Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.
Listen, all I’m saying is that I’ve seen more pictures of Donald Trump partying with Jeffrey Epstein than I have of Donald Trump playing with his son Barron.
Taking from the young, giving to the old: How our tax system is letting us down https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11/taking-from-the-young-giving-to-the-old-how-our-tax-system-is-letting-us-down #Auspol
Having lived in occasional close proximity to the climate wars for 20 years or so, my belief is still beggered when groups like the nationals behave with such childish obstinacy, narrow self interest and denial. What planet are they actually living on?
Matt Canavan couldn’t give a shit about the cost to the planet of fossil fuel emissions - denies that there is a cost - but suddenly cares about koalas endangered by wind farms.
Sure thing. #insiders
By the way, I was right about it being Reagan’s last speech. It’s here: youtu.be/2R8QxCD6ir8
The video would probably piss Trump off. So please don’t make it go viral.
Good story from @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social on @michaelwest.com.au.web.brid.gy on the Government's broken promises on Australian content quotas & the diabolical impact on our local screen industry.
Are there any multi-nationals to which this Govt won't capitulate?
michaelwest.com.au/burke-gets-n...
So - let me get this straight…
They’ll ban social media for under 16s even though most experts say it WON’T work
But they won’t ban gambling advertising & other key recommendations even though most experts say it WILL work
What? #4corners #auspol
Always remember - gas companies hate selling gas to Australians and none of the proposals for new gas fields (which are not needed) will be for domestic use.
So do not buy any of the spin.
Thrilled that your dogged determination and forensic approach to telling us what was happening before during and immediately after the Royal Commission has been rewarded. Enjoy the well deserved applause and accolades.
Single frame. Image: four people holding up Donald Trump holding up Vladimir Putin who is reclining with crown and sceptre. “I once wrote “The Bad Guys are Winning” And by golly, they certainly are! They’re perverting the order Sowing death and disorder With absolute rule like a tsar Now we’ve layers of bad guys to deal with Bad guys propping up worse guys with zeal They indulge their demands Roll the carpet, shake hands And expect a Nobel for the deal We seem to buy into their fiction Entertaining their delusional lies If we ceased to believe Would they get up and leave? Then the winners wouldn’t be the bad guys.”
Bad guys.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
There’s no longer any pretense this has anything to do with crime (there are cities or parts of cities in SC and Ohio that have higher crime rates than DC — send the troops there!). This is about establishing a precedent for Trump seizing control of the nation’s capital when he wants to.
Aaron's been doing some amazing work on this issue
The rewriting of propaganda from the Sydney Morning Herald
Massola still didn't explain how or why or what prompted Matthew Knott to seek out a comment from Yousef in the first place.
Who prompted Matthew to do that? Who gave him the contacts?
These aren’t small edits. They’re substantial and making them without disclosure is unethical.
In print, it’s impossible. Online? Two readers can see 'the same' article hours apart and get different facts.
That's not journalism.
Attached image shows them side by side.
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Can housing be built for living, not flipping? Nightingale Housing are carbon-smart, not-for-profit apartments, sold at cost, capped on resale, and community-designed. It’s not utopia, it’s proof that homes can be beautiful, affordable and community focused. 👀⬇️
Minister Murray Watttf is going to artificially aerate Macquarie Harbour (surface area a mere 32,000 ha), by burning bulk diesel on a few noisy barges ... in order to subsidise a foreign owned non-taxpaying open water salmon feedlot operation.
Your Labor political party, working for you.
I mean, if you’re worried about falling revenue, the govt could just stop giving away $10bn in fuel tax credits, which even the OECD says is just an industry subsidy that should be dumped.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Mass starvation expert Alex de Waal warns the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is the “most intense, most severe,” and “minutely engineered” act of deliberate starvation since World War II.
#GazaHolocaust #GazaGenocide
Are you (or is someone you know) in the Sydney based federal seat of Bennelong?
John Howard's old seat is now held on a 9.3% margin by Labor's Jerome Laxale. Extraordinary!
Please sign this Dear Jerome open letter regarding their recent Woodside decision #auspol > docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Christiane Amanpour explains that Iran wanted to make deal with the US & its delegation was feeling optimistic over the next round of talks.
Note, one of Israels frst targets when they launched their unprovoked attack on Iran was the head of the Iranian delegation
Wild @roycerk2.bsky.social story: @monashuniversity.bsky.social were so ashamed of the luxury Italian conference they held in partnership with openly evil fossil fuel company Woodside that they deleted the entire website moments after the conference was done.
Keynoted by Tim Wilson (!)
10 years after gas exports from Queensland began, all of the gas companies involved, bar one, have not paid a cent in company tax.
This is despite them selling $125 billion worth of LNG out of Queensland, and reporting $330 billion in total Australian revenue. #auspol
Tony Barry nails it.
As long as Sky After Dark remains the Liberal Party’s policy incubator, expect more trash-tier pre-selections and policy ideas straight from the bin.
Extinction awaits.
I've worked with two majority governments - Coalition and Labor.
It doesn't stop me fighting for my community and having influence.
So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street
Absolutely the vibe the world needs RN
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Tasmanian salmon - an industry with lots of revenue, lots of pollution, and, as @rodcampbell.bsky.social writes, almost no tax paid
#OffTheCharts
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Tackling Christian extremism in Australian politics https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/05/tackling-christian-extremism-in-australian-politics #Auspol
