Climate breakdown, extinction, resource depletion, misinformation and conflict are not separate crises. Together they form a single human emergency that demands coordinated global action, writes @JulianCribb #climate #environment #globalcrisis #future #auspol

Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants. Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this. Do not.

Thinking 2026 will be your year, @jimchalmers.bsky.social. Go for it! #auspol www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...

Brilliant piece by @davemilbo.bsky.social. Essential reading, @albomp.bsky.social. We are in danger of repeating US mistakes after 9/11, the folly of which responses began America's unravelling. #auspol. Weaponising the Bondi tragedy is a betrayal of all our children theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

Teach ethics, not religion, in our schools. Letters to the editor SMH 20/12/25. “Now is the time to introduce a secular curriculum.. Please, David Gonski, be brave enough to take this step”. 👇

By niece of JFK:

If only our politicians would stop knee-jerking! We need leaders who can articulate the distinction between antisemitism (odious) and opposition to the policies of the current Israeli government (rational). It is crucial that they stop conflating the two. #auspol overland.org.au/2025/12/on-t...

Great comment under a Kangaroo Court article:

The question "What can be done?" has a simple answer: Charge rego by emission (NOx & Carbon). Boom 💥 Done.

The proliferation of SUVs and giant Ute's has made it unsafer for drivers of smaller cars. Owners of these monsters should be hit in the hip pocket - the only way to reverse this trend. #auspol #roadsafety theconversation.com/australias-r...

Albanese has I think showed very strong leadership in the wake of the Bondi massacre. Has not attempted to self aggrandise as others have, has stayed out of the gutter politicking by Ley and Frydenberg. Got on with tightening gun laws.

"No to war, and yes to peace." #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...

A man who has abjectedly failed the test of leadership at the first hurdle. In the past, trying to revive your political career off the back of a massacre might be viewed as tasteless... www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"We don't need to check Instagram or Facebook or refresh Twitter every two minutes....It would be better for our ruined attention spans if we didn't; better for our mental health, our relationships, our democracy." Great read. #auspol Barbarians inside the gate www.themonthly.com.au/december-202...

Sad to read nothing has changed despite decades of awareness raising. #sexism Confronting harassment in uni STEM courses www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: petitions.getup.org.au/petitions/ah... @getup.org.au

Aged care reforms built on the myth of the cashed up boomer risk leaving those who most need support unable to afford it. Rising fees, a fragile Support at Home system and pressure on families point to a policy failure we will all feel, writes Kathy Eager @k_eagar #AgedCare #AusPol

Neoliberalism running aged care - can only end in tragedy. #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...

Please God, don't touch it. #auspol ‘Don’t touch it’: Port Arthur veterans on gun law amendments www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

"Neoliberalism, techno-solutionism, nationalist populism....promise stability while delivering precarity, defend growth on a planet exhausted by it." Great big-picture article on where we're potentially heading. Fingers crossed for the last option. #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...

thepoint.com.au/news/251212-... Where could our money be better spent? ✅ preferences AUKUS? Fossil fuel subsidies? Elite private schools? Tax breaks for the wealthy? Negative gearing? Useless NACC? Housing & feeding poor? Free uni & TAFE education? Quality public schools? Renewables? Healthcare? …

"Australia, a mere annexure of the US imperium." We have been dudded by our own governments. When do we get to vote on this abomination? #AUKUS #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...

Marles and Wong embarrass themselves and us. #AUKUS is "a defence policy written by a tourism executive. At great expense, it makes the country less safe. It is to Labor's immense shame that it lacks the courage or insight to walk away from it." #auspol www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/edit...

"Some...view the timing of the pile-on suspiciously. The steady drip of stories comes just as Wells has been forging ahead with Australia's world-first social media ban for under-16s...furiously resisted by technology giants such as Google." I smell a rat! #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#AUKUS is a nonsense as is Marles' posturing during Albo's honeymoon. Australia would be a damn sight better off without either. #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...

The good news is that we’re talking about this, posting about this, protesting about this, VOTING about this. So in the near future this will be rescinded by a sane administration…with a corresponding public celebration.

"Australians must demand an independent public enquiry to articulate our views on the priorities to better secure this country's security and prosperity." Great article. #auspol How to restore Australia’s national security www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

"(No) Australian government has had a coherent defence policy since 2010....The venality of our political leaders, from Gillard to Morrison, dumped Australia into security obeisance to the United States." We have to extricate ourselves from this noose. #AUKUS. #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...

Mainstream media, for the sake of a buck, and our ABC, for fear of criticism, are all failing us. All guilty of giving credibility and relevance to fringe extremist viewpoints, doing our country a great disservice in the process. Support independent media! #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...

It's time. #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...

Not a good look! #auspol Mate, expectations www.themonthly.com.au/karen-middle...

"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." — Plato

From Williamtown to Nevatim, Israel, last week: "The baggage handlers, the airport staff, the flight crew, and the passengers aboard the flight were completely oblivious to the secret military cargo also loaded on board the passenger plane." No to #AUKUS! #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...

Yet another failure of this government to live up to its rhetoric. Hard to see how we have any improvement on Morrison. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The Govt bought the land for between $4M and $10M and then sold it back to the seller for $1.27M. It refuses to tell the public (via #FOI) or the Senate (via questions on notice) the purchase price. Maladministration, or something more sinister? #auspol

Mainstream media - agents from Block 4 of the Propaganda Unit, decided to censor one of Australia's most respected journalists Crikey - one of Australia's independent media organisations, decided to be transparent - because we all need transparency to be informed www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/01/k...

"A farce of law and a farce of a law." #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...

Thank God for @zoedaniel.bsky.social. But neither party will touch this issue if it affects their party's coffers. And they wonder why we lose respect for them. #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“everything is on the table” says Richard Marles. Everything except what really matters; the outrageous spending on the dangerous and deluded #AUKUS deal. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

How we miss Kerry O'Brien on our ABC! #auspol ABC legend Kerry O’Brien’s speech was cut down by newspapers. Here it is in full www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/01/k...

The great failure of the property industry

Good summation of what happened by @richarddenniss.bsky.social #ThePoint thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

So glad to be with a bunch of protesters in Newcastle who did more for the climate in one weekend than the Australian Labor Party has done in 3 years

F*cking pathetic ABC - ‘both sidesing” this by calling a White Supremacist ‘hate rally’ a ‘protest’ and then the actual protest against this unacceptable behaviour a rally. Their reporting is getting more and more indistinguishable from Newscorp every day. #auspol #ThisIsNotJournalism