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I can't tell you how to vote, but I can tell you that I started my career researching and writing about Peter Dutton and have been forced to do it over and over for thirteen years. If after Saturday I still have to do it, I'm a professional researcher, I will find you. I. Will. Find. You.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Celebrating the Greens winning the Right to Disconnect on May Day by urging voters to keep Dutton out to protect this new right for Australian workers from being rolled back as Peter Dutton and Michaelia Cash have repeated vowed to do. Greens pressure works!

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

In Wagga Wagga today talking peace and cancelling AUKUS. It’s an extraordinarily popular platform around the country. It’s remarkable only the Greens are proposing we don’t give Donald Trump $375 billion!

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

We are in a climate crisis which threatens our capacity to survive and, a few days out from an election, our politics is dominated by a neofash-driven “debate” on Welcomes to Country and a spat about costings and credit ratings. Neither ALP nor LNP are being held to account on climate

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

If you think we can’t just end AUKUS, then think again. It only started with a Morrison brain fart in 2021. The treaty has a pull out clause we need to use, now. We will lose the $10b already wasted on it, but save $365b more!

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

This is fucked up, Melbourne storm should hang their heads in shame, they cancel welcome to country but put on this performative anzac day nonsense give us a break. It’s all fucking marketing to them. I guess they know their supporters are racists ? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

Like. nearly all the scorecards whether climate change, environment, social justice, caring for the poor, only one party gets all the ticks We can't keep voting for the same 2 parties and expecting it to be different. Vote 1 Greens

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Howard is 85 years old. He can't hear at all anymore but has developed a sort of primitive sonar like a bat so he can still respond to broadcasts on the 2GB band.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

Yikes!

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Jesus wept get over it Linda.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

Teals and Greens are under attack from another pro-fossil fuel pro-Israel lobby, as well as far-right lobbyists Advance Australia. michaelwest.com.au/labor-and-li...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

More dirty tricks from Labor and Liberal joining up in "Better Australia" michaelwest.com.au/labor-and-li...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Not sure what the point of words is any more. We are witnessing pure evil, and even worse, we are witnessing the full-throated support of that evil among all our institutions, from governments to political parties to media organisations to judiciary. It's a masks off moment.

submitted 11 days ago • 14 comments

This Dutton guy actually wants to spend more on AUKUS. You know that eject button? It’s time to push it.

submitted 11 days ago • 11 comments

Standing in the rain handing out 💚 at pre-poll in Terrey Hills (the horse property bit of Mackellar) consoling myself with those words of Gramsci -"Pessimism of the intellect,optimism of the will".

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"To be told this was an 'operational misunderstanding' is an insult to those whose lives were lost, and to their surviving families. And an insult to international law." - MSF's Simon Eccleshall. Those aid workers and medics were murdered by the IDF. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Campaigning to become the premier of Qld is a pretty weird strategy

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

Israeli weapons company Smart Shooter established an Australian subsidiary called SMASH P/L. Smart Shooter’s ‘Smash Hopper’ appears on the released government exports list as having been exported to Israel. It is a light-weight machine gun, described as a Remote Controlled Weapon Station. #auspol

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Pezzullo’s role as Secretary of Home Affairs, and employment in the Australian Public Service, was terminated following a review which found he had breached the Australian Public Service Code of Conduct at least 14 times. Dutton’s election promise? He’d bring him back

submitted 13 days ago • 14 comments

Colour me shocked that Ol' Dutts & Pup Paterson will roll out the red carpet for the disgraced Mike Pezzullo who - let's recall - was sacked after an independent inquiry made scathing findings against him that he'd misused his position & breached the Public Service Code of Conduct at least 14 times.

submitted 13 days ago • 42 comments

Sign of the day…

submitted 14 days ago • 184 comments

The Coalition has fixed its women problem by replacing Ben Britton, who says women can’t be soldiers, with Nathaniel Smith, who says abortion should remain in the Crimes Act. Much better. #AusVotes25

submitted 27 days ago • 93 comments

The Ukraine of the Indo-Pacific! Dutts sure has vision!

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

I wrote about the raid on the Quaker meeting house for the paper.

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

Your weekly reminder that the Greens are the only party that is committed to ending AUKUS and making Australia independent from Trump’s US military.

submitted 34 days ago • 14 comments

A slide about the death toll in Gaza “could be perceived as antisemitic.”

submitted 35 days ago • 78 comments

- Rumeysa Öztürk has never been charged with a crime. - Mahmoud Khalil has never been charged with a crime. - Momodou Taal has never been charged with a crime. - Badar Khan Suri has never been charged with a crime.

submitted 37 days ago • 118 comments

We're hearing that Monash Vice Chancellor Sharon Pickering personally made the decision to cancel Khaled Sabsabi's exhibition after a phone call from Sarah Henderson. Care to comment, @monashuniversity.bsky.social? It would behove you respond as your reputation implodes...

submitted 37 days ago • 55 comments

This. If automation naturally lead to UBI, we'd have it already. We've already seen massive shifts in labor and productivity due to totally normal technologies. But it didn't. It just made the rich people richer. And that will continue. Which is probably why rich people are the only excited ones.

submitted 37 days ago • 8 comments

95% of ANU staff vote no confidence in vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell www.nteu.au/News_Article...

submitted 38 days ago • 6 comments

Chicago

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“Mindless bipartisanship” on national security has left Australia less safe. Absolutely true. www.canberratimes.com.au/story/891658...

submitted 50 days ago • 8 comments

This is bonkers - but the US does get to fuck up their country through what they choose to spend stuff on. If these things are part of shared architecture (eg defence research), it's easy ammo for Oz to rip some dipshits new arseholes - because we can and should www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

submitted 51 days ago • 9 comments

"Opposing Fascism Is a Jewish Tradition"--JWP at Trump Tower today.

submitted 52 days ago • 41 comments