A govt that cared about democracy wouldn’t: - tighten FOI rules - create barriers to elect independents - tell lobbyists to use disappearing message platforms - have foreign agents / envoys write policy - ignore entitlement rorts - renege on core election promises We see you @albomp.bsky.social

Why gun laws must be uniform across jurisdictions. The federal government needs to take regulations around guns away from the states.

Amid the AI investment boom, cities and counties across the US are pulling the emergency brake on data centers, writes Jenna Ruddock. From Maryland to Missouri, at least fourteen states are home to towns or counties that have implemented moratoriums: a complete pause on data center development.

Very few politicians are willing to state the obvious - a failure of Australia's intelligence apparatus. Father/son terrorist attack, with long links to Islamic State characters and IS flags in the car? Nothing to see here apparantly.

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.

If the conservatives in Australia don't pull back their culture war bullshit over this, the Australian public will blowback. I've been involved/done polling on how ostensibly foreign issues debated in Australia are politically perceived domestically for 30 years. (1/2)

John Howard pushed for the invasion of Iraq, which was one of the dominoes which created the conditions for ISIS and caused untold human misery we are still dealing with today. He refused to acknowledge racism was a main driver of the Cronulla riots.

Josh Frydenberg who was the Australian Federal Treasurer at the time of ROBODEBT. Distanced himself from the suicides and Mental Health Issues that it caused it's victims. Yet. He now wants a royal commission into antisemitism in Australia. The hypocricy by Frydenberg is breathtaking.

I've never been more convinced Australia has the worst mainstream journalists in the world. Simple, thick, racist, ahistorical, bootlicking dipshits that lie and screech more than they think and feel. This weaponisation of a tragedy against anti-genocide voices is grotesque.

Decent media in the face of such pathetic reporting from the mainstream youtube.com/watch?v=8hwZ...

Remarkable comments from 2016, about how rising racism in Australia inevitably increases attacks on Jewish people. One Nation's leader, Pauline Hanson, visited the Bondi memorial and was loudly applauded and cheered by mourners after she called for massive cuts to immigration in response

Tom Kenyon, CEO of the Sporting Shooters Association on last night’s 7:30 Report saying ammunition limits is “a tricky thing.” 🙄 I can’t refill daily medication I need for LIFE before a certain date, even if I run out sooner. I’m sure y’all can deal, you utter, complete sooks.

I’m an economic historian of Australia Thank you for coming to my TED talk

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

Here’s an article from this year with the Australian gun lobby boasting that, with surging gun numbers, it was winning the fight against firearms control advocates. Blame guns. Blame anti-Semitism. Blame terrorists. Do not blame everyday Australians who marched for peace.

ABC News, what on EARTH is this Bondi coverage? Overly sensationalist, suggesting unconfirmed motives, making as many guesses as commercial channels, and releasing a gunman’s name from an “anonymous police source” before the cops’ official reports. So disappointing.

I shoulda just posted this. A timely reminder (swap posting/sharing for retweeting).

And this is how it begins. We are but a few years from going down the same path as US. Complacency is our enemy - we need to sweat these small changes to stop the avalanche.

Your reminder that the social media ban was invented by 2 guys with a commercial interest in monitoring your children:

I think that maybe we should focus on greater issues than politicians travel. Things like being locked into a military alliance with a fascist regime, wasting money on AUKUS, a shitty NACC, hiding from accountability etc #auspol

Anyone else a fully grown adult and refusing to take part in age verification (so far)? I’m almost friggin 40, @bsky.app

"We may share your information with our Epic Games family of companies" KWS is a US-based subsidiary of Epic Games, created by startup SuperAwesome (youth-targeted ad strategies). Check out what happens "If we are acquired" www.kidswebservices.com/en-US/partne...

They ran out of room for the fine print: "LET THEM BE KIDS [exclusions may apply: - News Corp punching down on trans kids - State govts locking up more & younger black kids - the Albanese govt refusing to ban gambling ads or take real climate action, and keeping 1 in 6 kids living in poverty...]"

With sites like Bluesky using KWS (fined for breaches regarding child safety) to do the checks and over complying with the "rules" set down by your government - it's clearly got nothing to do with child safety and more to do with data collection of adults.

We all know he’s got nannys but i feel like this is a critical juncture in the fight to the death between “being present” and being captured by corporations as cattle for profit and there’s no one on the “be present“ side

LMAO is that one of the e-bikes we're about to ban

Prohibition has never previously worked as a policy for getting people to not consume something they want, but fortunately the social media ban will buck this trend by virtue of its careful evidence-based design and Albo's friendly reassuring smile every time he fails to answer the question.

I see the Australian social media ban is off to a great start. Nobody knows you're a dog on the Internet. 🐕

I’m trying not to post all negative things though. Life is good this week. My karaoke jam, Hold The Line, is playing in this bar and I have 1.5 glasses of Pooley Wine because they ran out of the first one. Chowder is on the way. It’s a good day.

basically ‘go out & play’ 🙄 if you want ALL kids to feel included & supported in the community you’re going to have to tackle some tougher issues like #housing #poverty #literacy + access to mental health & disability services… knee-jerk policy by jerks #raisetherate #SMban #lowhangingfruit #NDIS

The only surefire way to stop oligarchs buying up the things we love is to drop those things the moment oligarchs buy them & that requires changing habits and massive self-discipline. It means going to alternatives that might not be quite as good or convenient. It’s really hard. But there it is.

What is wrong with the ALP?? Tell the Americans to go f@&k themselves. What are they going to do? Declare war on us? They are a failed state run by nutjobs.

Why is the US-ingratiating Australian media so ready to assume that ‘full-steam ahead’ on #AUKUS is good news? Australians never voted for this. We abhor Trump and despise US aggression. Let’s vote for the party that rips up this ruinous pact and destroys the fascist defence lobby pushing this BS.

Holy five eyes, absolutely not www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Dear property developers, please stop turning abandoned warehouses into cheap hotels. I can hear the person next door sleeping.

Regulating billionaires is hard work so we said, “let’s just ban the kids!”

Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.

Bit late but I just saw this graphic of how the new stadium is supposedly going to get around the fact there’s no passenger rail in Tasmania. Lololol rail haters have really fucked this state. Should’ve spent the last decade rebooting any kind of rail system!

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Universal Basic Income and universal healthcare will unleash a 2nd renaissance beyond our wildest dreams. #UniversalHealthcare #UBI

The Tasmanian Government has known for years that they needed to replace the breast screening bus but procrastinated. Preoccupied with a stupid bloody stadium. A permanent clinic will be better in Huonville rather than Kingston. If the permanent clinics ever happen. All $ needed for the stadium now.

I love #Eurovision but I've not watched the SBS telecast since Israel began its #GazaGenocide. Please support boycott.eurovision.au as they urge SBS to cut the mic on genocide. Here's the link to their petition on Change.org c.org/cVkHXqCyLx #BoycottEurovision #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine

This is all driven by fear, but it’s an easy fear, not difficult like confronting the priest or uncle Touchy. Fear has driven a bad decision that will isolate many children and drive others to dangerous sites. The world has changed, social media is part of it, regulate corporations, not children.

If you were against Greyhound racing, you'd sign this Parliament of Tasmania petition, wouldn't you? Don't! It actually supports it. Pretty devious, isn't? Dean Winters, Tas Labor leader, is the sponsor. 🤬 Please ensure you read the details before signing anything! 🙏

“Bruh…” Harvey Elliott right now, probably. #SalahTheSook #LFC

All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”

One of the few positives to come out of Tasmania in recent times... www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...