Australians impacted by Robodebt have until 4pm on Friday, March 6, to register for a new class action settlement with payouts between $1,000 and $50,000 au.finance.yahoo.com/news/centrel...

Extreme rhetoric Advance Holocaust minimisation Margaret Thatcher and the International Democracy Union (IDU) www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

“Currently grappling with threats from an old foe, Russia, and an old ally, America, Denmark has made conscription compulsory for women for the first time in its history. “Every 18-year-old Dane, male or female, must now register for military service.” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Jeffrey Epstein saw promise in Bitcoin — and its far-right supporters www.theverge.com/tech/885252/...

This ep has a very good discussion of the Atlas Network, its ‘free market’ think tanks in Australia, astroturfing, and the layers of the onion of dark money in politics. Thank you to @nicolechvastek.bsky.social and Denis Muller for the shoutout too. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...

Advance platformed a rep of a US Islamophobic hate group last week. He called for “remigration” (white supremacist term for mass deportation). Steve Bannon’s sidekick called Muslims “invaders” here to conquer. Unrelated: WA police stopped attack on Mosque. #Auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Jewish Council of Australia condemns Benjamin Harnwell's appalling comment at the Advance conference and call on our leaders and the Antisemitism Envoy to speak out in condemnation.

Benjamin Harnwell, the international editor of Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast, told Australian conservatives that Angela Merkel did more damage to Germany’s fabric than the Nazis and Adolf Hitler. The comments were made at event held by the lobby group Advance. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

🧵. "it really matters that these #auspol figures are networking with some of the more toxic establishment forces in the transnational Right." More excellent investigative work from Lucy H.

NEW: Australia's sovereign wealth fund, the Future Fund, says it wasn't responsible for buying $100m of Palantir shares A Future Fund exec told Estimates blamed external fund managers for purchasing the stake in the Trump-linked company accused of powering ICE's deportations www.crikey.com.au/20...

You Don't Need Democracy If You Don't Have People. @quinnslobodian.com and I discuss the tech billionaire dream of "capitalism without democracy." Quinn's work helped inspire my own, so it was great to finally chat! He's been leading the way on this topic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1om...

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

The corruption of the West is about to have a stake driven through its vampire heart. This profound and thorough analysis by Gareth Hutchens explains what that stake is made of.

Thanks to @garethhutchens.bsky.social for this excellent explanatory journalism. #Auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

The origins of neoliberalism, the Mont Pelerin Society, the Atlas Network, the Overton window, the Nobel Prize in economics, and cryptocurrencies. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

When this blows over I might have to share some of the emails I’ve received over the days which really make me wonder why I am the one accused of hatred. There is deep unresolved trauma being spewed by some of these people and we cannot consent to living according to their warped reality.

excellent look back at decisions to screw over early childhood services, including those who warned about what would happen, from @garethhutchens.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

How very Pocockian. The only parliamentarian to have captained an elite national sports team got expelled from the parliamentary sports club for expressing principles about the sinister cavortings of the gambling industry.

👀A Rutgers professor who teaches an anti-fascism class was blocked from leaving the US hours > Trump’s “Antifa” roundtable w/ Jack Posobiec who has called Bray a “domestic terrorist professor.” TPUSA at Rutgers has called him an “antifa member,” a claim he denies. He’s received death threats. 1/

Thank you @rossgittins.bsky.social. That’s high praise coming from you. www.smh.com.au/business/the...

What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own. Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week. Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊

Being a renter in Australia means handing over an unnecessary amount of personal data to real estate agents who have no clue - and who often don't care - how to keep that data secure. Many can't tell you how it's stored, who can access it and when/if it gets destroyed

Incredibly powerful op-ed written by Randa Abel-Fattah that everyone needs to read. It’s being published by @deepcutnews.bsky.social after The Age commissioned it then spiked it.

Here’s a piece I wrote about the damage done to Australian cultural institutions - ABC, Creative Australia, MSO, SLV, SLQ, etc and now Bendigo Writers Fest - by their surrender to the demands of pro-Israel pressure campaigns open.substack.com/pub/nickfeik...

Ken Henry: the marine disaster in SA is not an early warning. It’s a late warning. We should have been awake decades ago to the damage climate change will do and is doing. #KenHenry #NPC #auspol

Federal Court judge Michael Wigney says when Australia’s government set its greenhouse gas emissions targets in 2015, 2020, and 2021, its targets were “plainly not consistent” with its international obligations under the Paris Agreement, nor with the best available science.

There we are. www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

"the Special Envoy’s overreach with this latest report is part of a process that has been ongoing in Western democracies for decades now. Piece by piece ... an issue is presented in a way that drains it of all its nuances and reduces it to an us-against-them confrontation."

The word is "massacres"

🚨Antisemitism boss Jillian Segal and her husband are the second biggest funders of far-right group "Advance". The extremist lobby group spreads online racism and xenophobia, including directly targeting Palestinians... theklaxon.com.au/hrgd

Just days after Elon Musk's AI chatbot praised Hitler and called itself "MechaHitler", Australia's lead advisor on fighting antisemitism praised Musk's platform X's use of AI to "root out hate" 😵‍💫 www.crikey.com.au/20...

Have failures in coverage of Israel signalled the death of traditional newsrooms?

Momentum is building

Excellent from Alan ... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

On 6/20/25, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale smeared Steve Bannon & Tucker Carlson—who oppose US intervention in the Israel/Iran war—as “this new Woke Right.” (The Israel/Iran war & “Woke Right” smear continue to fracture the MAGA coalition.) 1/

Could everyone please read this. By @garethhutchens.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

If we want to live in a world in which individual human and civil rights mean anything, certain groups in society must not be allowed to behave with impunity. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

New freelance piece by me for @crikey.com.au on the scramble inside the govt to respond to Trump's ethnic cleansing proposal

“As soon as man can disobey with impunity, his disobedience becomes legitimate.” - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762