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But let’s not lose sight of the fact that all Albo’s clever plans have added up to is curtailed freedom of speech and association, more social division (including Islamophobia) and blowback on the Jewish community ie an INCREASE IN ANTISEMITISM. So from a policy perspective an unmitigated disaster.
January 21, 2026 at 11:22 PM
But let’s not lose sight of the fact that all Albo’s clever plans have added up to is curtailed freedom of speech and association, more social division (including Islamophobia) and blowback on the Jewish community ie an INCREASE IN ANTISEMITISM. So from a policy perspective an unmitigated disaster.
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I just wish he’d sit down with his caucus, come up with 5 big things that are in the best interests of ordinary Australians and put them into action. There has literally never been a better time. Yet all we get are tactics, dysfunction and points scoring. We are badly served by our politicians.
January 21, 2026 at 11:19 PM
I just wish he’d sit down with his caucus, come up with 5 big things that are in the best interests of ordinary Australians and put them into action. There has literally never been a better time. Yet all we get are tactics, dysfunction and points scoring. We are badly served by our politicians.
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Anyways - Coalition split all but done. Eight Nationals resign from shadow cabinet. Can’t have a Coalition cabinet with just one party. Sussan Ley will sink with it.
Who could have predicted any of this? (sarcasm)
Who could have predicted any of this? (sarcasm)
January 21, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Anyways - Coalition split all but done. Eight Nationals resign from shadow cabinet. Can’t have a Coalition cabinet with just one party. Sussan Ley will sink with it.
Who could have predicted any of this? (sarcasm)
Who could have predicted any of this? (sarcasm)
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sneaking out 'every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse (confidence rating HIGH)' makes me think about al gore and his movie from, like 18 years ago, what was it called. anyway
January 21, 2026 at 10:13 AM
sneaking out 'every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse (confidence rating HIGH)' makes me think about al gore and his movie from, like 18 years ago, what was it called. anyway
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Using your thumping majority to become the Liberal Party.
Perhaps the most disgraceful of all the “national security” laws that have been passed since Sept 11 2001.
Albanese would have been a good, compliant minister in the Howard govt.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Albanese would have been a good, compliant minister in the Howard govt.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Criticism of Benjamin Netanyahu may be an offence under Australia’s new hate speech laws, Greens warn
Anthony Albanese and Tony Burke say the laws are needed to protect Australians – particularly the Jewish community
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2026 at 8:31 AM
Using your thumping majority to become the Liberal Party.
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Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
January 20, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
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Whether it's illegal to say it or not (?), Israel is quite clearly committing genocide in Palestine. The Australian government (but not the Australian people) is quite clearly supporting it. And our farce of a democracy is being further eroded so people don't speak this truth.
January 21, 2026 at 8:13 AM
Whether it's illegal to say it or not (?), Israel is quite clearly committing genocide in Palestine. The Australian government (but not the Australian people) is quite clearly supporting it. And our farce of a democracy is being further eroded so people don't speak this truth.
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Tl/dr: I wish I voted down this terrible legislation that’s now a culture war flashpoint but I missed the vote, also this law is terrible and even though it ONLY passed because of my colleagues, this is Labor’s fault and I’ll fight it but this isn’t my colleagues fault at all
January 21, 2026 at 6:43 AM
Tl/dr: I wish I voted down this terrible legislation that’s now a culture war flashpoint but I missed the vote, also this law is terrible and even though it ONLY passed because of my colleagues, this is Labor’s fault and I’ll fight it but this isn’t my colleagues fault at all
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My latest article in @theshot.net.au on the dark days of McCarthyism coming to Australia to eclipse our cultural landscape under the guise of eradicating communism - whoops sorry - antisemitism
The Adelaide Festival, the arts and the dark arts
#allfeedbackwelcome
🙏🏽
theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
The Adelaide Festival, the arts and the dark arts
#allfeedbackwelcome
🙏🏽
theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
The dark arts - The Shot
The ideology of the Israel lobby in Australia is this - burn it to the ground rather than ever allow an opposing voice.
theshot.net.au
January 21, 2026 at 6:38 AM
My latest article in @theshot.net.au on the dark days of McCarthyism coming to Australia to eclipse our cultural landscape under the guise of eradicating communism - whoops sorry - antisemitism
The Adelaide Festival, the arts and the dark arts
#allfeedbackwelcome
🙏🏽
theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
The Adelaide Festival, the arts and the dark arts
#allfeedbackwelcome
🙏🏽
theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
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Labor has teamed up with the Liberals with a last minute deal to pass dangerous new laws limiting speech and political expression. The Greens condemn the major parties for rushing through these laws that will have real impacts on people trying to speak out for human rights and against genocide.
January 21, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Labor has teamed up with the Liberals with a last minute deal to pass dangerous new laws limiting speech and political expression. The Greens condemn the major parties for rushing through these laws that will have real impacts on people trying to speak out for human rights and against genocide.
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‘Outrageous’: EPA waves through WA fracking project that may add up to 2.6% to Australia’s emissions
‘Outrageous’: EPA waves through WA fracking project that may add up to 2.6% to Australia’s emissions
State environmental regulator says Valhalla project, set to drill up to 20 gas wells in Canning basin, can proceed subject to conditions
A controversial fracking proposal in Western Australia’s Kimberley region has been recommended for approval by the state’s Environmental Protection Authority, a move criticised as “outrageous” over the project’s potential climate pollution and environmental impacts.
The EPA on Tuesday recommended that the Valhalla project, which proposes to drill up to 20 gas wells in the Canning basin, proceed subject to certain conditions. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:50 AM
‘Outrageous’: EPA waves through WA fracking project that may add up to 2.6% to Australia’s emissions
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From a TLS review of a London production of ‘Into the Woods’:
…grandmother and granddaughter stagger out spattered with bright blood, remarkably unphased.
Unphased? UNPHASED? Et tu, TLS?
(I’m fazed!)
…grandmother and granddaughter stagger out spattered with bright blood, remarkably unphased.
Unphased? UNPHASED? Et tu, TLS?
(I’m fazed!)
January 21, 2026 at 12:42 AM
From a TLS review of a London production of ‘Into the Woods’:
…grandmother and granddaughter stagger out spattered with bright blood, remarkably unphased.
Unphased? UNPHASED? Et tu, TLS?
(I’m fazed!)
…grandmother and granddaughter stagger out spattered with bright blood, remarkably unphased.
Unphased? UNPHASED? Et tu, TLS?
(I’m fazed!)
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Just a reminder - had Dutton won the election those two ministers would have been Michaelia Cash and James Patterson
Penny Wong: the action can only be taken on the advice of the Director-General of ASIO & in consultation with two ministers and the Leader of the Opposition must be briefed. So there are a lot of checks and balances.
Bloody hell.
Read some history. Cripes read some history of the ALP
Bloody hell.
Read some history. Cripes read some history of the ALP
January 21, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Just a reminder - had Dutton won the election those two ministers would have been Michaelia Cash and James Patterson
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It's not that complicated @albomp.bsky.social
January 21, 2026 at 12:23 AM
It's not that complicated @albomp.bsky.social
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Scoop: One of the first acts of Australia's new anti-corruption watchdog, NACC, was to carry out $30 million of office fit-outs.
It was only when staff were preparing the agency's first annual report that they realised the project broke laws meant to fight... corruption.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
It was only when staff were preparing the agency's first annual report that they realised the project broke laws meant to fight... corruption.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
January 21, 2026 at 12:14 AM
Scoop: One of the first acts of Australia's new anti-corruption watchdog, NACC, was to carry out $30 million of office fit-outs.
It was only when staff were preparing the agency's first annual report that they realised the project broke laws meant to fight... corruption.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
It was only when staff were preparing the agency's first annual report that they realised the project broke laws meant to fight... corruption.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
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Here's @ronnisalt.bsky.social. "The dark arts"
The dark arts - The Shot
The ideology of the Israel lobby in Australia is this - burn it to the ground rather than ever allow an opposing voice.
theshot.net.au
January 21, 2026 at 12:04 AM
Here's @ronnisalt.bsky.social. "The dark arts"
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Every councillor from these councils persecuting the homeless should be publicly shamed and thrown out. Seeing them promise to keep doing it as if it's inevitable and they couldn't choose not to, and no journalists pushing back, is infuriating.
the "visibility" of people who were sleeping rough had increased after council abandoned its welfare-first approach last year.
"People are showing up in parks that they hadn't before because they're being moved from place to place quite frequently."
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
"People are showing up in parks that they hadn't before because they're being moved from place to place quite frequently."
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
Woman's 'riches to rags' story highlights Gold Coast homelessness
Bethany Turner is among those struggling to find safety and stability while living on the street since the local council began issuing move-on directions to people sleeping rough in public spaces last...
www.abc.net.au
January 20, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Every councillor from these councils persecuting the homeless should be publicly shamed and thrown out. Seeing them promise to keep doing it as if it's inevitable and they couldn't choose not to, and no journalists pushing back, is infuriating.
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Amazing when you have a system that lets the private sector deliver a public service it gets rorted.
Grog’s Rule: When you privatise public services be sure to also allocate space in a few years for the Royal Commission into abuses in the system.
Grog’s Rule: When you privatise public services be sure to also allocate space in a few years for the Royal Commission into abuses in the system.
Weird that it’s turning out to be the providers, not the recipients, ripping off the NDIS.
It’s almost as if the Morrison government was so incompetent that it’s taken three years of organised work to clean it up. Incompetent and/or corrupt.
#AusPol
It’s almost as if the Morrison government was so incompetent that it’s taken three years of organised work to clean it up. Incompetent and/or corrupt.
#AusPol
Director of NDIS provider charged over alleged $3.6m fraud
Australian Federal Police allege Billal Chami submitted claims for supports and services never provided to participants.
www.abc.net.au
January 20, 2026 at 11:24 AM
Amazing when you have a system that lets the private sector deliver a public service it gets rorted.
Grog’s Rule: When you privatise public services be sure to also allocate space in a few years for the Royal Commission into abuses in the system.
Grog’s Rule: When you privatise public services be sure to also allocate space in a few years for the Royal Commission into abuses in the system.
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"Every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse" - wow, the wording in this isn't pulling its punches
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
The UK Govt has quietly published - without announcement - the Joint Intelligence Committee/DEFRA report it suppressed last October. They tried to sneak it out in the midst of crisis. Read and share:
“Global Biodiversity Loss, Ecosystem Collapse & National Security.”
(link below)
The UK Govt has quietly published - without announcement - the Joint Intelligence Committee/DEFRA report it suppressed last October. They tried to sneak it out in the midst of crisis. Read and share:
“Global Biodiversity Loss, Ecosystem Collapse & National Security.”
(link below)
January 20, 2026 at 6:08 PM
"Every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse" - wow, the wording in this isn't pulling its punches
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There’s anecdotal evidence in Australia, where under 16 yos have been excluded from social media, that mental health services are getting more demand for help from this age group
Teenage girls who use social media daily are less likely to harm themselves and attempt suicide – one of many unmentionable realities major health surveys show
Teenage girls who use social media daily are less likely to harm themselves and attempt suicide – one of many unmentionable realities major health surveys show
Officials’ and professionals’ dismissals and distortions of the worst menaces to teenagers’ mental and physical health are inexcusable.
mikemales.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 9:18 PM
There’s anecdotal evidence in Australia, where under 16 yos have been excluded from social media, that mental health services are getting more demand for help from this age group
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January 20, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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50 DEGREES IN AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺
50.0c Hamelin Pool WA today
49.2C Shark Bay AP -Monthly record smashed
This is just the beginning of one of the harshest coastal heat waves ever seen worldwide,with the hot air mass moving East and "caressing" the coastal areas with scorching hot air
50.0c Hamelin Pool WA today
49.2C Shark Bay AP -Monthly record smashed
This is just the beginning of one of the harshest coastal heat waves ever seen worldwide,with the hot air mass moving East and "caressing" the coastal areas with scorching hot air
AUSTRALIA EXCEPTIONAL HEAT WAVE
A potentially historic heat wave kicks off in Western Australia with temperatures possibly reaching 49C on Tuesday.
Later on,an overheated air mass will move East with anomalies up to +20C above normal.
Expect 46/49C in WA,SA,QLD,VIC,NSW.
A potentially historic heat wave kicks off in Western Australia with temperatures possibly reaching 49C on Tuesday.
Later on,an overheated air mass will move East with anomalies up to +20C above normal.
Expect 46/49C in WA,SA,QLD,VIC,NSW.
January 20, 2026 at 9:37 PM
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Reminds me of the good part of the WaPo long ago, the word games they used to play, from whence came:
"Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly."
"Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly."
January 20, 2026 at 8:15 AM
Reminds me of the good part of the WaPo long ago, the word games they used to play, from whence came:
"Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly."
"Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly."
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The only two parties voting FOR the hate group legislation, Labor and the Liberal party, are spending the debate sledging it out over who is the bigger hypocrite and who supports the laws harder
live.thepoint.com.au
live.thepoint.com.au
The Point Live: Liberals to pass government hate speech laws, Greens warn of impact on democracy
Anthony Albanese and Sussan Ley are negotiating once again on what is left of the hate speech laws, in a parliamentary day dedicated to the passage of just two bills. All the day's events, as it happe...
live.thepoint.com.au
January 20, 2026 at 10:13 AM
The only two parties voting FOR the hate group legislation, Labor and the Liberal party, are spending the debate sledging it out over who is the bigger hypocrite and who supports the laws harder
live.thepoint.com.au
live.thepoint.com.au