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Australia: This cozy partnership with a Commonwealth agency just received a 45yr extension: “An enduring partnership which has contributed to the long-term sustainable use of Western Australia’s North West Shelf” No mention of using the atmosphere as a sewer. www.aims.gov.au/information-...

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

We're trapped by a Party with a 50 seat majority in the lower house - which is clearly going to put their donors ahead of our kids & grandkids. There is little to no opposition. No one is coming to save us but us. We all have a role to play - but the game has changed #auspol

submitted 18 hours ago • 17 comments

Labor, finding new ways to bring shame upon Australia. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

submitted 6 hours ago • 6 comments

The NACC is under fire following revelations it failed to comply with its own legislation after a complaint about a Commissioner was “wrongly dismissed” & not “immediately passed to the NACC Inspector as required by law” NACC has “apologised” & hopes every1 can quietly move on😒

submitted 6 hours ago • 17 comments

The new Australia government has chosen more oil, gas and coal. Pacific Island nations are clearly dispensable, not to mention vulnerable swaths of Australia. reneweconomy.com.au/pacific-isla...

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

Recto - verso. My @smh @theage cartoon.

submitted 6 hours ago • 21 comments

If you’re surprised by record-breaking “natural” disasters, you haven’t been paying attention to human-caused climate change. In the meantime, Australian governments ignore the consequences.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Australia's largest oil and gas project will continue until 2070, making a complete mockery of fake aspirations for "net zero emissions" by 2050. This shameful decision was postponed until after a federal election, just 3 weeks ago. Nobody voted for this. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

submitted 18 hours ago • 8 comments

I feel sick. I feel angry. I feel so, so sad. What a legacy, @albomp.bsky.social. I'll NEVER forgive what you've done to this country and our future. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

submitted 23 hours ago • 64 comments

Richard Boyle should have been rewarded, not prosecuted. He did the right thing but paid a huge price. We need urgent reform & a whistleblower protection authority. The xbench & I have a bill to establish the authority. The govt should get on with it. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

"Approval of the North West Shelf extension would be easily one of the worst decisions ever made by an Environment Minister in Australia's history," said @grogsgamut.bsky.social.

submitted 22 hours ago • 27 comments

The ABC has removed an interview with Nasser Mashni, head for APAN, so The Shot is republishing our interview as a standalone piece. Listen to this man speak his powerful, human truth. Spread his word, it's being censored by your state broadcaster. Fuck the genocide www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC3D...

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

ICYMI- yesterday's cartoon on the proposed super changes for @australia.theguardian.com

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Reconciliation. My @smh cartoon.

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

Richard Boyle’s prosecution is unequivocal proof that our whistleblower laws are completely broken. Michelle Rowland must do what Mark Dreyfus was unwilling/unable to do - fix them! We also need a Whistleblower Protection Authority. #auspol

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

PSA— The fact that a Liberal-National Coalition would be much worse does not excuse @australianlabor.bsky.social's complicity in the Gaza Genocide and Zionist Israel's other crimes against humanity. #auspol #StopIsrael #EndTheGenocide #EndTheApartheid #SayNoToSettlerColonialism #FreePalestine

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

What is the Federal Government going to do this term to protect whistleblowers @albomp.bsky.social ?

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Strong statement from Tuvalu on the threat that North West Shelf represents to our Pacific neighbours. What a pack of greedy arseholes we'd be if we approve this monster out to 2070. Via @fossiltreaty.bsky.social fossilfueltreaty.org/north-west-s...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Straight censorship

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

The prosecution of ATO whistleblower Richard Boyle should not have gone forward. It was never in the public interest. It was always open for former Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus to stop it. It was a disgrace that he refused to do so. #karma #auspol

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Journalistic "balance" from the Guardian's genocide-apologist-in-chief Jonathan Freedland: Two dead Israeli embassy staff in Washington = 2 million Palestinians being starved to death in Gaza

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

Is this baby just "hungry", BBC? Or is she being actively starved to death by Israel?

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Israel's claim that 'Hamas is stealing aid' is patently a lie. My latest article explains why: jonathancook.substack.com/p/israels-cl...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Jewish Council Advisory Member Louise Adler AM does not mince words about Israel’s crimes against Gazans—forced starvation among them. Videography by Simon Aubor.

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

Sandbagging. My cartoon in today's The Age and Sydney Morning Herald.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Come On @albomp.bsky.social We really need sunlight on this communicable disease. Let the RC do it while you fix the media diversity laws. www.crikey.com.au/2023/06/15/n...

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

"Apologists for Israel might want to reject the charge of genocide [and] suggest its hyperbole or even antisemitic, but the actual experts on genocide know a genocide when they see one - and they see one in Gaza." My receipts on all the experts who say Gaza is a genocide. zeteo.com/subscribe

submitted 5 days ago • 140 comments

Hey Albo … It’s G E N O C I D E. Why is the Israeli ambassador still on our shores, why do we have any dealings with Elbit Systems, why are we exporting arms parts to Israel. Why has your Government not condemned and boycotted Israel? #auspol #Gaza #Genocide @albomp.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

In Australia, Donald Trump’s 1986–87 bid to build Sydney’s first casino was rejected after police warned the New South Wales government of potential ties to organized crime, according to cabinet records revealed in 2017.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Lead news reporting at @australia.theguardian.com— Two Israeli embassy staff murdered in Washington DC Vs. Dr Alaa Al-Najjar on duty in Gaza when she received the charred bodies of her seven children Do you understand what is wrong with this picture, @australia.theguardian.com?

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

I like this “it is the soil that matters not just the rotten harvest” We do well to remember that when at times our media focuses too much on our political leaders.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Mussolini’s Italy expelled university professors who opposed fascism. Franco’s Spain replaced university academics with regime loyalists Nazi Germany removed Jewish professors & left-leaning scholars. Academia is a threat to unified ideology. It’s why fascist regimes always target it.

submitted 6 days ago • 27 comments

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What do you call it? My @smh @theage cartoon.

submitted 6 days ago • 55 comments

If Senator Murray Watt approves the North West Shelf extension, his legacy will forever be as the man who destroyed the oldest rock art on the planet. It will be an act of vandalism so gross that nothing he can do in politics thereafter could counter the damage.

submitted 6 days ago • 36 comments

Labor has a simple choice: - #savemurujuga and preserve one of the most significant, ancient environmental and cultural sites, or - enable more profits for the fossil fuel industry to increase global heating. That this is even up for debate shows how debased our politics has become. #auspol

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

I know this looks like climate nerd stuff but the stakes are actually massive for all of us: accountability on fossil fuel elimination is being wrecked by dodgy math that allows the pretence that trees are re-absorbing the carbon we dig up from underground and move to the atmosphere

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

Israel is still using starvation as a weapon. The UN warns 14000 babies in Gaza may die within hours I see this in Dec 23 when @hrw.org sounded alarm. ABC fired me for this “controversial” post after being lobbied If more journalists “controversially” traded in facts not fear where might we be?

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

Firing on children, women and now diplomats. When a country crosses every red line and the world fails to act, it emboldens the worst regimes on the planet. This is a global disaster. Sanctions, weapons bans, action.

submitted 7 days ago • 34 comments

It's not really deportation if people are sent to countries where they never lived. It's a human trafficking ring. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 7 days ago • 186 comments

BREAKING: ICE deported a Burmese man who doesn’t speak English to South Sudan—a country he’s not from and on the brink of civil war. He refused to sign English-only papers. They deported him anyway—with 11 others. No hearings. No translators. Court order ignored. This is state-sponsored kidnapping.

submitted 8 days ago • 404 comments

On 19/4/1943, the world had one duty: to defend the Jews who were being pulverised by the Nazi war machine crushing the Warsaw ghetto. Today the world has one duty: to defend the Palestinians who are being pulverised by the Israeli army in the Gaza ghetto www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

Right after the UK, France, and Canada warned that they will take "concrete actions" if Israel does not de-escalate its violence in Palestine, Israel shoots at diplomats from those nations.

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments