Richard Whan
@richardwhan.bsky.social
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Hard to believe anyone would call for USA to abandon the Geneva Convention. Why are we still in AUKUS? Why are we allowing a new forward deployment US base in Toowoomba? We are allied with people advocating for war crimes. @albomp.bsky.social We do not share these values.
Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."
September 30, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Hard to believe anyone would call for USA to abandon the Geneva Convention. Why are we still in AUKUS? Why are we allowing a new forward deployment US base in Toowoomba? We are allied with people advocating for war crimes. @albomp.bsky.social We do not share these values.
Really have to question Albo’s appointment of Segal to this position.
🚨Antisemitism boss Jillian Segal and her husband are the second biggest funders of far-right group "Advance". The extremist lobby group spreads online racism and xenophobia, including directly targeting Palestinians...
theklaxon.com.au/hrgd
theklaxon.com.au/hrgd
Jillian Segal and husband funding far-right group "Advance" - The Klaxon
Antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal and her husband are among the biggest funders of far-right group "Advance”, which spreads hateful propaganda and racist tropes.
theklaxon.com.au
July 12, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Really have to question Albo’s appointment of Segal to this position.
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Swim to the light.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
May 5, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Swim to the light.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
So Greenwood resorting to, “Angus, how bad is your opponent?” questions. #Treasurersdebate
April 9, 2025 at 10:23 AM
So Greenwood resorting to, “Angus, how bad is your opponent?” questions. #Treasurersdebate
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Times have changed, and Australia must chart of new independent course. @jacquilambie.bsky.social and I are pushing for a no-holds-barred Senate inquiry into #ANZUS, #AUKUS and Trump's trade war. The US is putting America first. We must put Australia first! #auspol
Lambie Promises Senate Inquiry Into USA Relations - Tasmanian Times
Media release – Jacqui Lambie Network, 8 April 2025 Lambie & Patrick AUS/US Senate Inquiry Jacqui Lambie, Senator for Tasmania and her South Australian Senate candidate, Rex Patrick, today announced t...
tasmaniantimes.com
April 9, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Times have changed, and Australia must chart of new independent course. @jacquilambie.bsky.social and I are pushing for a no-holds-barred Senate inquiry into #ANZUS, #AUKUS and Trump's trade war. The US is putting America first. We must put Australia first! #auspol
No, David Littleproud. We shouldn’t be buying even more US defence kit where they hold the keys to the car/F35/sub. Time to pivot to other (European) suppliers to manage sovereign risk. #insiders
April 5, 2025 at 11:29 PM
No, David Littleproud. We shouldn’t be buying even more US defence kit where they hold the keys to the car/F35/sub. Time to pivot to other (European) suppliers to manage sovereign risk. #insiders
Vale Petro.
The only Liberal I voted for (and was very proud to do so) in 30 years of voting in Kooyong.
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
The only Liberal I voted for (and was very proud to do so) in 30 years of voting in Kooyong.
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Petro Georgiou, the ‘conscience of the Liberal Party’, dies at 77
“He combined the skills of an effective political strategist with deep policy insights and an unwavering commitment to liberal values,” said Josh Frydenberg.
www.smh.com.au
April 4, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Vale Petro.
The only Liberal I voted for (and was very proud to do so) in 30 years of voting in Kooyong.
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
The only Liberal I voted for (and was very proud to do so) in 30 years of voting in Kooyong.
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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Australia has been a close US ally for eight decades. Last month our Govt gave the US an $800M #AUKUS gift to US shipyards. We're going to give them billions more. Today Trump lumped Australia with countries he says have "looted, pillaged, raped and plundered" the US. #auspol
April 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Australia needs to put items on the table to take away.
#AUKUS
North West Cape
Critical Mineral supplies
Marine rotations in Darwin
Pine Gap
Apply a digital tax on X, Google, Meta.
Recognise we’re dealing with a transactional bully.
ICYMI 👇 #auspol 2/2
#AUKUS
North West Cape
Critical Mineral supplies
Marine rotations in Darwin
Pine Gap
Apply a digital tax on X, Google, Meta.
Recognise we’re dealing with a transactional bully.
ICYMI 👇 #auspol 2/2
Australia's Trump cards - Michael West
Anthony Albanese has it wrong, writes former submariner Rex Patrick. He’s trying to bribe Trump with sweeteners in response to trade tariffs
michaelwest.com.au
April 2, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Interesting allusion to (3-term President) FDR by Trump in his tariff rant. Wonder if this will become a recurring reference in his narrative.
April 2, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Interesting allusion to (3-term President) FDR by Trump in his tariff rant. Wonder if this will become a recurring reference in his narrative.
It seems the only sure-fire way to get an actual policy out of Dutton is for the government to make a policy commitment. #bulkbilling #PBS
March 19, 2025 at 10:38 PM
It seems the only sure-fire way to get an actual policy out of Dutton is for the government to make a policy commitment. #bulkbilling #PBS
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BREAKING: Man who is paralysed with fear at being interviewed by Lara Tingle, claims he is tough enough to negotiate a positive tariffs outcome with US President Trump. #auspol
March 12, 2025 at 4:21 AM
BREAKING: Man who is paralysed with fear at being interviewed by Lara Tingle, claims he is tough enough to negotiate a positive tariffs outcome with US President Trump. #auspol
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And it was not a “stunt gone wrong”. It was a deeply political provocation designed to generate lies that could be reported as facts. Posing as journalism. There absolutely needs to be an investigation of this rogue organisation at heart of our politics & they need to be held to account.
Fat chance.
Fat chance.
The Daily Telegraph took part in a stunt in which a provocateur tried and failed to *stir up* antisemitism at an Egyptian restaurant in order to have it caught on camera.
How's this for "social cohesion"? I wonder if any politicians will bother to comment
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
How's this for "social cohesion"? I wonder if any politicians will bother to comment
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
‘Deliberate, orchestrated incident’: Daily Telegraph caught up in stunt gone wrong
It’s the oldest adage in journalism: don’t become the story.
www.smh.com.au
February 13, 2025 at 10:21 PM
And it was not a “stunt gone wrong”. It was a deeply political provocation designed to generate lies that could be reported as facts. Posing as journalism. There absolutely needs to be an investigation of this rogue organisation at heart of our politics & they need to be held to account.
Fat chance.
Fat chance.
Thank you @abroninvestor.bsky.social for an engaging and informative presentation on, mainly European, founder controlled businesses this morning.
Highly recommend anyone interested in this area catch the replay when it's available on east72.com.au
Highly recommend anyone interested in this area catch the replay when it's available on east72.com.au
Looking at the lessons since we established East 72 Dynasty Trust in late 2022 and their relevance in the prevailing environment. We will be recording the webinar and will post afterwards together with the material. The usual caveats apply.
us02web.zoom.us/j/8671752366...
us02web.zoom.us/j/8671752366...
February 13, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Thank you @abroninvestor.bsky.social for an engaging and informative presentation on, mainly European, founder controlled businesses this morning.
Highly recommend anyone interested in this area catch the replay when it's available on east72.com.au
Highly recommend anyone interested in this area catch the replay when it's available on east72.com.au
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Pop quiz: People are saying the kid says “you’re not the president you need to go away” — do y’all hear it too?
February 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Pop quiz: People are saying the kid says “you’re not the president you need to go away” — do y’all hear it too?
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This is why you should be reading @amyremeikis.bsky.social's live blog.
She does not forget anything and she picks up on everything
live.australiainstitute.org.au
She does not forget anything and she picks up on everything
live.australiainstitute.org.au
![Peter Dutton is asked whether it was a mistake to try and shut down Mark Dreyfus, the son and grandson of Holocaust survivors in question time yesterday.
Dutton says:
“He was closed down because he made a suggestion that we were politicising anit-Semitism, he was completely out of order and if he had the decency that you would expect from the first Law Officer he should have withdrawn that without us requesting him to do so.
It was a [slur], it was misplaced, he apologised to the Prime Minister* on the front bench afterwards, and so he should.
Mark Dreyfus has largely been missing for 15 months**. I think if you speak to people within the Jewish community, there are a lot of people who would be that commentary of the contribution or lack thereof made by the Attorney-General given the rise and flourish of anti-Semitic conduct we have seen***. It is appropriate and the right response for somebody regardless of who they are who, seeks to say that we are politicising what I think is an incredibly important issue and made that point felt.”
*We are seeking confirmation of this – but I didn’t see any of that on the broadcast.
**Oh wow, this is low. Dreyfus’s wife of 44 years, Deborah Chemke, passed away in November 2023, which is 15 months ago. This was after a long and difficult cancer battle. Anyone who has lost someone knows how much it takes from you, and I do not have personal insight into how Dreyfus has been coping, but I do know that everyone in the parliament knows what he is going through. So for Dutton to then accuse him of ‘largely been missing’ for 15 months, and dress it up as concern from the Jewish community is a low, low act. Even for Dutton.
***Mark Dreyfus is a Jewish man. Who lost family in the Holocaust and was raised by survivors of the Holocaust. Dreyfus is very involved in the Australian Jewish community who is now being lectured by Dutton on how the Jewish community feel during this period, while claiming it is outrageous to suggest that he …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ebyirfmcml2wmydrexhxu27t/bafkreigp4l2kvuwtc5j54cxtlenc6lysd3gqewhvoxtwkpepr7ejy5ntly@jpeg)
February 11, 2025 at 1:05 AM
This is why you should be reading @amyremeikis.bsky.social's live blog.
She does not forget anything and she picks up on everything
live.australiainstitute.org.au
She does not forget anything and she picks up on everything
live.australiainstitute.org.au
Samantha Maiden has to be the worst host they’ve tried on #insiders. Hope they reinstate Speers next week, or even better Barrie Cassidy.
February 8, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Samantha Maiden has to be the worst host they’ve tried on #insiders. Hope they reinstate Speers next week, or even better Barrie Cassidy.
Let’s not pretend this appropriation of Gaza is a recent concept. Here’s Jared Kushner almost a year ago.
www.cnn.com/videos/polit...
www.cnn.com/videos/polit...
Jared Kushner suggests Israel should move Palestinians out of Gaza and ‘clean it up’ | CNN Politics
Jared Kushner, former President Donald Trump’s White House adviser and son-in-law, called the waterfront property in Gaza “very valuable” during a discussion about the Middle East at Harvard Universit...
www.cnn.com
February 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Let’s not pretend this appropriation of Gaza is a recent concept. Here’s Jared Kushner almost a year ago.
www.cnn.com/videos/polit...
www.cnn.com/videos/polit...
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All this because @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social posted **NEWS** about what Human Rights Watch was saying.
The ABC board and management involved in this are contemptible and deserve to no longer have any role with the ABC.
Go be paid by news.corp.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/f...
The ABC board and management involved in this are contemptible and deserve to no longer have any role with the ABC.
Go be paid by news.corp.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/f...
Antoinette Lattouf at times drank a ‘cup of vodka’ to sleep, psychiatrist tells ABC unfair dismissal claim
Journalist tells federal court her drinking habits had gone from social to heavier in the year since she left the broadcaster
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2025 at 7:07 AM
All this because @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social posted **NEWS** about what Human Rights Watch was saying.
The ABC board and management involved in this are contemptible and deserve to no longer have any role with the ABC.
Go be paid by news.corp.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/f...
The ABC board and management involved in this are contemptible and deserve to no longer have any role with the ABC.
Go be paid by news.corp.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/f...
Has anyone FOId how much government money is spent on ANZAC Day?
Dutton and Murdoch’s grift on Welcomes to Country www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/2025/01/11/d... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Dutton and Murdoch’s grift on Welcomes to Country www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/2025/01/11/d... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Dutton and Murdoch’s grift on Welcomes to Country
You can picture the staffer who thought of this, some slippery little Tarocash chancer. It would have been pitched as the perfect story for the quiet weeks of January, a chance to capture the news cyc...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
January 11, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Has anyone FOId how much government money is spent on ANZAC Day?
Dutton and Murdoch’s grift on Welcomes to Country www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/2025/01/11/d... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Dutton and Murdoch’s grift on Welcomes to Country www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/2025/01/11/d... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
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Give us a radio show.
December 27, 2024 at 10:56 AM
Give us a radio show.
It would be very useful for a serious news outlet to challenge the author of the Frontier Economics report, Danny Price, on the validity of the many flawed assumptions and conclusions of the report. Grilling Dutton and O'Brien on this is futile as they simply defer to Frontier as "the experts".
December 14, 2024 at 11:53 PM
It would be very useful for a serious news outlet to challenge the author of the Frontier Economics report, Danny Price, on the validity of the many flawed assumptions and conclusions of the report. Grilling Dutton and O'Brien on this is futile as they simply defer to Frontier as "the experts".
Has Dutton released the Frontier Economics report ahead of this press conference to allow informed questioning? Link anyone?
December 12, 2024 at 11:58 PM
Has Dutton released the Frontier Economics report ahead of this press conference to allow informed questioning? Link anyone?
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"Repeat after me: there was no 'landslide'. There was no 'blowout'. There was no 'sweeping' mandate given to Trump by the electorate. The numbers don’t lie."
My new Guardian op-ed on the new GOP election lie - and why it's important to rebut it! I brought (lots of) receipts:
My new Guardian op-ed on the new GOP election lie - and why it's important to rebut it! I brought (lots of) receipts:
Donald Trump didn’t win by a historic landslide. It’s time to nip that lie in the bud | Mehdi Hasan
In 2024, we have a new post-election lie – Trump didn’t just win, Republicans say, but he won big. He won a landslide. That’s false
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2024 at 4:02 PM
"Repeat after me: there was no 'landslide'. There was no 'blowout'. There was no 'sweeping' mandate given to Trump by the electorate. The numbers don’t lie."
My new Guardian op-ed on the new GOP election lie - and why it's important to rebut it! I brought (lots of) receipts:
My new Guardian op-ed on the new GOP election lie - and why it's important to rebut it! I brought (lots of) receipts:
Will anyone notice?
Liberal senator Simon Birmingham to retire from politics at the next election
Opposition Senate leader Simon Birmingham has announced he will retire from politics after 17 years to move in a "commercially orientated" direction.
www.abc.net.au
November 28, 2024 at 8:08 AM
Will anyone notice?