh.com.au/world/north-...

Really odd to me that over the past 5 days the far-right, aided by the Murdoch media, have launched harassment campaigns against prominent Australians for their comments on Kirk and the “progressive” media… just isn’t reporting it? We discuss in our latest pod podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/l...

I found the original Cheek Media most to be incoherent and very weird, but a federal politician being bullied by the far-right into unliking an Instagram post, and putting a media release out about it, is a grim reflection on who controls discourse and culture right now.

Ezra Klein using Kirk’s death to celebrate some imaginary version of liberalism that only exists in his head… as the US right is using it to further entrench fascism and obliterate anyone who doesn’t echo Trump’s views on Kirk and what lead to his death… Insane.

"mainstream media called them 'anti-immigration' rallies...even though the speakers' lists were littered with people using white supremacist talking points". Journalists may be worse on racism today than when Pauline Hanson emerged, says @scottmitchell.bsky.social. shows.acast.com/lamestream/e...

This week's episodes of Lamestream is packed with great media analysis, as always, but bravo to @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social discussing the state of arts journalism in this country - and outlining why blogs and substacks aren't necessarily the answer to fill the gap. open.spotify.com/episode/003u...

Great story by Izzy Lewis about the travel TikToker vs. “news influencer” controversy that raises some interesting questions about journalism and social media www.lamestream.com.au/the-afghanis...

The "85% of Indian Australians vote for Labor" figure obviously absurd, and you need to question the rationale of a pollster going on a stream hosted by two prominent anti-immigration activists to share it. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Very odd that progressive think tanks that champion transparency don’t disclose all their donations — including big ones by billionaires. Seems like a dumb own goal www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Extremely funny watching the press gallery try to write about Indian Australians but being unable to avoid a whole “who are the these peculiar creatures from this strange minority that I have never interacted with before” vibe.

For a political and media establishment that wouldn’t shut the fuck up about social cohesion for the past two years, there’s not been much commentary on Zionists shouting “Go back to Lakemba” at Bondi. In fact, both Teal and Liberal MPs have instead attacked those who were the victims of the abuse.

Allegra Spender describes the pro-Palestine event in Bondi as “provocative” and says she wishes it was held elsewhere. Also unable to explicitly condemn the racist language used by pro-Israel protestors.

Breathtaking stuff from Zoe Daniel in The Guardian, accusing the Greens of promoting the hate and division that fuelled the far-right.

This is a good piece! People need to understand that a news influencer’s desire to create content that boosts them in the algorithm (even they are “dunking” on the far-right) can also have the consequence of just… boosting neo-Nazis. There was plenty of that in the lead up to March for Aus.

The government and public institutions, along with traditional media companies, have totally abandoned arts journalism. Surely there some non-Zionist arts patrons who understand the importance of this stuff. Get in touch!! Would love to make arts and culture the next pillar of what we are building!

Yesterday Jacinta Price, in very underreported comments, accused the Greens of supporting genocide against Israelis. But this morning every news outlet just carries her absurd, inflammatory lines about immigration? The whole media ecosystem is just a flywheel for this stuff, amplifying garbage.

New podcast on my experience covering the March for Australia on the ground, how the media fuelled the protests, and the political reaction: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/l...

More MPs yes! Fixed terms yes! Longer terms boo! www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

The Nazis are going to steamroll Australia imho. We have a media environment unequipped to do anything other than amplify their views, a federal government that either enacts their policies or creates the conditions for their success, and a liberal populace who think eating dumplings is anti-racist.

It’s pretty funny one of the ABC’s most senior journalists, who wrote the only “analysis” on the March for Aus the broadcaster has published, clearly wrote it before the rallies actually took place. Scratch funny, it’s actually bizarre. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

What is a “multicultural person”?

This is laughable from the ABC. The only “analysis” published so far on the March — 90% handwringing about Bob Katter vs a journalist, then these completely pathetic paragraphs at the end.