"The Healing Foundation, an advocacy group that represents survivors, commissioned a report in 2025 titled Are you waiting for us to die?The unfinished business of Bringing Them Home, which found that only 5 out of 83 recommendations had been implemented." 5 out of 83 recommendations in ~3 decades

"All the residents Guardian Australia has spoken to say the same thing – that the period since the floods has been more traumatic than the flood itself. Although residents say they are exhausted by years of advocacy, anger with the state government remains raw." www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Commissioner Brereton has resigned from the NACC the day before he was due to appear at Senate Estimates for the first time ever following a successful Greens motion in the Senate. Incredible timing.

The Beetaloo #gas field in the Northern Territory is developed by taxpayer dollars Grants and yet more grants The gas industry grifters have their hands in your pockets The #ALP is subsidising #ClimateChange www.msn.com/en-au/money/...

Luc van Vliet's lucid exposition & arguments are helping me see how psychoanalytic thinking is valuable for thinking about politics I found Luc's articulation of the racist fantasy structure & what that means for combating racism insightful & illuminating lucvanvliet.substack.com/p/the-austra...

Over on X, one ex? Atlas Networker is sharing material from white supremacist The Noticer. He boasts the pipeline of chaos from socials to legacy media is accelerating. We must break that chain, & its repercussions on #auspol decisions, to have a democracy. lucyham29.substack.com/p/one-mans-a...

Gemma O’Toole was aboard the Freedom Flotilla when it was intercepted by Israeli forces. Her father, Patrick Kaiser, says the family have gone more than 64 hours without hearing from her. more on YT

Disaster followed by incompetence compounded by failure to listen to the community, many who had to literally save each other in the immediate disaster There is & has been more to come for many communities here & around the world Finding housing for many is an impossible situation still

Labor needs to respond immediately to the reports CSIRO will tomorrow sack a THIRD of the team working on Australia’s national climate model. Australia’s climate science capability is globally significant & locally irreplaceable. A shameful way to treat our scientists.

At least six oil and gas companies kicked in $1m each to a fund operated by Australian Energy Producers (AEP) to fight a proposal for a new gas tax. The Prime Minister flew across the country to tell the resources sector in person it was dead. Here's me in @deepcutnews.bsky.social looking at why.

In 2023, then Enviro Minister Plibersek said the heart of EPBC reforms—National Environmental Standards—would set "legally enforceable requirement for decision making – that approval decisions deliver a positive net outcome for nature" @euanritchie.bsky.social & I examine the reversal of promises

Under @australianlabor.bsky.social environmental spending is down, down, down! biodiversitycouncil.org.au/news/whats-i... - @biodivcouncil.bsky.social

"Taylor’s speech targeted migrants and welfare recipients, who exist at the intersection of the political class’s two favourite punching bags... We unequivocally reject his attempts to weaponise, demonise and divide migrants and welfare recipients."

Agreed. What a joke the Malinauskas government is turning into. Way to destroy an iconic region’s groundwater, environment, natural attractions and primary industries — all for for the failing fossil fuel vultures.

“The absence of effective national regulation of the industry remains a serious impediment to preventing exploitation of employees of labour hire firms.” www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

John Menadue, with years of senior government, business & journalistic experience behind him, made a cogent submission to the antisemitism Royal Commission. Let’s hope the Commissioner gives it due weight. #auspol

“I am Jewish, and the antisemitism I experience comes from Zionists and far-right supporters of Zionism because of my outspoken opposition to the actions of the Israeli state.” Judith Treanor to the Royal Commission. #bondi #auspol michaelwest.com.au/submission-t...

@australianlabor.bsky.social - We're friends of the environment! We're going to 'end the neglect'... Read the full budget disgrace at 👉 biodiversitycouncil.org.au/news/whats-i...

“The most violent element in society is ignorance.” Emma Goldman, who died on this day in 1940

As a migrant with permanent residency who has lived, studied, worked, paid taxes, & contributed to Australia for ~30 years, I say fuck you very much, Angus Taylor (long-time PRs have reasons for not being able to take up citizenship—painting PRs as somehow lesser or 2nd class is odious)

1/2 The wonderful Loud Jew Collective has been designated not Jewish enough to speak at the Royal Commission, so it’s on us to spread their media release. The RC is promoting the establishment messaging and silencing dissent. Please share this. #Auspol

Applicants to a $500,000 program offered by Australian petroleum producer Santos to support flood-affected communities across the outback in mid-2025 were told they would only be given financial help if they said good things about the company in the media. New from me in @drilledmedia.bsky.social

👉 theconversation.com/a-real-inter... "The urgent need to address the many pressures facing Australia’s plants, animals, and landscapes was unmet in this budget...While any funding to support conservation is welcome, it’s tiny relative to the scale of the challenges Australia’s environment faces."

"The sanctions are because I won't shut up." New video on the work of Francesca Albanese, and how the US & Israeli govts are attempting to silence her truth-telling on the #GazaGenocide and #WestBank atrocities. Please sign the petition, and repost. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qaye...

Most Australians can't vote #AustralianGreens because MSM and mainstream politics has convinced them we cannot face reality. One way or another, reality is coming for all of us. #MakingAKilling the bigger they are the harder they fall. #auspol

"there seems to be tacit support for the idea tt it may not be politically correct but that it’s “natural” for the public to direct its frustration at migrants. I don’t accept this. There are plenty of ways to express anger at a failing political system without scapegoating particular communities."

"Here is my BAFTA speech in full, with the important bit that hasn't been shown. "Also, a heartfelt thank you to everyone who supported us, and to our colleagues who rallied around us. And thank you to @bafta.org and the judges for a great evening and a great honour." — Ramita Navai

Funding for on-ground biodiversity programs was a mere 0.06% of the Federal budget for 2025-2026 Minister Watt's $500M for "unlocking major projects & helping proponents get a faster yes or a faster no" is MORE than the $474M spending on "on-ground biodiversity programs" for all of 2025-2026‼️

The Australian Labor Party and Murray Watt squibbed it, again. biodiversitycouncil.org.au/news/four-ma... - @biodivcouncil.bsky.social

Lucy's usual excellent analysis contrasts with the shallow takes from mainstream media, who give us: - performative politics - a fixation on personalities - avoidance of big donors, hard right ideology, and global links - failure to recognize growing inequality - glib conclusions about 'populism'.

Unless there are some other serious budget measures to help younger people, grandfathered CGT/neg gearing reforms absolutely cannot be regarded as helping the next generation. Instead they’re letting wealthy investors keep their tax breaks while not allowing the next generation to enjoy the same.

It’s getting harder to have a roof over your head. The Federal Government (the big one in Canberra which has most of the money) needs to build people homes to fix this.

Kohler writes an entire article on Greens housing policy without mentioning that it’s Greens housing policy. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

“In just a few weeks homelessness has killed a baby, a young mother and a student". It's not #homelessness that killed them. It's decades of bipartisan policy failure. #auspol www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

An excellent listen

young people see footage of Israelis committing genocide posted to social media by Israelis committing genocide, Jillian. The footage is not fashionable, it is utterly depraved.

"This new version of Comfortably Numb that Roger Waters made for Palestine is absolutely gorgeous! "Waters sent it to Yanis Varoufakis, who showed it on May 4th during the speech of the great Francesca Albanese." — Témoris Grecko

UPDATE: Nine days after the publication of this investigation, the NACC announced that deputy commissioner Nicole Rose has resigned.

State and federal political leaders continue to pretend that their repeated approval of Australian gas extraction projects are required to firm the grid at home. Meanwhile, in the first four months of 2026, coal and gas generation hit consecutive record lows on Australia's largest grid.

222 years ago on this date, the first massacre was committed against Aboriginal people in Tasmania. The occupational settlement by white British nationals was one day old. About 300 Aboriginal people from the Big River and Oyster Bay tribes had gathered for a kangaroo drive. Upon being sighted by

This is line from Chris Bowen's presser this morning is revealing. Where other governments appear to recognise this moment as something new, Australian policy has assumed (or is wishing) on mean reversion (a return to normal). As a result, there is no public discussion about how things might change.

Tour de force essay fr @lucyham.bsky.social "Albanese has tied his fate to fossil fuel majors.[..] “I can confirm that the Budget will not undermine existing contracts on gas exports.” He tied this refusal to tax fossil fuel’s windfall profits to Gallipoli, the minimum wage & the 8-hour workday."

Israel is detaining Australians onboard Global Sumud Flotilla ... they've only just left Sicily. All the 14 Australians are named in this thread ... #auspol

Bin night at The Lodge. @theageaustralia.bsky.social

“They can be as young as 10? Being shackled?”💥 David Shoebridge shocked as Sandy Leonard (NAAJA) describes the “incredibly humiliating, distressing experience” young Indigenous kids go through as they’re flown 1500km from Alice Springs to Darwin for lock up Gobsmacking. #auspol

A billionaire giving a millionaire a private plane. Another day in the life of the 1% 🤑

Part 3 of Pickles great analysis of the HAFF leading up to the first audit and the ongoing failure of housing policy in Aust www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPUc...

Nothing sums up the servile nature of Australian politics and the Labor Party - “we are asking companies to come to Australia and invest significant amounts of money”. Actually we are allowing them to come here to make significant amounts of profit. Pathetic #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

A deep dive on Woodside, gas and captured WA politics with the great Sophie McNeill www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV8N...

For the past couple of months we have been working on this investigation into the NACC’s leadership. What we found was alarming and does not reflect well on the NACC.