This is Ley’s terminal step. She won’t come back from it.

The NSW parliament is about to pass a law empowering the police to prohibit all public assemblies in whatever area they specify, for 14 days when a terrorist incident has been declared (also by the police). Clearly unconstitutional, even if you accept a direct link between protests and terrorism.

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Which was more likely to incite antisemitic violence: weekly pro-Palestinian marches attended by hundreds of thousands of citizens, or the televised devastation of Gaza? It's a fair question, but even asking it may soon be illegal.

"The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding." - Albert Camus, The Plague We have seen both on full display this week.

This is a terrible mistake, borne of laziness and cowardice, and will be one of Anthony Albanese's longest lasting and most destructive legacies. Considering how we teach the Holocaust is one thing; entrenching pro-Israel ideology in our education system is a whole other thing.

It's been getting crowded on the Craven Opportunism league table this week, current rankings: 1. Frydenberg 2. Howard 3. Ley

The Coalition's new policy on compulsory social cohesion has been released.

One can say many things about the idea of prohibiting protests during a "terrorist incident", but the words "martial law" and "unconstitutional" spring immediately to mind.

This is what we think about what's been going on

Opinion | We still don’t even know all the Bondi victims' names, yet they already are fading into the background, collateral in an apparently far more important war, @marquelawyers.com.au writes.

And there it is

History certainly suggests that official sanctioning of private armed militias is always a good idea

Most of Australia’s media are ghouls.

Shaping up to be the stupidest war since the War of Jenkins' Ear

Note to Sussan Ley: if the comments you’re choosing to make right now are identical to what Pauline Hanson is saying, you’re what she is.

The government had intended to simply ignore Segal's "plan" instead of binning it, and now it's cornered by its own failure to be upfront about the reality that her plan was really just a lobbyist's wish list.

Now we live in a city that has experienced a racially targeted mass-casualty terror attack. There is a pervasive sadness and sense of something lost. The fall-out so far has been predictable and depressing. We'd prefer the focus to be on grief and reflection, not blame, but that's not how it goes.

We support gun laws, don’t understand why anyone in a city needs guns or why anyone anywhere needs lots of guns. If you’re pro-gun you’re pro-killing things and therefore you’re a weirdo.

Sometimes there's no point saying anything. The awfulness speaks for itself.

Chalk up another win for Linda Reynolds, selfless justice warrior

The question is why his name was suppressed at all. "His lawyers had argued that naming their client would damage the Silvagni family name". One law for the privileged.

Going down the Scott road is a very bad idea if you don't want the voters to end up hating you, but Albo's inclination for secrecy and dislike of being questioned are tempting him that way

Prohibition has never previously worked as a policy for getting people to not consume something they want, but fortunately the social media ban will buck this trend by virtue of its careful evidence-based design and Albo's friendly reassuring smile every time he fails to answer the question.

The reason Anika Wells is toast is that repeatedly flying your spouse on the public dollar so he can watch sport from a corporate box is not, in the public imagination, really a family reunion as such.

Pepys' diary, December 10, 2025: Accosted this morning by hordes of desperate urchins begging to borrow my phone for a quick social media fix. Had to beat them off with a stick.

The three stooges have the excuse of being stooges, but Penny Wong knows exactly how dangerous a charade she's participating in

Remember when the Labor Party's guiding ethos wasn't to punch down? No, us neither.

A classic of the What Could Go Wrong genre.

The only way politicians can pass the pub test is to never travel or spend money while in office, and to become unemployed and homeless afterwards. Anything else is an outrage to decency.

Why we're a B Corp

Because if there's one thing we learned from Robodebt...wait, no sorry, turns out we learned nothing from Robodebt

Bruce Lehrmann loses his appeal, is the ironic headline we'd be writing

Hey Albo tell us again about our shared values with this white supremacist

Quite reminiscent of "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"

Not sure why CTRL-F-"Trump" would cost $1m

Trump goes the full Hitler, clearly figures he has his Reichstag moment with the National Guard shooting

Nobody could have predicted this

..aaand they've reestablished it, after being reminded this is the 21st century

The Australian Bar Association Council has shut down its Diversity & Inclusion Committee, presumably because the problem has been fixed. Isn't that nice.

looks like he dropped in to the front bar to tell the lads his missus kicked him out again

go Mehreen

Fresh from an appeal against a judgment which among other things said that Pauline "has a long history of making anti-Muslim statements and...she has a tendency to do so".

If you're wondering, the GCSG means he's a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Gregory the Great

The Anthony Albusinessasusual government

The Liberal Party is now just One Nation without the tinfoil hats

Now that they've given a state funeral to Graham Richardson, the entire concept has been rendered permanently meaningless. Nice work Albo.

Short version of how the US Govt shutdown ended: the Democrats caved, in return for a promise by Republicans to hold a vote on healthcare later which they absolutely won't do.

Minns knows this is untrue. NSW Police do not need more powers, they need to stop providing police protection to Nazis. Same applies to Victoria Police.