▪️ “There was a time when politicians did not use defamation laws. Most believed they had platform enough to defend their reputations... You & the govt you served in played a big role in changing that. Imagine the consequences.” - Sat Paper Editorial ⤵️ www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/21849/...

Sidenote: Did you know that the NACC employs over 200 people, spends over $50m per year, has 5 offices, and in over two years of operations hasn't landed a single major corruption finding?

Pro tip to Laura Loomer who deleted this: The Internet is written in indelible ink.

So turns out it's not a $400m deal Australia has done with Nauru - it's a $2.5 billion over the next 30 years 🤯 Big revelation at snap senate inquiry hearing asking the Dept of Home Affairs about the Govt’s agreement with Nauru to send asylum seekers there.

Says the grandson of a Lebanese migrant #auspol

Note about the racist marches yesterday (with actual Nazis!) and the conspicuous silence from the antisemitism alarmists: if the enemy of your enemy is a racist, and you have somehow concluded that that makes the racist your friend, congratulations you are a racist too.

This exemplifies all that is wrong with 'for profit' aged care. Aged care 'veteran'?? I choked on my tea reading that. Note that his firm Allity ran the Henry Kendall aged care (now closed) When audited it met only 11 of the 44 expected outcomes of the Accreditation Standards. Absolutely obscene

Managing editor Michelle Pini discusses legal stouches and reputations following Linda Reynolds' defamation win against former staffer Brittany Higgins. ~ @michellepini.bsky.social

A note on Linda Reynolds www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/edit... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

Attn Canberra! March for Humanity - Stop the Genocide in Gaza. Join the People's March across Commonwealth Bridge on Saturday 12pm, 9 August. We call on you to stand, march, and raise your voice. @palestineactiongroupcbr #auspol #gaza #beloud

And if she did know about it the advice and guidance from the APS and Home Affairs is very clear re:declaring material interests and conflict of interests of immediate family members including spouses.

Segal has not said “she didn’t know about it”, as Immigration Minister Bourke falsely claimed last night. It’s critical to remember she has released *only* this two-sentence statement. It’s a standard legal fudge, hoping others will draw false inferences. Segal is a lawyer. 2/2

Jillian Segal has said only that she’s had “no involvement” in “his donations” (husband). Crucially she hasn’t defined “involvement”, whether she knew about it/agreed with it — or even if “his donations” includes the Advance $50k from her family trust…1/2 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Compelling and appalling all at once. Albrechtson’s knowledge all the way back to 2005 makes her recent utterances all the more obscene. What must her daughters think of her advocacy for such a man? www.smh.com.au/national/i-w...

We have sob stories about people with $5.5m in super, advice for those with $8m in super for how to avoid tax. It’s not just the tax system that needs fixing - also our media My column. www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

Remember these people - already starved and weak- are forced to walk up to 10km to pick up this food and carry it back to wherever they have managed to make a temporary home

No baby formula has entered Gaza for four months because of Israel’s genocidal blockades. There is nothing left to feed babies and their mothers can not produce milk as they themselves are starving. There is no defending what Israel is doing. No justification.

This is how the NYTimes views the deal (just in case you think Americans view AUKUS as a partnership or about Australia's defence)

🌻 Greta Thunberg being released... the internetWorld is gunna explode on this one c'mon lets make this interview statement Famous!!

I don’t reckon we should be letting Michael McCormack forget this article. It wasn’t an off the cuff remark, it was a considered piece for publication in a paper where he was editor and responsible for content quality. #AusPol

Politics is always about the numbers. Splitting the Coalition by Littleproud is to do with the numbers. IOW, dividing the LNP in Queensland to apply pressure on the Liberals to force a leadership spill, which his (and Gina's) preferred candidate Angus Taylor will win. The end.

Dutton keeps neglecting to mention that this only affects individuals with > $3 million in super. That’s an extraordinary amount of money to have in super! And only affects 0.5% of super accounts. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 The Liberal Party gave more money to anti-Welcome to Country disinformation group “Advance” last financial year than Federal Government spent on the ceremonies over its entire term. Advance has been aggressively attacking the $450k Government spend… theklaxon.com.au/sa2o

Peter Dutton should be formally investigated for family trust, failing to disclose, his shonky corporate share portfolios and purchase and sales of shares, his Ministerial contracts to Home Affairs, Asylum Seeker detention arrangements. He isn’t trustworthy. #AusPol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

Never forget, Dutton had these children taken away from their home in Biloela and taken to an offshore gulag where for a long time he refused one of them proper medical treatment. Dutton was a monster then and I suspect he's still one now, underneath that facade #auspol

#auspol25 never ever forget or forgive the ex-cop now OL Dutton for this 👇 We Australians are better than this.

It keeps being reported that the ACCC Inquiry into Supermarkets found no evidence of price gouging going on. But the reason it didn't find any was because IT WAS NOT EXAMINING IF THERE WAS ANY PRICE GOUGING GOING ON!!! live.australiainstitute.org.au/2025/03/aust...

Can anyone trust justice anymore? Do other judicial figures behave like this? Me on justice, journalism and why I think Sofronoff owes the ACT government a lot of money.

Stop just pissing our money down the drain on AUKUS. Trump’s America is 🤪 Do something for Oz. Spend the $$ on a fast rail link Sydney-Gosford (30 min trip) - Newcastle (1 hour) - which would connect these cities, address housing affordability and get cars off the road ameliorating global warming.

More blatant lies from The Thug. He can’t help himself.

Extraordinary that the head of RN is taking part in an “in-conversation” event with far-right, pro-Israel personality Erin Molan.

Niki Savva is bang on about the nasty little man of Australian politics. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Worthwhile reading Ross Gittens in this morning’s SMH www.smh.com.au/business/the...

Wondering what Millionaire Peter Dutton up to today? I've just been perusing Peter Dutton's speeches & media releases over the past two years and he loves to take a dig at "wealthy elites" I am here to beg you - every one of you - to always, always refer to him as Millionaire Peter Dutton from now

The National Anti-Corruption Commission were asked these questions in Senate #Estimates over a month ago and have only now supplied their curt reply that simply states they don't have to provide details to anybody and they have nothing else to say Mark Dreyfus should hang his head in shame #pffft

After 18 months of operation and a cost of $140 million to Australians, the staggeringly incompetent NACC has concluded its top 3 major corruption investigations, and guess what? It has found no corruption. The #NACC is a failure and a national embarrassment. 👇🏽 theklaxon.com.au/nacc-finds-n...

Hang on, isn’t that … ? I see racism is still alive & well within the LNP and Young Libs. Punishment and consequences are only headline deep, otherwise it’s business as usual. #AusPol

Murdoch isn’t solely responsible for this. All those greedy corporate advisers with their soulless ingenuity who devise these wicked schemes are just as responsible. There is a whole advice industry whose mandate is to rip off the Australian taxpayer.

Foxtel: no bank account, no tax, no employees, que? One for Sky News' prominent commentators ... or at least the ATO #auspol michaelwest.com.au/newscorps-fo...

THREAD: #NACC dishes out kid glove treatment for #Robodebt6 New FOI material shows the NACC treated the #Robodebt6 with kid gloves offering them free, independent and confidential counselling services.

The two-party duopoly has painted itself into a corner, with neither side game to do what needs to be done. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

If Gina owned the sun, Dutton would support solar. #auspol #nuclear #renewables #energy #fossilfuels #ClimateAction

Albo and federal Labor need to take the Dan Andrews approach to the NewsCorpse gang. Just ignore the bastards. Deep freeze them. The Herald Sun did its vicious worst, but Andrews still won three elections.

“Labor should listen to Liberal Party operatives” is part of the problem. Labor should listen to people on centrelink. To Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. To young people, minimum wage workers, renters, peace activists. The boomer-X propertied commentariat can talk among themselves.

It Labor’s fault. Again. No wait. It was Howard’s. Fancy that. The press gallery were onto it then. Are they onto it now? This post suggests not. www.smh.com.au/opinion/how-...

just had a coffee, three Muslim women speaking English next to me, teachers, guessing Malaysian, Pakistani, possibly Iranian, the cafe is staffed mostly by Asians, the pastry chefs are Indian, the brillian barista ladies are from Thailand - this is the Australia I love - never ever let Dutton be PM.

The bill was passed last week. Albanese government has now introduced 'world-leading legislation on corporate tax transparency. The measure is projected to yield billions in additional revenues by curbing the profit shifting of multinational companies' #auspol taxjustice.net/press/tax-ju...