Australia don't like talking about class & inequality. Meanwhile, billionaire wealth continues to surge while millions struggle with rents, mortgages, and basic living costs. When these equity gap grow, grievance politics has it's hunting ground #auspol thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

Liberal Party philosophy to quote Angus Taylor: "Government does not grow the economy, private enterprise does." This exact attitude has sabotaged our economic resilience and industrial capacity. Libs have argued themselves into irrelevancy. #auspol pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/06...

"Teals and community independents are one of the few hopeful signs of commitment to good government, a vibrant democracy and an enlightened public square." However, corruptly, "Labor has sought to hobble them." Labor deserves to be out manoeuvred. #auspol pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/06...

“Australia is stepping up. Together, we are expanding the rotational presence of US forces and collaborating to ensure our defence industrial bases build and sustain weapons required for a high-end fight.” How very embarrassing. #auspol

"The legislation that established the NACC was a neutering instrument. It was designed through compromise to give only the appearance of transparency. The absence of public hearings....has been a disaster for integrity." #auspol www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/edit...

"The concentration of a new form of power in the hands of a very few is as great a threat as any authoritarian regime." Bravo to the Pope for calling out the perils ahead with AI. As always, it's not the tool that is the problem but its misuse by those in control of it. inside.org.au/will-governm...

On this score Albo's Labor government is doing very well. #auspol inside.org.au/quiet-revolu...

"Each generation since the Baby Boomers has been poorer than the last at the same point in life." Inequality, entrenched by Howard's policies, now grievance mined by One Nation, is unravelling our social cohesion. Spot-on analysis by @kossamaras.bsky.social pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/05...

"The electorate is being dumbed down....This government by insiders, for insiders, cant be botheted to listen or explain." #auspol pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/05...

"Defence needs a clean out to its very core." Biggest story of waste and malfeasance ignored by mainstream media. #auspol www.crikey.com.au/2026/05/25/d...

We are in greater danger from US than from China. #auspol pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/05...

#auspol 🇦🇺

The country needs Jim Chalmers off leash. #auspol pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/05...

"The upsurge in antisemitism, and the conduct of Israel's military campaign in Gaza, have occurred simultaneously and are plainly connected... Islamophobia...a significantly larger problem - receives a fraction of the political and media attention." #auspol pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/05...

Now Australia is following the same path.

Nero and Caligula on repeat. And our ruling class toe the line. #auspol pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/05...

"This budget is not bad, but it is not that good either...It wastes the opportinity to do something truly meaningful while there is no real opposition standing in its way." #auspol Just enough www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/edit... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

"The Marists have become the most vicious denomination in using the law to defend their financial interests, protect paedophiles and hurt survivors." #CatholicChurch The Marist Brothers’ cruel treatment of abuse victims www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-cri... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

Blinkered Angus Taylor's Liberal Party continues to alienate huge swathes of Australia's outer suburban multicultural regions. @kossamaras.bsky.social brilliantly explains how this is electoral suicide. #auspol pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/05...

No one wants Australia to blindly find itself at war, or to unconsciously draw terrorism to our shores. Conflict must be a conscious Govt choice. So why did Defence leave its Minister in the dark on our submariners being onboard USS Charlotte? #FOI #auspol

"Tim Wilson is burdened by a default demeanour uncomfortably close to sneering." Loving @chriswallace.bsky.social's wry insights into our political class. #auspol www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...

"Democracy must be judged by the quality of the lives it produces, not by whether our elites are satisfied with the show they put on for the rest of us." We are all over the Albanese government's posturing while entrenching inequalities and the status quo. #auspol open.substack.com/pub/tdunlop/...

"It's a pity the Prime Minister can't mention Gaza because the savage irony is that the Israeli destruction of that country has most likely been the major cause for a rise in antisemitism in Australia." A pity, and also despicable, @albomp.bsky.social #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2026/05...

What a disgusting disgrace for a President. 🖕🍊🌮💩 ✊🔥✊

. An assassination attempt a day keeps the Epstein Files away. .

Worst kept secret EVER #UnitedStatesofZi0n #EpsteinFiles #UnprovokedZi0Attack #WeSeeYouP4edo #DonnyDump 💩

Albo is a complicit pawn. "Australia is, while denominated Global North, also treated as Global South, a resource field to be managed for transnational and domestic corporate goals." #auspol We do not have a sovereign PM, we have a PR manager for corporate extraction theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

But not yet. Now’s not the time. Now’s not the time to raise the rate or support social housing. It’s the time to back the fossil fuel industry, cut the NDIS and legal aid, and spend more on missiles and submarines.

Absolutely agree. #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2026/05...

This ... Our politicians and dominant media class need to decide if they are with us or content to function as puppets cooperating with our extinction. Albanese appears to have made his choice.

And the animals looked from Albo to Scomo, and Scomo to Albo but already it was impossible to say which was which

Here's @lucyham.bsky.social "We do not have a sovereign PM, we have a PR manager for corporate extraction"

"Values are principles (we) consider important in life, such as family, freedom, keeping people safe...Virtues speak of who we are...qualities such as kindness, mercy, generosity, hospitality, courage." Beware those espousing values, but showing little virtue. #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2026/04...

More accurate journalism would contextualise this posturing: remind readers that it was Angus Taylor, as minister in the Morrison government, who spent enormous sums of our taxpayers' money buying fuel which remained stored in Texas. Go figure! #auspol theconversation.com/coalition-wo...

Alas, we need politicians at the helm who are not in thrall to ASPI to effect this sensible approach. #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2026/04...

#auspol US has changed

"Butler's preparation for this reform is a rare model of good government process." Let's hope Albo doesn't sell him down the river. #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2026/04...

"Donald Trump can choke our access to liquid fuels; he cannot turn off our sun or wind...Anthony Albanese did not cause this crisis, but the community expects him to fix it." #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2026/04...

“Yet it is Israel, which is supposed to be the great bulwark of democracy in a barbaric Middle East, that absolutely dominates the record books for its murder of journalists.” It’s left to Laura Tingle at the ABC to truth tell about Israel. Must read.

Is the Australian media failing our democracy? 🇦🇺 Amy Remeikis dives into how legacy media is giving One Nation and Gina Rinehart a free pass, threatening the future of local politics. Essential reading on power and accountability: open.substack.com/pub/deepcutn... #auspol

How I love @ronnisalt.bsky.social! Serving it up to these mediocre minions who call themselves our leaders, using wonderful words like "scintilla" in witty prose I want to shout from the rooftops! #auspol War pigs, the Albanese way theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

Immigration policy shouldn’t be about judging personal values. It should be about the civic virtues of citizenship that hold a democracy together, writes John Uhr. #auspol #Immigration #Democracy #Policy

Heartily sick of such Mediocre Men dominating our airwaves with their morally bankrupt claptrap. All praise to independent media calling them out. #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2026/04...