AUKUS is sinking and Labor responds by making up a $30 billion un-budgeted AUKUS announceable for the SA State election. This stuff is straying so far from reality.

A decade after the Greens first called for it Labor finally moved to make sure ANZAC Day is a proper public holiday in NSW. As Greens we are used to this. We like bringing the ideas that change politics. www.smh.com.au/opinion/anza...

How dare they try to patronise powerful and principled women like this while they obsessively attack their every utterance. This paper is a disgrace.

Magical walk in Belair NP just outside Adelaide to round the day off, with a koala, emus, roos and so much beautiful bird life. This one was snoozing the afternoon away.

It's a good step that the LECC will investigate police misconduct and violence at Town Hall during the anti-Herzog protest. Now we need an independent investigation of the political incitement to violence by the NSW Premier and others.

Hearing today into Democracy and Human Rights in Myanmar - we hold deep concerns about the sham elections, the 5.6 million people displaced and many more desperately in need of aid, the urgent call to cut aviation fuel supplies to the regime and more.

Revolutionary change at Liberal HQ - Angus Taylor’s Kings School education and his work at global management consultants McKinsey should see a fresh focus on the needs of ordinary people

I asked why the Albanese Government hasn't rejected Trump's invitation to join his so-called "Board of Peace." The UK, France, New Zealand, Germany & others have refused to join, because it is cooked. Minister Wong says Labor is still considering the invite. What's to consider?

Medicinal cannabis patients face inaccessible vaporiser devices, inconsistent product labelling, workplace discrimination, and criminal charges for driving while not impaired. We're going to keep pushing to fix this broken system.

I asked Penny Wong today how hosting President Herzog in Australia when UN experts have found he incited genocide, when he has signed bombs used on Gaza, and right now Israel is stealing more Palestinian land, how could that ever be about peace?

You're prescribed legal cannabis but your pharmacist can't track it, you can't legally buy a vaporizer, and you'll lose your license for THC in your system. I asked the TGA in Estimates last night about Australia's medicinal cannabis mess -watch here youtu.be/l1kgfZixgOM

Senate Estimates today - I'll be asking about Herzog's visit, Trump's 'Board of Peace', Zomi Frankcom, war graves, NE Syria, Iran, Pakistan, Sudan, West Papua, Myanmar and more.

Defence's new partner for their 'Ghost Shark' is US tech-bro Palmer Lucky. Who recently said he 'loves killer robots.' But don't worry, when Defence works with him, they will be "consistent with Australia's interpretation of law."

I went out before today's Herzog protest at Parliament and saw this massive police surveillance tower. This is completely unnecessary, and intimidating, at a peaceful protest. Police need to be protecting protesters, not snooping on them, or attacking them.

BREAKING: High Court ruling today in AA v Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle opens avenues for justice in child sexual abuse cases. The decision means survivors can seek compensation from the institutions that failed them via a 'non-delegable duty of care'.

NEW: Australia's sovereign wealth fund, the Future Fund, says it wasn't responsible for buying $100m of Palantir shares A Future Fund exec told Estimates blamed external fund managers for purchasing the stake in the Trump-linked company accused of powering ICE's deportations www.crikey.com.au/20...

Defence says its a 'benefit to our nation' to have people leave Defence to join US arms dealers. I am not so sure.

I asked Defence where Major General King now works having recently left his job in the Department overseeing billions in contracts for companies like Lockheed Martin... can you guess where he went too?

A surgeon describes government forces surveilling and intimidating medical staff, and coercing them to falsify medical records.

Just discovered $3 billion in extra nuclear sub spending between May and December $15.4B → $18.6B Where's the $3 billion going? Defence: "Take it on notice" That's enough money to build 10,000s public homes but for Defence it's pocket change they lost down back of the couch.

CONFIRMED in Estimates this morning that Defence's $3B land privatisation has ONE test which is who pays most. Public housing or veterans uses are not being considered. Century-old public land sold off without any public benefit assessment. Privatisation at it's grubby worst.

All the senate estimates sessions are live online on the parliament YouTube www.youtube.com/@AUSParliame...

A big day in Defence Estimates today - I’ll be asking about cancelling AUKUS, obscene cost overruns, flogging off Defence land, veterans not getting the support they need and more

Quite extraordinary evidence tonight from AFP Commissioner Barrett who revealed that she left no Acting Commissioner in place during her December Vanuatu trip when the Bondi Beach terrorist attack occurred.

I asked the AFP what they are doing to ensure the violent policing we saw in Sydney yesterday isn't repeated when President Herzog visits Canberra tomorrow.

Senator @barbarapocock.bsky.social pressing the Minister in Estimates today: if the Future Fund already excludes weapons & tobacco, why not companies like Palantir that enable racial profiling & punitive tracking of immigrants?

Looking forward to the ASIO estimates session in a few hours...

Antisemitism Envoy admits she 'wasn't focused on' unequal protections in 'hate laws' seeking to protect only one religion. The bias isn't a bug it's a feature.

The head of the State of Israel is making a very public visit to Australia. Visa considerations include if someone is implicated in war crimes and genocide. The Government refuses to even acknowledge if they gave President Herzog a visa

I have been waiting over a year for the Department of Home Affairs to respond to a question about people seeking asylum sent to Nauru. I asked how this could happen... it was taken on notice📱

ICE vs. NSW Police. Spot the difference.

Shared with us from Sydney happening now. He had his hands up.

Another full day in Estimates today - I'll be asking about the targeting of protests, foreign interference, bikies running offshore detention centres, intelligence agency failures and more.

Shared with us from Sydney happening now. He had his hands up.

I asked about how police treat First Nations (and Palestine) rallies as threats to control, not communities to protect. We saw the dangerous result of this in Boorloo. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner confirms she is speaking to police about this.

I asked the Attorney General's Department: what protects Palestine advocates from their hate speech laws? Their answer: we were worried about constitutional limits, not community targeting

I asked the Attorney General's Department (the chief legal agency) multiple times if Isaac Herzog has legal immunity even for the most heinous crimes of war crimes and complicity in genocide. Again and again they refused to answer saying they would not provide legal advice.

Vale Jon Kudelka - humour, passion, humanity and art. So glad we had him here for as long as we did.

Veterans Royal Commission said fix secrecy laws. Government agreed 2 years ago. Still not fixed. ASIO/AFP whistleblowers can't safely testify to Antisemitism Royal Commission without risking jail. Won't be fixed before the inquiry ends. Very convenient for ASIO and the AFP...

Kat McNamara has been a fierce advocate for First Nations justice, climate action, and Nightcliff. NT politics is toxic, and balancing Parliament with family has been tough. Thank you Kat for your bravery, principles, and dedication to justice.

I asked Minister Don Farrell a simple question: Should we fund legal help for women fleeing violence and families in crisis? Community Legal Centres tell us 7,500 people are turned away each year. The Minister's response tells you everything you need to know.

Senate Estimates hearings today. I will be asking about the biased new hate laws, Herzog's visit, the ongoing conflicts of interest in the NACC, First Nations justice and more.

As if we needed more proof, we share no values with this man and his regime. Australia urgently needs an independent foreign and defence policy. End AUKUS.

Anyone who is paying attention to the reality of AUKUS (not Labor and Richard Marles) knows we’ll never get any subs and the US will just squeeze as much money out of us as they can before officially admitting this. It’s time to find some backbone and get out of AUKUS!

I asked the AFP if they are investigating any involvement in war crimes by Isaac Herzog. They say he is entirely immune from prosecution for this.

We will shortly begin the hearing of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement into the AFP annual report - you can watch live here www.youtube.com/watch?v=IukM...

Labor is setting up a new committee to oversight Defence which should be a good thing except it will be a secret club committee with membership only from the Liberals and Labor. It's a stitch up and they just won't stop running political interference from AUKUS.

Pauline Hanson’s first act in Parliament after returning following suspension for appalling divisive behaviour is with One Nation to turn their backs on the Acknowledgement of Country. What a disgrace.

AUKUS is a toxic package, not just hundreds of billions to maybe get a handful of US nuclear subs, it’s expanding US bases here, taking the nuclear waste AND going to war with China whenever the US demands it. Paying to surrender sovereignty and join the next US war! End AUKUS.

Secret correspondence between the Attorney General and the head of the NACC Brereton show just how little faith anyone has in his ‘leadership’ of the NACC. Finally the govt has qiestioned his failure to disclose the extent of his ongoing side hustle with part of Defence.