Kim McGrath
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Kim McGrath
@kimmcg.bsky.social
Historian, writer, reader, dreamer. Author of 'Crossing the Line, Australia's Secret History in the Timor Sea'.
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Opinion | Andrew Hastie fleeing to the backbench once again demonstrates how the right loves to destroy things, but building anything is too much like hard work, writes Bernard Keane.

Read it here: www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/0...
October 6, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Great story on ABC #4Corners now on how online gambling companies operate, the damage they do to the community & how they keep the major political parties in the pockets.
October 6, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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🚨Hours after Stephen Miller attacked judges for insurrection, a liberal judge's home is burning to the ground - arson suspected.
October 5, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Dean: The president is unhinged

Johnson: A lot of folks on your side are too. I don’t control him

Dean: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals.

Johnson: I didn’t see it.

Dean: Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing.
October 2, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Trump’s attacks on Iran were based on vibes, not new intel, two administration officials tell Rolling Stone. “There is no intel,” one of the sources says. “The intelligence assessments have not really changed”
'There Is No Intel': Trump's Attacks on Iran Were Based on Vibes, Sources Say
Trump’s decision to strike three Iranian nuclear facilities was not based on new intelligence, administration officials say.
www.rollingstone.com
June 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Memo to #abc730: Mike Pezzullo was sacked from the APS for breaching its Code of Conduct FOURTEEN TIMES. He left in disgrace. He was officially stripped of his Order of Australia. Why is he now being given access to your prestigious platform?
June 23, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Gets a mention...
May 2, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Interesting to read Australian Journalist Michael Bachelard's book "Behind the Exclusive Brethren" (2008). Based on facts he uncovered working at The Age.
It documents their emergence onto the Australian political stage in 2004
scribepublications.com.au/books-author...
Behind the Exclusive Brethren | Book | Scribe Publications
Out of nowhere in 2004, an obscure religious sect burst onto the political stage in Australia. Almost unheard of until then, the Exclusive Brethren was suddenly spending up big in…
scribepublications.com.au
May 2, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Instead of obsessing about Climate 200's crowdfunding to support candidates committed to saving our planet, maybe the media could focus more on Atlas Network's funding of individuals and organisations to promote climate denialism and undermine democracy to benefit the (very) privileged few?
A vote for the Liberal Party of Australia is a vote for the #AtlasNetwork and the destructive and noxious actions, values and beliefs held by individuals, politicians, governments, organisations aligned with it.
#VoteAtlasOutOfAustralia

youtu.be/reKQTQ2TWOE
How the Atlas Network Destroys Democracy
YouTube video by Daily MindBrew
youtu.be
May 1, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Well fuck look at that.
April 30, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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It is important to understand:
*a surveillance state is the only thing of consequence DOGE has built; they fired the civic technologists working to make services better
*they did this by breaking the law
Elon Musk may or may not fulfill his promise to step back from DOGE.

But his legacy is already clear: He is assembling a sprawling domestic surveillance system — the likes of which we have never seen in the United States.

My latest for NYT Opinion (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/o...
Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy: DOGE’s Construction of a Surveillance State (Gift Article)
DOGE is rapidly assembling a sprawling monitoring system, the foundation of many authoritarian regimes.
www.nytimes.com
April 30, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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The Trump Administration today dismissed all of the expert authors working on the next National Climate Assessment, a Congressionally mandated, quadrennial report. www.cnn.com/2025/04/29/c... 🔌💡
Trump administration dismisses all authors of major climate report, throwing US assessment into limbo | CNN
The Trump administration has dismissed all the scientists and other authors working on the next authoritative look at how climate change is affecting the United States, according to an email sent to a...
www.cnn.com
April 30, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Started my uni degree in 1990. Cheaper fees but better staff-student ratios than now. Got better feedback on assignments. Also had a better uni campus social life.

Uni students now are getting hosed.
35 years after the beginning of HECS, Skye Predavec finds that students are paying much more for much less #OffTheCharts australiainstitute.org.au/post/at-aust...
April 30, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did.
April 20, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Least surprising thing ever. (He was sacked for misconduct and stripped of his Order of Australia. Not that you’d know from the ABC who’ve been platforming him ever since.)
April 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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"Stories about Musk nearly always note that neither Musk nor his representatives responded to requests for comment. And reporters say it’s difficult to know who is handling Musk’s media — the White House, his personal staff or Musk himself," writes Hadas Gold | Analysis
Elon Musk is the face of DOGE. But he hasn’t faced a challenging interview | CNN Business
Since taking on his White House role, Musk has largely only sat down for interviews that don’t challenge him or question his government work.
www.cnn.com
April 20, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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April 19, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Never let Tim Wilson forget. We know he was shortlisted with #AtlasNetwork’s IPA for the Network’s biggest international prize for wrecking the carbon price. That mechanism was working to reduce emissions. Don’t put Atlas operators in parliament. theaimn.net/tim-wilson-s... #Goldstein #auspol
Tim Wilson, secretive money and "think" tanks. Australia’s democracy is at stake.
Australians should remember, as the election approaches, that Tim Wilson was shortlisted in 2015 for the US-based Atlas Network’s most prestigious prize. He and his team at the Atlas Network-partner t...
theaimn.net
April 18, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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April 7, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Signs up on poles around the Northern beaches warning you not to vote for the Teals because they will try to trick you.

I mean, if you believe those signs, count yourself as susceptible to being tricked.
April 18, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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We spend so much time in the media wondering if things are breaking through. Massive protests show that Americans are seeing what’s happening and they don’t like it.
April 5, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Sen Chris Murphy is right about Trump: “The tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy.” Trump can then offer us economic help in exchange for loyalty: “It’s the playbook for democratically elected leaders who want to stay in power forever.” My article deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/trump-is-f...
Trump is following Herbert Hoover’s playbook that caused the Great Depression. The Question is Why?!
Trump wants economic turmoil
deanobeidallah.substack.com
April 5, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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#Dutton this colonial patriarch has done nothing but attack #China yet he allowed the sale of #DarwinPort because selling assets is all the #LNP know.
They’re economic disasters.
#AusPol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
Dutton says advice on Darwin Port has changed since he was defence minister
Peter Dutton revealed he disagreed with advice he received as defence minister that there was no need to act on Darwin Port being leased to a Chinese-owned company, as he announced he would now return...
www.abc.net.au
April 6, 2025 at 3:09 AM