#Auspol needs to notice this. Brit John O’Sullivan has been important to shaping the Australian Right - connecting Abbott & co to the Atlas-linked Budapest operations. Editing ultra conservative 🇦🇺 Quadrant journal. Importing anti-immigrant sentiment since 2015 at least. Murdoch’s friend Brimelow😬

Freedom Boy Tim believes in Austrian School economics. It’s debunked. Not sure if he got to do an internship like the uni students Ron Manners’ Mannkal orchestrates from Perth. Some end up in DC or London learning the tosh. (Pity those sent to Melbourne IPA or Sydney CIS.) These ones met Hayek’s…

#Auspol How did the IPA end up as toxic as it is? That started at a Mont Pelerin Society Meeting in HK78 when the older think tank (1943) swallowed the proper neoliberal kool aid. Also explains Hawke as the start of Thatchering Australia. reason.com/1978/12/01/m... www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xildf...

Terrific thread; chock full of revelatory info

Took Wilson less than a day to trip over his ego. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Thought he’d escape to non-extradition first…

🧵Over the next week there are two rightwing conferences in Sydney. This weekend Tony Abbott leads the hate group-boasting Advance. Next week John Anderson leads the up-market version, Aspire. (Details below) Both are based on hysteria about culture/race suicide. Need to read this book to 💡 #Auspol

Every journalist should have some basic understanding of the nefarious actors working to influence Australian politics and include that context in what they write and questions they ask. They’ll probably have to edit to please their masters but please do the work.

Beaten Zone Venture Partners Team includes Jackson Nioa from Australia's global munitions company NIOA and Campbell Newman (former Qld LNP Premier) among others www.beatenzone.vc/imt_team/

The Advance conference openly platforms Islamophobic hate groups. Pauline Hanson says "there are no good Muslims", and almost no-one in legacy media calls her racist & hateful. But the media & political class are obsessed with #FreePalestine slogans. Odd priorities for 'social cohesion'. #auspol

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BREAKING: @lucyham.bsky.social reporting on the 2026 Advance hate speech conference. Scary stuff. Will #Auspol democracy & multicultural "social cohesion" hold the line against destabilisation by this richly fossil funded #AtlasNetwork agitprop outfit? lucyham29.substack.com/p/the-advanc...

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#nzpol If you don't already follow Lucy Hamilton as she tracks the pernicious infection of the Aussie Political and Economic landscape by the Atlas Network, do it today Looking forward to someone with the time and stomach also cross-referencing them with the Epstein Files

🧵Advance has 3 international guests at its conference this weekend. One promotes conspiracies including to Alex Jones. A second conducts messaging for Steve Bannon, ran his “gladiator school” in the Italian monastery. The 3rd reps a vile US hate group. #Auspol lucyham29.substack.com/p/the-advanc...

Hutchens is highly educated, sharp and well-read in all the right areas for this work. Let's hope his colleagues and editors read his brilliant #AtlasNetwork explainer and stop thinking in the same 2 dimensional parochial cliches and sane washing the fossil-fascist push that's on for young and old.

Thanks Simon, I mean FFS I've laid it out in forensic detail in a 75 page document with 240 footnotes with perhaps 600 references published by the Australian Senate (see pinned post!) And my 2020 book, and other peer reviewed books & articles. Lucy is legendary, prolific. ABC- pls just report!

Great that #4Corners gave us a small window on the role & funding of Advance. But as usual with legacy media, failed to note the broader spread of RW entities under the global Atlas Network and Mont Pelerin Society. @lucyham.bsky.social & @jeremywalker.bsky.social have done the research. #auspol

New drone footage from @floodlightnews.org - the fossil methane power plant Musk built specifically to create abusive and racist material on his social media website is still wildly breaching EPA regulations even after a ruling against using them -->>> floodlightnews.org/thermal-dron...

So if an Australian group is planning to platform a representative of an American hate group, designated by the SPLC with plenty of evidence, reinforced by their freshest Instagram posts, how do I handle it to limit promoting the gross messaging of the group? #Auspol

People too easily forget that G.I John was an OG cooker

Fmr Dep PM John Anderson is leading a new conference body (as a variant on his ARC event). There are links to the Australian Christian Lobby which has been labelled a hate group by GPAHE. Also links with Viktor Orbán’s illiberal think tanks & Atlas partners #Auspol open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2...

Education ministers are meeting on Friday, special guest will be Antisemitism Czar, Segal.

Tim Wilson's #AtlasNetwork award winning team of fossil fuel hacks also included James Paterson, who wanted to sell the ABC to IPA backer Rupert Murdoch. He is now SHADOW MINISTER OF DEFENCE. God forbid. He'll have the Army howitzering wind and solar farms.

For those of you wanting more context for the Shadow Treasurer that Angus Taylor has chosen, his ideology & connections to foreign influence operations’ local offices, I gathered it here before the election. Note his behaviour as Human Rights Commissioner. #Auspol open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2...

Thanks @daanysaeed.bsky.social I need to add the detail that ARC donated to John Anderson’s Page Research Centre. From the international body or local chapter? Note that the Page witness, Holland, was at ARC head office first. #Auspol @crikey.com.au www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/18/m...

With Wilson as shadow Treasurer, Well Done Angus as leader, and hard right figures like Hastie and Price elevated, the 'alternative government' is now more than ever the Australian political wing of the Atlas Network. Something few in legacy media are willing or able to investigate. #auspol

More context for Tim Wilson #Auspol

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

Thanks to @bystander1.bsky.social for alerting us to the new version of the coercive Christian Nationalist ARC conference in 🇦🇺 . I built on your research to illustrate why the development should unnerve #Auspol lucyham29.substack.com/p/climate-de...

#FreedomBoy #TimWilson

Bathroom and sporting bans for trans women enable genital "inspections" on all women and girls. Policing bathroom access for all women who don't fit the Barbie doll, 1950s housewife stereotype. As that's where they want us all to go back to. Full control over all women, and the "wrong" ones gone.

Worth watching. A workable model for an overtly Christian (seminarian) politician?

Hannan is in the House of Lords. That’s another Atlas Network (Tufton Street in the UK) operator (like Liz Truss) in government for life. Atlas Network partners in #NZpol had this Hannan drongo parlaying his Boris🙄-gifted title into clout. And #Auspol Atlas 🙄 www.cis.org.au/publication/...

New Zealand right wing government has sabotaged the country’s infrastructure. First it was the ferries and now the water. This cannot go on #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

🧵Note #Auspol. We now have as Shadow Treasurer someone who was not only an Atlas Network partner actor, and also on the Mont Pelerin Society, but someone who was shortlisted for the top 🌎 Atlas Network prize for betraying Australia for fossil fuel. He led a team rewarded for killing the carbon price

Australian children are trapped in a Syria in dreadful danger. At this time Save the Children have shown more leadership, decency and humanity than every Australian media outlet and every member of the Lib/Labor/PHON parties combined. Thank you to them.

Apparently “only a grand Jewish-Christian alliance can save the West” according to the NatCon types (the extremists who code national identity by faith not “race”) like JD Vance. So the next NatCon is in Jerusalem. For Zionist influences on body behind NatCon: www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/e...

Just what we need "According to the Aspire website, FORM—standing for “Freedom, Opportunity and Responsibility Movement”—is “a not-for-profit organisation inspired by ARC (Alliance for Responsible Citizenship), dedicated to elevating the quality of public leadership and discourse in our nation”

Remember. Donations from tycoons & big business to Atlas Network think tanks are secret and tax deductible, so we miss out on money for schools, hospitals that goes instead to this. #Auspol (I have to work out that Chrome widget to get at this. 😵‍💫)

Like Palantir, some of these corps have a big presence in Australia, profiting off making our country something ominous. Private prisons have a poor record. They show themselves incentivised 🤢 to donate to achieve worse policy than private prisons. Don’t ignore the c-suites donating for ☠️ #Auspol

Lawyer & specialist journalist Dahlia Lithwick spoke this week to Andrea Pitzer about her investigation into the scale of what is becoming a concentration camp archipelago in the US. The only factor amenable to shame in this process is the c-suite. lucyham29.substack.com/p/american-d...

'It is the weaponisation of immigration as the centrepiece of a broader culture war—... It is about identity, belonging, and the anxieties that arise when a society undergoes rapid change without the institutions or the leadership capable of making sense of it.'

One should never underestimate the role of the onanistic nostalgic fantasy of ex-public schoolboys in post-Brexit English nationalist discourse.

"Labor has chosen to take a managerialist approach to politics which is failing to satisfy community needs across a range of areas.3 Instead of offering a viable alternative to right-wing nihilism, their backroom approach to governance has merely enlarged the space in which the far right can operate