The Federal Court confirms Walter Sofronoff engaged in corrupt conduct. Looking forward to The Australian’s coverage of this. www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Ju...

"Of greater concern is that while the government is recognising our desire to keep social media away from our children, it is hanging out the mistletoe for more powerful and untested AI products: deepfake apps, intimate companions, industrial-scale fraudsters, oceans of slop........"

NACC has no cred, nor chair Brereton, but unless both major parties move to fix it, Australia stuck with it for another year. @kimwingerei.bsky.social #whatsthescam Brereton hearing today #auspol michaelwest.com.au/nacc-inspect...

🚨Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal is refusing to tell the Senate if she disclosed she was an official at pro-Israel lobby group ECAJ before taking the role. Comes as we reveal the lobby group has quietly changed Segal's bio on its website. Explosive... theklaxon.com.au/cabp

So engaging in actual piracy now. Our AUKUS partner. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Reflections on the day 1 of the age ban: experts sidelined again, nuance ignored, and the debate drowned by low-effort vox pops. Policy built on vibes not evidence gets sold as "protecting kids" with all the spectacle of a state propaganda march, loud, choreographed, & divorced from substance.

Watching monuments lit up with a tacky News Corp slogan made me feel sick. Our national icons turned into billboards for a populist fantasy, while those of us doing the actual research are maligned. It's state-sponsored PR masquerading as policy, a grotesque spectacle by a government drunk on power.

At least when LNP was in we had hope that Labor would be better. Now I feel trapped and betrayed Could and should be SO different 😞😞 #auspol

I am available to conduct a full review of politicians pay and entitlements, and draft new rules. My word will be final, and no correspondence will be entered into. #auspol

Super-brat.

The US has been a malevolent force since 1946.

"Anti-poverty and human rights groups are calling on the government to abolish the Targeted Compliance Framework, following a scathing report from the Commonwealth ombud" www.themandarin.com.au/304738-targe...

Powell: "Inflation for goods has picked up, reflecting the effects of tariffs."

Which is why there should be taxes on unrealised capital gains, because these greedy pricks are not using super for their retirement but to AVOID PAYING TAX Reminder - they are not self-funded retirees, they are tax-break funded retirees.

David Pope in Canberra Times

New interview on the old kleptocracy youtu.be/Hx2jh93_1Fs?...

No one, absolutely no one, gives a shit that a politician went to a sporting event unless they rorted public (our) money to do so. #auspol

Pro-tip: If you're missing your family don't go to a sporting event, go and see them. #auspol

Only 30-ish parliamentary sitting days in 2025. Politicians: waahh! but I need family to visit me at sporting events or I'm lonely you guys are big meanies #auspol

Labor just puppets of Newscorp and miners, and fascist US politicians. Disgraceful. #auspol

interesting choice to project "LET THEM BE KIDS" onto the Sydney Harbour Bridge as part of the celebrations of the teen social media ban It's not a line that came from Albanese or the government — it's the name of News Corp's campaign for the ban.

"The reality of Aukus, from Australia’s perspective, is that it is not, fundamentally, an agreement that will deliver this country nuclear-powered submarines. It is a plan that will further enmesh Australia into US defence strategy..." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Am sure the government will be absolutely devastated that the social media ban will greatly limit the ability to organise things like the School Strike 4 Climate.

Absolutely f*cking disgraceful "‘Everyone got paid’: How Wippa’s pro-teen social media ban group cashed in on its success" www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/09/3...

Labor rusteds holding their noses and voting for them aren't doing Australia any favours. #auspol

One advantage Labor has is that they don't care about their base. #auspol

The Trump administration just announced they will refuse to release the October inflation report.

Chart via @taxfoundation.bsky.social / @carlquintanilla.bsky.social

Labor has ignored experts on the social media ban is is now putting young Australians at risk - all for their own political interests. Same can be said for climate, gambling & other issues. They really are Lib-lite - & increasingly more Lib than lite #auspol

The only conclusion I can draw from this is that there is something physically wrong and cognitively wrong with Trump, he knows it, and he's angry and frightened.

pretty wild seeing just how far right the average conservative has gotten now that they all say that a standard nazi germany era policy is “moderate” in their bubbles

Framing the teen social media ban as standing up to big tech to protect the children is such bullshit. If they had any desire to stand up to big tech they’d tax it properly.

Trump is just gonna try to lie his way through it: "You're getting lower prices, bigger paychecks. Inflation -- we're crushing it. And you're getting much higher wages. The only thing that's really going up big is the stock market and your 401ks."

“Too young for social media but old enough to be tried as an adult in a court of law”

gee thanks Albo, got to give me data to some mob called Yoti ... to get in to my own account ... who are these Yoti people, can you vouch for them? #auspol #mediaban

If the best excuse for rorting public money you can come up with is it's ‘in accordance with the rules’ you don't have a leg to stand on. #auspol

Social media 'ban', another Albo brain fart fail. #auspol

jesus christ

Hmm... Study finds that Congressional Leaders suddenly become stock experts. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/w...

$12.9mil? Govt heavily redacts Jillian Segal FOIs @sstephanietrann.bsky.social reports. Docs attached #auspol #antisemitism Segal Secrets: docs reveal Antisemitism Envoy’s big pay day michaelwest.com.au/segal-secret... via @MichaelWestBiz

Australia right now needs a Whitlamesque firebrand politician of the left to put some distance between ourselves and a failed American state intent on dragging us into a war with our biggest trading partner. Enough with Albo’s Murdoch-appeasing, small target consensus. The man is an empty suit.

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.

Apparently it's ok if it's Labor doing the rorting. #auspol

A rort of thousands of $ is still corruption even if it's technically within the rules. Just saying. Politicians 'entitlements' needed an overhaul years ago. #auspol

Science. It works. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Don't want you to fail - but do want you to support and oversee evidence based policy as needed by our kids and communities. The social media ban is not that #auspol

FFS, people thinking the social media ban is crap isn’t about you personally, Julie

Proud to announce that I have been awarded the FIFA Prize in Physics 2025!

"We look forward to shooting the reindeer and sending Santa to be tortured in South Sudan."