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The NACC works exactly as intended when the Albanese govt set it up.

Everyone in the APH can get on the beers tonight’s knowing they’ll always be safe.

NACC's robodebt investigation conjures offensive and stupid excuses for letting Scott Morrison off The NACC report on robodebt is out and it exonerates Scott Morrison, with a series of excuses and a justification of extraordinary offensiveness.

Opinion | The National Anti-Corruption Commission’s reasons why Scott Morrison did nothing wrong on Robodebt are extraordinary and delusional, writes Bernard Keane. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/11/n...

The reality is the Canberra bubble was never going to allow their own to face consequences for Robodebt

Labor MPs quietly alarmed by Albanese government’s response to US-Israel strikes on Iran Several MPs question why the party rushed to endorse strikes that were likely in breach of international law

“Quietly alarmed” = too gutless to say it publicly

("but the strait of Hormuz closing is *bad* for capitalists" I didn't say their plan was smart, I just said they've learned not to put effort into avoiding disasters)

Important thing to keep in mind about disaster capitalism is that a few decades ago the capitalists realised that, if the game plan is to wait for a disaster and then capitalise on it, it is counterproductive to put any effort into avoiding disasters

Two kids with cancer died at Westmead Children’s Hospital due to mould in the wards. This is unacceptable and unbearable. Sorry is nowhere near enough

You can tell how much Labor and the Coalition care about the poor Iranians by the way they hastily built a series of offshore concentration camps to imprison Iranian refugees *forever* when they tried to escape the regime.

Children’s graves dug for Trump’s and Netanyahu’s war. This image speaks a terrible truth in answer to Labor’s lies about this awful war they support.

the distaste you see among these politicians for genuine activists and advocates is irritation that they're not willing to play the game for power, ignorant that it's the game that's killing us

starting to think the fella who giggled about going to kyle sandilands wedding might be a shit bloke

Excerpt of article. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has apologised if his labelling of 2021 Australian of the Year and child sexual abuse survivor Grace Tame as "difficult" was misinterpreted, saying he was referring to her "difficult life". He made the comment when asked to give a one-word response to a rapid-fire list of people and news topics as part of a word association game at the Future Victoria conference, presented by the Herald Sun newspaper and the Victorian Chamber of Commerce. "If there was any misinterpretation, then I certainly apologise," Mr Albanese told reporters. "She has had a difficult life and that was what I was referring to. What Grace Tame has done is turn that difficult experience that she had into being a strong advocate for others."

ughh this lady has the unyielding-moral-compass flavor of autism and is mad at me. I know, I'll tell a transparent lie on the record. that'll smooth things over.

Georgia Tacey makes an incredibly important point here.

Also according to the article "you can keep serial killing for another 18 months while we consider your petition to be allowed to murder people"

I have a pet theory that most MPs conceived of themselves as a kind of landlord or small business owner, but then COVID hit and they had to start making life-or-death decisions in a way that wasn't possible to pretend away, which caused many of them to completely numb out

Israel doesn’t control the US. It’s the other way around. The US uses Israel as a colonial tool to prevent global liberation movements.

Why the fuck would we “socially cohere” for monsters?  - The Shot Yesterday, the gulf between the will of the Australian people and the actions of the Australian government revealed itself to...

Here's me. "Why the fuck would we 'socially cohere' for monsters?"

Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”

There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

Human Rights lawyer Chris Sidoti condemns the visit by Israeli President Isaac Herzog to Australia. #auspol #CancelHerzog

someone should probably ask the prime minister whether he supports the upcoming us strikes on iran & whether he considers it to be in the national interest for australia to be implicated in such an action through the use of pine gap

Australia spends more on tax breaks for landlords than social housing, homelessness and rent assistance combined Exclusive: Acoss report shows property investors received $12.3bn in tax concessions in 2025, while the share of social housing dropped to a record low

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Device allegedly thrown into Invasion Day crowd designed to 'explode on impact', say police A 31-year-old man is charged with making explosives in suspicious circumstances after a device was allegedly thrown into a crowd of hundreds of people attending an Invasion Day rally in central Perth ...

A white guy threw a homemade bomb into a crowd protesting colonialism in Australia and the media have broadly reframed it in more gentle terms, eg this describing it as a "device" that was 'designed to explode'.

did this guy not notice Yahtzee or AVGN or what? the crowds love it when the reviewer pulls out the stops and gets mean! what's he thinking!

Australia has no business being in league with the US. Our alliances with them have cost us more than it could’ve ever yielded.

Same state that tore down 800 year old birthing trees to make a road a couple of minutes quicker

to young people: you may at some point have heard about the Y2K problem. some people may have told you it wasn't a big deal

i need you to understand the only reason it wasn't a big deal was that everyone spent loads of time fixing code before it could become a problem, which is why it never did

I think it's less that Trump doesn't understand the structures of democratic governments, and more that he can't perceive the illusions that keep civil society running smoothly. When people cite a rule as the reason they can't do something, he is left wondering "why don't you just break that rule?"

Trump is correctly aware that the Norwegian PM has the ability to pressure the Nobel committee to influence their decision; the only meaningful obstruction is norms, and the thing Trump can't grasp is some people care about not violating those.

The United States is now punishing close NATO allies because they oppose him invading and stealing Greenland. The response of the Australian Labor Party and the Coalition is silence, pretend it’s normal and build even more US bases here. They are endangering our national safety.