Something centre-right journalists absolutely love is the "enrages environmentalists" framing It presents climate / enviro folks as irrational, salivating and constantly infuriated idiots, whereas 'centrist' pro-fossil politicians are Very Serious, level-headed Adults In The Room archive.ph/0PsH4

Tabled in Parliament today, a report by Victorian Ombudsman into alleged misconduct in a private prison and how it was handled: “Private prisons “mark their own homework” when allegations of mistreatment and assault are left to self-scrutiny” www.ombudsman.vic.gov.au/our-impact/n...

Resource Minister Madeleine King told Japanese businesses Australia “will not be doing anything that…jeopardises Japan’s energy security.” That’s great for Japan but how come Australia’s energy security isn’ as much of a priority for her as Japan’s? #climate thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre has two wonderful roles going at the moment! A Senior #Solicitor role and a #Legal #Advocacy Lead (parental leave cover) role. To find out more go to: asrc.org.au/get-involved...

In six days god created heaven and earth. On the seventh day, in the interests of BBC balance and impartiality, Laura Kuenssberg interviewed satan.

My post on Gough: "Gough dreamed of a country that never was, and asked why not?" thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

Instead of fixing the chaos, the Albanese Government keeps throwing more money at a broken system that harms people and delivers nothing for community safety. #60mins #nauru #albanese #auspol #60minutes

“I emerged from that experience with a better understanding of the widening gulf between what our readers expected from us and what our owner and leaders wanted the paper to be. That clarity contributed to my decision to leave The Post this summer.” www.notus.org/perspectives...

A high-ranking Home Affairs Dept official has blown whistle on what he says was corruption infecting the federal gov’s offshore detention regime, alleging was pressured to cover up suspected rorting so Australia could keep using Nauru as border security outpost. www.theage.com.au/national/pou...

At the inquiry into cults, journalist Richard Baker questioned whether ‘advancing religion’ should remain a blanket justification for concessions, suggesting instead a public benefit test to ensure groups demonstrate genuine contribution to society. www.parliament.vic.gov.au/news/society... #auspol

Australia’s current child support debt is the highest it has been in a decade. As of December 2024, $1.9 billion was owed, with 153,694 non-payers. While interest on unpaid amounts is payable to the government, it’s not passed on to the parents who are owed

The Federal Liberal Party: • 18 HoR MPs (out of 150) • 20 Senators (out of 76) Total Oppn HoR MPs: 43 Total Oppn Senators: 27 Yet the media (esp. our ABC) keeps reporting on them and interviewing them, as if they're a credible, viable alternative govt. 🙄 #auspol #journalism

Having Sarah Henderson not supporting you is something you should frame and put on a wall.

Murdoch’s News Corp headlines, “is pulp geopolitics dressed up as public service and it’s eating away at our public sphere like acid on steel.” johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

Google plans to build a large artificial intelligence data centre on Australia’s remote Indian Ocean outpost of Christmas Island after signing a cloud deal with the Department of Defence this year, according to documents reviewed by Reuters and interviews with officials www.afr.com/technology/g...

These contiguous posts in my timeline show how companies, both big and small, can either devote themselves to the trivial and evil or the substantive and good.

Congratulations to the Netherlands for showing authoritarianism the door! It can be done - Wilders' far-right party just lost 12 seats in their 150 seat House of Representatives, leaving them only 25. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...

#Treaty ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

The ACTU is calling for a 25% tax on all gas exports and for the tens of billions it would raise to be invested in public housing…sounds good to me…what do you reckon we should spend all the money we’d get if we stopped giving our gas away for free? #climate thepoint.com.au/news/301025-...

They must expect a lot of people all over the country to be really upset about something next year. I wonder what that could be?

oh dear. This is the third time in two years NSW Police have investigated zionist nonsense and reported back with zero evidence.

Exactly

Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving: $100 billion Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%: $100 billion One is decried as "welfare." One is not. Why?

Patient dead after alleged gas sabotage at two Sydney hospitals

Now Prof Janine Dixon talking about research the Productivity Commission commissioned that showed cutting company tax does not fuel economic growth (or more revenue!) (oops!) #RevenueSummit

"perhaps the Australian media now views Francesca Albanese as a biased political operative and not a legal scholar and human rights expert fulfilling her UN mandate courageously. ...they share that view with the genocidal Israeli Government" #GazaGenocide #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

Can guarantee this story won’t be seen much in the US.

So the Robodebt class action members will get micropayments of what was unlawfully taken from them and the lawyers who settled will get millions

Last week: -Trump pardoned Binance's founder after a $2B deal with his crypto firm -Hegseth awards a DoD contract to a Don Jr.-backed firm -Trump orders his DOJ cronies pay him $230M in "compensation" We must not become numb to this. https://popular.info/p/3-scandals-in-4-days-that-would-define

—The wicked become even worse when they are tolerated. ~ Leo Tolstoy

Australia’s leading disability rights advocate:

The ex-prosecutor also said this: “I have a lot of close contacts in law enforcement, and almost to a person, none of them support these actions. As a lawyer, someone who adamantly believes in the rule of law, watching it in open sight in front of my house just be completely eroded…it’s upsetting.”

What is humanity's purpose, if not its collective knowledge, collective creativity, and our capacity for both? It's astonishing and devastating to watch our species destroy what make us unique as we mainline the predigested pap of AI, convinced by snake oil billionaires that it's good for us.

Approximately 44,000 Australians who have a debt with Centrelink have overpaid it, some by $20,000 or more www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Horrific. I can't even quote from this article for how wicked this is. None of this should be happening. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...?

Well isn’t that just lovely - a shit deal on the environment to ensure the Orange Haemorrhoid is happy

I think that is supposed to read “coercive behaviour in faith-based institutions” is “very dangerous”

More than 1,000 guns and parts seized in illicit weapon crackdown in Australia and New Zealand www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

We Americans live in a country that doesn't even care about rape or pedophilia anymore, at least not when it comes to the most powerful people in the country I am not over that, I cannot get over that, and I will never be able to get over that How could one *ever* be proud of such a country again?

Cleve Jones gave a riveting, rousing speech at San Francisco's No Kings rally yesterday, and he's graciously allowing me to publish it. He began: "The pronouns I use the most are the ones probably understood the least by those in the White House today. They are WE, US and OURS."

If the Albanese govt remains too gutless to tax the gas industry properly [and reform the tax system], that won't just mean poorer services and greater #inequality. It could be politically disastrous for Labor. The UK Labour govt shows how rapidly support can be lost if people's needs are ignored.

Yesterday, the United States had its biggest protest in history. But when I look at the New York Times website, I discover that it never happened.

So no terrorism then?

We are not a monarchy. We are a constitutional democracy. Let the world hear loud and clear today: America will never have a king.

It’s hard to believe federal politicians think it’s fine to be members of a registered lobbying organisation sponsored by the peak body for gambling. They’re like frogs in hot water. I’ll be reintroducing my Clean Up Politics Act on our first day back.

the online places where kids will increasingly gather when blocked from their standard communication channels (“social media”) are already riddled with nazis and sexual predators. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

If government bailouts of miners and steelmakers are the new normal, Australia needs a better strategic vision | John Quiggin for The Conversation

Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.