Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:

This is one of Albanese’s three great betrayals of the Australian people. 1. Woodside over the environment and indigenous heritage 2. US military complex over the entire budget and our sovereignty 3. Gambling industry over the most vulnerable.

Israel is still killing Palestinians despite the mainstream media pretending otherwise...

At the crux of the matter is this: The British Establishment (all mainstream parties) support bankers instead of nurses; corporations instead of the homeless; arms manufacturers instead of refugees; tax evasion instead of paying your way; wealth not health.

The Albanese Labor Government shunned the Racial Discrimination Commissioner, binned his recommendations, and put in place Jillian Segal as Israel Ethnocracy Regime special envoy. Now Mark Dreyfus as human rights envoy. Both known Israel genocide and occupation mouth pieces. #auspol.

Multiple sources confirm the Albanese government has pushed lobbyists and industry groups to use encrypted messages and verbal briefings when proposing policy ideas, to avoid FOI and disclosure requirements. Read more: satpa.pe/h3OmIrz

What is it with privileged, powerful people in this country?! They appear to assume the rules simply don’t apply to them. And in so many respects the rules aren’t applied to them. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Dr Assal Rad— “𝘛𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘎𝘢𝘻𝘢 “Genocide as a weapons experiment.”

This is a extremely poor idea: "According to revelations in Guardian Australia this week, there will be no safety net – no scope for either the NDIA delegate or the administrative appeals tribunal to amend the budget. In other words, the computer will have the final say."

Severed fingers and incisions: Bodies returned by Israel shock Gaza families - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-bodies-returned-israel-signs-torture-incisions

David Shoebridge slams Aus War Memorial’s Matt Anderson after they put up for exhibition a “staged photo” of war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith “who’s famous for wanting his Kill Count” & edited out a dead Afghan body he posed in front of. “You edited out the truth!”🔥 #Estimates

police misogyny is absolutely unrivalled. Their actual job, investigating a murder, having failed <as per usual> to reduce or stop or prevent male violence, and they just fucking refuse to do the work.

'Rapist Bruce Lehrmann has lost his appeal,' no headline will say.

NACC Senate Hearing - 1-12-25 - Who's lying? The NACC is! Also, the Inspector of the NACC at the end - youtu.be/59XBW2GTQv0

A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social

“As his popularity and influence slips, Trump seems more and more desperate. That makes him more reckless and in many ways more dangerous. It also opens up opportunities for opposition, though — sometimes from unexpected quarters.” @nberlat.bsky.social

A missile screamed off the coast of Trinidad striking the boat, igniting it from bow to stern. Commanders watched the boat burning on a live drone feed. As the smoke cleared, they got a jolt: Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. Pete Hegseth gave an order "to kill everybody.”

I'm reading far more North American (and African) Black and Indigenous writing at the moment than I am Australian, but it all contributes to building up a not-pretty picture of White exceptionalism theaustralianlegend.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/f...

It’s murder. The “most moral army in the world” is totally immoral. As is the Israeli government.

You glorious, brave lot, sticking your oar in to remind the billionaire bastard companies that Australians want the government to stop fannying about, start taxing giant fossil fuel companies and make the country run on renewables as much as possible.

It's above the level of a war crime. It is murder.

Former US military lawyers speak out: "The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both." Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes 1/2

Bundy 35 murders Gacey 33 murders Dahmer 17 murders Just for context

Everyone who doesn’t stand up to a bully is the bully’s accomplice.

Trump allowed 17 members of the Sinaloa cartel into the US. In May he commuted the 6x life sentences of the leader of the Gangster Disciples, most notorious drug trafficking & murderous street gang in the US. Now Honduran drug trafficker Hernandez. Is Trump setting up his own drug corridor?

Meet Fadi and Jumaa Tamer Abu Asi, two brothers ages 8 and 10 who crossed Israel's "yellow line" as they gathered firewood for their injured father in Bani Suheila, Khan Younis. Israel deemed these children a "threat" and killed them in a drone attack. Is this the ceasefire of which we speak?

What Australian outlets edited out of the opening of Kerry O'Brien's Walkley Awards speech on press freedom: (The full speech is here: www.walkleys.com/dont-kid-you...)

Why should these people be allowed any contact with humans?

O'Brien: "It would be remiss of me not to refer to the appalling and outrageous casualty list of Palestinian journalists and other media workers in Israel's war on Gaza." Yet so many of the media people applauding his speech have been just that "remiss". #GazaGenocide #Walkleys #auspol

A devastating new study has found that more than 112,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since Israel launched its assault in October 2023. Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251126-wit...

Country number three for the week.

The Security Council's backing of the Trump plan for Gaza ignores international law, punishes the Palestinians, and rewards those responsible for genocide. mondoweiss.net/2025/11/the-...

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

NACC CEO Philip Reed has apologised on behalf of NACC Commissioner Paul Brereton after he has been found to have provided False information to the Senate about his 2nd, secret side-job working for the Inspector General of the ADF. Brereton is refusing to apologise himself.

Labor and the Coalition voted against me moving a motion to recognise Israel's genocide in Gaza. After Israel has murdered thousands of Palestinians, destroyed Gaza, starved children, blocked aid, expanded illegal settlements in the West Bank, Labor still refuses.

Indonesia is proudly speed-running the annihilation of #WestPapua’s forests — turning one of Earth’s last green lungs into the world’s biggest deforestation theme park.

If dystopia is the new norm, @amyremeikis.bsky.social asks, does it have to be so dumb? www.deepcutnews.com/p/its-all-ju...

According to Gaza’s Government Media Office, malnutrition now exceeds 90% across the Strip — a direct result of the Israeli tightly controlled, slow-drip blockade. Officials report that the Israeli occupation allows fewer than 200 trucks into Gaza each day.

"What sort of monster makes casinos pay tax and bans them from money laundering?" chaser.com.au/business/bil...

As EPBC reforms get framed as political tussles & deal-making, don't forget ongoing colonialism, what's at stake on Indigenous lands, and their warnings that bad amendments & inadequate environmental laws "risk irreversible damage to country, culture and communities"

Roger Cook Anthony Albanese Murray Watt I’m sure you offer your sincere condolences for the deaths of our corals, anemones, fish, sea snakes, turtles… Ningaloo is like the canary in the coal mine. Extinction is forever.

Africanfuturism might be the future of Science Fiction, certainly if Nnedi Okorafor has anything to do with it theaustralianlegend.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/d...

Pilbersek the useless should ask some of the homeless, parents of dead kids ruined by gambling, children of gambling addicts who don't get dinner at night or practically anyone who votes. These cunts will be out on their arse next election #auspol

Israel has violated the U.S.-brokered Gaza ceasefire nearly 500 times in 44 days—killing 342 civilians, including children, women, and the elderly. That's more than 11 violations every single day. The genocide never stopped. Palestinians are still being killed.

Ceasefire update. 🔗 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...