David Pope in Canberra Timrs

up in smoke..

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“Independents’ warning on resources: don’t repeat mistakes of gas exports to Japan” #ThePoint thepoint.com.au/news/251112-...

Clean up. My. @smh @theage cartoon.

Just sit with this sentence for a moment. What planet are they on?

Whitlam Dismissal take The greatest achievement of the Dismissal has been the crushing of the ALP’s ambition to actually bring a better world into being. Hawke sealed the deal by making the mark of success decent management of a capitalist economy. Now it’s just ambition to be in government.

I'll entertain technical arguments about the Summary Offences Act (NSW) when someone can explain how Police can kettle and move on small groups protesting climate issues but somehow this out front of state parliament renders them powerless. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

If you’re getting paid twice the amount of the PM, I would expect you to be able to answer questions about money spent in your role.

Watership down

Why is it always men in suits who ruin everything we enjoy in life #AFL #AFLW #AFLHQ

50 years since the Dismissal. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Like ‘housing affordability’ ‘net zero’ has become one of those meaningless political sayings Labors support for net zero hasn’t stopped them supporting new coal or gas or from spending billions on fossil fuel subsidies My latest column on @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

“They would knock on the door, bang on the windows with their torches, shine torches through the windows. It was relentless,” says Megan, who is using a pseudonym for legal reasons. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Who wants to be a trillionaire? My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social

🇦🇺 pays $1.5mil per person each year to detain people on Nauru. During last Senate Estimates, I asked about links to organised crime and value for money, I was told there is no need for concern. Now whistleblower evidence paints a very different picture. www.smh.com.au/national/pou...

#60mins #60minutes #auspil #nauru #albanese

'Boab tree's by contemporary Australian artist and printmaker Rachel Newling #womensart

Back in five…

“Strategic voting” e.g. Labor voters giving first preferences to “teal” independents in House of Representative seats where ALP cannot win, is now an established pattern. @antonygreen.com.au

vale richo..

The Israel lobby has been losing its mind after the Federal Govt failed to act as expected and rush through a bunch of anti-free speech laws over Jillian Segal’s shoddy “Antisemitism” report. (Hit a bit of a speed bump, ICYMI…👇) theklaxon.com.au/jillian-sega...

Really great interview, should be watched. The known benefits for bike lanes on main streets are being espoused by those retailers who work on those streets. Excellent.

Universal Basic Income would kill so many of these predatory industries, so I guess we know why we don’t have it

A Nazi rally was approved by police due to "a communication error". No Premier, they don't need "more powers". They need to do their job. Which will be easier if you stop playing politics with the anti-genocide #FreePalestine movement, and direct police to the real antisemitic threats. #nswpol

It’s come to this. So sad for my once amazing organisation. That said, I still say 99% of people at the operational coalface put 110% every day into making Australia safer and more prosperous. I’ve never experienced more passion in a public service. Anywhere. New CEO literally starts tomorrow.

Greg Jericho posted earlier this week that Zohran Mamdani would have been expelled from Albanese’s Labor Party. And he’s right

The last time NSW cops got more power over protests they beat the seven shades of shit out of Hannah Thomas. Every law you make to empower police against Nazis, will be used against environmentalists, unions and all social activists. This has always been the way www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

If only we had some form of envoy or such tasked with, say, combatting antisemitism, maybe they could let us know their thoughts on this

I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

Every last piece of transit & bike infrastructure seems to need to go thru "The Populist Playbook". Scare, complain, reject; rinse, wash, repeat. All the while the things we really should fear — generational poverty, climate chaos, species extinction — continue on.

David Pope in Canberra Times

From today's @financialtimes.com #cop30

Well what’d ya know? “Pentagon confirms the ‘benefit’ of AUKUS deal” for US defence policy. MKoziol SMH/Age. Yes $A368B to prop up US N subs production .. and Australia gets expanded US bases on its soil and is now a nuclear target in US war with China over Taiwan.

Another night of garbage umpiring and the North supporters are starting to sound like Pies’ supporters with all their booing. #AFLW

AUS can’t afford to house tge homeless 🧐

BREAKING: A man who threw a sandwich at a federal agent during Trump’s law enforcement surge in Washington, D.C., is found not guilty of assault.

PANIC!! My @smh @theage cartoon

David Pope in Canbera Times

trolley

Bribes. Say it, say bribes. Bribes. #AusPol

Political lost property, The Age

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

73% of Copenhageners don’t own a car, and the city has made huge strides reclaiming public space for people that had been previously surrendered to cars. Now candidates in the upcoming city election want to prioritize “car storage” again. Not surprisingly, @colville-andersen.com isn’t holding back.

Landgericht Halle (Regional Court) in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, completed in 1905

Jesus woulda kicked the lot of them out of the prayer breakfast and given their croissants to the poor

Today, leading medical researchers from across the nation are stepping into Parliament, joining my call for the government to release the funds being withheld from the Medical Research Future Fund. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...