At some point the political wall of unquestioning support for Israel will start to break down in Australia as well. Israel's continuing actions render it untenable; fiction can only be sustained for so long. Labor will go first, but watch the teals too.

The list of bipartisan policy catastrophes is long, including the NDIS, Robodebt, AUKUS, defence policy, generational inequality, housing, NACC, FOI, energy policy, Trump policy... This is why the combined primary vote of Labor and Coalition is or will soon be below 50% and will keep falling.

Melania reckons the good ship Donny is going down, and is throwing out boat hooks to catch her next ride

or or or else

The High Court has declined to help Bruce Lehrmann find his hat. In legal terms, his appeals are now exhausted and you can still call him a rapist.

And so it begins. Of course, you could help by not talking about the case, but that wouldn't fulfill your prophecy, would it.

Farcical.

Meanwhile, we continue to defend dozens of people against career-threatening accusations of antisemitism because they are vocally opposed to Israel's actions. It is utterly insane.

The Adelaide Writers' Week debacle continues to entertain

Iran's 10 points, which Trump said he'd accepted, included - literally - that the ceasefire included Lebanon. The US administration is a clown show.

It can't be good for Penny's health to be so constantly deeply concerned

There go the Irish and Latino votes

Like we said. No way is Israel going to give up on its plan to annex Southern Lebanon - conning Trump into starting a war against Iran was the cover for this far more important objective.

The pre-conflict daily average number of ships through the Strait of Hormuz was 138. Passage used to be free, will now cost $2m each. Half goes to Iran, so that’s approx $50 billion per annum in new revenue. He did, in fact, make Iran great again.

Of course it doesn't; Lebanon was always the point of this exercise.

The "everyone else [has had enough]" line is the only factually accurate thing he's said, ever.

Iran keeps its regime and nuclear program, and gains control of the Strait of Hormuz. Conventionally, from a war you didn't start, you'd call that victory.

Iranians are like lol whatever

For a man who undoubtedly knows no ancient history whatsoever, he is uncanny in his ability to reenact it. Today, Carthago delenda est.

Great that this case will finally be prosecuted. Our usual reminder that it's now sub judice and everyone should stfu about it and let the process do its thing.

"sick country with demented leader" - every statement is a projection

This was during a "faith" event with Christian leaders who'd just reaffirmed that Trump is the second coming

We were wrong, he wasn’t empathising, he was asking us to form an orderly queue at the checkout. Inspiring stuff, thanks Albo!

Cannot wait to be empathised with by Albo over the price we're all paying for the illegal war which his mates Trump and Netanyahu started and which he was the first leader to publicly endorse.

“We have determined that these were your common garden variety of Nazis, pretty docile bunch, not the more dangerous racist Nazis one might find, ooh I don’t know, wearing a watermelon earring for example”, said the chief inspector

It is no longer appropriate to call Israel an apartheid state. South Africa apartheid didn't include this level of legally institutionalised racism.

We don’t agree with the argument that the Israeli ambassador should not be allowed to speak at the National Press Club. He should be asked extremely awkward questions about his government’s actions and his own past statements. He isn’t entitled to politeness.

Just so you know, any time you post anything online that includes the phrase "From the river to the sea" or "Globalise the intifada", you may be committing a criminal offence in Queensland. There are "reasonable excuse" defences (ours is that we're doing this for a "genuine legal purpose").

Calling him the opposition leader suggests something that is simply not true.

In an extremely crowded field, this Queensland law is the worst human rights violation yet perpetrated by an Australian government in pursuit of Israel's state interests.

Jayson's case against the MSO goes to trial in May. We are representing him.

Self-censorship is what we are increasingly seeing now among Australian institutions, a consequence of the relentless efforts of the pro-Israel lobby, Murdoch media and both major parties to silence any dissent to Israel's acts. In short - it's worked.

The word "biological" has never been so misused as it is in these times www.thenewdaily.com.au/sport/olympi...

Hard to see this as anything but an act consistent with our being at war with Iran

The UN General Assembly has passed a resolution declaring transatlantic slavery a grave crime against humanity and calling for reparations (some 12.5m African people were taken as slaves). The US and Israel voted no; Australia abstained (among others including the EU countries, UK, Canada).

Israel’s invasion of Lebanon has no legal justification.

If they had any decency they'd be sipping lattes

amazing actually

The thought experiment of what Pauline Hanson would do if she was ever in a position of actual power is one that should occupy about five seconds and two brain cells.

Strong probability the government is going to cave to AI on copyright and try to placate creators with a rubbish royalty scheme that’ll mostly line the pockets of mainstream media - again

Including these immortal words

The High Court's refusal to allow punitive conditions to be imposed on the NZYQ cohort shows that, for now at least, we remain a lucky country where punishment remains the domain of the courts, not the government. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/24/l...

High Court confirms again, that asylum seekers are people

Meanwhile, in the bunker...

Predicted war outcomes: 1. Iran intact, regime intact 2. Russia enriched and empowered 3. Israel expanded to include southern third of Lebanon 4. Gulf states massively increase defence spending 5. US invades Cuba

Washington Post: “Israeli officials said securing the [Strait of Hormuz] for energy shipments could become the war’s main goal now that regime change and ending Iran’s ability to obtain a nuclear weapon seem out of reach.” The war's main goal is to reverse the thing the war caused.

It's funny that this isn't reported as "racism". Because that's what it is: racism.

The US is currently winning the war by allowing Iran and Russia to sell their oil, earning money they will use to buy weapons to continue the war the US is winning. It's pretty clever, you have to admit.

It’s going well

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