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This article on the Atlas Network by @garethhutchens.bsky.social is epic, epic reporting. Interesting that my criticism of Swiss media rebroadcasting of Atlas Network climate denial made it into Australian media - but not Swiss. Thanks @jeremywalker.bsky.social for your leadership on this. 🙏🙏🙏
January 27, 2026 at 3:12 PM
This article on the Atlas Network by @garethhutchens.bsky.social is epic, epic reporting. Interesting that my criticism of Swiss media rebroadcasting of Atlas Network climate denial made it into Australian media - but not Swiss. Thanks @jeremywalker.bsky.social for your leadership on this. 🙏🙏🙏
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"The earth has moved under our feet, and our massive security gamble is crumbling, but the government pretends nothing has happened"
@michaelpascoe01.bsky.social #auspol #AUKUS #Trump
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@michaelpascoe01.bsky.social #auspol #AUKUS #Trump
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Australia's security abandoned to the folly of declining US empire - Michael West
Foreign affairs. The earth has moved, and our AUKUS security gamble with the US crumbles, but our government pretends nothing has happened
michaelwest.com.au
December 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
"The earth has moved under our feet, and our massive security gamble is crumbling, but the government pretends nothing has happened"
@michaelpascoe01.bsky.social #auspol #AUKUS #Trump
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@michaelpascoe01.bsky.social #auspol #AUKUS #Trump
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Even more US military assets coming to Australia. More US bases. More US weapons. Celebrating a dominant foreign government sending its military into our harbours and cities and taking multiple footholds here … it’s cringeworthy, tragic and wrong.
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Even more US military assets coming to Australia. More US bases. More US weapons. Celebrating a dominant foreign government sending its military into our harbours and cities and taking multiple footholds here … it’s cringeworthy, tragic and wrong.
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I'm a US citizen preparing to move to Australia (hopefully forever:). Hard to understand why the Australian government would think this was a good time to be making deals with the US, which has been making it clear how little it values its allies (and is on a murder campaign in the Caribbean).
December 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I'm a US citizen preparing to move to Australia (hopefully forever:). Hard to understand why the Australian government would think this was a good time to be making deals with the US, which has been making it clear how little it values its allies (and is on a murder campaign in the Caribbean).
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AI doesn't have to replace human judgement. History shows the real gains come when technology strengthens human capability, not erodes it, writes @drjohnhoward.
#AI #TechnologyPolicy #Innovation #FutureOfWork #Australia
#AI #TechnologyPolicy #Innovation #FutureOfWork #Australia
Why Australia should build AI to amplify human capability
Debates about artificial intelligence miss a crucial point: the real issue is not whether AI is powerful, but whether we use it to replace human judgment or strengthen it.
johnmenadue.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
AI doesn't have to replace human judgement. History shows the real gains come when technology strengthens human capability, not erodes it, writes @drjohnhoward.
#AI #TechnologyPolicy #Innovation #FutureOfWork #Australia
#AI #TechnologyPolicy #Innovation #FutureOfWork #Australia
Things you learn
This is $450,000 per term, per electorate. Plus interest on that money, let’s call it half a million. $75,000,000 per term of government for small re-election bribes.
Next time you’re waiting hours in a hospital emergency waiting room, think what this money could do.
#AusPol
Next time you’re waiting hours in a hospital emergency waiting room, think what this money could do.
#AusPol
November 29, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Things you learn
Well worth reading
#Israel has carried out murderous assaults on #Gaza for decades, cynically calling the bombardment “mowing the lawn”. No peace accord or ceasefire agreement has ever gotten in the way. This one will be no exception. @chrislynnhedges #auspol #PeacePlan #Palestine
Trump’s sham peace plan
There will be no peace in Gaza. Only the temporary absence of war.
johnmenadue.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Well worth reading
Canned because they realised what he was likely to say. His is across the strategic destruction of Gaza by Israel and would have been able to highlight evidence that is irrefutable causing much discomfort for those in authority and mainstream media.
"...the NPC’s list of sponsors reveals the problem. Among them are no less than ten firms with links to the arms industry that is profiting from Israel’s destruction of Gaza, including four of the very largest defence manufacturers in the world – BAE, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and Thales."
New:
Censorship by any other name.
The National Press Club cancelled a speaker, Chris Hedges, who planned to address the mass killing of journalists in Gaza. The mainstream press didn’t report it.
nickfeik.substack.com/p/censorship...
Censorship by any other name.
The National Press Club cancelled a speaker, Chris Hedges, who planned to address the mass killing of journalists in Gaza. The mainstream press didn’t report it.
nickfeik.substack.com/p/censorship...
October 11, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Canned because they realised what he was likely to say. His is across the strategic destruction of Gaza by Israel and would have been able to highlight evidence that is irrefutable causing much discomfort for those in authority and mainstream media.
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Twilight Zone stuff! We export our gas - contributing significantly to world emissions, causing local electricity prices to go through the roof, whilst not receiving tax or royalties - to keep others happy and to reserve a place for our politicians at the big table. 🤷♂️🤦♂️ #auspol
October 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Twilight Zone stuff! We export our gas - contributing significantly to world emissions, causing local electricity prices to go through the roof, whilst not receiving tax or royalties - to keep others happy and to reserve a place for our politicians at the big table. 🤷♂️🤦♂️ #auspol
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Australia’s phoenix problem isn’t a flaw in the law, it’s a failure of enforcement. With simple reforms, properly funded liquidations, real director penalties, and empowered creditors, we can shut down this $5 billion racket. #auspol #business
The evil phoenix: Quenching the fire of its rebirth
This is a $5 billion scam hurting honest Australians.
johnmenadue.com
June 18, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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The long American century may be ending. The Australian one has yet to begin. But it won’t come from loyalty or luck. It will require courage, clarity – and a break from the dependencies that have defined us for too long. #auspol #Turnbull
Australia's dependence on the US does not end with Trump
Malcolm Turnbull’s recent Foreign Affairs essay, America’s Allies Must Save Themselves, is a good intervention in the debate about Donald Trump’s impact on global order.
johnmenadue.com
June 15, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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‘The intergenerational inequity involved in the largesse handed out by John Howard and Peter Costello to older Australians, on the back of the country's biggest ever resources boom, has only really started to become clear in the past few years’ #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
Selling super tax changes will require a steadfast advocacy from decades past
The reforms of the 80s and 90s, often sentimentalised by people who weren't there, came about through a mixture of policy intelligence and political rat cunning.
www.abc.net.au
May 17, 2025 at 1:57 AM
‘The intergenerational inequity involved in the largesse handed out by John Howard and Peter Costello to older Australians, on the back of the country's biggest ever resources boom, has only really started to become clear in the past few years’ #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
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As President Bill Clinton said in the early 90s, the world is big enough to accommodate more than one superpower. This may make Australia’s strategic policy choices more straightforward. #auspol #China
Is China really the main threat to Australia's security?
What are the nature of the security threats Australia faces? How valid are the assumptions that have informed our economic, foreign and defence policy?
johnmenadue.com
April 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This is why Community Independent’s matter. Zoe Daniel is correct so many people I know are openly questioning AUKUS, our relationship with the US and the actions of Trump. We just want what is best for Australia, our future generations retaining our sovereignty. The duopoly are out of touch.
March 31, 2025 at 11:33 PM
This is why Community Independent’s matter. Zoe Daniel is correct so many people I know are openly questioning AUKUS, our relationship with the US and the actions of Trump. We just want what is best for Australia, our future generations retaining our sovereignty. The duopoly are out of touch.
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A look at the gaps and failures of duopoly politics, and the media’s role in making politics dull.
New essay from me:
New essay from me:
Why is Australian politics so boring?
And is that a good thing?
open.substack.com
March 29, 2025 at 2:18 AM
A look at the gaps and failures of duopoly politics, and the media’s role in making politics dull.
New essay from me:
New essay from me:
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Yet another Defence debacle. Invest a billion dollars of taxpayers’ money on local design and development activity for a major defence capability ✅; then abandon it and pay again for something that further locks us into the USA ❌. Well done Richard Marles 🤦♂️. #FUBAR #auspol
March 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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"Israel is colonising Palestine. That is not an anti-semitic slur, nor should it be a controversial thing to say. It’s not even an opinion. It is a statement of historical, political and cultural fact. It is the truth."
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Your rights are being eroded so Israel can commit genocide without criticism - The Shot
Across the Western world, criticising Israel's genocide in Palestine is being stamped down. News laws and a culture of fear make it hard.
theshot.net.au
March 15, 2025 at 10:22 PM
"Israel is colonising Palestine. That is not an anti-semitic slur, nor should it be a controversial thing to say. It’s not even an opinion. It is a statement of historical, political and cultural fact. It is the truth."
theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
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A Letter to Us All: What Kind of Democracy Do We Want?
Our Democracy, Our Choice: Rising Above Intimidation.
@communityindeps.bsky.social
@cathyindigovalley.bsky.social
@zoedaniel.bsky.social
@deniseshrivell.bsky.social
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Our Democracy, Our Choice: Rising Above Intimidation.
@communityindeps.bsky.social
@cathyindigovalley.bsky.social
@zoedaniel.bsky.social
@deniseshrivell.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/suebarre...
A Letter to Us All: What Kind of Democracy Do We Want?
Our Democracy, Our Choice: Rising Above Intimidation
open.substack.com
March 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM
A Letter to Us All: What Kind of Democracy Do We Want?
Our Democracy, Our Choice: Rising Above Intimidation.
@communityindeps.bsky.social
@cathyindigovalley.bsky.social
@zoedaniel.bsky.social
@deniseshrivell.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/suebarre...
Our Democracy, Our Choice: Rising Above Intimidation.
@communityindeps.bsky.social
@cathyindigovalley.bsky.social
@zoedaniel.bsky.social
@deniseshrivell.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/suebarre...
A real articulation of the world at this moment.
“With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed." Paolo Freire #auspol #oppression
Never has violence been initiated by the oppressed
Violence is initiated by those who oppress, who exploit, who fail to recognise others as persons - not by those who are oppressed.
johnmenadue.com
March 7, 2025 at 12:43 AM
A real articulation of the world at this moment.
The theme of this article is the last of many written since Trumps inauguration. It demonstrate the change in American policy means the world, and Australia must pivot and regain our sovereignty as opposed to blindly thinking everything will be ok. Sadly I don’t think Australia has the leadership.
Trump’s obsession with tariffs — the most beautiful word in the dictionary — may be more closely related to a solvency agenda. #aupol #USpol
Resolving insolvency: Tariffs are key to Trump's solution - Pearls and Irritations
Donald Trump has resorted to tariffs, imposed against friend and foe alike. Tariffs are part of a desperate bid to stave off insolvency.
johnmenadue.com
March 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
The theme of this article is the last of many written since Trumps inauguration. It demonstrate the change in American policy means the world, and Australia must pivot and regain our sovereignty as opposed to blindly thinking everything will be ok. Sadly I don’t think Australia has the leadership.
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Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
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Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)
America hurt itself badly today.
snyder.substack.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
Correct. Also just because the Americans says it is so doesn’t make it so. Zelensky is a rare breed of politician. Calling out the truth & representing and taking positive actions on behalf of his people not himself or corporations. We could use some of that in Australia to be honest.
The thing about bullies is, when you actually stand up to them, they fold like the house of cards they are
Zelenskyy is showing the world how fragile this entire hyperstructure of global power is
If we withdraw our consent, and build the world we need, it will crumble
Do we have the guts?
Zelenskyy is showing the world how fragile this entire hyperstructure of global power is
If we withdraw our consent, and build the world we need, it will crumble
Do we have the guts?
ZELENSKYY: Putin broke the ceasefire. What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you speaking about?
VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media
VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media
February 28, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Correct. Also just because the Americans says it is so doesn’t make it so. Zelensky is a rare breed of politician. Calling out the truth & representing and taking positive actions on behalf of his people not himself or corporations. We could use some of that in Australia to be honest.