One wonders if President Xi invaded Taiwan tomorrow would @albomp.bsky.social’s response be to call for a "peaceful democratic transition" of power. Or is he just being a Trump sycophant? 🤷‍♂️ #auspol

"We're going to run the country", Donald Trump says of Venezuela, a sovereign country of 28 million people. Old wine in new bottles. #imperialism #colonialism #auspol

More harm than Robodebt, yet @albomp.bsky.social lets it go on. #auspol

More than two and a half years have passed since the Murphy inquiry into 'online gambling and its harm' tabled its report in Parliament and still no response from @albomp.bsky.social’s Govt. To be precise, as of today, that’s 920 days of policy paralysis. #auspol

“Just before Christmas, the Albanese government released its wet lettuce East Coast gas reservation policy, which has arrived too late and will do little to improve gas supply and affordability.” #auspol

President Xi is talking up ‘reunifying’ China and Taiwan sooner rather than later. There’s a growing risk of conflict. One thing that doesn’t worry him is Australia getting its first #AUKUS nuclear powered submarine in 2035 (more likely in 2040s). #auspol

Welcome to 2026! #HNY2026

Over his 48 year public service career Dennis Richardson developed a highly-tuned sense of the direction of Canberra’s political winds. Since retiring in 2017, he’s been a highly paid roving insider. Independent #Bondi inquiry? Hardly @albomp.bsky.social! #OnThePublicTeat #auspol

“We will not let Japan down”, promised the Australian Govt last year in Nagoya. And it hasn’t! It’s introduced a prospective gas reservation policy that instead lets Aussie families and businesses down. No electricity price relief. Total betrayal! #auspol

It’s bizzare that the Chief Executive of the SA Department for Energy and Mining has not received any briefs on the stabilisation of the Whyalla Steelworks. It’s extraordinary that they ‘ordered’ me not to publish 👇this letter👇. #saparli

All I want for Christmas is a good coffee. But that involves a bit more complexity than you might initially think.👇

Trump’s vanity battleships may well be another fantasy. But even a false start will divert scarce shipbuilding resources and further erode chances of US improving Virginia-class sub build rate to allow transfers to Aust. #AUKUS looking even worse. #auspol

The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet is using the awful events at Bondi to justify delaying a response to a gambling related #FOI. Really? FOI officials and gaming policy advisors are on the front line of the nation’s terrorism response? Or just shabby opportunism? #auspol

And the biggest compo payout for #Robodebt goes to … Scott Morrison! #FOI #auspol

Gas reservation on new gas only🤦‍♂️! A 0% domestic reserve on massive amounts of existing gas and a 25% reserve on tiny amounts of new gas won’t do anything for electricity prices. A big win for the gas cartel. A massive loss for Aussies. #fail #auspol

Richard Marles just loves his private jets - so befitting a man of his importance. After a secrecy blanket was wrapped over these taxpayer funded flights, he’s been free to indulge with no scrutiny. Except the ‘security risk’ excuse has failed in the face of #FOI. #auspol

When your child’s school is lacking essential resources or you’re stuck in a hospital waiting room, think of our ‘entitled’ pollies jetting about in taxpayer funded RAAF 737s, instead of flying commercial. #auspol

On #TravelRorts. Newly released #FOI docs show Defence Minister Richard Marles flying Avalon-Canberra in an otherwise empty RAAF 737 VIP flight. On a 2nd 737 flight he flies Canberra-Avalon with just 3 others. Pity the taxpayer.🤦‍♂️ #SenseOfEntitlement #auspol

Two truths about submarines. 1) Small non-nuclear subs will outperform large nuclear subs in shallow water. 2) Modern affordable conventional subs that can be delivered will outperform costly nuclear subs that never get delivered. #AUKUS #auspol

This morning’s #WorkFromRoam office. West Wyalong, northern Riverina region of NSW, ‘Rise and Grind’ coffee.

Snowy Hydro is 100% taxpayer owned. Its $2B … no $6B … no $12B … no, more … ‘Snowy 2.0’ project is 100% taxpayer funded. But the taxpayer is NOT allowed to see monthly project reports. Serious legal minds are now challenging this secrecy. #FOI #auspol

Hey @jimchalmers.bsky.social. Why not focus on #AUKUS spending and switch away from an unaffordable ‘best’ submarine capability that won’t be delivered to an affordable ‘adequate’ submarine capability that will be delivered? #auspol

More and more Aussies are voting independent. The response from the major parties has NOT been to ‘be and do better’, rather to rig electoral laws to favour them. It’s undemocratic! @zoedaniel.bsky.social and I are asking the High Court to strike out those laws. #auspol

Electoral laws passed by the duopoly earlier this year create an uneven playing field at elections, in their favour. They undermine your voting choice and our democracy. @zoedaniel.bsky.social and I are challenging the laws in the High Court. #unconstitutional #auspol

Time of reflection. Sun-up, Murray River, Renmark, South Australia.

“We can’t tinker and dither.” Maybe it’s a good thing @australianlabor.bsky.social factional forces ousted Ed Husic from the ministry. With the shackles of Cabinet solidarity lifted, he’s speaking some common sense on gas. #auspol

In the same week the US released a new National Security Strategy which declared “the affairs of other countries are our concern only if their activities directly threaten our interests”, @RichardMarlesMP declared “full steam ahead” on #AUKUS 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️. #juxtaposition #auspol

It’s really disappointing that some of our politicians lack judgement or a sense of ‘show the way’. Travel rules that were designed to be flexible must now be tightened significantly, and even wound back. @albomp.bsky.social needs to act. #SnoutsInTheTrough #auspol

A fundamental quality needed to be a politician is judgement. A fundamental role of a politician is to ‘show the way’. Taking advantage of flexible travel rules for private benefit demonstrates neither. #auspol

60,000 Australian Fly-In-Fly-Out workers might look at politicians’ family reunion entitlements and wonder. So too might taxpayers. 1/2 #auspol

Question: Which top bureaucrat spent the most on travel? Answer: Australian Submarine Agency boss Vice Admiral Jonathan Mead, who in 2024-25 spent $143,068 on flights and accomodation. #AUKUS gravy train. #auspol

Richard Marles gives us the new version of “All the way with LBJ.” #auspol

“Full steam ahead” on #AUKUS rhetoric. “Full steam ahead” on the transfer of another $1B of Australian taxpayers’ dollars to US industry. Too bad the US Virginia submarine build rate is stuck at 1 per annum, nowhere near enough to meet the US Navy’s needs, let alone ours. #auspol

The former head of nuclear policy at the UK MoD, Rear Admiral Philip Mathias, calls out the “catastrophic” state of British nuclear submarine procurement & sustainment and calls for #AUKUS to be “cancelled now”. What’s your response Richard Marles? #auspol

As sure as day follows night, the gas cartel is rolling out its spin campaign to avoid a retrospective gas reservation scheme. But let’s hope their day of reckoning is upon them. Australians first - it’s OUR gas! Go hard @albomp.bsky.social! #auspol

On Monday Defence. Minister Richard Marles announced he was re-arranging the deck chairs on the HMAS Titanic. But with the same captain, same crew and same tunes being played by the same band, the outcome for us taxpaying passengers will remain unchanged.👇 #AUKUS #auspol

I found an imposter in my #WorkFromRoam office this morning. Espionage? #Farm Adelaide Plains, South Australia.

It’s quite extraordinary that @albomp.bsky.social’s Govt would waste two years of officials’ time and effort, and your money, to keep a diagram like 👇this👇 secret from the public. Why 🤷‍♂️? More to come on Michael West Media. #FOI #secrecy #auspol

Just when we thought #transparency of Govt had reached a new low, @albomp.bsky.social comes up with even more ways to stop citizens participating in their democracy and/or scrutinising their Govt. What a piece of work! 1/2 #FOI #auspol

We could have cheaper power immediately, but this can only occur if the Govt puts Australians ahead of foreign energy users and gas cartel mega profits. Any gas reservation policy must be RETROSPECTIVE to achieve the right outcome. It’s OUR gas! 1/2 #auspol

Winding down after a day in the SA Court of Appeal on an important #FOI matter. Sunset at Lower Light, Adelaide Plains, South Australia. #WorkFromRoam

UK submarine construction troubles and delays don’t bode well for Australia’s #AUKUS submarine plans. At least the Brits are more honest about their troubles than Albo, Richard Marles and our Defence Department are about things here. #auspol

On @albomp.bsky.social’s #FOI Amendment Bill … citizens slammed it, NGOs slammed it, the Coalition slammed it, the Greens slammed it, the cross-bench slammed it … but Labor senators love it. #sycophants #secrecy #auspol

Lawyers, 2 barristers, 2 silks and 3 Supreme Court judges will today work out what happens when a 1688 FREEDOM OF SPEECH law meets a 1991 FREEDOM OF INFORMATION law. Do they co-exist in harmony (my proposition), or does one law kill the other (SA Govt proposition)? #saparli #FOI

The Govt is shifting the deck chairs on the Titanic. This bureaucratic shuffle will be used by @albomp.bsky.social and Richard Marles to dodge responsibility for procurement problems for the rest of this parliamentary term, and probably the next as well. #JustAboutPolitics #auspol

The Govt bought the land for between $4M and $10M and then sold it back to the seller for $1.27M. It refuses to tell the public (via #FOI) or the Senate (via questions on notice) the purchase price. Maladministration, or something more sinister? #auspol

Ever wondered why Govt calls the US subs that’ll operate out of HMAS Stirling a ROTATIONAL FORCE? It’s because from 2034 they’ll likely carry nuclear cruise missiles, and if they were STATIONED here, we’d be in breach of our Treaty of Rarotonga obligations 1/2 #AUKUS #FOI #auspol

Same Captain. Same crew. Chairs. Titanic. #auspol #ausdef

This morning I decided to set up my office overlooking Whyalla’s iconic circular jetty. #WorkFromRoam

@albomp.bsky.social’s #FOI Amendment Bill, the most significant attack on government transparency ever, will likely die quiety in the first sitting week of 2026. His hypocrisy on open government will live on. #auspol