Linking the march across the bridge to the massacre is disgusting and everyone doing so should be deeply ashamed of their giving tacit support for genocide www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I totally agree with the Jewish Council here. I will continually speak out against the Netanyahu Govt’s killing of 20,000 innocent children in Gaza. That appalling action has caused so much anti-semitism around the world.

NSW Premier Minns is intending to criminalize peaceful public opposition to genocide. If his aim is 'social cohesion', this action will deliver the opposite. #nswpol #auspol

Rabbi Eli Schlanger was praised as a source of "light, joy & love" after being murdered in the #BondiBeachAttack. Here he is in the West Bank, advocating the ethnic cleansing of "Arabs" from "the porch of the country" bc "it belongs to us, it's our land." #auspol #Zionism #FreePalestine

"The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding." - Albert Camus, The Plague We have seen both on full display this week.

If you want to have fun, go back a read the speeches by Liberal MPs during the Racial Discrimination Act 18C debates eg "If we have the state regulating our speech, you also have the state regulating our thought, and I think that looks a lot like 1984". parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/sea...

Have a quiet think. Let it be a guiding lesson for you Whatever regretful comments you may have made in your life, whatever actions you wish you could take back, let your benchmark for the lowest of the low be using the deaths of 15 people for the relaunch of your political career

It's been getting crowded on the Craven Opportunism league table this week, current rankings: 1. Frydenberg 2. Howard 3. Ley

Never forget it took less than a day for the right-wing conservative forces in Australia politics and media to turn the Bondi massacre into their own political grandstanding in order to sew division. Contemptible.

Albanese has I think showed very strong leadership in the wake of the Bondi massacre. Has not attempted to self aggrandise as others have, has stayed out of the gutter politicking by Ley and Frydenberg. Got on with tightening gun laws.

Josh Frydenburg climbing over a pile of bodies to launch his political comeback is genuinely one of the most repulsive things I've witnessed in Australian politics. Have some shame.

John Howard, Tony Abbott, Josh Frydenburg. Thrown out by their electorates who were doing a great service to the country. Why do they still feel entitled to be a drain on the country. Lazy media laps up their words. And it just occurred to me. All beaten by women.

Anyway, never again let any right winger criticise anyone for “politicising a tragedy”. This has been the most shameless, gross stuff.

Josh Frydenberg said that Albanese should put in place a ‘more rigorous and strong immigration system. "On your watch, thousands of people have come from a terrorist hot spot without sufficient security checks.” The older terrorist came in Australia in 1998. When John Howard was PM.

The LNP’s and Josh Frydenberg’s behaviour after today’s funeral for the Rabbi who so sadly lost his life of Sunday was performative and disingenuous. The LNP are so desperate for attention and relevance that they are using this tragedy for political gain. Quite frankly, I’m disgusted.

Most of Australia’s media are ghouls.

As I understand today's discussion, we can stop an ISIS cell by policing the speaker list at writer's festivals and the BA syllabus at Unis. And by "stopping demonstrations." This is madness.

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.

The conservatives forces using the Bondi Massacre to instigate a crackdown of freedoms of speech and the right to assembly are completely disgusting. Protesting genocide and the actions of the Netanyahu Israeli govt are not antisemitic.

Frydenberg’s statements blaming Bondi terrorist attack on Albo are outrageous. Extremism and radicalisation exists in every society. Frydenberg and everyone else - inc. News Corp - who are using a devastating terrorist attack to score political points against Labor should be ashamed of themselves

In the wake of the Bondi tragedy should one have been surprised that Josh Frydenberg would opportunistically slither to the public megaphone - gaslighting the Australian public. His outburst is offensive, divisive, and disingenuous. #auspol #abc730 #gaslighting101

Has anything happened in Gaza in the last 48 hours?

The PM who demonised & divided on race & culture, coddled the Hanson fringe & refused Indigenous rights, denied a complex past & delayed a rushing future says the current bloke hasn’t done enough to protect. Hmm.

David Pope in Canberra Times

Let's have a look at the "Independent" report the Coalition is using to justify more coal fired power stations.

While we wait for a Liberal (any Liberal!) to show some spine on net zero, Tim Wilson is peddling disinformation about crossbenchers’ voting habits. Wilson needs to look to his own affairs and stop making up rubbish about others.

Cathy Wilcox in SMH

Lies, gaslighting and shonky numbers underpin the Coalition's climate and energy 'policy'. Thank you, Adam Morton @australia.theguardian.com for providing what too few in Australian media do: the facts. #ClimateCrisis #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

For the new environment laws to work, they have to apply to forestry, and they can’t be pushed aside every time the mining and fossil fuel industries get in the Minister’s ear. The govt has to scrap the ministerial discretion clause and demonstrate real intent by protecting native forests

The capital gains tax discount & negative gearing have made housing less affordable & exacerbated inequality. On this episode, Maiy Azize, @purplepingers.bsky.social, Josie Lee & @amyremeikis.bsky.social discuss the origins of the housing crisis & how to fix the current mess. 🎧 theaus.in/49Y7n5w

Labor must not partner with climate vandals on Australia’s new environmental laws | Tim Flannery

Liberals landing on Net Zero. The Age

Folks, this now successful campaign to capture the federal parliamentary Liberal Party re dumping net zero 2050, has been bankrolled by an “enshitification” online outfit called Advance -bankrolled by Gina Rinehart, an Australian coal/gas oligarch and Trumpist.

Bad enough that the Liberal party has caved in to powerful vested interests, oligarchs and ideologues. Worse that most of our mainstream media ignores those toxic connections, and reports this as if it's just a political parlour game within Parliament House. #auspol

As world leaders meet at COP30 to strengthen climate ambition, the Liberal Party has announced it will abandon Net Zero. It’s reckless and out of touch with community. You can’t claim to accept climate science while walking away from the action it demands.

Subtext: - I gave in because Hastie was coming for my job - we're saying we'll stick with Paris, even though it's a meaningless gesture - we'll say 'affordable energy' a lot, but our position would make energy more expensive - I'll be lucky to last till January. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

And the wind power poignantly kicked in.

Liberal Party confirms they will not pull Australia out of the Paris Agreement - by deciding to never get into government - by chasing the Nationals to net political zero

Won the right to political oblivion.

Liberal Transitioning

Disgraceful. So much for their post election listening tour.

This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months" China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.

Gutless. No vision. Unelectable.

Housing should be a right not an investment. The Labor government needs to do more than tinker.

The wealth of the 10 richest Americans has soared by $700 billion since Trump was reelected. Meanwhile, millions of Americans are going hungry because Trump is illegally withholding contingency funds that would keep food stamps funded during his shutdown. Two Americas.

So with a massive parliamentary majority and poll numbers like this how much better does it have to get for Albanese before he actually does any real reform? #auspol

Cowardly, irresponsible. It looks like Australia’s L-NP Coalition will dingo out of net zero 2050. Awaiting Sussan Ley’s Liberal partyroom decision = leadership test. Failure to urgently mitigate emissions via new technologies exposes our children to ever increasing risk.

Nationals cowardly and spineless. Antithesis of farmers.

Laughing in the face of a climate crisis.