Angus Taylor is the ultimate Australian expression of falling up syndrome

The most charitable interpretation of Chris Minns' actions and words is that he doesn't understand basic concepts like art, speech, assembly, democracy, disagreement and human emotion. He constantly looks perplexed, like an under-6s soccer coach.

This is such an exciting prospect

Sophie Scamps MP: "At the very time the Government is welcoming President Herzog into Parliament House, with the entrance being officially lined with Israeli flags, Israel is moving to extend the illegal occupation of the West Bank thus undermining the hope for a two-state solution."

We're in a dangerous moment, led by the wrong men

Great news!

The Isaac Herzog Social Cohesion Tour is going well hey

Laura Tingle on the money as always. Israeli Finance Minister Smotrich: "We will continue to kill the idea of a Palestinian state".

If the NSW government has any interest in maintaining faith with its own public, it will ask the DPP to investigate police actions on Monday night without NSW Police involvement, with a view to prosecuting the cops who committed assaults. Or it can carry on blaming the victims; Minns' choice.

“It was Australian soldiers who liberated the Holy Land” Mate, you’ve literally bulldozed our war graves in Gaza

Their head of state

NSW Police Minister saying to the people please don't antagonise the cops by, you know, exercising your basic human rights

We'll say it again: "social cohesion", to those who chant it, means maintenance of the status quo which privileges them, and silencing of everyone else. In the mouth of a Labor MP, it is an expression of the deepest hypocrisy.

What does justify a royal commission is the actions of the NSW government and NSW Police in the lead-up to and events of last night in the Sydney CBD. Any internal investigation will have no credibility.

Some of our staff were at the Sydney rally last night and report that the degree of police brutality was terrifying and unhinged.

Bedfellows, strange

Good to see an MP call it truthfully

The impossibility was created by the police, licensed by the NSW government, and the whole situation comes back to the prime minister's decision to invite the President of Israel to come here.

Last night the NSW Police disgraced themselves. The NSW government is fully responsible for what happened.

One suspects he doesn’t know what a metaphor is

It can be difficult sometimes to distinguish between social cohesion and common assault

And what exactly is the massive police presence achieving apart from intimidation and inflammation? Premier Minns, do tell.

Gosh the sound of social cohesion in Sydney today is really deafening

It's just nice to see Barnaby finally feeling freed up to say what he's always been thinking

Colour us shocked

Oh there’s an idea, putting responsibility where it actually belongs: perpetrators, not kids

Some classic moral certainty from Peter Hartcher. He knows, case closed.

It's such an interesting feature of these times that fantasised paedophilia is constantly invoked by reactionary conservatives as a boogie-man (eg to demonise trans people) but actual predatory child sexual abuse is always downplayed as a moral panic. Speaks to a deeply internalised conflict.

We will socially cohere, and we will like it.

Standing by for the automatic randahring

Apparently the only way to restore social cohesion is to keep saying "Randa" in a scary voice until she disappears in a puff of smoke

From the AFR: sorry but this is absolutely batshit fucking crazy and it needs to stop

Will Herzog's tour help "unity", as Anthony Albanese apparently expects? Or will it drive a wedge deeper into the nation? @marquelawyers.com.au writes.

Fortunately, Angus Taylor is too dim to pick up on the incredibly subtle meaning Hastie is signaling with his genius book of quotes about how to win a war with just your eyebrows

Get this: the Israeli president’s visit will be so divisive, according to NSW Police, that the appropriate response is to ban all public assemblies while he’s here, rather than, say, him not coming.

Police state

Literally cannot wait for the Angus Taylor Eras Tour to begin

You'll rarely see a more transparent admission of guilt

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Lot of excitement out there at the prospect of an Angus Taylor coronation

It's politically true that calling One Nation supporters racists won't persuade them away, but it's also literally true that you can't support One Nation without being a racist.

Via Phil Coorey in the AFR: "both Hastie and Taylor offered each other the role of deputy leader and shadow treasurer in return for yielding, but to no avail" Just imagining them standing in Sukkar's loungeroom staring at each other, perplexed that they're not getting what they want

Israel has now said it accepts Hamas' estimate of the Gaza death toll, 71,000+, after years of insisting it was inflated. We're about to welcome the head of that state as an official guest.

The canaries are emerging; this could become one of the greatest own goals in Australian political history.

Albo will spend the next week defending this and ever-more closely tying his own reputation to it. To understand why he would do so, remember that he always - always - chooses the line of least resistance as he perceives it.

this is pure Newspeak

The point isn't that the authorities are dragging their feet, it's that for once they're saying hang on let's do this carefully, by contrast with the instant moral panic that always attends anything with a whiff of Islamic extremism or contrary to the vested interests of the politically powerful.

No question neither Ley nor Littleproud will survive, but so what. There is no talent in either party room, only a bunch of hacks hoping to be noticed by Rupert. The Liberal Party as an entity is just ghostly echoes of the past prime ministers who destroyed it.

Spot on

Social cohesion, Australia, 2026: hate preachers (brown) intolerable, protestors (brown) divisive, bomb-signers (Israeli) welcome, bomb-throwers (white) awkward