Fascinating scenario in SA election. One Nation is refusing to preference Liberals - have an open ticket. So this raises the question of where Liberals will direct preferences. They won’t preference Labor or Greens or Independents (who may beat them in some seats). Will they preference One Nation?

At SA election candidate forum a Liberal candidate apparently urged voters to support the Liberals because if they don’t, SA will become a one party state and Labor a dictatorship. That’s the Lib’s pitch: vote for us because otherwise we’ll be extinct. I wouldn’t have thought it was a strong message

What did we learn from the Liberal election review? We learned Dutton was unpopular amongst key groups he needed to win. Yet, when Sussan Ley set about trying to (sort of) differentiate Libs from Dutton, a year later they’ve gone back to Dutton take-2 with Taylor. No wonder they tried to bury it! 😳

Which Karl will become Australia’s Joe Rogan? Karl Stefanovic or Karl Sandilands? Stefanovic has already started, but no doubt Sandilands will be going “independent” too - let off the leash outside ACMA rules to spread lies, hate and bigotry for profit the quickest. It will be ugly to watch!

We need to talk about Trump's prolific, egregious lying as a form of democratic cheating. And we need to question why the media has - for over a decade - let him get away with it. My analysis👇

Leaked Liberal election review notes it was a mistake for Price to say “make Australia great again” because it made the Libs look like Trump’s MAGA. I note the review doesn’t say “Liberals should stop being so much like MAGA”, because this would be admitting problem is not messaging. It’s character.

Since the Liberal election review has been leaked to the Age, people will know Dutton was offended it called him “unattractive to women”. I wanted to let Dutton know it’s not his face or baldness that’s the issue. It’s his cold, dead heart, cruel character and mean spirit that make him unattractive.

I'm quite shocked by how many people on here - including many who are rightly vocal and outraged about Palestinian genocide - are claiming that it's a lie that Iran killed 30,000+ protestors in January this year. What propaganda are they consuming? Frightening. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Important piece by Dr Hessom Razavi: "frequently left-leaning Western armchair commentators with minimal skin in the game...display scant awareness or a cool indifference towards those who are most at risk: the Iranian people themselves, in their tens of millions". www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/02/u...

Which is worse? Israel killing 70,000 Palestinians? Iran killing 30,000 Iranians? This is not a trick question. They’re both unfathomable atrocities which should be condemned.

Watching Penny Wong’s press conference. We couldn’t have a better person navigating Australia through the dual chaos of a Trump regime and a murderous Iranian regime. Those claiming the Australian govt should be making simple statements of protest right now underestimate the complexity of reality.

There’s some people here who seem surprised to learn Iran has killed an estimated (could be more) 40,000 Iranians in a short period in January. Almost like the world looks away when brutal dictatorships kill their own citizens to stop them trying to democratise. www.iranintl.com/en/202601255...

Trump has attacked Iran because the public were inching closer to the truth of his involvement in sex crimes with Epstein. I know we all know this, but let’s say it out loud. Trump is starting a Middle East war to distract from his child abuse crimes.

All these things can be true at once: 👉🏻The Iran regime should be toppled - they’ve just killed 40,000+ Iranians 👉🏻Trump is the worst and most incompetent person to try to destroy the Iran regime 👉🏻US’s allies have to support the US because otherwise they’re supporting Iran. It’s complicated, folks!

To understand the Liberal Party, you need to understand Advance.

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

It’s unfair to call Trump childish. Children are far better than he is.

Keep going…

Tick tock…. ⏰

The SA Libs are refusing to say if they'll do a preference deal with One Nation. I think this refusal tells you everything you need to know about how SA Libs will direct preferences. Labor Premier Malinauskas says he's not sure if Labor will put One Nation last, or Libs convicted of crimes. Oh dear.

SA Libs have finally come out with a policy a few weeks from polling day. Their policy is of course cutting jobs. South Australians quite like having jobs and also value their public services, so this policy will go down like a lead balloon.

Angus Taylor said there were “good migrants and bad migrants” and Pauline Hanson finished his sentence by saying “there are no good Muslims”. One Nation is just the Liberal Party saying the quiet bit out loud. Keep this in mind whenever Liberals pretend to be shocked and outraged at Hanson.

It’s election season in SA! One of my favourite things to do is to campaign with my mum @kayrollison.bsky.social. Today we went doorknocking in the beautiful Adelaide Hills seat of Heysen with my friend Labor candidate Marisa Bell.

Trump has not been exonerated of anything. And he looks to me like he’s getting very nervous.

If an unelected prince can be held accountable for his dodgy Epstein dealings, so too should a democratically elected president. This is basic stuff. You do the crime, you do the time, no matter who you are.

South Australian election is in a month. Latest Newspoll has Liberals on 14% and )YouGov 20%) and One Nation is at 24%. When you hear the tired old narrative “the major parties are losing support”, note Labor is on 44% primary. Hence, this is not a major party problem, it’s a Liberal problem.

Everyone who plays down and laughs about child abuse should be utterly ashamed of themselves. We should also wonder what they’re capable of doing behind closed doors.

MAGA know in their hearts that Trump is an absolute disaster, but he makes them feel good about themselves so they vote for him anyway. This is very telling 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Before you congratulate Matt Canavan for saying Pauline Hanson “went too far” with her blatantly racist comments about Muslim Australian, can someone ask him where she should have stopped in his view? In my view, before she said anything. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Hate speech directed at Arabic speakers is quite literally, according to the definition of Semite by gold standard 'Western Civilisation' source Encylopedia Britannica, anti-Semitic. Prosecute away!

Don’t forget, when Pauline drops racist bombshells into the media for everyone to react to, she’s now being funded by Gina Rinehart, major contributor to racist propaganda group Advance and inspired by MAGA-guru Steve “flood the zone with bullshit” Bannon. The offence is the point.

I think every journalist framing this statement by Hanson as a “partial apology” should look up what apology means and realise this doesn’t even come close. This is a refusal to apologise and laying more offence on. Hanson is an absolute outrage and should be condemned.

I’ve said it many times before and I’ll say it again. MAGA is a movement of insecure white people trying to hold onto their privilege because their whiteness is the only thing that makes them feel powerful. That’s why Trump can do absolutely anything - even abuse children - and they’re still MAGA.

I guess it’s like Trump being too powerful to charge with sexual abuse of children…

Never thought I’d see Sky News walking back Pauline Hanson, who is getting more extreme by the day. Is this Hanson trying to out-do Barnaby Joyce?

In other bizarre news, what’s Clive Palmer playing at here? This is an ad on the front page of a Murdoch newspaper today.

How could a policy appear out of nowhere without the relevant minister and members of the cabinet either seeing it or knowing who wrote it? I smell bullsh*t.

What gives NYT?

Dr Jeremy Walker details the “enormous war chest” of Advance & lists funders inc Gina Rinehart, James Packer, IPA board, Woodside’s Charles Goode & “the priv foundation of Jillian Segal” - who pay Advance to “flood social media with aggressive Far Right disinformation”🔥 #auspol

What she said!

MAGA’s hateful and extremist white supremacy on full display here.

NEW: The FBI interview implicating Trump for raping and assaulting a 14 year old took place one day before Epstein was found dead in his jail cell, and emails about the credible accusation came around the time Blanche visited Ghislaine Maxwell in pirson. substack.com/home/post/p-...

It’s been two days since Angus Taylor started his attack on migrants - vaguely implying there are “bad” migrants out there who don’t subscribe to Australian values and are dangerous criminals. Has anyone seen any news reporting about this attack which gives migrant communities a voice? I haven’t.

We need to be honest about what is going on here people! Angus Taylor’s One Nationfication of the Liberal Party is Australia’s MAGA moment. My analysis 👇🏻 independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...

Taylor says there are “good immigrants and bad immigrants”. What he meant was, Australia has good politicians - who do what’s right for the community - and bad politicians - those who use hatred and division to rule for billionaires. Australia must vehemently oppose the bad ones - the Trumpist evil.

I don’t think the Liberals will win going full MAGA-anti-immigration. Australia has compulsory voting which buttresses against extremism. However, they will and already are doing a huge amount of damage to the migrant community in the meantime, and everyone should care about that, including media.

Taylor says there’s “good migration and bad migration”. He’s right - the Liberals are not One Nation lite. They’re One Nation full cream milk. Abhorrent, nasty, divisive, racist politics. Shame on all the Liberals.

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See my earlier post about Taylor’s rise being about the Liberals trying to out-Hanson One Nation. A total mess.

One Nation’s impact on Australian politics has always been via the Liberal Party’s response to One Nation. Anyone not framing Taylor ascension through this lens is entirely missing the point.