• JD Vance defends Young Republicans chat as "jokes" by "young boys". They're adults aged 24-35yo (!) • RFK Jr talking about girls maturing "six years earlier" than boys their age and 65yo men having higher sperm counts. (!) • It all sounds very #HandmaidsTale. 😠 #USPolitics

Almost every kiwi knows someone who is a nurse,a teacher, a doctor. Very few of us know the people who decided to unilaterally scrap pay equity, starve the public health system, cancel building programs that were replacing unhealthy, overcrowded classrooms so they could buy new military equipment

Yes, a poll indicated that 73% of Australians surveyed wanted Donald Trump banned from entering Australia, following his controversial statements and actions. This sentiment was reflected in a petition that gained significant support in the UK as well.

Hello Australia, are you LISTENING! #auspol 🤬

“Before I was a politician, I was a day labourer. For many of my older co-workers, after four decades on a building site, the pension was hardly something to look forward to..." Wayne Swan on what superannuation has done for Australia. satpa.pe/STB49cp

These are just the sort of authoritarian practices and #ZionistMcCarthyism that would be enacted in Australia if Jillian Segal's 'plan' was ever adopted. #auspol

AZ AG Mayes: If I have to, I’ll take Speaker Johnson to court. There's no legitimate reason for him to refuse to swear her in right now. And it's not fair for Mike Johnson to be holding the state of Arizona hostage because he doesn't want to release the Epstein files.

I repeat: these Meta Ray-Ban perverts should be mercilessly and ruthlessly bullied and excluded from society.

Nearly all the staff in the Office of Special Education have been fired as part of Trump’s sweeping layoffs. These are the people responsible for protecting the civil rights of students with disabilities and ensuring they receive an equal education. More needless cruelty on display.

Nothing is good. Nothing is untainted.

Tish James lit up the room last night — and her words echoed far beyond the walls of The United Palace. This is a fight for the future.

Come along to Barrie, Bowers & Friends – an evening of political insight, laughs, and a touch of sass, led by two of Australia’s sharpest political minds, Barrie Cassidy and Mike Bowers. 🗓️ Monday 17th November 6pm 📍Sydney Town Hall, Sydney @amyremeikis.bsky.social #auspol

Israel violates the ceasefire - and threatens more genocidal violence. New post 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/israel-vio...

Israel has destroyed the "ceasefire" in hours. It is murdering Palestinians, and maintaining its illegal siege. Not a ceasefire. New post 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/israel-des...

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Join Barrie, Bowers and Friends in Sydney for an evening of insight, laughs, and a bit of sass! From what the government is doing, to what is the point of the Coalition - all covered by some of the smartest minds in Australian politics! @amyremeikis.bsky.social @mikepbowers.bsky.social #auspol

Fossil fuel subsidies now dwarf Australia’s disaster fund and exceed the balance of its housing future fund... yet the polluters still get VIP access. #auspol #ClimateCrisis

"The end result has been that domestic gas prices on Australia’s east coast have trebled, resulting in surging electricity prices that have put Australian households and energy intensive businesses under extreme pressure."

"According to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, which has an ongoing running brief to monitor the disaster, there will be insufficient gas to meet domestic demand within less than three years."

Why Santos is behind your soaring electricity and mortgage costs a primary force behind Australia’s inflationary surge...forced businesses either to the wall or to shift offshore, undermined national industry policy...resulted in the loss of countless thousands of jobs www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

It was a primary force behind Australia’s inflationary surge, it’s forced businesses either to the wall or to shift offshore, undermined national industry policy and resulted in the loss of countless thousands of jobs. And it all hinged on one disastrous decision in an Adelaide boardroom.

"Red in appearance, the sedimentary rocks here are composed entirely of goethite – a fine-grained mineral that contains iron. This iron has preserved a range of plants, insects, spiders, fish and feathers with exceptional detail." 🏜️🪨🦴🦟🪶 #McGrathsFlat #Australia #Fossils #Geology #Paleontology

A Senate report has found that “a lack of trust” and “an abuse of processes” lie at the heart of the governance failures in Australia’s universities, writes Tim Moore. What’s needed, it says, is “less stacking of corporate appointees” on university councils. satpa.pe/zJmtAzE

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... Ian Verrender: The solution? Siphon gas from domestic market. The end result domestic gas prices on Australia’s east coast have trebled, resulting surging electricity prices that have put Australian households and energy intensive businesses under extreme pressure.

The ALP might as well merge with the Minerals Council of Australia

If you don't fear for what awaits the world's children ... you haven't been paying attention. www.abc.net.au/news/science...

Thatcherism wrecked Britain. Celebrating Margaret Thatcher’s 100th birthday by discussing that on BBC Radio 2 at 1.30pm!

Dear PM @albomp.bsky.social Israel has murdered: • 68,172 people (incl. 18,457 children) • 217 journalists & media staff • 220 aid workers • 120 academics And STILL your Govt refuses to sanction Israel or expel the Israeli Ambassador?! Shame 😠 #auspol #GazaGenocide #IsraeliTerrorism #SanctionIsrael

“Deloitte “misused AI and used it very inappropriately: misquoted a judge, used references that are non-existent,” Pocock told Australian Broadcasting Corp. “I mean, the kinds of things that a first-year university student would be in deep trouble for.”” 👀 fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

Two years on from the Voice referendum, I’m never going to forgive the Liberal Party for their cruel destruction of hopes of reconciliation for political point scoring. Dutton, Price, Hastie, Abbott, Credlin, and all weak, cowardly moderates who stood by and said nothing. A dark stain on Australia.

Always noteworthy those journalists who even now are focusing all their energy on the Liberal Party.

• Labor: 5% deposit for home loan (rather than actual public housing) • Liberals: fighting one another still • Nationals: anti-renewables • One Nation: upset by brown paper shopping bags • Greens: principled stand on #Gaza • Independents: principled policies on a range of important issues. #auspol

Trump’s Oval Office promotes the notion that tackiness is a sign of success.

If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.

Watched the Surviving Malka Leifer story on Stan. Absolutely heart-rending, what those sisters went through. And just for a change (not), an insular community that closes ranks to protect the perpetrator not the victim. 🙄

I encourage you to listen to Greta Thunberg's full statement. Thunberg seeks a just and sustainable world for all, rather than short-term financial gain for the few. The West's political leaders are exposed as complicit, unprincipled or cowardly. End the occupation #SaveGaza #FreePalestine. #auspol

Medics and paramedics are still being killed, injured, detained and tortured by Israeli forces. More than 1,700 health workers killed. Yet still, Australia has failed to place sanctions for Israel's genocide in Gaza.

I went to @greenparty.org.uk conference - and unlike Labour, didn't get the boot. But will the Greens succeed in convincing Labour voters - and what about the threat of Farage? New video up now! 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds3R...

Yup. 💙💙💙

#MediaWatch: @lintonbesser.bsky.social provided a superb summary of #SevenWest media's Kerry Stokes' career & plans. Social media's refusal to monitor misinformation. Plus the vile reporting on the Kidman-Urban split by the tabloid trash gossip mag media. #journalism iview.abc.net.au/show/media-w...

Least surprising story of the day #nzpol

Remember when L Reynolds was advised to go into "hospital" by her cardiologist due to the stress the B Higgins story was causing her, it's funny how she now appears to be able to handle the enormous stress that comes with continuous litigations without alarming her cardiologist 🤔 #auspol

There's a vindictive spitefulness to fmr Liberal Senator Linda Reynolds that is deeply disturbing. I hope Brittany Higgins & @davidsharaz.bsky.social have lots of support. 😔 #auspol #auslaw

Finally, people are getting it.

We’ve just hit 600,000 followers on Instagram! Thanks to your support, we are reaching millions of people across different platforms - whether it be challenging genocide or supporting social justice. I’m finishing my book, but we’ve got big plans for the coming year to reach even bigger audiences.

Yes, Western Australia's politicians really are that stupid 🤔 The State Government was warned not to prop up Griffin Coal but went ahead anyway. Blind Freddy could see Griffin Coal would be a black hole in the public purse. #WhatIsThePointOfLabor #Auspol

Rich people and investors telling the rest of us how to do housing is all you need to know about Australia’s housing clusterfvck. Maybe chat with folk with lived experience of the shitshow, not those who benefit from it.