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Patrick Gilligan
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The idea that dumping net zero will “differentiate” the Liberals is delusional. Voters already saw Labor as stronger on climate even when Morrison backed net zero. They’re not closing a gap they’re confirming they’re fossil fuel zealots. That’s the only distinction #auspol
November 12, 2025 at 5:34 AM
To repeal net zero, the Coalition must win the lower house (already unlikely), then either win a unicorn Senate majority or force a double dissolution on a wildly popular law dragging voters to the polls just to strip climate targets. It’s electoral sabotage, not policy #auspol
November 12, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Albanese rightly condemns masked Nazis as cowards but runs the most secretive government in modern history. Morrison was slammed for hiding ministries. Albo outdid him: redacting FOIs, dodging transparency, silencing scrutiny. He lectures the public, but governs like a spook #auspol
November 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Bowen giving Fortescue funds for green hydrogen isn’t a “contradiction” unless you’ve had amnesia since Howard. Fossil fuel subsidies hit $14b a year. Coalition never blinked. But help a renewables billionaire build clean energy and suddenly it’s corruption? #auspol
November 12, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Coalition MPs now attacking the under-16s social media ban after backing it and cheering Murdoch’s push reeks of desperation. You’re not winning teens who can’t vote, and parents aren’t fooled by the pivot. Who exactly is this for? Sky After Dark viewers? #auspol
November 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The Coalition saw a bill helping grieving parents and thought: “How do we turn this into an abortion conspiracy?” No woman is getting pregnant, losing a child, and going through the trauma of a stillbirth just to game annual leave. This isn’t conservatism. Brain damage #auspol
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 AM
The Liberal Party just suffered its worst defeat in history and their next big idea is reigniting a debate on stillborn parental leave by pivoting to abortion in 2025 Trump’s midnight Truth Social posts have more policy coherence than this clown show #auspol
November 5, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Only 8% of Australians think we share values with the US under Trump.
That’s lower than One Nation’s national vote.
Lower than Clive Palmer’s approval.
Lower than the error margin of the poll itself.
At this point, Dementia polls higher.
Labor’s still spooning the guy like it’s 2019
#auspol
November 5, 2025 at 6:33 AM
These articles fixate on deposits like they’re the problem. They’re not. The real barrier is borrowing capacity. A $90k income doesn’t qualify you for a $935k mortgage even with a deposit. But they’ rather you obsess over savings than realise the system is fundamentally flawed #auspol
November 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The Coalition handed out $40B in JobKeeper to firms that increased profits, locked in $300B of debt before COVID, and left structural deficits in aged care and NDIS. Now they whine about “spending” while Labor delivers 2 straight surpluses #auspol
September 30, 2025 at 1:53 AM
From the party that delivered about 2.2 percent average wage growth across its nine years in office from Abbott to Morrison per ABS wage data. Save the working class
#auspol
September 29, 2025 at 11:27 PM
This is where the right is now. Quoting a 19th century aristocrat who believed in tariffs, social unity and national infrastructure all things they spent 40 years dismantling. Disraeli would be denounced as a Marxist by today’s Liberals #auspol
September 29, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Menzies’ industrial strategy was a tariff-wrapped fantasy propped up by wartime conditions and British loyalty, not long-term planning. Tariffs don’t equal strategy they’re a band-aid for uncompetitive firms. His Australia wasn’t industrialised, it was economically infantilised. #auspol
September 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Menzies’ industrial strategy was a tariff-wrapped fantasy propped up by wartime conditions and British loyalty, not long-term planning. Tariffs don’t equal strategy they’re a band-aid for uncompetitive firms. His Australia wasn’t industrialised, it was economically infantilised. #auspol
September 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Menzies didn’t build an industrial base he built a primary economy wrapped in flags. Wool, wheat, and mining made us dependent, not sovereign. There was no industrial strategy, just tariffs to protect inefficiency #auspol
September 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM
If Optus wants to block Triple Zero, that’s their freedom. Government interference would be socialist. If grandma dies waiting for an ambulance, that’s just the invisible hand giving her the finger. Free market, baby #auspol
September 29, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Hastie “speaks of industry” like he’s describing a dream. Labor’s building actual factories, funding supply chains, and regulating gig work. If he wants to fight constraints, he can start by voting for a budget #auspol
September 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
What “restlessness” produces a blowout TPP, a 59% lead among women, and a polling margin that holds after the honeymoon? That’s not volatility. That’s consensus #auspol
September 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Hastie “repudiates free-market economics”? Labor just legislated billions for sovereign manufacturing. He’s not dismantling neoliberalism he’s podcasting about it from the sidelines while Albanese rewires the grid #auspol
September 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Brisbane gets the flag Geelong gets a future. Rising seas, heatwaves, and flood risk will cripple Queensland but Victoria’s southern coast? Cooler, milder, safer
#auspol
September 27, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Brisbane’s future isn’t premierships it’s heat stress, inland migration, and 300+ flood days a year. AFL glory, climate misery #auspol
September 27, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Brisbane may win the Grand Final. But it won’t win the next 30 years. Climate change will wreck that city before another premiership window even opens #auspol
September 27, 2025 at 7:16 AM
An anonymous hack says Hastie has the “backbone” to defy what’s popular while Hastie parrots car manufacturing lines precisely because they poll well. It’s not courage. It’s cowardice with flags on it. And journos just quote it like it’s gospel #auspol
September 26, 2025 at 9:49 AM
An anonymous hack says Hastie has the “backbone” to defy what’s popular while Hastie parrots car manufacturing lines precisely because they poll well. It’s not courage. It’s cowardice with flags on it. And journos just quote it like it’s gospel #auspol
September 26, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Calling Trump-style autarky “populism” lets media mask the real disease: authoritarian economic illiteracy. Hastie’s not a rebel. He’s a corporatist cosplayer pushing state-planned nationalism. And you’re handing him the mic like it’s a town hall #auspol
September 26, 2025 at 9:47 AM