Government documents show the Australian government is negotiating to hand access to every Australian travellers’ biometric data to the United States. And it’s worse than we thought. (No paywall) www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/27/d...

This government 'partnership' with a Zionist legal body is clearly questionable for the RC's independence. And is disturbingly consistent with how both the NSW and Australian govts have had their policy positions shaped by the Israel lobby. #nswpol #auspol

The photography in this piece is just so freaking stunning. Click it and read it and soak it in

They're patching out run exploits, this is actually getting ridiculous.

"Across the political spectrum, and over many years...the US news media has systematically omitted Israel as a problematic source of foreign influence." Arguably, the Australian media and political class has been even more effective in performing this propaganda role on behalf of Israel. #auspol

lot of ppl who's job is to have opinions or professionally make statements are wholly unprepared for the increasing number of ppl taking their shot who aren't political extremists. that's not a thing that's really supposed to happen at all

I feel like if someone as largely hinged, milquetoast, and dull as hell like that dude was goes off like he did, then that's what the actual temperature of the country is. That dude wasn't unbalanced. He wasn't irrational at all. He just said 'if they won't, what should we do?' and that was it.

If you leave nice comments on art and writing, you are a big part of why we get to continue seeing more art and writing. Thank you to everyone who takes the time to make the community continue flourishing. You, the audience, matter just as much as the creators do.

I’m gonna say it: they’re coming for neurodivergent people partly because they know our unusual points of view, often coupled with a lack of visible difference from the rest of our demographics, make us a hotbed of potential revolutionary organisation and action

sometimes people think infantilization isnt such a bad thing that we trans men experience. here's a reminder that infantilization is a dangerous manifestation of bigotry and puts us in danger. it is used to justify stripping us of our life-saving healthcare, agency, and humanity

'centrists', liberals, whatever you want to call them who think that facts will beat out fascism and that science will win the day should be reminded of things like this they all keep saying transphobia is 'reasonable concerns' or 'common sense' while completely ignoring what scientists have to say

the party of "a whole civilization will die tonight" fake-rending their garments over violent rhetoric is funnier than the entire history of saturday night live

I want cis Americans to sit uncomfortably with the fact that most of these restrictions were ushered in through the liberal act of "just asking questions" about trans people.

I’ve been thinking about this for 2 weeks now: at the marine biology talk I went to about bioluminescence, a girl in her 20s stood up to ask, “why study this? Is there a product you can make out of it?” I was irate. You study it because it’s fascinating. You study it to understand our world!

Only Bluesky could produce a guy that loves Will Stancil’s takes, thinks Hasan Piker is too radical, and believes the best course of action is to try and assassinate the president.

I asked a teacher for help learning how to build websites and he told me “that’s not for girls” so I taught myself to build websites out of spite, then twenty years later, I wrote a comic about it and mailed that jerk a copy.

Have you ever noticed that the massive, coordinated, multi-year assault on trans rights is based on NOTHING WHATSOEVER

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Them: "think of the children!!!!" Me: omg yes you are so right. we should abolish child prisons, stop funding militaries that slaughter children, ensure every child has access to medical care and healthy food, provide mental health counselors in schoo-- Them: NO WE MEAN CENSOR THE INTERNET!!!

That booing on ANZAC day was terrible says the RSL - so we are going to give in to it and let local RSLs cut the welcome to country. The worst response to ugly racist meanness. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Simpler headline: Why the Coalition's lurch to the right is bad. Sub-headline: Why Labor following them is worse. #auspol #WhyDoWeKeepDoingThisShit

The RSL returns to its racist past. It allows the neo Nazis to win. The RSL has a horrific racist history. From banning returned Indigenous soldiers, to anti-Asian anti-Black RSL leaders like Bruce Ruxton. Instead of reforming it will embed itself in racism www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04... #auspol

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Australia's Children's Online Privacy Code forces age verification across gaming platforms, baby monitor apps, school management systems & family photo tools, not just social media. Launching December 2026, the same month private companies gain access to Australia's Digital ID system. #auspol

He has made Australia complicit in genocide and war crimes and continues the bipartisan cruelty towards refugees and asylum seekers, especially Brown ones, even as we supply "non lethal parts" that destroy the homes of said Brown people.

The answer is super obvious. Because he frequently puts the interests of the rich, multinationals and foreign powers before the needs of everyday Aussies. Australians are good at seeing through charlatans. theconversation.com/the-times-se...

Every month the Minister for Energy, Chris Bowen, and the Minister for Finance, Katy Gallagher, are formally advised of Snowy 2.0’s updated cost blowout. And every month Chris and Katy keep the updated cost blowout secret from YOU (even though it’s YOU paying for the blowout). #auspol

Platypuses need threatened species recognition in NSW, researcher says www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

The new, 'streamlined' NDIS is just fine, so long as you haven't lost your sense of balance ... 👇 #auspol

Excellent investigative work from Deepcut. Seems that the Israel lobby has been routinely undermining what Liberals and Labor like to call ‘Australian values’. #auspol

When someone tries to execute a paedophile Albo is appalled. When a paedophile slaughters dozens of school girls Albo sends warplanes to help him. Filth. #auspol

"Australians want change. Decades of trickle-down economics have led to lower real wages and rising inequality." | Richard Denniss on the budget and the treasurer’s ambition. satpa.pe/suYYIlT

I've been pushing back on the aged care integrated assessment tool for months—I've even accused it of being Robodebt-like. So I was very glad to see the Commonwealth ombud step in last week to review it www.themandarin.com.au/311866-human...

Serendipity will be one of those, who currently hold NDIS contracts amongst MANY other "human service" contracts and are closely linked with the Labor Party. Here is a profile we wrote on them from our Punishment for Profit report: punishmentforprofit.org/provider/pro...

The Albanese government will contract the same private "human service" companies, the same orgs who are currently being accused of milking the scheme, to test how disabled people really are... in their own homes. The money always flows to their mates, not the people who need it.

Is your privacy at risk? 🇦🇺 New reports show the Trump admin is pushing for access to Australians' biometric data through ICE and Homeland Security. A major move in US-Australia relations that has privacy experts sounding the alarm. 🛑 #Privacy #AusPol #Trump #DataSecurity #ICE tinyurl.com/5yyvjdvy

Earlier this month, the federal gov't released the latest data from Australia's largest emissions reduction policy: The Safeguard Mechanism. It's important that you understand the SGM, because the existence of that scheme is being used as an excuse to do some pretty heinous shit. Here goes...

"we are an active supporter of the genocide.. why are we an ally with this country that slaughters people based on race to steal their land" Zack, part of the Australian delegation on the Global Sumud Flotilla.

Australia's government has signed $60m of Palantir contracts. It owns $160m of Palantir shares. But what does the pro-Trump company actually do for us? Internal documents shows how an agency uses it to analyse 42 million call records, messages and other data points

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This is a perfect example of internalized ableism. Being so terrified of your own diagnosis that you endanger everyone with it by calling for it to be hidden and squirreled away where no one can find it and make everyone who has it hide in the shadows or be publicly judged.

Albo is so quick to denounce violence but only when its directed at Trump, not say for instance the 170 people killed at the Iranian all girls school. Or the 100's of thousands in Gaza.

Coordination by the far-right to boo the Welcome to Country at Dawn services was utterly disgraceful. Many First Nations people served Australia when they weren’t recognised as citizens of this country. They deserve respect, but that doesn’t fit far-right racist ideology.

You LOVE to see it, good work everyone, keep up the relentless dunks on AI, all these bros deserve a wedgie/swirlie combo and they are not allowed to sit at our table ever again.

I'll be doing a Reddit AMA on /r/australia this afternoon - talking about economic inequality, the upcoming budget, and the Greens fight for the top 1% to pay their fair share. Hope to see you there!

When Govt first refused me access to Snowy 2.0 project reports, the cost blowout was only $3.1 billion. As my appeal progresses the Federal Court, the blowout has reached $39 billion. Disclosure of performance reports for all publicly funded projects should be mandatory. #auspol

The NDIS is under attack and we need to fight back https://www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1452/analysis/ndis-under-attack-and-we-need-fight-back #auspol

The "merits of the alliance"? What merits? Is it really an alliance? Yet another journalist uncritically accepting Australia's US dependency. Just like the Albanese govt, Australia's legacy media have shown unquestioning loyalty to an increasingly dangerous and costly status quo. #AUKUS #auspol