Bryn Jones

Retired after a career in educational technology. Five grandchildren, Live in and love Fremantle. Retired City Councillor North Ward.

[stranger @strangerous10]

David Pocock pauses, overcome with emotion, while detailing UN’s horrific findings against Israel
“IDF has now killed 20,000 Palestinian children”
“…deliberately shot at children’s limbs…as a twisted game of target practice”😔
Barbaric & sickening. This is our ally?

[Bryn Jones @Freoman]

@Peter_Fitz Have a look at Janus Electric Trucks. Australian innovation.

https://t.co/NZI3GLo26X

[Dr Sheep Person Podge @noplaceforsheep]

Sooner or later, @AlboMP you are going to have to take into account the views of the majority of Australians who are not supportive of the genocidal apartheid state of Israel & its Zionist representatives here.

Because we control your numbers in parliament, & they don’t.

Also you @ChrisMinnsMP &
you @DavidCrisafulli

[EvAustralia @ev_australia]

Unpopular opinion: The biggest barrier to EV adoption in Australia isn't cost, range, or charging.

It's that no one in their life owns one yet.

Once you test drive..... it's over! You're buying one within few weeks/months!

EV ownership is contagious. Change my mind. 👇

[tom flynn @tomdflynn]

I am in Australia and that is a great idea

The sooner they leave the better

[David Marler @Qldaah]

OK, then. Donald Trump is fair dinkum saying he doesn't need Pine Gap or any other Australian based intelligence gathering. We can close the facility, send the US marines home from our bases & exit AUKUS. We are not missile fodder for your wars. #auspol https://t.co/QVFyemGVIz

[Richard Bean🍉 @elahieh]

If it's theatre, we should cut ties. and if it's not theatre, we should cut ties. End AUKUS now.

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

Australia needs to shut US bases, scrap AUKUS, remove all Australian personnel from the US military and finally have an independent foreign and defence policy.

[Paul Roberts @PaulRob11880584]

A huge thank you to the Albanese Labor government for the way they are handling this fuel crisis.

Albanese has respect on the International stage.

Remember the Liberals alienated our friendly neighbours. Could imagine how bad it would be if they were in government.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Right then.
Let me explain something very slowly, because it appears some basic logic has gone missing somewhere over the Atlantic.

No serious nation in the history of warfare has spent fourteen months insulting its allies, threatening to annex their territory, siding with their common enemy, and then knocked on their door expecting them to come running to rescue a catastrophe of its own making. That is not how alliances work. That is not how anything works.

You abused the UK. You threatened Canada. You tried to grab Greenland. You called the EU an adversary. You praised Putin, the one man every serious NATO ally has spent decades preparing to fight. You hosted Kremlin officials in the Capitol. You undermined European elections. You abandoned Ukraine. You imposed tariffs on your closest partners. You did all of this loudly, proudly, and on camera.
And now you are surprised that nobody is returning your calls.

Here is a question worth sitting with. Why do you think that is? Is it possible, just possible, that when you treat your allies like enemies for over a year while cuddling up to their actual enemy, those allies might update their opinion of you? Is that concept too complicated? Does that require more working memory than is currently available?

You did not plan this war with your allies. You did not consult them. You did not build a coalition. You started a conflict, watched it go sideways, and then got on your knees asking for help from people you spent fourteen months calling weak, corrupt and irrelevant.

NATO is not what it was. Not because Europe changed. Because Washington made crystal clear which side it is on. And it is not ours.

You want European boots on the ground? Start by explaining why America is more aligned with Moscow than with Brussels. Take your time. We will wait.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Dr Sheep Person Podge @noplaceforsheep]

Trump tells Australia to either buy oil from the US or storm Iran & open the strait ourselves.

Then slaps us with 100% drug tariff.

As we funnel billions more to him for fantasy subs…

What exactly are we getting out of this relationship 🧐

[Hawford Group - fullstory365.com (on bluesky) @hawford]

I have voted Labor since I was 18 I'm now 72.

I am unable to even think of voting for Labor or Albanese.

This is not a decision made lightly or spontaneously.

The party no longer represents me.

I hope all Labor Voters feel the same.

[Bob Lake @boblake33]

Albanese and Marles have finally managed to move my vote away from Labor after 57 years. They have become good recruitment weapons for the Greens and Teals.

[Denise C. @SpudBenBean]

I never thought I'd see the day that an Australian PM stood shoulder to shoulder with an incoherent imbecile, convicted rapist and alleged pedophile on one side, and an alleged war criminal wanted by the ICC on the other.

What a shameful day for our nation.

[Penny Allman-Payne @senatorpennyqld]

This is utterly shameful. Complete disregard for international law. When someone shows you who they really are, believe them.

[Rob Leong @RobLeong1]

@grAntlerMensch @AdyLady9969 Voted ALP since my first federal election in 1983, been mbr & volunteer.

Not naive to realities & compromises of government but I’ve been shaken to core by this govt by their positions which are both the anathema of Labor values & personal values of of their supporters

[Christine Milne AO @ChristineMilne]

Albo and Marles have invited Palantir with non tendered contracts to embed itself in Aust security and think it’s in our interests to permit our Future Fund to invest in this appalling company of Peter Thiel https://t.co/vepffubjyz Time to turn up the heat. ASIC do your job!

[The Cockatoo @DarcyAmaroo]

Albanese and Labor have been a real disappointment.
We have a Zionist Envoy that dictates policy for everyone else.
We’ve had an official visit from a war criminal.
We’ve seen fascist tactics used to attack our people.
The ridiculous AUKUS Submarine Deal is going ahead.

[Through The Looking Glass @damien_hazard]

Hey Australia, this is the company @coles Australia chooses to keep.

And our Cth government has also green-lighted Palantir for government work.

All of which is just incomprehensible. How can it be in the interests of Australians to support Palantir?

[Crikey @crikey_news]

The Defence Department's Cyber Warfare Division awarded Palantir $7.6 million without going to market. It’s the department’s largest deal yet with the Trump-linked data company, reports @cameronwilson. https://t.co/9Panvd9EWG