“The clearest contemporary example came during Morrison Government, when PM covertly swore himself into multiple ministries without informing Parliament, the Cabinet, or the public. The problem was not simply the secrecy, it was how effortlessly Constitution could be bent to accommodate it.”

Australia. Only a republic can reverse executive power creep. A democratic republic would end the structural uncertainties that allowed both the Whitlam dismissal & Scott Morrison’s many ministries & bring the Australian people into a new constitutional relationship. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...?

Of course implicit in this is deceitful lying #ffagenda petro-state climate change global warming denial and of course values of cruel hateful fascism to white ant democracy from within, replace with fascism, eliminate elections - #auspol

“Any bomb dropped by these planes can only do so because the Australian govt has written a blank cheque to Lockheed Martin, selling them Australian-made parts with no human rights restrictions” Israel, and now Saudi Arabia. The govt demonstrates its "shared values" with the Trump regime. #auspol

Wilson is not a “centrist” or a “moderate”. Wilson is an IPA agent. It doesn’t get much harder right than that.

Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality. www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

Seals singing in a sea cave #Orkney 🦭🎧

York community 'in disbelief' over massive landfill site approval: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-21/york-landfill-environment-minister-approved-community-angry/106036564

Your 'shareholders money' represents the misappropriation of money stolen from the Commonwealth Bank's customers. What sort of ethics guide you, CBA's CEO? Truly a fish goes rotten from the head. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

Obscenity.

Watch. I was so relieved to see she survived, but at what cost 💔 There are now over 42000 orphans in Gaza. Thank you CH4 news for your reporting where others fail. www.channel4.com/news/how-one...

Today the coroner handed down findings about the Wieambilla shootings, finding that it wasnt Australia’s 1st act of Christian terrorism but a mere shared delusion. They're wrong (IMO). Here’s why, & what we cannot turn a blind eye to. clareheathmcivor.substack.com/p/its-time-t...

“The debt of gratitude Australians owe CSIRO for Aeroguard alone can never be repaid. Which is why it’s so alarming to watch its funding – and its people – bleed away,” writes Ebony Bennett, Deputy Director at The Australia Institute. Read the full op-ed: australiainstitute.org.au/post/who-nee...

Australia is one of the richest countries on Earth, if we can afford $600m for a PNG footy team, we can certainly afford to properly fund our premier scientific agency My column on the CSIRO job cuts > www.canberratimes.com.au/story/911683...

Word of the Day: bitchkrieg.

Here's @lucyham.bsky.social. 'Far-right watch: the neoliberal think tank director platforming ethnonationalists'

Bless @sophiegilbert.bsky.social @theatlantic.com: "The past decade has been a gloomy lesson in how limited a proportion of men actually see women as equal human beings...The fish rots from the head. The pig is in the Oval Office." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

✍️ Add your name to the petition calling on Parliament to reject these changes and strengthen - not weaken - Australia's environment laws. nb.australiainstitute.org.au/dont_gut_env...

Underfunded Universities. Underfunded CSIRO. Underfunded public schools. $400bn for subs. Sovereign design and capability is a series of choices. Those choices reveal a nation’s values. We appear to be a very broken nation.

The Albanese Government's proposed changes would weaken our environment laws and benefit destructive industries. The Australia Institute is proud to be one of 100+ orgs calling on Parliament to reject the changes that would gut our environmental protections. #auspol

getup.to/j7O7xhkC52Jfa Please sign to help save what's left of the ABC. #auspol

Mary Fowler claims racist treatment at French club Montpellier after receiving bananas as leaving present

Political capital being pissed away “The environment minister, Murray Watt, is open to a deal with the Coalition that would require concessions, including revising a new provision designed to block projects that cause an “unacceptable impact” on the environment” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I seriously cannot get over how stupid it is to be cutting back on research right now #ThePoint thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

David Pope in Canberra Times

$350 billion for Aukus submarines but we can’t afford 350 research jobs

Save the CSIRO Our national science & research agency is now facing more job cuts than under Tony Abbott Call on the Albanese Govt to fund the scientists & research we need to tackle big issues we face from climate to food security and everything in between www.davidpocock.com.au/save_our_csiro

A reminder that crypto mining continues to be one of the world's most severe wastes of energy and one of the most shockingly pointless causes of environmental harm Like generative ML, you have to burn more energy for every new dollar of profit. Death spiral ensues www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Please sign. This stupid decision needs reversing actionnetwork.org/petitions/cs...

Where to start, with a statement like this? "Tim Ayres said the cuts were aimed at refocusing … CSIRO towards research priorities, such as critical minerals, iron & steel production in Australia." From some rando down the bus stop, one would brush it off. But this is from our Science Minister 🤯

How much energy will AI really burn? Climate writer and activist Ketan Joshi joins Burning Platforms to chat AI and Climate: what we know, what we don’t know and what data centres have to do with yogurt tubs. Listen to Burning Platforms: shorturl.at/ykz6i

Beach walking at sunset is not very calming when the local beach has 100000s of dead and dying fish. The impact of the algae bloom in South Australia continues to be devastating for marine life 😿

Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks: “Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”

Just as well we approved that gas plant up at Barrow hey

LOVE AMY! “As the new prime minister of Australia, I’d like to say: all immigrants welcome,” quipped frontwoman Amy Taylor, accepting album of the year. “I’d like to say: land back, the dole’s going up, and every pub gets a million dollars.” www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

On our ABC News site today Karvelas wrote about the Victorian Liberal leadership without mentioning Jess Wilson worked for Josh Frydenberg and has IPA connections. The article was called “analysis”. So many alleged journalists appear to be deliberately ignorant of the true nature of the Liberals.

Hugh Marks decries ‘opportunistic’ attacks on the ABC – but concedes broadcaster blew it with Bluey

And how is the ceo of CBA saying they think it would be unfair to repay customers who have been unfairly charged fees, because it would hurt shareholders 😡😡😡

Non existent customer service from WESTPAC today has left me furious! After making a human error and IMMEDIATELY correcting it via internet banking, I was still charged a considerable fee for the error by the bank. I tried ringing them to have it reversed. 30 minutes of phone calls.. 1/3

The slow degradation of the CSIRO is music to the ears of fossil fuel industry groups.... the government works for them. not us.

Since I’m back here and the government is currently gutting scientific research, it would be marvellous if we could round this total up to $40k for the Menzies Centre and Albo can bite his bum. pointtopinnacle2025.grassrootz.com/menzies-inst...

A horrendous report on ABC radio from a Brisbane doctor doing a second tour in Gaza with Medecins sans Frontières. She says the ceasefire is in name only, the genocide continues and the deprivation of basic food, shelter and resources means even the injured haven’t what the need to heal.

In other news: “Shovel digs hole” and “Typewriter wins the Booker Prize”

Nope. The headline should actually read “Astronomers using ML discover quasars acting as lenses”

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11.... When Paul Keating introduced Super, he stated for it to succeed overtime it needed to get to 15%. Thanks to the Coalition it isn't even 13%.Meabwhile Federal Politicians get 15.9%.

I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk? But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession. But that's just me

"CSIRO 350 job cuts a damning indictment on Government priorities, misses 'golden opportunity' on research" my column on the CSIRO research cuts #ThePoint thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

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