Horrifying insight into former PM Morrison’s personality and attitude to the not just people but *children* that he had imprisoned in grotesque offshore conditions.
#auspol
Please RT so
@PeterDutton_MP
can’t miss this truth. His weak, divisive demonisation of a people is an intolerable repetition of his usual tactic. If he has nothing to offer but hatred and fear, he has nothing.
#Auspol
Dear
@tenaciousd
. We’re really sorry. This is our Lauren Boebert. He’s thick as two short planks, thinks he lives in America, MAGA. He’d sell snake oil if he were smart enough. He is performing Christianity to scare the wOkEs. He’s mortifying. Please don’t judge us by the cooker.
PVO is rage farming for traction.
Imagine not changing policy when conditions change so dramatically 🙄
Australia journalism is in a dire state and
@vanOnselenP
is a big part of the problem. We shouldn’t have political journalism this bad
#auspol
The
@australian
refused Stephen Charles AO, QC, right of reply for their mischaracterised picture of a federal ICAC (and personal attacks). This is the piece they refused to print. Please share it with your friends/fam who read The Oz
#ausvotes
Most White Aussies have no idea what it feels like to live here if you look Black (or Asian). We need to listen to people to find out what their experience is. I worked with an Indigenous footy player a few years after he retired from the game. His stories shocked me.
The lawyers who compiled the case setting out Morrison/Dutton mistreatment of refugees and asylum seekers have a meticulously documented mountain of evidence. The $70 million settlement payment to refugees was an utter bargain to prevent the nightmare being aired in court.
Speaker of the House of Representatives
@MiltonDickMP
will appear as a guest speaker at an event promoting the Seven Mountains Mandate ideology that calls for Christians to conquer the key spheres of influence in society. Read more:
#auspol
Tony Abbott received a standing ovation as he arrived on stage to deliver the Keynote at CPAC Aus. He and his posse are steering Australia towards Orbanism: all bigotry, fear, hatred and resentment. We need to be watching and acting
@johnmenadue
#Auspol
The owner of
#Burgertory
in Caulfield whose staff has been harassed and shop burned down speaks with passion for
#Palestine
and for living together in
#peace
. He has lost 38 family members - and the two Gazan orphans he sponsored have been killed by Israel too.
#Gaza
#Melbourne
@HenriMcAlister
Cancer that went from being small presences on his initial xray to almost filling an entire lung in two and a half weeks. He was the best bloke you’d ever meet. Adopted dad to so many. Funny, energy-radiating and unstoppable until he wasn’t.
@stephaniedowric
@kylielclark
Thank-you very much for saying this. She might note it from you, when she can wave away the rest of us as the Twitter (sic) unwashed.
Can you really not find a decent organisation to work for,
@samanthamaiden
? Is the best you can do with your career trashing your integrity on the Murdoch Dog Line?
Australian
#journalism
is in a parlous state, with few doing better than this dumpster fire
#auspol
#media
.
@abcnews
Why are your reporters spouting the government’s obscene characterisation of asylum seekers as illegals? Are you now state-run media (as opposed to publically owned)? Be better.
#auspol
The wonderful
@JaneCaro
launches the first Secular Australia conference in NSW. Theocracy is the threat. Secularism and freedom from religion are crucial for democracy. Freedom of religion within that context.
#Auspol
The ALP and the LNP are set to institute political 💰 reforms that will crush new indies and small parties. We need reforms designed with precision to promote democracy not freeze it.
#auspol
Oh gawd. I’ve just found a treasure trove of insult memes and jokes and I want to go insulting everyone because they’re so funny. But I can’t. Damn you, stars. Here’s a tasteful one.
The "conservative" parties in Aus are not what they were. Liberal voters must understand what has changed. The radicalisation of their policies - and co-opting of branches by extreme religious candidates - is a threat.
#vicVotes2022
#SpringSt
@johnmenadue
Sarah Ferguson is interviewing non-entity and vile personage Mike Pezzullo.
Why?
Do I watch or throw a brick through my telly?
Murdoch’s ABC strikes again.
Too many public servants let Australia down over the abuses of Coalition decade - think Robodebt. Call
@MarkDreyfusKCMP
today & ask him to intervene to stop the persecution of these two brave men, who followed the
#Whistleblower
legal path but pay still.
@HOO5ON
@DanielleMuscato
It’s actually a lot more. It’s not just the predators. It’s the ones who feel entitled to sex or to comment on our bodies. It’s the guys yelling dykes at me and a friend coz we had short hair. It’s the “all about men” vibe that makes us decoration or failure. It’s exhausting.
Thanks to Jo Dyer
@instanterudite
How much of a diseased pick-me girl does Bettina Arndt or Janet Albrechtsen have to be to promote this POS as a hErO of the Right? 🤮
The Kyle Rittenhouse phenomenon imported, alongside so much else, from the US of broken A.
#auspol
Round about 40% of Aussies identifying as no religion last census. 50% in Tasmania. We need to make MPs etc aware that people who want division between church and state are a substantial bloc. We need to stand up to counter religious lobbyists who run rings
#SecularismAU
#Auspol
Every time I write about the risk of American-style Christianity to our Australian lives, people tell me it is a distant threat. It's not. This movement is the moral heft of the anti-"woke" movement - with all its fascistic implications:
#auspol
#springst
Australians elect governments run by corporations (and by trade partner countries run by their corporations). Fossil fuel is more determined than ever to extract every dollar before the end, no matter what harm that inflicts. Australians get near zip from fossil fuel.
#auspol
Anti-Zionist Jewish people are heroes to keep fighting for justice against condemnation by those they love.
Never condemn “Jews” for the crimes of Israel. It’s the Zionists who refuse to allow Palestinian humanity that we must spotlight and shame.
#Gaza_Genocide
#Gaza
#Auspol
When I wrote about the Centre for Independent Studies (
#AtlasNetwork
partner alongside the IPA), their comms director leapt on a blog to call me a conspiracy theorist. Well, IPA just advertised their links to Atlas. Slow clap for clumsy propaganda, chaps.
You know what happened 30 years ago? The “neoliberal” counterrevolution gained traction. Yes, life is worse - except for the very rich and enablers.
#auspol
Never forget, Simon Benson helped screw over a candidate to get ScoMo into politics. Never forget he’s in a relationship with the National Party’s Queen of Coalition pork barreling.
#Corruption
#journalism
#media
#auspol
How he destroyed a good man's reputation with the help of churnalist, Simon Benson, to gain preselection for Cook.
@LiberalAus
allowed this scum to rise to the heights he did. The two are interchangeable. And totally unethical.
Delighted to see this re-run as 1 of the 10 most read on
@johnmenadue
’s Pearls & Irritations this year. Integrity reforms, and reversing this trend, must be key for the majority in
#Australia
in 2022. There is no
#ClimateAction
etc without that.
#auspol
Take note that this climate denier is IPA. IPA is Atlas Network. Atlas Network is chief fossil fuel money conduit originating from America to destroy any democratic attempts to interfere with their funders’ resource extraction, profiteering. Murdoch funnels Atlas.
#Auspol
This is American cooker/puritan nonsense imported here. We don’t need this tosh. Don’t ignore the nightmare of American culture wars. Everyone loses except rich-ish, straight, white men. Poor white men just think they win. We need to address this viral infection.
Big W removes book after threats to staff from conservative campaigners
"there have been multiple incidents of abuse directed at our store team members in the past 24 hours. To keep our team and customers safe, the book will now only be available online”
@grumpyoldfool62
@InsidersABC
Bloody well said.
We expect LNP 2020s to be the debased clusterfork of Christofash and IPA (
#AtlasNetwork
) affiliates that it is.
We need an absolute overhaul of the way MSM runs. If
@AlboMP
wants a fair go for his gov as much as we want a better country, this is inescapable
There is something desperately wrong at
@abcnews
This is such a disgraceful framing. This couple is a key part of the Christian Nationalist Right turning Florida fascist. Her Moms for Liberty group are driving Queer families out of Florida in fear for safety. Vile hypocrites.
@HenriMcAlister
He was working 80 hour weeks and playing sports and enjoying his favourite whiskey. He had an irritating cough that wouldn’t lift and then fevers. Went into hospital for iv antibiotics 3 weeks ago and just kept getting worse. Turns out he had an apocalyptically aggressive
It’s really important that Australians learn the term “competitive authoritarianism.” It’s happening here, the UK and very much the US. Read my piece
@johnmenadue
#auspol
#democracy
From
@crikey_news
this week. Why Stokes holds onto Ch 7: the importance of 7 & The West Australian paper to both mining and the LNP's power chances. It is crucial that Australians look harder at the news we are provided and understand that far too much of it is toxic.
#auspol
It’s a pity that the
@austmus
didn’t read my May 23 essay before dignifying the Australian Jewish Association with a response. This is not a peak body but one far right winger’s hobby project. Our journalists and orgs must do better at recognising fakes.
@TonyHWindsor
@simonahac
#Biloela
reminded Aussies that we don’t have to be the resentful, nasty people that the LNP wants us to be. All of us owe the community for that reminder.
@nataliesqrl
@TheDescenters
I have emailed
#MediaWatch
to tell them what I think of this pathetic journalism fail by a program that poses as a monitor of quality journalism. I’m cishet - and Terf ideas are neither feminist nor pro-woman.
Australians are very quick to turn on Muslims. It’s a deeply dangerous trait on display several times in this last week. Unfortunately, Islamophobia is a key element to the extremist Christianity taking over in the US, and we see those ramifications here.
Thanks to
@mbachelard
and
@calumjaspan_
for revealing this influence campaign by Lawyers for Israel. If Zionists keep up this disgraceful behaviour in the face of a crime against humanity, then they are responsible for rising antisemitism. Anti-Zionist Jewish people are heroes.
Terrific work from Chrys Stevenson tying the 1,000 Christian Nationalist churches in Australia to fossil fuel money via Atlas Network, drawing on
@DrJeremyWalker
’s research. Paleolibertarians want low tax, no regs, fossil fuels. Using Christofascists as voter bloc & distraction.
“Australians have begun to see the new face of extreme religion in our conservative politics. These radical forces threaten the freedoms we value.” A MUST READ by
@lucyham
It’s time we considered taking most aged care out of the for-profit sector. Farming our elderly for some of the best shareholder returns on sector in the world is a disgrace. Our grandparents eat pap so CEOs can drive Ferraris.
#auspol
It is crucial that we crush the capacity of parallel spending like Clive‘s advertising blitz disinformation on
#VoiceToParliament
and fake death tax scare in 2019. We need to distinguish that money from pro-democracy transparent money.
#Auspol
#Yes23
#Yes23au
I watched this episode of Compass on iView last night. It is excellent.
@antloewenstein
and his Dad and wife are outstanding human beings. See Gaza as it was and hear Palestinian voices platformed. See a new way of being Jewish for this moment in the youth celebrated.
#auspol
I just told
@JohnPesutto
what I thought of his party’s ad allying itself firmly with anti-vaxxer street violence. His response? “We have different opinions” and a refusal to distance himself from this.
@LiberalVictoria
is not a moderate option.
#springst
#VicVotes
My first essay in recent times was “Democracy in Decline” in Australia under the Coalition in 2021. Albo’s gov isn’t shoring up and repairing our democratic project nearly fast enough.
#auspol
The Government™ has made an ad about the state of Democracy™, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.
feat. 🇮🇳 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇺🇲 🇿🇦 🇮🇩 🇵🇰 🇮🇷 🇮🇱 🇷🇸 🇲🇽 🇻🇪 🇧🇾 🇷🇺 🇧🇬
@AmyRemeikis
@simonahac
Is this suggesting that the police are effectively working with LNP and Advance by releasing the suspicion before the charge was withdrawn over mistaken identity?
I’m sure there are lots of mistaken identity moments. How many hit the news?
#auspol
#DunkleyVotes
@DanielBleakley
@simonahac
@jensstoltenberg
Can we please drum up some noise about how helium got dropped from the negotiations with Timor? This question needs answering. Woodside and ConocoPhillips have made a mint at both nations’ expense from that “mistake.”
If you want to understand Alex Antic, Moira Deeming and the Liberal party insurgency, try these two articles. Our old centre right party has been co-opted by people with an internationally-constructed Far Right agenda.
#auspol
The Australian Jewish Association (AJA) is a bad organisation. It’s one man’s pet project, now growing to have a board 🙄 so it can better pretend to be a real Jewish peak body, which it is not. Look at
@AltMediaWatch
’s crucial week’s work in 4 threads to expose it.
#auspol
Remember that it’s
@Adam_Creighton
’s job to distract you from gas profiteering and business opportunistic profiteering as the primary cause of inflation. America did better than Europe because it supported people through the moment. Creighton is a propagandist for Big 💰
#auspol
Just your regular reminder that Murdoch (who helped found one of the
#AtlasNetwork
junktanks in Australia) regularly platforms people representing AN junktanks like Nick Cater’s Menzies Research Centre. Atlas Network bodies are interconnected with fossil fuel money.
#Auspol
@MikeCarlton01
Thanks for giving an honest assessment of a truly appalling human. Too much tiptoeing around the revolting facts. There are lots of us who’ve been watching his impact on refugee lives in grief and disgust and we’re delighted to see the rest of the country catching up.
Reread this column. We need to encourage the big economic players that trade with Israel is intolerable while it remains a rogue state, murdering innocent civilians, starving families intentionally.
#BDS
#BoycottIsraeliProducts
The market Alan Jones is pitching to on ADH TV is pathologically anti “groomer” and anti LGBTQIA+. Child abuse (from reading a picture book about paired male penguins up) is their nightmare. How will these allegations sit with that crowd? Will they assert the Deep State strikes?
Important* summary of how bad the state of Australia’s democracy is, and what we need to do about it. (*Quoting others with that “important” adj 😉)
#auspol
@rajah_mich
@simonahac
Every time I write about the risk of American-style Christianity to our Australian lives, people tell me it is a distant threat. It's not. This movement is the moral heft of the anti-"woke" movement - with all its fascistic implications:
#auspol
#springst
The
#AtlasNetwork
’s key Aus region event, the Friedman Conference, became something new this year. It merged with the Church and State show. Libertarian “freedom” was always for plutocrats & enablers - absolutely not for workers. Now “freedom” = “enforced ‘virtue’” too.
#auspol
In Victoria, the shift to public spending on campaigns has been an important integrity measure. It is infuriating that it was designed in such a way to prevent quality independents & minor parties beating the majors.
#SpringSt
#Auspol
Labor slipped neoliberalism into Australia, not a Thatcher or Reagan. Now Labor is unable to end the drastic overfunding of private schools, impoverishing of public schools, crippling HECS debts. USA shows these measures born of fear of electorate
#Auspol
Protest is supposed to be inconvenient. If it’s convenient, it’s probably invisible. It’s a crucial tool against overweening and unresponsive forms of power.
@AlboMP
must pressure Labor states to remove draconian laws suppressing protest.
#auspol
Remember Advance (Australia) was founded by CIS-affiliated donors and figures. The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) is an
#AtlasNetwork
partner. This is an American pro-plutocrat game trying to prevent the democratic project interfering with plutocrat plans.
#Auspol
A cautionary important thread on how the culture war mongers do their work.
The last week shows how Peter Dutton plans to win the next election, assisted by media who moonlight as the LNP PR machine, working in unison with a conservative lobby group funded by billionaires.
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It will only cost you 15 minutes to be reminded that
@Joshfrydenberg
destroyed AGL's efforts to transition by a phone campaign to have the new CEO driven out. Important listening for
@Mon4Kooyong
@simonahac
#auspol
CW Since
#PeterDutton
took the helm of the LNP, journos have whitewashed the horrors carried out under him against people who came to us seeking safety. That
#journalism
🙄 is not just access-seeking or lazy. It’s dangerous.
#auspol
So
@JEChalmers
A big part of the reason the LNP got trashed in May was their total resistance to treating the public as adults. Tell us why you think, in the face of economic hardship for so many, you believe tax cuts for the rich can’t even be postponed.
#auspol
SkyNews' Caroline Marcus didn't disclose a bloke she interviewed who said he was intimidated by a Palestinian Flag pin on a Qantas Attendant had been Tas Liberal Branch leader or staffer for Michael Sukkar.
Marcus said not relevant and blocked
@AltMediaWatch
for pointing it out.
@slpng_giants_oz
It’s worth reading this for the Aus aspect of the recent Tucker Carlson investigation by NYT. Murdochs seen to be speaking through Tucker Carlson show by Aus News Corp editors. Great Replacement theory.