So it looks like Albo will set up a federal royal commission into anti-semitism and Islamophobia and the Bondi massacre after all? Next question? Who will head it? What are the terms of reference? We need broad context: don’t forget the Christchurch NZ mosque massacre.

This is Trump!.. according to American Global Strategies vice-chair Scott Morrison in Murdoch’s Oz. “ .. because Trump offends liberal sensibilities, he must therefore lack strategic understanding. That assumption is wrong”. So ScoMo commits Australia to war with China over Taiwan.

If US 2026 invasion of #Venezuela increases its oil production, then that will further decrease #Russia’s income & ability to wage war in #Ukraine @anneapplebaum.bsky.social @timothysnyder.bsky.social @paulbongiorno.bsky.social @quentindempster.bsky.social

CO2 emissions now probably falling in China, world’s #1 emitter, & falling for some years in US & Europe but still increasing in India, now world’s #3 emitter #ClimateCrisis @quentindempster.bsky.social @johnquiggin.bsky.social @publichealthaus.bsky.social

“Your government failed you, and I failed you” - Richard Clarke, White House counter terrorism leader to 9/11 Commission 2004. Australians are entitled to expect the same self-appraising honesty from PM Albo and ASIO’s Mike Burgess - with or without a royal commission into Bondi massacre.

Mike Burgess DG ASIO welcomes Dennis Richardson’s review. He rejects claims of intelligence failure re Bondi IS motivated massacre. www.asio.gov.au/asio.gov.au/...

Tom Kenneally, author of Schindler’s List, declares political opportunism drives division, not unity, after Bondi massacre. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Teach ethics, not religion, in our schools. Letters to the editor SMH 20/12/25. “Now is the time to introduce a secular curriculum.. Please, David Gonski, be brave enough to take this step”. 👇

Bondi Beach massacre follows IS terror methodology. Although degraded IS “cells” remain active. NYT >> www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/w...

Latest evidence is that Bondi massacre exposes a failure of Australia’s national and state security: shooters recently visited Phillipines (suspected IS terror training); ASIO discontinued monitoring in 2019; shooter was registered as a NSW gun owner in 2023. No shared intel.

“It’s a rort, not reform”. Rex Patrick and Zoe Daniel are taking the ALP/LNP duopoly to the High Court over political fixer Don Farrell’s campaign finance Electoral Act which aims to defund/destroy Australia’s independents movement. Annika Smethurst SMH/Age. 👇👇

Hey Albo, Treasurer Chalmers is now working on a corrective (cut spending) May budget; you’ve axed power bill subsidy. But you’ve done nothing about MPs “family reunion” travel rorts. You reject transparency reform. You eulogise Richo the ratbag. Poor show.

David Pope in Canberra Times

Political corruption. Vast inequality. Giant monopolies. Ultra-wealthy elites. Conspicuous consumption. These problems defined the Gilded Age of the late 1800s. And they're dominating America again today. But we have the power to fight back. https://youtu.be/Nmq7QqqY4vo?si=F3dxZcPJJRcBXB1O

The 15-year-old can't use TikTok, but is comforted by the fact he’ll be old enough to watch a thousand ads from Sportsbet about the latest odds at Randwick. theshovel.com.au/2024/11/11/t...

It’s a hard life being an MP. 👇All that .. and free membership of the Qantas Chairman’s Lounge thrown in.

Expenses: duty, family reunion or indulgence? It’s a question of judgement. Phil Coorey’s analysis 👇is spot on.

The rules? Snouts in trough. Hey Albo, in a cost of living crisis it would be wise to review the “family reunion” rules. Revelations about Anika Wells and Don Farrell’s allowable but indulgent taxpayer expenses exposes your duopoly’s cynicism.

Merit before mates? Yeah .. nah. Here’s how @albomp.bsky.social is smothering the “No Favourites” Briggs Review recommendations to end cronyism, patronage via “jobs for mates”. Albo is emerging as a true duopolist. 👇Centre for Public Integrity.

Ed Husic MP, quoted in Niki Savva’s book, urges Albo/ALP caucus to take on harder issues: perverse gas exports; gambling addiction ads; negative gearing distortions; ALP credibility undermined by MPs owning 5-10 homes; tax breaks for new investment start-ups ✅👍 James Massola SMH/Age 👇

Pauline Hanson obviously wants Australia to ban Muslim immigration but won’t say so out loud. The Faragists now coalescing in our country use the dogwhistle “mass” migration but so far have not put up legislation to embed religiously intolerant “values” in our immigration laws.

Award winning journalist @quentindempster.bsky.social on the importance of freelance journalists in our media landscape and the threat of AI. Media companies need to PAY UP and stop making deals with AI companies that don't include consent and compensation for media workers. meaa.io/3IUYC0M #PayUp

No wonder PM Albanese now appears ambivalent about hosting COP26 in SA next year. World attention would focus on his export coal/gas (gaslighting) hypocrisy: an embarrassment for Australia. AFR reports 👇 big decision expected this week. Bonn?

“Disclosure without consequences. A smoke alarm without batteries - installed when the house is already ablaze”. Carmen Lawrence 👇 exposes the Faustian “trigger” PM Albanese proposes in his EPBC Act. Coal/gas: let ‘er rip.

NEW: California now has nearly 17,000 megawatts of battery storage – reaching one-third of the way to our 2045 goal. We're deploying more battery storage than any state in America, building a stronger grid, cutting pollution, and securing a safer future for our nation.

While Gina/Advance/IPA/Murdochs/Faragists/preferential Pauline take over the Liberal Party, a big window has opened for more meritorious independents (think ‘teals’) to run in marginal LNP (and some ALP) seats across federal electorates. Libs may have signed their own death warrant. 👇

Sussan Ley and the federal parliamentary Liberal Party display “contempt for the future”. Saturday Paper editorial 15/11/25. >> Zero sense www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/edit... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

The Liberal Party has lost the Australian business sector with its “sheer fatuousness and contradictions” by abandoning net zero 2050. AFR editorial 15-16/11/25. The so called party of rational market economics relegates itself to the political fringe. 👇✅

Re net zero dispute: Phil Coorey AFR observes PM Albo is watching closely. “.. not everyone in government will be heartbroken should Australia ultimately fail to host next year’s” UN COP conference in Adelaide.

The Faragists, backed by Gina, are about to trigger a full blast Australian fear campaign on net zero target and “mass” migration. Resolve polling indicates electors remain undecided on these political pressure points.

Folks, this now successful campaign to capture the federal parliamentary Liberal Party re dumping net zero 2050, has been bankrolled by an “enshitification” online outfit called Advance -bankrolled by Gina Rinehart, an Australian coal/gas oligarch and Trumpist.

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.