No shit that Australians aged 18–24 are the most worried about national security – they're the ones who'd face some boots-on-ground slaughterhouse Thanks to our gross fetishism of 'Anzac sacrifice' aka getting killed in WWI, WWII, Vietnam, etc, why wouldn't they dread being the right age for WWIII?

Michele Bullock is a combination of a parasite and a leech. More below 👇#auspol

Here's a librarian's horror story in the UK that has destroyed her life. Stay sane in the face of witch hunts fellow librarians, stand your ground and fight back. www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

And the same goes for people paying their HECS/HELP. We pay more to the government than the big gas giants 🤬 #auspol

Launching #TAXDATA where you can find Australia's biggest 'lifters and leaners' with the tap of a keystroke A co-pro with UTS and @jasonward-cictar.bsky.social #auspol michaelwest.com.au/taxdata-corp...

A kind reminder that the Australian government and army are signing huge contracts with this creep. That Australia’s sovereign fund(our money) is being invested in this warmongering bastard. And that Coles supermarkets use this evil man’s surveillance systems. #auspol

Because all the IDF knows is to commit heinous crimes with total impunity

Arundhati unloaded: “Any regimes that need changing, including the US, Israel, and ours, need to be changed by the people, not by some bloated, lying, cheating, greedy, resource-grabbing, bomb-dropping imperial power and its allies who are trying to bully the whole world into submission.”

It was a double tap attack by the US on primary school children

Welcome to Australia where freedom of speech and protest are being attacked everyday by Labor governments who, historically, built the whole Labor movement on... you guessed it protests. #auspol

The NACC has been an utter waste of public money. Its sole achievement so far is to further persuade everyone that consequence-free corruption and bastardry are fixed features of government in this country.

NEW: I got my hands on a Palantir-Department of Defence contract that outlines how the Trump-aligned tech company has embedded staff in Defence, leaves a carve-out for training on Australian data, and has a number of quite generous contract conditions. www.crikey.com.au/20...

Is Australia at war? “And according to legal experts, the simple answer is: yes. Australia is at war.” #AusPol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Because, sometimes, you just need to escape the real world and go to a gentler, kinder place, even if it’s just for an hour, with: •a fine local ale •Frieren Volume 5 by Kanehito Yamada & Tsukasa Abe •and listening to my favourite Japanese power metal band, Hagane.

🚨 The final number of dead at the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Minab, southern Iran, is 108 school girls, a spokesperson for the Iranian Red Crescent Society said — more than half of the roughly 170 students who attend the school. It remains unclear whether the strike was carried out by...

I remember how the “shock and awe” of the US attack on Iraq ended in decades of broken cities, broken people and broken promises. Trump’s and Netanyahu’s bombs today can only produce more of this in Iran. Australia must reject this illegal attack.

No UN authorisation needed (as required by international law), no congress approval needed (as required by the constitution he claims to cherish so much) ‘cause the current US government (like many others before) believes itself to be the sheriff of the world, above the law. A terrorist state indeed

Cutting the creative state: funding changes threaten the cultural future of Melbourne, arts workers warn Creative Victoria funding has dropped by more than $20m since 2022 and organisations including Writers Victoria now face closure #SpringSt www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"At a time when Australian politicians and certain members of the commentariat are lecturing us about "social cohesion", Advance’s messaging was a reminder that our definition of hate speech often depends a lot on who does the speaking." — Lucy Hamilton www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Excellent work reporting on a sickening practice.

Why don’t women come forward when they’ve been sexually assaulted? I grew up around these types of people, I grew up around people who’d always support hating on a girl over a boy. They are VERY common attitudes in close communities. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

A new survey from the Australia Institute has found a majority of voters for all political parties – save one – are in favour of taxing gas exports more heavily. Read more: https://theaus.in/4aCaIpK

The Royal Commission’s order for journalists to retain information has been reported — but I wanted to go a bit deeper. I found the story of why any sentence that guaranteed source protect at the ABC was erased from policy over 15 years ago. www.lamestream.com.au/the-inside-s...

A loss not just to Palestinians, but to the world and to humanity, as a whole. History will not be kind. “They want to erase the Palestinian identity and Palestinian heritage and ... to remove any connection that keeps the Palestinian society clinging to this land,” apnews.com/article/isra...

There's a lot happening in the Australian comics community and the recent launch of the Folio: Stories of Australian Comics was momentous. I discuss this and other updates in my latest blog post.

Jerseys of nations ‘involved in major conflict’ banned from A-League multicultural round Attire that ‘may cause offence or incite tension’ will not be allowed Civil liberties group says APL should be ‘ashamed’ of decision www.theguardian.com/football/202...

AMAZING NEWS:

Today, under the cover of the Liberals tearing each other down, Labor has approved another coal mine extension. Extending Middlemount to 2044 means Labor has now approved 35 fossil fuel projects. In the middle of the climate crisis, they're approving more coal & gas.

Interesting that we only learn about this meeting of the president of a country responsible for severe war crimes & breaches of international law committing a genocide with 12 Australians who served in the IDF, the army brutally enacting those genocidal policies, through an Israeli newspaper #auspol

Couldn’t make it but there in spirit ✊🏼

Excellent ✊🏼 #auspol

State terrorism against peaceful protesters who defend international law and long for freedom and peace. State terrorism in support of the president of a genocidal state. #auspol

Exactly what happened. The police boxed us in, leaving no exit route and then attacked the crowd #auspol

How many violent thugs does it take to stop one peaceful non resisting protester? How will the media whitewash, justify, ignore or support the normalisation of this fascistic violence? How much deeper into the abyss of authoritarian state violence will we fall? Australian social cohesion 🤮🤬

This is what the Minns & Albo social cohesion looks like. Police brutality unleashed on people engaged in peaceful prayer. #auspol

We've shut down the busiest pedestrian intersection in Naarm/Melbourne because our government invited a genocidal war criminal to our country

Unfortunately I'm not well enough to make it to the city today. But I hope tens of thousands go to the protest against Albo's shared values on settler colonialism and genocide. Herzog should never had a state visit, he should be arrested. Peace and freedom for Palestine ✊🇵🇸

The World Inequality Report 2026: the world’s top 10% now take more income than the other 90% combined, while the poorest half receive less than 10% of global income. Wealth is tighter still: the top 10% own three-quarters of everything, while the bottom half holds just 2%. Full report below

Karen Hao continues to do incredible work reporting on Open AI and the corrupt politicians who continue to support the AI mafia. Excellent report

MSF finds El Fasher, Sudan, largely destroyed and "a ghost town." Less than a year ago there were 1 million people there. #KeepEyesOnSudan www.msf.org/msf-finds-el...

the @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social calls on Albanese to rescind the initiation to Isaac Herzog

Spy company Palantir has won top-level Australian govt security clearance despite involvement in Gaza genocide. @sstephanietrann.bsky.social investigates #auspol michaelwest.com.au/we-kill-enem...

The Board of Collaborators is being constituted

If you love reading comics and graphic novels and work in a library, this is your gig! Expressions of interest are open now for the judging panel of ALIA Graphic's Notable Australian Graphic Novels of 2025. Join the team, read the best comics by Australian creators last year and help celebrate them

Wow. SA Premier Malinauskas, triples down on interfering with the Adelaide Writers Festival which then self imploded and was cancelled. Can you imagine linking an award-winning author who opposed genocide to two hateful, murderous men? Racism game is strong. 👇🏼

Bluesky isn't included in the government's social media ban but they've decided to rollout age verification anyway. I refuse to do it. I have 50 years of wisdom and stupidity in my bones that prevent me from doing this. So this could be my last post. Find me by email or follow me on Buttondown.

‘Set up to fail’: ATO outsourcing to private call centres focused on boosting profit not helping Australians www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

NSW police have gone to great lengths to stop any and every pro-Palestine anti-genocide protest. They didn't even oppose the neo-Nazi rally that was held on the steps of NSW state parliament on Saturday. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Post a non-religious image you think of as holy.