Michael West

International Women's Day. Never closer to equality, nor closer to losing it. - Michael West Women's rights are rolling back at the exact moment women are being pushed closer to war, poverty and public violence. IWD

"Women's rights are rolling back at the exact moment women are being pushed closer to war, poverty and public violence. This is not drift. It is design"

#IWD is tomorrow.

Very good analysis by Aleta Moriarty
#auspol
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Trump's Blunder. Air wars don't work. Iran ignores the lessons of history - Michael West Donald Trump's air war on Iran ignores the lessons of history, writes Michael Pascoe. Look at Germany, Yogoslavia, Korea, Vietnam.

Trump's Blunder. Air wars don't work. US Israel war on Iran ignores the lessons of history, writes @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social
#auspol #iran
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Legislative harakiri. A rare win for transparency as FOI bill dead - Michael West The Government's attempt to limit transparency has been killed off. Widely condemned, the death of the FOI amendment bill is a good thing

Albo's 'transparency bill' was so bad Labor killed it themselves.

( @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social might have helped but can't say too much)
#auspol #FOI
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Refugees on the move as invasion of Iran takes its toll - Michael West While mainstream media wallows in the spectacle of a live-streamed war, refugees in the Middle East are yet again on the move to nowhere safe.

Psst, don't tell Pauline the US Israel wars she supports are causing another refugee crisis
#auspol #whatsthescam @kimwingerei.bsky.social #Iran
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International Relations and Iran ft Scott Burchill - MWM Live YouTube video by The West Report

YouTube livestream at 2pm with @IRanalyst Dr Scott Burchill. Lots to chat about. No holds-barred. 'Free flowing' on Australia, the US, Israel and the invasion of Iran
#auspol
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Australia and the "Epstein Coalition". Invasion of Iran a disaster - Michael West It’s only Day Five of the war but surely the epic stupidity of Australia so cravenly backing the US Israeli invasion of Iran is evident by now

"We are led by fools and sycophants ... it’s only day 5 of the war but surely the epic stupidity of Australia so cravenly backing the US Israeli invasion of Iran is evident by now."
#auspol #trump #Iran
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Judge takes pity on BHP in case against injured coal miner - Michael West BHP has had almost an entire court case muzzled and a coal miner's case struck out without even filing a defence. Stephanie Tran reports.

Who said wailing doesn't work? BHP gets injured miner's case thrown out, docs suppressed - after they send him 'Court Book' he can't open on the night before the hearing
#auspol @sstephanietrann.bsky.social

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"Pack of Mongrels". Politics beats extinction of Maugean Skate - Michael West A decision brief on protecting the threatened Maugean Skate shows that the Labor Government puts wildlife extinction second to politics.

Docs show Labor put politics ahead of species extinction in lead-up to election @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social on the Maugean Skate
#auspol #FOI
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A Premier defied. NOT-Adelaide Writers' Week a smashing success - Michael West Constellation, the writer's week that rose from the ashes of cancelled Adelaide Writers' Festival has defied defying efforts to kill it

Packed venues. Free speech prevails. Murdoch & Malinauskas killed Adelaide Writers' Week, but 'Not-AWW' (sponsored by MWM) has gone off!
#auspol #whatsthescam #FreeSpeech
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War Drums Over Tehran | The West Report YouTube video by The West Report

In which we demolish the case for the illegal invasion of Iran being peddled by the patsies of the Epstein Regime
#auspol #Trump #EpsteinFiles
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Bondi Beach bounty - $5000 a day - Michael West Is public service pay too high? Head of Bondi Beach massacre inquiry Dennis Richardson jags $5,000 a day for 'independent report'.

Public service boss heading up Bondi Inquiry jags 5k a day for 'independent inquiry'
#whatsthescam @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social
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We’re going to need a bigger boat. Jim Chalmers' tax reform fishing not serious  - Michael West Treasurer Chalmers is floating tax reform balloons ahead of the May budget, like CGT, but he’s fighting the last war. The next one is nuclear.

Rightly, Jim Chalmers floats negative gearing and CGT reform, but with what's coming it won't be enough to fix budget and housing. Good read
@michaelpascoe01.bsky.social #auspol #AI
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Chris Minns' stormtroopers. Guns for graffiti, silence for the dead - Michael West Chris Minns' NSW government is creating a policing unit of around 250 officers, prioritising hate crimes above other violence.

"This is what happens when policing follows pressure rather than principle." Andrew Brown on the politics of Chris Minns 'Rapid Response Unit'
#auspol #nswpol
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Case Muzzled. Court strikes out injured coal miner, backs BHP - Michael West BHP has won sweeping suppression orders against coal miner Simon Turner after a court threw out the miner's case.

Judge muzzles Simon Turner coalminer case against BHP - then throws it out. Court transcripts don't materialise.

Court says too bad, its fault of the foreign multinational they sold the transcription service to
#auspol

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From Vietnam war to Gaza genocide. Where have all the unions gone? - Michael West Sixty years on from the union-led anti-Vietnam War marches, Australian union bosses are absent from protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Strange how the unions have been feeble on protesting Gaza Genocide, with a couple of commendable exeptions. @ajgardineresq.bsky.social reports #auspol #super
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The Big Four and the Death of Reform | The West Report YouTube video by The West Report

Did you ever get that sneaking suspicion - that tiny seed of doubt - that the politicians were not always acting in your interests?

Introducing "The System"
#auspol #CGT #ISISbrides
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Why are Australia's bureaucrats paid highest in world? @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social gets FOIs back from the Rem Tribunal fat cats.
#auspol #mindboggling
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Australian gas not keeping the lights on in Japan. What's the scam? - Michael West In 2024, Japan exported 40% of the gas it imported from Australia, keeping prices high here. What's the scam?

Australia, you are being scammed! #IEEFA shows Japanese export 40% of Aussie gas exports. Yep, they on-sell our gas for a profit while the corporations cry poor about tax and royalties and gas shortages @kimwingerei.bsky.social

#auspol #whatsthescam
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Jewish groups call on Tony Burke to cancel Israeli journalist visa - Michael West Jewish orgs request Tony Burke reject Australian visa for Israeli journalist as his funders' links to IDF emerge. Stephanie Tran reports.

Jewish orgs call Tony Burke to cancel Israeli hate journo visa #auspol

The trip is funded by same charity exposed by @sstephanietrann.bsky.social for funding IDF
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Reform Australia they cry! But will the Big 4 let them? - Michael West It's time to rebuild Australia they cry. But has the plutocracy already won? Michael West reports on reform stagnation and the Big 4

“We’ve wasted 20 years. It’s time to rebuild our great nation” proclaims Peter Costello today.
"To recover ... we need first to understand what happened.”

What happened Peter is you blew it

#CGT #auspol #housing #AFR
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Spurning the Black Rod. Labor's transparency dummy spit - Michael West Rex Patrick reports on a transparency dummy spit by Labor on the floor of the Senate as the government pushes secrecy agenda

The govt is gaming Parliament for the sake of secrecy. One for politics nerds by @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social #auspol #Senate
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Good enough for Gina Rinehart should be good enough for Palantir - Michael West Palantir is under pressure around the world but in Australia, despite clear legal breaches, it is being mollycoddled by ASIC

Mollycoddling of surveillance monster Palantir exposes double standards in Australia's corporate regulation #asic #auspol
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Prince Andrew Arrested, Illegal Land Sales, And The ISIS Brides | Scam of the week - Michael West Prince Andrew finally gets arrested, or at least the story is being sold that way, and the media instantly does what it always does, turns a system story into a celebrity spectacle. Meanwhile, back in...

Debunking the ISIS Brides & Prince Andrew beat-ups - #scamoftheweek
hate speech
#EpsteinFiles
#BHP
Caymans #AngusTaylor
#AJA stolen land sale rort
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Juvenile Justice. Caging children while corporate criminals go free - Michael West In Australia, children as young as ten can go to prison, while an executive responsible for multimillion-dollar bribery gets away with a fine

An average of 884 children in detention per night BUT Leighton exec in $45m bribery scandal pays $1k fine, goes to French chateaux
#auspol #justice
Story by Aleta Moriarty
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Beware the wages bogeyman - it’s the housing, stupid - Michael West A tight labour market is not doom and gloom for the RBA. Australia needs housing reform not further interest rate hikes.

Look to Parliament to fix housing, not the RBA to lift interest rates, says @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social

Tight labour market a good thing #auspol
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Hate Speech Laws Are Here, And They’re Already Being Weaponised |The West Report YouTube video by The West Report

Impact of the Hate Speech laws really hit this week. Backfired. At least 2 in jail, police attacking art, small biz, after anon complaints.

Laws will have to be repealed. Disaster #auspol
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Israel lobby law firm jags plumb role in Bondi Royal Commission - Michael West Gilbert & Tobin, key sponsor for elite Israel lobby group AICC, is to "provide legal support" for the Royal Commission into Antisemitism

Hearings kick off next week and the Israel lobby will be glad" that G&T has been picked to deliver legal services to the Bondi Royal Commission.
#auspol #whatsthescam
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Cafe of Dissent. When satire meets hate speech laws - Michael West Posters depicting world 'leaders' wearing Nazi uniforms have led to a cafe owner having to shut down gig as police established a crime scene.

Police charging about wrecking art & music gigs bc Netanyahu's Numpties complain, Hate Speech Laws
@joshbarnettmw.bsky.social #whatsthescam #auspol
#hatespeech
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Before the baton falls. How power and framing normalised violence - Michael West NSW Police violence against protestors at Town Hall was not an isolated event, rather the end point of a longer process, writes Andrew Brown.

Town Hall was no isolated event. Andrew Brown describes the political and media path to Minns police unleashing violence on peace protestors
#auspol
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The Sydney Roadshow Selling Illegal West Bank Homes | The West Report YouTube video by The West Report

Zionists trying with Murdoch to cancel Grace Tame = the same AJA Israel lobby group promoting a scheme to sell stolen Palestinian land to Australians
@joshbarnettmw.bsky.social @sstephanietrann.bsky.social
#auspol
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