🧵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?

Can someone smart point me to data that tracks transfer of wealth from the many to the few since Covid. I saw something a while back on the subject and wondering if there is any more contemporary data.

"As for the peculiar logic of the Adelaide board, I just found it shameful to attempt to connect an individual Palestinian academic with a terrorist attack. To me, that’s the logic of the mob. It’s not people running a literary festival, and a Palestinian writer is not a terrorist with a gun."

Here is my cartoon about Mr Jon Kudelka www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Helpful of this NSW police officer to do away with any pretence of neutrality. Sometimes you just gotta declare loyalty to a foreign state and wear another country’s flag on your uniform.

Opening my bedroom window to listen to Chappell Roan at Laneway. 💕

Another Friday special

Superb by @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Brutal! #AusPol

This disastrous institution still abuses children. Of course they will try to escape. It should have been shut down years ago.

“Standing in front of six Australian flags, Taylor used new rhetoric to talk about the problems with Australia’s migration program. He argued that not only were migration numbers too high, but that too many people who “hated” Australia were arriving…” Straight out of Grok casting.

well put by @boganintel.bsky.social 'Australians are watching the representative of a country accused of genocide walk around like he owns the joint, backed fully by the state and federal governments of what purports to be the major party of the left'....very well put!

Breaking: Angus Taylor to be leader of the Liberal Party for a few months

I imagine Dutton feels quite cheerful today. Suddenly looks competent by recent Liberal party standards.

“We will continue to kill the idea of a Palestinian state” say Israeli government ministers. "We support a two-state solution" says useful idiot Anthony Albanese, while hosting #EthnicCleansing enthusiast President Herzog. #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

ICYMI: 3RRR's #SpinCycle 12Feb26 with @jessielilley.bsky.social @theshufflediary.bsky.social @rachelwithers.bsky.social & @crikey.com.au's Daanyal Saeed. Excellent discussion. #auspol #LibSpill #GazaWarCemetery #HerzogVisit #SydneyProtest #HerzogNotWelcome #nswpol 📻 www.rrr.org.au/player-items...

Chris Minns’ refusal to apologise is extremely offensive, divisive and inflammatory. So much for social cohesion.

As @daanysaeed.bsky.social said on our chat on Spin Cycle, they’d all have been wearing body worn cameras. So release the footage.

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Tonight on Spin Cycle on @3rrrfm.bsky.social we are joined by @daanysaeed.bsky.social to describe what he saw at the Herzog protests in Sydney and the media response. Plus Libs keep holding each other’s beer and more. With @rachelwithers.bsky.social and @theshufflediary.bsky.social at 7pm

One thing that astonishes me about the Herzog visit is that Israel has murdered more journalists than any other state in the 21st century, and he hasn’t faced a single question about this (to my knowledge) from the Australian media

Epstein network survivor Maria Farmer painted the abuse she and other survivors endured. 💔

“We found nothing of Saad. Not even a body to bury. That was the hardest part.” Yasmin Mahani speaking about her son Al Jazeera just released an investigation revealing how US-made bombs vaporized nearly 3,000 Palestinians. www.aljazeera.com/amp/features...

I am deeply concerned about the potential impact of NSW Police actions on vulnerable youth. Images that show Muslims in peaceful prayer being pulled and thrown without warning can be leveraged to radicalise and recruit disaffected young people. This is extremely dangerous and counterproductive.

Hoo boy

Meanjin is back, baby! Woohoo!

This isn’t how AI works. It’s not how anything works.

Some of our staff were at the Sydney rally last night and report that the degree of police brutality was terrifying and unhinged.

#BREAKING 🚨 Aftab Malik, Australia's Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia, has released a statement condemning "unprovoked violence and aggression" from NSW Police against Muslims praying in Sydney's Town Hall Square "There cannot be any justification for this behaviour"

If we are going to ban symbols and phrases because of 'social cohesion' then we really should start banning some moustaches too.

"I helped a young girl who had been pepper sprayed in the face and collapsed into a seizure on the pavement. She was convulsing, incapacitated. As she lay there on the ground, police sprayed her again in the face." Eyewitness account by Andrew Brown michaelwest.com.au/this-was-pla...

Don't believe lies being told by police and politicians today. We all saw the footage and heard eye-witness reports of extreme police violence in NSW yesterday. Copsbeating and arresting citizens, while a visiting war criminal and génocidaire gets VIP treatment. They lie and they lie and they lie

Interrupting the depressing news cycle with a happy announcement: the program is live for Footscray West Writers Fest, March 27-29. 30 events across 15 venues along Barkly St. Lots of excellent writers, poets, journos, thinkers sharing thoughts and work. Program & tickets: FWWF.com.au

How's this going for you champ

I've attended many rallies in Sydney: anti-nuclear, anti-war, Aboriginal rights, climate action, gay marriage, Voice, pro-Palestine. At the #HerzogNotWelcome rally tonight, I felt genuinely afraid of our NSW Police. Protesters were peaceful & cooperative. The police were angry & violent. 😔 #nswpol

There is something weird and disturbing about how many NSW police in the footage of abuse of protesters have the Thomas Sewell facial hair.

‘Violent clashes,” say the ABC headlines. No. The police attacked peaceful protesters. Our media should be outraged by the abuse of citizens by a jacked up police force but alas they love this shit. They think it will never be them.

Tonight 120 people in Benalla (rural Victoria) protested against Herzog's visit to Australia. #auspol #qt #springst

One of the most pathetic pictures of anyone I've ever seen

I'm sure NSW cops emulating the facial hair of a well known NSN member is just a co incidence? Right? Right guys?

Do. Not. Let. Them. Minimise. This. Armed state violence against peaceful prayer is peak Islamophobia and vicious racism and. We have very few codified constitutional freedoms and this is almost certainly unconstitutional. They are officers of the law.

‘Social cohesion’ is apparently when police punch peaceful protesters and grapple men who are just praying

Vale Jon Kudelka - a brilliant artist who knew the power of comedy in holding truth to power, and effecting change.  His work showed a genuine and profound love for people and nature - often funny, often heartbreaking, but always incisive.  Australia has lost a great today.

Kudelka from when Gillard's portrait was unveiled (sorry, no alt text.)

That’s Brett Ratner there on the right.

ICONIC.

the police presence at Town Hall is unfuckingbelievable. They are deep inside the station, stopping and searching people at the top of the stairs from the platform. Absolutely off the charts I have never seen anything like it and I have protested for over 40 years.