The subversives. Sponsored by Gina, Advance, IPA, the Murdochs, Sky After Dark, preferential Pauline and the Beetrooter. Australia’s 2025 climate/energy war has just been declared by vested coal/gas interests. First capture? The federal parliamentary Liberal Party.

Like ‘housing affordability’ ‘net zero’ has become one of those meaningless political sayings Labors support for net zero hasn’t stopped them supporting new coal or gas or from spending billions on fossil fuel subsidies My latest column on @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

Presented with a massive side-eye to governments who can’t even equitably remunerate paid work, let alone unpaid labour.

11 November 1975.

Recognise him? It’s Al Capone! Al taught us when demand for drug (alcohol) is strong & availability restricted/illegal, supply shifts to black market & can get vy violent. Just what happened with cigs/vapes in Australia @jamomartin.bsky.social @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social

It’s too late George (Brandis). Andrew Hastie (Lib., Canning) has already jumped the shark. He’s joined the illiberal Faragists and Trumpists. The key question: does Sussan Ley have the party room numbers to survive this week, then months, years to the 2028 election?

“Strategic voting” e.g. Labor voters giving first preferences to “teal” independents in House of Representative seats where ALP cannot win, is now an established pattern. @antonygreen.com.au

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

Well what’d ya know? “Pentagon confirms the ‘benefit’ of AUKUS deal” for US defence policy. MKoziol SMH/Age. Yes $A368B to prop up US N subs production .. and Australia gets expanded US bases on its soil and is now a nuclear target in US war with China over Taiwan.

Nuremberg, Geneva, Rome genocide conventions: those violating human rights in 21C (Hamas, Netanyahu) must be held to account. Sydney Peace Prize Navi Pillay. Please note: neither Trump’s USA nor Albanese’s Australia have yet to uphold the rule of law = our moral abyss.

Excellent summary of current situation re international nuclear arms. New START treaty expires February 2026. Should be extended & new treaties developed to ban all nuclear weapons. @sanho.bsky.social @paulbongiorno.bsky.social @quentindempster.bsky.social theconversation.com/if-the-us-re...

Social media outfit Advance, bankrolled by Gina, backed by the Murdochs, IPA, Nampijinpa, Pauline Hanson, Tony Abbott, John Howard pays for what Steve Bannon calls “enshitification” = flooding a polity with “shit” - fear/propaganda. Now it’s “mass” migration and net zero 2050.

Cowardly, irresponsible. It looks like Australia’s L-NP Coalition will dingo out of net zero 2050. Awaiting Sussan Ley’s Liberal partyroom decision = leadership test. Failure to urgently mitigate emissions via new technologies exposes our children to ever increasing risk.

Quentin neglected to provide a link, but a bit of probing on the net produced the following for those interested...and we should all be interested and support such endeavours www.whistleblowers.org.au/about/consti...

Quentin neglected to provide a link, but a bit of probing on the net produced the following for those interested...and we should all be interested and support such endeavours www.whistleblowers.org.au/about/consti...

It’s only fair: Australia’s copyright content to be statutorily licensed to make AI platforms enforcibly pay for its use. AG Michelle Rowland will consult all stakeholders and content creators. Thank heavens for the Copyright Act. 👇 AFR 29/10/25.

My fellow Australians: if you want to help the ‘fair go’ Australian ethos please join/support Whistleblowers Australia. Hair raising case histories; HR is not your friend; gaslighting; Robodebt aftermath; the abject failures of our National Anti Corruption Commission = it’s all there. Only $25 p.a.

Sshh- Still no definitive answer to the question: would Australia’s AUKUS N subs be deployed operationally in any US war with China? MKoziol SMH/Age reports “yes” assurances may have been given by @almp.bsky.social to Trump .. but our PM won’t confirm.

Battle lines net zero 2050. Phil Coorey AFR reports Sussan Ley and Dan Tehan considering delay beyond 2050 and to try green washing (gas lighting?) the electorate with emphasis on (discredited) carbon capture and storage and (still banned) nuclear. Try harder please dear Lib Leader.

Yes peoples around the world can see Netanyahu’s lies. That’s why there have been mass humanitarian rallies including the Jewish (never again) diaspora. Western media, with brave exceptions, has lost public trust.

It’s a great shame our National Press Club didn’t proceed with address by Pulitzer winning war correspondent Chris Hedges. His insights into IDF manipulation of media messaging are instructive. Western media is easily played. And the IDF murders non-compliant in situ journalists.

AUKUS said to be “full steam ahead”; @albomp.bsky.social - Trump sign rare earths agreement (no details yet). Behind closed doors Anbassador Rudd apologises to Trump for 5 year old “traitor to the West” comment = diplomatic withdrawal. Albo-Trump meeting was a mutual back-scratcher.

A bit of welcome solidarity from US journalists and their employers with media Pentagon walkout against SecWar Hegseth’s coercive access controls. SMH editorial 17/10/25. Now dear editor Bevan Shields please condemn IDF’s murder of journalists in Gaza.

“Can I meet with Eric?” Prabowo Subianto to Trump, Egypt 14/10/25. “I’ll have Eric call” replies Trump. The Indonesian president needs to explain what this exchange, caught on a “hot mic”, was all about.

Energy bills to halve by 2050: @grattaninstitute.bsky.social The renewables revolution will help conserve earth’s thin biosphere … and it’ll be much cheaper for households and enterprises. 👇

Internet TRUST destroyed: Hackers leak personal details from the data bases of 40 companies (emails/phone numbers/IDs) on the dark web. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The horror .. the horror. Tony Abbott sweeps it all under the carpet in “ Australia:A History”. Yes he acknowledges colonial death squads also known as “native police” but now wants to accentuate the civilising positives. His most recent triumph? Defeat of The Voice referendum.

Rats in the ranks: Andrew Hastie, a military strategist, resigns from the federal Liberal front bench, unable to accept Cabinet solidarity in the Westminster tradition. So he’s obviously planning to displace Sussan Ley as leader but does not yet have the numbers. 👇

Phone hacker/disgrace to journalism, Rupert Murdoch, compellingly exposed in “Hack” now streaming on Stan. Son Lachlan now trying to run Australia’s foreign and domestic policies through all his ranter outlets. These discredited blokes have no place in Western journalism.

Hamas must release all remaining Israeli hostages and lay down its arms within 72 hours .. or Netanyahu has carte blanche Trump support to kill them all (impliedly including Palestinians in the way). NYT analysis 👇concludes Netanyahu got almost all he wanted at White House meeting.

Albanese to increase the size of the House of Representatives and, consequently, the Senate? Thanks for this intel George (Brandis) SMH/Age.

Trump’s UN speech denounces “mass migration” by people who “don’t share our (Western) values. This is code for prohibiting Muslim migrants as a national security measure … but he won’t come out and say it directly = religious intolerance = white supremacy.

US citizens R&LMurdoch’s The Australian give PM Albanese his riding instructions for Oct 20 meeting with Trump. As US applies a vicious 100% pharmaceutical tariff, these sellouts say nothing about Trump’s direct threat to Australia’s PBS or his contempt for our free trade agreement.

Status of Australia-US alliance? PM Albanese to meet Trump on October 20th. It seems our American friends have pulled back on aggravated alienation of a once loyal ally. We part company on Palestinian recognition and climate mitigation. Anything else?

At today’s Two-State Solution Conference, we reaffirmed our commitment to a future where Israelis and Palestinians can live side by side in peace and security.

Australia's first National Climate Risk Assessment.

R/LMurdoch’s Australian supports the bombing of Hamas negotiators in Qatar. They bag US’s UN Security Council vote with Russia/China condemning IDF’s action. We won’t achieve long term peace/security for Israelis/Palestinians unless and until there’s a Two State solution.

Succession: its all Lachlan’s now. The Murdochs settle out of court. >> www.afr.com/companies/me...

Democracies v authoritarians. Forget the rhetoric. Examine the deliverables. Here Laura Tingle examines China’s new world order where Trump and our American friends are demonstrably unreliable. 👇https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-06/china-aukus-united-states-xi-jinping/105720442

Thanks Bob Carr for setting out your reasons for your trip to China to commemorate the end of WWII. The Chinese and Russian peoples were Australian, UK and US allies during that conflict. We must work harder now to remove the threat of another world war. 👇

Nobel laureate Maria Ressa advocates the “matrix protocol” (encrypted platforms with data privacy) for the future of truthful information. It counters the “inshitification” of the internet which is destroying democracies worldwide.

Trump sabotages US relationship with Modi/India by ego driven, disrespectful insensitivity. US is now a menace to the free world.👇https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/us/politics/trump-modi-india.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Television legend Stephen Colbert has just signed a $13.5 million deal with Netflix for a 7-episode series.

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

While Trump ignores Putin’s latest deadly attacks on Ukraine civilians, it looks like he’s out to sabotage peace pathway for Israel-Palestine. @Reuters reports US has refused to issue a visa, stopping Abood attending UN peace summit in New York.

William Robinson, the great Australian artist, has died. >> www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

“Tragic mishap”? IDF claimed camera atop Nasser Hospital was Hamas surveillance. It was a Reuters “live feed” TV camera. Five more journalists killed in Gaza. 👇

“Everything is fine” - Sussan Ley. Rowe in the Fin. The blokes seem determined to destroy Ley’s leadership. Respectfully suggest Ley takes them on: desist or Libs will withdraw from the Coalition and stand in all Nat seats. Now is the time: crash through .. or crash = Leadership!