Thanks to FSU, 600 digital activists they supported & @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social from the @jacquilambie.bsky.social network, @information-age.bsky.social could quickly debunk the Gov's bogus "AI bots send FOI" claim, as Archie Milligan reports. When we work together, can protect our right to know!

Yesterday Treasurer Eric Abetz admitted to a parliament that there is no economic modelling to show how much revenue the proposed Macquarie Point stadium will bring into the state coffers! #AFLStadium #Taspol

Tas Treasurer Eric Abetz says the AFL Stadium will bring untold economic benefits - but guess what? There is NO ECONOMIC MODELLING!!! #taspol

If only the Libs had held the transparency high ground, we’d have been able to judge this week’s appointment of former SA Labor premier Jay Weatherill to UK High Commissioner by reference to standards laid out in the Briggs ‘Job for Mates’ review. #auspol

I put up a motion in the last parliament to get this organisation listed as terrorist organisations under the Criminal Code - Federal Labor didn't support it and neither did the Coalition! #auspol #nationalsecurity

The duopoly just joined forces in the Senate to vote down an #AUKUS inquiry. Never mind the political, technical & management risks associated with the program, or the $365B price tag - the two major parties are happy sleepwalking with your national security and money. #auspol

It’s not just a stadium. It’s a debt bomb for all of Australia. If Tasmania defaults, every state pays. Your taxes. Your interest rates. www.smh.com.au/.../tasmania....

Tomago Aluminium is facing closure over energy cost. Interest rates will be kept high because of energy costs. Yet @albomp.bsky.social won’t implement a gas reservation policy to lower those costs. He cares more about keeping Japan’s industry alive and South Korea’s energy costs low. #auspol

Oh dear! "Abetz used his first speech to the Tasmanian parliament last year to argue the current generation should not leave debts for future generations “because we are too selfish to tighten our belts”. #auspol #AFLStadium

It’s not about submarine secrets, nor police tactics, nor intelligence operations. It’s about climate change and energy policy. These are important topics which the public have a right to understand and discuss. Why the secrecy? #auspol

I might be down - with my back but I'm not out! Today, Senator David Pocock moved my motion for an inquiry to investigate Airport security fees. 🙏🙏🙏 Basically an Aussie going through security at Syd or Melb, is charged about 75c but if its a regional airport that could be $45!!! #auspol #Aviation

Home Affairs and Services were just asked if they have any evidence they can share with the Senate legislative committee of Ai bots generating FoI requests - and guess what - they couldn't! #FoI

The government was asked on Thursday if they could produce evidence of FoI generated by AI - and guess what - they couldn’t!!! #FOI #auspol

They promised transparency. They delivered secrecy. Now they’re coming for your right to know. Fight for our Freedom to Know. Because it’s our money and our right to see where it goes. Find out more - lambienetwork.com.au/pages/foi #FreedomToKnow #Transparency #AusPol #JacquiLambie #FOI

Premier Rockliff has already said he is pushing ahead with the AFL blackmail stadium - Jeremy doesn't like experts! He didn't listen to Saul Eslake, he didn't listen to Dr Nicholas Gruen and he's not listening to the Tasmanian Planning Council. #politas #aflstadium

#FOI costs have doubled over the past decade, not because of more requests, but because the Govt’s culture of secrecy scares sole decision making. Every man, woman & dog in Govt is consulted just in case someone might object to disclosure. #MountainsOutOfMolehills #YouPay #auspol

I fought Scott Morrison on National Cabinet secrecy during the COVID pandemic. I won that fight because his secrecy declaration was inconsistent with the law. @albomp.bsky.social is smarter than Morrison - he’s trying to expand Cabinet secrecy by changing the law. #auspol

Scott Morrison treated transparency like it was some kind of communicable disease. Being a less transparent government than his would achieve the impossible. Yet that’s what @AlboMP is trying to do with his new #FOI amendment bill. Essential listening👇. #auspol

In 2008 High Court Justice Kirby referred to the greater openness and transparency that the FOI Act provided citizens as “revolutionary”. The Govt just tabled a Bill in the Parliament that is nothing short of an @albomp.bsky.social counter-revolution. #auspol michaelwest.com.au/foi-amendmen...

1) FOI oxymoron: Fearless advice that the author fears more than one person will see! 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️ 2) FOI charges quid quo pro: Happy to pay a fee provided I get a penalty payment for each access refusal decision I get overturned on appeal. 💰👏 #FOI #auspol

The Tribunal hearing resumes today, although I’m not allowed in to hear/rebut the Govt’s arguments on why they think the Information Commissioner was wrong to grant access to documents about a history book on ADF operations in Timor 25 years ago. #FOI #CensoredHistory #auspol

What an absolute disgrace! This government promised to be transparent - what a joke! #Transparency #FOI

If our government cares about Palestinian children they will get on the phone to France, Canada and the UK and whip up support so that this resolution can pass the UN in September. When children are starving to death there is no time to waste, we need to act now! #auspol

Bloody hell www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

If a whistleblower goes to the C'wealth Ombudsman about their 'agency' that is the dept they work in - 'as a general rule' the Ombudsman refers it back to the agency' YES SERIOUSLY! #Whistleblowers #WhistleblowerProtection

A lot happened last week on the #AUKUS front. It really was a ‘shocker’ for proponents of the massive nuclear submarine shemozzle, but a happy state of self-delusion persists at the highest levels of our Government. 👇Sit down before you read this👇. #auspol

In Senator Lambie v Minister @tonyburkemp.bsky.social (re: content quotas), Burke has failed to comply with a mandatory law that requires him to hand over ALL docs relevant to the dispute. Instead he’s first asking foreign media companies if they’re OK with him complying. 👈👮‍♂️🚔 #FOI #auspol

It’s an old saying - ‘follow the money’. Here’s a post election peek at the $93.5M in public money that’ll be paid to political parties/candidates for votes they got. Some parties that knew they couldn’t win seats will be paid millions. #harvesting #auspol

It’s time to cap the “out of control” salaries paid to Vice Chancellors at Australian universities. Australia’s Vice Chancellors are among the highest paid in the world, at a time when the institutions they oversee are plummeting down international rankings. New analysis:

Our Film & TV Industry is on it's knees - meanwhile the US streamers are making money hand over fist - luckily @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social is on the case!!! #auspol

A fish rots from the head. Grossly overpaid Vice Chancellors with million dollar salaries aren't going to lead the changes needed to return our universities to a public education ethos. I've been working with Jacqui Lambie to force debate on this. 2/2 #auspol

Corruption flourishes in the dark. The ALP/LNP duopoly don’t want officials blowing the whistle on wrong doing. Only voting for independents and progressive minor parties will ensure there’s enough pressure on government to stand up a Whistleblower Protection Authority. #auspol

If Labor & the Liberal cared about fixing the housing crisis - they would fix negative gearing - @davidpocock.bsky.social & I asked the PBO to look at solutions that would protect existing arrangements but cap neg gearing - they won't even talk about - because they haven't got any.... #ausvotes

I won the #FOI transparency fight … or so I thought. The Govt appealed and is now using a taxpayer funded ‘silk’ to wrap layers and layers of secrecy around their legal arguments on why we can’t know the truth of what happened in Timor back in 1999/2000. #censorship #auspol

Another report pointing to the prospect @albomp.bsky.social #AUKUS nuclear sub deal will unravel. Australia's strategic interests and USA's America First impulses are rapidly diverging. We need to end this folly before more billions are flushed away. #auspol

Are you kidding me?Scots College in Sydney has finished its $60M 'student centre/library (I thought it was Hogwarts)' - this school has received millions in taxpayer funds over the last ten years - time we funnelled more of that money into public education for the kids who needs it!! #auspol

PBO modelling Sen Pocock & I commissioned in April '24 shows that reforms to neg gearing could boost housing affordability rates of home ownership & deliver $16B savings to the Budget over a decade. Fixing negative gearing won't fix the housing problem but it would be a bloody good start! #auspol

Wild instability in Washington leaves no confidence Australia can rely on the USA. We need a no-holds-barred Senate inquiry into #AUKUS, #ANZUS and #Trump's trade war. We need to face up to some big truths and navigate a new independent course. #auspol 1/2

Included in the list of 185 places hit by Trump's tariffs, unveiled on what he dubbed "Liberation Day", were the Heard and McDonald Islands, an external territory of Australia. But there aren't any humans there - unless the president knows something about penguins that we dont? 😂 😂 #auspol

Our child protection system is in crisis all over the country - in Tasmania we no longer have ANY residential accomodation for at risk kids! #auspol #children #fosterkids

How disgraceful - these comments should be withdraw immediately! It's up to women what they choose to put their bodies through. Disgusting!!! #auspol

If this UK parliament inquiry really lifts the lid on #AUKUS it won't be a pretty sight. UK sub programs are a shambles. SSN-AUKUS won't be developed in time. We need our own inquiry to hold Defence to account for its biggest cockup ever. #auspol

@albomp.bsky.social’s govt is obstructing transparency at every level; but nowhere more so than in regard to the $368B #AUKUS scam. They’re now retroactively security classifying documents in response to #FOI requests. Albo’s transparency pledge was fraud. #auspol

The Treasurer left the Instant Asset write off OUT of the budget and then he told the press club it was being held up by the Senate! That was rubbish - the cross bench have put it back on the agenda and hopefully we will get this sorted today! #smallbusiness #auspol

OOPS!!! Well that's a shame isn't it? Isn't that half their business case? Another nail in the coffin! #Politas

This govt promised they would put content quotas in place by July 1st 2024 GUESS WHAT? They haven't done anything - worse - they appear to have been very successfully lobbied by the American streaming platforms! We need to #MakeAustraliaMakeAgain and that includes our TV and Filmmakers. #auspol

Mining companies have to clean up after themselves and they have to abide by environmental laws - so why give the foreign owned salmon companies a free pass? This is just about getting votes - not about what is best for Australians! #porkbarrel #auspol

Whether it’s taking on the gas cartel with a gas reservation scheme & proper royalties, or multinationals with fair tax policies, or climate change, or Trump 2.0, or … the ALP/LNP just don’t have the courage. Jacqui Lambie has found the problem … and the solution. #auspol

Says it all really... This work of genius by David Rowe #AFR

Nice one Canada! Our govt needs to follow Carney's lead - we need to diversify our markets and make Australia Make Again! 🇨🇦