a heartfelt, historic apology so proud of Victoria ♥️

The Age rails against housing developments that spring up before adequate public transport in place. And also building public transport ahead of the development too!

Shocked* that the Sydney Morning Herald (Southern Edition) would have a massive whinge about public transport infrastructure investment in Melbourne

Australia will provide an additional $95 million in military assistance to Ukraine and slap a fresh round of sanctions on ships believed to be part of Moscow's so-called "shadow fleet".

'Herald Sun' reader/3AW listener seeing anything at all to do with indigenous people: 'But we voted NO!'

The mainstream media doesn’t simply cover far-right politics from a critical distance, it also helps to define what counts as politically acceptable.

The Australian government could force AI companies to boost our power grid and build new wind and solar projects to help supply their energy-intensive data centres, amid concerns the booming industry could suck up vast amounts of electricity and water www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"Power bills are high, but the roll out of renewables is not the cause." #auspol #climatecrisis #renewables www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Scary, scary! Save us from nasty renewables, lovely coal! I love that the word "blackout" appears just 2 times in AEMO's 154 page report, yet makes the SMH headline! www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

The SMH quotes p56 of the report, ignoring the press release, which says it "outlines the steps required to replace the system security services provided by coal plants that are retiring and unlock the growing potential of renewable energy" Here's the page that SMH focuses on:

And get this, the headline is: Blackout risk: Grid 'not ready' for coal plant closures, solar surge Not only is "blackout risk" absent from AEMO's report & media release, but 'not ready' doesn't appear either. Has quote marks around it, but no one says it in the story, report or media release.

Find something you hate more than The Age hates passenger rail. You can't, it's simply impossible.

Sad to hear "NSW writer" is a downer on Melb Metro tunnel vs Syd Metro, given Vics paid for it (basically) and NSW got an armchair ride of $7b of the total $11b costs from the Feds. Naaawww... we not "gold standard/plated' enough...? www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

Good to see the positivity - credit where it is due.

Can guarantee this won’t end well for them

Labor strikes deal with Greens to pass long-awaited overhaul of nature protection laws

“The biggest annual drop in Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions outside the COVID-19 pandemic has been driven by record output from renewable energy that is squeezing more coal and gas out of the power grid.” #auspol www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

ABC News across the board going hard on the doom & gloom, displaying a graph of inflation figures for just the past 6 months to suggest a rampant upswing. Versus a graph showing inflation since Labor came to govt, showing this is a slight uptick after a big decline. #auspol

The Coalition always talks down Australia when Labor is in government.

My chat with the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social on Ukraine and the United States. Was meant to be 30 minutes and ended up going for an hour. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/o…

ANOTHER WIN! 🌲🐨 Victoria is set to create three new national parks, Wombat‑Lerderderg, Mount Buangor, and Pyrenees forests, protecting critical habitat for threatened species and safeguarding nature for generations to come. #Environment #Conservation #AusPol #SpringSt #VicPol #Animals #Wildlife

#Venezuela “is not just some chess piece in an abstract game of geopolitics, and we are doing a disservice to humanity if we let war hawks in government and media spin it this way. We are talking about real people… countless lives are at stake.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘Chris Bowen’s new role as Cop31 “president of negotiations” puts the climate and energy minister at the helm of the most complex and consequential multilateral process in the world.’ #COP30 #COP31 #auspol @smartenergycouncil.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Pretty embarrassing the Victorian Liberals had to go to the NT to find a keynote party speaker from a culturally diverse background for their “multicultural” fundraiser. All it says is they have no one prominent at the state or federal level www.trybooking.com/events/landi... #springst #auspol

‘this deal looking like the best chance available to have a summit that may offer something for the Pacific, Australia and the world.’ #COP30 #COP31 #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“This is Australia’s chance to put rooftop solar at the heart of next year’s COP agenda, with a push from the Global Solar Council for pledges for 300 million solar rooftops by 2030”. #COP30 #COP31 #auspol www.solarcitizens.org.au/australian_a...

‘"I would have all the powers of the COP presidency to manage, handle the negotiations, to appoint co-facilitators, to prepare draft text, to issue the cover decision," said @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social #COP30 #COP31 #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

And just a reminder.. Sydney journalists have been playing the ‘Melbourne will roooon us’ game for decades.

An update on COP31.

#Breaking #COP31 goes to Türkiye. Still major role for Bowen. #auspol #COP30 #Belem www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

The Victorian government has announced it will send social workers to 20 of the state’s schools to try to reduce violent youth crime. 👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/will-so...

IPA shill who will weild austerity as a raison d'etre to cut funding and cut services, privatise more, and do bollock all for Vic. Its the IPA manifesto. Small, do-nothing government. Retrograde stuff. Any journo not mentioning the IPA masters controlling the puppets has no credibility. #DPRV

"Karvelas wrote about the Victorian Liberal leadership without mentioning Jess Wilson worked for Josh Frydenberg and has IPA connections. This is called “analysis”. So many alleged journalists appear to be deliberately ignorant of the true nature of the Liberals." www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Latest Vic Lib leader Jess Wilson declines to say why was Yes to Voice but is No to State Treaty, insists it’s “not the right approach” But says don’t worry if elected she’ll replace it with a taxpayer funded dept. that will magically fix First Nations’ issues. Sure thing Jess🙄 #auspol

eSafety Commissioner labelled 'zealot' and beckoned before US Congress: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-19/julie-inman-grant-called-to-testify-us-congress/106028042

Scottish police created a specialised violence reduction unit to treat violence as a public health issue. It worked, and it’s coming to Victoria.

Dave Rowe political deathbed..? Financial Review

South African man’s visa cancelled after neo-Nazi rally outside NSW parliament

"ABC News is now mimicking the Murdoch media in blatantly promoting the Coalition. “In a shameful display of partisan politics, the ABC devoted almost an entire Insiders program to the Liberals and the Nationals – who will have no policy influence for at least a decade.” Please read and share.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... And, after adjusting for cost of living, Tran found that Australia dropped down the international price comparison rankings. Instead of the 15th most expensive electricity prices, we rank 24th by this measure, and well below the OECD average.

“Australia’s biggest energy companies have reinforced their support for the government’s 2050 net zero target and warned that failing to embrace renewables will only send power bills higher” www.smh.com.au/business/the...

It’s kinda amusing: ‘progressive media’ has tried for years and failed. Now it’s the turn of the federal coalition … you can’t appease the right. You will never give them enough. They don’t want to make peace, they want to destroy you. They hate you.

Factchecking Coalition claims about net zero www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Pressed to outline how the LNP will reduce emissions with their new energy plan, Sussan Ley says they’ll rely on “breakthrough technologies” in about “25 years time”😳 - ones not invented yet & “we’re not talking about today”🤔 There you have it. As bonkers as it gets. #auspol

Do they think economy-wide emissions are like water from a kitchen tap and you can just turn the handle a bit to adjust flow whenever you feel like it? Childish garbage they should be called on.

More good news for Melbourne railways today. But lol that he said the quiet part out loud.

He's having a go at all those Liberal Prime Ministers who deliberately withheld funds from Victoria. They even stated these intentions out loud.

Penny Wong says the Liberal Party has gone from being a “serious mainstream political party” to one that’s “trying to outflank Pauline Hanson” “What I’d say to Sussan Ley & to Andrew Hastie & to Angus Taylor is you can’t be more Pauline than Pauline.”🔥 #Abcinsiders