Reading through the Liberal Party’s "Everybody hates Dutton" document, there is no criticism of the nuclear policy. Only that no third party backed it well and it was poorly communicated. This zombie hasn’t had its stake. #auspol

Nuremberg v2.0 can't come quickly enough.

Breaking: AG Michelle Rowland has announced today’s Standing Council of Attorneys-General (SCAG) will focus on one type of racism, Antisemitism. I guess they can’t discuss other forms of racism when Jillian Segal, tied to extremist group Advance, is also attending.🙄 #auspol

No-one wants a beer with Cory, totally understandable. Though a bit concerning to reading South Australian monied worthies, Michael Hickinbotham and Darren Thomas are One Nation adjacent.

Hey Australians. Name Anthony Albanese with one word. I'll start. DISAPPOINTING #auspol

Just putting this out here- #gracetame

Feels more like Howard era government to me. Albanese is basically Howard with a public housing back story.

No matter how bad your day is, things can always get worse.

... but they are not going to stop spying on you with Palantir. www.thenewdaily.com.au/finance/cons...

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Federal police raided Dissent Bar in Canberra and stripped anti-fascist posters off the walls under Labor's brand new hate speech laws. Not a Nazi compound. A local café with political art. This is what biased laws look like in practice. 🧵

From adversity comes great art.

Know the enemy.

Australia - 2nd biggest natural gas producer in the world and yet its beer drinkers who pay more in taxes (to the tune of $1.2 Billion). Pocock is right - what the fuck is going on in parliament? youtu.be/UZln5YCghKo?... #auspol

One suspects he doesn’t know what a metaphor is

I loved your point about the supposed link between Epstein and Russia.

Peter Goldsworthy calls the scheduling explanation why Thomas Friedman did not appear at Adelaide Writers Week as "BS". Thoughts were that "If only Friedman had a platform on which he could have called this out." Guess the New York Times just doesn't have the reach.

News rooms urge caution around using the word 'terrorism' when talking about throwing a bomb at an Invasion Day protest, "it's not like something extreme happened like a uni student eating a slice of watermelon."

spotted on Reddit, a little bit of history repeating

"It would greatly facilitate social cohesion if the leaders of Zionist organisations could trace the true source of discomforting, community criticism back to Israel rather than to the broader Australian community." And if Zionists were not setting policy. #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2026/01...

You could add to this list: Gambling Advertising non-reform, public health/Covid safety abandonment, Robodebt zero action, Whistleblowers locked up

There are no penguins in Greenland you absolute moron.

Special mention of the Crisisfool legislation.

And they lie, and they lie, and they lie or get others to lie for them.

On point

Anne Twomey, constitutional lawyer, nails it in today's SMH. Under the new legislation, 'Guernica' would be an offense.

Apparently the remake of Barbarella has been green lighted.

The dishonest campaign against Louise Adler from the right-wing press is pretty good evidence that the interest of newspaper editors in a Royal Commission has little or nothing to do with protecting Jewish participation in Australian public life and everything to do with silencing dissent

Following the cancellation of Randa Abdel-Fattah and the subsequent withdrawal of 100+ writers and half the board, ‘Adelaide Writers Week’ has rebranded as ‘Adelaide Writers Gatho’. The internationally acclaimed event will now be held at the West Terrace MacDonalds on 1 March, 2pm - 3pm. #auspol

Shocking/Ignored: If the victim was a Rabbi this would have been front page news in every MSM outlet, there would have been Press Conferences/condemnation/outrage from PM & Opposition leaders etc. Unsurprisingly there's #crickets instead. #auspol #Islamophobia www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Too true

BREAKING: 3 members of the Adelaide Festival Board have resigned after it refused to reverse its decision to rescind Dr Abdel-Fattah's invitation. No statement has been issued but their names have been quietly removed from the website. Four people are now responsible for the ongoing crisis.

Wonder why there has been a huge reaction? In the 65 year history of the Adelaide Writers Festival, this appears to be the first time a writer has been officially dropped. On all other occasions the Board has stood by its invited authors, even amid backlash from outside interests. #auspol

Gutted by the spineless decision of the Adelaide Festival Board. Will be sitting this one out.

The festival Board claims "that Randa's very presence is not 'culturally sensitive'. This claim exemplifies anti-Palestinian racism and scapegoating of Palestinians in the supposed name of Jewish safety. We stand with Randa and all those who have withdrawn from the festival in solidarity." 💥🎯👏👏👏

“Cultural sensitivity” means destroying an entire arts festival rather than allowing a Palestinian person to come along and talk about her new novel.

Nasser Mashni— "More anti-Palestinian racism! "Boycott the @adelwritersweek until they reinstate Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah." #BoycottAdelaideFestival

Its board has trashed the reputation of the Adelaide Festival - not just Writers Week !

Looks like another festival ended by its own boards cowardice.

Apparently she has a culturally insensitive surname.

Going to be interesting to see how many writers withdraw from the Adelaide Festival. Probably not enough to make it unviable, but I suspect enough to hollow it out. This isn't a theoretically neutral code of conduct, but specific targeting of an individual writer because of her "vibe".

apparently the Danish Armed Forces have dumped tonnes of Lego bricks on the coast of Greenland to deter a US invasion

Punishing artists for (alleged) political speech hasn't worked for Creative Australia, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, State Libraries VIC and QLD, Bendigo Writers Fest, and the ABC... but maybe it will work in Adelaide

Bondi was appalling but our institutions should not be destroyed to support an agenda. These are the cowards on the Adelaide Festival Board

And there it is! It had nothing to do with drugs. It's the BRICS system threatening the US Petro$ dominance. "... since 2018, Venezuela has sold 100% of its oil exports to China, with transactions settled in yuan, not dollars. Moreover, Venezuela became an official BRICS+ partner nation in 2024.."

Irony is unalive

If you try to log onto myGov using myID on the one device, you become stuck in an impossible loop. You need to use TWO devices! There is nothing online to tell you this. It’s the first thing you are told when ringing Services Australia. I’m sure increased AI usage will fix this.