Video shows the moment the newly constructed Hongqi bridge partially collapsed in China on Tuesday. No deaths were reported, according to local authorities.

Exclusive | FOI logs reveal Australia's national security chief, Hamish Hansford, used the AI chatbot Copilot to write speeches and messages to his team. @cameronwilson.bsky.social reports.

Housing in Australia has become just another wealth accumulation asset, rather than a home to live in. First-home buyers don’t stand a chance in a housing market rigged in favour of wealthy property investors. Labor is effectively absent in this crisis - APRA must intervene.

Australia needs to get back to giving loans to owner occupiers rather than property investors. If the Government won’t, APRA should. Reigning in investor lending would be celebrated by renters & aspiring homeowners who feel the repeat bout of runaway housing price inflation.

The Greens are calling on APRA to step in & stop the skyrocketing property investor lending that is fueling the housing crisis. New ABS data shows investor lending has jumped by 12.3% while first-home buyer loans have risen by just 0.9%. Who's buying all the houses? Investors. 🧵

At COP30 in Belém, Australia and the Pacific must put women at the centre of climate action, writes Simone Clarke. womensagenda.com.au/latest/cop30...

Why Aren’t Any Senate Democrats Calling On Schumer to Step Down? www.commondreams.org/news/chuck-s...

Trump’s risky American economy johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

‘Spooky fiddling’: Preparing the ground – Part 3 johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

The Dismissal was a calculated conservative plot: Albanese johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

What Washington really thought of Whitlam before the dismissal johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

I'm delighted to be guest interviewee on 7News' The Issue discussing the dismissal of the Whitlam govt & the secret correspondence btwn Kerr and the Queen. Thank you Tim Lester! #auspol www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH_W...

400 million years ago. Before Australia was a continent on its own, AU lay on its side, attached to Antarctica, India, South America, Africa, Madagascar, Arabia & Aotearoa/NZ in a giant land mass called Gondwanaland . Still can be Gondwana. 👇 www.australiangeographic.com.au/science-envi...

5/... that results in a violence intersecting with discrimination & marginalisation." We've been dismissed by the colonisers for far too long. It's time to get their boots off our necks, accept First People's invitation & decolonise. * en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonia... greens.org.au/magazine/how...

4/ ... a settler colony*, that committed genocide to supplant its First People & seize their resources & land for its own benefit. It keeps us, the colonised, socio-economically othered & inferior to the colonisers thru the modern biopolitics of sexuality, gender, race, disability & class... 5/

3/...& in 2025 Australia remains cemented into the same ideology preached in 1788 by those who are still in pursuit of interests defined in an often distant metropole, who also claim superiority. Australia is still an imperialist project: 4/

2/ one of the best in the world. JFC, you dickheads, what we've got is the same colonialism we had in 1788: the royal family, the Bunyip Aristocracy/today's Murdochracy, slave labour & the practice of "extending & maintaining political, social, economic & cultural domination over Australia ... 3/

Albanese said The Dismissal was a "partisan political ambush" & a "calculated plot" hatched by conservative forces to remove a democratically elected government; not a constitutional crisis but an illegitimate act. But, the ABC says, it did no harm really, we've still got a democracy... 2/

Gough raised unemployment benefits to their highest level relative to poverty - then Fraser (and his treasurer John Howard) fucked it up as soon as they could. Hawke/Keating repaired some of the damage... then Howard fucked it up for good thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

going offline having saturated myself in Australian political history after what happened 50 years ago today which was incredibly important, catastrophic etc, with this, my favourite politician after Gough, of course Bob was there - they were of a time of Titans.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GHU...

Australia’s democracy has changed radically since 1975. So many more women in parliament, but less o in the Colaition So many more minor party and independent MPs And each MP now has so many more constituents… Great article/graphs from @browne90.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

UN Climate Chief: Refusal to Halt Planetary Destruction Will 'Never, Ever Be Forgiven' www.commondreams.org/news/cop30-b...

The doors of the House of Representatives and the Senate were taped shut as the proclamation dissolving both Houses of Parliament was read on the steps of Parliament House by Smith, just as the speaker was ushered into the governor-general’s study with the motion of no-confidence. #auspol

If Ley is to be pushed out, she would not have achieved enough, whether as leader or, earlier, as a minister. No one will remember anything she said, or any new idea with which she enthused her colleagues. #auspol #SussanLey #Coalition #NetZero

In examining whether US covert activities played any role in destabilising the Whitlam Government in 1975, we need to consider carefully both the likely approach by Kissinger as national security adviser and the example of the destabilisation of Chile under the Allende Government. #auspol

Appeals are brought in accordance with the director's statutory responsibility to ensure sentences reflect the gravity of offending and are in line with community values and expectations. #auspol #DPP #Court

LNP dinosaurs vote for their own extinction. It seems likely that they will get their wish. Older voters are dying and the young are turning away from the nonsense, anti science LNP in droves. The young are better educated, and know delaying action on climate will negatively impact their lives.

The “fossil fuel giants (including Shell, BP, ExxonMobil, and Chevron) have paused, delayed, or retracted their climate commitments, increasingly pushing the world towards a dangerous future", The Lancet says. #auspol #ClimateChange #FossilFuels #Environment

BREAKING: Trump just issued a blanket pardon for 79 individuals related to the 2020 fake electors scheme, to try and rig the election. NOTE: He can’t pardon State crimes even if he thinks he can. He’s clearly trying to normalize election rigging for 2026.

Fuck every single one of these betraying asshats.

Since Trump’s 2024 win...Democratic leadership...as a collective unit....has been playing Tiddlywinks. Never unified. Never fierce. Never using every tool with spit-flying intensity. Not. One. Fucking. Time. You may "feel" like they have been...but...the facts do not support that feeling.

This ain't isolated, this type of targeted racial discrimination and intimidation tactics by police against mob happens all over Australia, including right here in Ballarat. A stain on us all and can be life destroying for those targeted. Over targeted and under protected systematically.

Trump Quietly Dishes Out More Tax Breaks to Rich Investors While Slashing Food Aid for Millions www.commondreams.org/news/trump-t...

Stop deforestation. Let’s maintain diverse ecosystems on a liveable planet👇

Survey finds 40% of Australian women without kids hesitant to have children because of climate change BUT Research which polled a representative sample of 2,000 people also found over a third of Coalition voters believed the climate would not change at all #auspol #ClimateChange #environment

Welcome to Barangaroo! We graciously provide affordable housing but you’re not allowed to enjoy it | First Dog on the Moon

#auspol Two female MPs report death and rape threats after condemning neo-Nazi rally outside NSW parliament

GOP Accused of Trying to Slip Backdoor Abortion Ban Into Government Funding Bill www.commondreams.org/news/republi...

GOP Accused of Trying to Slip Backdoor Abortion Ban Into Government Funding Bill www.commondreams.org/news/republi...

x.com/progressive2... Billionaires hoard wealth while the world begs for crumbs. It's time to have economic justice and wealth redistribution. The 1% have more than 50% of the world's wealth. Take fortunes from the fortunate. #SocialistSunday #AbolishBillionaires

Murdoch, the Dismissal and my job in Japan johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

Environment: The reformed EPBC Act – will the environment or business have priority? johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

To fix the economy, fix housing johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

And here’s @beneltham.bsky.social on the magnificent arts legacy of the Whitlam Government, and what’s at stake today: meanjin.com.au/essays/arts-...

well it is that time of year again...

‘Labor sources have told ABC Investigations the PM’s office has been putting pressure on advocates for gambling reform within the parliamentary Labor party to prevent them from speaking up.’ Arise, Caucus MPs! You have nothing to lose but your chains! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Documents Reveal Exxon Funded Climate Denial Campaign Across Latin America www.democracynow.org/2025/11/7/he...