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“Man doesn’t it suck when someone backs down from a deal after it’s already started? Even if he doesn’t cancel the deal, they are never getting those subs and still have to grovel with Trump. Suckers!” #AUKUS #auspol chaser.com.au/general-news...

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"Whether it's former PM Morrison, the politicians-turned ambassadors to the US (Joe Hockey and Arthur Sinodinos) or former defence ministers Christopher Pyne, Joel Fitzgibbon or Brendan Nelson, the #AUKUS arrangement has brought with it plenty of private business ventures for them all to pursue"

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"defence minister Richard Marles has downplayed the Trump administration’s review into the #AUKUS submarines...said it was 'natural' that the US would examine the project" So why hasn't The Perfumed Warlord reviewed this dodgy deal for Australia? #auspol www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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At the end of this Instagrammed infanticide the ABC will be able to say it didn't know, it was distracted making 17 million pieces of content about a beef Wellington

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Seth gets it

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"I only hire the best people" - the Mango Mussolini

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As James Elder from UNICEF said recently: "It's deeply disturbing that the daily killing of little boys and girls seems to be something that the world no longer dwells on." And yet the most that western governments will do is token sanctions against two far-right Israeli ministers. #StopIsrael

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"the welfare system’s 'Targeted Compliance Framework' [aka 'mutual obligation']...has been quietly collapsing ...multiple welfare investigations collectively place the entire system of welfare conditionality in question." @beneltham.bsky.social #auspol www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/12/a...

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"The irony is that the Brits and the Americans are subjecting #AUKUS to far more scrutiny than it has ever received here, given Labor signed up to the disaster within hours of Scott Morrison announcing it in the hope of altering his hopeless political trajectory." www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/12/t...

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Men are assaulting women pretending to be ICE AGENTS.... Like we didn't see THAT coming...

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France's ambassador Thebault on 3 November 2021 on Australia's "giant leap into the unknown": "The Australian Government is abandoning a solid cooperation with well-established parameters for a yet-unspecified project, without even a solid transition ... 'Good luck,' wished President Macron."

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"The Albanese government has no other submarine plan – #AUKUS is it. Or at least, Aukus was it. The Elbridge review is a circuit breaker. It forces the Albanese govt to address Australia’s submarine needs and capabilities in a considered and disciplined way for the first time in more than 20 years."

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The next time Albanese or Marles do a media conference, brownie points to the journo who asks this obvious question: 'The US is reviewing #AUKUS. The UK is reviewing AUKUS. Why aren't you?' #auspol

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Richard Marles met Secretary of Defense Hegseth in Feb and gifted US shipyards $800m with billions more to come. Marles met Hegseth again on 31 May. Now it’s revealed there’s an America First review of #AUKUS. Bombshell news. What did Marles know and when did he know it? #FOI sent. #auspol

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This 🧵. "Australia must sanction Israel and end the two-way arms trade now." #StopIsrael #FreePalestine

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This was a couple of days ago. But now we know that the US is reviewing #AUKUS, it's the perfect opportunity for us to ditch it, while the Albanese govt saves face. Even better if Albo showed the leadership qualities of Carney, and levelled with us about the need for reduced US dependency. #auspol

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Putting the legs in legacy- my #auspol cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 10 hours ago • 6 comments

Villains and heroes. My @smh @theage cartoon.

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#AUKUS was “hurriedly scribbled on the back of an envelope by Scott Morrison, along with the vacuous British blowhard Boris Johnson, and the confused President Joe Biden...a world away from Australia’s strategic interests” I'll take advice from PJK, Carr and Turnbull any day over Marles & Hockey.

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For those who are inclined to make a complaint to the ABC, this is mine, FYI:

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A reminder for those following the Queensland government's attacks on trans children. These moves from christo-fascist governments are not just "culture wars". They have real life [and death] consequences for the most vulnerable. #TransRightsAreHumanRights #auspol

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Greg is 🎯. But the people who should be most worried about growing wealth #inequality are those with the power to do something about it: those sitting around the Albanese government Cabinet table. #auspol

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ABC insists on calling on Joe Hockey for his 'expertise' on #AUKUS. They identify him as former ambassador to the US. But fail to note that he is a current lobbyist for weapons companies in the US and Australia. aka conflict of interest. #ThisIsNotJournalism #auspol www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

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That was a week ago. And they still haven't remembered. #TrumpTyranny theshovel.com.au/2020/06/04/n...

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We should tell Washington, (and Richard-war-mongering-Marles), that WE WILL NOT go to war over Taiwan. . . Hugh White and our post-American future johnmenadue.com/post/2025/06...

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On the proposed super changes: "the government wants to halve an excessively generous and quite unnecessary tax break enjoyed by a relatively few people, and even then, in nearly all cases, only on their somewhat marginal income." @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social michaelwest.com.au/the-truth-of...

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OK, I guess it is news that Turnbull is [again] criticizing #AUKUS. But bigger news is the Albanese govt's continued failure to review the stupid, dangerous 'deal' they inherited from #ScottyFromMarketing. The US review is the opportunity for us to #DitchAUKUS. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Timely critiques by @emmashortis.bsky.social & Hugh White. But "unlikely either will be read, much less acted upon, by those Shortis describes as the 'mostly men in suits or uniforms, with no democratic accountability' who make security policy on our behalf." theconversation.com/goodbye-to-a...

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"Israel's attacks on the Madleen aid mission to Gaza and the repression of the anti-deportation protests in Los Angeles represent the same imperial logic: any challenge to injustice will be met with state violence." mondoweiss.net/2025/06/figh...

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The Coalition's failure to account of the biggest costs of carbon emissions disqualifies them from serious policy debates on climate and energy. #ClimateCrisis #auspol

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"It's deeply disturbing that the daily killing of little boys and girls seems to be something that the world no longer dwells on." - James Elder, UNICEF Must listen, especially for any minister who thinks that token sanctions against two far-right Israelis is enough. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

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In this one instance, the Albanese government should take its cue from the Trump regime, and develop an 'Australia First' agenda. A starting point to an independent and responsible foreign and defence policy would be to #DitchAUKUS. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

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For those Australian legacy media journalists covering the Middle East who have indeed ignored Israel's murder of 230+ journalists in Gaza - #ThisIsNotJournalism.

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🎯 Rex Patrick. The really significant news for Australia is not that the US is reviewing the highly dodgy and poorly planned #AUKUS agreement. But that the Albanese government is not. #auspol

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"It is time we reflected on our increasingly subservient military arrangements - our relationship with the United Sates. Because we don't seem to be sharing core values." 💥🎯💯

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“It is understandable that a new US administration would want to review its approach to #AUKUS, just as the UK did last year" So how TF can Australia continue with such a massive commitment, made by #ScottyFromMarketing, with no review? Albo must answer. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

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I'm quoted in this ABC explainer on Israel's maritime blockade of Gaza, and why I think it is illegal for violating the prohibition on starvation as a weapon of war: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

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Sanctions are a start but we need action to stop the genocide - that means ending the two-way arms trade and cancelling the $2 billion of weapons contracts the Australian Government has with Israeli companies

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The article refers to "peak Jewish groups" accusing ANU of making campus ‘unsafe’ after board declines to adopt antisemitism definition. But omits that @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social has critiqued the dodgy UA definition, which assumes Jews are Zionists. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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