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• Post #4217024

  #Albo ending the #fuel cuts & saying despite the war, he won’t reinstall them, shows just how deaf he is to the public. No wonder his approval rating is so low. #auspol

• Post #4213570

  RE: https://journa.host/@fulelo/117005331831651060 Archeology time then! Time to send drones up looking for features exposed by the parched earth! #TimeTeam #DiggingForBritain #Roman

• Post #3928451

  Hundreds of #activists join #Arrernte #TraditionalOwners ahead of #PineGap #protest to voice their #concerns over the #expansion of the nation's most #secretive defence #facility and the nature of its operations in #warfare. It has been almost 60 years since Pine Gap was built in the heart of the nation, 18 kilometres south-west of #AliceSprings. It was originally sold to the public as a #SpaceBase, but the joint #Australian #US facility has since expanded to become a major #intelligence a...

• Post #3925729

  Feckless and clueless, #Trump is lost in #Iran, unable to find a way out of the disastrous #war he started. Once again, the #US #military is pummelling the country and, increasingly, its #civilian #infrastructure. As before, this #unlawful bludgeoning strengthens the resistance of a hardline regime that cares little for its people’s suffering. How often have Trump and #Hegseth, the #Pentagon’s wildling lord of bones, hailed a #bogus #victory? The #president claimed this week to be “winn...

• Post #3877080

  #GinaRinehartsOneNation owner #GinaRinehart has big plans for the north of Australia. #GinaRinehart spoke at the #NationalBushSummit in #Townsville last month - a #NewsCorp event sponsored by her company, #HancockProspecting - she said the #Queensland government could give some #FreeLand to "the #Israelis" to turn Townsville into a base for #Israeli companies to develop their #MilitaryWeapons systems. "[We could] encourage the Israelis to develop and build their advanced war #dr...

• Post #3876945

  Disgraced former #LiberalPartypolitician #DarylMaguire’s insistence he knew nothing of a #conspiracy to create false visa applications for #Chinese nationals has been rejected by a jury, AAP reports. Maguire, the 67-year-old former member for #WaggaWagga, was found guilty in the Downing Centre district court on Friday of conspiring to create the bogus applications for 10 Chinese nationals purporting to employ them at businesses in the #NSW #Riverina region. As a result of the verdict, it can b...

• Post #3875102

  RE: https://fairdinkum.one/@John/116932915575091339 Top Democrat on House intelligence committee says #Trump was setting the stage to #SeizeControl of #midterm #elections. “I’m not an alarmist”, congressman Jim Himes, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, just told MSNOW after #DonaldTrump’s speech, “but understand what happened tonight: the president was setting the context, he was setting the basis for him to turn around, at midnight on Election Day and say, ‘I warned you, I...

• Post #3851902

  A new study has found #PetCats were #responsible for fewer than 1% of #NativeAnimals taken to #NSW #wildlife carers over an 11-year period. The study, done by #UniversityOfQueensland (UQ) researchers in collaboration with the #AustralianPetWelfareFoundation, has sparked renewed debate about the risk the popular pets pose to threatened wildlife. It analysed NSW wildlife rescue and rehabilitation data on 158 threatened and endangered native species between 2013 and 2024. There were 52,475 threa...

• Post #3847732

  More than 40 civil society groups across #Australia are calling on #universities to protect the #right to #peaceful #protest and #academic #freedom on #campuses as vice-chancellors appear at the royal commission into #antisemitism. The statement, signed by organisations including the #HumanRightsLawCentre (HRLC), #AmnestyInternational Australia and the #AustralianDemocracyNetwork, expressed “grave #concern at the increasing adoption by universities across Australia of measures that #restrict pr...

• Post #3819623

  #Kentucky governor #AndyBeshear has sent a letter to the office of #Republican senator #MitchMcConnell – requesting an update on his condition, as concerns grow about the lawmaker’s health since he was admitted to hospital on 14 June. “As Governor – and a fellow public official who understands the commitment we’ve made to the people we serve – I am requesting the Senator provide an update on his current health status,” Beshear said in a statement. “Allowing speculation to continue in the medi...

• Post #3798064

  Unlike #federal #elections, #Victorian elections have #GroupVotingTickets in the upper house – a system that enables the business of #PreferenceWhispering’ – back-room deals where preferences are swapped to elect MPs with a tiny share of the votes. This was being used to game the system. Right wing agitator, #AviYemeni, has been working to #register #fake micro-parties called the ‘Free Palestine Party’ and ‘Muslim Votes Matter’ with the explicit purpose of ChannelingVotes to #OneNation. Another...

• Post #3661321

  #SchrödingersSenator #uspol #coverup #auspol Concerns are growing about the health of US Senator #MitchMcConnell, a top #Republican lawmaker who has been in hospital for over three weeks. McConnell, 84, was admitted for treatment on 14 June, according to his staff. His aides have not given any details about the reason for his hospital stay, or what kind of treatment he is receiving. His team said on 2 July he was "receiving excellent care" and "continues to improve". On...

• Post #3558866

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@GeoWire/116688892033253233 #NeverTrustTrump #uspol #TrumpRegime

• Post #3558865

  #BarnabyJoyce and a #OneNation colleague have struggled to detail the party’s housing policy, with Joyce requesting a second TV appearance to do so and Senator #SeanBell being cut off during what a radio host described as a “trainwreck” interview. Joyce told #SkyNews on Thursday that his party wanted to force permanent residents to sell their homes – before clarifying with colleagues and quickly returning to say that wasn’t One Nation policy. The program’s host, #AndrewBolt, who interviewed Jo...

• Post #3558864

  #JenniferEgan is a #Pulitzer prize-winning #author: “#HappyBirthday, President #Trump! By any measure, you have racked up a staggering number of accomplishments in your 80 years. You’ve managed to nullify the bulwark against #fascism that our three branches of government were meant to provide. You’ve transformed the presidency into an orgy of #corruption and self-dealing that would make last century’s robber barons blush. You’ve #erased whatever #goodwill and #respect America commanded...

• Post #3558863

  12% hydrogen peroxide causes severe skin burns and irreversible eye damage on contact. Swallowing it can cause severe internal burns, gastric irritation, and gas embolisms. #Trump kills #ReflectingPool #ducks

• Post #3558862

  #Trump insists 'there's pictures' no one else has seen of a vandal cutting the lining of the #LincolnMemorial #ReflectingPool Donald Trump once again devoted a large portion of an Oval Office event to insisting, without evidence, that his troubled renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, plagued by #algae blooms and a #peeling polyurethane liner, was actually caused by vandals. Asked by a reporter if the repairs to the pool would be completed by the Fourth of...

• Post #3558861

  The #KPMG scandal has engulfed the #Westpac board, with one of the big bank’s directors, Peter Nash, resigning effective today. The bank announced Nash’s resignation at 4.11pm, after markets had closed. Nash had been chair of Westpac’s board audit committee, including when KPMG was #tendering for its audit in 2023 and 2024. Nash was a former chair of KPMG, which won the lucrative contract. A #whistleblower has alleged the tender was “structurally compromised”, with former KPMG partners holdin...

• Post #3555880

  #Australia has always found its protection elsewhere. Before 1945 it was #GreatBritain and the #Commonwealth; since the end of the second world war its “great and powerful friend” has unswervingly been the #US. But Australia is now reckoning with a world where its protector is no longer great, nor powerful – nor a friend. The US remains the world’s best-resourced military, but it could not win its war in #Iran, after being humiliated by the #Taliban in #Afghanistan. And Australians have watch...

• Post #3480665

  #AUKUS, RIGHTS AND THE FIGHT FOR AN INDEPENDENT #AUSTRALIA By Senator #DavidShoebridge AUKUS is not going well. In fact, it is increasingly clear that this $400 billion project is in #meltdown. The promise was that Australia would acquire #NuclearPowered #submarines, beginning with Virginia-class submarines from the #UnitedStates in the early 2030s, before eventually building a new SSN-AUKUS submarine with the #UnitedKingdom. But the more scrutiny this project receives, the more obvious it...

• Post #3417145

  An unfortunate side effect of the #incompetent and #erratic negotiating tactics of the #Trump administration — not to mention the regular apparent #gaming of #financialmarkets — is that some of the underlying stories in the global #economy can get overlooked. People are kept perpetually on their toes about whether a deal with #Iran has, or hasn't been reached; whether the #StraitofHormuz is, or isn't, open; or whether Donald Trump thinks the Iranians are "terrible people" or...

• Post #2794148

  This is how #AnthonyAlbanese works: he takes too long to make a decision and when he finally does the decision he makes is too weak. He is like an orange tree fruiting in summer, small and pale and sparsely set. Politically, this is a terrible characteristic. He weathers all the opprobrium of indecision and then, in eventually acting, reminds everyone of his inadequacy. Speed is not traded for thoughtfulness or thoughtfulness traded for urgency. He is simply slow and wrong. He is at once late,...

• Post #2794147

  #Victorian #Greens criticise failure to introduce donation reforms. The #VictorianGreens leader, #EllenSandell, has criticised the state government for failing to introduce donation reforms to parliament this week. Speaking outside parliament, she told reporters #theGreens have heard “very little” from the government in the last few days after weeks of negotiations. Sandell went on: “I do not know what is holding #Labor back. I can only conclude that Labor is not interested in stopping dark m...

• Post #2794146

  #PaulineHanson continues to attract support from #Liberal ranks, with former #Coalition senator #HollieHughes to host the #OneNation leader at her pub in western New South Wales this weekend. Hughes was a federal senator from 2019 to 2025, but left the parliament after losing a preselection fight and not being re-elected last year. Hughes quit the Liberal Party in November, and was strongly critical of her former colleagues for undermining then-leader #SussanLey, who was later replaced by #Angu...

• Post #2794145

  #NorthernTerritory #police urge families of #missing #men to come forward to help ID found #remains. Northern Territory police are urging the families of missing men to come forward after more details emerged about the remains of an #Aboriginal man, believed to have died in the 1970s or 1980s, which were found more than a decade ago. On 1 April 2012, authorities found the skeletal remains of an Aboriginal man, believed to be in his early 30s, near #CharlotteRiver, just off #FogBayRoad, south o...

• Post #2794144

  #Cull of 20,000 #NativeBirds at #NewcastleWaters #CattleStation will not go ahead after parent company intervened. In a social media post, the parent company of #ConsolidatedPastoralCompany, which operates the station, said it was unaware of the licence and instructed staff to cease any culling plans "immediately". The parent company, #TerraFirma, says it will meet with "relevant environmental groups" when leaders visit #Australia later this year. &q...

• Post #2794143

  Man arrested after woman and two children found dead in a home in south-west Sydney. #auspol #DomesticViolence https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-18/three-people-found-dead-in-south-west-sydney-man-arrested/106694502

• Post #2794142

  ‘You have lost your decency’, father of #Australian on #flotilla to #Gaza tells #Albanese government. #ChrisOConnor, the father of #student #NeveOConnor, became emotional when he spoke of his daughter’s detainment. It is the second time she has been held by #Israel while attempting to deliver #humanitarianaid to Gaza. He said when he looked at the global flotilla, he saw a “cross-section of #decent #humans across the world”, made up of: “Different nationalities, different genders, different r...

• Post #2794141

  The #Victorian #Greens have criticised #JacintaAllan’s government for bringing the #weaponsexpo #LandForces back to #Melbourne in 2028, saying they are “completely out of touch”. It comes after the government announced it would be bringing the expo back in 2028 on Tuesday afternoon. The expo was cancelled in Melbourne and announced in Perth for 2026. In 2024, there was a public outcry and protests at the conference and allegations of #excessive #police tactics and #force used against #proteste...

• Post #2794140

  There has been #international #condemnation of #Israel's #treatment of pro-Palestinian #activists who were on board a Gaza-bound #aid #flotilla intercepted by #Israeli naval forces. The #US, the #UK, #France, #Italy and #Canada were among the countries which expressed #outrage after far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir posted a video showing himself #taunting activists kneeling with their hands tied behind their backs. His actions also drew rare criticism from Israeli...