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Emma Shortis
@emmashortis.bsky.social
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Director, International and Security Affairs at @australiainstitute.org.au. All things Australian foreign policy and US history & politics.
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davidshoebridge.bsky.social
This is utterly chilling. This US Alliance looking increasingly like the largest risk to the Australian people.
crikey.com.au Crikey @crikey.com.au · 1h
Exclusive | The Albanese government is handing access to Australians’ biometric data and ID documents to US agencies like ICE, and not telling anyone. @keanebernard.bsky.social reports.
Trump, ICE set to be handed access to Australians' biometric data, ID documents
www.crikey.com.au
February 3, 2026 at 2:41 AM
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sophieblackwords.bsky.social
🔥 scoop 🔥 from @keanebernard.bsky.social: travelled overseas? your biometric data + potentially everything from your Medicare card to your drivers licence is being handed to US agencies like ICE
crikey.com.au Crikey @crikey.com.au · 1h
Exclusive | The Albanese government is handing access to Australians’ biometric data and ID documents to US agencies like ICE, and not telling anyone. @keanebernard.bsky.social reports.
Trump, ICE set to be handed access to Australians' biometric data, ID documents
www.crikey.com.au
February 3, 2026 at 2:47 AM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
On @amyremeikis.bsky.social’s Live Point blog the comments are open - so get in there and ask what you want to know (and if Amy doesn’t know it she will get the rest of the team onto it) or make your own observation and have a good chat.

live.thepoint.com.au
The Point Live: Liberals, Nationals abort leadership moves amid talent deficit, reserve bank tipped to raise rates.
Parliament officially returns for 2026 with the Nationals and Liberals still in turmoil and unable to agree on a new leader, while One Nation continues to establish itself as the new conservative forc...
live.thepoint.com.au
February 2, 2026 at 9:18 PM
emmashortis.bsky.social
This seems fine
February 3, 2026 at 12:56 AM
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australiainstitute.org.au
According to new Australia Institute research, the inequality between private and public education will continue to grow, and Australian students, along with the Australian community and economy, will suffer.

Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4rsPW2I
February 3, 2026 at 12:04 AM
emmashortis.bsky.social
Very lucky to have Don Watson on After America this week. Someone who can “name reality” like no one else in this country (or the other one, for that matter).
australiainstitute.org.au The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 3h
MAGA is becoming more "battle-hardened" & less likely to disappear once Trump leaves office (whenever that may be).

Don Watson joins @emmashortis.bsky.social to discuss the opposition to Trump & why Australia can’t avoid the rupture being brought about by the MAGA movement.

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Photo of Marco Rubio, Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth and Howard Lutnick NEW EPISODE | Why MAGA is here to stay with Don Watson Listen to After America now via the link or wherever you get your podcasts.
February 3, 2026 at 12:07 AM
emmashortis.bsky.social
Not me listening to K Rudd talk about dialectical materialism (again)
February 2, 2026 at 10:18 PM
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australiainstitute.org.au
“We are about to head back into parliament – and the sitting year proper – with one of the major parties again focused on itself, and the other doing all it can to ensure the focus remains on its rivals,” writes @amyremeikis.bsky.social.

Read more on The Point: https://theaus.in/4tct6Ol
February 2, 2026 at 2:46 AM
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davidlamond.bsky.social
Yay! #SundayShot is back!
Informed analysis, respectful conversation, and mutual regard, with @instanterudite.bsky.social
@emmashortis.bsky.social
@davemilbo.bsky.social
Michael Bradley @marquelawyers.com.au
Nick Hanna
Thank you for such well spent time! #auspol
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We're Back! - February 1 - Michael Bradley, Emma Shortis, and Nick Hanna
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February 1, 2026 at 2:15 AM
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instanterudite.bsky.social
Normal viewing has resumed! The #SundayShot is back...and we had a lot to cover. @emmashortis.bsky.social & Michael Bradley from @marquelawyers.com.au helped @davemilbo.bsky.social & I make sense of things, plus Dave interviews Nick Hanna.

Get back into it for 2026.

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We're Back! - February 1 - Michael Bradley, Emma Shortis, and Nick Hanna
YouTube video by The Sunday Shot
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February 1, 2026 at 2:07 AM
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simonrosenberg.bsky.social
“Greg Moriarty’s appointment as ambassador to the US makes clear that the Australian government is desperate to keep #AUKUS afloat.

And shows that they are unwilling or unable to face the stark reality of the Trump regime.” @emmashortis.bsky.social #SundayShot #auspol
January 31, 2026 at 10:51 PM
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instanterudite.bsky.social
The #SundayShot returns this weekend! Please join @davemilbo.bsky.social and me on Sunday morning plus our expert panellists @emmashortis.bsky.social and @marquelawyers.com.au and Dave interviews The What & The Why's Nick Hanna.

It will be good to be back!
January 31, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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davemilbo.bsky.social
Sunday Shot is back tomorrow at 9am, so you can save yourself an Insiders migrane.

We're joined by Aus Institute's resident historian @emmashortis.bsky.social, Michael Bradley of @marquelawyers.com.au, and I interview Nick Hanna, the lawyer challenging Chris Minns' anti-protest laws in court.
January 31, 2026 at 10:43 AM
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#SundayShot Sun 01Feb2026 9am! Hosts @instanterudite.bsky.social and @davemilbo.bsky.social are joined by guests @emmashortis.bsky.social & Michael Bradley @marquelawyers.com.au. Dave Milner interviews The What & The Why's Nick Hanna. #auspol Here's the link: youtube.com/@thesundayshot
January 31, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
Here’s a podcast that does a good job of laying out what’s at stake, and why all of us need to get off the sidelines to demand change.
January 31, 2026 at 12:41 AM
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glmiller.bsky.social
🤔 would dumping the duopoly help 'decoupling'?
@emmashortis.bsky.social @grogsgamut.bsky.social
President Trump’s “reactive instability” has some countries looking to “decouple” from the US, however Dr Shortis doesn’t foresee Australia being one of them.
thepoint.com.au/news/260130-...
How Australia can chart its own course in an uncertain world
International relations experts are calling on more world leaders to stop “sanewashing” what’s happening in the Trump era.
thepoint.com.au
January 30, 2026 at 6:41 AM
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australiainstitute.org.au
Speaking on The Australia Institute’s Follow The Money podcast, Chief Economist Greg Jericho said when it comes to Donald Trump “you cannot overstate just how bad things have become.”

🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts
📖 Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/49XYkS5
January 30, 2026 at 3:19 AM
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sophiescamps.bsky.social
The Government’s invitation for President Herzog to visit must be rescinded - it will cause immense distress to many who have lost relatives in Gaza. This is a time to build social cohesion not blow it out of the water ! 💦
January 29, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Trump: i’m at war with minnesota like i was with venezuela bsky.app/profile/leba...
lebassett.bsky.social Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 4d
This is so unhinged
January 29, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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lebassett.bsky.social
This is so unhinged
"He told me that he doesn't understand what's wrong with Minnesota. 'I don't know what's wrong with you people,'" Walz said Wednesday in an exclusive interview with MS NOW senior national and political correspondent Jacob Soboroff. "I said, 'Nothing's wrong, Mr. President. We're one of the most effective states and one of the best places to live? "And he told me, 'Well, look, Tim, we did this in New Orleans, we did it in Louisville, there's no problems? And I said, 'You didn't kill anybody in Louisville or New Orleans. And the operation here looks very different from that.? "And then he told me it was successful in Venezuela," Walz said.
January 29, 2026 at 9:34 PM
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australiainstitute.org.au
“ANZUS is all about the security of the state. It is totally uninterested in the security or the welfare of the people,” writes @emmashortis.bsky.social, International & Security Affairs Director at The Australia Institute.

Read Dr Emma Shortis’s full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/49MlI4H
January 29, 2026 at 4:28 AM
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whstancil.bsky.social
These are the Haitians attacked by Vance in 2024 at the urging of Canadian neo-Nazi Geoff Martin, aka "Captive Dreamer," who he appears to follow closely.

They're currently here legally. The admin is abruptly making them illegal, then removing them in a 1940s-style militarized cleansing campaign.
January 28, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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whstancil.bsky.social
I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio.

Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.

Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
January 28, 2026 at 11:38 PM
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australiainstitute.org.au
The Australian government can’t keep its head in the sand & hope the chaos of the Trump administration will just go away.

@emmashortis.bsky.social, @grogsgamut.bsky.social & @glennconnley.bsky.social discuss how Australia can navigate what Canada's PM calls the Trump “rupture”.

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Photo of Donald Trump speaking at a lectern the World Economic Forum NEW EPISODE | How Australia can chart its own course in an uncertain world Listen to Follow the Money now via the link or wherever you get your podcasts
January 28, 2026 at 11:49 PM
emmashortis.bsky.social
For @thepointau.bsky.social, I wrote about how firefighting cooperation between Victoria and the US (happening right now!) is a real, actual example of how our relationship with America *can* make us all safer. But it doesn’t count cus *sEcURity*

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International cooperation on firefighting shows the best of the Australia-US alliance
ANZUS is focused on the security of the state, but it can and should be about the welfare of the people.
thepoint.com.au
January 28, 2026 at 10:50 PM