In an Australia first, I used FOI to get the AI chat logs of Australia's top national security bureaucrat. They show how he used Microsoft Copilot to ghostwrite speeches and messages to colleagues. This comes as the government looks to push AI use in the public service. www.crikey.com.au/20...

Australian Greens statement on President Prabowo's visit to Australia greens.org.au/news/media-r...

Why is Nauru's president being snuck into Parliament House for secret meetings that we only hear about in a tweet after it has been exposed? If this deal is so defensible, why won't Labor tell Australians what they're discussing behind closed doors?

How much money do you think a private school linked to Scientology should get from the NSW Government? In 2022, the Athena school with only 55 students received total Government funding of over a million dollars.

How much money do you think a private school linked to Scientology should get from the NSW Government? In 2022, the Athena school with only 55 students received total Government funding of over a million dollars.

The US should not be allowed to make Australia complicit in nuclear war. 50 years ago Whitlam believed that and he was right. It’s time to end AUKUS. Close Pine Gap.

Lest we forget the horrors and the human and global costs of war. Never again. The white poppy is included in this image to represent our commitment to peace, non-violence, and meaningful justice.

Offshore detention is a moral and financial black hole, bought to you by the Labor Party.

The Australian is surprised with the answers today when their pollster asked people, “what do you want most, food, health and housing or nuclear submarines?” Spoiler alert, it’s not nuclear submarines.

Cairo Takeaway has always been more than a restaurant—they’re a community hub that’s never been afraid to stand for Palestinian rights. Now they’re facing a defamation lawsuit. Legal costs are mounting and they need our support. Donate chuffed.org/project/cair...

Sydney’s metro stations are genuinely inspirational public architecture and so deserve this award. To everyone involved, the construction workers, architects, public servants and ministers, thank you for making these public spaces so beautiful. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

We make no apologies for blocking Labor’s disastrous bill to kill FOI. The task for this Parliament is to make government more transparent and more accountable. Right now the Albanese government is the greatest obstacle to that.

The IDF is a State Sponsor of Terrorism. Labor's new laws allow them to be listed as such, so let's get on with it!

Robodebt was a mass deception based on a cruel bet: that people on income support would simply give up and pay debts they didn't owe. Today I tabled a petition from Kath Madgwick and Jenny Miller calling for those responsible to finally be held accountable.

This new report on digital inclusion shows 1 in 5 Australians are digitally excluded, it's 40% for First Nations people, 45% for public housing residents, 67% for older Australians. As services move online, digital exclusion = exclusion from healthcare, education & opportunity.

When the ADF’s culture of bullying and harassment results in thousands of unreported sexual assaults, it shouldn’t take a class action for survivors to receive justice. ADF leadership and Minister Marles are missing in action and women and young recruits are paying the price.

When the ADF’s culture of bullying and harassment results in thousands of unreported sexual assaults, it shouldn’t take a class action for survivors to receive justice. ADF leadership and Minister Marles are missing in action and women and young recruits are paying the price.

Kath and Jenny lost their sons following illegal robodebts, the ongoing secrecy of the NACC is compounding their trauma. They deserve answers and accountability.

Taking out the trash at ten to 5 on a Friday afternoon. Feel the transparency and respect. Please read this thread BECAUSE they don’t want you to read about it.👇

Just 35 days to the 10 December social media ban deadline and Labor announces 2 more platforms being roped in - they’re making it up on the fly - 2.5 million young people are being disrespected and everyone’s privacy treated like a joke

End AUKUS

BREAKING: The Albanese Labor Government just joined with the Coalition to vote against an inquiry into AUKUS proposed by the Greens.

The spookiest tale of all - Pauline Hanson at Trump's Halloween party with Gina Rinehart and not turning up to Parliament and missing votes in the Senate on her party's own amendments

Nup to the Cup and the harm it does to animals and communities.

When governments viciously prosecute people who tell the truth they scream the truth about themselves. Israel’s pursuit of a senior IDF lawyer over the leaking of the horrific torture video of Palestinian prisoners tells that truth.

Breaking news: documents reveal that Labor has done a hidden backflip to end some of the military exports to Israel. Now to end it all. thenightly.com.au/politics/aus...

It won’t slow the extinction of the greater glider or the regent honeyeater to know that Minister Watt decides the project killing them is ‘in the national interest’.

You know what's exempt from Labor's enviro laws? AUKUS. Apparently the US alliance controls even this. The damage cause by a nuclear waste dump can literally be written off if the Environment Minister wants to.

Today reporting in the Guardian highlights the "minimum of 30 Nitazene-related overdoses in Australia since 2021". We can’t pretend this is not happening, responses start with greater funding for harm reduction and access to pill testing.

Evidence of mass killings by RSF in El-Fasher, Sudan, are chilling. They must be a wake up call for the rest of the planet too. Countries must be pressured to stop sending weapons into their proxy war in Sudan. It starts with acknowledging the horror.

NACC chief Paul Brereton steps away from all defence investigations - and the next step needs to be away from the NACC entirely www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Glad to be at the 4th International Humanist Conference in Melbourne today, hosted by the Periyar Ambedkar Thought Circle Aust. Sharing values of humanity, equality and respect with colleagues including Indian Senator and Poet Salma Rakkiah and former Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon.

BREAKING: NACC Commissioner finally bows to public pressure and steps aside from all defence-related corruption referrals. This is a major-general backdown from Commissioner Brereton who, up until now, tried to stare down the growing public revolt over the conflicts of interest.

It's a minor concession from Brereton. The key bit: "recent attention the Commissioner’s Defence service and connections have attracted in some quarters has become a distraction from the Commission’s work." So he's not taking responsibility; it's our fault for drawing attention to it! 🙄 #NACC

BREAKING: NACC Commissioner finally bows to public pressure and steps aside from all defence-related corruption referrals. This is a major-general backdown from Commissioner Brereton who, up until now, tried to stare down the growing public revolt over the conflicts of interest.

We need to talk about Sudan. After more than 18 months of an inhumane siege and starvation in El Fasher, the RSF militia are committing mass killings of civilians on an unimaginable scale. There is so much blood it can be seen from space.

1) Healthcare and childcare CEOs and top execs are getting rich by failing us. They rake in millions in bonuses even as their companies rack up fines for misconduct or face safety breaches.

Huge news from the ACT! Laws closing the loopholes exposed by Bird v DP have passed today. This means institutions can no longer hide behind technicalities to avoid responsibility for child abuse. Survivors deserve justice. Every state and territory must follow the ACT's lead.

Powerful moments in the ACT Legislative Assembly as they get set to overturn the Catholic Church's disgraceful precedent in DP v Bird that was harming survivors of child sexual abuse.

The US industrial base barely makes one Virginia nuclear submarine a year, now they need to make 2.33 a year for AUKUS, plus another huge Columbia nuclear submarine a year plus X more for South Korea. This book goes in the fiction, not documentary, aisle. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

New Australia Institute research shows that the theft of legally owned guns is the cause behind the high number of illegal firearms. More than 2000 guns are stolen every year in Australia. That’s one every four hours. 📺Research Director Rod Campbell on 7.30 @rodcampbell.bsky.social #auspol

The government's AUKUS payment of $798 million to the Trump administration in May was rushed through by Defence bureaucrats in breach of payment rules, documents obtained by Crikey reveal. Read the report here: www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/3...

Important new report from the Children's Commissioner today on evidence-based child justice reform. It shows we can transform outcomes for kids, prevent crime & keep communities safe through prevention & diversion—not prison which solves nothing 🧵

Statement from the Australian Greens on the situation in Myanmar

Where’s the NACC Annual Report? It was due on 15 October 👀

It is deeply distressing to see that Israel has resumed aerial bombing of Palestinians in Gaza despite a supposed ceasefire. The world must not turn its gaze away.

BREAKING: The Greens have secured a fresh Federal inquiry into youth justice. While States and Territories compete on cruelty, First Nations kids are being locked up at skyrocketing rates. The Federal Government can't keep washing its hands of this crisis. It's time for urgent action.

The estimates are that around 2.4 million young people will be kicked off social media accounts in 43 days just as school holidays start. I'm deeply concerned about the impacts on the ban including on young people's mental health and privacy.

It's very clear that the Albanese Labor Government is obsessed with secrecy and restricting transparency as much as possible - from trying to hack the FOI laws to a NACC with no public hearings it's a deeply disturbing trend captured by the Centre for Public Integrity in their latest report.

Strong evidence from @snapchatsupport.bsky.social this morning about the privacy risks from the Government's social media age ban - it's not too late to can the ban!