The Australian Human Rights Commission’s President and Commissioners for children and women’s rights have called on the Australian Government to support efforts to enable 34 Australian women and children held in the al-Roj camp in Syria to return to Australia humanrights.gov.au/about-us/med...
A win for transparency. ✅
Labor has dropped proposed FOI changes that would have added fees and made access to government documents harder. I opposed this bill because FOI must strengthen accountability, not reward secrecy.
#auspol
Here's me. 'Stop pretending to be dumb: the Iran War is about Greater Israel, not “liberation”'
Tony Abbot takes on Mark Carney in an intellectual fight … oblivious to the fact that he’s completely out-gunned.
All this painful read shows is that Abbott places sycophancy towards the US far ahead of sovereign conduct. He espouses easy & wrong instead of hard & right. #auspol
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price charged taxpayers $2,500 to fly her husband to the CPAC conservative conference in Brisbane last year, where she made a speech calling to cut government spending. #Irony #Hypocrisy #auspol
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How do billionaires manage to accumulate such obscene wealth? Because of this 👇
The mega rich simply buy political parties and policy outcomes to entrench their power and status while wages fall and life for millions of Australians gets harder.
It's time we taxed them.
No wonder he wants to suppress it: Election review goes to the heart of why Taylor’s all wrong for the Liberals www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/04/l...
Seems like the media should at least express some curiosity about this.
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"I just got called a bitch, by the racist."
Classic
#AusPol
I want Australian citizens home from Syria. Can you honestly say that those women were not under coercive control when they left? Surely some? Despite leaving, they must be able to bring their children home. They said they are happy to do whatever it takes. Let them come home.
Why are we spending $130 million on a Royal Commission into antisemitism, but nothing to tackle Islamophobia or any other form of racism? Do some lives matter more than others? #auspol
Cruelty. And child abuse. Unforgiveable
Screen shot: Little surprise then that the Parliamentary Budget Office has found that 59% of the benefit of the CGT discount goes to the richest 1% (or those earning more than $362,900): with chart showing the richest 10% get $17.7bn from the CGT discount while the rest get $4bn.
The CGT 50% discount not only distorts the housing market it is also the most inequitable policy you could dream up. (Which is probably why John Howard and Peter Costello did it)
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Measles was wiped out in the U.S. 25 years ago and now we’re already past 1,000 cases in February because vaccination rates dropped below the safety line. This is what happens when public health gets gutted and people stop trusting basic science.
The PM calling Grace Tame, a woman fighting for the safety of children, “difficult” is completely unwarranted.
Labelling women as difficult won’t silence us. It won’t stop us speaking truth to power.
Next time try “unbreakable” or “warrior” or “fierce”, Prime Minister.
My column: sorry Timmy Wilson, but no, the richest don’t need a tax cut to encourage them to work more
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Contrary to Albanese’s word association games with the Murdoch press, I don't think Grace Tame is "difficult". She just doesn’t like dickheads and pedophiles, it's really quite simple.
Unfortunately that's all you can do - imagine. Our politicians are too cowardly to actually do something about #DomesticViolence.
The real “Legacy” of John Winston Howard
30 years on …we, as a Nation , are still “paying the cost of our own demise as an inclusive, fair and just society”
I know where I’ll send my pet possum to piss when he passes
( thank you Mr Hull )
Labor seems to think it is politically smart to go along with the cruelty, stupidity and racism of the Coalition on children and their mothers stuck in Syria.
But why scrape the barrel, when the latest polls suggest the hard right of politics is getting so crowded?
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Political leaders must stop bending the knee to Trump, a delusional, dangerous autocrat.
Have we lost self respect, and our capacity to act in the national interest?
Capitulating to a bully, a felon, a misogynistic megalomaniac is not “ pragmatic patriotism”.
It’s cowardice.
Politicians are outnumbered by lobbyists in Parliament House 15 to one; on sitting days hundreds of lobbyists roam the halls in Canberra, meeting with Ministers to influence government policies.
My Clean Up Politics Act would shine a light on lobbyists’ activities.
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
The word "interesting" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here 🔥 😂 in respect of Senator Canavan saying he had "never heard of the #AtlasNetwork". His brother an exec at 🇺🇸 coal giant Peabody, which is a major funder of Atlas climate denial propganda and thinktanks in Australia & in the USA.👀👇 #Auspol
From me: The architect of the Robodebt scheme, who was told it was unlawful even as he delivered it for the government, is still employed in the public service, now at the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions. And in a senior governance and risk role. www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/20/r...
From the Guiffre family
The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.
A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.
Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.
This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
"a heightened risk of violence", @albomp.bsky.social ?
So doesn't Hanson's Islamophobic tirade meet the criteria for, um....hate speech?
Or are you only concerned with slogans at anti-genocide protests? #racism #auspol
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