@parkerishere
Parker's just this guy, you know Small hospitality business owner with opinions, woodworker, desert music studio coordinator and fact checked science/news enthusiast on the left. Currently residing on unceded Gadigal land
Not going to stop us
📣 Reportedly only 140,000 out of the 480,000 Robodebt class action members have registered to receive additional compensation in the proposed settlement.
If you're eligible, you have until 4pm tomorrow to register with Gordon Legal:
robodebtsettlement.com.au
Queenslanders can now be imprisoned for up to two years for singing the lyrics to John Farnham's Two Strong Hearts.
From the river to the sea, this timeline of stupidity feels like a bad straight to VHS production.
#auspol
Started writing my submission, realised I'm gonna include references to various nasty encounters I've had online, and that I want to highlight how Advance Australia has contributed to this shirt and want sources, so I'm going to save it as a draft as a compile what I need.
Calvin et Hobbes "What a stupid world" Bill Watterson
Sunday Morning #Moods
@johnbirmingham.bsky.social might enjoy this one
Don't get me wrong, I think these attacks are horrific. I'm just confused about how making the punishment harsher will address why the attacks happened in the first place.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
Can someone please explain to me why we always need new laws? Isn't it already illegal to commit violent crime?
And do these guys ever consider causation? We know that "tough on crime" has literally never prevented crime. #auspol #nswpol
"Where It All Went Wrong: The Case Against John Howard"
by @amyremeikis.bsky.social
On the thirtieth anniversary of John Howard coming to power, a searing analysis of the untouchable prime minister: how the ‘great economic manager’ sold our future. 26Feb2026 #auspol #AusHistory #politics #BookSky
@mattkirshen.bsky.social
#probablyscience
Do we really want a dumb PM and cabinet?
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Hanson attacks Senator Thorpe, she gets death threats.
Hanson attacks Lakemba Muslim community they get death threats.
Hanson must face charges for inciting hate crimes
Single frame. Morning tv show set with male and female hosts on curved couch facing PM Albanese. Albanese says: “My mother would have said, ‘if you make your bed, you lie in it…’” Female host says: “What if the bed involves leaving kids in camps overseas to be stigmatised, traumatised and radicalised instead of repatriating and rehabilitating them?”
Make your bed.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
Australian One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson
Imagine the outrage if a Federal MP asked "Show me a good Jew!" Yet Pauline Hanson can rptedly vilify the Australian Muslim community by asking "Show me a good Muslim!" Shouldn't she be charged under the new hatespeech laws?! #auspol #Islamophobia
Next month we'll hit 1000 days since the Murphy Report into gambling harm was handed down.
More than 3 in 4 Australians want stronger gambling advertising laws, but the Govt continues to stall. Politicians from both major parties continue to accept donations, gifts & perks from gambling companies.
Not that it was ever in doubt, but the gas companies' jimmies are very rustled, so here you go:
thepoint.com.au/factchecks/2...
40% of WA's prison population being indigenous is a massive failure of policing, racism, lazy politics and a reliance on the carceral state. There are hundreds of cascading consequences we should care about. Liam Alexander Hall's life from now on is not one of them
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
Because I grew up in QLD in the ‘80s, I’m more often surprised when police *don’t* attack demonstrators. So I’ve had that familiar feeling this week of watching people come to a difficult truth: when you see a demo turn ugly, it’s almost always because the cops decided that’s how it was gonna go.
Two frames. 1. Lib Party Room, members huddled around table, one says “We have no policies, no principles, no vision, no credibility, no gravitas, no consistency, no popular appeal…” 2. Same scene, another says, “You’re right - Angus Taylor is the leader who best represents us.”
If the cap fits.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
Is Angus Taylor the answer to the Liberal Party’s problems?
Malcolm Turnbull
“No. He’s absolutely not.”💥 #auspol
Angus Taylor is the perfect example of what private education can do.
Your kids got shit for brains? Don't worry, King's can still get him into the top job and the only side effect is racism.
Revolutionary change at Liberal HQ - Angus Taylor’s Kings School education and his work at global management consultants McKinsey should see a fresh focus on the needs of ordinary people
Fantastic. Great move. Well done Angus
This guy is dumber than toast, I can't wait to see him out front just for the laughs
A schooner of tax dodging, foreign owned corporate swill like reschs or grate norvern would be pretty on brand.
This must be Thursday, I never could get the hang of Thursdays
I asked Penny Wong today how hosting President Herzog in Australia when UN experts have found he incited genocide, when he has signed bombs used on Gaza, and right now Israel is stealing more Palestinian land, how could that ever be about peace?
My son (went to bridge protest) asked me why I was taking a mask to a #Protest.
I explained that the police had been given power to use gas on us.
"Why would they do that, Dad?"
"Well... They want to stop us speaking about the bad things that are happening"
"Why would they want to do that?..."
Happy #LibSpill Day for those who celebrate.
as we mark 18 years since Closing the Gap was launched with the National Apology to Stolen Generations and their Descendants, know that police routinely target and brutalise Aboriginal people including children and then charge them with offensive behaviour, resist arrest, and assault police.
