Hey everyone, if anyone reads The Age you will find me in the letters section tonight online or in the paper tomorrow! #auspol

Suck shit, Starmer www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Being a freelancer means this would be all his own gear and he’s now going to have to cover the costs of repair/replacing anything damaged himself. Insecure work costs workers in so many different ways.

#BREAKING 🚨 Independent candidate Michelle Milthorpe has confirmed she will recontest Farrer at the upcoming by-election, setting up a possible five-cornered contest following the resignation of Sussan Ley Milthorpe received 43.7% of the two-candidate-preferred vote in 2025

The Albanese Government just approved another huge coal mine- that will make Australia hotter, drier and cause more frequent and extreme disasters. 236 million tonnes of emissions over its life = double Australia's annual emissions, 1200x Vanuatu. www.lockthegate.org.au/middlemount-...

I give it two months #auspol

Today, under the cover of the Liberals tearing each other down, Labor has approved another coal mine extension. Extending Middlemount to 2044 means Labor has now approved 35 fossil fuel projects. In the middle of the climate crisis, they're approving more coal & gas.

Breaking: Angus Taylor to be leader of the Liberal Party for a few months

Revolutionary change at Liberal HQ - Angus Taylor’s Kings School education and his work at global management consultants McKinsey should see a fresh focus on the needs of ordinary people

Sussan Ley will not respond to Angus Taylor resignation tonight #auspol

Fantastic, well done Angus #auspol

#libspill is on!

Breaking: Sophie Scamps will boycott QT in parliament today in protest against Isaac Herzog’s visit. Says he should not be in our parliament - “with the entrance being officially lined with Israeli flags” bcoz it “normalises” Israel’s “atrocities” in Gaza. #auspol

If it makes you feel better, the snipers are always there - they're just usually more clandestine than this. This is a deliberate show of force.

Can never get used to seeing snipers on our public buildings live.thepoint.com.au/2026/02/the-... (Photo: @mikepbowers.bsky.social )

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... the sniper on the roof just says it all doesn’t it?

Cohesion. My @smh cartoon.

attending a protest = "antagonising police" is very literally and precisely the gaslighting doublespeak of the fascist Trump government. I really don't make that comparison lightly but this is systemic, deep institutional collapse

Looking forward to the ASIO estimates session in a few hours...

Anatomy of an ABC news story: bury the lead to blur the reality. WHO is calling for Grace Tame to be stripped of a well-deserved award? Barnaby Joyce, Pauline Hanson’s new bestie, told Sky News but we don’t hear about it until paragraph 12 of this article. #AusPol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

He’s not wrong.

social cohesion..

We have politicians who are cowards fearful of upsetting the zionists who will scream the over used abused tired meaningless cliched phrases ""oh your antisemitic "" and the rest of the politicians are owned by the zionists after their junket to israel

Herzog Itinerary leaked - dinner at Kirribilli with Albo tonight. Canberra in morning, evening with the Lowys w @sstephanietrann.bsky.social #auspol michaelwest.com.au/herzog-itine...

We'll say it again: "social cohesion", to those who chant it, means maintenance of the status quo which privileges them, and silencing of everyone else. In the mouth of a Labor MP, it is an expression of the deepest hypocrisy.

"The simple fact is that Israeli actions endanger all of us, including Jews. Because what Israel is doing claims to in our name, in my name. And believe me when I say it is not in my name." Thank you to advisory committee member, Antony Loewenstein for speaking out at last night's rally

@AlboMP “We need to turn the temperature down.” “ We do not need the conflict to be brought here.” Too late. Inviting #Herzog here has turned the temperature up and brought the conflict here. #Qt

ICE vs. NSW Police. Spot the difference.

Estimates has just revealed that ASIO got the ABC's managing director wrong when seeking to email him about details in a recent Four Corners report. 10/10

Full article available via archive.is/eNuS5

Read executive officer, Sarah Schwartz's opinion piece in the Financial Review today about why Herzog doesn't represent Australian Jewry and shouldn't have been invited in the first place: www.afr.com/policy/forei...

There was a lot of people last night at the Syd protest who either haven’t protested in years or have never protested - & they saw things last night they never thought they’d see - & now to see politicians, police & media lie about it. This is a turning point #auspol #nswpol

Why have no media outlets reported on the statement of Australia’s special envoy on Islamophobia? Not even @australia.theguardian.com so far.

#BREAKING 🚨 Aftab Malik, Australia's Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia, has released a statement condemning "unprovoked violence and aggression" from NSW Police against Muslims praying in Sydney's Town Hall Square "There cannot be any justification for this behaviour"

We knew from the moment we heard it that “social cohesion” would be one of those Orwellian terms which would be used to cover all manner of state sanctioned abuse and deprivation of civic freedoms. It fuels the very unrest it pretends to seek to quell.

If we are going to ban symbols and phrases because of 'social cohesion' then we really should start banning some moustaches too.

Assistant police commissioner Peter McKenna: "It was really quite precarious at times for our officers who were significantly outnumbered by the protesters and the people who wanted to act in a violent and offensive manner." #auspol #nswpol #PoliceViolence #HerzogNotWelcome

It's all so very Joh Bjelke-Petersen, isn't it. Violent Police brutality under the auspices of a draconian, authoritarian regime. You should resign in disgrace, @chrisminnsmp.bsky.social. Today. #auspol #nswpol #PoliceViolence #HerzogNotWelcomeHere

The impossibility was created by the police, licensed by the NSW government, and the whole situation comes back to the prime minister's decision to invite the President of Israel to come here.

This Is a lesson for us all. What happens in America is not isolated to that country. A country that is an ally to a genocidal state will destroy civil liberties and use state sanctioned violence to protect its vested interests #auspol

This one feels particularly relevant today. Vale Jon Kudelka.

Referring to the protest last night in Sydney as ‘a rolling melee of violence’ as Deputy Commissioner Peter McKenna has - is a flat out lie. #auspol

A content warning for very, very significant police violence on this video: Israeli President Herzog is visiting Australia, and police in New South Wales are violently bashing prone protesters. The media is framing it in completely neutral terms. Watch the video, then look at the headlines.

Framing matters #auspol The article describes it as a “violent rally”. But all the footage seems to show a peaceful protest in which only the police are violent.

Hmmm... I saw those "violent Sydney protesters" attacking police with PRAYER, before being kicked and punched to the ground by gangs of Minns' police thugs. NSW police. Never miss an opportunity for even more corruption. Minns' - "Art of the Deal". #auspol #nswpol

Do. Not. Let. Them. Minimise. This. Armed state violence against peaceful prayer is peak Islamophobia and vicious racism and. We have very few codified constitutional freedoms and this is almost certainly unconstitutional. They are officers of the law.

NSW Police defends actions of officers in violent Sydney protest against Israeli President Isaac Herzog's visit #auspol #nswpol #HerzogIsAWarCriminal www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

I've attended many rallies in Sydney: anti-nuclear, anti-war, Aboriginal rights, climate action, gay marriage, Voice, pro-Palestine. At the #HerzogNotWelcome rally tonight, I felt genuinely afraid of our NSW Police. Protesters were peaceful & cooperative. The police were angry & violent. 😔 #nswpol