Albo "won battles fought at the University of Sydney in the 1980s He’s outlasted Tony Abbott & Malcolm Turnbull in office. He’s eclipsed Julia Gillard & Kevin Rudd. He’s about to run past Morrison. And all for what? To be wonderfully cautious? The focus should be on the government, not the sideshow"

"There is no evidence from the marketing materials that the operators of the scheme have proper authorisation in Australia: either a licence to provide financial advice or a licence to sell property – let alone property deemed illegal under international law." michaelwest.com.au/israel-lobby...

Responsible Wagering Australia Holdings donated $118,550 in 2023-24. That was $81,050 to Labor and $37,500 to the Coalition. {4689} #auspol - https://politicalgadgets.com/PoliticalDonations/

“We weren’t allowed to use the override button. There was no ability for anyone to say: ‘The algorithm has it wrong, we need a human to adjust this’.” Coming to the #NDIS soon. @australianlabor.bsky.social the gov for punitive cruel policies, and abuse of vulnerable ppl. We need change #Auspol

Hope Is Not A Strategy: Why Shadow Treasurer Tim Wilson Is Unfit for the Job Treasurer Chalmers: "Long on ego, arrogance and entitlement, short on empathy or understanding." We deserve to know who their shadow treasurer really is. My full analysis 👇 #auspol open.substack.com/pub/suebarre...

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

“They have to be held accountable for this. They can’t behave the way they did, When you look at the force and the brutality that they used, it’s a wonder someone wasn’t killed. It’s a miracle that nobody died.” #Auspol www.deepcutnews.com/p/they-were-...

Make sure you notice the Liberal logo below and then the message .. that Wilson is promoted into the front Shadow bench of the Liberal Party The Liberals NEVER disavowed the connection to GENOCIDE but now they've promoted it into the shadow cabinet 𝐆𝐎𝐋𝐃𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐈𝐍 𝐰𝐚𝐬/𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧

China’s now building subs faster than the US - hardly news that’ll encourage the US to hand over sovereign control of some of its subs, even to an ally as obsequiously compliant as Australia. Still, @albomp.bsky.social and Richard Marles blithely press on with #AUKUS 🤷‍♂️. #auspol

“Tim Wilson strikes me as another typical Liberal. Long on ego, arrogance & entitlement & short on empathy or understanding. The same guy who floated the privatisation of Medicare, argued against penalty rates & increases to minimum wage & called for the dismantling of compulsory super for workers”

Wow. This is very powerful #auspol

I’m doing my part. Why can’t the gas industry

Bad immigrants. My @smh cartoon.

Just thought of the day I spent livestreaming the farcical Parliamentary Inquiry into franking credits which Tim Wilson concocted & oversaw. Long time #auspol tweeps will recall I'm sure. What a disgrace that whole thing was - and now he's Shadow Treasurer!

At the end of this week, Anthony Albanese will become Australia's longest serving prime minister since John Howard. He's on track to rival Fraser and Hawke in time in the top job. But to leave what legacy?

On a related note, the Dutch are openly talking about jail-breaking the F35. Can you do this with a submarine we will not get? Asking for a friendly middle-power.

“Men get a larger overall share of the benefits of Australia’s current tax expenditures and deductions . . . and in news that will not shock many, men receive a greater share of the benefits of our tax settings than women.” - Gemma Killen Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/3ZGFCIv

"Albanese might consider hosting a high-level international visit that is demonstration and protest free, invite the UN Secretary General to undertake an official visit to Australia. That would permit the government to give at least symbolic support for the international rules-based order." #auspol

So, that's a "No" then...

Fed gov signed up to the Global Biodiversity Framework which includes a target to "eliminate, phase out or reform annual incentives that harm biodiversity" & was meant to identify these harmful subsidies by 2025 🦗🦗🦗fr the Albo govt but Paul Elton & [email protected] did the job

Not really the climate party you pitched at not really into eduction health or housing are you? @albomp.bsky.social - hand outs for your mates just like Morrison - #shameonyou #auspol

You fucking what @albomp.bsky.social ? Last week you feted a fucking war pig who represents a racist country murdering children for petty revenge Fuck you and fuck your coward party Maybe you didn't understand EXACTLY why your primary was a stagnant 30%? It was a warning: You failed You're gone

OMG an endless parade of front orgs with misleading names parading & repackaging the same fossil fuelled #AtlasNetwork propaganda from a handful of paid hacks like Lindzen & Lomborg newly glazed with biological racism & orthodox fascist theology billed as ’Save Weatern Civilisation’. #FossilFascism

We could start by asking all media, mainstream and social, to sign up to them as part of their licence to operate in Australia. There are always individuals who reject these values - or we would have no jails. But mass influencers like the Murdoch media and Musk trashing them does the real damage

These "Australian values" sound pretty good! Especially the bits about "freedom of speech", "freedonm of religion", "mutual respect", "tolerance" and "compassion for those in need" ... wonder if we can get some of our state premiers to sign up

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Turns out smashing your own people with super aggressive policing, anti-protest laws and appalling political attacks is not sustainable for Chris Minns. Thousands opposing a genocide on Sydney’s streets were on the right side of history and this back down by Minns proves it.

it's a dumb question i guess: but how long will the racist hard right rump of this country determine immigration policy and a host of other social programs and positions? what kind of misjudged cowardice lets that happen?

What causes depression? What we know, don’t know and suspect theconversation.com/what-causes-...

Untouchable elite everywhere Barbara Pocock, a senator with Australia's Greens party, referred to a "misdemeanor" at the firm, and said she was disappointed with the fine. "We've got a toothless system where con artists... get away with so much," she told a parliamentary committee last week

Speaking on an Australia Institute webinar, Nobel Prize-winning economist Professor Joseph Stiglitz has urged the Australian Government to “follow the money” and start imposing a “a very, very high tax rate” on the country’s natural resources. Read more on The Point: https://theaus.in/4qEs0bO

French foreign minister faces criminal complaint over misquoting Francesca Albanese - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/french-lawyers-seek-criminal-prosecution-foreign-minister-over-francesca-albanese-remarks

A great initiative in holding NSW Police accountable for their actions last Monday in Sydney

#auspol #Australia From Facebook Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal is refusing to tell whether she disclosed she was a senior official of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, who changed its bio for Segal after The Klaxon exclusively revealed she remained one of its top office holders.

One Nation, Liberals, Labor, they are all the same. They refuse to take on corporate power, refuse to invest in public housing and essential public goods, then play politics with immigration to divide and distract us.

Australia is built on immigration. The economy *still* relies heavily on immigration. New migrants make it better, stronger. Building new housing and infrastructure would help everyone. Every major political party: We will cut immigration. Mainstream media: But can you be as racist as Pauline?

This guy sounds like he knows what he’s talking about. Wonder what happened to him

Excellent warning for @australianlabor.bsky.social & @albomp.bsky.social here from @timdunlop.bsky.social If Labor doesn’t take serious steps to address the injustice that is driving the grievance push to One Nation, the anti-immigrant beat-up might win #auspol tdunlop.substack.com/p/the-next-e...

The Albanese Labor Government is getting away with a lot while LNP are in dissaray and taking up the news cycle #auspol > www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I have a prediction: Sooner than later, one of Epstein’s victims is going to get fed up with the slow-walking BS, step to a mic, and light a match that sets proverbial asses on fire. When the system stalls long enough...someone decides it’s time. ALWAYS.

“I’ve never seen somebody send an email like they were wearing a wire” ☠️

You can not take citizenship from an Australian citizen. The high court has made it clear. If you are Australian, you are allowed entry into Australia. Doesn’t mean authorities won’t follow up or monitor you, but short of a complete border closure, you can’t be denied entry.

"as if “Russia” had been wiped from the map. The fact that the gravest threat to Europe comes not from immigration or “civilisational erasure” but Putin’s war machine. This failure even to allude to the threat from the Kremlin was intellectually dishonest, morally debased and politically cowardly."

Atlas/Advance specifically set up by fossil fuel interests to push disinformation with the aim of shaping decisions by politicians and voters - according to Dr Jeremy Walker #auspol

🧵The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) is a conference org based in the UK that is Christian Nationalist: it wants their version of God’s law running your government. It’s also fossil fuel sector money. Who are these #Auspol figures on the Advisory Board alongside?

AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

There are several members of the Australian Parliament who have been fostered by these (pro fossil fuel) think tanks - according to testimony by Dr Jeremy Walker #auspol

The next era of conservative politics will make John Howard look woke "When the government acts tough on migrants while failing to improve the lives of citizens, it validates the premise that migrants are the problem without offering any competing narrative about what the problem actually is."