Kicking someone out of the parliament sports club for pointing out the parliament sports club is so involved with the gambling lobby they had to officially register as a lobbying group is the very sort of action that should be referred to a 'National Anti-Corruption Commission'.

God almighty. And THEY are accusing HIM of politicising the Club. FFS.

We're meant to have these things called the Australian Federal Police and also the National Anti-Corruption Commission who are both certainly authorised to act in the scenario where a government department is recovering >$3.5m a year in fraud without even really actively looking.

Just so we’re clear: Labor is choosing to work with the worst possible party on environmental issues, instead of the Greens and teals who actually want environmental regulation. And Watt is already admitting it won’t have a climate trigger …

this is like a boomer dad saying he's transitioning to veganism because he got a salad with his steak (but the steak's 0.2% smaller!!)

Independent Senator David Pocock and Labor's Penny Wong clashed in Senate estimates yesterday over whether the Parliamentary Sports Club could be considered a lobby group, as reported in Crikey last week. The club is registered as such, and lists Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its clients.

Parliament was told that the Commissioner of the NACC didn't have any duties with the Defence Force. That simply wasn't true.

It appears to me from the outside that the manual review process (which the Australian government has said it wants for the under 16s ban) led to ID docs being kept longer than needed.

Govt fearmongering about AI writing Freedom of Information requests, vexatious applicants and a swamped eSafety Commission is overstated. The FOI workload is actually at a low point for the decade.

Proposed changes to Australia’s FOI laws would make a repeat of the disastrous Robodebt coverup more likely, rather than less, our new research shows. The PM described Robodebt as a “gross betrayal and human tragedy”, yet his government plans to make cabinet documents harder to access. #auspol

dehumanisation is a gross thing to do. but AIs aren't human, so it can't be dehumanisation to disparage them. BUT if your route to disparaging them is to first anthropomorphise them, and then do dehumanisation on that anthropomorphisation: that's still dehumanisation! and also inefficient

An update on that insane lease term where the landlord owns everything you create during the tenancy:

Under 16s social media ban is going to: - Push kids into worse, more dangerous content - Risk the privacy of every adult Australian via botched age verification - Limit Australian technology sector development Why are we doing this again?

Two things here that are simply unbelievable: (1) that our own Prime Minister, who spent months maligning the Palestine protests, told the nation that there were "good people" at the Nazi rally, (2) our antisemitism envoy still won't comment on the Hilter Glorification Parade.

The climate targets announced by @albomp.bsky.social are so weak - imagine if we all took this attitude to work! Shame on the government for once again letting down Australia #climate #targets This comic was done in consultation with my partner Matt :)

Labor’s real climate policy is to extend and expand fossil fuel mining until 2070, and not care abt those emissions because they’re overseas. Local emissions volumes will be “offset” in fraudulent sequestration schemes. They’ll bang on about renewables as if they are driving solar & battery tech.

Private consultants are taking control of how public universities are evaluated and run. My submission to the Senate university governance inquiry raises concerns about the impact of Nous Group and their dodgy UniForum data on our universities. www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStor... A thread

From the same party that keeps approving massive fossil fuel projects. Worth remembering that Labor is factional, and Bowen may well be battling his hardest against the fossil-fuel-approvers behind the veil of caucus. But if he is, it's a secret they're devoted to keeping together, so, fuck them all

*Labor: approves biggest gas project in southern hemisphere out to 2070*

Sophie Labelle on the pisspoor reportage surrounding Charlie Kirk's alleged killer: 'I think that internet illiteracy and the inability for trad media to tell apart leftist discourses from far-right ironic memes may be the coup de grâce.'

one reason i reject the 'global, vibes based rejection of liberalism' theory is, as elites have internalised it, they've figured there's nothing to be done other than accommodate fascism but in fact, when we fight, we win all the time

Disgraceful. No govt that actually cares about climate change would do this. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Whose life matters?

This is the person they are suspending people over btw

"political violence is never acceptable," is a phrase you don't hear politicians say after cops beat the shit out of peaceful demonstrators

the big news today is emoji 17.0 will come with a "fight cloud" emoji. uhhh... when are we gonna get a fight sephiroth emoji??? unicode's claim to neutrality getting thinner every second

no offends if this is you but if you're thinking "this is going to make the right do fascism" they're already there. they blew up a boat with 11 people on it for being immigrants. they're kidnapping US citizens and trying to rendition them to Uganda. do you think we're on a trajectory to peace

Today we are told that the 🍉 symbol is antisemitic Remember when Musk’s heil was described as clumsy? Nazi salute? Not antisemitic Fruit? Antisemitic The inanity of this would be funny if it weren’t so incredibly dangerous. As a Jew, this devaluing of real antisemitism scares the shit out of me.

Ben Roberts-Smith is a war criminal And still the only person in prison for these crimes is the man who blew the whistle

“In response to the most recent wave of militant protests across Indonesia, the anarchist organisation Perhimpunan Merdeka (in Engl: Freedom Association) released the statement below:”

The "political obstacle" is that the Labor Right is ardently pro fossil fuel, and the Labor Left lets party solidarity outrank all other concerns. In the ALP, keeping to your principles is a betrayal, and the knives they reserve for dissenters are sharper even than those they keep for the Greens.

I’m sure this point has been made elsewhere but not only did they openly lie about how many recommendations were in the robodebt final report, the one they erased was to reform FOI and now they’re heading in the opposite direction. Surprise is not a feature of my reaction.

Anthony “I don’t have a problem with the the things that were said at the march just the fact it was the Nazis who said them” Albanese

It would be a massive mistake for progressive folk to convince themselves the March for Australia was a bust, or can safely be ridiculed. It was an alarming escalation of far-right action, and we need to reckon with it. More thoughts (un-paywalled) here: www.lamestream.com.au/how-mainstre...

Every single publicised arson attack on a synagogue has now been linked to criminal gangs and/or Iran. You’d imagine this would be front page news, considering how the media has sought to blame pro-Palestine protestors for two years. But it’s nowhere. www.lamestream.com.au/the-media-bl...

Everything the pro-Israel media think the pro-Palestine movement is (racist, extremist, building up violent hate) is actually happening with the anti-migrant “March for Australia” but with a fraction of the outrage.

Imagine if our authorities showed such tenacity pursuing the ones who DID the corruption. Lol hello NACC u still there?

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Everyone involved in this needs to repay whatever public money was involved in full. Deloitte, the DEWR Secretary's salary for any time in commissioning it, all of you. This must be referred IMMEDIATELY to both the Australian Public Service Commission and the NACC.

The incredibly muted political response to sovereign citizens being responsible for the murder of four police officers in 12 months is remarkable. The police / spook / political / media extremist framework is clearly only designed to be deployed against Islamic extremism, any other form breaks it.

hey "what's good for the climate is good for your pocket" is CRAZY. the thing that's good for the climate is a rapid dismantling of the entire fossil energy system. how fucked are we that in the fight for our survival our leaders can't accept some short-term economic disruption, even rhetorically

imagine thinking this is something to be proud of. rotten to the core

MASTERS OF THE NEFARIOUS is on sale this weekend as part of the @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social Horror and the Supernatural Sale. Some truly excellent titles for you to snag. And if you're on the fence about picking up MotN, perhaps the quoted post will help persuade you?

Every news AI booster article is like: A local man trained his parrot to say “I love you” but was surprised when the parrot actually fell in love with him (clip of parrot saying “I love you”).

Israel is evil. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Guess where former defence ministers are? 👀 The revolving door is a real obstacle to good governance and it should be SHUT.

i don't want to pick nits with the analogy but i personally would like rules for flying cars to come before they hit our roads (skies?) rather than after

The truth is out about Australia’s military exports to Israel and ongoing Labor lies. Defence Minister Marles said exports were all “dual use” for civil or military purposes. Turns out 90% are “inherently lethal” or only for military purposes. He has never apologised.

This is nothing short of incredible. Everyone was absolutely right to wonder what kind of person would want to take this job.

crossing my fingers we land the COP31 gig. truly it'd be Australia's biggest climate achievement since the carbon tax! you got this Chris!! lets gooo