3/ After 50 years, it’s time we called it a coup. Fifty years ago today, an elected government was ousted by a representative of a hereditary monarchy. Broadly, Australian society has still not grappled with these events. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

Who’s in the room? My @smh @theage cartoon.

Bob Brown walks the talk. Still. #Democracy is not a spectator game. #ClimateAction #auspol #wapol

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Yep

Trump Asks Staff for List of Potential Countries To Bomb To Distract From Epstein Emails

The original March for Humanity on the harbour bridge in Sydney was planned for Sun Aug 3, 2025 After the Minns govt took the protest orgs to the NSW Supreme Court, it was held on Sun Aug 31, 2025 But please let's hear again about weekend dates not registering as an issue for the Minns govt 🧐

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It took 5 hours for Gina to decide what her Party's policy would be? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #auspol #COALition

Epsteingate is the tip of the iceberg — and the beginning of the end for Trump.

I guarantee you that Jeffrey Epstein sold Melania to Donald Trump

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Great speech Sally McManus. You speak for the workers and people of Australia. There is no place in Australia for Neo Nazi’s or far right ideology in Australia that increases inequity. #auspol

What we think of neo-nazis

Two-thirds of California's power comes from clean energy. For 9 in 10 days so far this year, we were 100% powered for some part of the day by clean energy. The Golden State has become the world's fourth-largest economy because of our climate leadership, not in spite of it.

Fascinating #RNBreakfast this morning re #TheDismissal. Jenny Hocking lays out the evidence and Kerry O’Brien utters the words we dare not: “It was a coup.”

Tonight was a very bad night.

Tonight’s Senate vote on the federal government shutdown should have been a time for strength. Instead we saw capitulation and a betrayal of working Americans. The American people need more from their leaders.

When was the last time anyone at the BBC had to resign for misrepresenting a leftwinger?

Standing up didn’t work? Let’s see how caving in works!

Went to repost this and then depressingly saw it was from 8 months ago. This is still true, and I am now convinced it will remain true until there are successful primary challenges nationwide to the "roll over and play dead" Dems.

Earlier in the week the Choice Shonky awards came out…… Commonwealth Bank was in the Hall of Fame for overcharging 2.2 million customers $270M in fees between 2019 and 2024. The bank is reluctant to repay the $$$. However, ABC RN chose to report on the Shonky awarded to Temu for selling shit stuff

How much longer is this farce of a sideshow going to continue? NACC Commissioner, Paul Brereton, is once again embroiled in controversy. The NACC Inspector, Gail Furness is currently investigating several complaints against Mr Brereton. His position is untenable. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Yeeeehaaaaaa

Zohran Mamdani’s New York election triumph has been hailed as a win against 'corporate donors, mega polluters and the super-rich'

Brown. Muslim. Socialist. Educated. Intelligent. He’s the Anti Trump. It’s perfection. #Mamdani

Disappointed by the govt’s rushed push to pass a 1,500-page environment bill without proper scrutiny or consultation. This is a key chance to protect nature & embed climate accountability—but the bill falls short. View my full speech here: www.zalisteggall.com.au/speaks_on_th... #EPBC #Auspol

Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, who charged Donald Trump for 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments during the 2016 campaign, has won his reelection. Bragg exclaimed: “I love democracy!”

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. Winston Churchill

ABC News and SBS News are seriously shite - calling Mamdani a 'socialist' when, he himself, says he is a democratic socialist - as per former president of #usa Franklin D. Roosevelt - these news services are failing us #auspol en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zohran_...

What would Whitlam think of the Albanese Government? https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11/what-would-whitlam-think-of-the-albanese-government #auspol

“I want forty op-eds belittling Mamdani on my desk by 5pm!”

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Two can play this game.

No mention of Mamdani win on abc 730 at all. Can’t go normalising the concept of “democratic socialism”, can we?

🚨Fossil fuel operatives  – like anti-Voice group "Advance" - are duping cash from unsuspecting Australians by lying + falsely claiming to be “grassroots” movements. Top misinformation expert says vested interests using sham fronts to "dupe" public... theklaxon.com.au/b8jt

That the @albomp.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social Govt partially privatised the aged care in home care service assessment process is galling. Patently, it’s lazy and riven with neoliberal dogma. It should have recruited and trained an adequate public sector workforce to do the job #auspol

#FitzPOTW @peterfitz1.bsky.social 👇THIS should get a LOT MORE PUBLIC DISCUSSION "AUKUS is worst decision from our political duopoly."

AUKUS is worst decision from our political duopoly. Exorbitant, unexplained & unjustified. Commits Australia to 1.Australian bases for UK & USA nuclear submarines 2.Being part of USA confrontation with China 3.Being a repository for high level nuclear waste requiring security/storage >100,000 yrs

On the ballot today: -NYC: Mayor -Minneapolis: Mayor -VA: Governor, Lt. Governor, AG, and state House -NJ: Governor -PA: State Supreme Court -GA: Public Service Commission -TX: TX-18 U.S. House -CA: Prop 50 This is a reminder of how crucial it is to vote up AND down the ballot.

The spookiest tale of all - Pauline Hanson at Trump's Halloween party with Gina Rinehart and not turning up to Parliament and missing votes in the Senate on her party's own amendments

You know after Cuomo loses Trump is going to deny he endorsed him right?

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