Gotta say, the cancellation of Adelaide Writers' Week gives me some hope for Australia's ability to navigate this. A great loss for the literary community, but writers/thinkers/audiences aren't going to stand for the bullying and pressure. Unclear when the politicians are going to figure it out.

Start today. Reach out to others in your local community. Get organised. Campaign. Vote. No one is coming to save us but us. Start today #auspol

I'd like to formally register my support for what Credlin has the chutzpah to refer to as Cathy Wilcox's "expletive-laden rant". Under the circumstances, Cathy was very restrained. #IStandWithCathyWilcox

Imagine organising yourself for full visit to the Adelaide Writers' Week and finding yourself in an audience with six other people and a lost Jack Russell terrier while Greg Sheridan is the only presenter they have You'd crawl over hot corpses to get out

Labor keeps proving they're still living in the era of White Australia Policy with their pro-ethnic cleansing policy to enrich the white class.

Noting today’s apology in the SMH, I feel it important to say that I stand with @cathywilcox.bsky.social & @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social #auspol Australian’s should be governed by Australian not foreign interests. All, irrespective of faith, have a right to free speech & protection from hate speech.

I’m profoundly uninterested in the “cultural safety” of the status quo, especially when that culture is predicated on a violent, racist and discriminatory dominance. You do not get to invoke this language to erase those already disadvantaged and discriminated against - it is entirely obscene.

“While we wring our hands over 15 dead on Bondi Beach – and rightly so – we’ve said nothing about over 70,000 Palestinians killed since Oct 2023, the majority women and children. No condemnation of hospitals bombed, aid workers targeted, starvation deployed as weapon.” theaimn.net/nothing-to-s...

I am pretty damn proud to work with @australiainstitute.org.au, with people like @richarddenniss.bsky.social and @amyremeikis.bsky.social and @emmashortis.bsky.social et al. No slinking quietly into the background here - they're making a pretty necessary stand for what's right

as nation we owe a huge debt to @pupfiction.bsky.social for rapidly re-organising the line-up for the event

Whatever you do, DO NOT buy "When The World Sleeps" by Francesca Albanese when it's released in April2026. Buying and reading this book would upset the Zionist lobby. And we don't want to upset the Zionist lobby bc that would be anti-Semitic. 😏 #BookSky #IsraeliTerrorism #GazaGenocide #FreePalestine

BREAKING Day 2 programme for the 2026 Adelaide Righters Festival revealed

BREAKING Day 1 programme for the 2026 Adelaide Righters Festival revealed

A decade apart. Same politician. You couldn’t script a sharper reversal on free speech.

How are those "shared values" going for you @albomp.bsky.social ? #AUKUS #auspol

Thank goodness there is some fucking morality among our writers, she needs to sue the fuckers for a year of abuse and torment

Yep. Zionist bullying kills another Australian institution.

Well said by Michael Pascoe. michaelwest.com.au/albos-judgem...

Is our own PM really too dim to know the difference between criticising Israel's genocide and anti-semitism?

Keir Starmer is "reducing Britain to the poodle of the US, as it descends into authoritarianism." There is one difference between PM Albanese and his UK counterpart: There are hardly any Australian mainstream media journalists who would ever question him on his sycophancy to the US. #auspol

Following the decision from the Board of the Adelaide Festival, The Australia Institute is withdrawing its support from this year’s literary festival. Here is our statement, and a personal one from me.

Whenever I hear about the silencing or censorship of writers, authors, poets, or journalists, my mind takes the metaphorical step towards the burning of books. So, a Writers Festival where a Writer is banished? They can feel free to stick their collective infestive intolerance up their arse...

Israel's efforts to silence dissent raise these questions for the commissioner: - What is the impact of the Israel lobby's deliberate conflation of antisemitism with criticism of Israel? - How has a foreign power gained so much influence on Australian politics, media, unis, arts & culture? #auspol

This 👉 How has a foreign power gained so much influence on Australian politics, media, unis, arts & culture

The cowardice of Labor politicians at the moment is astounding. They know that Zionists would never vote for them, yes?

My statement regarding my decision to withdraw from this year’s Adelaide Writers Festival.

Zionism needs to be completely rooted out of Australian society. It fosters hate and seeks to undermine Australian domestic politics by forcing the will of the Israeli govt on our society.

If Josh Frydenberg wants to talk about bad appointments for Royal Commissioner, he should start with his party’s appointment of Dyson Heydon, who was later found to have sexually harassed multiple women. I don’t recall Josh raising any objections?

“It was a complete stuff-up by a combination of ASIO, the federal police, NSW Police and border control. We don’t need a royal commission for that.”

Are we at ‘alarmed’ yet?

Breaking news: Millions of ordinary Australians are not demanding a federal RC into the Bondi terrorist attack and are accepting the NSW RC and the Albanese government’s decision to hold an investigation into security failures. This is an exclusive you will not read about in the MSM.

Nor about Deaths in Custody, Domestic Violence, Femicide, Gambling reform, Homelessness, Robodebt, Racism in sport etc. But it seems that having a RC about the events at Bondi, potentially subverting the trial of the 'alleged' killer, is essential to them!

It’s good to have a laugh every now & then. Enjoy.

Let’s have a RC into pretty much everything. Astoundingly the road toll is more than 1,300 per year, Domestic Violence deaths are out of control at 100 annually, First Nations deaths in custody are twice as many per year than the Bondi massacre and there are 2000 deaths by drug overdose pa. Yeh nah.

3 months ago ... ipa.org.au/read/ipa-pol...

It's naked Imperialism. A return to the 'might is right' Colonialism that dominated before the end of WW2. US Imperialism was always a thing but they did care somewhat about human rights and diplomacy before. This action basically signals they're back in the Empire building business.

Aukus is an act of treason against Australian sovereignty. It took a scumbag like Morrison to do it and a weakling like Albanese to keep it.

Trump’s invasion of Venezuela should be a wake-up call for Australia. We can’t keep pretending the US is a rules-based, shared-values ally. It’s time to rethink who we trust before we go down with the Titanic. Read, comment, share.👇🏽 www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/tied-to...

The IDF response to terror is to kill the civilians, aid workers and journalists. I think we can confidently reject their offer.

You would think one fucking Very Serious Commentator would’ve realised this by now, but seems no

They should totally do this. Crowds will line the streets holding flowers for them, and signs saying “welcome liberators” and “thank you for your kidnappings” and “please take our oil for yourselves and keep the profits”.

It will be Malcolm Roberts unhinged but the insanity will be couched in very polite, strictly parsed words, probably from a script authored by ChatGPT. We will sound banal and bland while being heinously complicit.

If I hear Albanese, Wong or Marles say one more time that Australia has "shared values" with the fascist warmongers and genocide enablers in Washington, I won't be responsible for my actions. #auspol

Hey @albomp.bsky.social , are we “all the way with DJT”? Because I think we Australians are going to need a little reassurance from you that this is NOT your idea of a safe alliance either, and that being blu-tacked to a lunatic will not end well for us. Thanks for your consideration.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Lest anyone for a single moment thinks this latest coup is a somehow a dramatic breach of long-term US foreign policy.

Anthony Albanese used to stand up for international law, human rights, and against genocide. Used to say that criticizing Israel was not antisemitism. But he caved in. He appointed an Israel lobbyist as envoy. Still they come after him for 'not doing enough'. And he caves in some more. #auspol