The latest sharp take from @theshot.net.au's superstar contributor @ronnisalt.bsky.social.

Is this the future you really want? If not you must get involved and actively resist. Tell your politicians, local representatives, state/federal govts again and again.

Wow! Our domestic concerns, especially climate change and its devastating effects on everything from environmental loss, liveability to food supply should be a primary focus over a relationship with a corrupt foreign administration. #auspol @albomp.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social

The Sunday Shot starts at 9am with me, @instanterudite.bsky.social, @sarahschwartz.bsky.social, Scott Burchill, and an interview with Pulitzer prize winning war correspondent Chris Hedges.

Excellent interview with Chris Hedges by Dave Milner for #TheShot

With an abundance of lemons from the garden atm, today’s cake is a classic Lemon Cake with lemon icing. Perfect for Spring. #food #cake #lemons

‘AI, no worries it’ll be great’ & ‘Digital ID? Nothing to worry about!’ How’s that going? So many breaches, so many compromises. We keep galloping ahead before we fully understand what it is we’re doing. It wouldn’t hurt take a step back for once. @albomp.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social

Hey @albomp.bsky.social @jimchalmers.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social When are you going to start charging these corporate cowboys and their ilk tax?! Every company with even a toehold in this country should be paying tax - enough is enough!

We have agreed that attempting to maintain a habitable planet is not in shareholders' interests.

I’m over the world today - I need cat pics. Here’s my gorgeous little cat Peachy. #cats

FFS! Come on @albomp.bsky.social @jimchalmers.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social the average person in Australia is so overtaxed now from birth - death and you STILL won’t tax the fossil fuel industry! You have a duty of care & social contract to the people not the ff companies. #budget

One, that's not how copyright works and there will be an entire battalion of IP lawyers who will be happy to correct Open AI of this misapprehension, likely to the tune of billions of dollars, and two, fuck this shitty thieving waste of proteins and lipids

‘Grotesque wealth creates grotesque people.’ (Ryan McTague 2025) Never a truer word spoken.

More of this, everywhere he goes.

Maybe it’s time for the United Nations headquarters to find a new venue, this is an embarrassing display by the host country. #unitednations

So #SussanLey would rather we be a subservient nation to American interests that supports genocide than remain an independent free-thinking country with humanitarian values (cough, mostly)? Once again the Liberals walking the dark paths of history. I know what side of history I’d prefer to be on.

True allies share values & vision. Australia & the US no longer do. America is fractured, authoritarian, reckless abroad & complicit in genocide. Yet Canberra clings to the myth of the alliance. It’s time to face reality & chart our own path. #AusPol #US #Alliance

I thought I’d start the day with some beautiful bookends.

Does our Australian govt have the gumption to stand up to foreign bullies? I hope so. #auspol

What if we taxed the gas industry properly? "We're incredibly generous to the gas industry, most of which is foreign owned. "Norway taxes gas & gives their kids free education. What we do is give the gas away for free & charge our kids a fortune to go to uni." @richarddenniss.bsky.social on ABC ⤵️

What’s the real resason Meanjin was shut down? It doesn’t seem to be financial as stated by Melb Uni or MUP, so was it political? Something doesn’t add up. www.instagram.com/p/DOrySH2EjV...

Going through some boxes that belonged to my sister Cassie Ogdon (d.1987) and came across this songbook of resistance songs from her Roxby Downs blockade days, circa August 1983. The contents pages are a feast of protest songs. #protestsongs

You see this a lot with the Australian media too, the sanitising of evil or bad people. We have media corporations run by bad people employing people willing, sometimes even eager, to be compromised.

Today's final approval of the North West Shelf is a climate, economic, and energy security disaster. Australia Institute analysis shows the 45-year expansion is equivalent to building 12 new coal power stations. @grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol

Dear Prime Minister @albomp.bsky.social, @australianlabor.bsky.social given your insistence that the reason our alliance must continue is our shared values with the US, can you please confirm you will not deploy the military against Australians. It’s a joke, but it isn’t…. End #Aukus

How in the fuck do we live on a planet where it’s now acceptable for powerful men to be rapists, criminals, liars, bigots, corrupt arseholes and/or genocidal cunts but it’s NOT acceptable for us to try to make them stop? #NewsCorpse

Universities are not businesses, and faculties and schools are not business units. To see universities in this way works against the values of cross-disciplinarity and collaboration that we seek in driving new knowledge and innovation. #auspol #highereducation #universities

Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault

We are paying Jillian Segal $1,000 a day plus the salaries of her SIX taxpayer funded staffers etc etc etc, all up costing Australians well over $1 million a year ... for this. This is completely unacceptable on every level, @albomp.bsky.social. Fix this. End this. #auspol

The best dozen eggs I’ve bought recently - from a neighbourhood farm. My eggs of many colours. We have a strong and growing food share ethos in our local region helping keep our communities food resilient. #food #eggs

I would say this applies to political parties and politicians too.

The attack on Camp Sovereignty is indeed a hate crime and should be named as such by media and punished as such by law. www.linkedin.com/posts/nation...

Here's the line-up for this week's #SundayShot. Please watch us! (& also like, subscribe and give us money) It's going to be a great conversation. @wendybacon1.bsky.social, @boganintel.bsky.social, @arielbogle.bsky.social, @davemilbo.bsky.social. Iran. Sovereign Citizens. Not the Midwinter Ball.

Regarding the ABCs reporting of the Marles/Hegseth meeting in the US, it’s the comment ‘and America’s expanding military presence in Australia’ that really caught my attention. We really don’t want more US military here, it smacks of intrusive control and interference. @albomp.bsky.social #auspol

Now more than ever I stand with Brittany Higgins. I have no decent words to describe Linda Reynolds who can now wallow in the reputation she deserves. All this proves is that victims of rape continue to be traumatised and Re-traumatised by the system and media over and over. #brittanyhiggins

Here's @ronnisalt.bsky.social. "Bendigo Writers’ Festival And The Curious Case Of The Missing Democracy"

Advisor to Netanyahu just called Australia morally bankrupt. Kick their ambassador out and create trade sanctions immediately.

Why are #centrelink still making it so difficult to talk to someone? Haven’t we got passed this bs yet? The liberals completely stuffed the system and Labor still hasn’t fixed it. Humans want to talk to humans, it’s not that hard to understand. @albomp.bsky.social

Comments online in response to this news range from ‘AI companies should be taxed more since there is ZERO job creation’ to ‘a large AI tax and regulations making layoffs expensive’ - I agree. We are rapidly going to see the downside for employment with AI. www.smh.com.au/business/com...

Hear hear! And while you’re at it @albomp.bsky.social scrap negative gearing and put a cap on the amount of houses investors can buy - no more investments sitting empty or slum landlords, we need stock for people to buy not only rent. Keep your hands off the family home!

From March 2025. Still true. Francesca Albanese: "I am not here to discuss what two indicted war criminals have to say." "This is genocide. It’s not for debate. We failed to prevent a genocide." #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust

Dear AUS PM @albomp.bsky.social Are there ANY procedures in place for interviewing dual Australian-Israeli citizens returning to Australia who served with the IDF in Gaza? What if there was video of them boasting about committing war crimes? Would there be ANY consequences? #auspol #GazaGenocide

Thought for today #Pinks

The #SundayShot is up! Two of the country's leading experts on the byzantine online world @cameronwilson.bsky.social & @drwaus.bsky.social's Lizzie O'Shea join us to talk through the Under 16 ban, the murky world of conspiracy theories & more. Watch, like, subscribe! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LHH...

We need to take a very hard, very uncomfortable look at ourselves as a society right now. If all those monstrous abuses were tolerable for us over these last two years, there’s something deeply and profoundly sick about our civilisation. @caitoz #auspol #israelpalestine ...

Maintaining Morrisons corporatisation of the university sector will ensure our universities are not fit for purpose going into the future. Universities are not corporate entities, they are places of education. This is our govts failure of social policy and the ‘social contract.’ #thesundayshot

Here’s the podcast replay of this morning’s #SundayShot Worth the listen #auspol > podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...

Excellent show today. Interview with Graeme Turner highlights the crisis we face in Uni sector, especially in humanities - fundamental for critical thinking, literacy, knowledge - the future of knowledge and teaching is not AI, it’s people, the academics, it’s def not politicians. #UniSector

This week on the #SundayShot, @davemilbo.bsky.social & I are joined by excellent panellists @cherylkernot.bsky.social & @beneltham.bsky.social to look back at the 1st week of the 48th Parliament & examine the challenges facing our decimated university sector. Join us @ www.youtube.com/@TheSundayShot

"The attack on the humanities that has slowly gathered momentum over recent years, and which is perfectly encapsulated in the self-serving utterances of university administrations defending their latest round of reckless and ill-informed depradations, is just plain shameful."