Israel responsible for two-thirds of record 129 press killings in 2025, says CPJ

So he’s attacked the Greens “political party”, David Pocock and now Grace Tame. His transformation into Morrison is complete.

Rather awful fuck up by Essential Water in NSW: new arrivals to the town of Sunset Strip were informed via letter the town’s water isn’t safe for human consumption. Longterm residents only learned about this when a new resident posted a copy of the letter to Facebook www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, 56, was a nearly blind Rohingya refugee from Rakhine state in Myanmar, family members said.

📢 Parliament has been told of the chaos at the offshore call centre used by Optus during last year's triple zero outage. Explosive testimony from the author of the review into the deadly failures blasted a culture of 'carelessness'. Representative from the Singapore-based parent company 'Singtel'…

A government who subsidizes big corporates $11 billion per year to pollute *more* cannot say: - it is serious about the #ClimateCrisis, or - lifting one in six children out of poverty is unaffordable. #auspol

Research from The Australia Institute finds that fuel tax credits are ineffective and should be scrapped. Read more: https://australiainstitute.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/P1669-Fossil-fuel-subsidies-2025-Web.pdf

“Sometimes as Prime Minister you need to make the tough calls." theshovel.com.au/2026/02/25/b...

Australia, you are being scammed! #IEEFA shows Japanese export 40% of Aussie gas exports. Yep, they on-sell our gas for a profit while the corporations cry poor about tax and royalties and gas shortages @kimwingerei.bsky.social #auspol #whatsthescam michaelwest.com.au/australian-g...

ISIS brides: the race to the bottom. Just 14 federal politicians (out of 226) openly/ardently oppose this racist regression. Of the 212 others, most couldn't care less about Australian IDF soldiers, back from the genocide in Gaza, who walk freely among us. The hypocrisy is breathtaking. #auspol

These people are poison. They will unleash racist thugs on the streets of this country and call it security. They will subjugate us to the US and call it patriotism. They must be stopped. There is no more important task in politics.

Last year, for the first time, alcohol and gambling companies, and their lobby groups, donated more than $5m to the major parties. Looks like they are getting a reasonable return on their investment.

Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime, with a valid visa, when she was shackled, transported and held by ICE for six weeks http://www.theguardi...

'Ceasefire', according to #Israel & the West: "At least 12 people were killed... on Friday in separate Israeli attacks across Lebanon, including a deadly strike on the Ain al‑Hilweh refugee camp in Sidon in southern Lebanon & a series of airstrikes on the Beqaa region..." imemc.org/article/12-k...

Two things are simultaneously true: 1. The Iranian regime treats its people with extreme brutality and cruelty, and we should honour the citizens seeking to overthrow it. 2. A US attack on Iran would turn a crisis into a catastrophe.

I spoke about this in Parliament last week. All states offer vaccination against meningococcus A/C, but only some fund type B, the most common form. All states and territories should provide the same vaccines - and all should include meningococcal type B. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

That surely must be bingo

And they dare to falsely claim the Zionist apartheid state of Israel is a "democracy". Israel is a terrorist state. #IsraeliTerrorism

Federal police raided Dissent Bar in Canberra and stripped anti-fascist posters off the walls under Labor's brand new hate speech laws. Not a Nazi compound. A local café with political art. This is what biased laws look like in practice. 🧵

Clearly the ACT Police don’t have enough actual crime here in the ACT. The Dissent Bar in the city was raided and closed last night because some bloody muppet complained about an anti-fascist poster displayed in the bar. The great thing is now I know about this bar, I’ll make an effort to go!

Ted Lieu: “Donald Trump is in the Epstein files thousands and thousands of times. In those files, there are highly disturbing allegations of Donald Trump raping children … of Donald Trump threatening to kill children. So I encourage the press to go look at these allegations.”

Town Hall was no isolated event. Andrew Brown describes the political and media path to Minns police unleashing violence on peace protestors #auspol Image: @Schtang X michaelwest.com.au/before-the-b...

When the UN calls out genocides or the ICC calls out presidents that are considered war criminals then the Olympics should use that as eligibility to complete. Genocide & war criminality shouldn’t be considered “political”, just actions against humanity…

Just how spot on was Jon Kudelka. Pure and simple genius. #auspol

In case we needed clarification.

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ABC news referring to ‘alleged’ stabbing in Sydney in which one person died and several were injured. Journos, PLEASE, that people were stabbed is not an allegation. It is a fact (unless you believe the victims impaled themselves on the assailant’s knife. The allegation is about who did it.

Women, leave Queensland. #auspol Queensland police refused to discipline officer accused of domestic violence against pregnant partner Police decided there was ‘no tangible benefit’ to conducting disciplinary action against the officer and opted not to investigate

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A government can win 40% of the vote and 100% of the power. That is not majority rule. It is a flaw of first-past-the-post. When big decisions about student debt are on the line, power should reflect how people actually voted. That is what proportional representation delivers.

‘Under international law, the right to protest is particularly important for marginalised groups. These include the victims of Israeli violations in Palestine, whose families also live among us, www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

Trump et al were also talking about themselves when they ranted about “The Deep State,” “The Pedophile Cabal” that runs the world, “groomers,” “deviants,” “fascists,” “terrorists,” “drug lords, “addicts,” “rapists,” “killers,” “philanderers,” “illegals,” “corrupt politicians” and “low IQ” people.

Turns out “They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists…” was Trump introducing his own administration.

Can you have yr spine broken, unprovoked, by police & get no compo? Is that 'reasonable' justice in NSW now? @wendybacon1.bsky.social on the Minns laws rushed in, the judge, and the Inquiry #auspol #Herzog michaelwest.com.au/when-politic...

Shared with us from Sydney happening now. He had his hands up.

Ali Al-lami compared NSW Police brutality to IDF brutality. On a completely different topic, NSW Police trapped a group of civilians including children and babies with no way of getting out past the heavily armed guards and then used chemical weapons on them, collectively.

Even the framing of the protests as Pro-Palestinian rather than Anti-Genocide shows the media's bias.

I very genuinely do not think that Australia's media industry can be classified as any other than fully supportive of police violence, because you have to actively, consciously and knowingly work to frame what happened as general "violence mars protests" rather than "police violently attack protest"

There are 9000 abducted children in Israeli prisons

Sophie Scamps MP: "At the very time the Government is welcoming President Herzog into Parliament House, with the entrance being officially lined with Israeli flags, Israel is moving to extend the illegal occupation of the West Bank thus undermining the hope for a two-state solution."

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

I went out before today's Herzog protest at Parliament and saw this massive police surveillance tower. This is completely unnecessary, and intimidating, at a peaceful protest. Police need to be protecting protesters, not snooping on them, or attacking them.

At least 10 Ukrainians have died from cold-related illness as Moscow’s assaults cut heat to thousands.

attending a protest = "antagonising police" is very literally and precisely the gaslighting doublespeak of the fascist Trump government. I really don't make that comparison lightly but this is systemic, deep institutional collapse

NSW Police Minister saying to the people please don't antagonise the cops by, you know, exercising your basic human rights

Social Cohesion, one vertebrae at a time, one pensioner at a time, until we all start getting along by thinking what the government tells you to.

Opinion | Social cohesion is nothing more than a scam perpetrated by the powerful — backed by police violence, writes Bernard Keane. buff.ly/uvMgD4s

Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this

Best chant so far .. “From the river to the sea, Herzog to the ICC”