Parliamentary Friends of AUKUS group sponsored by lobbying firm with high-profile defence clients - AUKUS is a siren call for grifters, tapping into billions of dollars flowing from the federal government to weapons manufacturers, consultants and spivs. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Every wondered how many guns are in your suburb? We have built a tool that shows registered firearms by postcode across NSW. www.toomanyguns.org Having access to data can help us all understand how our gun laws are actually working (or failing to work!)

Sons, daughters, parents, family, community. The web that connects us as Australians and has us look out for neighbours, friends and strangers. It’s what we need to build on and protect right now. It’s the way forward. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Thinking of the Jewish community in Sydney tonight who faced appalling violence on what should have been a day for family, community and togetherness. We must all pull together with those touched by today’s events and not let the hatred of these men divide us.

Horrific violence in Bondi this evening, still a developing situation with a number of civilians shot and killed and ongoing warnings. Please stay away from Bondi and listen to and follow police directions.

When your conflicts become the story instead of the anti-corruption work you’re supposed to be leading, you know there’s a problem. That Commissioner Brereton claims he’s seeking a public hearing to “put questions to rest” only erodes trust further. He has to go.

The likelihood of Japan ever building Mogami frigates at Henderson in WA has just fallen from “doubtful” to “a snowflake’s chance in hell” Labor just ok’d Korean shipbuilder Hanwha to double its stake in Austal, the only local Mogami shipbuilding partner www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Nothing to see here, says Penny Wong about Australia’s official country brief on Israel that doesn’t mention Gaza, settler violence or illegal occupation. michaelwest.com.au/nothing-to-s...

The Inspector of the NACC has received 90 complaints with most about the NACC Commissioner conflict of interests with Defence. His response: "it's very easy to put too much weight on the number of complaints" 🤦‍♂️

Bendigo Bank has pulled out of Nauru. Now it's time for Home Affairs to follow. You cannot inflict intentional cruelty on refugees without corruption.

The hearing into the NACC Inspector’s annual report and the NACC’s annual report are on this morning and I’ll be asking questions about conflicts of interest, Robodebt, the huge delays on inquiries and more.

"The reality of Aukus, from Australia’s perspective, is that it is not, fundamentally, an agreement that will deliver this country nuclear-powered submarines. It is a plan that will further enmesh Australia into US defence strategy..." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Strong argument at @alhr.bsky.social that a key missing element in protecting a healthy environment would be a Human Rights Act in Australia - this is core work for us and we will be pushing for meaningful progress on it in 2026. This can’t wait.

At the @alhr.bsky.social breakfast for Human Rights Day hearing about how climate litigation is being used to uphold the right to a healthy environment 🌏💚

Join me on reddit.com/r/australian/ for an AMA from 4:15pm - on AUKUS and Digital Rights

It's Anti Corruption Day and to celebrate here is the schedule for the hearing into the NACC on Thursday

I'm a US citizen preparing to move to Australia (hopefully forever:). Hard to understand why the Australian government would think this was a good time to be making deals with the US, which has been making it clear how little it values its allies (and is on a murder campaign in the Caribbean).

Even more US military assets coming to Australia. More US bases. More US weapons. Celebrating a dominant foreign government sending its military into our harbours and cities and taking multiple footholds here … it’s cringeworthy, tragic and wrong.

Thank you to Home Affairs for releasing these pages under FOI!

In two days, hundreds of thousands of teens will be cut off from the friends, groups and communities on social media. From homeschooling meetups to buying used bikes, here's what teens say they're going to lose, in their own words. www.crikey.com.au/20...

Extra Special Envoy, Jillian Segal, asked at Estimates to provide complete list of organisations who she met with. Responds: request is too broad to be meaningfully answered - only provides sectors she's met with. #alltoohard #takingthepiss

I repeatedly asked the Federal Government if the UN torture inspectors’ visit was on track and if the they would gain full access to all prisons and watch houses. They said yes when the truth was no. The Commonwealth funds 80% of all NT government, including its brutal jails. Open them.

A communications minister touring the world and boasting about a social media ban (that isn’t even in place yet!) instead of working with families and young people to deal with its impacts, is plain wrong. Young Australians deserve far better.

Palestinian solidarity in action as the Illawarra marched across the iconic sea cliff bridge. We will keep marching, keep changing politics, until the bombing stops, the food flows and the occupation ends

This is a good analysis of the “groundbreaking” (yeah sure) return to 2015 with Labor’s new Defence agency. A case of rearranging the deck chairs on the HMAS Titanic from ⁦‪Rex Patrick‬⁩ michaelwest.com.au/marles-new-d...

Labor is failing to meet even Scott Morrison’s moral benchmark here. He brought Australian children home. Albanese is refusing to repatriate citizens from Syrian camps despite US warning leaving them there ‘compounds risk to all of us.’ Utterly shameful. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Fresh insight into why Labor is refusing to release the AUKUS review. US Undersecretary of Defence Elbridge Colby is backgrounding journalists on the upcoming US National Defence Review, calling Israel an “partner” and Australia “dependent.” That’s how they think. thenightly.com.au/politics/aus...

Last night I questioned the Australian Government on military exports to Sudan and the UAE, watch in full here 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx-B...

Asking the Government if there are any military export permits to Sudan. Turns out they don't know.

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Labor's stacked committee just recommended passing their FOI destruction bill - despite overwhelming evidence AGAINST it. Greens, Coalition, Lambie AND Pocock all filed dissenting reports. When everyone else says no, maybe listen?

I think it's appalling to display an image of this man, Ben Roberts Smith, given everything we know about him, in the 'Hall of Valour' at the War Memorial. The CEO of the War Memorial says he "stands by it".

Adults can unfollow too 🤨

To be abundantly clear I think Ms Segal should have publicly stated her condemnation of these rallies at the time. She hasn't hesitated to condemn peaceful rallies for Palestinian peace and justice.

We found out this morning when the NACC was investigating the Chief of Staff of the Secretary of Home Affairs, that the Secretary called up Brereton requesting the corruption referral be expedited. Why was this inquiry rushed when others wait for answers?

The Government will kick 2 million young people off social media and in doing so harm many of them. Aren't they concerned about this impact? Their answer: young people should go touch grass (no they're not funding additional sport or anything)

From 11.45 am today in the Senate Estimates hearing I will be asking questions of the Anti-Semitism Commissioner. You can watch online here www.youtube.com/watch?v=wblc...

There is $1 million budgeted for the legal assistance needed for NACC to properly reconsider the Robodebt referrals - this funding ends in February 2026 and I hope for all of us that means there will be answers and accountability at this time (6+ years after Robodebt ended).

Don't you think the public has a reasonable expectation that the Commissioner of the NACC being paid well above $800,000 would consider this a full time job and not also seek to freelance outside of it?

The NACC has AGAIN been forced to correct its evidence about how many times the Commissioner has consulted for Defence. This is ridiculous.

Raising the Morning Star flag outside the Australian Parliament House today in solidarity with West Papuans. Each year, we commemorate the first raising of the flag on December 1. I am proud to commit to peace and justice everywhere, and upholding the fundamental rights of First Peoples globally.

The agency in charge of FOI laws takes an average of 84 days to respond to FOI applications - the fox in charge of the henhouse!!

Heading into estimates and was wondering what the group noun is for consultants? A theft? A robbery? A misdirection?

So glad to be with a bunch of protesters in Newcastle who did more for the climate in one weekend than the Australian Labor Party has done in 3 years

NSW Police proudly wasting millions on this next-to-useless police vessel “Nemesis” which has been cruising Newcastle Harbour trying to intimidate climate protestors this weekend. Your tax dollars being flushed. Ohhh and Labor wants to buy a new one for a cool $46.5 million.

This man’s values are based in power, greed and division. They are so far removed from the values of the Australian people. We need a government that has the courage to stand up to him, reject his racism, reject US bases and forge an independent peaceful path for Australia.

The NACC AGAIN apologises to Parliament for incorrect information provided about the actions of Commissioner Major General Brereton. For the NACC to have any chance of doing its job properly he has to go.

Have we reached peak dysfunction?! The NACC handed $1.1M to MA Services - the firm running a Nauru security operation linked with the Finks bikie gang. They're also guarding the ACIC who are literally tasked with taking down bikie gangs🤯

This is such a tragedy in Hong Kong. To every one touched by this terrible fire, our thoughts are with you and the people of Hong Kong right now.

Facebook is a scam factory. Meta's own internal audit reveals 10% of their revenue comes from spam advertising - $16bn annually. Between 2020-2023 scam losses in Australia increased 249%. In 76% of cases, contact occurred on Meta platforms (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp).