If you’re booing someone at funeral, you should probably take a look at yourself

If you get a chance to see “Prime Minister”, about Jacinda Ardern, take it. I saw it tonight. You’ll never see another political bio documentary like it. Two features of its production make it more like a revealing diary. Very rare with living political figures. www.flicks.co.nz/movie/prime-...

Australia is a racist nation. Former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce has joined an anti-immigration rally at Prince Albert Park in Sydney thenightly.com.au/politics/bar...

Monday's cartoon in The Mercury Newspaper: Elektra Bill

Guns, violence and hate-speech.

3-0 and not once has Australia had their best side #Ashes

Broken. Not broken. Today’s Sunday Age cartoon

The world sees Australia: an antisemitic atrocity; a zombie ex-PM lurches out of his Jason recliner to cancel out his previous, one-off moral stance for better gun laws; dull-witted racists plan to assemble, fomented by neo-Nazis & whingeing egotists Hanson & Joyce. All the would-be dividers.

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This is funny! www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

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Redacted

Meltdown

Now I can post this one. The evidence/not evidence.

Labor insiders open up about their party's relationship with Lachlan Murdoch's News Corp: satpa.pe/T7RhCrl

Barely a week after the appeal court ruling against Bruce Lehrmann, Linda Reynolds succeeded in having Brittany Higgins declared bankrupt. satpa.pe/SXtIHq8

‘After four weeks…Will was sleeping more deeply than ever before, Gaby was reading quickly again, Devin had shocked himself not only by his output (15 essays in four weeks) but also by how long (a full six hours) he could just sit in a room — alone — and write.’ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...

If the NSW authorities want to figure out who is promoting antisemitism they should start by looking in their own backyard. Vile.

David Pope Canberra Times

Fewer people are coming to Australia and more people are leaving, latest data shows.

Assange said awarding Venezuela opposition leader is a 'gross misappropriation' of funds, risks facilitating war crimes.

The face of the most malicious Australian Prime Minister. He erased one and only his legacy by himself.

Here's me. "Weaponising the Bondi tragedy is a betrayal of all our children"

Excellent journalism and commentary does exist in Australia! It's produced every single day by a large and vibrant independent news media sector. Take a look at what they've done just today! You'll be SO impressed #auspol > truenorthnews.substack.com/p/news-updat...

I am shocked by Premier Minns- trashing democratic freedoms in NSW to appease authoritarian extremists who characterise the March for Humanity as violent. A violent lie to protect genocide.

Linking the march across the bridge to the massacre is disgusting and everyone doing so should be deeply ashamed of their giving tacit support for genocide www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Bondi politic. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Bondi tears. My @smh @theage cartoon.

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David Pope in Canberra Times

Oh yes, kindergartens, those incubators of hate. Imagine if the same approach was considered to address all forms of bigotry, or violence against women, or any of the issues that are genuinely rampant among the population.

Every news report should be "despite neither of the murderers ever having attended university, Sussan Ley thinks universities are the cause of antisemitism and the Bondi massacre"

Albanese's response has been very good. The only people shouting for urgent knee-jerk responses are those pushing for criticism of Israel's genocide to be labelled antisemitic, and those using the massacre for grubby politics. Be measured, be calm, be a leader.

People on visas are guests in our country - if you come here to bring hate, we don’t need you.

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by Shaun Carney www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Albanese has I think showed very strong leadership in the wake of the Bondi massacre. Has not attempted to self aggrandise as others have, has stayed out of the gutter politicking by Ley and Frydenberg. Got on with tightening gun laws.

This country is not those two. They were radicalised extremists. That’s the point. Extremism is by its nature rare. It does not grow from a failure of moral consensus. It seeks to shock the consensus that exists. Those suggesting otherwise for their own advantage betray the memory of this tragedy.

Sussan Ley out there fostering hate and division. The Liberal Party has not learned one lesson from its election loss. They only now appeal to extremists. Using the “first they came for” lines is so fucking gross. Also her team putting in “applause” is truly pathetic.

The idea that changing a definition to include criticism of Israel as being anti-Semitic and cracking down even further on anti-genocide protests would have in any way made anyone safer is madness. That the Coalition have so comprehensively jumped to blame here is insanity. Who is this speaking to?

A man who has abjectedly failed the test of leadership at the first hurdle. In the past, trying to revive your political career off the back of a massacre might be viewed as tasteless... www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Vultures (Rough)

The vast majority of Australians, everyone I've spoken to, my Jewish friends, my Muslim friends, want to just be good to one another in this moment, and avoid inflaming the endless blame cycle. A loud minority want otherwise. Unfortunately they're among the loudest in the nation

We won't be lectured on "extremism" by a party who: - can't tell the difference between antisemitism and legitimate criticism of Israel - actively supports a genocide - used racism to defeat The Voice - voted "It's OK to be white", and - is considering a white supremacist migration policy. #auspol

The living ghost of John Howard: Pain hits, then opportunism strikes www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/17/j...

I reckon John Howard is a master of politicisation. It is incapable for him to climb above partisanship. Bondi exposed huge holes in our security framework. The right’s ‘distraction’ narrative will endanger all Australians www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/17/b...