The PEOPLE’S choice

Contrary to Albanese’s word association games with the Murdoch press, I don't think Grace Tame is "difficult". She just doesn’t like dickheads and pedophiles, it's really quite simple.

Fight this Australia. You don't want his brand of crazy.

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Technology firms that do not take down abusive images from their platforms within 48 hours face being blocked from the UK under new rules proposed by the government www.lbc.co.uk/article/reve...

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

A better headline would be “Queensland has the most men who killed women” #MVAW

New national psychiatry body seeks greater focus on severe complex mental illness www.croakey.org/new-national...

Pauline Hanson has spent decades demonising Muslims in the Senate with zero consequences, but put an anti-fascist poster on your bar wall and the AFP comes knocking. Labor's first scalp under their hate speech laws isn't a hate group and that says everything.

Australians returning from prison camps in Syria are clearly loathed by politicians. But what about the thousand or so Australians who’ve also spent time in the Middle East fighting in the IDF against innocent gardens. What happens to them when they come home?

johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02... %26 Irritations

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Lots of us not able to attend for various reasons, so it would be truly unwise for governments to assume that support for those able to protest is not widespread.

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A bit of bright info to contemplate… as I consume my strong long black!☕️

Smoking is the number 1 preventable cause of cancer worldwide. Did you know it is linked to at least 15 different cancers, not just the lung. Once you kick this dangerous habit, you drastically reduce your cancer risk. Commit and quit!

He’s not wrong.

You know, it’s just possible to feel really bad about the violent deaths of Israeli Jews, the genocide in Palestine and the deaths of Australian Jews all while being neither anti-Semitic or Islamophobic. Somehow that has become impossible for the political class.

If, perhaps like me, one has hypertension do make sure relevant meds are taken before viewing. Despite the widespread effects of this obnoxious fulla I’m so grateful not to be American. zeteo.com/p/nbc-softba...

“One economist writing in the AFR blamed inflation on . . . the Government mandating a 15% pay rise for childcare workers. That’s a stunning impact given childcare workers make up about 1.5% of the labour force." - Greg Jericho Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4rv9wv9

Oi @albomp.bsky.social Gonna raise this with Israel’s government? #auspol

Get this: the Israeli president’s visit will be so divisive, according to NSW Police, that the appropriate response is to ban all public assemblies while he’s here, rather than, say, him not coming.

When asked detailed questions by Crikey about what stage EBSP negotiations were at, Home Affairs refused to provide any information, merely stating “visa requirements and policies are a matter for the countries that issue them” — a clear non-denial. Read the full report: buff.ly/5IKZHN0

When even the Mathias Cormann-led OECD says the capital gains tax discount and negative gearing are a problem, you know Australia's housing market is really cooked. 🔥🏚️🏚️🔥 @grogsgamut.bsky.social @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social #auspol

A good news story 👏

I cannot comprehend how they can so blatantly pick out only one group within Australian society to protect. It does my head in!

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Labor: Welcome Mr President, we are proud to honour you

BREAKING: Northern Ireland’s First Minister Michelle O’Neill tells Sky's Trevor Philips that the country has the ability to take control of their fortune as she suggests there could be a border poll by 2030

The folly of inviting Israel’s President, Isaac Herzog, to Australia. My column for the ABC.

True😒

apart from a menorah on the Opera House, Day of Reflection, public Shloshim rites, NYE minutes silence, menorah on the Harbour Bridge, multiple condolences in the federal Parliament, National Day of Mourning, Chabad fundraiser at the Opera House, 144 pages of legislation and a Royal Commission.

if “people don’t want that conflict brought here”, why would “people” want the head of the state causing the “conflict” brought here is my question.

he is the political head of a foreign power, not a spiritual or pastoral leader of Judaism. This visit is by definition about zionist allegiance to the genocidal apartheid state of Israel. michaelwest.com.au/what-is-isra...

Speak of the devil… (ref to previous post)

Pleased to hear this however, the cynic part of me is wondering if this has been arranged as a distraction from the arrival on 8 Feb of another fella & his entourage.

The Albanese government must end this contract immediately. Company handling Australia’s immigration detention playing key role in Trump’s ICE migrant crackdown www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

@ChaneyforCurtin is absolutely right to raise these legitimate concerns. #socialcohesion #ICJrulings #internationallaw #legalobligations #genocide #warcrimes #auspol katechaney.com.au/chaney_shares_…

Israel has now said it accepts Hamas' estimate of the Gaza death toll, 71,000+, after years of insisting it was inflated. We're about to welcome the head of that state as an official guest.

“Offshore gas companies pay no royalties, which means they get the product that they’re selling for free.” – Senator Larissa Waters, Leader of the Australian Greens ✍️ Add your name to the petition calling on the government to fix our gas export laws: https://theaus.in/3LW3DIq

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The reason we hate opening emails and messages around Invasion Day. 👇🏾

Absolutely dis- gist-ing😡 Sadly all to common. I for one have never had to endure such hateful filth‼️ and I’m so sorry. Thank you for sharing so others ‘see’ the type of sentiment espoused. Different to ‘know of it’ but sharing the gut punching experience firms up the alliance ☘️♥️💛🖤

this link works.....Colin Hay ‘strenuously disapproves’ use of Down Under at March for Australia rallies www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

I don’t understand our govt’s decision to invite Herzog at all! Rather than welcoming him we should be doing all we can to actively oppose Genocide & all those who condone or support it. #auspol

On a number of counts I’m ‘Not happy Bern’. 😏

The Bad Show to be replaced by the Really Bad Show

Obviously all the those people at March for Australia rallies radicalised that guy in Perth so those rallies should be banned, because that's the way it works, right Chris Minns?

The bogan cockheads in the NT government taking on the big issues. #AustraliaNotAmerica #AusPol