Hey Aus, in the March quarter and just in battery storage alone, we installed the equivalent of a coal-fired power station into our homes! #AusPol

Thirteen hundred of you took the time to complain to the NACC about their appalling mismanagement of the Robodebt referral. This is how the Commissioner talks about those complaints. How utterly shameful.

The US & Australian governments insist that the AUKUS submarine deal is "full steam ahead". But there appears to be a big gap between that political rhetoric & the reality, says Guardian journalist Ben Doherty. "The US is getting slower at building submarines, not faster." 🎧 theaus.in/43vlCKI

Unreliable narrator stories are fun until you live through a global-economy tanking war between two sets of relentless liars both trying to influence a stock market full of investors who don't actually care what's true.

There's an exceptionalist belief that the UK's immune to the worst political extremes. In reality, we were lucky not to get a fascist government in the 1930s. Now that the world's richest man supports our most extreme political party, we need more than luck. We need to get the money out of politics.

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The Australia Institute has proposed a Climate Disaster Levy on fossil fuel exports to ensure the companies exporting fossil fuels pay for some of the damage they are causing, rather than leaving Australians to foot the bill. ✍️ Add your name to the petition now! https://theaus.in/4dL8Cp0

there is genuine ignorance among witnesses as well as a deliberate strategy to read hasbara into the public record at this Royal Commission. Fact checking can barely keep up with zionists reciting pro-Israel narratives - noble start from Deepcut here. www.deepcutnews.com/p/fact-check...

With the crossbench and the Centre for Public Integrity for the launch of their report into how to make our integrity agencies truly independent - coming the day after Commissioner Brereton resigned it could not be better timed.

This will help their largely completed peace negotiations. Srsly.

Inevitable but still pretty angry about this

World’s biggest miner BHP backtracks on climate action with key projects put on ice, leaked documents reveal www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Having thoroughly trashed the reputation of the organisation by refusing to resign when it first became obvious that he should, Brereton has managed to do even more damage. He lasted until just after the Robodebt findings, too. Shocked I say.

Asking the Royal Commission into Social Cohesion and Antisemitism if Muslim communities can't give evidence and false claims of antisemitism which conflate a bake sale or wearing a keffiyeh with antisemitism go unchallenged, what exactly is this royal commission for?

World’s biggest miner BHP backtracks on climate action with key projects put on ice, leaked documents reveal www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

BHP decided to quietly dump plans to move to electrify trucks, double down on diesel, oops. *slowest of hand claps* brilliant work and honestly everyone involved should be sacked for that stupidity alone

Actually, Democracy Dies in H.R. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...

If you're wondering how the recently resigned #NACC Commissioner, Paul Brereton, spent his time in his $800,000 p.a job, at least some of it was dedicated to writing to the Inspector General about some individual called, Ronni Salt's, twitter activities. Seriously - I kid you not #auspol

"While there are understandable concerns about abandoning the florin, I believe our supporters are ready for the change.” theshovel.com.au/2026/05/25/n...

Good on GetUp! for campaigning to end Group Ticket Voting in Victoria. #springst www.getup.org.au/campaigns/vi...

A dozen NSW police, including riot squad, ambushed a well known Palestinian activist in a backstreet in Rose Bay, demanding he explain his presence or move on and taunting him with multiple charges, just for visiting a Bunnings 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/nsw-pol...

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"In his comment about Herzog as the Jewish head of state, Albanese implied that a section of the Australian public is actually under the rule of a foreign leader." Our EO, Bart Shteinman spoke with @jacobin about the crackdowns on pro-Palestinian speech: jacobin.com/2026/05/aust...

This! ‘There's this recognition that on so many of these big challenges we are facing, it's not necessarily left versus right, it's actually vested interests and their stranglehold on the major parties versus the Australian people." #auspol #insiders www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

Can’t believe we’re going to get a fossil fuel supercharged Hanson under the guise of fighting for the everyday person… because the the people that elected to fight for everyday people forgot and started fighting for fossil fuels.

Killing a country’s leader may disrupt a government for a moment, but history shows it rarely makes the government collapse.

A group of Australian citizens were kidnapped on international waters and beaten on camera by their captors - Israel Jillian Segal, the most prominent Israel advocate in Australia, has so far said *nothing* about the welfare of her fellow Australian citizens, nor condemned Israel's brutal actions .

Premier David Crisafulli's youth justice changes were supposed to deter crime but there's been an escalation in e-bike swarming in places like Brisbane, Gold Coast & Sunshine Coast. (I know what you're going to ask; where's the parents?) #qldpol

No president has ever started and lost a war as quickly before. Truly a magnificent deal maker.

"I'll run up the flag & the ideas & send it over to Eric (Trump)". Former Arundel Hills golf course was scheduled for housing under the Miles government. In 2024 Jarrod Bleijie boasted how he'd stopped the development. Now look who is off to Mar-a-Lago again; Tom Tate. #qldpol

An ever-expanding catastrophe over Iran is not inevitable. Trump can and must be stopped | Simon Tisdall

Laura Tingle points out that Israel seems less concerned about its beating, starving and sexual assault of prisoners than the fact the exposure of these actions is damaging its intl reputation

Footage has emerged of a "homecoming" party for a unit within Israeli forces that featured a display their annihilation of southern Lebanon's villages on a large screen. The screening was met cheers and laughter from the crowd, which included soldier from the unit and their family members & friends

This is so fcked. They've blown half a billion on the Spirit disaster, will spend a billion plus on the new stadium. Services, health and education are a disaster zone. But sure, fire 1700 public servants...

My reaction is this: Israel is a rogue state engaging in piracy on the high seas. The illegal capture, detention and abuse of activists is unacceptable, and demands the strongest possible response from Australia's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister.

Wait hold up, The Australian published a whole piece attacking the ABC based on the opinions of "four anonymous Victorians"? Just four random people not even willing to put their name to their opinions? Hashtag quality journalism. www.theage.com.au/business/com...

I fact checked One Nation’s climate claims. It was like going back 15 years.

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AEC couldn't find compelling evidence Tim Mander resided at his electoral address so referred the matter to the AFP. Premier David Crisafulli says he found out through the media at lunchtime on Thursday. This morning he fronted the cameras & hopes the investigation is dealt with "swiftly". #qldpol

In both Norway and Aus, the total projected consumption of data centres is growing - and measured production is exceeding previous forecasts. I am calling this: THE BABY HEDGHOG HT @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social for the digitised 2026 draft data ->

David Pope in Canberra Times

Following a global outcry she and her fellow activists have now arrived safely in Istanbul, severely bruised but unbowed. She will be telling her story @JLFLitfest London at 15.00 on Saturday, 6th June.

Massive call out to my brave, beautiful & fearless friend Noa Avishag Schnall @NoaAvishag of the @gbsumudflotilla who yesterday had the courage to shout at Ben Gvir to his face that he was a "genocidal maniac," after which she was assaulted & beaten up by his henchmen.