“Disclosure without consequences. A smoke alarm without batteries - installed when the house is already ablaze”. Carmen Lawrence 👇 exposes the Faustian “trigger” PM Albanese proposes in his EPBC Act. Coal/gas: let ‘er rip.

Oh dear, why is Priti Patel smili-(?)-oh, that's not Patel. Please excuse my confusion. I was listening to [now having to check notes] *Shabana Mahmood* and just assume-d- sorry'sorry, this is Labour, yes??

Quelle surprise. This is what happens when the aged care (oxymoron) system is broken and successive governments will not fix it, knowing we are all going to die sooner rather than later so why not speed up the process. #AgedCareAustralia #MyAgedCare #ThisSucks hellocare.com.au/hospitals-bu...

Remember they’re pivoting to gas. That’s what Woodside’s NW Shelf expansion is about. And gas is 33% more climate damaging than coal. I wouldn’t be celebrating just yet. There’s a strand of disinformation designed to distract us with fake wins.

This week, Pippa and Kiran look at migration crackdown proposals that would uncontroversially have marked out the person proposing them as a fascist lunatic at any point in the last seven decades. They discuss it in tones like they’re chatting over a tricky budget negotiation.

79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5. He’s been taken by ICE in Florida. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...

Today the closest I've seen to someone defending Labour's horrific new immigration policy and rhetoric is someone milkily suggesting that it's just the right-wing media saying Labour are doing this and we should take it with a pinch of salt. No real defence. Bollocks anyway. LABOUR said it.

In multiple emails across a couple of years, Larry Summers discussed strategy for how to sexually harass a mentee with Jeffrey Epstein, a child sexual abuser. Their emails continued until the day before Epstein was arrested in 2019. Yet Summers holds multiple titles at Harvard. Do…

Business groups trying to get changes to the environmental laws should all be ignored; 1. If they’re not paying taxes 2. If there’s evidence they’ve failed to protect environment in the past. 3. Are solely concerned with their own selfish greed and

ABOUT TIME, MATES

"don't unpack yer suitcase, Paddington" - Labour

@amyremeikis.bsky.social looking gorgeous Mike Bowers being very funny Our marvellous political cartoonists @fionakatauskas.bsky.social and @cathywilcox.bsky.social

"where is our so-called envoy on Antisemitism, Jillian Segal, while actual Nazis parade outside Parliament? Silent. Just as she was \when neo-Nazis joined anti-immigration rallies. Her voice seems to find its volume when it’s time to condemn pro-Palestinian protesters johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

A note from Daughter no.2 this morning... (and this is Australia!) ¡Que viva la diferencia! 😊

It's the widespread poverty, disease, torture, violent public executions and religious intolerance they're after, not Michelangelo statues, right?

New Republican talking point- Going after paedophiles only appeals to the far left.

Private Eye

Worried about what’s going on with respect to possible military action re Venezuela, and what’s going on in the Pentagon? You’re right to be! Mark Hertling explains… www.thebulwark.com/p/hertling-a...

Women in Belém fighting back with art - a Funeral for Fossil Fuels, with ghoul puppets and coffins bearing the words Coal, Oil and Gas. “Our lives depend on getting rid of fossil fuels. Our children and our future depend on our struggle. Through my art, I am here to fight.” Photo: Jonathan Watts

What ceasefire?

"The bloc is in danger of squandering a period of better relations between the US president and Europe" - ha. This US administration is an extorting bully that can't do better relations with anyone, but whose President will take bribes. Survival against that is the best plan.

Dad tawny was scratching a LOT before he finally flew down to the grass to let the sun do a bit of delousing for him. In the third pic, he’s shuffled a bit further out into the sun. We’ve seen them do this few times now. Apparently, maggies do it too. #tawnyfrogmouth #ausbirds #wildoz #birds

Discworld QOTD, from The Wee Free Men

An Israeli military vehicle rammed two Palestinian cars on Haifa Road, west of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. Palestinians have been enduring daily terrorist attacks by Israelis for the last 7 decades.

"Women who get an abortion and anyone who helps them could face up to 30 years in prison. It appears to ban any contraception that prevents a fertilized egg from implanting. That would ban IUDs and could strictly limit in-vitro fertilization." In a post-Roe US, misogyny by statute. #WarOnWomen

Award-winning Scottish screenwriter, Paul Laverty, recently charged under UK terrorism laws, met Pope Leo this weekend www.thenational.scot/news/2562581...

Ten years ago, Storm Abigail became the first UK storm with a name. Since then, clear warnings have saved countless lives. Here’s how it works and some of the biggest storms we’ve seen since then.

Israeli occupation forces uprooted dozens of olive trees this morning in the Wadi Qana area, near the town of Deir Istiya in the central West Bank province of Salfit, according to local sources.

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) reports that an Israeli army tank opened fire this morning on its peacekeeping forces near a post that Israel has recently established inside Lebanese territory.

“Climate change is already biting.” The outgoing Broads Authority chief, Dr John Packman, warns Norfolk’s wetlands can’t be saved by resisting the sea.

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A fan from Spain's Basque Country was seen crying as she held up a jersey honoring Palestinian Olympic team coach Hani Al-Masdar and national team player Suleiman Al-Obaid, who were killed during the Israeli genocide in Gaza.

The Labour Party is now officially racist. As racist as UKIP, and applauded by YaxleyLennon & Glassman. Any Labour MP who supports this, should be planning a new career. Decent people don't support racism & institutionalised cruelty.

No expense will be spared to launder @australianlabor.bsky.social's terrible record on climate & the fact they refuse to include a climate trigger as part of environmental law reforms. So much for transparent government, @albomp.bsky.social & @senatorwong.bsky.social! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Part of living in a monarchy is that the king uses his power to enrich himself and his family, and the public accepts it. And I'm not talking about the Saudis. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/w...

When you literally underperform Fartcoin. 💩

police love using their weapons against members of the public who are exercising democratic rights. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I interviewed ferociously brilliant filmmaker Mira Nair, a.k.a Zohran Mamdani’s mother, about how her voice and vision have shaped a man who sees a better way forward for all of us. SPOILER ALERT: Love matters. www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...

again, this stuff is now so completely extreme it becomes distinct from the bog standard "control immigration" mugs etc of Labour leaders past - it becomes central to the turd we call Starmerism, and maybe, just maybe, it can be flushed, from Labour at least, when Starmerism is flushed too

Under Labor’s environmental reforms, project proponents don’t have to disclose scope 3 emissions, only scope 1 and 2 (see post 2/2 for definition). Why? Official’s avoided answering Senator David Pocock’s question on that🤷‍♂️. Looks like a job for #FOI. 1/2 #climate #auspol

American 'journalists'. British 'journalists'. Australian 'journalists'. The Journalism Industrial Complex. Entirely partisan to *competing* commercial interests. No ethics. No morals. INCREDIBLY thin-skinned. Yes, burn the f*ckers down. Additionally, in Oz, remove these enabling arseholes, too.

Weirdly, it’s never occurred to me to put up a video of the tawnies here.😄 Yesterday, one youngster was making its little sleeping noise - a quieter version of its night time feeding squawk. Dad is on the right. Mikey Magpie with the bung wing can be heard in the background, along with noisy miners.

Inject the #MAGA collapse into my veins #MTG & #Trump public tweet war Nick Fuentes declaring “MAGA is dead.” Joe Rogan calling the WH ballroom “real excessive.” Tucker Carlson pushing FBI coverups.

Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this

(ni-i-ice!) 🤔

People don’t get that Hollywood is incredibly conservative. There’s no industry that’s more risk-averse. They’re the people who will only laugh at a joke if everyone else laughs first.

Oh, this is a bit nice! My third doctor... just. Somehow, I caught Doctor Who during Patrick Troughton's last episode. [last episode/story? I can't be entirely sure, it was a while ago.] www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/do...

I had a nice view of the mountains from the 'plane as I left Christchurch. Nice final image of New Zealand. Until next time, that is.