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Wilcox nails it

submitted 5 hours ago • 5 comments

To Israel IT’S NOT ALL ABOUT YOU Sincerely, Random Australian who can see that your Prime Minister is a war criminal. P.S. Our media is shit

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/f... posted without comment because I am speechless....

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

"According to Peter Dutton and his shadow Cabinet of whiny bivalves, the Climate Authority has been rendered HYPERPARTISAN by focusing on science and facts rather than the crayon drawings in the pamphlet articulating Dutton's nuclear plans." - First Dog #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Threatening to sack the Chair of an independent authority because you don’t like a report he’s released is Trumpian. It’s so important we don’t go down that road. Really irresponsible behaviour from the Liberal Party. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

In The Age today. If you can't get the editorial parts of the paper to acknowledge this reality, at least you can buy an ad.

submitted 3 days ago • 42 comments

We had friends & allies around the world based on alliances & relationships that were built over many decades. In one month, Trump has torched them all. Now our friends are Putin, Orban, the crypto scammer in Argentina, and the guy in El Salvador offering us mercenary prisons.

submitted 4 days ago • 359 comments

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 3 days ago • 205 comments

I'll tell you what I didn't get done last week. I didn't fire every federal employee and/or agency investigating my companies for unethical and illegal conduct. You?

submitted 4 days ago • 335 comments

Jane Hume grilled on Sky News after insisting on keeping secret from public what Liberals plan to cut if elected inc for more expensive Nuclear but ends up conceding Renewables through Future Made in Australia & investment in Housing are both on the chopping block. What a plan🤦‍♂️

submitted 4 days ago • 25 comments

Labor’s economic miracle! While other developed countries have seen unemployment go up, wages come down, inflation still out of control, debt spiralling and services being cut, in Australia Labor has delivered more jobs, wage increases, lower debt, tax cuts & MORE SERVICES!

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

What with US media calling out Trump’s Ukraine lies in the headline, and SMH sort of calling Dutton a liar in this headline, it feels like journalists/editors are finally starting to understand what’s at stake when they act as stenographers for manipulative deceitful megalomaniacs.

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

Good to see even more well-informed, decent people standing-up in support of Ukraine and President Zelenski, and against Trump's deluded, fact-free parroting of ridiculous Russian 'talking points'. Ukraine is the victim of murderous Russian aggression on a daily basis since Feb. 2022 #auspol #AusPol

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Cracker of a #factcheck from young Chris here on Dutton falsely claiming support for his nuclear plan. #auspol

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Finally, a headline which points out that Trump is LYING, rather than just quoting him and burying the fact-check in the fifth paragraph! More of this please. Trump lies CONSTANTLY and for a decade, the media have failed to characterise it as a problem.

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

✅ Budget surpluses. ✅ Real wage growth. ✅ Tax cuts for every worker. ✅ Halved the cost of meds. ✅ Inflation suppressed. ✅ Low unemployment. And now, a rate cut too. Full credit to the Labor finance team, this is a world leading achievement! #auspol #ausecon

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Bad News for Peter Dutton as RBA says it will cut interest rates. This confirms rates started going UP under the LNP & only started coming Down under Labor (like inflation). After their Trillion dollar Debt & no surplus for a decade, LNP are now economic hacks in every measure.

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments

democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard

submitted 10 days ago • 462 comments

Absolute nonsense being published in the national broadsheet. The preferential system doesn't favour Labor, it favours voters' choices. www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/polit...

submitted 10 days ago • 37 comments

We don't need puff pieces on Dutton, suggesting we don't know the "real" Dutton. The reality is that Dutton's been an MP for a long time - we know the real Dutton: he's a visionless, racist thug.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

"Former home affairs boss says Australia should take leaf out of Trump administration's book" Bizarre that ABC news is taking a leaf out of the #MurdochGutterMedia playbook, and assisting the 'rehabilitation' of a disgraced and dangerous former bureaucrat. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

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submitted 12 days ago • 123 comments

It is the job of the artist to provoke, to be controversial, to be outspoken, to get us to think. Isn't that one of the main points of art? If we start cancelling every artist because they "create debate" then who the hell are we as a society? Craven cowards. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

submitted 14 days ago • 86 comments

What is considered “conservative” these days is pretty elastic, which is exactly the opposite of how conservatism has always been defined. Conservatism in the Trump era is not based on a set of principles, ideas or policies. It is a dead movement replaced by right-wing populism.

submitted 12 days ago • 259 comments

Mike Pence just reposted an old article he wrote about the limitations on the powers of a president. For some reason. Here is a part of it.

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submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

Very worrying. There is of course a serious problem with anti-semitism in Australian society. But changing the definition of anti-semitism to outlaw protests by university students against the conflict in Gaza will do nothing to stop hatred in our community www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

submitted 15 days ago • 29 comments

Do we really believe there’s only one senior person at the ABC leaking to The Australian? The place needs a complete clear out, a fresh start. No more pandering to News Corp and other lobbyists. No more cowards who won’t speak truth to power. They need to remember what the whole point of the ABC is.

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We've been well-acquainted with the "real" Dutton for a couple of decades now. His words are meaningless, but his actions over the years, speak volumes. He's a ruthless, self-serving arsehole who has difficulty with the concept of truth. He's not just a spud, he's a dick tater. #auspol

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

"The Trump tariffs on our aluminium are a major test for the Albanese govt, could determine the election." FMD. Aluminium articles account for a bit over 1% of all our exports and just 13% of that goes to the USA. We really need to stop acting like pleasing Trump is vital to our economy

submitted 16 days ago • 35 comments

Chain of command. My @smh cartoon.

submitted 16 days ago • 47 comments

“He's advocating a war crime. There’s no question under international law that to completely halt humanitarian aid, food and water at a time of war [to civilian populations] that's a war crime. Without any question.” - John Lyons @johnthelyonsden.bsky.social on Israeli politician Ben-Gvir.

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

This is not journalism, obviously 🙄

submitted 16 days ago • 17 comments

According to the ABC’s Ita Buttrose, a journalist is not a journalist if he/she is critical of Israel. Surely she cannot be serious. SHE just CANT. SHE simply CANT. SHE always CANT. SHE biggest CANT.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Trump: "I would own this [Gaza]." Brett Baeir: "Would the Palestinians have a right to return [to Gaza]?" Trump: "No, they wouldn't." Trump plans on committing multiple, and unprecedented, war crimes.

submitted 17 days ago • 462 comments

"Gaza development plan" is such an Orwellian turn of phrase, such an abuse of language to normalize a proposed ethnic cleansing

submitted 16 days ago • 105 comments

So yeah - ethnic cleansing. Ignorant monster confirms himself as a monster. What have you unleashed America?

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

👇 November 2023 #auspol

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I gather The Israelian this morning has a contribution from Lord Downer proclaiming that Trump is on the right track with Gaza. You just fall about with helpless laughter…😂🤣😂

submitted 18 days ago • 27 comments

Prominent Zionist lawyer Mark Leibler published this on X, calling anti Zionist Jews “repulsive & revolting human beings.” This is dehumanising hate speech, & Leibler should be charged under the new legislation that includes mandatory sentences.

submitted 19 days ago • 35 comments

I cannot believe the Communications Minister just said the Govt has no concerns about Elon Musk owning a big part of our vital telecommunications infrastructure. That’s a very dangerous position for our Govt to take on our behalf. Get some guts Labor!!! #abc730 #auspol

submitted 21 days ago • 60 comments

How does @ABCnews explain these repeated days of dozens of references to Peter Dutton with barely a word on Albanese? Analyst: “We are not dealing with an aberration… It is impossible to believe this is accidental.“ x.com/thenoisytrun...

submitted 20 days ago • 11 comments

As a human rights lawyer of 23 years and a human rights law expert in this field, Trump’s Gaza plan is not only ethnic cleansing, it meets the legal definition of forced displacement which is designated as a war crime under Article 8(2)(b)(viii) of the 1998 ICC Statute.

submitted 20 days ago • 5 comments