My latest article in The Shot
After spending obscene amounts of taxpayer's money on luxury travel, office refurbishments and airfares from their homes to their Canberra office, I examine the high price Australians have paid so far for an impotent #NACC
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https://t.co/BKPplkv0fZ
Fuck you, @washingtonpost . Amal did not ‘die,’ she was deliberately targeted and murdered after receiving threats from the Israeli army. She was in touch with us, her colleagues, during this situation. We all know exactly what happened. Shame on you for intentionally diminishing the criminality of the actions of the Israeli army with this headline. Shame on all of you and your correspondents in Beirut.
I hope to see you on trial for your propaganda in my lifetime.
Political parties raising money isn't unusual.
Labor does it. The Liberals do it. The Greens do it. One Nation does it.
The difference isn't that One Nation is asking for donations.
The difference is that "Fire the Liar" isn't really a campaign about policy. It's a campaign built around anger.
The message isn't "help us solve housing", "help us lower power bills" or "help us improve health care".
The message is essentially: "You're angry. So give us money."
That's what makes me uncomfortable.
Australians are doing it tough right now. Every party has the right to ask for support. But when a campaign is designed primarily to inflame outrage and then immediately convert that outrage into donations, I think it's fair to question what's really being sold.
Support a party because you believe in its ideas.
Support a party because you think its policies will improve the country.
But if a political movement relies on keeping people permanently angry so the donations keep flowing, that's not leadership.
That's a business model.
🔴The Lebanese Ministry of Heath: 3696 civilians killed and 1,413 wounded in Israeli attacks since March 2nd.
Hundreds of children have been killed and more than 130 paramedics. Families are massacred every day. Video is from a drone strike on a vehicle in Saida today. Saida is north of the Litani river.
@gjm1508@lyttle_deb9361 If only last year’s world was still this year’s world. Sadly it isn’t. Circumstances are vastly different but let’s stay with our original plan. Let’s not adjust anything to fit today’s situation.
The LNP is directing developers to make housing MORE EXPENSIVE 🤬 Lutwyche loses 36 affordable homes and Robina loses 550 affordable homes.
https://t.co/PVmSFsLelp
🚨ALERT🚨 The newest in a string of American military bases in Australia was announced one week ago.
The Americans are calling it “NSA Stirling” — “US Naval Support Activity Stirling”.
This is in deference to Australian politicians who would have trouble with the voters if it used this honest title:
“US Naval Base Stirling”.
@PeterCronau Who would of guessed that the greatest foreign risk to our country would be @AlboMP & the US?
#AUKUS was never going to be a vehicle for defence, but rather a vehicle for occupation.
#auspol#Trump#USPolitics
@DavidShoebridge@peterke60628957 Cannot listen to @SenatorWong anymore. Her carefully crafted word salads designed to cow tail to Israel are nauseating. If this gov truly believed in a 2 state solution robust objection to genocide would be evident. 🤬
Deliberate targeting. Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant - “What the Wounds Tell” documents 114 children in Gaza under 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest.
https://t.co/3q2i18wTKy
AUS Foreign Minister Penny Wong and AUS Defence Minister Richard Marles (together with their German counterparts) "unequivocally condemn" Iran for the war with Israel and blame Iran for the "escalation" of the conflict.
The AUS Govt is complicit in Israel's crimes. #auspol
It’s time for the Federal Police to investigate Australians who are returned Israeli Defense Force soldiers.
“Any Australian who has committed war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide must be held to account and face justice.
“The international rules-based order must be respected and upheld, and the Australian Government must honour its obligations to bring accountability for perpetrators of these grave crimes.
“The impunity must come to an end.”
AFP urged to investigate Australians allegedly involved in Gaza genocide https://t.co/yNbOXPOiE0