Funny how this one just disappeared down the memory hole…

Democracy cannot survive trillionaires. We need to start taxing billionaires properly.

Sarah Martin is an incredible journalist and Hanson personally attacking her for very standard questions shows just how down the Trump normalisation we are. And it will come to all journalists who do their job.

Not one question about the total racism in her speech #npc

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

Anyway, apropos of nothing meanjin.com.au/essays/the-t...

Should note that I've been a member of the press gallery for around a decade or so (2015, 2016??) and have been at The Aus Institute for over 4 years. In that period I have been a finalist for a Walkley Award. Seems a bit journalismy to me.

She sounded very presidential indeed. #trashy #npc

Pauline Hanson refuses to admit she’s full of it when accusing the now deceased Tim Fischer of misogynistic remarks - despite “no evidence” & Fischer’s widow calling her out. Cornered, Hanson clings to an imaginary memory of a decades-old article. Utterly shameless. #auspol

"Pauline Hanson says she tells it like it is. But her record says otherwise. She’s opposed wage rises, affordable childcare, higher pensions and affordable housing measures – every time working Australians needed someone to fight for them. We thought someone […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Pauline Hanson goes a full Trump, attacks The Guardian’s Sarah Martin calling her a “trashy journalist” just for daring to ask if she has anything to do with her daughter’s taxpayer-funded career.🙄 A total glass jaw—Clearly working off the MAGA playbook. #auspol

Pauline Hanson just gave her first speech at the National Press Club and it… certainly was something. Reporter-at-large Charlie Lewis shares his first impressions, with a full report up on the site soon.

#auspost tracking is useless. #fact

I’m amazed Ferguson and or producers cut to witch graphic as premier sat there, the victim of misogynistic attack. In same breath Ferguson said such pictures had contributed to harm of other female leaders. No quantification as to why it needed to be shown / why wasn’t it pixelated? @news.abc.net.au

Workers at the Australian Taxation Office’s outsource call centres are paid up to 40% less than their public service counterparts on the same phone lines, according to submissions lodged ahead of landmark “same job, same pay” hearings. Thanks @australianlabor.bsky.social

Why does the Albanese government allow the Israeli ambassador to stay in Australia ? He says wild and unsubstantiated things about Australians. It’s a disgrace he’s still here. Well done Sally Sara RN Brekky #auspol #believeher #Israeli #ABC

Ridiculous he gets a cent.

Australia super fund giants have $2.5 trillion in savings, but have invested just 0.03 pct in renewables reneweconomy.com.au/australias-s...

www.thedailybeast.com/kash-patel-h... Kash Patel Hit With Claim of Secret FBI ‘Slush Fund’

Here’s paramount refusing to call out the most blatant disgusting racism

Well @oxfaminternational.bsky.social instead of "the people" asking for what a thinktank funded by a billionaire is lobbying for, what if Australia needs a plebiscite on taxing our 175 billionaires? Would you promote and back that? We could use some help :) #AusPol #billionaires #plebiscite

‘The Jewish Council of Australia’s submission to the royal commission says Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, which now leads both Labor and the Coalition on primary vote, has “cultivated relationships with far-right networks” that hold antisemitic views.’ #auspol www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Just looking for Hezbollah? Bullshit. Israel is a pariah, terrorist National committing far worse crimes than those it claims to be a victim of. #IsraeliTerrorism #genocide #EthnicCleansing

If you destroy people's homes, and kill their children..... it seems odd to then be confused by why people hate you. 😕 Like look at what John Wick did over a dog. Israelis actions today, decide the world's mental picture of them forever.

“But according to the source, the appearance was “not political.”” Uhuh. www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/top...

"The Australia Institute's Greg Jericho said the 50 per cent capital gains tax discount and negative gearing had "turned the housing market from a place to buy a home to live into a market for speculators to use to build wealth"." (I did) www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

Were the RBA to raise rate today it would not only be one of the dumbest things they've done (going back to the last dumb thing they did in May) but it would be one of the biggest shocks to the market in recent items

Excellent by Allan Behm on the embarrassing (for Australia) AUKUS circus www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“The critical point that I made – and that I hope landed with them – is that there are over 500 Australians in the IDF, so I don’t know whether Australians beat and sexually assaulted my daughter.” - Barrister Patrick Keyzer @deepcutnews.bsky.social #auspol 1/2 www.deepcutnews.com/p/australian...

For the first time, people in the 50-59 age group recorded the highest number of unintentional overdose deaths, up from 448 fatalities in 2023 to 533 in 2024. "The majority of them are men, the majority of them are middle-aged," Professor Ritter said. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

Trump said the repairs would cost $1.8 million. It ended up costing $14 million. The company doing the repairs got a no-bid contract that baked in a 20% profit margin. The typical federal construction contract profit margin is 6% to 12%. Where’s the uproar about waste, fraud, and abuse now?

🚨BREAKING: California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said Monday that President Donald Trump directed the Department of Justice to investigate him and his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

WTF LAPD???? The LAPD showed up with 20+ officers and even sent a HELICOPTER for a noise complaint in an apartment complex in Canoga Park. And they shot and killed Jameson. A golden doodle. One of the sweetest, most gentle breeds alive. He wasn't dangerous. He wasn't a threat.

The stepson of Norway's Crown Prince Haakon has been found guilty of two counts of rape and other crimes.

JD Vance's "anti-fraud" task force has suspended funding for 43 legitimate hospice providers. Meanwhile, Trump continues to pardon actual fraudsters — including a nursing home executive who made $1.3B in fraudulent Medicare and Medicaid claims. "Tough on crime."

From the transcript of the 7am Podcast is fmr minister Gareth Evans quoting American officials that *if* the AUKUs subs *ever* turn up, they are expected to be subject to an “ironclad guarantee” that they could be deployed at the will of eg Pete Hegseth or Donald Trump. 😬 #Auspol

Read the full piece by Chief Economist Greg Jericho on The Point ➡️ https://theaus.in/4vNDLzy

THREAD: 1. Some years ago women academics contacted me unsolicited on Twitter (which I no longer use) about an academic in Melbourne. They’d made complaints to a faculty head about the man’s targeted, obsessive bullying of women colleagues, including First Nations women. The university kept him on.

Raf Epstein calls out blatant favouritism media gives Pauline Hanson “She could never say ‘show me the good Jews” “She says that about Muslims” “If she said that about Jews there’d be a discussion on this couch whether or not she should be prosecuted under hate laws”💥🎯 #auspol

There is more media coverage and talk about preventing shark attacks than there is about preventing men attacking women.

A woman is killed at least every week in Australia, with around 75% by a man known to her. No solutions by government, no outrage in the media but sure, let’s cull sharks. #auspol #familyviolence

Just a reminder that the Strait of Hormuz was open before Trump miscalculated his war

weird how the business class - who want for nothing - are always enriching themselves by exploiting publicly funded programs supposedly designed to empower Aboriginal people, unemployed people, disabled people… www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

Trump ain’t in control of opening strait of Hormuz, but do go on 🙄

"What’s settled is narrower than “complete” suggests. A 60-day window of further talks is to follow, covering sanctions relief, Iran’s nuclear program, and a monitoring mechanism — none of it resolved." open.substack.com/pub/narativ/...

Aaaaaaand there it is…

Sharks aren’t the ones invading peoples homes