Did you see this? Home Affairs has denied a visa to the ex-ASIO source who tried to warn about the Bondi gunmen. This is a deeply political decision, and now the Royal Commission may never hear his evidence.
It looks like a stitch up by those who don't want this on the record.
Private health insurance rort -they demand more public subsidies (got almost $7B in Budget for Medicare levy), make dazzling profits, BUPA quietly rips out $536m dividend to foreign parent company
Claudia Weisenberger
#auspol
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Everyone — every tourist, every local, every citizen — is welcome to drive up Hatt Road, walk up to the gates of Pine Gap and ask for entry.
Then each person — if not permitted to enter or given a guided tour — can initiate a process of complaint at being refused, and seek an explanation.
It’s your country; demand answers.
Not sure who needs to hear this, but Barnaby is a very old hand at the media game - a cunning, experienced player
There was no dog. There was no anything
He was asked an extremely difficult question by Ferguson and his eyes darted around, thinking. Then next thing, voila, suddenly a dog is on the scene, oh dear what was the question?
He was playing this, 'something is just there Sarah, just off screen distracting me' game all the way through the interview
I'm just surprised he didn't start twerking as well
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Okaaaaaay
We are not responsible for the actions of Israel and we should not be held to account for Israel - while on the same hand if you criticise Israel or stand against Israel, we get our feelings hurt because we feel and identify as part of Israel
Do I have that right?
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The tip of the iceberg. As the ALP pours obscene amounts of our money into the military/ industrial complex, grifters, thieves, opportunists and greedy ex politicians queue up to line their pockets.
Marles must act decisively and demand the accused faces an open criminal trial.
Doubt, from @SydneyTheatreCo, is the best piece of theatre I’ve seen in a long while. Rivetting, harrowing, I wept at the end - for all the children caught up in the horror of the Catholic church’s sexual abuse nightmare. A towering performance from Pamela Rabe. See it if you can
In the shadow of Pine Gap, I had a great chat with Senator @DavidShoebridge about Australian involvement in the US-Israeli warmachine. I'll get that out onto YouTube and Instagram next week, so look out for that (because the algorithm ain't gonna help!).
Did you know that the company that helps Israel genocide in Gaza runs surveillance inside our supermarkets?
Bunnings. Kmart. Coles. Your real estate agent. All feed your data into Palantir surveillance systems.
Labors Mike Kelly is President of Palantir Aust.
(crd: insta)
I spent the last few months talking to people across the political spectrum, and to people who want nothing to do with politics at all. Here is what I learned.
We are not a divided country. We are a country being divided, on purpose, by an American oligarchy that profits from the fight. They’ve captured our government, denied our healthcare, looted our treasury, and saddled us with crippling debt.
I believe in a New New Deal. Healthcare as a human right. The right of every family to a decent home, and an end to endless wars.
And a dividend paid to every American from the AI economy, because these machines were built on the whole of human inheritance. That inheritance belongs to all of us, and not just to the handful of men playing God with our very existence.
And none of it happens if we just move on. Donald Trump, his family, and his administration are robbing us blind, not just of our money, but of our faith in one another, and they have to answer for it. Truth and reconciliation, not revenge. Then we break the system that let them do it.
The question is not whether we will lose our democracy. The question is whether we will fight to take back what has already been stolen.
I learned in recovery that you can’t heal what you won’t name. Neither can a country.
🇦🇺 I’ve been around the world and sadly Australia is one of the most corrupt countries I’ve ever experienced. What makes it uniquely corrupt is that they pretend the corruption isn’t there, and will gas light you if you point it out.
Our politicians are constantly being bribed by foreign interest groups. They recieve kick backs in the form of free legal services from Mark Liebler, free overseas’s trips to Israel, financial bribes and promises of work post political stints (like former prime minister Scomo working in India in a visa office).
If the state decides it doesn’t like you they will instruct the police to look the other way if you are being stalked and harassed for years. The law is NEVER applied equally, it’s applied in terms of how powerful or loud you are, they have a term for this in an attempt to legitimise the bias “in the public interest”. A former police commissioner’s son blew up in a drug lab and no one mentioned it again. People are beaten up and arrested for protesting constantly. Secret agencies are themselves infiltrated by foreign actors while pretending to look for foreign actors.
The education sector? Corrupt. If they decide they don’t like you they can break their own rules to try to deny you a degree or a PhD. Scholarships are invented for the daughters of prime ministers (I’m looking at you Tony Abbott). If a professor has a negative opinion of Israel they will be fired or threatens with being fired, Tim Anderson, Sujatha Fernandes. Other professors like Dylan Jayatilaka and Gerd Schröder-Turk are penalised for speaking to the media about the low standards of their universities . Even the people who handled “integrity and standards” within the universities are corrupt and the unions that are supposed to help you are AWOL.
Don’t get me started on the fact that we don’t have a free press. When a journalist steps out of line they get lawfared like @MaryKostakidis and @antoinette_news . Freedom of speech, non existent.
Australia’s corruption wouldn’t even be so bad compared to the rest of the world if we were allowed to acknowledge that it is there.
Congratulations @MichaelWestBiz for 10 years of courageous journalism - a champion of independent media. 350 supporters celebrated his achievement last last - whistleblowers from all over Australia, journalists, politicians and supporters of press freedom, truth and justice.