Bridget MacKenzie's proposal for childcare www.page.org.au/2026/02/rais... Spoiler - it's about encouraging women to stay at home and have children because migration is Bad. Apparently the choice to stay at home with their children is something only women want... #auspol

The media is desperate to create another election where they can write reams of articles about the possibility of a hung Parliament (they don't know how to cover elections otherwise). They can't get the LNP anywhere near that, so they're having a go with ON. #auspol

Australians hate Trump more than any country in the world apart from Sweden. He's not imposing HUUGGEEE tariffs on us. He's not threatening to invade us. He's not regularly insulting our leaders, or us as a people. We've just got good taste. #auspol

While you're looking for a house, you want house prices to be low. The second your name is on the deed, you want them to keep rising.

Start of an email from the Liberals: 'You may have seen in the media lately, that people are working to bring back dozens of people from Syria who are ISIS sympathisers. ' #auspol

Words from a Christian root....

Angus Taylor wants to cut 'unnecessary waste' - so I want to know what 'necessary waste' is.... #auspol

'One Nation leader Pauline Hanson says about 80 people have applied to be the party's candidate for Farrer in the upcoming by-election.' So that's 79 people who'll be p*ssed off, just for starters. #auspol

ON's problem is that the pictured demographic isn't large enough... #auspol

Paterson: '"They want to see us stand up for things like the flag and the anthem and the Constitution and Australia Day and our Anzac tradition because they see in us, or they hope to see in us, a patriotic Australian party." Ah, hence the six flags... #auspol

Paterson: '"Our traditional supporters are telling us they don't recognise what we stand for and they think we're divided, so of course, you would expect that there would be a debate. There has to be a debate." If there has to be a debate, that means further division... #auspol

Paterson: '"The first and most important task in politics is to lock down your base …' And this is the Liberals' problem. Your base will vote for you (either directly or indirectly) regardless. You need to win over those who weren't going to. #auspol

Closest thing Hume came to a policy this morning was reaffirming support for nuclear power. #auspol

'Jane Hume was right last week when she said expected Albanese to take advantage of the Liberal Party’s decline and call an early election.' (Seriously crap sentence). There is no reason for Labor to go to an early election. www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic... #auspol

'Jane Hume was right last week when she said expected Albanese to take advantage of the Liberal Party’s decline and call an early election.' There is no reason for Albanese to call an early election. #auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

'Hume, along with new Liberal Leader Angus Taylor, made up Peter Dutton's economic team. Whether they can shake that association in the minds of voters, who emphatically rejected the party the last time around, remains to be seen.' Love this pair of sentences. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

'Of the seven former prime ministers of this country who still draw breath, there is really only one who has consistently employed a similar approach. It's the only other woman. What an interesting coincidence.' Well, it might be. If Ley had been Prime Minister. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Email from Angus: 'We will get rid of Labor’s carbon taxes that are pushing up the cost of food, cars and housing. ' Yeah, well you can f*ck right off then. #auspol

OK, a bit of history. I was basically a 'fly on the wall' for the Indi preselection which resulted in Mirabella being selected - strong links, at the time, with at least four of the candidates (at least two regularly asked me for my advice). Mirabella and Ley were seen as outsiders. #auspol

Howard insisted Ley be preselected, despite not being a local, over the wishes of the local branches BECAUSE he wanted more women. She went on to win the seat from the Nationals, and rose to be leader. Surely those advocating for more women in the party should be using this as a template. #auspol

'"It's...up to the party members... at the end of the day, that is why Sussan was first elected to that seat," O'Brien says.' Lib Party admin TOLD their Farrer branch that they had to select Sussan - Howard's orders - after she failed to be preselected in Indi (where she lived). #auspol

Both Angus and Jane are pollies who I love to hear are coming up in an interview. They're both sure to provide plenty of LOL moments. #auspol

Please let it be Dan Tehan. Dream team. #auspol

'Asked how the Liberals will win back women voters, Small says the party has a "challenge across the country" but doesn't think "cherrypicking" a particular demographic will win them back government.' Yeah, describe women as a 'cherry picked demographic". That'll win them over. #auspol

'James Paterson, who will back Taylor in the spill, described the leadership aspirant as "the smartest policy brain in the shadow cabinet"...' An admission that there are lots of better policy brains in Parliament, just not in the Shadow Cabinet? #auspol

A Liberal leadership spill. Doesn't that mean it's time to change the batteries on your smoke alarm?

This is openly stating that a Jewish person living in Australia is not Australian. If they were, their Head of State would be...the Governor General. #auspol

I can understand inviting a Jewish religious leader to Australia to comfort the Jewish community. I can't understand why you'd invite a politician, representing another country, to mourn with Australians. #auspol

One of the Liberal parties problems has always been its focus on the leader, rather than the team. So when things look bad for them, it's the leader they scrutinise, not themselves or the party as a whole. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

'...anyone who aspires to be leader of the Liberal Party needs to "lay out a roadmap" to electoral success.' The roadmap has been laid out multiple times. The Liberals don't want to follow it. #auspol

The Senate is the place where 'holding the balance of power' is actually a Thing. So the Teals should run candidates for the Senate. A Teal in the Lower House is a waste of space. Several Teals in the Senate could make a real difference. #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'Last year, thanks to...interest rate cuts, house prices rose twice as much as incomes... '...economists are predicting.. two rate hikes this year... a further 5–6 per cent rise in house prices ' So there is no link between interest rate cuts and house prices. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

'...the top 10 occupations of international students in 2021 were: cleaner, sales assistant, delivery driver, waiter, aged and disabled carer, chef, kitchen hand, cook, nursing support worker, storeperson. No brickies or carpenters.' Because they're STUDENTS. These are part time jobs. #auspol

'...and it makes them think the government has no idea what it's doing.' Kohler's crunched some numbers. But he obviously can't read polls. The voters who are moving to One Nation never supported the government. They're not disillusioned by it. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

'"'Sussan sucks and she can't win' is basically the right's pitch," one conservative Liberal admits.' On this criteria, there's no point replacing her, because they all suck and they're not going to win. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Another One Nation policy for Victoria: '[ensure] objective science is used to assess the impact of coastal water discharge on the Great Barrier Reef.' #vicpol

One of One Nation's policies for Victoria: 'supporting the swift removal of dangerous animals such as crocodiles from human communities...' Fingers on the pulse. vic.onenation.org.au/rebuilding-o... #vicpol

Dear media We ban children from accessing lots of things. When children access them, the people who are penalised are not the children, but those who allowed them access. Please get it into your heads - the social media ban works the same way. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

So the media's got the memo: report the sale of derelict and surplus Defence property as the sale of historical assets. But they're all individuals.... #auspol

'One Nation leader Pauline Hanson is not in Canberra because she is suspended from sitting in the Senate until Thursday.' Regardless, she should be in Canberra. As leader of her party, it is her responsibility to give them direction. #auspol

'One Nation also called for legislative change to stop elected members from leaving a party during their term.' www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05... #auspol

Two headlines side by side: 'Liberals expect leadership spill...' 'Liberal frontbenchers dismiss prospect of imminent leadership challenge..' Ah, journos. Fingers on the pulse... www.abc.net.au/news/politics To be fair, probably both are true. #auspol

...to be fair, given we're now a one party state, Labor should be polling in the 90s... #auspol

Journos insist on pushing the line that One Nation's present polling is a sign of discontent with both majors. Whilst it's true that that's what the low primaries show, these existed before ON's rise. ON's rise is solely due to discontent with the Coalition. #auspol

Pat Karvelas: 'The government continues to struggle in the polls....' Latest poll has it sitting almost exactly where it was at the election. 94 seats. #auspolhttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-02/parliament-sitting-week-opposition-leadership-albanese/106292656

My prediction: There will be 'Melania' watching parties, involving lots of alcohol and mockery.

'Both Hastie and Taylor see this as their chance to remake the party in their image, much like Howard did..' Whoa, Nelly! Howard did - after a couple of terms. Prior to that, his strategy was to adopt Labor's policies and throw in a set of steak knives. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

You know what's coming...ICE will be out there on the streets forcing people into the cinema to watch 'Melania'.

As for 'large penises attract women', in almost every culture we know of women don't get to compare penis sizes, whereas men do. In the few cultures where penises are commonly exposed, women are usually destined for arranged marriages. theconversation.com/why-are-huma...

Human penises are so large because we're an upright species. A small penis means that wee trickles down the legs. A larger one means the pee lands beyond the body. (You can experiment with a hose....) theconversation.com/why-are-huma...