Out they go! My @smh cartoon.

Luckily, Australia has stringent, much improved nature laws, and the fearless conservation warrior, Environment Minister Murray Watt, so this wonderful plant and Middle Arm's many other threatened species, will be protected! Terrible headline, @news.abc.net.au, but it's all about your perspective.

The move to second-hand Virginia-class submarines exposes the deeper problem with AUKUS: Australia is spending vast sums on a capability designed around US strategic priorities rather than its own defence needs, Mike Gilligan writes. #auspol #AUKUS #Defence

My column on the GDP figures and the often meaninglessness of economic growth www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

Richard Marles' good mate Pete Hegseth has turned his misogyny and racism into Pentagon policy. How are those "shared values" going, @albomp.bsky.social ? #AUKUS #auspol

Welp there’s no unseeing this

ICYMI... Last night the outgoing Inspector-General of Aged Care Natalie Siegel-Brown said what the Greens have been warning about for years: that rationing aged care would create a two-tier system that favoured wealthier people. This is precisely what's happening now.

Great piece on the complete dearth (and shambles) of One Nation's policies by @jennaprice.bsky.social: "One Nation. Two strategies. No plans for anything besides immigration and gas. Guess that works out to net zero policies." #AusPol

If you say "I support Palestine Action", they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on the news.

Ifd it even gets close to beginning construction, the first act of any Democratic President should be to destroy it - as they should do with every single thing Trump has touched. They need to salt the earth.

aukus subway

No, Dick, projections for 2100 show Australia’s population will reach 43.1 million not your ridiculous figure. Please stop with the scaremongering. population.gov.au/sites/popula...

The government has admitted it illegally cancelled hundreds of thousands of Centrelink payments because of a glitch in the automated system that runs the controversial mutual obligations scheme, it has been revealed. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I learned an academic who wrote about students not cutting corners in learning (by using AI) had used AI to write her opinion piece. Confirmed with the uni last night. Went to Nine about it this morning. Never responded but pulled the article and pubbed their own www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Do something. My @smh cartoon.

Abolish the Job Networks, re-establish the CES. Bring in a 90% retrospective income tax on the owners of the networks for being awful (legality of this might be suss, but hey, it will give them an incentive to do something else)

He’s wanted to declare martial law from day one. Bypass all checks and rule as a tyrant. Many have speculated how he’d do it. Now his gambit is clear. DC was a test. He’s using manufactured crime stats to send troops into blue states & cities. This is not a drill. Democracy is at defcon 1.

Sarah Ferguson is interviewing the Israeli ambassador, who is lying for the Netanyahu regime about their starvation policy. If we had a government with backbone, he would be on the next flight to Tel Aviv. #abc730 #GazaGenocide #auspol

Labor’s pledge to recognise Palestine is a welcomed development - but unconscionably late and woefully insufficient. It’s been in their platform for years, yet when it mattered they chose inertia. Without immediate sanctions or an arms ban, it’s hollow symbolism at best. Foot-dragging shit.

Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...

Tomorrow's AFR fill-in Entire drawing on Patreon

I hope you do #USA

Jayne Converse @jayneconverse3.bsky.social

Right now, there’s a proposal to build an open cut lead mine in the middle of Mudgee’s famous food producing region. It would be built 2km from a primary school. Business and community leaders are calling for a lead mining exclusion zone to protect people and country.

The more I hear about the need for "Social Cohesion" in Australia. The more it sounds like the need for "New White Australia Policy"

How times change. In 1867, Russia sold Alaska to the United States for $7.2 million. 157 years later, Russia owns the White House, and they didn't fork out a single dime.

Media release👇 After two years of inaction, this must be a red line for the Albanese Government. Sanctions to the level of what was introduced against Russia following its illegal invasion of Ukraine, including an end to the two-way arms trade with Israel, are a necessity.

the lack of crispness in the detailing of this is so funny to me. truly Temu level shit Pic 1: Oval Office Pics 2, 3, and 4: Hôtel de la Marine

Also, the FOI docs show DFAT recommended in June that the govt not give a direct answer to the question: “Do the US strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites breach international law?” The suggested response, if “pressed” to answer, was: “Not here to provide legal analysis.” www.crikey.com.au/2025/08/06/d...

ITV pulling zero punches in this incredible footage - "This landscape of destruction looks otherworldy, but it's not, it's this world - What is happening may come to define one of its darkest eras, one that casts a stain on humanity, which will endure for generations 😪😪😪🤬💔

Today, I am proud to say, that I am an officer of the Supreme Court of NSW. After WW2, the world declared 'NEVER AGAIN'. We failed. Tomorrow, Aussies are given the opportunity to display outrage on our biggest stage #FreePalestine #IsraeliNazis #PalestinianHolocaust #auspol

Pretty soon all economic and jobs data released by the federal government will be handwritten with a black Sharpie

GOOD NEWS: FUCK YOU, CHRIS MINNS. "NSW supreme court rules in favour of pro-Palestine march across Sydney Harbour Bridge" #GazaGenocide #MarchForHumanity www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Well now, if onIy some journos had been saying a couple of years back that Israel was using starvation as a weapon of war It seems we're allowed to speak about Israel's war crimes without being labelled 'antisemitic' now that our PM has given us all the ok signal #pfffft bsky.app/profile/anto...

Tehan, like so many others in Aust parliaments, has been on multiple sponsored junkets to Israel courtesy of AIJAC.

Funny how some groups get their very own voice to parliament without having to bother with annoying things like submitting themselves to the court of public opinion. It turns out you just need to be rich AF

It is an obscenity that this woman sits in judgment over Australians while she defends the perpetrators of this atrocity. Palestinians deliberately starved of food by the Israeli govt while this taxpayer funded, multi-millionaire sits in her govt office telling us what we should think about it.

The Govt and LNP ganging up to censure @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social. God this is pathetic live.australiainstitute.org.au/2025/07/aust...

In 2023-24 Australia collected more than four times more from HECS repayments than the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax. “In Australia, we subsidize the fossil fuel industry, and we charge our kids a fortune to go to uni.” - Richard Denniss, Executive Director @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

Disgusting. Imagine if someone had morals, huh.

At this point, the PM has taken more concrete action against Senator Payman and Senator Faruqi than he has against the State of Israel.

After many months of ho-hummng her way through a brazen genocide, Wong moves a motion to sanction Mehreen Faruqi for holding up a protest sign. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Faruqi held a sign: “Gaza is starving. Words won’t feed them. Sanction Israel.” Labor and Liberal censured Faruqi and banned her from taking part in any overseas parliamentary delegations. Labor and Liberals on a unity ticket to punish truth before they ever confront genocide.

One Nation Senators turn their back on First Nations people by refusing to respect Welcome to Country, and there's zero consequences. But speak out for starving Palestinians and that results in punishment? What kind of Parliament is this?

Another good news story to start your day 🎉 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Can we please acknowledge that the LNP are completely and totally irrelevant? The govt does not need the LNP's votes to pass anything. The govt does not need the LNP's permission to do anything. The govt does not need the LNP's "bipartisanship". There is no stamp, rubber or otherwise.

Join the dots. My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social (both newly arrived to Bluesky)

Glen Le Lievre in AFR