In circumstances where we’re gifting $10B to the US and UK to prop up their submarine shipyards, it would be treachery to not properly support Australia’s sole structural steel and rail manufacturing capability. #NationalResilience #auspol #saparli

The most successful vaccine in history before RFK Jr and the anti-vax operatives appeared. bsky.app/profile/carl...

Meanwhile, Canada making out like bandits! #ELBOWSUP

An excellent article. The Australian PM’s response to Trump’s comment about NATO troops in Afghanistan makes him sound like a Trump apologist. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

“Emergency workers found Renee Good with an irregular pulse after they removed her from her vehicle, and shortly after, she had no pulse, according to an incident report from the Minneapolis Fire Department.”

On #ThePoint - @emmashortis.bsky.social with an explainer on Venezuela and Trump thepoint.com.au/explainers/4...

As if things aren’t bad enough. I love this quote from Scott Bessent, particularly in light of the Maduro kidnapping. “a historic victory in preserving US sovereignty and protecting American workers and businesses from extraterritorial overreach.” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

It just gets worse and worse “diplomatic officials are instructed to turn down visa applications from anybody who worked on factchecking, content moderation “or other activities the Trump administration considers ‘censorship’ of Americans’ speech” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is all so predictable and boring - so why does it keep happening? www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

Australia’s housing crisis is not getting better and won’t get better while the main parties dither. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Further govt incompetence. You would think with all the technological advances we would be provided with easier and faster access to critical information. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The continued denial of the science of climate change and refusal to address the causes in the face of growing evidence by politicians is basically a betrayal. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

And with a whimper not a bang the ALP reveal themselves as liberal lite and probable climate science deniers. From this point on the proposed EPA is just window dressing. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

The Epstein files need to be released and justice done. This is not an easy read. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The people behind the Trump regime are seriously deranged. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It’s nice the USA is focusing on important issues and not the cost of living or the Epstein files or habeas corpus or the rule of law. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

And so it begins. If anyone believes the spending in the nuclear submarines will be $368 billion then think again as all defence procurement contracts go over estimate and AUKU$ is off to a flier. Think $500 billion plus. And we may not get the submarines. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Of all US allies, the Baltic states have done most to increase defence spending in line with Trump's demands. So, he has cut military assistance. Australians who imagine that handing over billions to AUKUS will buy us security are living in a fools paradise. www.euractiv.com/new... #auspol

A powerful comment well worth listening to. youtu.be/XMFwj30seEg?...

First Graphene claims major boost for perovskite solar cell efficiency

They’re playing rent free in someone’s head while having a real military parade. www.the guardian.com/world/2025/sep/03/hot-mic-catches-vladimir-putin-xi-jinping-discussing-organ-transplants-immortality

Cut immigration, cut labor supply, add tariffs on imports… and voilà: higher food prices.

There nothing Donald Trump won’t do to avoid releasing the Epstein files. There is nothing Donald Trump won’t do to provoke civil unrest to impose martial law. Donald Trump and his regime are the enemy within. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The fence sitting by the govt over Gaza is bad enough. This just adds to the evidence of their neoliberal/Trumpian chops (skills). www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Norway taxes their fossil fuel industry and gives their kids free university education. In Australia, we give more than half of the gas we export away for free, and charge our kids a fortune to go to uni. 📺 Executive Director @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

I think it’s about time a new Red Dawn movie is made. This time it’s the enemy within. A billionaire criminal lies his way into the White House, corrupting the govt and judiciary. With the aid of a masked militia to control the streets and imprison dissenters totalitarianism covers the land. Oh…

The increasing intermittency of….nuclear power stations: Source: Financial Times | “Heatwaves test Europe’s electricity system as air conditioning use soars” on.ft.com/4fsSclS

In Senator Lambie v Minister @tonyburkemp.bsky.social (re: content quotas), Burke has failed to comply with a mandatory law that requires him to hand over ALL docs relevant to the dispute. Instead he’s first asking foreign media companies if they’re OK with him complying. 👈👮‍♂️🚔 #FOI #auspol

Nothing makes sense, but I'll add this anyway... When preliminary payrolls numbers overestimated job growth under Biden—and were later revised down—Trumpland claimed this was the BLS trying to prop up the President. Today he interprets it as the BLS is trying to undermine him.

RENMAC: “This is the same BLS that published the inflation reports earlier in the year that the administration touted. This is the same BLS that published the rise in motor vehicle manufacturing employment that the administration touted with a ‘see! it's already working!’” @mikezaccardi.bsky.social

Efforts to kill the Epstein/Trump headlines with the Russia, Russia, Russia Obama treason claim die when exposed to the light of day. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The utter stupidity of it “Trump’s executive order, a plan that guts scientific independence and grants political appointees greater power over what reaches the public, has further eroded the agency’s mission, according to staffers familiar with the policy” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The current Epstein/Trump/Maxwell drama is rendered meaningless by one important point. No one in the Trump administration is talking about finding justice for the young women who are the real victims. No one. Let that sink in.

It just beggars belief “The WHO Pandemic Agreement was passed with applause by delegates at the World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva. The US will not be part of the agreement, having withdrawn from the WHO and negotiations after Donald Trump took office.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

How to put further downward pressure on USA tourism? And cutting funding for “brand USA” ahead of the World Cup and Olympics is just dumb. americanbazaaronline.com/2025/07/08/u...

Looks like the Trump regime has chosen to ignore the lessons of the recent pandemic, science and the history of vaccines. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“Trump likens US air strikes on Iran to atomic bombing of Hiroshima” Donald Trump sinks further and further into insanity which wouldn’t be a problem if he wasn’t the USA President.

Sometimes cartoons sum up the situation perfectly. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Is Scott Morrison still PM of Australia? Is PM Albanese just a seat warmer? Because the announcement of Australia’s support of the USA bombing of Iran and Morrison’s visit sure makes it look like it.

The supreme master of the deal withdrew from a nuclear deal with Iran in 2018 and failed to get a new deal. Instead of getting a deal this term the sad old fart ignored all US intelligence, backs up Netanyahu’s surprise attack and throws in some US bombs but fails to fully commit Familiar?

During his first term in 2018 the current USA President pulled out of the nuclear deal with Iran and then failed to negotiate a new deal. Now in 2025, still no deal, he ignores intelligence from 18 US agencies on Iran’s nuclear status and is preparing for war. Trump can’t be trusted.