Unless there is political mileage to be made out of it - "It is not appropriate to use an incident that remains under active investigation to... ascribe broader political meaning before the facts are established," the Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians said." #auspol

The muted response to the Perth bombing exposes a pattern of national indifference www.crikey.com.au/2026/01/29/p...

"Minnesotans are really good at chipping away at ice." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

Don't think suppression of criticism of Israel will be limited to writers festivals ... #auspol

If this is the ALP taking our protest rights away, under what feasible scenario will we ever get them back? The Libs in power will push further and Labor will let them through every time. Who needs a Trump? #auspol

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Bondi lie peddled by Elon Musk’s AI chatbot shows the future of our AI-poisoned information ecosystem www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/16/e...

⭕️ TLDR: The UAE is not just another foreign partner for the Trump White House. It is the political, financial, real-estate, and crypto ecosystem powering the Trump family’s current and future wealth. Pressuring Abu Dhabi over its arming, financing, and enabling of a genocidal paramilitary force...

In a 24-hour span, Trump spouts vile racism about Somalis, SCOTUS reinstates Texas’s racially gerrymandered maps, the Pentagon murders more black or brown fishermen—makes you wonder whether there’s some ugly unifying principle at work here

Israel’s National Security Minister Ben-Gvir ordered that a performance by children in the Palestinian National Theatre be raided and closed down just before the children were due to perform.

The UAE has a "long-term vision of taking over Sudan," says Sudanese researcher Lina Yassin.

Yep. "Ley added that net zero would be "welcome" … as long as it was easy and they didn't have to do anything — ... which is more or less what Labor is doing, while still saying "net zero"."#auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

A year on from Trump’s victory, resistance is everywhere | Rebecca Solnit www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

⭕️ Haaretz: Israel pours millions into AI-hasbara, conservative/church targeting, and U.S. influence ops Haaretz has uncovered a network of multimillion-dollar contracts showing that Israel is attempting to rehabilitate its image among American conservatives through a vast propaganda campaign...

Don’t laugh off the suggestion that buffoon #BarnabyJoyce might lead #OneNation #Auspol’s nativist populist micro party. The UK media seems to be driving Farage & Reform towards government. Don’t be complacent: watch for supporters. open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2...

Gaza as techno-fascist enclave, a model for the future. #auspol Why Tony Blair just can’t kick the habit of imperial interference in the Middle East | Oliver Eagleton www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why Tony Blair just can’t kick the habit of imperial interference in the Middle East | Oliver Eagleton www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Whether you're in the US or UK or Germany... democracies are tearing up their own civil liberties, their own constitutions, the First Amendment in the US!, for the sake of a foreign country: Israel. That is insane!" My mini-rant on Zeteo's 'Ask the Editor' show today. zeteo.com/p/dei-for-pr...

She was arrested for holding a sign reading: “I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action” How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

If the applause stops, Trump’s illusion of power shatters. Quantico showed the first crack. The task now falls to generals, leaders, journalists, chief executives and citizens alike to widen it until the noise of democracy drowns out the man who mistakes clapping for command. #auspol #USpolitics

Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators” open.substack.com/pub/kenklipp...

Great article. But Aus govt and most media still can't openly admit Israel's goal is to ethnically cleanse Palestinians. #auspol www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-...

This sums up Australian mainstream media exactly. #auspol #gaza

Journalists across the world have no problem selling out one of their own colleagues to do the bidding of a genocidal state. Endless shame on you all. Screen grabs from @newscord.org on insta

As Dems struggle to find an off-ramp for the increasingly unpopular Gaza genocide their leadership spent 22 months supporting, they've settle on blaming "Netanyahu." I wrote about the rise of One Bad Man Theory and how it serves to obscure much deeper issues with the logic and reality of zionism.

Hey Sydney protesters, bloody well done, especially in that weather. Very impressed. (from Melbourne) #marchforhumanity

#auspol. Melbourne rally.

The anti-genocide movement has been driven by below: activists rather than bureaucrats, people rather than NGOs, students rather than professors, etc. Almost without exception, the top echelons of society have tried to stop the protests, not the genocide.

The US is complicit in genocide. Let’s stop pretending otherwise | Mehdi Hasan www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #auspol

"what will Israel finally have to do to cause the prime minister to do something about that government’s behaviour rather than just say something? What is the line? What is it?" #auspol

Replace 'NYT' with 'the Age' or 'SMH' and the same applies. #auspol www.columnblog.com/p/child-ampu...

Hey @albomp.bsky.social, this is your legacy too. #auspol

Just imagine if the "Special Envoy for Anti-Islamophobia" (who seems to have disappeared) was revealed as having a partner donating money to anti-Semitic organisations. But this is just getting ignored and glossed over.

The world's most famous medical NGO concludes Israel is committing genocide. It joins a consensus of genocide scholars, including in Israel, and NGOs like Amnesty International. No politician or journalist can claim "I did not know at the time!" to evade future justice.

Prof Amos Goldberg, historian of the Holocaust at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem calls this a concentration camp. What does the Aus govt call it? #auspol www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Australia’s silence on genocide gives Netanyahu a free pass to exterminate Palestinians #auspol www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/04/i...

Oh yeah forgot to mention this: Keir Starmer’s Labour party asked MPs to decide on whether three groups are all terrorists, or whether none of them are. Only two options. The groups are Palestine Action + two fascist groups

All Western govts, not just Trump’s US, trending towards authoritarianism. #auspol

Muhammad Jalal— "Powerful words from historian William Dalrymple on Gaza, exposing how Britain’s colonial legacy played a key role in creating this injustice. The suffering in Gaza didn’t start yesterday, it was engineered long ago. #Gaza #Palestin🇵🇸" Sorry, had to split video for BlueSky—1/2

Excellent by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social on the moral vacuum at the heart of Western governments. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #auspol